VOL. LXV. ra failed last week, Next! meni fp i el erats have endorsed Cleveland for president. ig The Farmers Alliance congressmen, all but Jerry Simpson and two others, have concluded to act with the Demo- erats. pt a The RerorTER and secretary Blaine were about the only two who did not loode their heads in the “war with Chili.” Wy On Sanday last a brutal attack was made, both in London and Paris upon the parading Salvation army, of which a number were injured. we f—— ry While President Harrison's war-like message was on its way to congress Chili's apology and assurances of friendship towards our government were on the way to Washington. Harrison seemed a little too eager for a fray notwithstanding the warnings of Blaine that he had better wait afew days. A pant “Senator Quay only seeks to vindi- cate his character,” remarks a Repub- lican exchange, speaking of the recent libel suits Quay has won. The New York World made a more damaging statement against our senator and with it invited him to sue them for libel but he has not and dare not. a third Our esteemed neighbor, the News, is fretting for fear the finances under Democratic Daily county manage- people. Our vigilant contemporary has an opportunity this week, to study the report and he will learn from it that Democratic housekeeping been quite a good thing for tax-payer compared with the work of the late Henderson machine. tl Editor Lambert, of the Philadel] £ as hia er, spent Sunday last with General Hastings at Does this mean there is something the wind ? At these kind of is always more than eat Still we guess these leaders only up into Centre county to get square meal once. residence, in sits it his Bellefonte and smoke came a clean, - Wc Ay The financial statement of the ty commissioners shows a balance favor of the county of $651 33. to run about $30,000 the othe and we congratulate the tax-payers up- This ap i way, on this creditable showing. bal- ance of 43 of accounts from former years paid during 1891, and would be an showing of £14,216.,76 for present board. ahead the Wy The secretary of war transmitted the senate a statement showing the military foree of the United States, or- ganized and unorganized, according to the latest returns received at the office | of the adjutant general of the army. The abstract shows the total number of | enlisted men is 191,821, commanded | by 8,879 commissioned officers besides | 1,248 staff officers, making a total ag service. The number of men available for military duty organized is 8,567,258, Post Master Field, of Philadelphia, a very good man, was wanted by Har- rison and Wannamaker to run the Philadelphia postoffice in favor of ma- chine politics. Mr. Field thought the office should be run in the interest of the business men of Philadelphia, and as that course did not suit the Presi- Field has handed in his resignation in disgust. The new postmaster of Philadelphia will no doubt run the of- fice to advance machine polities, tates Spurgeon, the world renowned Lon- don preacher, died last Sunday night. For nearly nine months Mr. Spur geon’s health has been a constant source of uneasihess to his thousands of friends and followers, and on more than one occasion during the past ‘six months his death has been hourly an- ticipated. He has been suffering from a complieajion of diseases aggravated by overwork and lack of physical ex- ercise. This finally culminated in an attack of gout, which his enfeebled sys tem was unable to resist and which was the immediate cause of his death. Si a SS dS bi The Financial Statement of our county will be found in this week's RerorTeER. The tax-payer by study- ing it will find there is a cleaner sys- tem of management than under the Republican era, and that the change to a Demoeratis board of commission. ers has wrought good for the tax-pay- er, while we are willing to credit the only Republican in the board, Mr. Strohm, with being an improvement in every respect upon Henderson. Messrs, Adams and Geodnart make a good showing for their first year, EXPLANATION IS NEEDED, Now that the war flurry is over, says the Philad. Zénes of the 20, ult, the public journals and the country can in- quire into the facts relating to the dis- turbance without even the appearance | of antagonism to the government in a dispute with a foreign nation, and no point explanation clearly demanded from President Harrison, to relieve himself from plausible accusa- tions of recklessly attempting to pre- cipitate a war, The President takes pains to state that the note from the Chilian Minis- ter to Mr, Blaine, which presents the negotiations in a light so very different from that in which they are presented in the President's message, one is was not re- 3 * . . . 