FRED KURTZ, ~ - EDITOR
The latest antheutic intelligence from
the peach ¢ unty is to the effact that the
crop hasn't been ruined after all.
Blairsvilie is called a probivition town,
vet it is stated that on an average eighty
keys of Pittsburg beer are shipped there
every Saturday,
Mrs. Margaret Counolley, of Beaver
Meadows, Pa., aged 110, smoked her pipe
in bed, set fire to the bed clothes, and
died. Tobacco is a great abbreviator of
life,
The Road bill is still in the hands of
the Governor. Protests against its be-
coming a law have poured into the Exe-
cutive Department from all parts of the
State.
There are threatenings of a great con
vulsion among the political leaders of
the democratic party because of the
treachery of one of their county officials,
Daily News, May 11,
Well, what's up now?
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According to a correspondent of the’
Pittsburg Dispatchan overwhelming ma-
jority of the republican members of the
Pennsylvania legislature are for Mr.
Blaine for president. The democrats are
just as nnapimous for Mr, Cleveland,
Ope bundred members of the British
parilament are stricken with the grip.
If the Penn's legislature does mot do
some legislating that will relieve the
tax payers of our state, the people of the
commonwealth will give some of them a
hist, which is as bad as the grip.
A Big Political Deal,
The latest political development in
this state, states the Philadelphia Hearld
is a “combine” which aims to control the
spoils of party for years to come, Acs
cording to the ramors it embraces Senats
or Quay, General Hastings, C. L. Magee
and others, and has for ita purpose the
selection of candidates for a period of six
years including the present and the re-
tention of Senator Quay as chairman of
the national committee, his re-election
to the United States senate and his ad-
vancement to a seat in the cabinet of the
next president.
This is a very comprehensive pros
gramme, but the gentlemen concerned
are wholesale dealers io political puts
and calls, and there is nothing too big
for them. It is tolerably well known
morever that some of them are more or
less embarrassed in their political estates
isana lottery or party “Earnest Workers
At any rate the combination as it is res
ported includes the desperate as well as
party.
According to the rumors, Messrs. Mylin
Chat far the statement may be secepted
Theo it is said that Gen. Hast
ing will be nomivated for governor in
1864, and Quay, having been re-elected
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Boyer's Tax Bill
State Treasurer Boyer had frequent
THE NEW ROAD LAW.
The Bill as it Has Been Presented to the
Governor.
The new road bill is mow in the hands
of Governor Pattison for signature hay-
ing passed both Houses. The following
is & synopsis of the bill's provisions:
Section 1 enacts that each Twp. shall
elect on the third Tues day of February,
1892, one supervisor for one year, one
for two years and one for three years.
One supervisor shall be elected annual-
ly thereafter for a term of three years,
Vacancies are to be filled by the Court
of Quarter Sessions, and only qualified
electors of a township are eligible to
election in that township. New elec-
tions are not to be held in townships
not baving three supervisors,
SBecteon 2 specifies that they are to
take an oath of office and are to elect
one of their number president and one
secretary. In townships which do not
have a treasurer they are to appoint one
not of their number, They are then to
levy a road tax not to exceed 10 mills on
the dollar of valuation except by ors
der of Court. The valuation is to be the
eame as that used for county purposes
and is to be furnished by the county
Commissioners, Bupervisors may divide
their precincts into districts and appoint
roadmasters for each. Roadmasters are
to see that work is done in accordance
with specifications farnished by supervi-
80rs, to oversee the men employed on
the roads and to keep their time. Ba.
pervisors are to fix wages and hours of
labor,
Section 3 gives superyisors control of
work and employment of laborers, Ress
ident taxpayers are to receive the pref.
erence as laborers if they notify supervi-
sors before the first Monday of May each
year. Bupervisors are to purchase mas
chinery and materials and take care of
same,
Section 20 makes it unlawful for sus
pervisors to be interested in work or
contracts on roads, highways or bridges.
