VOL LXIV. FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR About a quarter of the population of Pittsburg are suffering from the grip, The ReEroRTER gave a correct opinion when it stated last weak there would be no war with Italy. Italy can’t afford to go to war with the United States, as that would interfere with her chiefoccapation as organ grind- ers. Let the members of the legislature take fair notice that the toiling ~ insist upon a fair equalization of taxes. No excuse for nou-performance of duty in this regard. There has been no farther disturbance in the coke regions, nor is there likely to be. The presence of the troops will have a restraining influence upon the strikers and it is hoped and believed there will be no more bloodshed, Chauncy Depew at New York says: Italy cannot fight twenty days, She has a big navy and nothing to rua it with. The people are overburdened with taxa~ tion and are miserable. lwaly's credit with money lenders is poor. Crawford county is “i /EBEH in the hole” to the extent of $48819 by the Delamater failure. According to the Aunditor’s ex. Treasurer Miller owes the state $0497 making a shortage of $58,416 ia all. His only bondsmen are the Dslamaters who are bankrupt, ARIA. A merchant in Syracose offered a young woman 20 yards of silk for a dress it she would saw balf a cord of wood in front of his store. She borrowed a saw epit on her basds and went through i in jost three hours, and the admiring crowd bought her a $12 hat to go witu the dress. If Itaiy sent a fleet across the sea to bombard New Orleans«, it would only be necessary for our authorities to put a big stock of hand organs on the shore of the river below the Crescent City which would tempt ever; Italian, from the ads miral down, to desert, and fasten on to an organ, and tramp over the country grinding Yaokee Doodle and Hail Co~ Jlumbia, for pennies. The New Hampshire house of repre- sentatives has passed an Australian bal- lot bill by a large majority, and it now goes to the senate fur action. Its ad. vocates confidently expect that it will pass that body and receive the signature of the governor. Ti e measare is models ed after the Massachuseits law, as is the Maine law recently passed, and if adopt ed it will give the the State one of the best and most effective ballot laws ia the country. New Hamshire is the only New Eogland State without an Austral. fan ballot law, and unless current sigos fail | ennsylvania wiil soon be the only Northern State without an effective law of this kind. The excitement over the Italian affair has almost completely subeided and it was not the topic of sufficient live inter. est to engage the attention in fashiona- ble drawing rooms to-day Secretary Blaine is not yet disposed to make pubs lic snythiong throwing additional light on the sitaation, and unless there shonid be, contrary to all expectations, another bomb shell ss sudden and startiing as the recall of Baron Fava it is probable that the Italian en'anglement will not again be the subject of ali engrossing public interest and that it will take the usual tedions coarses of diplomacy. The Reporter said just two weeks ago there wouid be no war with Italy ss Un- cle Sam was pot scarable, The information comes from the coke region that Mr. Frick, owner of the works where the strike is in progress, is indignant and blames the trouble on the labor leaders, Mr. Frick has no right to be indignant. The people of Pennsylva. nia are the ones who sbould be indignant over the fact that the state is being put to a heavy expense in its effort to quell a disturbance which is the result of the policy adopted by Mr, Frick and others in encouraging the immigration of the pauper labor of Eorope and employing them to take the places of American workmen, The sitastion in which Mr, Frick finds himself was brought about by bis own acs and the people of the state Lave a right to condemn the prac. tice Mr. Frick and other corporations have adopted in flooding the coal and coke regions with the scum of Earope who are too ignorant to understand the difference between liberty and license. And now Mr, Frick demands that the state shall protect his property from the danger of destruction at the hands of the slaves who were brought to American at How It Appears Undér an Expert's Severe Analysis The Pnilad, Record, of which Gov. Pattison is a stock holder, and which is his organ, speaks as follows of the new taxbill; the article deserves the careful attention of the reader: The Record published a criticism of the pending tax bill by Mr. Rufus E, Shapley who has bad experience in drafting re- venue bills and is an authority on the subject of tax legislation. In hisannaly- sis of the bill, Shapley says: ‘‘Should this measure become a law and be upheld by the courts, I thick even its strongest advocates will be forced to admit that it will be the caase of more perjury, per= secution, anvoyance, inequality of taxas tion, and favoritism by assessors thao have ever before resulted from any simi- lar law, This bill leaves the State taxes just as they are, but requires, not only rea! es tate, but also every conceivable kind of personal property to pay taxes for local purposes, In other words, you must re tarn and pay tax on your store and everything ia it including merchandise on