VOL. LXVIIL. CAPITOL GOSSIP THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE RE- CEIVES STRICT ATTENTION. Financial Recommendations to Congress.— Ioformal Conferences Held by the Democratic Representatives, WASHINGTON, Dec. ever written by President Cleveland was more attentively listened to than that sent in today. The general top- ics treated by the message, the foreign ment, were all that any Democrat mendations cannot be fully stood until considered in connection | with Secretary Carlise’s annual port, to be sent to Congress tomorrow, which contains the details of the plan for a reform of the currency ly endorses in his message. What wil be the result of these financial recom- mendations it will be impossible to say has had time to become apparent. Speaker Crisp looked quite as good | ed, and his own re-election to Speakership been assured. Indeed, the most noticeable feature on the | Democratic side of the House, from the entirely too numerous empty chairs, was the prevailing good nature | array of long faces they were disap pointed. There have been a number of infor- | mal conferences of Democratic Sena- tors and Representatives for the pur- pose of discussing the probability of reaching an agreement on a pro- gramme for the session, and there is some talk of holding a joint caucus and requiring every man who attends to pledge himself to stand by whatever | programme the caucus adopts. If] pledges could be secured from a suffici- ent number to control both House and Senate that would an excellent idea, but it is certain that there are six or more Democratic Senators who would not pledge themselves, Like numerous other fake that asserting that President Cleve | land was offended with Admiral Walk- er because of the report he made on af- | fairs at Hawaii, has been disproved in | a striking manner by the official order placing Admiral Walker at the head of the Light House Board, a position | that is considered by Naval officers one of the most desirable under the government. The President seems to have a special liking for this method of knocking out silly stories. It much better and far more convincing than a stereotyped denial. Treasury officials take no stock in the stories that Congress will refuse to appropriate the money needed to put the income tax into operation, for the very simple reason that there are no more opponents of that tax in either Senate or House than there were when | it was incorporated in the tariff’ bill. That is the common sense view of the matter. If the opponents of the tax could not prevent its being included | in the tariff bill, they certainly cannot | prevent an appropriation to be put in- to effect. There is reason, too, for the | belief that Senator Hill, who led the fight against the income tax in the Senate will not only refuse to aid in trying to defeat the appropriation but i be stories, is ord as opposing any and all attempts | to embarrass officials by withholding | appropriations asked for, to be used in | carrying out existing laws. Representative Cooper, of Fla. thinks the proper way to fill the office | of postmaster is to have him elected | ing therefor. He is also strongly in favor of the adoption of some system | of currency reform that will give the needed elasticity to our currency, eith- er that proposed by Secretary Carlisle oi something else upon which a ma- Jority ean get together, and of a bill providing for the building of the Nica- ragua canal. He says that if he could have his way he would make this ses- sion of Congress, short as it will be, memorable in the history of the Dem ocratic party. It's a pity thereare not more Democrats of the same mind. Although nothing can be officially stated, because no official action has yet been taken, there is little room for doubt that the subcommittee which went to Cleveland, Ohlo, to investi. gate charges against Judge Ricks, of having appropriated fees properly be- longing to the government to his own use, will in its report to the full Judi- clary Committee of the House take the ground that the charge was proven, in fact, virtually admitted by Judge Ricks himself. It is thought that the quesgion of whether im t fen shall be St ued will be committee will make its report to the House before the holidays, unless something not now expected shall oe- cur to prevent, and it is expected to favor impeachment, The sugar scandal has raised its ug- ly head again, and the same Demo- cratic Benators whose names were | most conspicuously smirched during the preparation of the sugar schedule of the tarift’ bill are again figuring in the rumor in a manner that is decid- edly unpleasant to Democrats general- ly, however the trio of Senators | may look at the matter. Many Dem- 1 1 { ocrats are in favor of settling this bus- iness for good and all by just putting all sugar