FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
Democratic State Ticket.
For Treasurer,
Edmund A. Bigl er,
OF CLEARFIELD,
DD emoe ratic County Ticket,
For Associate Judge,
Thos. F. Riley.
For Prothonotary,
L. A. Schaeffer.
For District Attorney,
}. C. Meyer.
For County Sarveyor,
Geo. D. Johnson.
For Coroner,
Dr. James W. Neff.
Selineffer, Mever, Neff, make a
honest mau can support,
and ageinst which not a word of Qdispar-
ticket that any
agement ean be said.
SH RS
valuation of
valaation of
1 raised ihe
iands and the
y $80, now let him raises
cents to $1,
monies from $60
the price f whe from 70
and all will be firgiven,
AC NRO,
that the
re cruelly
Crete are
the island
A number of the
Advices from
Turkish troops on
torment ng Christaios
soldiers outraged two Chnatain women
one of whom was afterward killed,
AIT I WC WTI.
visited the
pers
A terrin’e hurricane has
island of Sardinia. One hundred
gons were buried in the debris of the
shattered by the storm and
thirty persons were killed.
Beri —
buildings
f the excellence of the Dem
ticket the Republicans
ing a graceful act by with-
show of
In view
cratie
would be d
county
drawing theirs, as it stands no
being elected anyhow.
A AN SI TIN SO ————
The Saltan of Za
edict empowering Great
zibar has issued an
Britain acd
Zanzi beresse
Germany to search all
shows, with the object of suppressing
The edict also declares
Zanzibar af
ter November 1 shall be free.
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the slave trade,
that every person entering
We have heard a number of Repabli-
cana express themselves freely about
the bad management of the county com~
missioners: hundreds of others think it,
bat do not say acything.
that remsins
for these officials is to resign before thes
What a that
the county, afler being free debt,
The only decent thing
eat another dinner, pity
from
has been ran into its old rads again,
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Vote for Riley, for Associate
11 >
and you will have a maa on the
Judge
bench
with a mind of his own, and who is not
dependent on another (v0 do his think
ing forbim. M.M Mnuoeser, if elecied
wenld be a circamliocatory judge, and
needs Coli. Coburn to give him his
better had Jim ou tiebench at once,
It is a well known fact that M. M. Mas
ser has no ideas of Lis own, and bas his
idees shaped entirely by avother. Any
ove around Aasronshurg will tell yoo
this, even Repubiicans,
ideas
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Such is the demand for money to
start the movement of the greatcrope
Wel and S~nth, the reserve held by the
New York national banks last weak
required by law to be 25 per cent.of the
deposita—fcl $1,668,000 short of the
lega! requirement. With the same
amount of deposits a yeariago the banks
bed 811500 000 over the legal reserve.
It iogignificent that voder onr Llunder
ing revenue system the goveromout couse
toms and internal taxation last month
exceesdad the wants of the treasury some
$15,000,000. This money in the hands
of the would have partially
averied the stringency that is beginning
to manifest itee f,
peopia
LE 5 PAO
The management of the affairs of our
county under Henderson and Decker, is
to be deplored. Things were in such
gplendid shape «hea Griest and Wolf
went out. The outstanding doplicates
were coliected, Toe heavy debt wan
paid, and there was a large surplos io
favor of the county.
Now we are in debt again, The sur
pins bas been squandered and some
$8,000 extra will have to b> raised by
taxation in order to make up forthe in-
competency aod niter want of business
capacity of the commissioners,
A dodge was attempted by the board
to hide their mismanagement, and they
raised the valuations upon real estate
and even mules to cover up their waste,
Voters, this affects every one of you.
Remember it on election day.
Politics as Affected by the New
States.
If the Republicans have elected their
candidate for congress in Montana, the
result in the new States
their membership of the lower branch
of congress from 164 to 169.
total membership is raised by the ad-
mission of the
330, it will require 166 members presen
and voting to make
will give them at the start but
more than the constitutional quorum
required for the transaction of business,
They hope to iocrease the size of their
majority by tarning out Southern Dem
ocrats, but any display of outrageot
A quorum,
partisanship will be rendered extremely
difficult by the fact that the Democrat
can at any time refuse to vote after the
example set by the Republicans in the
past, and leave the Republicans helpless
for lack of a quorom. unless they have
their whole
which it is always difficult
impossible, t
Republicans
and
In the seaats the
gain by the new
and the
the membership of the
senate from 76 to 84,
) Secure,
Rin! es
six senators Democrats two
increasing
The Republican:
will have 45 senators and the Democrats
39. The
increased
electoral
frcm 401
requiring 208 to elect a president and
vice preseident instead of 201. Tue some
States that elected
will be able to elect a president in 1892
with 11 votes to spare. That is the
Southern electoral vole with New York
and Indiana or New
college
Yoles to 414
Cleveland i: 1884
Connecticut and
Jersey will suffice, Neither the admis.
sion of the new States nor the census o
1890 is likely to make any change is
political conditions as regards the ele
tion of president, from what bas existed
since 1876,
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3 Months of Tanner.
