VOL. LXVIL
NO. 19
DOINGS AT COURT
SOME CASES TRIED. SOME SET-
TLED AND SOME CONTINUED.
Sentences Imposed.—The Harman Case
is Finally Disposed of With Fines
and Imprisonment,
Other cases for first week of court
not already reported were disposed of
as follows:
J. C. Nason vs. John C. Hoover and
wife; plea, assumpsit. Settled.
W. C. Heinle vs. John Swartz and
Justus Pownell; plea assumpsit. Con-
tinued.
A. Baum agt. vs. E. J. Bwavely; plea
assumpsit, Continued.
E. 8. Dorworth use of W. R. Jen-
kins vs. James K. McMullen; plea as-
sumpsit. Continued.
J. 8. Waite and Co. vs. J. N.
plea assumpsit. Settled.
L. C. Bullock vs. John Rishel;
assumpsit. Settled.
William Mann, Sr. vs. First Nation-
al bank of Bellefonte; plea assumpsit.
Bettled.
Monday morning court called at
nine o'clock with all the Judges on
the bench; list of jurors called and
absentees noted. After hearing a num-
ber of petitions court adjourned until
2p. m.
Monday afternoon the first case call-
ed was that of Franklin Reese vs
Thompson Reese executor of Valen-
tine Reese dec’d; plea Sei. Fa. torevive
judgment; Reeder for plaintiff. No
defence being made the verdict of the
jury was taken for $88.10, including at-
torneys commission, in favor of the
plxintiff.
Jacob Garbrick vs. David Harter:
plea trespass; Fortney and Love for
plaintiffand Harry Keller, Bower and
Orvis for defendant. This suit is the
result of a dispute between the plain-
tiff and defendant in reference to the
location of the line between the farms
in Marion township. The jury retired
on Tuesday evening.
The following cases have been set-
tled: James Kimport vs. M. G.
Brown; plea ejectment.
M. G. Brown vs. A. E. Meyerand J.
H. Ross; plea ejectment.
Wm. C. Bheesley vs.
plea assumpsit.
Wednesday morning the jury in the
case of Garbrick vs. Harter returned a
verdict in favor of the defendant.
The first case called was Thompson
Houston Motor Co. vs. R. A. Jackson.
The Arp Coal Cutting Machine Co,,
the Universal Manufacturing Co., and
the Universal Coal cutting Machine
Co.; plea replevin; C. Dale, Zeigler
and Reeder for plaintiffs, and Hewes
Bower and Orvis for defendants. This
suit was brought to recover for an elec-
tric motor and its appliances. The
plaintiff Co. does business in Boston,
Mass. and in 1801 entered into an
agreement with defendants to furnish
motor power by means of electricity to
run the coal cutting machines in the
Black Diamond mines in Rush town-
ship, this county. Verdict on Thurs
day forenoon in favor of the plaintiffi,
Joseph Hall and Ruth Hall, his
wife in right of said Ruth Hall vs
Hannah Elliott; plea ejectment; Love
and Gray for plaintifts and Harry
Keller for defendant. Verdict in fa
vor of the plaintiffs for land described
in the writ.
B. E. and N. V, Pikeand R. R. Co.
vs. Centre county; plea trespass; Bow-
er and Orvis for plaintiffs and Fortney
and Love for defendant. This suit
grew out of condemnation proceedings
in 1892 against the pike leading from
a point near Jacksonville to the Iron
works near Howard; viewers were ap-
pointed by the court, who allowed the
company $1500 for the pike and the
company appealed. Verdict on Fri-
day afternoon in favor of the plaintiffs
for $750.
Bellefonte and Philipsburg Pike Co.
vs. Centre county; plea trespass; Bea-
ver and J. M. Dale for plaintiffs and
Fortney and Love for defendants.
Condemnation proceedings were insti-
tuted in this case at the same time as
in the preceeding case, and that por-
tion of the pike lying between the
southern line of the borough of Miles
burg and the iron bridge crossing the
Bald Eagle creek was condemned;
viewers awarded the company $500 and
they appealed. Verdict on Saturday
noon ia favor of the plaintiffs for $1000,
The following cases were continued:
James E. Bolt ve. Bellefonte borough.