on the free list, Bo ot THAT INCOME TAX. —— Carlisle Has the Regalations on His Desk at Washiagton, Secretary Carlisle has upon his desk the completed regulations as prepared by Superintendent Pugh on putting the income tax into effect. He will { week. The regulations are very vo- | luminous as they now stand and pro- | vide as far as can now be foreseen for { every conceivable question that may | arise in the execution of that law. Two forms are provided, one for the return of the income of individuals { and one for the return of corporations. | The latter forms provide for every | kind of corporation taxable under the A curious feature of the law the section that directs that “profits realized within the year from sales of real estate purchased within two years for ys shall What consti- { tutes “profits and gains’ in the eye of HE WAS SELVISH, Lost His Whisky. ber camp which will do to print in the REPORTER. put up at one of the lumber camps in the Bear Meadows, a Shamokin landlord who had a quart bottle full of “smile’’ along, as it had got to be a constitutional requirement with him. Before the lumbermen left for their work and in full view the Shamokin tavern keeper pulled! his bottle of lightning from his lunch chest, took a healthy eye-shutter, and then placed the bottle back to its nest in the chest, without as much ing, ‘boys, wont you take a smile.” The proceeding seemed very unparlia- mentary to the lumbermen, and they went to their work in silence and of heart—a bottle of whisky in camp and all to run down one channel, such a thing “never was known in all Isra- el before.” Next morning all bands and bhun- ters were up, and in this august pres ence our landlord again unconcernedly pulled forth his bottle and passed the the second section of his constitutional amendment—down his throat, and the vectar went back to the chest. Nad- ness and thirst rendered the lumber- men speechless. They went to their He got back in the afternoon tired and veni- sonless and naturally went to his chest to get a drop of consolation ; the bottle was there but there wasn't a speck of the whistle moisteper in it. The of the lumbermen was there. “Who stohle all my whisky? if I as say- sore boss the law is a question that treasury offi- As | during the present fiscal year there | will be only six months’ expenses to be incurred from January 1, 1565, to! June 30, 1895, in carrying out the law, it is probable that Secretary Carlisle's | urgency estimate on account of the in- | come tax will not be more than $300, | fiscal year, when the law in | will be $400,000 or perhaps more. So far but $700 of the appropriation of $9,000 for putting this law into effect have been expended, but when all the necessary printing is done, this amount will be! sr ESHER'S FIGURES TOO HIGH Dubs’ Followers Dispute the Chicago Bish. ops Statement, The Dubs’ faction of the Evangelic- al church deny the statement made by Bishop Esher, of Chicago, leader of the Bowman-Esher faction, in an in- terview with a representative of the Patriot Thursday last that there are 20,000 Esherites in Pennsylvania and ! that there are 8,000 members of this faction in the East Pennsylvania con- | ference, “Immediately after the supreme court decision at Pittsburg on October | 1,” said a follower of Bishop Dubs, “all | the presiding elders in the East Penn- in his district to get the signatures of all members of his charge who desired to remain with us. A canvass was at ‘once made of each charge. Blanks | have been sent to every anti-Esher | | conference to ascertain the actual num- | ber of members that adhere to our | i side, with this result: Total number | of members in 1801, at the time of the | i split, 18,533, total number of members | | that have so far signified their loyalty to our side, 11,977, with twelve charg- {small loss to our side; these charges | numbered 2,757 members in 1891, and allowing for the same pro rata loss on | these as loss sustained on reported members we would have a member. i ship of 14,274 in the conference. It | will not fall below this figure as there | are several large congregations among those that have not yet reported that are almost wholly on our side. “At a meeting of the presiding el- ders of the Central and Pittsburg con- ferences | ist week, the fact was brought out that there were positively not more than 800 Esher adherents in these two conferences, having a total membership of 26,000. In an inter view Bishop Esher stated that their strength was about 150,000 throughout the country. It was shown by the lat est statistics in the arguments before the supreme courts in Ohio and Penn- sylvania that the membership was about equally divided, yet the total membership of both factions was a little less than 155000 about eight months ago.” Ss I A ANNAN All Hungry, Gov. Hastings is now suffering un- der a real i alaniny. There are about find out d— ef I don’t shoot whoever it was, and when my comrades get I'll rout this shanty. The boss bid the infuriated man composed ; he didn’t drink any of the | liquor because he didn’t like whisky | and more, he didn’t know who did, i likely it was the hands, “Well,” says the landlord, in be “I'm go- ever drank my whisky.” The boss again told him too keep within a mile and if he kicked up » fuss there could be word sent out for hour to chaw up his whole party. “Is that 80?" Yes, says the boss, “Well then I'll let the whisky mat- no whisky, ‘ell come near killen me."’ The bossa told him he should have known better than to get intoa lum- ber camp with only one quart of whis- ky and then drink it alone in the pres ence of the hands. There were deer around there but the lumbermen did not show the hunters tracks, crossings or lick, because there wasn't a lick of- fered from the bottle. Next morning the hunters pulled but a little wiser, ——————— Our List for Melidays. : Clothing, Trunks, Suit Cases, Trav-| eling Bags, and Telescopes, White and Colored Shirts, Night Robes, Collars Soft and Stiff Hats, Tobog- Rearfs and Bows, Underwear; White | Linen and Initial Silk Handkerchiefs; land Cardigan Ladies and | Gentlemens Garters; Suspenders; | {Gloves and Mittens, Mackintoshes; | House Coats; Trunk Straps and Um- | | brellas. Jackets; MoxtTooMERY & Co, Tailors and Clothiers, Crider’'s Exchange, Bellefonte, Ba jolee with L. B. Mulford, of Plainfield, N. J. His little boy, five years of age, and nights he tried various remedies recommended by friends and neigh- bors. He says: “I thought sure I would lose him. I had seen Chamber- lain's Cough Remedy advertised and thought I would try it as a last hope and am happy to say that after two doses he slept until morning. 1 gave it to him next day and a cure was ef- fected. I keep this remedy in the house now and as soon as any of my children show signs of croup I give it to them and that is the last of it.)! 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8. M, Swartz, Tusseyville, For rheumatism I have found noth. ing equal to Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It relieves the pain as soon as applied. J. W. Young, West Liberty, W. Va. The prompt relief it affords is alone worth many times the cost, 50 cents, Its continued use will effect a perma- pent cure. For sale by Wm. Pealer, Bpring Mills, and 8. M. Swartz, Tus sey ville . wise Publ TOF Winter govt 1s trove and we are as busy as always.—C. P. COURT NEWS. | PROCEEDINGS SINCE LAST WED- | NESDAY. | The ¥ oung Harse Thieves Sentenced to the Huntingdon Reformatory.—To Clear the Docket Two Courts are Held, 1.45 with Hon. A. O. Furst on bench; Associate Judges Riley and | Faulkner have not been present since Monday, the former being sick, Com. vs, Joseph Travis continued from the forenoon session; verdiet | guilty of assault and battery; sentence suspended until Wednesday next. Com. vs. J. LL. Bhowers; charge forg- ery; prosecutor J. M. Neubauer, This is the young man who traveled over a portion of the state and got the land- lords at the hotels whereat he was stopping to eash checks for him, which turned out to be forgeries, He captured at Olean, New York and brought back requisition papers from Gov. Pattison and lodged in jail in Bellefonte. The defendant plead guilty and after a strong plea for clem- ency by J. C. Meyer, one of his eoun- sel, was sentenced to pay a fine of one WHS | on and eleven months, . Wm, Gares; charge larce- proseciutrix Lida Gibson. This de- fendant is a well-known police officer in Bellefonte to the house of I. N Thomas St. Com, vs ny; and called sibson on on the night of the 25th last, Mr. having ing on that day and Mrs. afraid to stay in the Was day of Sept. drink- Gibson Gibson been It Mr Grares during that night took from the pocketbook of Mrs. dollars in paper money. at 5.45 alone, is alleged by the prosecution that house Csibson forty-five Court called morning and this case completed at 11.45, when the jury tired to the ju iry tion. Thursday room for delibera- Court adjourned on Friday Thursday noon until morning Friday morning court called at nine the jury in the Com. ve. Wm. Gares after having been out since the day at nine o'clock. o'clock an case of the previous send io a Communication to the court whereup- on the court ordered the jury to brought into the court room and gave them further instructions, then sent them back delibera- tion, be and for further Com. ve. Thomas Johnson and Lem- uel Poorman; charge malicious mis- chief; This is the wherein the indict ment was quashed on Tuesday on mo- tion of defendants counsel the district attorney in to the grand jury. out of the flood af the 20th day of May the prosecutrix defendants deliberately turned the water out of its . channel on to the lot of the prosecu- trix, destroying her lot and crops; ver- to pay the! prosecutrix Amanda Rote, saline case y Whereupon sent a bill This case grows new is — of this year; that alleges these natural costs, At 11.40 the jury in the case of Com. ve. Wm. Gares sent in another com- munication to the court in reference to the stairway as related by I. N. #on, the jury was brought into Gib | the | nearly twenty-eight hours returned a | | verdiet of not guilty at 3.25. Other commonwealth cases not al { ready mentioned were as follows: Com. ve. Wm. Rodgers; charge f.