The Treasury statement for September
reveals very clearly why it was neces
sary to get rid of Tanner, says the Phila
Times.
Of the increase in government expens
ditures for the quarter « nding Septembe:
30 it appears that $10,568 000 was due to
Pension Ba
Al this rate the increase for pen
sions alone for year
upwards, or
more than fifty per cent. more
ingreased outlay for the
reau.
the fiscal would
have been $42 000.000 and
than
In other words, to th
$80,000 000 expended for
iny former year.
pension
$42.04
more, making a total of $122,000,000
This sam is $30,000,000 greater than
year would have been added
expended for the maintenance of
many's enormous standing army, §!
of Eng and.
this rate would have made on
expenditares equal to the war
Four years of
expendiy
tures of all three of the great powers of
Western Earope, unless some one could
have been hired to bold him.
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Three more victims to the Hatfield:
McCoy feud, now seven yoarsold, have
fallen. The tragedy occurred at a mar
riage at the farm house of Peter McCoy.
His daoghter was to become the wife of
John Hand, a relative of the Hatfield
gang, and members of both factions had
swor: fo prevent the union. Hand
had never been connected with the
dispntes of the factions, and refused
recognize the leaders,
Liagt Tuesday night the bridal party
assembled in MeCoy's house, and just as
young Hand and Miss McCoy stood be
fore the minister a volley was poured
them and fatally wounded the minister.
Reports say that the farmer and moun-
taineers are looking for the murderers,
but wo trace of them has been found,
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The prohibitionists are going to make
au earnest campaign io this couuty and
for this end have put up a rather good
ticket, If the vote in favor of the
amendment, in this county is an index
the cold water element will poll a large
vote—large enough to scare somebody.
The prehibition'sts bave resolved
upon a fight in every county in the state
and full local tickets have been placed
in nomination. The temperance eie
ment in the state does not feel sweet
towards their Republican bretheren;
ihey charge the latter with deceit—play-
ing the hands of the liguor interest while
professing to be the friends of prohibi-
tion.
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What's the matter up in sweet Al
toona ? The Tribune sends out the fol
lowing wail: “The law prohibiting the
manufiactare and sale of oleomargarine
in this state wes passed for the protec
tion of the buttermakers, And yet oleo-
margarine is a delicions and healthy
compound compared with much of the
stuff ealled butter brought to this city by
hucksters. Either the honest farmer is
put aside the sweet butter which he sells
them, waiting until it becomes rotten
before they offer it to the =silie,
i
y
uphidon
called because first used in Australis
Las been for several years in snccessfu
operation there, and, with
| variation
"land Canada.
in Massachusetts. where it goes
fect in 1880
prevent
It has also been
into ef
bribery and intimidation, to
place all candidates upov an equality be
{fore the
gerons powers of political machines
law, and to undermine the dan
The system will be readi!
by reference to the accompanying draw
ing.
The voter,
3 $1
i
upon entering the po
to his right at the
“extraxce” where he
from two
place
marked
turns
or & s'ng!e set of ballots according to the
{ local castom of voliug.
On the back is
as official; and on the face are
printed the names of the candids
each office, with a designation _fi
respective
manner
political parties, after
For Mayor.
For Coroners. Vote for Tw
ring received his ballot
back
here, secluded from observat
spares the ballot
of the booths
by placing
umn across opposite Lhe name
candidate for whom he
wr, if he prefers, by writing
names of candidates of his own
ination ip place of those already th
If there are several cansdidates for
same kind of office, as
ballot
electors, nd he
ticket
the cross ander the name of the
coroners in
sample above, or
wishes (0 vole
straight
or draws it through the space in
ug
blank i
eolomn allotted to
3
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for each candidate named in that space
| Thus, in the sample ba 1d
the wi
rd “democratic
first two spaces of the blank
the right is one vote each for Alexander
Jacobs and Harvey Sylvester
preparing his
dieating every candidate
fier
for whom he
folds in such a
as to conceal the face and expos: the
indorsement, and withdrawing from the
booth, gives the ballot to the inspectors,
who identify it by the
official
voles, the voter
It is then deposited in the box
and the voter passes out at the gate
marked “sxir.”
From the time he receives his ballot
until he casts it, the voter ia permitted
to have no communication with any one
but the election officers, and with them
only officers and
actually engaged in voling
admitted within the railing.