3 s ceived “until after 12 o'clock meridian of the 25th,” the message having | been transmitted to Congress at i meridian. This was a close race, but | there are other dates more important to be explained than this, On Thursday of last week, the 21st inst., Secretary Blaine cabled to Minis- ter Egan the formal demand this gov-| ernment had to make upon Chili. It is reasonable to assume that Minister Egan could presented that ultimatum so the Chilian government not later than the following day, which would have been Friday, January 22. Instead of doing so, he cabled to Wash- | ington on Saturday, the 23d, that he! had received the dispatch from our | government and would lay it | the Chilian authorities on the | day, that is Sunday, the 24th. He appears actually to have deliver- | {ed it at some time Saturday, sumably late in the day, having held it | from Thursday, according toa publish- | {ed dispatch from Santiago on Bunday, he have before | next on pres was notified by Senor Pareira | that a formal reply would be made on the following day, Monday, the 25th. Promptly on Monday, only a Sunday | intervening after the ultimatum, Mr. Egan of the Chilian tendering npology delivery of our received the government, and i | answer an blance dispute between the President Harrison jon Monday, the 25th, removing a cause for futher | two governments, certainly knew when hesent his | of the Inst sem warlike message to Congress, that his | ultimatum reached the | government only the night and that immediate reply was promised and was probably on its i | He therefore gave Chili no op-|¢ had Chilian Baturday before, an | portunity to make answer to his ulti matum, but recklessly hurled Congress his belligerant message, upon | that | without whatever | had been in type some days, giving any time { for answer to his demand. If he rushed his into ! gress on Monday within 48 hours after his ultimatum had to | { Chili, fearing that Chili would apolo- gize, as it did, and thus deprive him of | the opportunity of airing his warlike | views, he was guilty deliberate attempt to close every door that might iopen a way to peace. If he had not | such purpose, it must be accepted that | | he was utterly ignorant of his respon- [ sible duties and incapable of appreciat- ing the power he possessed for war or | peace. What explanation can President Har- | rison give to the country and to the reasonable message Con- | been delivered of a i | world for this action in the Chilian dispute ? The Democratic policy with refer- ence to the tariff in this congress has been decided upon. The McKinley law will be attacked by separate bills, aimed at a few parts of the measures, and not by s general tariff revision { bill. This conclusion was reached by | the Democratic members of the ways and means committee after a confer. ence lasting several hours. After there had been a lengthy dis cussion, in which the members of the committee in former congresses ex- pressed their opinion in favor of a gen- eral tariff revision bill, and Mr. Spring- er and his associates argued that the proper method of procedure was by at- tacking the tariff law in detail, Mr. Bryant, of Nebraska offered a resolu- tion declaring it to be the sense of the committee that its policy with regard to tariff legislation in the Fifty-second congress should be of revision by sepa- rate measures instead of a general re- vision of the whole system. This mo- tion was carried by a vote of 7 to 3. The negative votes were by MeMil- lin, Turner and Wilson, who were members of the committee in previous congresses. The general policy have ing been determined upon, all the members present agreed to abide by the conclusion reached. AS A As An exchang remarks: The best way to find out whether a man is a Chris tian or not Is to inquire whether he is praised by his nearest neighbors, if his credit is good at the grocers if his word is as good ns his bond, and whether he be honest and reliable in political cam- paigns, instead of looking for his name % the Tanmberdulp Yall of u church. Changing the Conferee System, Committees representing the Repub- | | licans in the Sixteenth congressional | district met at Lock Haven on Tues. changing | { the conferee system, and following: Resolved, future That representation congressional conferences i { i i i | follows: Each county to have for each 2,000 Republican votes or ma- Jority fraction thereof cast at the last presidential election, and also one vote for each 20,000 population or majority cennial census, At the last Centre county Democrat- ie convention, Judge Orvis offered a resolution which was passed unani- mously, by which, in place of three conferees for each county, the number shall be based upon the each county, and that in Centre the county conferees gate elections. These changes are ing adopted to avoid the scandal and wrangle of dead locks in making dis trict nominations, and will serious evil, correct a Mo ———— Na Salate, Specific inquiries as to the truth that this ernment has taken the position that Chili must salute our flag, of published statements, Gov elicit posi- cable mes- , instructing him to Chilian Government that its proposition for settlement of the difference between thejtwo Govern- ments, made to the ‘the is satisfying Secretary Blaine sent a rai inform the in response ulti 21st nt of U i good prospect inst. the nited States that the