| and b,; prosecutrix Ellie Immel; set- tied. Com. vs. Spenson Breon; charge f. ; prosecutrix Rebecca Sheesley; mals; prosecutor Frank Bosch; true | bill. Com. v b.; prosecutrix Annie Simpsen; set- tied. Com. va. Annie Simpson; charge open lewdness; prosecutor Wm. Gares, bill ignored and the county to pay the costs, Com. ve. Henry Sampsel and James Huey; charge misdemeanor in office; prosecutor Wm. Grove, Jr.; bill ignor- ed and county to pay the costs, Com. vs, John Sepoliger, John Pe trick, Learning Borings, Al. Kalpat- rick, Mike Vaukvoer, and Andy Em- ick; charge larceny; prosecutor George Courtze; discharged for want of evi- dence in a habeas corpus proceeding a few weeks ago, Com. vs. Samuel Immel; charge in- cestuous fornication; prosecitrix Mary Imunel; true bill, Com. vs. Peter Coon; charge f. and b.; prosecutrix Sarah Haucht; true bill, Com. vs, James F. Norton; charge cruelty to animals; prosecutor Frank settled, ee. Walt; chargé larce- gy ny; prosscutor F. W. Snyder; bill ignored. Hf. and b.; prosecutrix Celie Noll; true | bill, Com. vs. John Brickley; charge land b. prosecutrix Barah Binger; [ bill. Com. vs, Wm. Kessler, Reuben Bill- | meyer and J. P. Maurer; charge assault | and battery; prosecutor Geo, E, Mensch true bill. Com. | Davis: ve. Rebecca Davis and Dolly charge cruelty to animals; prosecutor Frank Boschi; bill ignored | and prosecutor Frank Bosch to Costs, pay | Com. v sault nnd battery and prosecutor Orlando Weston; H. peace true bill. John lishel. surety of the and maintenance; prosecutrix Alice L. Rishel; true bill, The civil list of cases was taken on Friday afternoon and the called was A. Walter, trustee Com. va, for Hos- exander, brought the This suit was to collect balanes due from verdict for $65.45, E. len: MN. Dorworth ve. James McMul- tion for four months. jridget A. Bmith vs, This suit is brought to recover on | book account; verdict on Friday morn- ing in favor of the plaintiff for $168.01. Hannah Groves, ete., of Wm. dee'd. Sarah Yarnell. brought to re-| cover book account for medical servie- es by Dr. W. C. Groves; verdict | vor of the plaintifis for $56. Hannah of Wm. Miller; book ac- count; verdict in favor of the plaintiff for £5.25. sr. administrator of (roves, ve, This suit is in fa- | of | Lewis | administratrix deed. action {O recover Groves ele, (roves, VE. on administratrix of of Wm. dec'd., Daniel | Malone: the invoked the! i statue of limitation, when the plaintif plead surprise and the case was contin- ved until pext term at the defendant. Hannah {sroves, ete. (rroves, ve, defendant costs of the | Hannah Groves administrator of ete. of Wm. dec’d. Edward | Packer; the plaintiff suffered a volun- lary non suit. (roves, vie, the first weeks’ conrt not already referred to Other civil cases for | were dis- | | posed of as follows: i Lucy Auman vs. Bamuel J. MeClin- | tick; continued, i Joel continued. Tressler va. Charles F. Beck: Emanuel Harter va. Kate Neese; continued. All jurors were discharged on Satur wirt adjourned at 3 p. | Monday morning at nipe | day noon and o m. until o'clock In the matter of the applications by officers Kyle and Rhoades for the stat- | utory reward for thé apprehension | and arrest of horse thieves as provided | by the act of assembly of March 15th, 1821. The court refused the applica- tion and decreed that the same be aid to James B, Strohm. In the case of Com. vs. Charles Mey- to the charge of horse stealing last week, were sentenced to the Reforma- tory at Huntingdon on Monday morn- ing. SHOOND WEEK OF COURT. Court called on Monday morning with Hon. A. O. Furst, President | Judge, and Associate Judge Faulkner After hearing a num- | ber of petitions the first case taken up | was Jacob McLarren vs. Davidson & | Bon, feigned issue. This case grows | out of a levy by the sheriff onjthe plain. | tif property to satisfy a judgment { that the defendants have against I. L. | MeLarren a marble dealer in Philips- | burg, aud this action is to test the ti- | tle of the property as to whether it is i the property of this plaintiff or of I { I. MeLarren. At 5.15 Judge Archibald, President {Judge of the Lackawanna county courts of SBeranton, Pa., came into court whereupon Judge Furst declared a recess of five minutes to