"VOL. LXVII.
IN THE SENATE
THE HOUSE PASSES ITHE TARIFF
BILL.
The House Gives Wilson 64 Majority. —
The Senate Will Waste No Time in
its Action.
WASHINGTON, Feb. —Senator
Voorhees, by virtue of his position as
chairman of the Senate committee on
Finance, has taken command of the
Wilson tariff’ bill, which confounded
its enemies by the large majority it re-
ceived in the House last week. That
no time will be wasted by the com-
mittee in reporting the bill to the Sen-
ate is made plain by these words from
Mr. Voorhees: ‘‘We realize that what
the country needs is repose, and be-
lieving that the passage of the bill will
be in the interest of the country at
large and will be soon followed by a
revival of business activity, we shall
do all in our power to have the bill
disposed of at the earliest moment pos-
sible,” Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
is chairman of the sub-committee of
the Finance committee that will have
immediate charge of the tariff’ bill.
He thinks the bill can be reported in-
side of three weeks. There isone very
noticeable feature about tariff discus-
sions here just now—the know-it-alls
have ceased prophecying that the bill
will be torn to pieces in the Senate.
Another thing that is exciting com-
ment is the strength of the income tax
in the Senate.
The House discussion of the Hawa-
ilan question, which will end tomor-
row with the adoption of a resolution
satisfactory to the Democrats, brushed
away a good many cobwebs and
brought the question down to a com-
mon sense basis, to say nothing of hav-
ing brought about the complete
squelching of the clown of the House,
Boutelle, of Maine.
The bond issue is now an
plished fact, and the $58,000,000 which
will be paid for them will be in the
Treasury as soon as the bonds can be
signed and delivered at the designat-
ed depositories. The in
Congress is quieted down so far as may
be judged by outward appearances, al-
though some of the populistg are still
bitter in their denunciations.
Chairman Wilson, of the house;Ways
and Means committee, is also chair-
man of the Executive committee of
the National Association of Democrat-
wie clubs, members of which have been
notified to attend a special meeting in
this city on the eighteenth of this
month. While it is not so stated in
the call, the principal object of this
meeting is to help to push the Wilson
tarift bill through the Senate, by
means of the organization of the asso-
ciation of clubs. In other words, the
Democratic clubs of the country will
be asked to let the Democratic SBena-
tors know that the Wilson bill meets
their approval and should be passed
without delay other than that which
is absolutely necessary. It is hoped
that the Finance committee will have
reported the bill to the Senate by the
time the club committee meets,
The House committee on Rivers and
Harbors will grant no more hearings,
as the time of the members will be ful-
ly taken up in preparing the bill
The bill will probably carry a smaller
appropriation than for a long time,
and few improvements except those
already under way will be provided
for.
The House committee on Banking
and Currency decided by a vote of 9 to
8 not to report a bill for the repeal of
the tax on state bank currency. That
is supposed to end the matter for this
session so far as this committee is con-
cerned, but members of the House
who favor the repeal of the tax may
try to get it before the House as an
amendment to some other measure,
As a specimen of the dodges that are
being resorted to by those who are op-
posed to the government's printing its
own postage stamps that of bringing a
committee here with a petition from
the New York plate printers, setting
forth the distress that would fall upon
them should the government take this
work away from them, is about the
most transparent yet resorted to. The
lowest private bidder for the work is a
Philadelphia concern. So that the
New York company is bound to lose
the work, whether it comes to Washe
ington, where it really belongs or not.
The committee on Coinage has
favorably reported to the House Mr,
Bland’s bill for the coinage of the
seigniorage in the Treasury and the
Issuing of silver certificates against it.
Mr. Bland will endeavor to get the
bill acted upon at once. It is under-
stood that Secretary Carlisle favors the
bill, and the general impression is that
it will pass.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill
has been reported to the House. It
carries a total of $82,291,383, which is
$9,800,928, less than the same bill care
ried at the last session of Congress,
pv, Drosident Cleveland is belug very
much misrepresented soncerning the
5.
