VOL .LXI1V.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
Let us see if the enormous coffee crop
will bring down the price of eoflee
HA ES —
Cleveland for President and Kerr for
Auditor General are more than Demo~
cratic possibilities,
A
It is not trax that Sanley and his wife
are at outs, The tribe of liars is not yet
extinet,
RS —
Edge informs the people
there is a large crop of grain in this state
The REPORTER
ahead in that,
A ——.————
The Batler county treasury is
empty. Jost the fix REPORTER'S
treasury is in, and our eubscribers can
help it by paying up.
In the past eight days were frightful
railroad disasters. 50 killed in France;
a number killed and many mangled near
Dayton, and several killed near Gallion,
Ohio.
Secretary
was just three weeks
(Pa.)
the
Dudley says Quay cannot resign. Quay
is no doubt holding himself down tight
on his chair with botii hands, so he
can’t get up and leave it, which he is so
anxious to do.
The Pbiladelphia Times says that
when there is a bona fide American tin
plate factory which can turn ont enough
staff to cover a hen house the high tariff
men shonld roof one for Major McKinley
not necessarily for publication bot as an
evidence of good faith.
The Congo cavibals got hungry the
other day for a real, old-fashioned feed,
and had served up 40 or 50 natives who
were friendly to the Europeans. They
had scarcely finished picking their teeth
before they were pounced down upon by |
Europeans and Arabs who made |
if
Can-
An-
some
he caunibals food for the valtures,
have such birds ian Coogo
nibalism is not to be encouraged.
they
thropophagi are slightly out of date
Since the McKinley bill passed, with
increase import taxes on
i the prices of wool have fallen while
the imports from abroad have largely in-
creased,
on the
the
WoO
The compensating duties on
woolen fabrics have enabled the woolen
manufacturers to advance prices. So, es
a consequence of McK inleyism, the fare
mers are getting less for their wool and
paying more for the wooleus they coa-
sine
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The first six months of the year under
the McKinley bill show that pig metal
production in the United States has fall-
en off 1 888.000 tons, or 26 per cent, The
decrease in Pennsylvania has heen 636,-
KK) tons. The prodoction of Bessemer
steel iogots in the same time has fallen
off 21 per ceut, and of Bessemer steel
rails 41 per cent If there had been ap
increases in the game proportion how the
McKinly bill would bave been glorified.
As it is the protectior ist press talks in
whispers,
The bureau of American Republics
lias received information from Gostema
la that the coffes Whrvest for 1590 will
reach 700,000 quintals, representing $16,
000,000. In the ten years the produc
tion has more than quadrupled, The
Earopean market, however, will be large
ly supplied from the Brazilian harvest
which is 9,000,000 bags this year, The
harvest was 4.200000 bags a year ago.
Why don’t coflee come down same ae
wheat when it is plenty?
The master of the State grange has is-
sued his regular manifesto, giving warns
ing to parties what they mast do. It's
too bad these gems are not heeded,
things will go to the demnition bow~
ways unless the counsels of our wise
men are headed, and the two great par~
tiea will be bosted If one epistie
goes nnheeded, let another, and another
follow until the statesmen of the land
quake ia their boots,
It is now P. T, Rynder’'s turn to issue
his accustomed proclamation, es chief of
the greenback-union-labor party, de.
manding a nomination upon some tick
et, or threaten to smash things general.
ly.
Providence has not forgotten our fare
mer friends, than whom there is no
more useful and indostrious class on
earth. Bountiful harvests have been
sent the farmer, and he breathes freer,
knowing that he has been favored with
enough and to spare, With the pros.
perity of the farming class all others are
benefited; when crops are a failure or
prices driven down to the edge of ruin
by the gamblers, the entire country safe
fers, and the grain sharks and specols-
tors alone thrive, We hope with a
bountiful barvest our farmers will have
Fair Play.