Violation entails a fine not exceeding
$200 or imprisonment not exceeding
three months or both,
Bection 21 says if supervisors or per-
sons employed to work on roads, high-
ways or bridges wilfully violate the act
or wilfully neglect or refuse to carry out
its provisions, they shall be fined not
exceeding $200,
Bection 22 imposes on supervisors all
the duties imposed by existing laws on
supervisors of roads, bridges and highs
ways and makes them subject to the
same responsibilities, except where con-
sistent with the act itself.
Bection 23 repeals acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with the bill's provisions,
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The Tax Bill,
A prolonged session of the Senate Fis
nance Commitiee was held om Tuesday
to consider the Granger tax bill, The
friends of the bill through Senator
Brown made several important changes
in the bill, By these changes the fol-
lowing property in the owpership or
possession of each taxable person is put
into class 4 and therefore is not taxable.
Horses and cattle under the age of one
year, sheep and swine under the sge of
one year, wearing apparel, housshold
furniture, musical instruments under
$100 in value, tools, implements, instru«
ments and books used for pursuing a
trade or calling and the unsold products
of agriculture, gardens or manufactories at
place of production,
Section 21, requiring printed lists of
all taxables to be printed and distributed
was stricken out and the present method
of giving assessment notices allowed to
stand. The portion of section ten cons
taining what is known as “the spy feas
ture,” encouragiog complaints was strick-
Dancing is a Sin.
Rev. J. W. Bmith, of Westly Union
church, Harrisburg has created much
excitement among his congregation by
preaching a sermon denouncing dancers
and dancing,
He said: “1 regret to announce that
the past week has been one of worldly
pleasure among several church mems
bers. They have gone to the dance floor
twice within the week, and shuffled their
feet to the sound of music. While church
members are bouncing jamping, and
swinging on the dance floor, the sinners
are laughing derisively, and exclaiming,
“look at the church members dancing.”
“I wish to say emphatically, that while
I am pastor of this church, I will get rid
of these church dancers, or else you will
get rid of me, If nothing happens, the
Bishop will send me back another year
to do business at the old stand. I have
stood in this pulpit and frequently told
these dancers that the Methodist church
forbids it. Bome of you have defied me,
and now 1 will exercise the law to its
failest extent,”
“Those who danced can either hand
me their resignation as members or
make a public confession before this con-
gregation of their wrong, with agree-
ment not to do 80 again, or else stand
church trial,” At the conclusion of the
sermon several came forward and made
proper acknowledgement,
The Indiana (Pa.) Gazette sent a circus
lar of inquiry to the commissioners of all
the counties in the State, except Alle-
gheny and Philadelphia, asking for in-
formation concerning methods of main-
taining the indigent poor. The purpose
of the letter was to ascertain the least
expensive system of pauper maintenance.
The replies show that there are two sys
tems in general use in the Btate, the
“overseer,” and the “county home” planus.
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Two more Philadelphia banks bave
gone to smash the Spring Garden Na-
tional and the Penn Trust Company.
The news of the suspension spread
through the city like wild-fire, snd it
was not long before the frighened de.
positors began to gather around the bank
building at Twelfth street and Spring
Garden avenue, On the stock exchange
the brokers were very much excited, and
while many of them were prepared for
it they did not expect the comptroller to
act so quickly. Bearcely had the an-
nouncement of the failure of the Bpring
Garden bank been made before there
was a rumor afloat that the Penn Rafe
aod Trust Deposit Company, also located
at Twelfth and Spring Garden streets,
bad also suspended payment.
It isn’t every spendthrift who has a
rich mother behind him who occasion
ally liquidates his Jebts. Bot that is
the for tune of the prince of Wales, who,
in spite of the fact that he is over fifty
years of age and has an anuuval income
of $500,000, has managed to accumulate
debts amosnting to $2,000,000, which his
frugal mamma was obliged to pay to save
the heir to the throne from open dis
grace. Albert Edward is getting old
enough to settle down into respectable
habits of life, and unless he does 80 soon
it is possible that the British people will
abolish the monarchy at the death of the
queen and inaugurate the republic in
name as they bave long had it in fact,
The royal family is merely an expensive
luxury.
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Married.