1
accom-
opposition
nomination of Mr. Peckham to the va-
cancy in the Supreme Court. Having
nominated the man he thinks fitted
for the position, he, of course, would
like to see him confirmed, but he has
done absolutely nothing to influence
the vote of any Senator, and has no
intention of doing anything. His du-
ty ended with making the nomina-
tion. Itisa prerogative of the Sen-
ate to confirm or to reject.
oe e——— i ———
Keep Your Eyes Open.
This is the time of year when short-
sighted business man goes to sleep It
is the dull season, he says. Trade is
inert and there’s no business stirring.
He'll cease to advertise until things
brighten up. If there's one season of
the year when a man ought to adver-
tise it is the dull season.
When there's little business stirring
it is the very time that he should make
it stir. At this time he can’t expect
people to flock to his store of theirown
free will. He must out bait to
make them flock there, He must rise
up and tell them of his bargains and
thus, by the attractive glamour of his
tale, compel them to come in. Other-
wise the customers he ought to have
will go asleep to.
There's no more sense in stopping
an advertisement during certain
sons of the year than there would be
in shutting up shop during the same
period. It is only by keepiug everlast-
ingly at it thatthe merchant can flour-
ish.
cast
Sen
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Economy Carried to 2 Fine Point.
Many persons think there must be
considerable waste in a large manu-
facturing plant like the tannery.
Such is not the case, however. The
bark, after having the tanning ex-
boilers and makes the very best of fuel,
and the ashes are sold to farmers and
gardners and makes an elegant fertil-
izer. The hair from the hides is care
fully dried and put in about
a bale of hay, and shipped to Philadel-
phia and comes back to us in the shape
of wool blankets, felt hats and cigar-
ettes. The “fleshings’ are placed in a
large chaldron, where the oil ex-
tracted, placed in barrels and shipped
to New York, from whenee it returns
in the shape of “pure cod liver oil,’
oleomargarine and chewing gum,
The tails are dried and put Tn bundles,
shipped to Boston and returns as can-
ned “ox tail soup,”
atine. Even the bark of the tannery
dog is utilized to keep Hen Meise, the
night engineer
Public Spirit.
bales, as
is
nt ’
A Basiness Judge.
In dismissing the grand jurors,
Judge Bell, of Blair county, took ocea-
sion to deplore the lack of judgment
on the part of certain Justices in send-
ing so many petty cases Court,
which cases could have easily been set-
tled and should never have gone
far. He said he was not positive
whether or not he could impose the
of such on
magistrates, but if such authority
warranted by any statute of the Com-!
monwealth he will enforce its
ions,
to
sO
costs Cases
is
the county returned 156 cases to court.
The Justices evidently think the more
cases they return the more work there |
will be for the lawyers. And so
good work goes on,
If we are not mistaken Judge Furst
has also shown his disapproval of this
same business, and it might be push-
ed on until it stops.
As ff sm —
La Grippe.?
During the prevalence of the Grippe
the past season it was a noticeable fact
that those who depended upon Dr.
King's New Discovery, not only had
a speedy recovery, but escaped all the
troublesome after effects of the mala-
dy. This remedy seems to have a pe-
culiar power in effecting rapid cures
not only in cases of La Grippe, but in
all Diseases of Throat, Chest, and
Lungs, and has cured cases of Asthma
and Hay Fever of long standing. Try
it and be convineed. It won't disap-
point. Free trial bottles at J. D. Mur-
ray’s Drug Store.
A A AR SAR
Invitations Out,
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Mr. Hiram Lee, of Tus
seyville, and Miss May A., daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. M, J. Decker, east of
Centre Hall, on Tuesday, February 13,
at half-past six o'clock in the evening,
at the home of the bride,
A
Cold Weather,
Sunday night got cold and Monday
morning was asort bf snorter altho the
sun shone brightly. Ice has been for-
ming varying from 4 to 6 inches in
thickness. BSleighig pretty good,
a
~Wear boots an
the season. At
you will find the
kip boots, and
The most
shoes suitable to
ngle’s, Bellefonte,
in men's and boys
n's rubber boots,
prices and in
variety.