adjusted as indicating controversy can now be on terms satisfactory to the Government usual diplomatic methods, Wy Our Farming Interests, Our farmin IZ interests are the of the wealth and our pride. back- nation--they are our Yet in theeyes agricul tion is scorned as of no account, and other interests are parmmount. Even many statesmen in our legislative halls ignore the Importance of agriculture and think it needs no support in our This is a grave error, prejudice knowledge When the uishes the branches of industry suffer and weaken. Tr with a few and want f woeount for it ricultural iy with ag lang arm enti other We think the agricultural meetings now being held in this county, over the state, will tend to impress all more deeply as to the importance of There is no subject that with are short their knowledge right there, meet ings are free and intended to educate our people upon many points of great value. in These poy The state department at Washington has received from Minister Smith a re- port of the actual conditions of the famine stricken districts of Russia. Thirteen provinces, comprising an area almost equal to one-half of the United States, are affected. The population of the stricken provinces is 47,000,000, This vast section is agricultural, and the richest and ordinarily most fruit. ful of Russia. The destitution is not universal, as there are those whose aco cumulations have save them from want and there are some spots preserved from the blight by irrigation, where a good harvest was reaped, but at best the estimated proportion of the suffering is enormous. The official estimate of the number of those without food means of support who require ald is given as about 14,000,000, and this is probably the true number, cts A OI A favorite way of describing the im- mensity of Texas is this: The entire population of the world, 1,400,000,000, if divided into families of five, could be located in Texas, each family with a house and a half acre of ground, and still remain 70,000,000 vacant lots. This fact may be used as an argument against the people who are full of fear that our land will soon become crowd- ed beyond the living point. The Uni- ted States has room for millions more, not alone the natural increase, but for millions of immigrants of the right kind. But there is not space in all this broad land for a single foreign criminal pauper oganarchist, EN ————— CORRECTION. In the Financial Statement at the beginning, “U. 8’ L. tax redemption,” HH62,61" occurs twice, Under *' Assets” the footing up should read 23024.02 in. stead of 235028.60, making the assets in excess of Habilities road 951.66. iy : FEBRUARY WEATHER. Bev, Ira BR HicksjMaps Out the Elements According to iis Own Ideas Rev. Ira R. Hicks Word Words makes the tication for this month : in ane about the weather, centre date warmer 3d. By low barometer, well defined storm movements will advancing from western this regions, By the 6th, heavy storms of rain and snow will their progress country. visited in of the dangerous blizzards are many to the northward about the 3d Sth. About the dates | battle between equatorial have most The for ’ se boreas and will take around the southern flanks of movements. Sharp thunder to hail results, the first currents and until the temperature secondary storms At th will i about the when will ¢ the rise and west 10 east, jel winds to ret your s ciion has been touct by Hi tual storms or not, look for north and for the u m cold. The 15th { Oi the means that central This by that date it will be growing warmer is the day organizing, winds shifting to and areas of at mospheric will be advancing low pressure will pre- the storm toward the Atlantic, Isth he will Yget there,” a fresh supply of the north, and gorge streams, overflowing narrow east and south, pare the paths for his ride evening of the leaving in his rear polar air, with snow to vial- levs in central and southern The peratures and ste Feions, reactionary movements of tem- srins will center on the 2st and Look {or the diffi Lie distur days touching it ent all to ii phases of periods of thre the riat the ginoe (roi one aayvs west than Atian- the I Hememix blow glons, in the direction of the centre of Wig giving sm the east and south when the in the west, and colder winds ti LE | west and north when the cen- ix r of About the 2th, all these Yers are becoming The the storm I= in the east, » i will show to all ols that storm conditions the HOW Tm of Mi Erowing Sth iw I is All (juinox west, § t $1 03 on g isl reury =ith, March 2, and the strength ur vernal equinoctial, will add to the to result h. The all fhe istics of blizzards inthe north, which are “th to the disturbances Ure i ii * characte to storms of tropical and cyclonic ten- dancy in middle and southern sections No one caught thie give t to him who will heed, iy the kind of phenomena to be expec need be UNAWANes, as elements will timely warning indicating clear General cold will “be on’ March. ted locally. as February merges into - .