VOL. LXVI % CAPITOL GOSSIP NEWS OF A WEEK AT THE NA- TION'S CAPITOL. President Cleveland Fifty.six Years Old on Saturday. The Removing of Pen- sion Commissioner Raum, WASHINGTON, MAR. 20.—President Cleveland was fifty-six years old Sat- urday, and hisnumerous callers did not forget to tender congratulations and wish him “many happy returns.” The day was not celebrated in any way at the White House, unless the unusually hard days work put in by the Presi- dent and his assistants can be called a celebration. That the rule against the appointment of ex-officials is not an jron clad affair was demonstrated when Representative Springer, of Illi- nois, at the head of a delegation, pre- sented the name of Mr. L. W. Cham- bers, who was postmaster at Jackson- ville, Ill, under Mr. Cleveland's last administration, as a candidate for re- appointment. The President at once reminded Mr. Springer of the one term rule. “Bnt Mr. President’ re- plied Mr. Springer, “this is an excep- tional case. Mr. Chambers was the best postmaster the town ever had and the citizens generally wish him re-ap- pointed. Besides, he was not allowed to serve out his term.” ‘Ah’ replied Mr. Cleveland, “that makes quite a difference. Please put the facts in writing and submit to me.” His thoroughness with everything that comes before him is what surpris- es those who come in contaet President Cleveland more than other one trait in his character, ase in point came under my personal | observation several days ago. President made an appointment hear an appeal for executive clemency for a condemned murderer, whose crime—the deliberate murder of young wife and her brother- of the most brutal ever committed in Washington. At the time the Presi- dent knew little more about the case ~-Was one Court of the United States in behalf of before, but he sent for a complete rec- | ord of the ease and when he met those who came to make as familiar with the case as they were, although he had been compelled to re- the appeal he was knowledge. Of course they were sur- prised to find all of their arguments so well met by the President, but after seeing how thoroughly posted he was on the case they were not surprised at ing out of the sentence. This is only one case, but it furnishes a fair sample of the methods of the President. It was because he did not possess the knowledge about Hawaii that he tion that the treaty was withdrawn from the Senate and ex-Congressman | Blount sent to Hawaii in search of the desired information. He is never pre- tation for making few mistakes, and | for being a safe man. So many sensational stories have been told and printed during the last | week about the President being disap- | pointed at the committee assignments | of the senate, and about those assign- ments having been made by a major | ity of the democratic caucus in defiance | of Mr. Cleveland's wishes, that I have | taken special care to obtain the senti- garding those stories. As the result, it can be positively stated that the President made no attempt to interfere in the slightest manner with the com- mittee assignments, which were made in the usual way, in accordance with the wishes of a majority of the demo- cratic Senatorial caucus. Therefore he could not have been disappointed. There can be no doubt that the Presi dent regrets that the financial views of a majority of the democratic Senators do not entirely accord with his own, but neither he nor they anticipate any clash on that account, as all good democrats have precisely the same end in view—the prosperity of the country; and that a legislative programme can be arranged upon which all can unite is not doubted in either the White House or the Benate, Representative Enloe, of Tennesee, who has for a long time been fighting the many abuses for which Pension Commissioner Raum was responsible, has the satisfaction of knowing that he was directly the cause of Raum's resignation being asked for and receiv. ed by Secretary Smith. Mr. Enloe has no candidate for the office; all he wished was to see Raum “fired out” of the office which he has in various ways disgraced and he did not rest un- til that was an accomplished fact. It Commissioner of Pensions will be ap- Beanie | ge two woeks. : is acting As to the new man, Secretary Smith says he is determined to get the best man in the country for the place. The right sort of a man at the head of the Pension Bureau will have an unexcell- ed opportunity to make a national reputation, by