the shelves, book accounts, and office faroiture; the raw material which you bave on hand, as well as the goods yon have manuofactured and bold for sale: your safe and everything in it; the con- tents of your box in the safe deposite company, and your balance in back, if it draws 2 per cent. interest; your stable and its contents, including horses, carrie ages, harness, and feed; your house and its contents, from the ton of coal, or load of wood, or bushel of potatoes in the cel- lar, or the old trunk or cradle in the garret, including every picture and article of household and kitchen furniture, every musical instrument from a grand piano to a mouth-organ, aad, if I read the bill correctly as it stands, even your owe and your wile's and children’s wear ing apparel aud jewelry, aad also your tools of trade, and upon everything of this kind in excess of $300, you must pay any rate of tax which may be imposed by the local sutborities, “You are not required to swear to this return; but in order.to prevent mistakes, there are two provisious of the bill that will effectully the defective memories of honest people, who have no political pull with the local assessors, aad they are these: First, if the assessor ‘shall be of opinion’ than you have not made a satisfactory return to all his in- quisitorial iuterrogatories, ‘he shail ex amine such taxable person under oath as to the numbers, amounts and quanti ties of the property he Is required to list, and if you refuse to auswer, or il your answers are not satisfactory, he ‘nay 1st the property of such person asccordiag to bis best judgment and information,’ and having done so, the Board of Revision or County Commissioners may examine any witnesses who may volunteer to appear against you, or whom they may choose to send for, and, after correctiog the re- turn to theif satisfaction, they are re- quired to add fifty per centom thereto, Secondly, the bili seeks to make every oue of your neighbors a spy aod inform- er on you, for it requires a printed copy of all these returps and estimated ap- praisements to be delivered to every tax- able person in tue ward, so that he may know exactly what you have returned, and may inform against you, if prompied by envy, malice or self interest to do so. “Then the assessor, not yourself fixes the value of every article of real and per- sonal property thus returned or estimat- ed, at the price or value for which the same would sell if each piece or parcel the same were sold sicgly and separately at a bona fide sale after full public notice, “If you fail or forget to pay this addis tional 2 mills tax on your bounds, mortg- ages, notes or book accounts, you cannot collect either the interest or principal due yon, “If your neighbor should make com- plaint to the assessors that you Lave fore gotten to return certain property, and the assessor should wilfully neglect to do his daty, bie is liable to fine both and ims prisonment.” cure in fs MSS The Grangers' Revenue Bill. From the Wilkesbar re Record, The present bill taxes almost every. thiog a man owis, and besides compels him ander oath to state every penny he receives from Lis trade, profession aod investments, also ever debt he may owe big or little, This information is then used in the public prints, for upon it is based his assessment snd valuation, The reason why the bill passed the House by 80 large a majority is because the members were afraid to vote against it tor fear of offending the Grangers, who seem to be all powerful at the Capitol this session. Bat the Senate is expected to tackle the obnoxious measure with a modicom of courage and to amend it in many important particalars, A citizen's private affairs do not belong to the pub. lic, and any attempt to pry into them will not be tolerated by the good sense of the desire of such gperators as Mr, Frick. the people, HALL, "PA Fenco Law, Taxation, The question of taxation is now be fore the legislature, The farming com munity and masses in general look for a measure that will ease the burdens uns justly resting on them, The Farmer should have every possi ble relief consistent with justice, The millionaires do not bear their One of the Rerorrer’s granger friends having recently requested us to print the fence law as now in force, we gather up the following which may be eut ont and pasted in a book for convenient ref- erence: By the common law no fences are re- quired, only such as are needed to res strain stock from rumning at large. Nu~{share of the burden compared with their merous Acts of Assembly have heen amassed wealth, and these can best af- passed on the subject of fences. The iirnt| ford to pay more into the treasury and was the Act of 1700, which required “all|feel it least, corn fields and gronnds kept for enclo~| This is the desired point to reach. sures to be fenced,” Parts of this Act! Whatever may be crude and odd were repealed many years since, but the about the tax bill now up should be lop- part requiring fences to be maintained, ped off and not be used 8s an excuse to was in force until the 4th day of April [let the equalization of the tax burden go B89, when it was repealed. The Act of over board. Let the messure be cares 1784, passed for Northumberland and folly studied, and put in language that other counties, when these