LEWIS AND CONELLY.
Hunting for the Hidden Treasure of the
Robbers,
At an early day, well remembered
by some of the aged readers of the Re-
PORTER, the two robbers, Lewis and
adjoining counties.
Their operations in highway robbe-
ry were mainly confined along the
route between Lewistown and Clarion,
the 7 Mountain section near here being
a part of it. Stages were held up by
them and other parties suspected of |
carrying large sums of money were the |
game they were after. The robbers
er class of people, but, the other
hand, had a kindly feeling for them.
They obtained much treasure
their operations, which is believed to
have been hidden in the rocks and
saves along their route.
One was shot and killed at Sinna-
mahoning while holding up a stage |
coach. The other died in prison at
Lock Haven. Ever since their deaths
one hears many estimates of the
amount of their ill-gotten wealth, and
every now and then hunting
diligently scour the country traversed
by the thieves in the hope of securing
the golden treasures. A low estimate
of the amount in cash said to have
been hidden in one cave at the
of Six Mile Run is $62.000.
On
head
in
that death was
imparted the
told the latter
divide with
searched diligently
came about this way :
near at hand,
secret to a friend, He |
to get the money and
Lewis’ sister. The friend
at intervals for
years, but death overlook him before |
the cave was found, iro him Lewis’
sister learned of the pi 1 place of |
the hiding place of the vast sum of |
money. She did not search for it how-
ever. Neither did she reveal the loca- |
tion of the spot until on her dying]
bed Lock Haven, in recent years.
The gentleman to whom she imparted |
the secret has been the latest victim of |
disappointment, but the search may
never be given up. The latest hunter |
for the $82,000 in eold cash believes he |
has located the the
at
cave in fast nesses
of Wolf Rocks, but it is an impossibil- |
One al-
| most overcome at the ve ry entrance to
is
a task difficult to accomplish.
Wolf Rocks, in the Allegheny moun-
parties may be
seen at times searching for the hidden
treasures of the notorious robbers.
various places on Seven Mountains,
south of Peuns valley, three men and
very recently aroused |
digging here and there as if in|
search of a pot of gold. One of the |
men was recognized as a resident of!
Towa. |
The moment any one approached
the four diggers they would cease ope-
rations and stand mute with heads |
down. Not a single question would |
they answer. The female member ac- |
ted as guide in the mysterious procee- |
ding. Now and then she could be
seen peering into a satchel, as tho ex-|
amining a chart, then going off into |
{tain spot and there the men would
dig. They were unsuccessful here and |
resumed the search farther up the
mountains a few days later,
Many flat rocks on the Seven Moun-
tains have been overturned by indivi-
duals with dreams of finding hidden
treasure of the famous Lewis and Con-
if tai —
Strength and Health,
If you are not feeling strong and
healthy, try Electric Bitters. If “la
Grippe’’ has left you weak and weary,
use Electric Bitters. This remedy acts
directly on Liver, Stomach and Kid-
neys, gently aiding those organs to
perform their functions. If you are
afMlicted with Sick Headache, you will
taking Electric bitters, One trial will
convince you that this is the remedy
you need. Large bottles only 50¢, at
J. D. Murray's Drug Store.
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Omission,
In the obituary notice of William B,
Ishler, several weeks ago, from not
knowing the fact, we did not mention
that Mrs. Ishler was formerly Mrs,
Jane Bottorf, nee Breon.
ENS.
Threatened with a Sait.
Bellefonte, a ln Philipsburg, is threat.
ened with a suit for heavy damages by
one of its citizens who sustained an in-
Jury from a defective board walk.
A — oo ———
Musical College,
The Spring Term opens May 1st., in
Vocal and Instramental Music. For
catalogues address Henry B. Moyer,
Frosbury, Pa.