Isaac W. Raven vs. Millheim Turn-
pike Co.
Calista A. Miller vs. Daniel Gar
man.
Isaac Btover vs, Central R. R. Co.
of Pa.
John P. Rockey vs. same.
H. O. Garbrick vs. same.
M. C. Gephart vs. Union Central
Life Insurance Co.
The following sentences were lmpos-
ed on Saturday forenoon: James Cor-
nelius sentenced to pay costs of prose
cution, one dollar fine and three month |
Shaw;
plea
J. R. Wolf;
| of prosecution, one dollar fine and
three months in the county jail.
Miiton and Mary Harman to pay
costs of prosecution, fine of $100 and
one year in Western penitentiary,
each.
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A Sad Csse.
In March last, says the Clearfield
Public Spirit, George Merriman, wife
and family of five children moved from
Vail station, on the Tyrone and Clear-
field road, to Belsena Mills, this coun-
ty, hoping that the husband would be
able to find work in the woods. After
spending a few days in their new home
Merriman visited the neighboring op-
erations and asked for work, but was
told at each place that no additional
men were needed. Finally he went to
the overseers of the poor, but as he
had not taken out an order of relief
they did not help him. Merriman by
this time was about frantic, fearing
that his wife, who was in a very deli-
cate condition, and his five children
would starve. So he went to theshan-
ty of a man named Benson, who was
receiving aid from the overseers, and
appropriated twelve pounds of flour,
six pounds of corn meal, five pounds
of meat and a few other small articles.
He was at once arrested and brought
to jail. [his occarred about the 17th
of April. Bince then the wife and
family have been living on the bounty
of the neighborhood until last week,
the wife feeling that she was again to
become a mother, appealed for aid but
received none, She then returned to
her home and during Thursday night
gave birth to a child. The next morn-
ing the mother and child were both
found dead in the room by the other
children. Application was at once
made for a writ of habeas corpus and
the husband was allowed to attend the
funeral, and later was given his liber-
ty on his own recognizance.
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Advantages of Advertising.
Even in this enlightened age there
are yet to be found, occasionally, per-
sons attempting to do business whose
powers of perception are so small that
they fail to recognize the fact that ad-
vertising is absolutely essential to suc-
cess. It is hard to find such people.
The position they occupy in the busi-
ness world is so small and insignifi-
cant, because of their failure to take
advantage of the opportunities offered
by the newspapers, that they are sel
dom heard of. In their neglected cor-
ners they sit alone and, between dozes,
grumble at the hard times.
The successful business firms of the
country are those which have made
extensive and judicious use of the ad-
vertising columns of the newspapers |
and magizines. Evidences of this are
numberless, and are found in every
branch of enterprise. In accounting
for their success none of these men
who have achieved health and distine-
tion in their various lines fail to give
the highest place of credit to their in-
vestments in advertising,
When those who pay little or no at-
tention to this department of business
are idle on account of the consequent
lack of trade, let them occupy their
leisure by making a careful examina-
tion of the history and methods of
these successful men and then, if they
are endowed with a reasonable amount
of common sense and have any ambi-
tion to succeed, they will at once set
about to follow their example, in a
measure commensurate with their abil-
ity. When the success which issure to
follow comes to them they will have
learned the lesson most needful to all
who are ambitious to secure a goodly
share of the rewards of enterprise in
the business world.
YP SAP ATA
Shooting Affray at Salona.
A lot of Italians who have been liv-
ing near Salona sinee the work on the
Nittany valley railroad was complet-
ed, got into a fight on Sunday. The
Italians, it is stated, were pretty well
filled up with beer when the fracas oo
curred. One of the men had a revol
ver in his pocket and used the weapon
effectively against another of his coun-
trymen. Bix shots were fired, three of
which took effect. The name of the
injured man was not learned. He was
taken to Salona, where a doctor found
that the wounded Italian had received
three bad wounds. He was shot
through the hand, another bullet
struck him in the wrist and a third
one entered his arm near the elbow.