saving some of the mil- lions that are annually squandercd upon fraudulent and undeserving pen- sioners, and that's the sort of a man who will be selected. Secretary Morton has started in well. One of his first official acts was the dis- missal of forty odd employees whose work he considered unnecessary. roe pn COBURN. A Camp of I’, 0.8, 0f A, to be Started, A Ranaway. Andrew Harter made a business trip to Bellefonte on last Saturday. A. J. Campbell was home over SBun- | day with his family. Miss Tamie Musser has gone to Mill- heim and will remain there several weeks with her parents, Miss Tamie A. Stover, of Wolf's Store is sojourning among friends at this place for a few days. Mr. Elmer Smith is digging the foundation for a new house to be erec- | ted on the lot recently purchased of| Mrs. Kerstetter of the station. ! Mr. Yost has succeeded in getting! enough names to start a camp of P. O. | 8S. of A, and a camp will accordingly be instituted on Friday evening 24th inst. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. to Boalsburg on west the | A. Cooney went last Saturday tend the funeral of their brother-in-law Mr. George Fortney, which took place on Monday. Mr. Fortney was Killed in the Altoona yards by being knock- ed off a car while passing under one of | | the street bridges which cross the rail- road at that place. A horse hitched to a buggy, and be- | longing to Crider Stover, tore loose on | Saturday evenlag, ran to but the strangest part is that he | i went nearly the entire way on the | | railroad without breaking the | When caught the {around and was coming { place he had started from. to at- i and ards i | home; buggy. | had turned | towards the horse Wy All Confirmed The President sent several important appointmens to the The lead- ing one was that of ex-Benator Eustis of to France, New Jersey Wil- as minister to senate, Louisiana as minister and Theodore | to succeed that other Jerseyman, liam Walter Phelps, Germany. U. BN district Judge Jen- kins of Wisconsin, appointed by Mr. Cleveland during his first term, named to succeed Judge Gresham on i the circuit Wade Hampton gets the position of commissioner of | rullroads, an honorary and good pay- ling office with very little work. It seems to run to ex-Confederates, as General Joe Johnston held it under | | Mr. Cleveland’s prior administration. A number of marshals, district attor- | neys and postmasters were appointed, | mainly for the South and west. All| | the appointments were promptly con- { firmed by the senate, Runyon of was bench. —— Will be Held Responsible. A driver of a vehicle who attempts | to pass another on the same road does | so at his own peril, for if any accident occurs to the man he is passing the i | rear driver is responsible, says anex- | | change. This does not mean that the | man in advance is not obliged to yield { a part of the road when notified, but | that the burden of care rests on the rear driver, who is to see and avoid | danger while the other is not. Ifin- jury to the leading vehicle results from an attempt to pass, whether on a crowded thoroughfare or on a country road, the rear driver will be held re- sponsible, i i me Mf The Danger in Traveling. The people who hesitate about trav. eling by rail on account of the seeming danger have not a leg to stand on. According to the report of the inter- state commerce, the chances of a pas- senger on a railroad train being killed are only one in 200,000. The number of passengers carried by rail last year was nesrly 60,000,000, and the number killed by nccident about 800. A good deal larger proportion than that died in their bed; but no body thinks of re fusing to go to bed on that account. ONE THING may operate against the annexation of Hawaii, it is so far out in the Pacific that the American eagle may not be able to fly over there. However we can annex and send some of the eagle's eggs over for hatching. There is always a way out of a diffi- culty. we When in need of footwear of any kind, for ladies, gentlemen or children, go to Mingle’s shoe store, Bellefonte. stock the PENSION ROLL FRAUDS General Slocum Talks of the Young Heformer, Work for a Interviewed upon the subject of a recent dispatch from Washington which intimated that he would be of- fered the position of Commissioner of Pensions, General Henry W. Slocum said: “If I was twenty years younger I would be glad to accept the position, but at my age 1 do not feel called up- on to take such heavy work