VOL. LXV. i | | SO SWINGS THE EXTRA SESSION | PENDULUM. Extra Session Sentiment About Evenly Dis | vided. The Civil Service Law In { efficient, i WASHINGTON, Nov, 28.-—The extra | session pendulum swings back and | forth from day to day. Last week for a time it seemed that the sentiment in | favor of an immediate extra was overwhelming among prominent democrats, as for several days about nine out of every ten Senators and Representatives that arrived and were willing to express a decided opinion were,in favor of an extra session at the earliest possible moment. Then there was a change the other way, and about the same percentage of arrivals oppos- ed an early extra session, although many of these opponents of an early extra session think it would be an ad- vantageous saving of time to call an extra session about September or Octo- ber. Ifa poll of all the democratic Senators and Representatives now in Washington were taken on the ques- tion of an early extra session, it is ex- tremely doubtful which side would get a majority, so evenly divided has the sentiment become, Hon. Chauncey F. Black, of Pennsyl- vania, President of the National Asso- ciation of democratic clubs, is here to confer with Secretary Gardner as to the association's future work, particu- larly that relating to the campaign of 1896, which he says is already com- menced. Mr. Black called attention to the manner in which the Walker tariff of 1846, which one of the most satisfactory the country ever had, was prepared, and asked a good many democrats if the next democratic tariff could not be better prepared in that way than in any other. He sur- prised to find that very few people re- membered, if they ever knew, how the Walker tariff bill prepared. It was prepared during a recess of Con- gress by Robert J. Walker, President Polk's Secretary of the Treasury, and when Congress met in regular session it was substantially as prepared enact- ed into a law and brought credit and honor both to its author and to the democratic party. If that plan suc- ceeded so well then, why not try it again, by letting the democratic Secre- tary of the Treasury to by Mr. Cleveland prepare a tariff’ bill to be submitted to Congress when it meets ? is now being asked on all sides, Ordinarily the officials of the Treasury Department who have to deal with importations are better posted on tariff matters than outsiders, even those who have devoted much and study to the complicated system, and are consequently better prepared to arrange the details of a tariff’ sched- ule, but it must not be forgotten that nearly or quite all of the tariff’ experts now in the employ of the Treasury are hide-bound protectionists, and that it might not be altogether safe to trust them with the work of making a new tarift bill on reform lines. The relations of the Comptroller of the currency with the National banks are so close that when a Comptroller retires from office he usually enters the employ of a National bank, but all the same much surprise was caused when the annual report of the present Comp- | troller was made public and it was seen that he had embodied therein an | argument against the establishment of State banks with authority to issue currency. It is regarded as nearly akin to insolence for a republican official | thus to attempt to tell the democratic Congress that it should not carry out! a plank of its National platform, which | the country has just endorsed. : General Rosecrans, Register of the Treasury, and about the only demo- | erat now holding a prominent position | under the government, struck the civil | service law a knock down blow by | stating in his annual report that the! competitive examinations held there | under, were practically of no use in de- | termining the competency of a clerk. | Not that this statement was new or surprising but that it was made by a big official. It has been fasionable among officials for several administra- tions to bow down to this civil service mumbo-jumbo, and it is refreshing to find one that will speak what so many of them think. The question of immigration legisla- tion at the coming session of Congress is being agitated, and if the joint com- mittee which has been investigating the subject shall in their report, which will soon be ready, make any practical recommendations, it is altogether prob- able that they will be embodied in leg- islation. Most democrats agree with the National platform, that industri ous and worthy foreigners should be free to come to us, and all stand ready to vote to prohibit the coming of the unworthy. Whether it is because the newspa- session was was was be selected among