CAPITOL GOSSIP
NEWS OF A WEEK AT THE NA-
TION'S CAPITOL.
Determination of Mr, Cloveland Not to Ap-
point Former OfMicoholders. The
Financial Outlook Better
WasHinagTON, MAR, 13.—President
Cleveland has not committed himself
on the Hawaiian question. This
statement is made upon high and un-
questionable authority. The Harrison
annexation treaty was withdrawn from
the senate because it was objectionable
for several reasons. It was carelessly
drawn, and some of its most important
hasn't in favor of annexation. What
Mr. Cleveland desires is information,
and that he is now diligently seeking,
through Secretary Gresham, and Gen-
eral Schofield and Admiral Brown,
sonal observation with Hawaii and its
population.
dential message on this subject will be
sent to the senate before that body ad- |
journs, and it is also probable that it |
will be accompanied by a new treaty,
may be of annexation and maybe for |
ters of Hawaii will not be allowed to
cash in their expectations.
While the determination
who held office under his first adminis
work in the campaign
the rank and file of the party, the men
fought for a losing cause, many
eants for office.
fishes, and that it is but carrying out
the old democratic
officeholding class. Ii shows too,
the lesson of the decay of the once
powerful republican party has not been
lost upon Mr. Cleveland.
outlook much more
couraging, although not yet satisfac.
tory, than when he first took charge of
Bd: national finances. There has been
alet up in the demand for gold, and
he hopes to escape having to choose
between using a part of the $100,000,-
000 gold reserve fund or an
bonds,
issue
cumulating quite
ury.
Representative
apidly in the Treas
of Ten-
Yichardson,
postmaster under this administration,
under President Cleveland's first ad-
ministration. Mr. Richardson also
congressmen who bas been sent for by
the President to consult with him
about the appointment of a new gov-
ernment printer, one of the most im-
portant positions, from a political
point of view, under the administra |
tion. Mr. Richardson has been al
committee on printing tor a number of |
ment printing.
The caucus committee charged with
ie caucus the membership of the re-or-
ganized senate committees has about
concluded its work although its report
will not be made for a day or two, and
it is thought that the following list of
chairmen of the most important com-
mittees is correct: Appropriastions—
Cockrell; Commerce—-Ransom; Finance
~Voorhees; Foreign Relations—Mor-
gan; Interstate Commerce—Butler;
Judiciary—Pugh; Library~Mills; Mili-
tary Afluirs—Walthall; Naval Affairs
~McPherson; Patents~Gray; Pensions
~—Palmer; Post Office and Post-Roads
~Colquit; Printing—Gorman; Privi-
leges and Elections—Vance; Public
Buildings and Grounds—Vest; Rules—
Blackburn; Territories— Faulkner, and
Indian Depredations—Vilas, It is ex-
pected that the re-organization will be
perfected this week.
Secretary Smith has already earned
the reputation of being one of the
hardest workers who ever presided
over the Interior Department, and he
Is at all times accessible to callers. He
listens patiently to all they have to
say, but as yet he does very little of the
talking himself.
A rumor, of the important if trae
variety, is flouting around to the effect
that President Cleveland had announs
eed his intention to appoint no news
paper men to office, except in excep-
Sonal cases, and that he is particular
y opposed to making editors
ters of small tn. ! Povttha
The last member of
this week, in the person of ex-Attorney
General Miller, the one who expected
to have remained here as a Justice of
the Supreme Court.
Just how long the extra session of
the Senate will continue is uncertain,
but it is the expectation of the Sena-
tors with whom I have talked that it
will remain in session until about the
first of May.
COBURN,
The Finnnees of the ; Fawnbip In Good
Condition.
Luther Guisewile made a business
trip to Bellefonte on last Wednesday.
W. W. Rishell our popular hotelist
was again granted license last week.
R. J. Buavely wears a broad smile
on his face and says a little stranger
{ came to their house one day last week.
{ It’s a boy.
It is reported that Dr. W. P. Ard, of
| Woodward, intends moving to this
{ place in the spring. Hope the report
| Is true, as we are in need of such men.
| What will be Woodward's loss will be
our gain.
A quartet of Indies composed of Mrs.
Dr. Frank, of Millheim, and Mrs. G.
{ R. Stover, Mrs. John Hoffa and Mrs.
W. W. Rishel went to Bellefonte last
| Wednesday evening and attended the
performance given by Kitty Rhoads
and her troup.