- David T. Winter, a resident of Pea- Mass, purchased a ticket from Boston to Chicago several years ago of the ticket agent of the Fitchburg road at Boston, paying $5 above limited rate for a ticket which the agent told him would permit him to stop off at Olean, N. Y., on the Erie road, if he spoke to the conductor, who punched the ticket and told him it would be all right. When he boarded the train at Olean to continue his journey to Salamanca and beyond, the conductor of this train refused to accept his ticket because it was punched, and with considerable violence put Winters off the train for refusing to pay his fare as far as Sala- maneca. The next day Winters went back to Binghamton and on his old ticket was permitted to ride to Sala. mann ewithout question. He sued the company and on ihe trial the conduct. or admitted he had mistaken the ticket for a limited one, but said it fade no difference as the rules of the road re quired a stopover check to be obtain. ed. body, Williamsport Sun: It seems that the farmers of Pennsylvania are not tired of paying heavy taxes and even the increased burden entailed upon the agricultural interests have not opened the eyes of the farmer to the iniquities of a high tariff. The campaign of educa tion which the farmers of the State propose to inaugurate may result in showing the farmer the error of his way and convince him that a tarifl is a tax and an unneccessary tax is a burden. iio wn Large stock of clothing for men, boys and children.—C, P. Long, Spring Mills, wes Hive you seen the new stock of overcoats just received at the Philad. Branch ? wee Mingle's shoe store receives new stock every day. Prices are Siways fair and nage, Y 4, | WASHINGTON LETTER, {From our Reguiar Core spondent.) WasHiINGTON, Féb."1 1892, } 1892, i not to American patriotism above the political aggrandisement of any secured a satisfactory settle- the Chilian imbroglio, it | now the turn of the people, | the House of , to obtain a satisfac- with the administra- suspicion that Mr, Blaine have altogether who place satisfactory those i : one man, { ment of ed by the democrats in | Representatives tory settlement The mere, Harrison and Mr. { to bring the country | the very verge of for the republican Pres { Lion, unnecessarily to alry noming- in their riv idential { tion, is of itself disgraceful to the party war {which the vy both represent. It has not yet been determined what will taken the strong feeling in For- eign Affairs making anlinvestigation of h- Kl 5 that of the vltimatum to Chili if any action be House. There favor of the : Wy i House committee on i the matter, in order to ascertain whet | er there is any real ground for the picion so entertained, ithe generally sending | was an unnecessary bit of buncombe to t boom Mr. Should the to call upon Mr, ! Blaine for his testimony, some interest- i It for the such an United of the investigation Benjamin Harrison. committee decide fing i developments may be expected. INAyY { position which the 1 dare Lig shame result stion might place thie be, however, that of Lhe nations the made, inves States in before | world, will prevent | being officially Mr. tt OT Blaine Montt, the speak as they Monut seriously of Mr. susprising if Se and ¢ Chilian minister, do not pass 1 to i mascle wv,” owing $ statement reflecting Blaine, It Montt to ii upon the veracity r i t will not Ix i no t doesn’t Mr. 0: ude that he Ww may also come | long. Mr. to the diplomatic Tuesday. i shall concl Care { remain in ashington, Egan hili befor ited Montt 10 ome from H: AITisOn dinner has iny be given Hoar's investiga- Sherman providing for Hepre sentative res i solution, an { tion of the "sweating system’ of fav lene | ment house labor, will be orably re Manu- | ported from the Committee on and it Is almost certain { factures, | pass the House is interest- i Evervbodsy f that clothing and other articles { 0 { general use, are manufactured in tene- i ment houses in the large cities i 3 are rocking with pestilential diseases, i f and it is believed that an investig twill do it, i international American hicl The bank- the again, the i {ing £ | scheme, w 1 was before olugress, is in the ring bill dl for “ { having been introduc incor. of $0. 000.00, which may be The well Known millionaires bedone by the Ways and Means Committee, the tarifi polic £25.000.000, incorporators named are nearly all As far as it may democrats of that committee having decided by a vite of seven to three that ph would report a series of separate tarift’ There are still a number of prominent and influential members of the House who believe that this matter should be caucus next Friday night, but as that called especially to discuss the silver question, it i= not probable that it will take up anything else, al- though something may be said about the feasibility of the caucus electing a “steering’’ comunittee of fifteen, which shall have entire charge of éverything and settle just what shall be done and what shall be left undone at the pres ent session. Much can be said both for and against this Inst idea. Representatives of the Deep Water way convention recently held at De- troit, made arguments before a joint session of the Senate Committee on Commerce and the House committee on Rivers and Harbors, Saturday, in favor of the construction of a great waterway from Duluth to the sea, via the great lakes and the Erie canal The estimated cost of the work is $3.