time cannot say, but anyway the State De partment people poohpooh the story about the French agent who controls the Panama railroad having violated the Monroe Doctrine by discriminat- ing against American shippers over that road. Senator Kenna of West Virginia, is dangerously ill. He has been sick for several weeks but a few days ago it was thought the crisis had passed, and that | he was on the road to recovery, but Saturday he had a relapse and today | the worst is feared. He has pleurisy | and heart trouble. Tp . WILL NOT PLEASE ATTORNEYS, A Rale in the Somerset Court Debars Non- | Resident Practitioners, A rule has been made in the Somer- | set county court which prohibits any | attorney not a resident county from presenting a petition in | the courts of that county, beginning | an action, entering note, filing a claim, or in any way transacting busi- | ness directly with the SBomerset coun- ty courts. Non-resident attorneys| who have any business to do with the | Somerset county courts must do it | through members of the Somerset county bar residing in the county. of Somerset | id their noses high. If the REPORTER | understands anything this action of | the Somerset lawyers is not only self- constitutional. Somerset, as any other business man ness, A My ~\ I'he Pennsylvania Railroad company | has just given out the contracts for in- | creasing the number of tracks on the | division between Harrisburg and Al- This work is to be completed | Soous Four Track Road toona. not later than the 15th of February, | and everything is to be in running or- der by the 15th of March. Chief Engineer Brown and sistants, of the Pennsylvania company, have during the last year, | making a number of surveys along the line of this road between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. A num- | ber of sharp curves have been taken | out and wherever it has been feasible the number of tracks have been in-| creased so that when the above work | has been completed the road will be a four track one from Jersey City to Pittsburg. Along the line of the New York his as | railroad | been di- gaged in laying the pneumatic system | of automatic interlining signals. The power house is now being built at] Homlesburg Junction, and a like one | will be built close to the tracks of the main line division in Philadelpha. Besides this the company Is also in-| creasing the number of tracks from! four to five and in some places six are | now laid and ready for business. py _— Hints in Season. Persons fond of breeding trouble for others, should stop to consider that there are few games that two cannot play at. It often happens that a dog without teeth barks the most, No one can have joy today who is worrying about tomorrow. It doesn’t pay to build any kind of a house on a poor foundation, Nothing keeps a stingy man from stealing but the risk of the thing. When you want to find a coward hunt up the man who knows he is wrong. If there were no troubles to talk about some people would always be si- lent. One of the most foolish men is the one who worries about things he can’t help, Working without a plan is one of the best ways in the world to waste your strength. When the people find out a man is mean at home they don’t care how good he professes to be at church. Never keep nosing around in other people’s business; the neighborhood will at last get tired of you. ial omsaam——- Miss Eva Frear has sued the New York Central R. R. for $40,000 for the death of her intended husband, who was killed by a railroad accident. This is the first suit of the kind on record. She claims she lost a husband and her future support by the death of her flan- ove, Sma fi MY Rhode Island has a property quali fieation for voters that is ten times more exacting than the proposed one in Alabama. But Rhode Island is a Republican state don'tcher know, hence the organs don’t say anything about it, but bray like mules over a proposition of the kind in Alabama, A contemporary sententiously says: “Bull's Head Flavoring Extracts are - IFFS | CENTRE COUNTY'S GUARDIANS | OF THE PEACE. List of All Who held that Office Since 1800 ~The Great Age Attained by Many of our Sheriifs ABOUT SHER Hon. John Blair Linn, in a recent article published in the Keystone zelte, gives some valuable statistics showing the great age attained by most of the ex-sherifls of our county. (fc The great age attained by some of county is re- James Duncan, the first sheriff, Seotland in 1758, died in 14, 1843, aged Aaronshurg eighty-five commissioned in Franklin WiLLiaM RANKIN, 1803: born guson township, November 20, 1837, in RorLaAND CURTIN, father of ex-Gov- ernor