On Thursday evening of last week,
Mr. Harry Keller, Eeq., and Miss Nan~
nie Orvis, daughter of Hon. J. H. Orvis,
were married at the residence of the
bride's parents at Bellefonte,
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consultations with Senator Quay daring
his stay in Harrisburg, and it is pow
stated upon excellent authority that the
Boyer tax bill will be substituted for the
The majority of the commissioners favor
the county home, or almshouss, system,
as it seems to be the cheapest and most
convenient way of takiag care of the
en out. Allthese corrections were made
at the forenoon meeting and no objec
tions were presented.
At the afternoon meeting the oppo-
The Massachusetts House of Represen-
tatives has passed, to be engrossed, the
bill limiting to 125 feet the height of
Seotion 4 suthorizes supervisors of
two or more townships to make joint
purchases of road machinery, joint own
Shut Dewan.
Monday Mann's Axe factory st Axes
man closed for the summer season. The
Don’t go, General, for when you retarn
you way find some fellow has run away
with your gubernatorial boom. Remem-
ber Cambria county.
The appeal of the Italian Government
to other Earopean Governments to unite
in demsadiog from the United States
proteciion for resident aliens is laughed
at in Berlin, iu view of the great increase
of Italian emigration (0 America,
It is believed that Germany wiil refuse
Lo take any part in avy such a demand.
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In New York there is a wew wrinkle
just now, a boycott te stop a boycott,
To utterly break the backbone of the
Luamber Haudlers’ Union boycott upos
the umber yard of Charles L. Bucki &
Company , whieh sought to shut out all
non-union labor, the New York Lumber
Trades Assccialion yesterday decided to
cut off all the suppiy of lumber for new
buildings iv this city uotil the boyeott
shall be lifted. This action will tie up
100,000 New York workmen,
The Prince of Wales’ debts are to be
paid by his august mother, so that when
he succeeds her as the raler of Great
Britain be will not come to the throne a
bankrapt. It will tare 8300000 to
“square up” with his creditors, The
royal lady has agreed to devote that sum
to the purpose named, but with the cari-
ous proviso that the i'rinsce shall pot
bandie a peuny of the money. What a
queer feeling the money making, money
loving thoroughly busivessiike Britons
will have when a monarch ascends their
throne whose owas mother would not
trust him with the money to pay his
debta!
The Altoona Tribune, a Republican or-
gan, in its issus of Monday last, makes
this frank statement; The amendments
10 the Baker ballot reform bili by the
senate commitive practically destroy the
bill aud if it should be adopted in the
shape arranged by the senate committee
it would pot be ballot reform, whateyer
else it may be. The republican mem-
bers of the legislature must now deter-
mine whether the solemn pledge of the
party to the people shall be redeemed,
or whether it shall be broken to gratify a
few Philadelphia politiciaas. If ballot
reform be defeated by the legislature, or
if a fraudulent measure be adopted the
republican party will be handicapped,
snd it will be useless to expect self re-
specting newspapers to enter the coming
campaign with any enthusiasm, If the
legislature means to defy the people
the bidding of a handful of seonndrelly
politicians, who are republicans for rev.
enue only, then something unpleasant is
going to happen, i
granger tax bill now in the senate coms
mittee on fioance. The general pro-
Visions of the Boyer bill are pretty well
understood, and it will be amended to
make it generally acceptable to all class.
es of taxpayers. The changes as pro-
posed will make the rate of taxation on
capital stock of corporations five mills
instead of four, as proposed in the origin-
With these amendments it is stated
00, which amount would be diverted to
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The battle of the Philad. Press in favor
position to the measure by its party lead.
Says the Press:
Those Republican members of the Leg-
i
The United States Supreme Court afs
The Court. in an opinion by Jastice
The Road Bill Vetoed.
Gov. Pattison has vetoed the road bill
May 13~Fred. Karts
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ership to continue during the pleasure
of supervisors sad property to be sold
under the direction of the Courts when
they agree to sever it,
Bection 5 requires the road saperyi-
#018 to make out tax duplicates and des
liver them to township treasurers for
collection. The usual five per cent, dis
count is allowed for payment before
June lst, «nd five per cent. penalty ime
posed for delinquiney beyond Oct. 1.
Section 6 directs the township treass
urer to give bond with two sureties.