- 894.000, and the time to complete it from four to six years, The House committee on the Eleo tion of President and Viee-President, has decided to favorably report a bill providing a constitutional amendment for the election of U, 8. Benators by the people. The House Judiciary committee has decided that Representative Watson's resolution, for the investigation of the Pinkerton Detective agencies, would infringe the rights of the several States consequently it will be unfavorably re ported. The Alliance members say they will make fight for the resolution on the floor of the House, The democrats of the House will probaby adopt the new rules early this week, nearly all of last week having been devoted to debate on them and amendments offered thereto, The caucus Satu t after - he rules as tee, bills, instead of one general bill. dis- cussed in n from the commit. SPRING MILLS, { Daniel Runkle, Sr., {sick suffering from | trouble, Peter Leitzell left for Btormstown on Monday, where he has been employed | to teach school. is dangerously grip and heart folks during intend to the Many of our young go to Georges Valley ention at that place, GG. H. Long and CO Leitzell in- butchering They will put up {a meat market at the postoffice, A new James ptend going into the busi- ness in the spring. arrived in town the {other evening. He will locate perma- nen with Dr. J. R G. Allison. Notwithstanding the fact that he hed doctor tly has had but little experi noe, a very promising young man. Because the his sh groundhog did not see adow {net Tuesday, our mereh- ants are getting ready for spring trade; seersucker calicoes have advanced price, and the boys talk of going barefooted next week, straw hats, coats, lawns and in The mud on our road through town has become notorious for its de pth and stick-to-i-tive-ness., It is so deep that the men must carry their chewing to- bacco in their and the wome Centre Hall beat us for cold weather but I fear { for muddy roads, hats, n must stay at home, can not Ws COBURN, A. J. Campbell has about recovered attack of the p. Now since these Chili days are about vi from an gri over, Jonas Rishel thinks our is country again safe, M. D. was here on Friday last, ockey, of Tylersville looking Pa., after his property at this place Mr. and Mrs. John Weaver Rebersburg on the funeral of Mrs. Mrs. Meveral more od 3 wire at last Bunday attending Weaver's mother, ower, parties availed them- which according selves of the covered the fox dam last week and y filled their ice houses. W. O. Rearick ted with one ’ i has been grain years, has purchased a Pa., about the who of the CO nec 1 houses grain house in Perry county, will move to that place | of April. Borry ou go Will Itis rumored that Andrew Harter i has purchased the property of W. H. | Kremer, and that Prof. James E. Har- W. H. Kre- Cambridge, Crawford county, in the employ of the IM. Y.1L.E. and W. R { his family will go in the near future, J. H. Hiltebeitle, of Richlands, Va., | spent Sunday at this place, are of 10 hh and Ist to see § sae, located ter will occupy the mer is now at 2 oy whither hers | many opinions rife as to the object thinking i to some large manufacturing plant But we think that certain | young widow of this place could throw his visit; some Was ale here, a | some light upon the object of his com- Ab there! Our friends of the Lutheran fof this place, have secured Rev. J. M. Reimensnyder, of Milton, to deliver a lecture on the evening of the 220d day of February, Washington's Birthday. The subject of the lecture to be “Reli- gions of the World,” illustrated by maps and charts. Rev. Reimensnyder it will be remembered so ably conduct- ed the dedicatory services of the Luth- eran church, on the 15th of October last. church ———— A Money Maker, It is 80 hard to get employment now and so hard to make money, that I know others would like to know how they can make a little money, as 1 have done. Tell you subscribers they can get the jewelry, tableware, knives, forks and spoons they can plate, and make $25 a week. The plating outfit costs $5. 1 bought mine from H. F. Delno & Co., of Columbus, Ohio. It plates gold, silver and nickel. I did $4.70 worth of plating the first day. The work is done so nicely that every- body seeing it wants work done. This machine is the greatest money maker I ever saw. Why should any one be out of employment or out of money, whengthey can, by using my experience always have money in the house and have a little to spend too? Any one can get circulars by addressing H. ¥. Delno & Co., Columbus, Ohio. K. Janr- RETT. weJoint sale of stock at the resi dence of William C. Farner, about one mile west of Potters Mills, on March 17th,
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