The latter could not be located by
probing. The man who did the shoot-
ing left the place at once and has not
since been seen. The Italians live in
a “dug out” and the citizens of Salona
would be glad to get rid of themn.—
‘Lock Haven Express.
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| Mountain Blazes
Last week for several days fierce fires
were raging in the Seven mountains
south of Centre Hall, and from the
flames and clouds of smoke arising the
fires covered considerable territory.
Interesting Statistios,
The following committee report wis
unanimously adopted by Progress
grange, Centre Hall, Pa., April 28th,
1864,
Expenses of farming an acre of
wheat: Average price per acre of farm
land at $45.00
Interest on same
Plowi
Pulver
Beediog
rizing..
Beed,..
Cuttin
Haulin
Threshing al 7 eta per bl..cuniiiionns
Fertilizer. has rassantan
Proportionate charge for
3 aikmiing..
TUE ecorssees
in . yield ot
. $1008
2 00
Farmers incowe from the Same ;
15 bu. at 8 a 8 equals.
So
Straw,
Total...
- . $12.08
Farmers ions on eve ry ac re. wens 02
Miller's profit on an acre. It re-
quires five bushels of wheat to make a
barrel of flour, according to the mill-
er's statement itself, at § .56 per bush-
el would require $2.80 worth of wheat
for a barrel of flour. Milier's expense
for grinding, 80 cts. Total cost $2.10
The miller realizes at wholesale,
$3.00 per barrel, and 90 cts for the bran.
Total $3.90. A gain of S0cts per bar-
rel. An acre produces 83-5 bbls. so
S0cts. times 8 3-5 equals $2.88 gain on
an acre. But when he retails the flour
he realizes $3.60 per barrel, and 90 cts,
for the bran, total $4.50, a gain of $1.40
per barrel, and on an acre would be
3 5-6 times $1.30 or $5.04 gain.
Therefore: The farmer looses $3.02 on
every acre he cultivates at present
prices. The miller gains $2.88 when
he wholesales it and when he retails it
he has a gain of $5.04.
Respectfully submitted.
Davip K. KELLER.
May V. RHoNE.
PrivLip A. AUMAN,
Committee.
Attest. D. L. Keller, master; Jacob
Sharer, sec.
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An Avalanche of Silver Dollars,
A Philadelphia special says: The
men engaged in counting the fifty mil-
lion silver dollars that lie in the re
cently opened vault C of the mint had
an exciting experience yesterday after-
noon, and narrowly escaped serious in-
Jury. The bags, containing each 1,000
silver dollars, have rotted so much du-
ring the four years they lay in the
vault that 40 per cent of the bags have
been found unfit for their contents.
When the men began work in the
vault they were careful, knowing the
erratic ways of coin in bulk, to con-
struct a dam across the front of the
piled up millions, and they built it se-
curely. With the dam in place they
Several men were
on the mountain of silver yesterday af-
ternoon and directly at the dam's base
were several clerks weighing the bags.
Suddenly a bag béneath the foot of a
man above burst.
silver mountain started to come down.
The bags broke by the half dozen, and
before the men in the vault could real-
ize what was coming, over 200,000 sil-
ver dollars were pouring down upon
them in a cataract. They jumped and
ran, for there was no knowing but
that the millions above might follow
Fortunately no one was caught in the
flood and no injury was sustained.
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Getting Rid of Rats,
An Ohio farmer writing to the
American Agriculturist, says: “On
the barn floor I placed a thirty-six gal-
lon kettle filled half full of rye. A
plank six feet long led from the floor
to the top of the kettle. The rye was
left in the kettle for about a fortnight,
until the rats had become thoroughly
familiar with the kettle and were mak-
ing it the headquarters for their night-
ly revels, with seeming confidence
that no harm was intended, when
very treacherously, one evening, water
was substituted for the grain, and a
half-inch of chaff from the barn floor
concealed the water. The result was
that twenty-one drowned rats were
forked out the first morning and sixty-
two within a week, and after that no
rats were seen for a year.