upon my- self as would be required by any man who successfully administers that of- fice. A young man could take hold of it and make a reputation for himself. That pension roll is a fraudulent roll. There is no mistake about that, There would like to go through it and find out the names that should not be on the books at all. It can be done as easy your hand over, but it involve a great deal of labor. “1 don’t need the office nor the sala- , but I would accept the office if 1 of get- the out. as turning would sake ting at the fraudulent roll Democer names them on and casting The and the Congressmen have been equally guilty in swelling the pension and the als list, cost, Here War and we are paying this immense for pensions. sum It is wrong." ———— \ Leap Year. be year will ne The you why the year 1500 counted among leap years: it is 365 days, 5 hours and long. 11 minutes are to make the year 365} taken every year and extira “§ days long, we have Julius may Year an was You Hiinuis the fut day. This rangement. these 11 They come from ttin Laas Caesar's ask: “W ber re 5 on fro and very itted reg- Hn ure, ave Ig leap year e 100 But if leap year is very 10 years, Of ularly e 400 years it COs of 1 not in the is found that the utes taken each will but that niin- year OfiiN have been paid back, a whol been XII, enlendar day will have given up. Pope Gregory who impr on Caesar's in 158 that every centuri four should be a So we 11 than pa il year divisible leap year minutes each af » 2 after all. borrow VEar, borrow ings Ying more our back by omitting three in three centurial years, and square mat- ters by in the fourth ceunturial year. Pope Gregory's arrang and the bor. rowing and paying back balanced so nicely, that we borrow more than leap years having a leap year rement is so exact, we - bien — Tue irre kingdom of Belgium since 1855 has done away with eapital but the result is by means satisfactory, as there is a great of homicidal crime. no Ase terrible, and each week of 1863 brings with it some deed of blood. jcled five assassinations. This brought on an agitation for the restor- ation of capital punishment. king will not sign a death warrant, the kingdom, now in progress, | proposed to relieve the monarch of capital punishment, as necessary to the protection of life. As a rule ex- periments in the abolition of eapital punishment have not met the expec- tafions of the enthusiasts who advo- cate such leniency. lime - Tue xpw election law of Alabama attempts to solve the problem of negro suffrage in a straightforward manner. It establishes an eGueational qualifica- tion for voters without regard to color, race or class, The result will be the disfranchisement of about 40,000 blacks and 10,000 whites, There is nothing in the war amendments to prevent such action. The state has the supreme power of regulating the suffrage, subject only to the condition that there shall be no discrimination on account of color. The Alabama plan has the merit of honesty and im- partiality; but it is likely to raise a brecae among the disfranchised whites, Three Bills Passed, The legislature has been in session eleven weeks, and during that time only three bills have reached the gov- ernor. Two of these provide for the payment of expenses of appropriation committees, which the governor ve- toed two years ago, because the amounts alleged to have been expen- ded were not itemizsd, This isa hangs eine Jegulusars el. APPOINTMENTS MET AT BEL LEFONT E. Sermons in the Different Ch: day ~Tne Court House € owded to hear Rev, Keynet and Chaplain McCabe, Sunday was a great day for dism in Bellefonte. sons went to Bellefonte train and wagons, some of the driving twenty to Sunday services of the Methodist Episcopal conferente. Hundreds were turned away from the church. Rev. M. L. Smyser led in the ference love feast, At ten o'clock Bishop Warren ordained Williz. n land, Bamuel Biair, Geoig oe Samuel Fox, RB. W.