give the members of the bar an opportunity of meeting his Honor. Thomas Lucas, of Howard whs then appointed an additional court re porter for this week, Tuesday morning in the case of Mo- Larren vs. Davidson; verdict in favor buggy and harness and in favor of the plaintiff for all of the ressdue of the personal property of I. L. MeLarren, namely all the monuments, tomb- stones, unfinished marble, and tools in the shop on North Front street in the boro of Philipsburg. Calista Altona Miller va. Daniel Garman; plea trespass; the plainuifl seeks to recover damages from the de fendant, she having fallen on an icy pavement in front of Mr. Garman’s residence on High street on the evens ing of Jan. 26th, 1604 and bréaking het | NO. 48 her husband, in right of said Lucy | Auman VE . Jonathan Lingle; tried be- {fore Furst; verdict in favor of the | [ plaintiff for the land described in the | Writ to be released upon payment. Emma C. Van Newkirk ve. { Brown administrator of John Diven, | dec 'd.; verdict in favor of the plaintiff { for $131, Mary Cooke's admr’ va. { fer; tried before Furst. This is an ac { tion to establish title to a lot of person- al property, such as horses, cattle and | farming implements which the sheriff {levied upon to satisfy a judgment which the plaintiff holds against Mi- chael Confer and which Robert fer z to him he having pur- chased it at private sale on the 34 day of March last. The case was submit ted to the jury on Martha Hicks, tichards vs, Henry Robert Con- Cone- r as belodging noon, Martha Cowher, who verdict with Wednesday formerly Thomas B. in favor of the plaintiff for $12 slay of execution. John I. Thompson vs. Graysdale this was an lic ac~ vere { in favor of plaintiff for $1800.62. ia Democrats Will be Scarce, The Harrisburg Patriot The official returus to the state department districts of the commonwealth indicate that the Dem- ocrats will have only twenty-eight the 204 members of the House The Republicans will have 148 majority the and thirty-six in the senate, 134 on Joint ballot. Of the twenty-eight Democrats in the House the three rep- resentatives of the De elected in | the second, districts Says: of next of tepresentatives, in house or Pennsylvania in third and Philadelphia fourth Cans are in- have Adams, two in Clarion, in Elk, one in Lycoming, in Monroe, cluded. The Democrats elected one representative in Berks, bia, three in £ x iwo in in Mif- Montour, two in yume one one in Greene, Luzern, flin, one one one in four in in Phila- Schayl- Representa~ of North for re-cleetion Northampton, one in Pike, on York. Democaat, ar e in four in roughal, Was tive B defeated A Standing of the Dabs and Eshers, At the Evangelical Esher conference weld at Harrisburg this week, the pre- the Pittsburg confer with Esher wing. 53 2,300 membership, go that wherever the f follow- It was concluded Esher party have a substantial ing they prooeed to take he pe wsession of the church property. lin the general even churches conference have been lowers. After a careful in the three in Per bi- shops claim that out of the total mem- bership of the church 14,500 will re main loyal the Esherites, while 14,000 will cling to the Dubs side. csc CARnvas nnsyivania the 0 An Indian Relic, A resident of Mill Hall, county, while excavating for a cellar on the side of the hill near that bor. ough, found an oblong piece of pot- tery which is supposed to have been used by the Indians. The relic is 6 inches long, 8 inches deep and 3} inch- es wide. The material from which it is made is different from the pieces of pottery that have been found along the river. This particular specimen has some appearance of having been used as a crucible for melting ore, cs A a Clinton Tramps to be Arrested, Judge Metzgar has ordered the ar- rest of all tramps found begging in Ly- coming county, and have them re turned to court under the vagrant act of 1879. This action has been deemed necessary to suppress the tramp nui- sance in that county. So bold have the tramps become that the people were subjected to many annoyances by their importunities. Even Judge Metzgar himself has been stopped three times within a week by able bod- fed men, all of whom asked for money. One even had the audacity to follow the judge for quite a distance. The Ungrateful Tramp. A tramp went to a Newberry resi. dence the other day and asked for food. The accommodating housewife sat him down at a table, cut him some bread and bade him eat. When the tourist had gone the woman discovers ed that the butcher knife with which she cut the bread had also departed. ms AIIM SI Cleared 822, Last Thursday evening ihe ladies of the Presbyterian church held a festi- val in Harper & Kreamer's hall and . the proceeds netted them about twen- :4wo dollars, Which was gratifying
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