A. GG. Curtin, commisssoned November 14, 1806; born in Ireland, Micnaen BOLLINGER, commission- ed November 11, 1809; came from York county, Pa. in 1708, died in Aarons Joux RANKIN, commissioned Nov, 1, 1779; died in Pennsylvania April 22, 1848, aged sixty-nine, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, commission- i815: born Shermans, valley (now December | 1777, in 25, 1867, aged nearly ninety years, Joux MrrcHELL, commissioned Oc. tober 23, 1818; born in now Perry Co, March 8, 1781; died in Beaver county, JosErH BUTLER, commissioned Oc- 17860; Tomas Hasrinos, Jr, commis tory of now Centre county, Oct, 24, 1797: died in Brookville, Pa. 1871, aged seventy-four years, Ronert TATE, 20, 1827: died in Clinton eounty, March 30, 1870, aged eighty vears, Wa. Warp, commissioned Oct. 22, 1830; born April 15, 1785; died in La- in commissioned Dec. 29, vears. He 1841. there terms as sheriff’ of | 1852, aged fifty-seven and fore served three Groroe LEipy, commissioned Oct, township, Clinton county, Jos TrHoMpsox, commissioned in Half Moon township, aged seventy- eight years, Tomas M. Hann, commissioned Nov. 26, 1845; died in Milesburg, Nov. 1, 1879, aged seventy-three years, Wa. L. Musser, commissioned Nov, aged eighty-one years, Josern J. LascLe, commissioned Nov. 26, 1851; died in Bellefonte July 28, 1892, aged eighty-one years and two months, MorpeCAT WADDLE, commissioned | Nov. 27, 1854; died in Spring township August 20, 1885, aged sixty-three years | and twenty days. Tomas McCoy, commissioned | Nov. 29, 1867; died in Philipsburg in 1869, aged fifty-seven. GEORGE ALEXANDER, commission. | ed Nov. 1, 1860; died in Unionville | September 8, 1802, aged eighty-two | years, Ricuarp CoNLey, commissioned Nov. 25, 1863; died in Benner town-| ship September 3, 1880, aged seventy-| one years, Gro. W. Musson, commissioned December 14, 1875; died at Philips burg September 30, 1886, aged about sixty-six years, The surviving ex-sheriffs of Centre county are: Daniel Z. Kline, elected in 1806, D. W. Woodring 1869, Benj. F. Shaefler 1872, John Spangler 1878, Thomas Dunkle 1881, W. Miles Walker 1884, Robert Cooke, Jr. ,, 1887, William A. Ishler, Esq., is the pres- ent sheriff, Adding two for additional terms of William Ward makes thirty incum- bents, three years each, ninety years {1800-1800), the period of incumbency, none having died in office. It will be noticed from the above that the average ages of the sheriffs of Centre caunty was over seventy-nine years. Joux BLAIR LINN, Nov, 17, 1802. i" 1" " 1" " " " "n i" ”" " y is Belling Baled Hay, Baled hay Is bringing $14.50 to $1 J IDENTIFYING PROVERTY. Goods From a Snow Shoe Store Found In the Pile. home of Mrs, Jackson, in Williamsport, on Monday, and those found in Harrisburg Tuesday. on Mr. Buddinger keeps a general store in Snow Shoe and on the night of Oc. tober 12th, thieves effected an entrance to the building and succeeded in get- ting away with some cash and merch- andise. From the safe and cash regis- ter the robbers $45 in Among the goods that he examined at the police station Baturday, he found some that he thought belonged to him. A pair of low shoes, both for the same stole cash. foot, were among the miscellaneous as- sortment of merchandise. He sald that just such a pair had been found in his store previous to the robbery, and he had made of the manu- facturer, and then wrapped the shoes up. note They were laid away in the office at the store, he intending to send them the dealer. After the robbery they were missed. He clue to the rob (lazette & Bulletin, back to wholesale thinks he now has a bers, Ws fp SPRING MILLS, Our Ublguitous Seribe’s Deseription of the Happenings The summer is over, Thanksgiving is gone, The time for sausage has come, o'er the town, tev. Hertz is holding a Paradise at present. Miss Jennie Yarnell, of Pine Grove Mills, i= attending Dr. Wolf's Bchool since Tuesday, Our boys have bought a new foot. ball, and our physicians will soon be out of shin plasters, A HERMITS' LIFE A CRAZY INVENTORHERMIT NEAR HUNTINGDON, Joshun Gorsach, the Eccentric Hermit of Lock Ridge, Ninety-three years old and Basies Himself with Crazy Inventions, The Huntingdon correspondent of the Philadelphia 7%mes is responsible for the following which appeared in the Sunday morning edition: Just beyond the northeastern limits and thickly settled spot on Lick Ridge, lives an old hermit whose eccentrici- for many, many years. Joshua Gorsuch was born in Novem ber, 1799, not more than a mile from his present mud hovel, and in the ninety-three years of his life he has been farther than seventeen miles from that spot, and then only twice, having the past two