In some quarters hands are raisad in
horror at the idea that the farmer is
about to raise a corner in wheat, in or-
der to raise the price. We do not bes
lieye in corners, but if the farmer for
once gets a chance at su corner, it would
not be surprising, nor could oae think it
uanpatural, if he took it to get up a cor,
interes... Without cor
neriog anybody, the farmer has been
cornered all around for the last twenty
years, ard a corner by him in wheat is
ner in nis owa
not a bit worse than the continual games
of corner played by the speculator every
year. It would be far better that the
farmer had the benefits of a corner in
4 heat, than to let the gambler and heart-
lees speculator have it.
The farmer has been preyed upon on
all sides, The speculator has shorn him
of bis just earnings- on his grain: the
hayfork swindler has robbed him by
fraudulent papers and notes; the patent
right swindler bas bled him shamefully
thro his games; the bogus implement
agent has fleeced him by his shams; the
contemptible
Bobemian oats swindler
bas robbed him io honeyed words out
of thousands, in Centre county alone the
farmers have beer robbed of $30,000 by
the oats swindle. A coruer to get ten
or twenty cents more for his wheat cers
tainly makes the farmer respectable
aiong side of the patent-right and Bohe~
mian cats swindlers,
But, we do not apprehend any appres
ciable wrong to any one from a coruer in
wheat by the farmer —it is the other ras,
cals and their stool pigeons, that want to
be watched, and who corner and rob not
only the farmer, but all other classes.
We think, that at the coming grange
picnic, and at every succeeding picnic,
one address should be delivered expos
ing and denouncing theswindlers, show.
ing up the patent.right swindler, the
farm buying swindler, the oats swindler,
and cautioning farmers to be on their
guard agaiost such scamps, It is astons
ishing that some of those who are leads
ers amoug the patrons, are found the ins
timate friends of the worst swindlers of
the farmer, With such associations it is
no wonder that farmers get hoodwinked.
Any farmer who will associate with one
who is notorious as a swindler of his
brethren, certainly does not deserve the
confidence of his fellow farmers,
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Quay as a Resigner,
Senator Quay has resigned many pubs
lic positions, says the Philadelphia
Times, He resigned the Beaver county
Prothonotaryship in 1861 to enter the
army; he resigned his army commis-ion
to become Assistant Commissary Geuer-
al of the State under General Irwin: he
resigned that office to become Colonel of
the 13th Penna. regiment; he resigned
his Coloneicy to become Military State
Agent at Washington; he resigned that
to become Saperintendent of Transports
ation and Telegraphs; he resigned that
when elected to the Legislature, the one
position he filled without a resignation,
Quay next resigned as Becretary of the
Commonweaith under Covernor Harts
ranft, to become Recorder of Philadel
phia; he resigned the Recordership to
take the Chairmanship of the Republis
can State Committee; he resigned that
to accept the Seoretaryship of the Com.
monweaith nnder Governor Hoyt; he re-
signed that when Hoyt declared for the
Independents in 1882; he resigned the
State Treasurership in 1887 to accept the
United States Senstorship, and now he
is reputed as contemplating a double
resignation of the Senatorship and of
the Chairmanship of the National Come
mittee,
Although Qoay has been a most pros
lific resigner of public positions, it would
be well, in prepariog to swallow his re-
ported resignations of the Senatorship
and Chairmanship, to observe the pre.
caution that is often found on prescrip
tions—"to be well shaken before taken.”
Daring the last few weeks Quay has als
lowed the newspapers to do a vast deal
of resigning for him, but when jammed
inton corner by an Associated Press
agent and forced to say something, he
said that he might resign the Chairmans
ship of the National Committee.
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The corrapt practices of Philadelphia
officials, we remarked in last week's is-
sue of the Reronrer, are being imitated
in some of the counties, and we think
the infection can be found in every
couniy. While conversing with a proms
inent citizen of Union county, the other
day, he remarked that attorneys and
the prothonotaries often manage to keep
control of costs which properly belong to
witnesses, and , that it has become diffi
cult for parties to obtain costs due them,
and that many such sums go into pooks
ols that are not entitled to them, the
parties to whom they sre due, being bafs
fled and put off until tired making fare
ther demands, then the lawyers and ofs
ficials make a steal of them. These
evils, and others, run ints all counties
fair prices for all their surplus products.
sod there should be a general shaking
ap to correct sach practices.