“HURLED 60 FEET
[STRUCK BY A TRAIN AND IN:
STANTLY KILLED.
Isane Yarnell Killed and Judge Gordon
| Narrowly Escaped Death While At.
tempting to Flag a Train,
One of the most shocking accidents
occurred Friday morning at Hecla, on
the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania,
{in which Isaac Yarnell, one of the best
known farmers in Walker township,
was so badly injured that he died that
| same afternoon at o'clock, and
Judge Cyrus Gordon, of Clearfield,
{made a miraculous escape, the
| Daily News.
Mr. Yarnell, who lives about a’lmile
from Hecla flag desired to
| come to Beliefonte on the train pass-
{ing there at 9:54 a. m., and which ar-
| rives at Bellefonte at 9:55. Judge Cy-
rus Gordon who had been down to his
| farm and mill, was also ¢ oming up the
| same morning. On the road to the
Mr. Yarnell met and
together. At the
tion 8 number of cars were standing
had un-
coupled and drawn apart perhaps ten
feet to allow to the
track to the station building
which stood on the opposite side of
| the main line,
When Judge Gordon and Mr. Yar-
nell were yet some distance away they
2.30
BAYS
station,
along sia-
bee 0
CIr'oss
passengers
small
that to have it stop the y would have
to get there in time to flag it they
both started on a run, Gordon in the
In some way or other they fail
ed to notice just how near the
behind the freig
standing on the siding it was i mpossi-
train,
train
t
and once ht ¢
ars
ble to see the on rushing and
Judge
plunged thirough between
danger
mighty leap nd just
clearing the track as the
| by, brushing his overcoat in
see them. Gordon leading they
the freight
made
ded
train rushed
his a
SU COe in
passing,
Mr. Yarnell, being a step or so behind,
was fairly in the middle of the
wy the
running at about
track
engine,
thirty
miles an hour, and hurled a distance
the
which was
struck
1894,
YOUTH WEDDED TO AGE.
A Romantic Marriage at Lemont—Bride
and Groom Arve In Jail.
A sensation has been caused by aj
romantic marriage on Saturday, the |
groom being Daniel Handy, aged
and the bride Miss Myrtle Butler, aged
4) years, of Greenwood Furnace, near |
Tyrone,
The clergyman to whom they appli- |
ed to perform the ceremony refused to
do so, his suspicions having been
aroused first by the vast differende in
the ages of the couple, and second by
the fact that Miss Butler is totally
blind. The presentation, however,
a marriage license properly signed,
oy
2,
mind, and they were accordingly mar-
ried.
matter when Constable Curtin, o
rone,
Ty- |
arrived in town and arreste ’ Mr.
Miss Butler, now Mrs.
charge of procuring the
Handy, on
license
false pretenses,
The constable also said that both the
bride and bridegoom missed at
the same time at Greenwood Furnace, |
and search resulting in
tracing them to Lemont.
the marriage the groom
grandfather of his wife, since
her step-grandfather before her
Hage, They we ere both lodged in jail
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School Report,
» Plum Grove school, in
Potter tow Es for the fourth month
Friday, Fe bruary 2nd, 1804
Number of pupils enrolled, male 18, fe-
male 10, total 25. attendance
during the month, female 10,
total 27. dur-
ing the 7, to-
tal 97. Per cent. of attendance during |
term until date, to- |
tal 97. (eo,
of i
Report
ending
verage
male 17,
Per cent, of attendance
month, male 97, female ©
female 96,
Keller,
male 97,
William
Sharer, Maurice Breon, John
Wesley Sharer, Harry Durst, }
Smith, I. Keller,
Durst,
Verna
Sayder,
Messrs,
Btover,
ry
Christ
William
bright: Misses
Durst, Ertie
and Lizzie Snyder were present
day during the month. Mr. Maurice
Decker, Misses Mary Koch, El
Samuel
Jeremiah Al-|
Durst, Mary
Manche Durst,
every
sie Fore-
| ground, after which he was tumbled a
further distance of thirty feet by actu- |
His right leg was broken in two
while his face and body was a mass of
The unfortunate man
vicked up and tenderly conveyed to
bruises, was
ed his last, without having at any
Mr. Yarnell was aged about 57 years,
He leaves to mourn hisshocking death
a loving wife and seven children, John
Ambrose, Sadie, Myr-
tle and Delmont, and in addition
large number of sorrowing friends,
¥F lon a,
a
EE
In a Sad Condition.