Upon proof of inability from pliysical
infirmity or illiteracy, a voter may call
into the booth officers appointed and
sworn for the purpose, to aid him in
preparing his ballot; and when a ballot
is accidentally destroyed or defaced it
must be exchaosged for a clean one,
The importasce of the latter requir-
ment may not at ouce be apparent;
but to secure secrecy every ballot
delivered to a voter must be wither cast
or retorne!, Thisexplains the necessity
for indorsing the ballot. Bat for the
endorsement a blank paper outwardly
resembling a ballot might be cast by a
voter, who would then be able
surreptitiously to carry away an official
baliot. This could be prepared for a
bribed voter, the proof of ils use being
his production of a second official
ballot. Tha cou'd besimilarly prepared
election persons
AT ever
known as the “Tasmanian dodge,” was
successfully perpetrated in Australia in
the early days of the system; but its
CVYRngeiint Yo
g there and a Miss Bs
Un othe } Bile WARIK
1 order to get into the atticks
Was wit
ditor is ¢ xpected to fearlessly des
] il except the
ioes something whith
ic censure, B is very
: 5 is 0 eX DOB
ldenly finde
, he expects the
keep quiet
be may connt
vy of B. Bo long as
of the offended
sh
ye edit yr sha
LioeR
hanges, and he expects the mercy
remembering this he
to be willing to extend to A the
arity which be seeks for himself
1 from the Altoona Tribune and
a truth wall told,
a
much suffering at Johnstown
ies. With the ther
a
ji there
v
:
{ s ho tes
ireezing polos
¥
if sufforing nights by the
properly sheltered
3
1. The relief money
i was intended to supply their nes
, even if pid at once, will now
0 late to be properly applied in
ainat the blasts of the win
hing that was on hand
when the commissary department shut
Red
will be dies
There have been
there within the
past week, and most of them hava been
down has been transferred to the
a great many deaths
superindnced by ailments contracted in
the flood. At the EHed Cross hospital
there are now twenty two of tye
glraog~
Ass
phoid fever, most them being
ers in the town.
The forth omiog isene of the Farmers
Review will report that the ptato crop of
guantity
United
lens an ‘ast
year but the conditions of growin have
in general been very favorable aud there
bas been an unosual absence of insect
enemies,
The total crop isestimated at 233,700 000
bushels, which exceeds last year's crop
by over 17,000,000 bushels.
If this turns out correct the rot in Penn
syleania will hardly affect prices as the
West will ship in potatoes as cheap as
grain,
1880 wil proboainy exceed In
that of soy previous year in
States. The acreage is
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Montana Is Democratic.
The Iatest returns give a democratic
majority of seven on joint ballot in the
legislatare, with oue in doabt, which
may increase the majority to nine. In
several counties the vote is very close,
but it is not thought the official canvasing
will make any matorial change. Toole
democrat, for governor, has » majority
of abont 800; Carer, republican, for congy
ress, has a majority of about 1,200,
MO MANA
Prohibition was defeated in Connecti’
cat, on Monday by 30,000 majority.
Triumphs of Modern Burgery
Tr
In the October Harper, Dr. W, W,
Keen narrates some of the achievements
of modern surgery that read like a story
of magic. is sad-
At the same tune, it
dening to recall that the most marvelous
last fifteen yenws, side the close of our
war. If our army
1 y
gnown tne
modern operations, the life
ve been saved of manya gal-
who went to join the army |
4
win of recent
liberal applic a
antiseptic is, |
preparation which
enden
alr and water are full of
1 8} 1
illions upon billions of them,
here is a seraich or abrasion
: are excluded, and in
ive 10 ten days the patient is well
the world is indebted 3
than to
ng carefully Dr. Keen's
looks as though i
ms would Ix
‘
it almost ch in th
ig IO
:
i s §
tion on him d putt
have
before, in
sound and
a few davs.
out a piece of a human skull on
ey “ “ iat
mches In digmeter,
from the brain bencatl
it back in 1
and be sound and tight,
Ke Iis
Are ICInoviIing
are no J
A whole kidney, the gall
been removed, and the pa-
The
BAYS, has
wif, has
has lived and recovered
Dr. Keer
been made with operations of the hea
»
greatest progress,
}
nd abdominal cavity.
a gunshot wound in his intestines the
old fasifioned surgeon gave him opium
The modern
removes the
and let him die in peace,
surgeon opens the cavity,
dressing and lets
American
ball, uses the antiseptic
hime get well To
belongs the credit of improving greatly
surgeons
the treatment of wounds in the stomach
and bowels,
Tet a more magnificent field than all
js gradually opening before our scientific
medical
men. To illustrate: A patient
will be stricken with paralysis of an
arm or hand; he will, perhaps, have
convulsions. The surgeon will examine
his case critically. He will presently de-
cide that the trouble is owing to a tumor
or derangement of a given part of the
brain. The patient is etherized, his
skull is trepanned and the brain found
to be diseased just where the man of
science pre dicted
Science has decided that particular
portions of the brain control particular
portions of the body. Exact knowledge
of this branch of physiology is in its in-
fancy. For the next generation it will
be an absorbing and wonderful study.
