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.
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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