counties| leaves no quihble, There are sections composed the large part of| in the bill that will not suit the farmer, the rural portion of the State, [or the mechanic if applied secording to prescribed more particularly [the language of the bill. Let this be the kind of fences required, and provid- {guarded against, 80 as to leave no excuse ed for the appointment of viewers, As/ the territory comprising Centre county! was in Northumberland county, and this! law was probably in force here, but the Bupreme Court has set this matter to rest by holding in the case of Stewart ve. Benninger, that the Act of 1862 repealed the Act of 1784, by its title, without men tioning the county of Northumberland, ! ti There is, therefore, no law in this] Michigan is likely to adopt a new State requiring fences except the com [method in choosing presidential electors. mon law, which requires every farmer|A bill that has already passed the house to make such enclosures as will secare and is next to certain to pass the senate his own domestic soimals. The law of| providing for the election of a presiden- division fences is the same as heretofore|tial elector by populur vote in each con” —each adjoining owner of improved gressionsl district, leaving only two to land when they desire to use it, are re- [be elected by the State at large. This quired to keep ap half the division fence | woald divide the electoral vote of Michi. The Act of 1805, relating to hogs, is still jgan at all times, and probably give the in force, and it is unlawful to permit Democrats a majority io 1802. A meas" them to ran at large without rings and ure of the same kind is pending in the yokes, and when 80 permitted, they may Ohio legislature. Under the constitu, be killed or impounded, and one half of tion each Staite may adopt its own their value forfeited. There seems to | method of choosing presidential electors. be no law, prohibiting horses, cattle and [Several States chose their electors by the legislature in olden times, and South may be trespass for cattle to rove and {Carolina continued it until the late civil pasture on uneaclosed woodland, yet it| war, bas been held that no action can bel --— maintained for the reason that the dam«| Ex-Governor John of Kansas ages are unapprecisble. Since the re- [thinks the Farmers’ Alliance “Is an or- peal of all the other fence laws, the com | ganized protest against the robbery of mon law is in fall force, and each far-|the great body of people by the liquor mer must secure his own stock, or be | traffic of monopolisis, encouraged and subject to pay all damages they may do protected by such infamous legislation to their neighbor's flelda. jas the McKinley bill. The whole | system is wrong io principle, because it for defeating a just system of taxation, Something must be done—something can be done —to lesson taxation for the | farmer and reach the half taxed monop- lolist, let onr law makers, at Harrisburg, give heed to the demands of the toiling masses to be relieved of unjost taxation. sheep from running at large, while it | St. . -—— i A new scheme to get prommissory | light in have been worked, farmers are approached with a proposi- tion to take stares ia a co-operative company for the parchace of a stallion of] gilt edged pedigree, the object being to! improve the horse stock of the neighbor bood. The animal was ususlly repre- sented to be worth $2,600 or $2 800. Each farmer was to “chip in” $100 and sign an agreement, and after the full number of names had been secured the borse was 10 be delivered and notes ta- ken for the purchase money. A number of these partoerships have been formed n Berks county and quite a lot of notes harvested. These notes, have, as usual, found their way into the bands of third parties, or “innocent holders.” The makers of the notes now allege that they have been taken in, that the horses are of very ordinary stock, and the whole scheme is impracticable. A nomber of lawyers have been retained, with view of resisting payments of the notes. This is only a coosin of the hay-fork and oats swindles of the past, by which farmers’ were swindled out of many thousands, extensively asim it th ! Many Immigrants Land During the three months just ended of the present year 12310 Italians were landed at the Barge Office. With the exception of the immigrants from the Austrian Empire, who numbered 13,680 this is the larcest number of immigrants of any nationality ever landed in the same time. The total immigration was 82,219. Of these 11,880 as cabin and 70,5 335 as steersge passengers. Germaos and Alsatians numbered 11,672; Russians Poles and Fine, 11,664; English, lrish, Scotch and Welsh, 7572; Swedes, Nor wegians and Danes 6,670; other nations alities made up the balance. The English, Irish, German and French immigrants were all the better class and an improyement over those who have come here in past years. The Italians, Russians and Poles are nearly all of the lower class, It is estimated that during the year the record of immigration will exceed 500,000. This will be far in excess of any year of which a record has been kept, A A ot BI YS Sib Mrs. Nicely, the mother of the two boys hanged at Somerset for the murder of farmer Umberger, is a raving maniac aod ber physician fears shé will never regain her senses, The