The Farmers’ Wheat Trust
St. Paul has been made the headquar-
ters of the movement by the United Far
mers’ Alliances of the country, to corner
the entire wheat crop of the United
States.
At No 317 Wabash street, for several
days, a large force of employes hus been
engaged in sending out circulars, with
the view of having not only the Alliance
men of the United States, but all classes
of farmers, keep back their wheat crop
until the bears have all been killed off
and prices have been advanced to a
high point,
the
State Press Burean are working together
rean, the Reform Press Bureau and
endeavoring to anite the farmers of the
United States io 8 gigantic wheat trust
in which the producers shall be stock-
holders and by which the speculators
and wheat buyers will be squeezed to
the wall. :
At the head of the
M.
minent Alliance man. A
ing the benefits of combinant ic
movement is George
Muller, editor of the State and a pro-
circular recit
n and arg-
ing the formation of the “trast,” have
been made publi The cirenlar esti
mates the wheat crop of 1801 in the
United States at 500,000,000 bushels. The
promoters of the farmers’ wheat trust
be held back by the farmers for from
four to eight weeks, by which time it is
thought that prices will have gone sky-
ward. Lists bearing the names of secre-
States are now in the hands of Mr. Mul
A Mountain Wedding,
Rev.J. W, White, a brother inlaw
{ ex~Governor Beaver, pastor of one of the
{churches at Milroy, was recently con
{fronted with a case full of hymenial
iperplexities, A couple came over the
{Beven mountains from Centre county to
[the parsonage, desiring Lim to unite
{them in marriage. Their license was is~
[sued in Centre county, and a question
{ar se io the reverend gentleman's mind
| whether it was not the intent of the
state law that the ceremony should be
performed in the county in which the
[license is granted,
for an opinion ana he thought the
preacher was right in his view, Captain
Moore, justice of the peace at Milroy,
but
At this juncture a hap~
was also consulted,
both the others,
|py thought entered the parson’s mind,
adoptivg which would place himon the
safe side. Bydnving to the top of the
third of the Seven he would
{reach the dividing line between Mifflin
mountains
and Centre counties,
fw
found
Stepping across the
I'he couple were
g,and after a long drive the patties
themselves at the boundary.
line Rev, White at
once proceeded to solemnize the union of
Edwin
Rhul and Maggie Burrell, of
{Spring Mills,
The groom, Edwin Ruhl, is the son of
Mr. David Ruhl, proprietor of the Spring
{ Mills hotel and is a very popular young
{ man, and his bride, Miss Barrell, is a
1% to be congratulated npon the success of
his choice of a better half. The couple
the Alliances of Illinois, Kansas, Nebras. |
IP RR— wv !
More beauties of MeKinleyism ! The
Canadian newspaper Hardware, publish |
ed at Toronto, has an editorial article,
under date of Jaly 18, discussing the |
reasons why American pig lead is sold/
in Montreal at $3 60 to 83 75 per cwt |
while the price of the same article in|
New York is $4 40 to $4 45. The reasons!
is we have on this side of the line a duty
of two cents a pound on pig lead. Th in|
enables the producers to charge the Am-|
erican consumer more for it than they!
could otherwise get. So of course they
can afford to sell to Canadians for Jess, |
Americans are taxed that the Kanuocks!
may have cheaper lead. The same thing!
is done with many articles, i
Thos instead of javoring Americans, |
i
the M'Kinley tariff favors the Britisbers |
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G. A BR Encampment At Detrois i
Foeamp. |
ment for 1801 fell to the fortunate lot
Detroit. The encampmant proper will
commence August 3d and terminate Aug-|
ust 8th, For desiring to visit |
what must each year grow more and |
more interesting, a gathering of the war!
veterans, the Pennsylvania Railroad will
sell excursion tickets at a rate of one!
first class limited fare for the round trip
going and returning by the same!
rout.e Excarsion tickets will also be sold
al one and a half cents per mile, short
line distance, going by one route and re.
turning by another. These tickets will
be sold from July 31st to Aogust 3d, in-
clusive, and valid for return passage to
18th, inclasive. The return limit on the
tickets may be extended by depositing
then with Joint Agent of Terminal
Lines at Detroit, but will not, however
be good for any portion of return pas
sage later than September 30th,
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Was Worth 810,000 for a fow Minntes,
John Baily, of Ante’s Fort, found an
express package recently containing val-
uable papers and money to the amount
of $10,000, The packege was found on
the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. As it
bad teen carried by the express compa-
ny it is supposed that it wes dropped
from the car. The finder of the package
made the matter public at once, and the
package was turned over to the express
company.