A family named Bennett, consisting
of father, mother and four children, {
living along the Honey creck road
short distance above Reedsville,
found to be in a sad condition
week. The children were all
a
were
last
sick
boy of ten years, died and was left lie
in the house until the body was dis.
colored. The steward of the county
almshouse being notified sent coffiin
aod undertaker, the latter and his as-
sistant being the only persons present
at the interment. The family are poor
and the parents worn out waiting on
the sick. On account of the malignan-
cy of the disease no one ventures to go
to see them.
Cost of Telegraphing. ™
o——————————
A REPORTER reader wanting to tele-
graph to a foreign country, must have
the stamps as below: The rate per
word by cable from New York to South
Africa is $2.46; to Zanzibar, $2.15: to
New South Wales via one route, $1.45,
and via another line, $3.37. The rate
to China is $1.96 and to Japan $2.21.
Messages to Honduras, Guatemala and
San Salvador have a published rate of
$7.08 a word. This rate, owing to a
circuitous route, is the climax of ca-
ble tariffs,
Theatrieal Company Exempted from the
Tax,
On Thursday President Judge Furst,
of this judicial district, handed down
an opinion in a case stated on theatrio-
al law in which the manager of a dra-
matic company was made defendant
by having objected to the payment of
the $50 fea to the county treasurer at
Huntingdon. Judge Furst decides
that Manager Greenburg, of the Hunt-
ingdon opera house, must yearly pay
the $50 license fee under the act ry ase
sembly, and that companies showing
there are exempted from payment of
the license under the provisions of the
act,
were absent
The
Charles Loutsz,
and Miss Margaret
man and Mary Foreman
itors were Messrs,
Milton Snyder,
D. K. Rerazm, Teacher.
Report of Centre Hill school,
township, for the month ending
Ist, 1884: Number enrolled,
girls 18, total 38,
Potter
Feb.
boys =,
Average attendance,
boys 18, girls 15, total Per cent.
of attendance, boys M4, girls 91, total
#3. Number of visitors8. The follow- |
ing pupils were present every day dur- |
ing the menth, John Burkholder, |
Burkhold- |
er, Loyd Smith, Bruce Ripka, Emery
Ripka, Geo. Smith, James Goodhart,
John Rearick, Jennie Beaver, Annie
Beaver, Lizzie Alexander, Lidie
Smith, Carrie Royer and Gertie Burk- |
holde ’T, R. 8. KERR,
33.
We are told by a few eminent phy-|
sicians that the style of writing prac
ticed nowadays is very injurious to the |
writer's health. They claim that
slanting penmanship entails rachitie
diseases and myopia, and that vertical |
writing should supplant it in all the
schools of the world.
We would indeed be sorry to have
the budding pupils of the schools con-
tract rachitic diseases and myopia for,
judging from the names, they must be
exceedingly painful. Bat if by vertio
al writing is meant the straight up
and down, aggressive fence rail style
affected by the women of to-day who
aspire to be fashionable, we prefer my-
opia.
The evil effect on the writer's eyes
and health by the curvilinear style
cannot begin to compare with the
dreadful moral results to the unhappy
man who is forced to decipher the
scrawls of the apostles of the angular
school of writing.
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Union County Deaths,
In New Berlin, on the 25th of Jan,
Benjamin 8, Winter, aged 76 years, §
months and 10 days. Mr. Winters
about thirty-five years ago lived at
Aaronsburg, where he was a popular
clerk in the store of H. 8. Gross some
two or three years,
At New Columbia, on the 18th of
Jan, Mr. Bamuel Showers, aged 69
Bufo township, on the 22nd of
Jan.,, Wm. Kahle, aged 32 years,
In MiMlinburg, on the 20th of Jan,
Henry Swineford, aged 78 years.
