VOL. LXVIIL CAPITOL NEWS WASHINGTON. The Currency Question to derstood by the People.—-The Demo- cratic Position, President Cleveland will probably make the holding of the Sound Money Convention at Memphis, Tenn., on May 23, the occasion for following up his Chicago letter with another along the same lines, only giving a more ex- act definition of what he sound money. He thinks that the time has come when the currency question must be discussed in order that the people may vote intelligently upon it next year. He thinks that there is an enormous of misinformation among the people on the subject, and that the main duty of the hour is to aid the people in arriv- ing at a correct definition of what con- stitutes sound money. That Mem- phis convention, although non-parti- san in its character, will necessarily be dominated by Democrats, and Secreta- ry Carlisle is expected to make the principal address before it. These things have eaused that convention to be regarded with extraordinary inter- est by those who are interested in the future welfare of the Democratic par- ty. It is certain that every Democrat is in favor of sound money, but it must be ackriowledged that there difference among Democrats considers also amount is a wide the sound ers of the party, as well and file—as to what is as money. ought in or ad- justed before the party enters another National-Campaign, will be admitted by every Democrat without Now, how do individuals no desire to fight each That these differepees way to be wiped out, some at least § i argument. who have other usually adjust their serious differences of opin- ion? By argument, showing each other, ministration wants to do. sent its arguments as to money is, and will ask It will pre w hat its the correct idea. ington all speak of prospects. One of (i. Williams h speful ly Mr. “1 may be party them Oliver said: SOE Democrats are going to elect a majori- ty of the next Ohio legislature. The people are very sick of the last two leg- islatures, ¢ g 8 and the recent grand jury in- at such shady transactions on the part of prominent Republican legislators that a great deal of popular censure has The bold the part of George Cox, can boss of Cincinnati in vestigations Columbus disclosed been aroused. conduct the Republi- working for the yassage of the wl bill, has open. I I I on ed the eyes of the people to the shame- less work that has been going on at the State capital, and I shall be sur- prised if they do not render a verdict in November that will surprise the I would not be surprised if thousands of Republican voters acted with the Democrats this fall for the express purpose of rebuking the misconduct of the legislature, to call it by no stronger name. The fight will be hot from start to finish, as it | involves a U., 8. Senator, and if the Democrats do not win they will make the Republicans work mighty hard to | do so.” bosses and ringsters. According to the estimate of Com- missioner of Internal Revenue Miller, the government will receive on the voluntary returns i1aade something over $14,000,000 for income tax. No estimate can be made of how this will be increased by assessing the tax upon those known to who are lia- to a Democratic victory in the state of New York next fall.” Secretary Morton, in a published in- terview, declares his belief that must sooner or later declare that United States recognizes gold as the best and least fluctuating measure of value and medium of exchange which the commerce of civilization has thus far utilized.” “we the Ira CO, Mitchell's Second Lecture, The 2d lecture of I. C. Mitchell, esq., UNFORTUNATES IN PERRY COUNTY. The Great Amount of Distress Caused by Bank Fallures. It is said that after the failure of the Perry county bank in New Bloom- field many citizens of the county dealt with the National bank of Newport, all considering it the safest remaining. Its collapse therefore has been ually severe, uns One of the depositors in the;New Bloomfield bank when it col- lapsed was a little boy residing in the yas delivered in the Lutheran church | country, and who, by doing odd jobs of this place, last Sabbath evening. for his father, had succeeded in depos- A large audience was present which | ting $30 in the bank with which to extended back into the Sunday school | Purchase a bicycle. When the father, room. Revs. Rearick and Isenberg | Who returned from town, informed his The to-|8%0n of the bank failure and the loss of ecture were: | Dis money the little boy burst into 2, What is Life? “I'l save another cent as long as I live, I'll spend every thing at once.” The half of this sad story has been told. led in the opening exercises, pics dwelt upon in the |} 1, What is man? 3, What is death ? Each of these topics was fully and clearly dwelt upon by the able and | learned lecturer, and his powerful rea- | soning, both from scientific and bibli- | cal standpoints, captured the closest | tears and sald amid sobs: never suffering, misery, and hollow-poverty attention of the large assembly