The selection of the G. A. G.
those
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Tee Croam Festival and Sociable.
The ladies’ of the M. E. church, of
Centre Hall, purpose holding an ice
cream festival, in Wolf's park, on Saturs
day evening, August Sth, to which all
are invited to come and buy ice cream
and cake. The funds to be applied to.
wards cancelling the debt yet remaining
on the parsonsge at Spriug Mills,
nimi MD I Missin
Many journals are seeking for a fittihg
term for executioh of murderers by
electricity, Some propose electrocution,
electrocized, &c., hut none seems satis
factory. The Rerorter would suggest
A term that is both elegant and suitable;
let it be called “electioneered.” How
many have been killed off by election
coring in days gone by.
Quay has resigned the chairmanship
and the Nat. Committee has accepted
his resignation, :
Dudley, treasurer, of blacks-ofsfine
fame, has aloo withdrawn from the coms
the future. They have the best wishes
of all for future happiness.
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Marriage Licenses,
Following is the list of marriage I
censes issued during the past week from
the register's office Bellefonte:
Michael Coshon and Roza Bercowech,
both of Spring twp.
Martin R Broner; Union twp, and
Hanvoah M, Luces, Boggs twp.
Gieo, Skyler and Emma Bame, both of
Millheim,
Andrew Kosnes and Esrea Arze, hoth
soow Shoe
Daniel Simon and Busan Winters, both
of Rebersbarg,
Peter Durez and
both of Ashcroft, Pa.
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Williams Grove,
of
Prudence Quenet,
The Grangers' 18th Annual Ioter-state
Picnic Exhibition, at Williams’ Grove,
Camberand county, Pa., under the com*
mendation of the National Grange, and
the upavimous support of every state
Grange in the United States, will open
August 24th, 189], and continue in ses.
sion six full days,
>
Quite Popular.
Paddy mountain tunvel, and Cherry
Run, down the railroad, have become
quite popular as a resort for campers out,
both places have been occupied for sev
have fine grounds for tenting.
EE cm—
To Cure Bloat
It will interest farmers to learn that
a tablespoonful of pulverized alum and
chimney or pipe soot will instantly re-
lieve a cow bloated from esting green
clover,
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It Was to be His Last,
Engineer Frank Woods, who was kill~
ed near Howard, on Wednesday morn
ing, intended taking a vacation and leav-
ing on a trip to Atlantic City that moras
ing.
li in
Young Cattle for Bale.
Five or six head of young cattle for
sale, Apply to 8, WW. Smith, Centre
Hall,
A Rolling Stone
Gathers no moss; neither does the dust
light on the Philad. Branch’s new stock
of clothing for spring and summer, as
customers keep it moving at figures
which captivate all,
~Bellefonte’s big celebration cost
$660.66, of which $148 wey expended for
the entertainment of Sheridan Troop.
After paying all the expenses the com.
mittee has left in its hands $154 84,
wee (300d shoes, at very low prices can
be found at A. C. Mingle's shoe store,
Bellefonte, and a very large assortment
to select from. He handles no shoddy
goods and full return guaranteed,
we No shell worn stock is thrust upon
customers at A. C. Mingle’s shoe store,
Bellefonte, His large trade enables him
to constantly keep new goods, and al
ways of the latest styles and at very
moderate prices, as ail customers admit.
=A Philadelphia woman is being
prosecuted under the old law against
common scolds, The law is a good one
and should be more frequently enforced.
Nothing is more aggravating in a neigh
borhood than a woman who takes it
upon herself to make the lives of the
mittee,
people wiserable by her tireless tongue.