Section 8 fixes compensation of super-
visors at $30 per year,
Section 9 requires supervisors to make
reports to county commissioners, of
moneys raised by taxation and amounts
expended in different ways upon the
roads. The commissioners are to for-
ward the report to the secretary of in.
ternal affairs and they are to be made
and forwarded before the first Monday
of April each year,
Section 10 directs supervisors to keep
minutes and accounts and deliver them
to their successors. They are to be open
to the inspection of the taxpayers.
Section 11 vests discretion in supervi~
sors in the mattter of letting con tracts
for highway roads, and bridges, Let.
tings are to be advertised three weeks in
advance.
Section 12 makes it the daty of the su-
pervisors to select one of tne roads to be
macadamized which forms a continuous
highway with roads of other townships
throughout the county, between popu
lous poiots on railroads, These are to
be known as highways, and the supers
visors are to keep maps of them show
ing their relative relation to other roads,
Records of the material out of which
they are constructed are to be kept and
also alignments and grades of the high.
ways. Burveyors when employed are
not to be paid in excess of $3 a day.
Section 13 requires the petition of ten
taxpayers for the appointment of views
ers, Owners of land, railroads or canals
to be crossed by new roads are to be
given written notice of the proposed
view. Hand-bills of the same are re.
quired to be posted ten days in advance,
Section 14 directs the courts to ap*
point three viewers on petition, to lay
out or vacate roads, The viewers must
be a surveyor and two disinterested citis
zens.
Section 156 appoints the supervisors
inspectors of work done by contractors.
It is not to be accepted nor money due
uponit be paid until it is completed ace
cording to agreement,
Section 17 direots the distribution of
money appropriated by the Legisiature
for road purposes among the townships
in proportion to the amount of road tax
they have collected and expended dur
ing the distribution. The State Treas
nents of the bill showed their animosity
very plainly. What is known as the
Boyer bill, which gives, as Senator
Brown puts it, “a crumb from the rich
man’s table,” was considered and Sens
tor Porter moved its substitution in
piace of the bill advocated by the Gran-
gers. Senator Brown vigorously ops
posed this bat without avail,
Accordingly the Boyer bill will be re~
ported tothe Senate. The friends of the
Granger bill are not willing to acoept
this, declaring it to be in all its import
ant points antagonistic to the princi ples
of the House bill.
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The House at Work,
The House recommitteed the Con-
gressional Apportoinment bill to the
Committee on Congressional Apportion-
ment.
The Lytle Insurance bill passed sec-
ond reading and calender of bills on first
reading was cleared,
The House effectually disposed of the
Senate bill introdaced by Senator Meek
to issue liquor licenses on the basis of
popalation, one license for every 700 peo-
ple in cities of the first, second, and third
clase, one for ever 600 in other Citites,
and no less than two in boroughs with
one for every 500 or fraction of 500 peo~
ple. It was alleged that the bill was pre-
pared out of spite, and the charge was
made that a hotel keeper who was res
fused a license was at the back of it. At
any rate the House, after hearing argu-
ments and wasting a great deal of time,
indefinitely postponed its further con~
sideration by a vote of 77 yess to 55 nays.
Quigley, of Philadelphia, was the chief
opponent of the bill,
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The supporters of the Granger tax bill
have abandoned all hope of seeing it pass
the Legislature in anything like its pres
sent shape. Even Representative Tag.
gart, who introduced it, has become con.
vinced that it could not be enforced
without great friction, because of the
large amount of labor that would be neo-
essary on the part of manufactaring es-
tablishments to meet its requirements,
The statement of the representative of
a Pittsburg maoufacturing firm that the
labor of sixty-six men would be smploy-
ed six days to prepare the report that
would have to be made under the pros
posed legislation stunned Mr. Taggart
and from that time forward he has
favored a modifieation that would relieve
the bill of this odious feature. He is
also willing to bave other amendments
incorporated which the discussion of the
measure have shown are necessary to
prevent from being too radical a depart.
ure from the present system of taxation
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The frequency with which banks are
tax collected and the entire State
priations are directed to be set
permanent road making.
tion to
i any township
refusiog to carry out the
making people think those institutions
are not just the safest places to hide cask
for State Chair
sek tho Preincy of th Sala
poor, Bome cling to the overseer method
but admit that it is the most expensive,
and at the same time not as satisfactory
as the other system. Nearly all the
counties in the western end of the State
have adopted the county home plan.