made the honest, trustful, industrious and up of members of all congregations of our town. He gathered science as eon- tained in the Bible, showed plainly that it was in perfect accord with the doctrines of Christianity, and that the science as taught by skeptics halted | when the momentousness of the future | great distribution in the grand ecarni- presented itself. The science of the | val of sorrow which took after Holy Word of God led the way out to | the bank failure, the end—to a Heaven beyond any per- | The moral effect among the sturdy, adventure. Our bodies are tenements | honest, reliable in which we, namly our spirits, abide during the briefly allotted time, and Death | means that our spirit has left our body and man to live in the | spirit. The speaker proved that the | Old and New Testaments harmonised | in this line of reasoning. | The third and last lecture will be de- | livered in the Evangelical church, on | | Sunday evening, May the { the topics discussed will be : 1, The state of the dead. 2, Man's | destiny, involving his condition and | left a srofound impression in this communi- {ured by dollars and cents, nor months | them among its paupers and the grave | yard received not a few victims at the place salt-of-the-earth One of the had careful ’ | ple also was not salutary. most reliable citizens who | then dwell in another place. small earnings and most and diligent economical management ed a few hundred find himself worse off financially than av. continues dollars, awoke to] he had started in fifteen years before, | “1 have lost faith God i] man,’’ my in ane he said. ———— ————— 12, when | Local Agricultural Jottings, The grain fields all over this county | | look quite promising. i Predictions from parts of the! county lean towards an abundant fruit | crop. all { his home. These lectures have Hope 80, Farmers who did a goodly share of | their plowing last fall, rejoice in being several pegs ahead of such as didn’t. The choir rendered charming musie | upon the OCCASION. -— Many of our farmers are putting out { less wheat than in § Wise | former years, they are for it. WA» When to Present Bank Checks. At a recent suit in Pittsburg P of Judge in re- bank that was gard to tl Thoughtful farmers frequently sug- K. ©1l a man received a che ck the resentation a decided he und to present it for payment with “due diligence." eh Stowe gest that those by-roads that are inva- wh riably closed every winter by snow. tx drifts should be supplied on one side f He was allowed the the | | day on which he received it and all of | township, as the cost of opening such If helin one winter alone would pay for the | exercised all risks which it by na wire fence at the expense o t & the day following to offer had and he ran from failure on the bank on | held it longer he not wire, the landowner finding the posts “due diligence" | The grange should take up the sub- | for wire! i ject of the townships paying was drawn. | fences to prevent snow blockades in | An appeal was taken to the Supreme | certain public roads. Court which in all probability will | confirm the decision of Judge Stowe, | many persons receive bank checks for | payment of debts, or articles sold, and | py An Act Likely to Pass An act to “encourage the use of wide tires upon wagons,” now pending in the is likely to pass. | Should it become a law all persons us- ing only draft wagons on the public | highways with tires not less than four | and Legislature times months, before presenting them for payment. In the mean time if the bank, or if the giver of the check, should fail the receiver of the check | would lose the amount of the check | and he would have no redress, | BOIMe- inches in width for hauling loads not | less than two thousand pounds weight, | shall receive a rebate of one-fourth their road taxes It is believed the | bate on taxes provided in this meas- ture will be more than made in bene fits which will accrue to the roads by the use of wide tired wagons. on | re sms pl i i | Secured Special Order, The school appropriation bill secur- day which will place it on the ealen-| dar so asto be tp Mp sop considered reading next week. on second | The measure pro- | vides that one-thied of the appropria-| The following marriage licenses were tion shall be distributed according to | granted during the past week : the number of teachers actually em-| Henry G. Mawrer, of Clintondale, ployed and two-thirds according to the | and Jose E. Rodgers, of Nittany. number of taxables, There are 112 R. J. Maan, of Curtin twp, members of the house whose districts | Lissie Nyman, of Boggs twp. are adversely affected by the bill, Mr. B. K. Henderson, of Benner Fow and other city members protested | and Jennie Taylor, of Bellefonte. against granting a special order forthe| Joseph 8. Parsons and Joanna Cal. bill because it would affect adversely | lathan, of Bellefonte. Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other! James MecPhilomy, of Brisbin, Clear- Marriage Licenses, and twp. ble who failed to make returns in ac-| bree elt} cordance with law, but it will proba- | arge cities, bly exceed $4,000,000. The amount of | Commissioner Miller's estimate bears | Cases fn Court, out the estimate made when the deci-| The case of Charles Smith vs. the sion of the Supreme Court was first | Sugar Valley Mutual fire insurance sf A ASA handed down, that the exemption of such portions of incomes as were from Btate or municipal bouds and rents would reduce the total expectad from the tax by more than one-half, State Benator Eugene Ives, one of the best known Democratic members of the New York legislature, passed through Washington on his way to Fortress Monroe. He said: ‘The peo- ple are being given an object lesson at Albany that will not be forgotten in the State or overlooked by the coun- try. Already four months have elaps- ed and not a single measure urged by the citizens of New York, in the inter- est of reform, has been passed. Not for forty years have so many changes of corruption at Albany been brought forward, and I feel that the people are fast realizing that Democratic legisla- tures can be better trusted than those controlled by the present Republican bosses. The kind of reform the State has been getting from Platt is not what was demanded. I look forward | company, of Loganton, was on trial | from Monday noon until next morn- ing, when the eourt directed that the { following verdict be entered: For the | plaintiff the sum of $2,199, subject to the opinion of the conrt on the ques- tion of law reserved, whether the con- tract of insurance was consumated at the time of the fire. insite Union County Deaths, At Miilmont, April 6, Jonath, Ree- dy, aged 96 years and 10 months, In Middleburg, April 6, Mrs. Lydia Rudy, aged 83 years, In Lewisburg, on 5 April, Henry Miller, aged 72 years. At Muzeppa, April 10, Jane, wife of Abr, Eyer, aged 59 years. HAA, ~Putting on a pair of Wolf & Craw ford’s dress shoes is an example of the right shoe on the right foot every time, ~Every well-dressed young man gets his clothing and gents’ furnishing field Co., and Lida Garman, of Snow Shoe. Edward Crane and Rhoda Gunsal- lus, of Bellefonte. s—— nit Will be Argued in Supreme Court This week thirty. nine cases from the courts of Blair, Centre, Clearfield and Huntingdon counties will be ar. gued in the State Bupreme Court. There are seven from Blair county, eleven from Huntingdon, thirteen from Centre and eight from Clearfield, A ft Summer Millinery, Mra. Lucy Henney has returned from Philadelphia with an exception- ally fine line of Summer Millinery, which is now open for inspection at ber store. She requests the ladies to call and see the latest in everything in the Millinery line, A AA NANA ~If you come to Wolf & Crawford's you will see what you ought to wear, and then you'll want to wear what you see. ~-Big spring opening at Lyon & Co's store, Bellefonte, where you can get anything needed at very low fig- WEEK OF COURT MONDAY. The Usunl Number of Trivial Cases Dispos. of ~The Attendance Up to the Average, Court called on Monday morning at nine o'clock, with Hon. John (i. Love President Judge on the bench and al- Jamin Rich. forenoon session was taken up in hear- The greater part of the i ferent members of the bar. i illed and Miller, of The list of grand jurors absentees noted and John C. Jellefonte chosen foreman of the same when they retired to thelr room to ex- | that shall be i | constables of The boroughs laid before them. the different {and townships then made their sever- |al returns to the Quarter { Court adjourned at 11.40, Court called Sessions. at 2 o'clock and the list { of traverse jurors called and absentees | noted. I'he first case called was that of Com. | va. W. H. Stover: charge desertion: i The j case was heard by the court without a prosecutrix Mary Jane Stover. {jury and after hearing the case it was | dismissed, Com. ve. Frank Walk: bh: prosecutrix Rose charge f, and de th i i Price; fendant ! i plead guilty and received @ sentence, Com. vs. Harry Thomas; sault and battery: prosecutrix Ellen Thomas; verdict guilty in manner and licted., There being no Com. cases re ady for $ si form as he stood ir trial, the next case taken up was th D. I, This case is brought to recover for 123 i bushel ia eorn in the ear, which the plaintifl al- wt al Johnson. ar 50) 8 Of leges is due him as rent for a farm in Ferguson township for the year 1880, Hegre while the defendant plaintiff got all that to; verdict in fave Wm. charge the entitled a ¢ that i e was wr of the defendant. Witmer obstructing Om. VE. James Witmer; publie road; prosecutors Jas. Huey and Hen- ry Sampsel, supervisors of Benner twp. and The defendants in this case { out to the road th wet hel ives public t to the lending froma Roopsbus cross rosd lead- was hot but resul finding the defendants and fi i The case Iv contested on both sides t- {ic il er t edinav a guilty in manner rm as they stand indicted. Com. vs. Geo. Spangler; charge lar- gleville station; prosecutor