BY THE WAY,
To be unerring in points of politeness
and cultured demeanor is a “consumma-
tion devoutly to be wished,” but which
a comparative few attain, But
perfection in these matters is almost im-
possible, there is no reason why & person
while
himself
ridicale
should be & boor and allow
herself to be a butt for the
those who are better informed.
stance, | have often noticed
public eating bourses who will give their
orders, resd the papers while the
ands are being prepared. eat them when
are
or
of
For in-
people in
vi
almost
digested, put op their over-garments and
then as a last act, pay the waiter. Bome
people will go into a restaurant, order
refreshments, stand and sit and enjoy
hour, conscious that the clerk or waiter
has other customers awaiting their turn
them. Anyone who
able breaches of good manovers and com
mon decency scarcely deserves to be
classed as human, It is sn encroach
the time of the attendants
which po one has a right to ask, and the
perpetrator deserves to be snubbed or to
be “fired out” with as muoch for
politeness as his actions showed. Pay
for what you order immediately—then
enjoy it and you will thereby avoid the
stigma of being classed a boor at the
same time save the atiendant a big
amount of profanity.
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LEAVED CLOVERS
I know a place were L
#1 the cherry bloon
And down unde
Where the fot
ment on
regard
11
i
$ like gold
wilh show
sum
pret
leaved clovers grow
s leat is for hope, and on
1 one Is for love, you k
(od put another one it
if you search, you w
Bul you must have Ix
faith,
You must love and be strong —and so,
Ma work, if you walt, you will find the place
here Whe four-leaved clovers grow
$F
»
Using the slang phrase “to fire out’
brings to my memory that a recent aus
thority ascribes its anthorehip to immor-
tal Shakespeare, This is refreshing for
a phrase which is so generally used and
which evidently fills an aching void,
eminently dessrves an illustrious parent-
age. Itis in one of his sonnets which
nads, “Till my good angel fires my bad
one oul.”
There is another bit of slang, though
not as old, that is found to have suthor-
#hip, or at least patronage, worthy of re-
spect. When Alexander Suwarofl, one
of the best generals of Catherine III of
Russia stormed lemail in 1790 be an-
nounced his success to the empress as
follows, "Praise be to God, and praise be
to you; the fortress is taken and 1 am in
¢ where they grow
pe, and you must have
»
There is a new business coming into
existence, the importation of water from
the river Jordon for baptismal purposes,
It is needless to add that as yet the ine
dustry has for its patronage only the
rich, and, of course, until there is dilis
gent competition in the trafic the poor-
er classes will have to do with common
cistern or spring water and be satisfied
with an inferior quality of baptismal res
generation. Ere long we shall see this
sdvestisement in the drugstores, “ Water
from Jordon River, only legitimate bap-
tismal water extant.”
The business was given a sudden im
puise by the recent christening of a roy»
ul baby, daughter of the Duke of Fife,
the grand child of the Prince of Wales,
The court circulars are careful to inform
an anxious world that: The chirstening
water was brought from the river Jordan
by Lord Rawton, who recently returned
from the Holy Land.” This ought to
confer a special grace upon the roysl
infant, but those who are sympathizers
in the scheme or prospective patrons
had better not tell the faot that the
Prince of Wales was himself baptized in
water from the Jordan, in which case it
evident'y didn’t take, Commenting on
this state affair, Gen. M. M. Trumbull
very pertinently remarks: “There wasa
hope lingering in this democratic world
that the sacraments at least would res
main of equal quality, and that fashion
would not stimulate pride instead of hu-
mility, by providing a superior sacra
men'al article exclusively for the rich;
but our trust was vain. The church
must make i's ordinances lotarious and
exclusive, therefore booths for the sale
of water from the Jordan must be built
in Vanity Fair, The Eucharist will be-
come aristocratic also; and the royal snd
rich will not partake of Holy Communs
jon until they know that the bread is
made from wheat gleaned in the fields
of Boaz, and that the wine is pressed
from the grapes of Naboth's vineyard.”
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NO. 29
There is a large number of children in
thins place who know shout the
gossip of the stores, the glang of the
mreet and other demoralizing
gences than they do about the glories of
a well ordered home
expected fromchildren thus reared than
more
induls
What eles can be
that they will become veritable loafers ?
Are they any better that todsy ?