It is called localization of the functions
of the brain.
Our modern surgeons can successfully
A tumor has even been
removed from the spinal cord. Only'a
few of the triumphs of modern surgery
are here named, Yet, wonderful as they
seem, it tempers our self gratulation to
reflect that a century hence skillful sur-
goons of that day will Jook back with
pitving contempt upon the clumsy, ig-
norant operators of our time,
remove goitres,
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In his new novel W. D. Howells makes
ono character express the opinion that
£5,000 a year is about as much as & man
can honestly earn. Another character
makes the remark that not the most
gifted person who ever lived could
honestly earn a million dollars in the
practice of any art or science. But Patti
has earned more than that sum, and it
can hardly be said that she got it dis
honestly or ever robbed the poor,
It 1s a mistake that figures will not le, |
In the hands of a politician or a rock.
leas. newspaper numberslinger they
can be made to do the tallest lying of
modern times. They are like the ac
sounts of the toasted thshiorgs 1 1 6
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Coburn
The bricklayers hay Reformed church
about completed except the tower
io, 804 of agent Kreamer, 12 confined 1 his
bed with typhoid fever,
Our school opened on Monday with Mr, Gelse,
Hope he will have
good suceess with his school
Kreamer and Ulrd
from Mr. Bhaffor, a
Lhe room
y Everl is coun
laven short
has been
) in the woods
y 10 work atl Poe
riven Rey
sched at
f 17i6. sennon OF
Adams,
TET. ITH
Wain
nie pes
ite contin
Linden Hall.
Mre. Baumgardner is visiting ber son Ghorge
at Coaipoy
G. J. Meyer, of Coburn, # mnday bere wilh
Lis sons W
J. W. Keller §s i" g for
to return on Thursday or Friday
T
sheep, expilis
of this week.
His stock can be Fora resiler Es, Dear
Centre Hill.
Prohibition (X
keller of Belle.
called on 3 Hess ope morn.
ine last week and after ashort conversation. both
parties started for Boalsburg where we suppose
We would
especialy re those penticmen to fumish Clem
Dale and J. W. Singer, Beliefonte 10 address the
Prohibition meting here, because we claim thelr
speeches made many prohibition votes on the
By all means dont Jet this subd.
ject of prohibition be lost sight of
they arratisged me meetings
18th of June last
Our singing class numbers about 90 members,
ion in order to prepare for
the regular winter term.
will take a short vaos
We would kindly request our Walnut Grove
ribe to confine his items to his own locality.
Mrs. J. W. Keller has returned from a8 two
woeks visit to Lebanon.
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Penn Township.
Some farmers are busy husking oor.
Our schools opened on Monday with a good set
of teachers, some having the title of Prof.
Mr. B. Nerhut, of Smithiown, jeff on Monday
for Lock Haven to hunt a job.
John Hamshbarger was to Nittany valley last
week visiting friends and relatives.
Mra W.C. Duck has been down for the last
three weeks with typhoid fever. Atihis writing
ale fs able 10 be up part of the time
On last Ssturday morning the bell on the Mill.
heim Lutheran church annosnoed the death of
ex Sheriff Masser. OM age began to tell on him
for some time, and slowly step by step he gave
way. * A woek before his death be had a pariets
fe stroke, which earthly oareer.
He was buried on Toes day in Fairview cemetery.
Reve. Dietzler and Hicks officiating.
shortenel his
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Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph: It
seems that it is more dangerous tobe
neutral and live at the scene of the Hats
field-McCoy fend, than to affiliate actives
ly with one of the factions, for in that
case both gangs regard the neutral one
as an enemy. Bol perhaps it was uot so
much John Hands neatrality as the fact
that he was about to marry a McCoy,
which cansed the awfial tragedy of the
slanghter of the bride snd groom at the
alter, and the fatal woundiog of the mio
ister. At all events members of both
factions had sworn to prevent ihe union,
It seems as though the dark and bloody
ground will be entitled to that grim des
jgnation until all the Hatflelds and Mo.
Coys ate exterminated. The State ought
to join actively in. the exterminating
and send some of the redbanded mur
| derers henco at a rope’s end.