years spent the winter months in the Poor House, at Shirleysburg., Although he is so ill clad that at times his aged body is barely protected from rain and snow and the plercing winds, and though his stomach rarely has an opportuni- ty digest anything better than crusts of stale bread, the old man holds the idea of the County Alms- {house in holy horror. never to {and it is only because of the weakness i of his century-old frame that he sue- | cumbs to force. Members of the Hu- always keep a watch {over him when winter sets in, or per- haps long ere this he would have been his grave. But the full-fledged Italian from New | mane Bociety ff in foot makes his way to the now well- of Lick Ridge. Sunday at Loganton. Andrew Curtin Club, L.. A., ing next Friday evening. Centre Castle, K. G. E. is nap. ping, it has five young eagles in the No. 1345, not nest a hatching just now The big festival, ete... is now ter of history, a Tr point it § wobably was a success, for the Juries very light, while the losses by death, The past has its history, and the future its hopes. —— resignation were few, and by none. Program December to June The following program months, REPORTER sets out for the benefit the public, December, the holiday season and a good time in general, with and sprees thrown in. January to March musical eonven- tions and a good time for all fond of singing. February to end of Msreh public sales and free lunch for the hungry, April, flittings, with hoe-downs and scuffing of household effects thrown in. April to middle of June, trout flsh- of The balance of the summer can safe- Pas'e this in your hat for ready ref- nse ti Talking of gerrymanders, says the Philadelphia Times, the late election shows that in unequal representation jonnecticut still holds the palm. The Democrats have a popular majority of ture. The twelve Democratic senators just elected represent a population of 476,318. while the twelve Republican senators represent a population of only In the house of representa tives the disparity is even greater; 182 Republicans are elected to represent a population of 255,802, while a popula tion of 423,830 is represented by only 118 Democrats, This inequality is due not exactly to gerrymandered districts, but to the old plan of representation by towns, regardless of population, which the Republicans have refused to change because it secures them this unfair advantage, cs A AAO ks Crushed in a Log Stide. George Lucas, of Lock Haven, was injured so badly at a log slide on Youngwoman's creek Saturday after noon that he died soon after. He was struck by a log as it rushed down the mountain and his body was horribly crushed, This is the second fatality that has occurred at a log slide in that vicinity his season. “How would you like to cure your horse of that shaggy look and rough coat 7’ “Well you ean do it by giv ng him Bull'shead Horse and Ca And what a home itis! With { ed—he succeeded in making an exca- vation in the side of the hill to the {depth of six feet, and in this damp, | rheumatic hole he sits for hours at a {ing the progress of its construction the i lin sight. | bloodshot eyes told of the joy which { the cottage had been completed to his { {numerous inventions. Invention i his patents have been stolen by the | government. man's mind wanders by day and his sleep at night is disturbed by dreams ment robbed by the government. To look at him one fancies he sees Diogenes, but while Diogenes was looking for an honest man, Uncle Joshua is looking forward to a time when the United States Government shall be powerless to encroach upon his patent rights, and he shall be able to gaze with pleas- ure upon the millions that are in them. His long, bony fingers, with nothing apparently on them but a scant cover- ing of skin, and trembling like a leaf exposed to the wind, impress one as longing to grasp the dollars which he believes are sure to come from the in- troduction of his patents. The most notable of his queer inven- tions are a cider press and an intuba- tor. The former very much resembles the old-fashioned sausagestuffer and the main handle is nothing less than a hickory tree sixty or more feet long. Joshua's consolation seems to lie in the fact that when apples, ete., are placed under this great pressure juice must come and worms must die. Ae cording to his own story it required him eight days to fell the tree and drag it the few feet to the sacred spot. He invariably refused outside assist ance, fearing that the mission of any intruder was only to rob him of the invention. The completion of the eis. der press was followed by the in tion of an incubator, and if the could only