bodies of the murderers were taken to the old homes stead and will be buried on the farw. imposes its burdens upon what we to con the St. Jobo may be a “crank” by any means. > He Went Too Far. From the New York World. When the Imalian Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs says to the American Minister: “We bave nothing to do with you Constitution,” be spoke wisely, When he added: “If it is found want. ing you must mend it,” he was guilty of an impertinence, It is not for any foreign government to dictate to the United States in this matter. Italy has a right, onder the treaty of 1871, to demand that the United States shall ex- tend to Dialians resident here the pros tection we give to our own citizens, no more and no less. That we have given and give. Until we fail in this Italy can have no just cause of complamt, ionamin Merit Wins. We desire to say to our citizens, that for years we have been selling Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Dr, Kiog's New Lafe Pills, Buckien’s Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never bandied remedies that sell as well, or that have given such universal satisfac: tion. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price if satisfactory results do not follow their use, These remedies have won their great popular ity purely on their merit J. D. Murray Druggist, We would call attention to the adver- tisement in this paper of W. & T. Smith, proprietors of the well and favorably known Geneva nursery. This celebrated nursery has been established BO years, and produces the finest trees and plants. The firm are reliable in every sense of the word, and being desirous of estab. lishing agencies, in this and adjoining sections, those desirous of obtaining a good permanent position, would do well to write to W. & T. Smith, Geneva, N. Y. Sigw. ASM I MAIO SARS, Italy has drawn in ber horns, and ins stead of the music of canons we will have the orgau-grinder aod his monkey as heretofore, America Not Frightened, The vavy department people do not look for the Italian cruisers at onca, They know the Italian navy is in the Mediterranean and none of the great Italian cruisers have coaling capacity to enable them to reach New York or any other United States port with fae! enough left to allow them to steam about While collecting indemnity of ten or fifs teen millions, or as much as they choose to make it, for the New Orleans execus tions, But naval officers say that it is no far- ther from the United States to [taly than from Italy to the United States, and that sailing is about ae good one way as the other. Then Italy has as many coms mercial vessels afloat as the United foreign commerce than the United States, The Seuate. In the senate Wednesday morning Mr Willismson, of Huntingdon, introduced & jodicial apportionment bill. It con- templates the following changes in the existing apportionment. Dauphin and Lebanon are to consti- tute a district uotil January, 1803, when Lebanon is to have a jodge, and Dauphin two; Huntingdon, Mifflio and Sayder a district; Union is attached to Northum- berland; Faiton, Somerset and Bedford a district; Adams, after expiration of the present jodges’ term, is to be attached to York, with two judges; Cameron and Potter and Elk and Clinton are made separate districts, and the following counties are each made districts: Cen tre, McKean, Jefferson, Clarion and Warren Allegheny is given an sddi- tional court of three judges. No changes are made in Philadeiphia, From North Carolina: During the past three months there bas not bees more than tea days of fair weather, and the ground was pot dry enough to admit plowing for more than six days. The farmers were never so far behind with their preparation for the current year's crop. Very little plowing bas been Jone and no spring oats bave been sowed. Cotton planting usually commence the middle of this month if the weather is warm and favorable. The splendid crop of last year has made the farmers en thusiatic and, in 80 far as they have been abie, they have made preparations for an immense crop this year, The peaches and pears are nearly in full bloom and have not yet been hurt. Bat if there should come a heavy frost the blooms. and buds, and the young peaches and pears would all be killed The apples are backward, but there is every prospect of a fall crop of this de licious fruit. tt iin Secretary Blaine and the daily papers are bringing up the McClure murder, by Italians, in Luzerne county, and the re- fosal of Italy to extradite them, as ao ofiset to the demands of Italy in couse- quence of the New Orleans lynching. The Centre ExrorTer was threo weeks abead of al! these in calling attention to the condoet of Italy. We made refer ence to it a few days after the New Or leans affair, as our files will show. If Blaine had read the Rzrorrsm sooner he could have given Italy a black eye three woeks earlier. Arbor Day Governor Pattison has named the 10th of April, and Friday, May 1, as Arbor days in this state, leaving it to the dis cretion or convenieuce of the various sections of the Commonwealth to ob serve either day. In his proclamation he recommends that the day be observ- ed in the schools with fitting ceremonies to impress upon the mind of children the necessity of preserving rhe trees and