At Centreville, on the 20th of Jan,
Leah, widow of Michael Oberlin, aged
70 years.
~{ium boots and rubber shoes
NO. 6
! LERTEN BEASON.
When the Fast Begins and Ends. Ash
This year Ash Wednesday,
{ginning of the fast, falls on February
| 7th. The forty days’ period, as com-
| memors ative of our Lord's forty days’
{fast, or of the similar perfunctory
| fe asts of Moses and Elias,
with Ash Wednesday, between which
| day and Easter Sunday {omitting the
{ Bundays on which the fast is now oh
served) forty clear days intervene,
The vigor of the ancient of
the be.
Commences
WErvanoe,
so-called “white meats,’ is now much
but the principle of permit
| ting but one meal, with a slight refec.
{tion or ¢ ollation, is eve rywhere retain.
Easter Sunday, the end of the
fast, falls this year on March 25,
the first Sunday following the
{ the full moon on March 21.
Bt nonsense
being
date of
A Great Philanthropist,
The death of George W. Childs. the
Phila-
delphia Ledger, cut short, a career that
has had no exact parallel in American
It was the career of a semi-
ly mot-
benevolence, and
good to his
lo was practical
America has produced great philan-
thropists, just as she has evolved great
*hiev-
ed the
| prominence
deserved though unsought
of Mr. Childs. It
| not the magnitude of his gifts so much
they
Wa
“
spirit in which
to the people. and gener-
and unflagging,
and no worthy cause ever appealed to
applicant
His charity
unceasing
or any worthy
ever left him empty-handed. The dis-
tress and trouble he relieved were in-
calculable, the good he did was beyond
urope America
both testify to this.
Mr. Childs was
and
a self-made man,
{ ity of splended achievement by the
An humble errand
boy at the beginning, hand over hand
and fortune until he arrived at the top-
He became the friend of
statesmen
He achieved a meed of suc that
oN
time.
As a newspaper publisher he was
The patronage accorded
| the paper, which is almost a sy nanym
for his name, is ample of
that. He believed in high class jour-
stuck to his belief, made a
| great fortune out of it, and this ena-
b led him to distribute the magnificent
largess which has made his name en-
deared and famous.
evide Hoe
ford
mass solos Mo
Care on the Railroads.
The railroads do more for the people
{ than the public knows. Ifa man has
really bought a ticket and loses it he
led to see that they do not get offat the
wrong stations, and last year a little
| boy traveled alone from New York to
San Francisco. Telegrams were sent
in advance by the authorities. to their
agents along the line, and at certain
points they boarded the train, saw
that he was well, put him aboard the
right car when changes were made at
Chicago and Omaha, directed the con-
ductors to give berths and see that he
got his meals, and the little fellow
reached his mother at California after
a ride as unadventurous as a trip to
Harlem.—New York Sun.
il —
In a Scrape,
BoME of the Schuylkill county offi-
cials have got themselves into a scrape
in spending money unwarranted by
law, and sums of two and three hun-
dred dollars have been surcharged
upon them, for money misapplied in
the past two years. The court has al-
#0 issued an order to extend the inves
tigation back ten years and have all
the money found illegally spent to be
charged back upon the guilty officials
their heirs and assigns. This should
be done in other localities where the
officials misuse the public funds, boro,
township and county. There is no li
mitation to shield unfaithful officers.
Public servants here and elsewhere
should take warning.
Tur weather in the Caucasus for se-
veral days last week has been fearful
ly cold. The principal ports on the
Caspian Sea are ioebound: The wolves
have become unusually fierce, as the
result of the cold, and 18 men have
been overtaken and devoured by these
animals near Erivan,
I the worth. of anything is
Dr.