Seonator John Patton, jr.
John Patton, jr., who has been ap-
pointed United States senator from
Michigan to succeed the late Senator
Btockbridge, was born in Clearfield
county and is the son of General John
Patton, of Curwinsville, General Pat-
ton was twice elected to congress in
hie district, the first time in 18560,
when the district was composed of the
counties of Clearfield, Clarion, Elk,
Foress, Jefferson, M’Kean, Venango
and Warren, and again twenty-six
years later, when the district was
made up of the counties of Clearfield,
Union, Clinton, Elk, Mifflin and Cen-
tre, and was strongly Democratic. In
each instance he carried the usually
decided Democratic county of Clear
field. Another son, Alexander E. Pat-
ton, has been urged to be a candidate
gia i yaar
'COXEY IN CAMP
THE ARMY REFUSES TO WORK
WHEN TENDERED.
The Commonwenl Tramps Camping on Un.
healthy Ground,—~A 25-Cent Admission
Frive to see the Freanks,
WasHINGTON, May 7.—Coxeyism
and no
wonder, When Coxey, Browne and
Christopher Columbus Jones were ar-
law by at-
tempting to speak on the Capitol steps,
they found sentimental women and
men in search of notoriety ready to
furnish ball for them, and when their
cases were called for trial in the police
court they found among their volun-
teer counsel one U., 8. Benator and
half a dozen Representatives—all pop-
ulists. And if the trial, now in its
third day, results in conviction, they
will doubtless have their fines paid for
them by people who will imagine
themselves philanthropists for con-
tributing money to such a purpose.
So much for the leaders, who stop at
hotels and enjoy their notoriety.
About one mile south of the Capitol
building is an enclosure which has for
years been used as a dumping ground
for miscellaneous city filth. In that
enclosure are nearly 500 men, four-
fifths of whem are professional tramps.
An admission fee of 25 cents is charged
to go in and look over the collection.
So far this has brought enough mon-
ey to feed the tramps and they have
made no trouble, but the public curios-
ity has now been pretty well sated
and, unless the imaginary philanthro-
pists shall contribute to feed the gang
the army will soon begin to desert by
wholesale. That they will not work
was proven by Coxey's refusal of an
offer of a camping ground of 60 acres
in a healthy location just out of town,
as long as his men wanted to use it
and $500 in cash for cleaning the un-
derbrush from the same. He preferr-
ed to keep the men in their present un-
healthy location, because he thought
he could get more money out of the
admission fees than he could If the
camp was removed to the country.
He thinks more, however, of his blood-
ed horses, as he removed them from
the camp in which the health officer
says he would not be surprised at any
time to see several contagious diseases
make their appearance, and from
which men are every day carried to
hospitals,
Coxey has so far been very peaceful
and law-abiding, with the exception
of his mild break at the Capitol, but it
is because his force has not been strong
enough for him to be otherwise. His
intention is in the end to make troub-
le, if he can get a sufficient foree of
men gathered in Washington to do so.
He still talks about eventually having
200,000 men here and other rot of the
same sort. His coming here was a
fool's errand, and he has been entire-
ly too leniently dealt with by the au-
thorities.
This Coxey foolishness is also cost-
ing considerable money. Attorney
General Olney has requested Congress
to make an appropriation of $50,000 to
meet the expense of employing extra
deputy marshals to deal with the gang
of lawless Coxeyites in the northwest,
and the bill for extra police protection
which the District of Columbia has
been paying for a week past and will
continue to pay until the Coxeyite
craze has passed over amounts to not
less than $500 a day.
Senator Harris says thal after the
amendments to the tariff’ bill are re
ported to the Senate, which will be it
is expected early this week, he propos-
es to immediately force a lengthening
of the daily sittings of the Benate, un-
less the Republicans will agree to set
a time for closing debate. A little flur-
ry has been created here by a rumor
that the Louisiana legisiature that
meets on the 15th inst., would demand
that a duty of two cents a pound be
put on sugar and that failing to get it
they will elect successors to Senator
Caffery and Blanchard who will be in-
structed to vote against the tariff bill.