No osychologists deny that it is the
pressions received in childhood
are the lasting ones, Are the
who would see their sons and
werlthy satisfied that the impressions
which stores, barber ehops and
places will incoleate
than
im»
which
parenis
famous
eimilar
their offepring
ET
refined
in
are the proper ones? I he pe not
the child tha! is surrounded hy
admon-
ile
proper employment who will prove a joy
i
and elevating influences and is
ished as to the value of time and
forever to his parents; while the child
who is allowed to grow sleepy on the
counters of the stores, in the corruption
of the thoroughfares will invariably
velop into a worthless, aimless man,
disgrace to his parents, and be never
anythiog but a human parasite if pot a
criminal actor in the dramas of life,
Keep your children st home during
the evenings and teach them to ap pre
ciate the advantages with which every
troe home abounds and that culture and
honor are the climacteric of
oan.
the ideal
lovsoen,
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le Lines to Atlantic City.
The Pennsylvania Railroads twin
ines to Atlantic City—the West Jersey
and Camden and Atlantic Hailroads
now operated asa doubletrac
famed far and ne
vania’s Double Lines to
The P. RK. R Doud
:
a
a
line, ar
wide the Pennsyl,
the Sea, have
long been known se the old sand reliable
route Atlantic City: The Camden
and Atlantic Railroad was the pioneer,
and for a long time the oanly route, to
what has now become one of the most
popular and attractive seaside cities of
the world. Many Philadelphians well
remember how in the earlier vears of
the first railroad they traveled slowly
and inferior cars to Atlantic City,
when one or two trains a day more than
sufficed accommodate the entire
volame of traffic, and many of them may
also recall the ill-success of the railroad
venture; which wes so proncunced, that
at a meeting of the directors the proposis
tion to take up the rails and sell them
for scrap iron was gravely discussed.
Wiser counsel prevailed; however, and
from this homble origin sprung what is
to~day the moet complete and best-ap.
pointed system of railway leading to
any seaside resort in this country,
The West Jersey and Atlantic from
Newfield to Atlantic City was built and
inaugurated with FUCORER
under Peansylvania management, the
Camden sand Atlantic was acquired, and
the two lines consolidated into the Penn-
syivanis's [Donble Li
Thee is
skill and vigor
vania Railroad is coe ihe roads
wa, of each line vc xveilent condi-
tion. Laid with steel rails stone ballast:
ed, fitted with that greatest of time
savers—the track tank-—protetecd by the
block~ signal system, its physical condis
tion can only be compared to those blue
ribbon sections of the main line track
that attract the admiration of the chance
traveler and provoke the unstinted
praise of the railway expert.
For the complete exquipment of this
splendid roadbed the great resources of
the Pennsylvania System are freely
drawn upon, The choicest passenger
coaches, parior cars constracted express
ly for this service, and stalwart hard.
coal durning locomotives, desigaated as
the Pennsylvania Standard, are provide
od. The speed of such trains on such a
road.bed is whatever the management
choose to make it, but in the exercise of
a wise and conservative jaodgmeat the
maximaom of seventy-five minutes for
the run from city to sea has been adopt.
od. Thisis as fast as the fastest trains
in regular service in this country or
abroad, and is quick enough to meet the
wishes of the average traveler, These
trains speed down to the sea over one
track and up on the other, with no
obstruction, but with a clear clean sweep
of track always ahead. Safety is the
prime essence of this plan, ani com fort
is assared by reason of substantial,
equipment, a clean well balissted, firm-
ly. established roadebed without dust,
locomotives without cinders. These
characteristion, briefly outlined, form
the basis of the w and well earned
ularly of this first class route at At-
ty.
The high favor in which this roule is
held is by no means local, bat extends
to all sections of the land where the in-
fluence of the Pennsylvania Railroad is
felt. A large number of trains from the
east, west northwest, id Jouth-
n -
to
in
to
coospicaous
nes io 1 Nea.
aes al “ wit + that
Penue yi-
IR in
for conveyance to Philadelphia
prompt convey
nm
the provision of these amutpaned
t of travel, the Pen in
Railroad Company bas not only
od in greater measure than any other
Shiaalty by theses, bat has nae
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