)L. LXV. DIRECTORS MEET. AND AT LAST AGREE ON A PRIN CIPAL The Deadlock in the School Board on Saturday Evening, and the Di rectors Agree, The School seemingly a thing of the past, the Hall is at factional Directors quarrel among of Centre least all the citizens hope so, and the board has decided on an instructor for grammar school for the ensuing year. Since the new board there has been a them, much to the disgust and taxpayers, and the good and well- was organized contention between of citizens fare of the cause of education was sac- rificed in order to forward personal an- imosity and antipathy. The was split and factional, but evenly divided neither board being the other were able to gain a point or lose, one side or The principal cause for contention was the securing of ¢ . LOT this agree, an instructor the grammar school, and point the board Meetings were held upon would not for months past and it was always with the tO side would put up a candidate and SU p= port it while the other do likewise, and Sane I'e- sult when it came balloting. One faction would neither fi inclined to give in. The time for t opening of the schools welion was he Wis near at hand and a petition was to be handed to the court by the citizens praying to discharge the present board and ap- point a new one. The tl directors this action on the part on Saturday €Y Tas necessary. "he board met in "Squire Boal's of- # fice and after getting down they elected to the posit well, of Carleton, fat: + 2031 3 plicant, e¢ Mr. Criswell i ame a good disciplinarian, structor. The September 19th, schools session. Spot PROTECT We have had prote been protects tl : Carnegie has been pr his millions to show Vanderbilt has been has a monstrous big pile t Jay Gould has been has coffers full to pro C. P. Huntingdon ed, and can revel in quence, The thousand and monopolists of the tries, prot testify to the benefits princely fortunes. have been toilis ton And the millions of I INass for whom protection was especially acted, what of them ? they cry, with one we have been cheated and beggared by protection.” - — Wi KRIEBEBS BRENOMINATED. At the congressional conference held ; last week our present member, Hon. George F. Kribbs, renominated for Congress. Mr. Kribbs, during his service in the national house, en to be trustworthy. vote that was not was has prov- He has cast no in’ sympathy with | the interests of the toiling masses, and on party questions he has been true to the Democracy. The 28th district has | an honest and faithful member in Mr, | Kribs and he will be reelected by an increased majority for his fidelity, » om. Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie | steel company, was asked how many more Homestead strikers would be prosecuted for riot. He re plied: "1 cannot tell how many more informa | tions will be made in all, nor can I say | how many more iuformations will be sworn out next week. That matter is almost wholly in the hands of our at- torneys. They have the list of persans liable to charges and when they have | examined the evidence the suits will | be entered. I can tell you, however, | that a good many informations will be made. The attorneys have a list of | 800 to choose from, and we have evi- | dence against all. : i i § nmi te MP i Bank Looted, John F. Miller, book keeper of the First National Bank of Columbia, Pa., is among the missing. An investiga. tion of the books of the bank indicate | that he is behind about $10,000, The | ipiscopal choir is without a leader and | the Sunday school is short a teacher | and the best society circles lack a mem- | ber. The eloper was to have been mar- | ried to a leading Philadelphia belle | about the Ist of September, but as his | relatives report him in Brazil it is not | likely that the marriage will come off, | The bank officials are making every effort to capture him. T .y CORBURN, of a Week Correspondent Don’t forget the festival day evening, September 3rd. the Melnnge ne Daniel Auman has agency ——————— ing with good success. J. C, Stover and family attended the | Odd Fellows picnic last Saturday at Pa. The gravel train on oO a cow belonging Jacob Sanders, Briar. J. F. Garthoff and wife spent attend at Susquehan Hope =ome of our people expect to the Lutheran Heunion, na Heights, today, Thursday. they may have a good time. Mrs. T. ton B. Everett has gone to Flem- ing wrate from her recent spell of sick- I I I On Sunday conference quarterly of the Evangelical Association conven- Rev. Hartzler one in at this place. wwerful sermons, the in Hed two | morning and one in evening. behalf of t, who has been sbend- the hotel the employ of the Long brothers came ret ATR summer at ave 51 Saturday {4 » pay his parents On i he sufler- morning [gem ~unany ill, and is now vphoid fever, a CAPITOL CHAT. INFORMATION OF A WEEK FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITOL A Brief Review of What Government Officials are Doing for the Coun. try's Good WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 92 Joss | Platt has been given his price, and he | has agreed to help Mr. Harrison's man | Carter try to elect the man he fought | 80 bitterly at Minneapolis. Such is the story which reaches me from authentic republican sources. His he shall Treasury, price is made ifthe this re-elected, be Secretary of the pf | Cas is ns big mountain in Mr. and he | ME An Harrison is ins not taken a verbal third Elkins Promise from a as he did he Ii party irom Steve in IS8Sk. but hans it in his * black Mr. senator Quay, inside vest pocket’ i and white over the Hari who is now in autograph ol Benjamin i8On, . trip, has also been partially, if not on a fishing tirely “placated.” passed days ago, that he had promised to gis the republican national committee month of his time before the election If these things show that the reg show anything the: pub as they dislike Harr do their les Suppose much true farmer he