Few Democrats believe the rumor. It
is of too extraordinary a nature to be
believed, and probably owes its origin
to the fact that this legislature, will
elect successors to the Senators named
who are both filling unexpired terms
by appointment of the governor,
Judge B. F. Havens, of Terre Haute,
Ind,, who is at present in Washing-
ton, throws considerable needed light
upon the carrying of so many munioci-
pal elections in this state by the Re-
publicans, “The truth is,” said Judge
Havens, “that the Democrats were not
organized anywhere and let the things
go by default. I don’t think the A.
P. A. cut any great figure in the re
sult, though that organization helped
to organize and solidify the Republi
cans. There are just as many X Demo-
orats in Hooslerdom as ever, but the
Jo yin tariff
me
} political market, n”
A large and distinguished party will
go from Washington to attend the un-
veiling of the Mary Washington mon-
ument at Frederiesburg, Va., next
Thursday. President Cleveland has
promised to go and it is expected that
Mrs. Cleveland will accompany him.
Public Printer Benedict expects to
assume charge of the Government
Printing Office this week. He will
find a very queer state of affairs, caus
ed by Mr. Palmer's carrying hundreds
of people on the roll more than were
needed to perform the work of the of-
fice. A big discharge therefore is one
of the certainties of the near future,
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Anronsburg Jottings.
Dr. Musser removed a large sebace-
ous tumor from the shoulder of Mrs.
A. D. Keener, on Tuesday morning.
P. Gross Yearick,
has come to pay his usual annual visit
to his parents,
Clayton Wyle has moved into his
new house in the western part of town.
Mrs. M. M. Musser, who some weeks
ago had an apoplectic stroke, is steadi-
ly improving.
Mrs. Agnes Durst has again gone to
Kansas, taking with her the mocking
bird and terrier dog.
George Rupp sold the square which
he purchased from Frederick Reager,
several years ago, to Emanuel Wetzel,
for $250.
Emma Jordan sold one of the
squares belonging to her father's es-
tate, to George M. Stover, for $105.
Rev. Brown had a wedding at the
toll-gate on last Thursday afternoon,
Mr. Showers, of Farmer's Mills, was
married to Miss Hubler, a sister of the
madam that keeps the gate.
AM
If You Wish to Help the Town
Don’t fail to sound its praises where-
ever you are.
Don’t make your money out of its
citizens and spend it somewhere else.
Don’t frown on every public improve
ment simply because it will cost you a
dollar or two.
Don’t sneer at the efforts of your fel-
low citizens to build up the town, but
lend a hand yourself.
Don’t talk a great deal about what
should be done and remain on the back
scat waiting for someone else to do it.
Don’t let a good local paper that is
the town’s untiring champion abandon
the champion business because of lack
of deserved patronage.
Don’t say the public schools are a
failure because your boy has been up-
setting the school’s discipline and has
been punished for it.
Don’t forget that in building up the
town hearty co-operation, united en-
deavor and a spirit of get there are
what win the day. There is no pull
like a long pull, a strong pull and a
pull all together.
Coxey Found Gulity,
Gen. Coxey and his “generals’’ have
been found guilty of a violation of the
laws governing the capitol grounds,
have applied for a new trial and are
now out on bail.
A half dozen other little Coxey ar-
mies, from different parts of the west,
are still marching “on to Washing-
ton.”
The health board of Washington has
declared the Coxey camp unhealthy
and the “army” has been ordered to
get out of it,
Real Estate Sold,
On Saturday the real estate of Esth-
er Ulrich, dec’d, was disposed of at
public sale, by the executor, Will A.
Wagner. The property was composed
of several tracts near Tussy ville, which
were purchased by Mr. Will Bitner for
Mercantile Appralsement,
This week the REPORTER is again
compelled to encroach upon the space
usually devoted to reading matter, in
publishing the mercantile appraise
ment for Centre county for 1864,
Supply Becoming Short,
Tue oft-coal strike still going on
is the cause of shutting down of many
establishments that use soft coal for
fuel.