The auditors of Penn township met
ton Monday to examine the accounts
| of the supervisors and overseers of the
i Poor, and found the finances of the
township in good condition, over
{ three hundred dollars being on hand,
in favor of the township, a good show-
ing considering the low millage.
Mrs. James E. Harter, while visit-
ing at the home of her fatheritlaw,
Andrew Harter, day week,
| was taken suddenly sick and could not
be removed to her home. She is still
confined to her bed at the above nam-
ed place, but is convalescing,
one last
Wp
A ARONSHURG
| Items of Interest from Oar
Town,
Neighboring
George W. Winklebleck, who has oc-
cupied the poor house since last spring
| will move to his father, who is sick in
bed.
weir
Two more boys have
ST. PATRICK,
Became Famous.
birth of St. Patrick—the saint
of Ireland,
It is In every way a festival
snakes—whether considered from the
ancient fact of St Patrick’s stare per-
formance in exterminating them from
the green sward of Erin or from
more modern and less deniable cireum-
stances which a faithful ar
adherence {to dying
“Take a drop o’ something,
my sake,” naturally
of the facts the Great Patrick
are that he was a Scotchman: that he
never would have i» tothe Emerald
Isle at all if the persuasive
of kidnappers, in the role
hadn't insisted so strenuously; that he
discovered the art of distilling liquor,
drank whiskey whenever he could g et
it and lived to the ripe
age of one hundred and twenty-five
Years, There are a few self-styled au-
thorities the reck-
lessly deny that personage
Bt. Patrick
thes
patron
id persistent
his injunction:
bovs,
'"
induces. Nome
about
ane
arguments
of pirates,
and remarkable
on sibject who
such an ns
ever existed at all—but
"olk-
imagination
either
ie offenders of F lore and et
mies to fanciful
the part men
their Heenses revoked,
in their ambitions for t
or dled
drinking lemonade.
Now ns to the
knows something
more tl
about the snaki
rick many
are these:
bass drum which
telligible ription,
Tamman
through
16
for
wd
defeated
are
ost who hi
were
he constabulary
Were exy from for
XI
1
Tammany
snakes Every one
about snakes,
to
sh miracle
SOM
But
al -
know,
of St. |
The
ured ¢
then unin-
Hlong the
proceeded
district
ian they want
in the dark.
Nt. P
are
atri kK pr L¥
bore tho
ins HEY
iy Braves!" and
the thickly-infest
fested “
loud tatoo,
All the snakes came out of thelr holes
and followed him. St Patric}
for the intending
the whole lot, but sudde
midst of the operation the |
the sy
from
beating a tremendously
seashore
niy
sal ie
MAKES In
the
drum burst,
were freed f
thing would
the snakes th
a fighting show,
for the
charm.
have gor
more love lasting
turned
and will u t
Howard
i
heir
Weaver |
faces westward 1ake
Hlinois,
"und Herbert Smull,
Willmer Stover
mind and will not move to
homes in
has changed his |
lef mite
for the present, but his wife lag
go back into their own house and re-|
Bel
wil rally i
sume house-kKeeping
John W. Forster bought
nice little Mifflin}
i now it will not be at all strange
his sister Mazie out driving
i ally with the little sorrel, as it
i to be very gentle.
Billy Stevens has again returned to
| the old town of Aaronsburg to spend a
short vaeation. Billy finds each year
as he returns, fewer of the old boys
attend with him the
| “snitzens' and quiltings in the coun-
itry. Billy says the proper thing to
i set before the boys at that time when
jout sparking was fut-cakes and hard
i cider, and some of the boys got away |
| with a goodly portion of it.
{ ling was very common then,
ial eit cceicsenaniun
Will Change the Date,
Senator Sherman's joint résolution,
in the United
| States senate, to celebrate future presi-
{dential inaugurations on April 30 in-
| stead of March 4, will commend itself
himself a |
and |
nrg,
horse al
tO see |
oecasion- :
is sald
{who used to
:
Jand- |
{
| introduced Saturday
:
{to everyone who stood in the cold at
Washington. The first week of March
is a most unfortunate date for such a
great outdoor ceremonial. At the end
of April Washington is usually enjoy-
ing beautiful spring weather, and a
president-elect, could, on that day.
stand bareheaded before his cheering
countrymen without endangering his
life, so valuable to the nation. April
30 was the day on which Washington
was inaugurated first president of the
United States, and this historical pre-
cedent, worthy of commemoration, is
probably the basis of Senator Bher-
man's resolution.
-» amido. YI MAM rt 5
Will Make a Change.