the utility and beauty of flower twig and shrab, m—————— Only Three. There are three things the legislature should do, and then go home: 1. Pass a fair and just law to equalize taxation, 2. Pass a sensible road law to give us better roacs, sn law that will accomplish fore. 3. Abolish the shameful Legislative Record. A SNA AY AGI MY SARI Ate Laurel, Recently a Mr, Long, of Rebersburg, while driving a large flock of sheep through the narrows at the lower end of the valley, a number of them ate the leaves from the laurel bushes which lin. od the roadside, and twenty-nine died from the effects of the poisonous leaves. Now Firm, On Monday, Boozer Bros. meat market was purchased from them by our new townsman, Mr. W, H. Rankle, by whom it will hereafter be condacted. He will not remove it from its present location, Buccess to you Billy. ——————— Give the people a road law that will ensure roads fit to be rode over. Sl Additional Locals, ~Miss Belle Welch, of Freeport, 111. is the guest of Mrs. Flora Bairfoot. ——Before the remains of the Nicely boys were interred Sunday, the plates on which were engraved “At Rest,” and the handles were removed from the coffins by the family to be kept as menentos. ~The seclect schools will open on Monday next for a ten weeks’ term. Prof. Rothrock and Miss Maggie Hanna will have charge of them, and from thei success the past term, we can expect a large attendance, —— Last Monday evening two of Cene tre Hall's young men, took their depart ure for the west, they were Ammon Moy. er, who intends locatiog at Amboy, III. aod Charles Krumbine, who goes to Chi. cago, where he will follow the trade of painting. Success to them. ~The Mifflinburg Telegraph of 3, says. On Toesdsy last, while taking div. ner with the family of Mr. Joseph Gote shall, this place. Mr. Thomas Dreishach saddenly fell from his chair and in a few moments was a corpse, Cause of death supposed to be heart failure, ——Our informant, last week wae in error, in stating that Charles Long, the Spring Mills merchant, had moved to State College, where he opened a new store. Mr. Long remains at his Spring Mills store while Jim Condo goes to the College ss manager of the store there. ——The pickpockets were on hand at Somerset last week mingling with the large crowd drawn their by the execu tion of the two Nicely boys. One old farmer lost $150, and & number of others lost smaller sums, Several watches were also secured by the visitors, ~The Republicans of Uaicn county bave made the following nominations at their recent convention: President Judge Rafus C. Elder, of Miffin county; Associ ate Judge, Jackson Gellinger: District Attorney, Jas. A. Rohback, of Miffliaburg Sheriff, W. W. Brown, of White Deer. Jury Commioner, Kiram Klinger: ~The New York Sun tells it's reai- ers. If you cannot sleep the probability is that it is because your stomach is empty. Gel up and eat a cracker or two and drink a glass of milk aad gO back to bed again; then you will sleep, The rule with all the animal kingdom is to sleep on a full stomach. Man has not yet ceased to be an animal. This is the opposite of the old theory, by which we were told that sleep was to be bad by re- tiring with an empty gizzard: A series of extensive robberies have been accidentally brought to light at Altoona. Several parties would aps pear at a grocery store and represent themselves as employes of another gro cer, who haviog exhausted his stock of flour, wanted to borrow several barrels for a short time. The goods were given in every case and no inquiries made. It has been found that & great many firms were di ped, and the amount stolen isno doubt quite large. The thieves have left the city for parts unknown. we NOVOS 11 0110 township: Mud and bad roads pievail, Crops look promising. Cyrus Zeigler lost a five colt a few days ago. D, W. Corman is happy because it is a little girl come to stay. J. E. Spangler moved on his father's farm; D, W. Corman moved on the farm vacated by Spangler, recently bought by James Corman; J. BR. Wolf moved from Rebersburg to this place, into his own house. A Mr. Greninger, of Kreamerville, moved 10 the East end of the valiey on loesday; William Haozleman moved to Sugar Valley. QA the east end of Miles Death of Phineas T. Barnum, The great showman, P. T. Baroum, passed away at 6,22 o'clock on Tuesday evening at his home Bridgeport Conan, in the presence of his grief stricken fam- ily. During the period of Mr, Barnum’s invalidism jand confinement to the house, which began tweaty-one weeks ago last Friday, there have been frequent fluctuations in his condition. from each of which be rallied, although in each “Do you know why so many people got deaf as they grow older?” said a doen tor. “It is because they sleep with their mouths open. Any man or women who does this persistently for years will fio. ally grow deal. But that is not the only disadvantage of so sleeping, It is the cause of a score of affections of the throat and lunge, not to speak of snoring, which unfi's any onoe for human society. But the subject of improper, breathing is wide. Not ove person in a hundred draws and The Sagar Valley Journal says: “ John Wolf, the oldest citizen in Logan township, who lived alone in an old J in bed Sandsy morning; sged 91 y
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