- W. Karnes, WH. Hollins, presenting each certificates of deaconry. by special miles class of deacons: P. W. Faus, Ilingsworth, C. John Clossin and with hymn. Bishop Warren took for his my father of the Lord Jesus riches of His The sermon was a masternicce the to man. In the afternoon nearly crowded the court house Kynett and Chaplain Meyers’ Atthe church two mic, the ian was filled with an audience anxiou I. N. Moorhead h tl and time Presbyte. preac i" missionary sermon Bishop ordain the Richard Brooks, Ww following elders: W. ren George Glenn, illiam IL Owens, Isaiah J. and Henry A. A pentacostal service was held sub- in the Methodist el presided over by Rev. B. C, Conner. IATY ROCIELY d, Bev. W. A Adoresses were Leak and Cl Heeser, SET Straub Hur unniversary hel Houck presiding. by Rev. T. J. MeCabe, Was nnd f the Epis i ‘ y bus Wis Lhe « losing any oO insy ivania Methodist The won de- morning's led board The report of the was handed in as follows: collections received £20.52; paid #1 304. was perannual od press hers, pssessinent divided ar’ $10,500, among the districts, ensuing = put down at equally The conumittee for that of consti! hibition, and entered a solemn protest of the Methodist purpose ported in Iavor utional against any member same, and against A resolution was also pase d memorial legislature to ing a convention to mee! in burg on April 21 to present The committee on Dickinson nary recommended the building for music and art, such a a small part already on erection Dr. E. would cost sum $20,000, was Missionary Nelson, of the Virgin Mary, Dr. James Morrow, DD. an address, 1. read. made: ALTOONA DISTRICT. der. Allegheny, Henry K. Ash. { sian to be supplied. North, C. L. Benscoter. Simpson Church, Emory T. Swartz. Rishel. Bellefonte, Wm. A. Houck. Bellwood, James B. Stein. Birmingham, John W. Glover. Clearfield, Wm. A. Stephens, Coalport ‘and Irvona, Asbury Ww. Guyer. - Curwensville, J. P. Moore. Duncansville, E. King. Traux. Half Moon, Andrew P. Wharton, Hastings, Charles W. Wassen, Hollidaysburg. Luther F. Bmith. Houtzdale, Herman H. Crotsley. Howard, Nathan B. Bmith. Lumber City, Freeman 8. Vought. Martinsburg and Woodberry, J. B. Brenneman, McKee's Gap, Milesburg and Warren. Millheim, to be supplied, Morrisdale, Hugh Strain. New Washington, Trach. Osceola, Walter R. Whitney. Penn's Valley, Henry N, Minnigh. Philipsburg, A. R. Miller. Pine Grove, Ralph W. Illingworth, Pleasant Gap, John C. Young. Port Matilda, to be supplied by G. P. Barvis, Ramey, Charles A. Biddle Roaring Springs, Edwin H. Witman. Shawmut, to be supplied by Wm. H. Classon, Snow Shoe, John W. Tyrone, First Gilbert. Tyrone, M. Welsh. Utahville, Logan. Wall: Emanuel W, Warriors Mark, John W. West Clearfield, Lyons M. Brady. Williamsburg, Frank W. Leidy. Woodland and Bradford, H. Wharton. Samuel Blair, Missionary, First Church, Altoona, Quarterly Conference. truce Hughes, Unionville, George (300, Forrest. Church, Richard H. Second Church, Franklin L. L. to be supplied by Wonner Ely. weeton, tichard City member of Supernumerary and Superannuated Preachers—John A. Woodoock, B. Ague, Thomas A. Ague, Jesse R. Akers, John W, Olewine, A. (100, Thomas if ss A Bajourn in the South and West. On March 28th the last personally- weted-tour to Florida will leave York and Philadelphia, Tour- option of returning on | any regular train prior to May 31st, $50 from New York, $48 from Philadelphia, and proportionate rates addition F conde New { ists have the i ING, | from other points, cover, in } 52 3 Ka . if aL ikl | SUry expenses en route 1g. On Mareh 29th nw i it ih East for the 1 delightful trij our leaves the tful an it is possible y make in this country. A Tourist Agent and Chaperon ac- and the tourists, Aunpany eac h party for ie is done tainment of the All in- formation regarding rates, routes, &c., enter Fourth Philadelphia, Broadway, York, 860 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, | Ticket Agents of the company. South S40 § = Street, | Company v or A - An Important Ruling In a late opinion the | engine, in approaching a point where | it is his duty to sound a whistle, on a highway a man struggling with a | team of horses hitched to a wagon, and from surroundings that CAD see the unmanageable and greatly endanger sist until the danger point is past, or, | if necessary, stop the train, | does not, but needlessly | whistle, causing the team to run away, | the company is liable for the injuries inflicled. ————— A JUDICIAL . apportionment before the legislature, if it passes, makes Cen- | tre county a separate judicial district. | ate judge in this county, and put one head on the bench where heretofore there were three. We have had the constitutional requisite, 40,000 popula- | tion, for a separate district since 1890, but the legislature failed to pass the apportionment. A president judge ean be elected though not a resident of the district, but after his election he must reside in the district. aa nso i PSA SA Turns 18 a bill before the ligisla- ture to prevent