The other system is in vse in many of
the Esstern and older counties,
county homes are self-supporting; others
are nearly so, while others fall behind
every year; but the people of all those
counties prefer that system. The in
formation supplied by the commissioners
of the counties having the overseer syse
tem is very meager, but sufficient to in.
dicate that it is neither the cheapest nor
the best method. Indiana is one of these
counties,
meri ona——
Both grain and stocks fell last week
says the Philadelphia Press. This came
in response to a reaction upon the crop
prospect, both in fact and in sentiment,
The cotton crop is full & quarter late
A large crop, still less one equal to lam
year, while still possible. The fruit crop
is injured. How much is not clear; but
injured it is, Spring wheat has lost a
week or so of Spring, snd is by that
much brooght nearer Fall frosts. French
tariff changes have improved our posi-
tion abroad German tariff changes have
works have been in operation for some
time and have tarned out many axes.
Many men are thrown ont of employ~
ment.
Returned Home.
Ev-Governor Cartin, who has been
spending the winter at St, Augustine,
Fla., has returned to his home in Belles
fonte, and is said to be looking exceeds
ingly well.
Additional Locals,
~—Roads are very dusty now and a
good rain is wished for by all.
~——Lock Haven is booming up a 4th
of Jaly celebration to eclipse any heres
tofore.
——Murray’s soda fountain has been
started up and you can now regale your-
self with that cooling beverage.
~The grip which prevailed with
much severity through this section has
let up a littie and not many new victims
are reported. M..y are «ill not able to
be about and are confined within,
——Reader if yon send us the name of
one nsw subscriber, with cash forsix
months we will send you The American
Farmer one year free for your trouble.
given Hungarian grain suplies an advan
tage over our own. The same may be
done for Russian grain by a RussovGers
man commercial treaty,
As we have all along predicted was
certain to be the case, May has come and
the world’s grain supplies are larger
than a year ago. The United States, and
the Canada’s East of the Rockies, are
equal to last year. Bo are Pacific cosst
supplies. European supplies, including
English, ashore and afloat, are 17,700,000
larger than last year. The total supply
is larger than last year or the year bes
fore.
Again a rapid speculative rise in this
coumtry has given foreign supplies their
opportunity in Europe, Wheat in New
York, Saturday, was just where it was
March 7. Having risen about 12 cents a
bushel in seven weeks, it lost this ade
vance in two, Meanwhile, the large exs
ports of our meal products in the first
eight months of the year have suddenly
advanced the price of meats to the res
tail consumer, Last year, and in many
years, new mess pork rises 30 to 40 per
cent, from February to May, having ad-
vanced this year from $10.50, March 6, to
$13,650, May 7. But this rise is not gens
erally accompanied by an increase in the
current supply of fresh meats,
Cereals and meats together, the in.
crease in the cost of living has been con*
siderable.
~Sufficient time having elapsed to
ascertain whether the cold snap of Mon~
day sight and Tuesday has damaged the
fruit and cherry crops, experienced grow-
ers now report that little harm has been
done, and that there is stall promise of a
big peach crop and a good yield of straw=
berries in this county.
~—Jjaoob Carpenter, a prominent
merchant of Bard, Bedford county, met
with a very remarkable accident Mon
day. Mr. Carpenter was chasing some
cattle on his farm which adjoins his store,
He was running with his hat pulled
down over his eyes, when he came in
contact with a scantling w hich was pro~
truding over a wagon load of lumber.
The sharp poiat of the scantling strock
him ia the stomach, producing internal
injuries, which caused his death.
~—Next week the bark-peeling sea.
son will be opened in the hemlock coun
the town of DuBois. Prices for peeling
will be better this year than last. This
season peelers will get $1.60 to $1.75 a
«=A sensible lady of Jefferson county,
Pa., ie said to have sffectually cared ber
fifteen-year-old :
Woodland Coal.
Two car loads Woodland coal just re-
ceived at Kurtz & Son's mill.
——New cloth hats, new furs
ing