A bill that will make a radical
change in the practice of law before
those great dignitaries, the justices of
the peace, is the bill that gives the
right of appeal on sums which are less
than that old fashioned figure of $5.58.
This will avoid a great deal of prosecu-
tion caused by hungry litigants who
sue their friends for fifty cents and one
dollar,
A A MSU ARRAS,
«This cold weather makes heavy
clothing a necessity for comfort, and
the question arises w here can it be pro
cured at a low figure and atithe same
time receive goods that are not shod
dy. Lewins, at the Prilat. gn
Bellefonre, he me
when A purchase A
factory # can bo relied upon.
Patrick aud the well
1105 Jean
ARDS
win
tiquarians disagre
drowned.
As to the stor
which evineed in
a more tl
VeNOoMmousness ae isobedience which
worse treal-
exploits
goat *pP
momentous,
he took back with him for
ment than the i
of his world-famed billy
are of history
but scrupulously authentic,
Taken all in there are few
fact there are oulside the
of Tammany aldermen who have ever
had so many trump
thelr hands as our friend Patriek.
The miracle of turning
into fuel for a blazing bonfire
rest,
uck'’
facts « less
all in
none ranks
strong cards in
balls
and the
SHOW
death of a baker's dozen of good Irish-
men who were with him, his turning
the insipid fruits and products of the
soil into good whiskey, how he fasted
for forty days on Mt Conachaugeli,
his clean knock-out of the devil there,
must ever form a record of conquests
and schievements such as only a mod -
ern spiritual medium, a weather proph-
preciaste,
As to his birth there Is one fact up- |
on which all Irishmen agree—that he |
was born.
curred according to some March 8th,
i
fully prepared for his illustrious career
forty years afterward.
BIRTH OF BT, PATRICK.
On the vighth day of March it was, some peo
That Saint Pathsick at midnight he fret saw
While otlirre debiare ‘tas the. ninth hoe was
And’ twarail h thistake between midnight and
For mines ox will oocinr in a hurry and shook
And some the bmbby and some blam'd
alonk -
Til with All thelr 09 eros stions sure no one
If the olitid was vo fash the clock was 100
Now the faetion fight In owid Ireland,
of Br Pathriok’s bith
jer:
a Rasim hs #ighth ~lor the
And who Noa "tee right, sure they blackn'd
ve Ww,
hp Lops Vidas, i net wad
gi Father hy, who showed them their
Bald, “No ome conld. have two Sirthdrys, but a
Says be, A don't be fightin’ for elght or for
Don’t be always dividin-but rometimes oom:
Combine sight { With nine, and seventeen is the
80 let chat bo hls birthday.” “Amen” says the
18 fh wasn) a twins, sure our * Wt'ey wil
Then they all got bind dhrunk—
plated thetr bliss,
Aud we keep up the practice from that day
this,
which com
beloved
cestor save the benefits and the memo-
and his jaw
bone containing a few teeth which
not false,
The jaw bone is
Nothing remains of our
are
carefully preserved
in the family of a peasant living near
lelfast to whom it was given with in -
junctions never to part with it. The
poor man has often had his conscience
strained by dime
propriet ors and curiosity shops
has held out faithfully
poverty and the jawbone
without it. The
with marvellous
severely musen mn
but he
prefecring
afflience
erodited
hoaling
in-
Atl
be
io
is
for
jawbone
powers
or
ted
»ihis
t thousand vea
but still doing good
of suspec criminals,
the lowest estimat bone mist
considerably over old,
for «ther
SIGMA,
service
people,
a »o—
A GREAT ECU] VSIAST IC
AL BUDY.
a Conference Ve
Hefonte.,
{On Wednesday, the 15th inst.,
Central Pennsylvania conference
Methodist Episcopal churel
Bellefonte, This
was struck off t altimore ¢
in 186K,
Potter
north to the
and from Nt,
to
territ
Central Pennsyiva
at bie
ting
thie
of
the will
moeel in Confore no
nfer-
enee and takes in the ter
from and Tioga counties oi
line the
Marv's,
Harrisburg
ory there are
faatin
Bia iL
on
Elk county,
on the
211 api» int-
divisions
district
Iw
rif re Far
POI NLO Es
the wost
| §
ments, dis
foll Williamsport
100
forty “55 tht
p Lhe
ided Lito five
WE:
appol ntments ville
district, with foriv-fivi
Harrisburg
pointments;
ap
dis with forty
district,
trict ap
with
51
and Allyona
Juniata
appx
: forty- five
iments,
i, witl appointment
MEMBERSHIP.