Died at Spring Mills,
On Monday Mrs. Fogleman died at
Spring Mills, of bronchitis. Her re-
interment was made.
Married,
On May 20d, 1864, at Centre Hall,
by Rev. C. H. Goodling. Mr. William
L. Ripka and Miss Mary Jane Bot-
torf, both of Tusseyville, Pa.
AI PAI,
Taylor Wagner, of Milroy, whose se-
accident
Large Sums Can be Sent for Reduced
Rates.
On July 1st there will be for sale at
the postoffice a new money order by
which large and small sums can be
transmitted by letter with safety, and
at rates much less than the present.
Orders for $2.50 or less can be had for
three cents, and orders for larger
amounts up to $100 at rates graded up
to thirty cents. The schedule of fees
for the new money orders has been re-
duced to the basis now charged by the
various express companies for trans-
mitting money, and will be as follows:
For $2.50 or less, three cents; $2.50 to
$5, five cents; $5 to $10, eight cents; $10
$30, twelve
cents; $30 to $40 to $50, eighteen cents;
$50 to $60 twenty cents; $60 to $75,
twenty-five cents; $75 to $100, thirty
cents,
The postal note gives no security to
the sender. Anybody can get them
cashed simply by signing his name
and presenting it for payment at any
postoffice authorized to pay postal
notes. The new money order on the
other hand, by a system of coupons
serving as effective check both upon
purchaser and postmaster, is apt to
prove a satisfactory solution of the
long mooted problem of reissuing frac-
tional currency for convenience in
mail purchases.
Under the new system postmasters
will receive a commission of three
cents for each money order issued. At
present they get three and one-half
cents for each order issued and the
same amount for each order paid, and
one per cent. for each postal note is-
sued, and three-fourths of a cent for
each note paid.
This reduction of the fees on large
sums of money transmitted by money
order is a good thing. The present
rates are too exorbitant, for the people
can get their money transmitted by
express companies at much lower rates
than the government charges.
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State Items of Interest
Flemington has obtained a charter
as & boro and feels like the boy when
he puts on his first boots.
A green worm from a quarter to
half inch in length is destroying the
green clover in many sections of Hun-
tingdon county. Whole fields of clo-
ver have been entirely eaten up.
Among the recent deaths in Mifflin
county are the following : Mrs. Lydia
Brought, of Granville, aged 73; Capt.
Samuel Diffenderfer, of Allensville,
aged 62; Mrs. Emma E. Romig, of
Wagner, aged 21 ; Mrs. Emma Snook,
of near Lewistown, aged 30, and Benj.
Spigelmyer, of near Wagner, aged 78
years.
Dr. McCandless, of Pittsburg, sent
a ripple of laughter around the usually
staid and solemn Senate chamber on
Friday last by circulating an impres-
sive-looking volume inscribed on the
cover, “What Congress is Doing,”
which, upon being innocently opened
by the recipients, was found to be a
perfect blank. It was an old joke ina
new binding ; but the Vice President
and the Benators are said to have en-
joyed it immensely. The only persons
who fail to see any humor in the situa-
tion which Doctor McCandless has so
sharply satirized are the people of the
United States.
Tie World's Fair at Antwerp was
formally opened on Saturday by Leo-
pold, King of the Belgians, and will
continue open until Nov. 2 next. The
fact that the contribution of exhibits
from the United States to this Exposi-
tion is exceptionally large should in-
vite a great influx of visitors from
these shores into the Belgian seaport
during the coming summer.
Trae Wilkesbarre people have under
discussion the extension of the city li-
mits so as to include the territory
within a radius of five miles, if it
should be approved, would give that
city a population of nearly 150,000
souls. There are over twenty smart
villages and hamlets within the area
described which should reap decided
advantage from consolidation and siu-
gle municipal management.
Con. BRECKINRIDGE sounded at
hypocrisy in this plea for votes as there
has been in Breckinridge's past life,
It is not as a penitent sinner a
man stands before his constituents,
but as a detected sinner. There is a
great difference between the two kinds
of sinners.
Whether you want a suit made 0
order or one ready-made, you will find
slsswhere,