does bie canwhile Re- fo 3 farmer { A FARIVES AND STRIKES i 10 1860. a period of fifs Democratic there strikes and tariff—n only were only seventy-four lockouts of which any official report has been made. There were quite a number of sir ikes during this period reported, but littl they were of ie Altogether ther: or no importance, were not two hundred strikes and lockouts during this whole period of fifteen years, “During the past fifteen years there strikes States, been six thousand lockouts the United From 1876 to 1880 there are no statistics as to the number of persons involved, have over and in but from 1881 to 1890, inclusive, there were over a million persons involved Wy —— Senator Quay has got what he was after in his spasm of Sabbatarianism The tepublican convention of Centre coun- ty has set the pace by adopting resolu- tions especially commending and thanking him for his “patriotic efforts” in behalf of the “American Christian Sabbath” in aiding to close the Chica. go Exposition on Sunday. Brother Quay will please move up into the pi- ous corner of the sanctuary. The Renator will next be going around holding Sunday school con- at the anxious bench of some camp- meeting. Verily, the “sun do move.” si MP Even the insects are conspiring Out they are doing an immense amount of damage to oats and other growing crops, whole fields being destroyed by them. As the Republicans are in the habit of elaiming the credit when there is more than an ordinary abundance of agricultural productions, it may be the intention of the grasshoppers to put a stop to that sort of Republican exag- geration in this campaign, I——— um at a Take the RerorTErR for the campaign, at 35 cents. Send in the names, mjorit his pest from no ticket He spoke lightly of Erie and said he did not think it would cular issued last week in sult in any harm There is no eh thie officials of the Marine Hospital Service HOTHR panic among which represents the national govern- ment, in dealis with the introduce tion or spread of epidemic diseases, but a commendable been the landing of any cholera patients in our 3 i activity has shown in taking sts ps to prevent seaborad cities, and also to prevent the | disease making its way in by way of | Canada. The old revenue cutter Ewing is to be used ns a floating hospital at | the Cape Charles quarantine station, : while another revenue cutter will aid! in making inspections of European | sleamers, It is understood in the General Land | Office that no Commissioner will appointed to the vacancy made by the resignation of Mr. Carter, to become chairman of the republican national | committee, until after election, so that if Mr. Carter fails in his efforts to re elect Mr. Harrison, which he is most likely to do, he can get a little consola- tion by having his old place given back to him, and by drawing the salary until Mr. Cleveland appoints his successor. Should Harrison he is booked for Noble's chair. It would be difficulty to find a mild- er mannered gentleman than Viee President Morton, but according to a story that has floated over from New York he recently made Mr. Carter's hair stand on end, by swearing a string of oaths that could only have been ex- pected from a cow-boy on a “bucking” broncho. The occasion upon which Mr. Morton lost his temper was when he was visited by Mr. Carter and asked to duplicate the check which he gave to Mr. Quay in 1888 to be used for campaign purposes. He did not dupli- cate shat other check, nor draw a check of any kind; but he did give Mr, Carter his opinion, very freely, of the underhanded methods by which he was shelved to make room for Mr. Whitelaw Reid, and he also told him that Mr. Reid was the proper person to apply to for the duplication of the Morton check of 1888, It is well known in this town that Mr. Morton has a good right to complain of very be win { man who now heads its ticket are ( ntirely clear Br concen AARONSBULG, An Odoriferous Crop, Other News Tersely Told, hauling the lumber to build himself a new house, Miss Anna Stamback, few weeks visit from Loe (i. M. Stover and son Millhei Frank Dutweiler, is is home for a k Haven. ire ereciing a new house at mi, for Squire Reifsnyder, Wilmer work at the College, has stover, repair the damag one, Andy Musser of onions, the most round as a saucer and till lnrger, and mild in 1 hie juts summer boarder Addam it and daugh HAriey and crt for ng left, Harvey ston, and will MN of ft} : we oddoriferou He to enlargs ielosure 1%) acres and leave the ed for vears, at hi and 50.000 skunks, the on having between He will t hem for the skins, { the fur business for counts hen many ol ir been in years he evidently knows what he is abo it. Ihe skunks are fed carefully every day, and A ——— The Amount Already Paid State Morrison has paid out of the general treasury the of $152,000 for the pay of Thus far Treasurer sum This does not include transportation and subsistance for those who or serving at Homestead, all of which will be paid from the general fund. The First brigade was paid out of the annual $300,000 appropriation to the National Guard, because it only served are went into camp as provided by law. Usnider the 52 article of the military act when troops are called out on extror from the general fund. ALM Jubilee Postage Stamps. Next year the discovery of America will be celebrated in every that patriotism can invent. we to be furnished with a special issue of half dollars by the Treasury, com- memorating the event, but the Post office Department has also decided to sell a complete set of jubilee postage stamps during the year of 1803. The stamps will bear appropriate engrav- ings, and the only portrait to appear on them will be that of Christopher Columbus, way iinmen —— General Hastings is to make stump speeches in the New England states, We don't see where they will find room for a meeting as Hastings will make any one of ‘em chuck full-