the killing of deer dur- ing the next three years. We agree to it, for we have not killed a deer in the last ten years, in fact we never did kill a deer. Let the law be passed that no deer shall be killed for the next three years, and thereafter only in every other year, If some law is not passed for the better protection of game, it will not be many years before there will be no deer in Centre county to kill, Gov. ParrisoN has set his foot down pretty emphatically on any further appropriation for the World's Fair. The state has $300,000 for its exhibit, buildings, ete., and anoth- or $100,000 is asked for by the state World's Te but + the ged PENNSY'S BIG TRADE. #4.4,000,000 Passengers Transported Dur- ing the Year Chief Engineer Brown, of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company, has pre- pared a statement of deductions from the annual report of the company. In it he mentions the number of tons of rails used and how long it took to lay this amount. He also makes a num- ber of interesting comparisons, During last year 47,176 tons of rails were used, which is equivalent to 5 4-10 tons per hour, or 126 tons per day, every night and day including Sun- day. There were 1.7 used, which means 4755 per day, or198 per hour, or 3 3-10 ties per minute dur- ing the twenty four hours. Two hun- dred and twenty built during the year which is equiva- lent to over four each week, or fifteen working hours. There 4054 cars built, or 1 1-8 cars every working hour. The 85,867 cross ties locomotives were one every were 67.92 23,767,921 tons coal hauled over the Pennsylvania Railroad division only, if sifted from above would cover the city of Philadelphia from Vine to South Streets and between the two rivers, 17 feet deep, or all Philadelphia County 3 1-4.inches deep. This amount of coal loadpd in cars thirty feet long and thirty tons per car would require 700,000 cars, occupying 4501 miles of track, or a train reaching from Ban Francisco to a point 1000 miles east of Boston The carried one mile is equivalent toe arvvine 33,~ 759 people around the year—or to moving the 5,248,000 people in Pennsylvania 160 the 1,046,984 people in Philadelphia to Chi- cago, or to Atlantic City return seven times. The 13,812 of track under the Pennsylvania Railroad management is equal to a four track railroad from New York to Ban Francisco (32 736 miles left for sidings. The new track laid during 1862 was a fraction over one mile every working day . 844,000,000 passenger earth in one miles —or and miles 9 miles) and —— — — THE decisi of Judge on strikes becomes ticks of the law ole matter will be led in the employing Of course the men have the stricke they can quit Is Michigan yn wi interest, right to , he says: ployers. That is the time generally se- lockout, when it will do the most damage to the oppos- faction. But will the reverse of Michigan judge's ruling hold equally good? In discharging an em- ploye can the employer be held to the rule it shall not be done in such a If r—— FOLLOWING CLOSELY upon thé an- nouncement that negroes are to be im- ported from the South in large num- bers to be employed at Homestead leans the negroes now have] almost ness. To find the sons of Hany thus supposed to have been pre-empted by esthetic taste; yet it is very probable that our colored brother will be a lets, ip IT 3148 been definitely settled that the present legisiature will not pass a A large majority of the members are unfavorable to such a measure, and as they are guided in this by the sentiment of their constit- uenits, it may be set down as a certain- ty that no fence law will be passed by any future legislature. A few counties would favor fences but the majority do not. The elements of popularity are (1) Quality, (2) Cheapness. Bull's-Head Flavoring Extracts embrace both. The quality is guaranteed, and the price is only 10 cents a bottle. ————— AT A ———— Tur sraTE legislature has not yet’ earned its salt so far as any real bene- ficial legislation is concerned. Deserving Praise, We desire to say is our citizens, that for years we have been selling Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump- tion, Dr. King’s New Life Pills, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never handled reme- dies that sell as well, or that have giv en such universal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price, if satisfactory | alta do. wot follow their use. These
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