G. W. Cur- tin, a special R. R. officer verdict of not guilty. Com. ve. John H. Rishel: at Tyrone; Rishel. District nol. pros. attorney entered Com. v&. John Frank Haynes; charge larceny; prosecutor T. B. Budinger. A nol. pros was enter- «1 at to Frank Haynes and John Lu- « Lucas and € ing tobacco to the value of $17. Com. va. Wm. H. Williams, charge larceny; prosecutor T. B. Budinger: de- scissors, tobacco, seven whips, shoe nails and two shovels to the val- ue of $27. The store of Mr. Budinger has been systematically robbed for the Inst two or three months and horse named defendants, Com. vs. Jacob Alkey: charge larce- ny; prosecutor David Winslow, of Ea- gleville. The defendant was prosecut- the prosecutor; verdict not guilty. Com. vs. Curtis McDonald; charge forcible entry and detainer; prosecutor W. A. Hartsock. Ssns————— A —————— It will be an agreeable surprise to persons subject to attacks of bilious colic to learn that prompt relief may be had by taking Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoe Remedy In many instances the attack may be pre- vented by taking this remedy as soon as the first symptoms of the disease appear. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8. M. Swartz, Tusseyville. —— AA Brief Locals, Wm. Wolf's residence is being cov- ered with new roofing material. Ira C. Mitchell's third and last lecture will be delivered in the Evan- gelieal church, this place, Sunday eve- ning, May 12. Wheat Advance, The dealers in grain at Centre Hall have advanced the price of wheat the last four weeks from 60 cents to 54 cents, a rise of four cents. A climb of about ten times that much would not be objected to in these parts. A AAI MS ATAPI ~The biggest things in the way of at Lewins, Bellefonte, ures, bargains; the smallest things in the way of prices at—Wolf & Crawford’s. DEATH OF BEY YOOUM, A Former Prominent Resident of Belle. fonte Dies in California, | of Bellefonte, died last Thursday at his home in Passadena, California, at the { age of about sixty years, Mr. Yocum had taken up his for BO which had not been of the best some time, but his condition had far advanced that the healthful climes of California afforded him no relief. He was married and leaves a wife and five children. Bellefonte succeeded his brother, ( of gaining able practitioner, 1874, H. Yocum and came to in i. in the law firm i & a reputation as an 14. Aramid, Hastings, It was during the year 1879 he came prominently before the people of this district in successfully contesting the election to Congress of the late A. Curtin, Mr. Yocum was a candidate on the Greenback ticket. and the vote being close, contested the election, and 3 re piesente 9 | the district jor two years. In 1881 he removed to Tennessee. to ¢ i assume charge o in which He leaves his family in good circumstan- a large tannery, he remained. business ces, and was quite well-to-do. sf ae rscmem— Another Jump in Wheat, NO. 17 OUT GUNNING, | What the Reporter's Shootist Got into his Bag.—All No. 1 Game, Our marksman tried his skill and | is rewarded with all cheice game and {in season, and now dumps it for the | benefit of our readers : When Bimon Harper related how young Luckenbach, of Bellefonte, one | morning, last week, before breakfast, atl one cast hooked and landed two trout, we shut our eyes and opened our { mouth ; but when he went on and re- | lated that at the next cast he pulled out three trout, we shut our mouth i and opened our eyes, A lady friend in kindly handing ns a pretty little bouquet, remarked we by il should not dare and print r i : name, Now from away back we resolved to be durned if we'd ever dared : but in this instance we submitted to being be dared and be durned. Mrs. Joshua Potter, in her usually | pleasant way, informed us she'd had i BIH iH of le the ¢ would announce her as having died ; but we beheld her as the freshest grip, and was worried lest teporter' § bealtl and healthiest SICK woman since Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and it would require 1 10 repare a remedy to end so amiable a half dozen doctors i 3 i aay’'s existance, which began last week, going higher at the rate of seven cents in seven ave, continued in sensational man- he board of trade. ! wean there was a a J fn ner on Monday on t When trading {i : wild scramble for wheat, July being the fa- In the cents vorite I. opt 10 had which was two cents ten minutes price ret sixty-three over the closing price of Baturday, bod wanted whe hur- Chi- supply The world must look to that city for its wheat, ¥ at in a } ry fie TY. T CRgo is the reason is that Just now yy ¢ Pe f greatest source of In the elevators are stored of little twenty-six million bushels wheat. There is comparatively grain at other points and except that five mill- wre at New York, there is wheat on the American seaboard. There afloat to foreign kets and millers of the wheat that ion in ste 11441 iiiii the » £1 e the ik : Northwest is stored in country at higher pric- for foreign traders know of the es than it