accomplish a part of Uncle Joshua claims for it, old would have an easy time of it in future. A long box with a glass was divided into numerous apartments, and each apartment was assigned a w NO. 47. hatch was liable to be a turkey, goose, { duck, pigeon or quail. Like all his { other inventions the incubator was a { thing of only a moment, and he then began modeling a patent saw, berry | picker and fire-extinguisher. None of i his inventions have ever gotten be- | yond the mud hovel on the summit of | the ridge, but the old man believes the | government is making millions out of | those stolen from him. While work- {ing on the new inventions his chief | object seems to be to keep government | officials off his track, and visitors fre- | quently find him crouched in a very { small space in his hut to escape detec- i tion. | Joshua never voted but once or | twice in his very long life. For many | years he has thus isolated himself, and { the greater part of his life he has re- {sided near his present abode, His | hovel is in a beautiful situation on an {elevation of perhaps three hundred { feet, and directly at the foot of the hill { or ridge the rippling waters of a wild {and romantic stream can be heard, { Joshua's appearance indicates that he has as little use for water as he has for | the ladies. It is doubtful whether his { long and bushy gray hair is ever comb- {ed, and hanging as it does over his | face and neck, he very much resembles { the wild man of the woods. And then | his blood-shot and sunken eyes add His sum- mer clothing is the prolonged use of | his winter wear, The old man may be called a wo- man hater, and his opinion ot the gentler sex is not at all complimenta- ry. He was married, and his | present attitude toward women is no { doubt due to that unhappy union. | nothing to his appearance. onoe | While he sits in his hovel, looking | with scorn upon the illustrations of fe- | males in one of his sacred books, his {old and discarded wife may be seen { peddling truck from door to {in this town. Joshua will not con- | verse with men if he can avoid them, { much less women, and in any conver- {sation he indulges in wealth must be He will then get in a | happy mood in the prospect that the door {the subject. {long looked for millions are near at {band. A visitor is hardly gone until {the old man secludes himself in the | snake-ridden hut and engages himself i for a short time in modeling some patent, Joshua realizes that his time on {earth is limited, and he has already | requested that his dry bones be laid {to rest, without ceremony, near the {spot he is now pleased to call home. | He has even constructed a coffin for | the interment of his own body, but it { is not likely that his plans will be car- | ried out strictly according to his wish- 1 ©8, macs i— Lowest Water in Ninety.One Years. The Harrisburg Patriot says the low waters in the BSusquehannah river, | November, 1882, has about reached the | point marked on Maclay's rocks, op- posite South street, by Balthazer Street. The mark he made in August, | ninety-one years ago, reads, “1803.” | The figures are beautifully cut and are | several inches long. The straight line below marks the lowest stage of the water of which there is any record. About forty years ago the numerals were visible above the face of the wa- ter and the marks almost so. At pres- ent the level of the water is in nearly the same condition. cs——— A ——— Good Looks. Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the liver be inactive, you have a bilious look, if your stomach be disordered, you have a Dyspeptie look and if your Kidneys be affected you have a Pinched look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Electric Bitters is the great alterative and Tonic acts direct- ly on these vital organs. Cures Pim- ples, Blotehes, Boils, and gives a good complexion. Soldat J. D. Murray's Drugstore, 50c. per bottle. ————— A very Lig elephant has Philadel phia had on its hands for over a de- cade in the city building. It is still unfinished. Fifteen millions has al ready been expendedjon it. The cost was originally estimated at £10,000 000, Two years ago it was given out by the commission that it would cost $2,000,- 000 to complete it, and now after hav- ing expended more than $2,000,000 it informs the public, who have to pay for this luxury, that it will require §8,- 000,000 more. This will make the building cost $18,000,000. Probably if the accounts could be investigated as Tilden and O'Conor investigated the cost of Tweed's court house in New York, a condition of affairs just as rot-
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