y the reports as
he Alto
point
11.041 fuli nu
HIE Nie
Pre
na distri
of membershi
H
2M members
th
bers,
xf, with 10
wl third, wi
d
10.007
Hiamsport isirict
with 4.544% menibers
district, had
aiiest
hiturches valued
Hiamspori
ty-nine churches val
» and thirty-ei parsonnges
2.150. These foot
totals of 541 churches valued at $2,307 -
805 and 15
(x),
Ju
ght
8 | 5% £3 ov
worlh § igures
= parsonages worth
SUNDAY SCHOOLS,
The Sunday schools according to the
last report as Altoona
district, 188 schools, 1.6002 officers
rs and 14.8% scholars. Danville
1,740
scholars,
were follows:
and
teache
officers and
Harris.
1,734 offi-
scholars,
yl ofli-
t, 115 schools,
a and 14.347
burg district, eighty schools,
cers and teschers and 13,043
Juniata district,
x3 2
disiric
teachen
125 schools, 1
i.
729 officers and teachers and 12.656
scholars, Making a total of 574 scliools
8.656 officers and {eachers and
scholars,
60,770
GENERAL NOTES,
There are at present 191 ministers in
Be-ides these are forty-
four who are on the supernumerary |
and superannuated list,
lp Ap
The Reading In Bad Shape
The Ledger says: “It is undeniable
fina
Reading receivers’ report is unfs ore
able,
that the Reading stoppage came from
its own insolwency. That the receiv.
cates is inevitable. They are now pay-
ing little more than the current wages,
but their obligations will before long
exceed the current income, especially
as the Lehigh Valley lease is to be
maintained with modifications.”
ApS
Now THAT the state needs very lit-
tle money why not exempt the farm.
er's horses and cattle from taxation?
What legislator wil! make himself urep-
utation by championing such ame vo?
Give the agriculturist relief, the siate
treasury Is now in such a shape to per-
mit a cutting down of taxes.
RA
“Papa, I could hardly get John
home with the whip.” “My son tell
the to give the horse some
Bull’s-Head Horse and Cattle Povder
in his feed, Ho ls ’
of vital energy.
APPOINTMENTS MADE AT CON
FERENCE.
Appointments Were
Session of Kvangellont Confer-
ence Held at Milton,
Following
ut the
At the closing session of the Evan-
at Milton
York cir-
district
Buffalo
Lewisburg dis-
Centre
si FEE EE]
gelical conference in se
last week, Wrightsville and
taken from York
to Carlisle district
cuits were
added
circuit was
trict
Hughesy
burg district
and
tuken from
added
ille was
district.
Lewis-
and fo
taken from
added to W
nntments
and iHinms-
port were
TRICT.
CE
NL riz . P. Remer.
: (irace, I (. Yeakel.
1.. B. Reich
Riv
Douty.
imore -
ard.
AL’
YY.
n, B. H
Jarrettaville, KE. Fulkomer.
i v4. P. Bi
(+. W,
le, E£. D. Keen,
} J. Shami
rk, King, U. F.
mils,
wabury ichner
Cilen Roel Currin,
Logansvil
York, (
Jueen, wel.
Swengel,
Baumgaradi
Or Jone
Mi. Bear.
Maice.
. SLOYEer.
mber
quarterly
of Newport
conference,
he Fishing
conference,
Cumbers
ber of t
¥. Hall,
Valley Quarterly
H.W. member of
and Quarterly Conference.
CENTRE DISTRICT.
J. Hartzler, P. ¥
W. B.
P attersnt « WW. N. Wa
McA are. P. (.
Middlebn
Kenuelley,
Port Treverton, 8. E.
New J. UG. M.
Millmont, E. W.
Centre, C. F. Finkb
spring Mills, J. H. Hertz,
Brush Valley, D. = Kepner.
Sugar Valley, DP. errett.
Nittany Valley, 7 L.. Lohr,
Li. Garduer.
re Hall, C. H. Goodling.
Bellefonte, UG. FF. Zehiner.
Milesburg, 8. Aurand.
Professor A. E. Gobble, D. D., mem-
ber of New Berlin Quarterly confer
H. B. Barshinger, member of
conference,
mem
Bender,
Lewistown. ox.
Welds nmyer,
and
ire hn]
a
Fig 0 BN
nith M.
Davis,
Swengel.
Koontz,
Berlin,
INGer.,
and J.