ean be sold here, immense there, but had the mistaken idea that they could quantity of wheat in store wanted it. The Chicago owners of the bushels, however, Id 101 six million ample capital to | for it. ST —— Spring Millinery Opening. Mrs. C. A. Moyer, of Spring Mills, will have her Spring Millinery open- ing on Friday and Saturday, April 30, and May 1. She will have a pretty elegantly trimmed hats for your in- A special effort will be made to please all customers, the display of hats and large of and Trimmings. Hats of all descriptions can be procur- Come and see assori- Flowers ————————— OF Great Benefit, We can be of great benefit to the Waists and Chemisettes, Goods are only sold on their merits i “Mother's Friend” Shirt Waists, MoxtTeoMERY & Co. Merchant Tailors, Bellefonte. ts AAA ———— Ash Heaps as loepreservers The winter ash-pile, even when in- terfered with late in May, will disclose snow in all its wintry genuineness, and shows that coal ashes dumped on snow heaps, is an excellent preserver of the fleecy winter product as well as of ice. A solid drift of snow on the northside of a building, if thickly cov- ered with coal ashes, acts as a non- conductor and snow can be preserved for summer use. Try it, A Good Season. Bomerset maple sugar manufactur- ers anticipate an unusual good season this spring. They claim that protract- ed cold weather, especially where the ground has not been frozen to a depth of more than four or five inches as is the case at present always causes the sap to flow more freely and in larger quanties than a season following a winter noted for its moderate temper- ature, A IM YO (io to C. A. Moyer, Spring Mills, for your merchandise and save from 25 10 50 per cent. of your purchase. Bpying us leaving the train with rod } in hand and basket hanging from op- Mrs. h plate in band stepped from un- halt of posite shoulder, Frank Bradford wit der her door, called a ( and for Cruel the ordeal knew had the pull on us and that her line of attack for been with Why not ask “what luck”, “how many”, with that and proceed- ded on home without being discomfit- ted, caught no trout found ourself badly caught. i us de manded a Hiess had ' ! why make us in that way ? she supper, as she Woman company. face she | left us no room for a ““fish-story” in our basket to i with trout we'd enough share—but 14 ial gallant nil we had to own up. +41 vie { we could have lied a li for while we we lots Going on two farther, who comes out but Yony Deininger, with a “Hello! did you catch my big trout ? Ww hollered “No Yony, your big trout is down in the state hatchery § back, yet, and will get here next spring in a tin can, freight paid—we’re sure he'll | measure all of one and a half inches in ! length.” way | With : gauntlet, this of running the when a feller tries to make an honest living, we think we'll quit { fishing and make public sale of rod, { line and basket ; a free dinner given | but no hucksters allowed on the prem- ISeR, { A visitor gave it as his opinion that | the section of this town as you go to | the station has the flercest breezes in | all creation, and remarked that while { coming up the board-walk the wind { would have blown all the hair from | his head had not a drummer just come | along and with both hands held the | hair down. We wanted to know what | kept the drummer's hair from being | blown off his head ; and he replied an- { other fellow came along and with two | hands held his hair down. So wan- ting to know what kept the hair from | being blown from the head of the third { chap, and he said, “Oh the last fellow | was bald and didn’t need any one to | hold his hair down.” There must be some truth about the | breeziness of the south end of the char- ming burg of ours for a few days after {| Mrs. Laura Bayard called and spent | over an hour to our utmost delight in | the REPORTER'S sanctum sanctorum, { and let out the remark that she would | have been blown clean off the walk | and out of sight, but only her avoirdu- pois prevented such a calamity. ——— i ——— Our better halves say they could not keep house without Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Itis used in more than half the homes in Leeds, Sims Bros, leeds, Towa. This shows the esteem in which that remedy is held where it has been sold for years and is well known. Mothers have learned that there is nothing so good for colds, croup and whooping cough, that it cures these ailments quickly and per manently, and that it is pleasant and safe for children to take. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, and 8. M. Swartz, Tus sey ville, Sommer on a Jump, Friday, Saturday and Sunday were fine days and warm. Summer seemed to have come in on us at one jump. Mouday forenoon a light rain set in, ~You will want a pew suit. * You want it cheap and good, as well as of the latest cut. Lewins, Bellefonte, ean accommodate you in every partic ular, and is bound to please, ~Subscribe for the REPORTER.
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