”-
enee.,
| Quarterly conference,
LEWISHURG DISTRICT.
A. H. Irvine, P. E.
Lewisburg, E. Grumbling.
Buffalo, J. D. Shortess,
Milton, M. F. Fosselman.
Washingtonville, I. M. Pines,
Hughesville. H. A. Stoke.
Muncy Valley, W. J. Campbell.
Dushore, H. T. Minsker.
Danville, 8. 8. Mumey.
Bloomsburg, J. Womeldorf,
Light Street, D. A. Artman.
Waller, W. Minsker.
Columbia, C. D. Moor.
Berwick, A. Stapleton.
Nescopeck, J. A. Dunlap.
Nanticoke, C. L. Sones,
Ransome, E. E. Shaffer,
Tunkhannock cir, 1+ B. F. Keller.
Tunkhannock, § W. H. Hoch.
Scranton, Zion, J. W. Messinger.
Scranton, Trinity, J. G. Whitmire.
West Clifford, to be supplied.
Zion's Grove, L. Dill,
Luzerne, to he supplied.
L. EK. Spangler, secretary of Y. M.
CL AL, of Milton, Pa, and member of
Milton quarterly conference. A. L.
Reeser, G. Hunter and E. Swengle,
Hembers of Lewisburg quarterly con-
ference.
WILLIAMEPORT DISDRICT,
M. J. Carothers P. E.
Lock Haven Miwian, Yi A. Benfer,
Lycoming, W. H, Stover
Williamsport Circuit, J.
Williamsport
H. Lilly.
Williamsport —8t, Paul, M. 1. Ja
BO,
Williamsport
A. Hollenbach.
Mouth Wil
Bmson,
L.ibert ¥,
Po
(irover.
Wayls
Mhultz,
Newberry M ission,
mi-
Bennett Street, H.,
Mission, 1.
WwW. !
int, J. BB
Jd. W. Thompson.
BW. E.
White Dex r. H. W. Gross,
Seneca, to be supplied.
EK. Kohr,
terly
ast
ALA
Koontz.
member of Newberry
D.
conference; A.
Miller,
quarterly conference;
member of Jersey Sh
nore
ference.
Ww.
strect
rouse,
Bennett
teuben
members of
Young,
quarterly eon-
lp -
Chief Bargesses Cannot Preside.
Judge
of Ps nNsYy is
ion relative
Xs80n, ireme court,
led a decis-
the Chief
lo preside over
'
:
$1 q
§
ania, recent y
of the right of
Burgesses of boroughs
the
business of
borough cou
LIC sale §
port ane,
orougl
» at any
A Monument! To Sena
ennsylvania.
the m
lic men
ost
i avd vr
ne cans
and his remains now lie in a neglected
plat on a farm that formekly
to hi in ley,
" & w BS umn an
west of Lew isburg.
belonged
m Buffalo wi six miles
In the latter part of the last century
i 3
with an Indian
his guide, explored the
the Susquehanna r
being a most peril
ians were
as
upper waters of
fon
Ind-
account of
we French,
Yer,
the ¢ x pedit
is one as the
very hostile
on
Canada when they
Fort Au-
r to take
CAC
The Women in Control.
Washington says
excitement
in Wash-
By a re-
and urdexplainable mistake
writing the official draft of the
World's Fair appropriation the wom-
en's board is given absolute control of
the $570,000 for the World's Fair pre-
miums and rewards, and also it would
seem the entire power to appoint all
Jurors, and female, and the
A
there
amo
LE B43
from
considerable
World's Fai
a deve
special
is
r people
ington over lopment.
markable
in
male
miums at the World's Fair is by this
draft given to women. The error came
by the clerk inserting the words, lady
managers, in the wrong space.
mes So ——
Deserving Praise,
We desire to say is our citizens, that
have been selling Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump-
Dr. King's New Life Pills,
We do
time, and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory re
sults do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popu-
larity purely on their merits. J. D.
Murray, Druggist,
LL Mo
A Round for Miliheim.
Why don’t the Millheim business
men make a move for an electric road
to Coburn if the steam road does not
materialize ? With a water power such
as Penns creek offers, just below Co-
burn, to furnish the power to generate
electricity cheaply, we think the pro-
jeot is entirely feasible. Herein liethe
seeds of a fine boom for Millheim.
wweslf in need of a heavy storm ule
ster go to Lewing, at Bellefonte, and
take a peep at his stock. You will cer
service and worth to you, and at such
astonishing.