3 VOL. LXVIII. CONGRESS OPENS 1895. CENTRE HALL, COUNTY NEWS, Christian Dale, DE. HARTMAN SAYS thereof, Dec. 5, 1764, that PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER and improvements were resumed west | y PENNS VALLEYS! oes | { of the Susquehanna, | WHEN THIS VALLEY WAS FIRST | On the 5th of Aug. 1765, the land-of settlements | We regret to announce the death of | { Christian Dale, of Pleasant Gap, early | | on last Sabbath morning, at his home, Agninst Colds rom all Around, Clipped and Condensed, The First Cold Weather REED WILL BE ELECTED SPEAKER The people of Pinegrove were very In a recent lecture at the OF THE HOUSE. Noticeable of Fought for Years in the Democratic Ranks. Absence WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. ~The noticeable thing about the opening of Congress, to a Democrat, was the ab- most the absentees in the fo# years fought party. Among in the has been succeeded by Tillman; Hunton, of Va., whose sue- cessor is Martin, a Democrat: McPherson, of N. J. Republican, and Ransom, of N. whose successor is a Populist, is in the House that the hole Democratic ranks is the good But it in the biggest, without the names of such veterans in Congressional harness as Holman Kilgore, of Texas: Hatch of Mo.; Outhwaite, of O.: of others who have won honors and scars battling for Democratic prinei- | ples, Ex-Speaker Crisp will, of course be | the leader of the Democrats of the] House during the present session, the | man who will call down Czar Reed every time he attempts to trample on the rights of the minority. There has | been no thought among Democrats that this would be otherwise, shown by the votes of the Democratic | The | stories about the administration desir- | had their to add | to the unfortunate differences already | and Heard, | and a score | | i ¢ i i | caucus—all cast for Mr. Crisp. ing another man for leader origin with those who wished existing in the Democratic party b: making it appear that President Cleve- land was demanding that no silver | i | It is needless to say to any intelligent Democrat that President never thought of such a thing as d any man should be given a post of honor. | Cleveland | je- | tating to or interfering with the Democrats in the House, Representative Otey, of Va., in way has a scheme that will injure no one and] ex-Confed- | ber } th may greatly benefit needy soldiers if it through. In the Treasury accumulation of during and directly after the wa want of evidence to erate can carried | ere is an money sequestered » i for show its it prop r owners, amounting to about $25.000.- 000. Inasmuch as this money belongs in the south and that its rightful own- ers will probably never be found, Mr. L bill t get iat the Otey proposes to try to a through Congress, providing ti interest of this money shall be distrib- | uted among needy ex-Confederate sol- diers, and that when they no longer | need such aid the principal shall re-| vert to the government to be used any other money by gress. In order to avoid any charge of | partisanship, even by implication, Mr. | Otey proposes having the bill intro-| duced by a Republican, if he can get one to do it. The calm which now prevailsamong | the Republicans of the House is as om- inous in its way as that which pre- cedes a storm at sea. To the inexpe- | rienced onlooker, Speaker Reed is a Czar indeed. But there why everything seems to be going Mr. | Reed’s way among his party colleagues | in the House. He hasn't announced the committee assignments. Until he does the calm is likely to last: all of the Republicans want to get as good committee places as they can. But after the assignments are announced the disappointed ones will be numer- ous and Mr. Reed cannot let them down easy by saying that he was bound by promises made before his election to disappoint them, as his friends have for weeks been making a special point of claiming that he would speaker without having made a single | promise and that he was free to ar- | range the committees just as he want- | ed them. Therefore every disappoint. ed man will know just who to hold re- sponsible. It is charged also that Mr. Reed took a hand in naming the mi- nor officers of the House who were elected today, which made him some more enemies in his own party. On the whole the outlook for him ean hardly be considered a pleasant one. President Cleveland's message was ready to go in today, but, as has often been done at the assembling of a new Congress, it was held back to give the House a chance to organize and will go in tomorrow, Becretary Hoke Smith has gone to Atlanta, where he will, by speciai in. vitation, deliver a financial address before the Ga. legislature. He is ex- pected to return to Washington this week, as | i { ‘On | provided is a reason become a ~Lyon & Co. have made a still fur- ther reduction io ali lines, They pub- lish their prices, and you get the same { Mr. Dale was one of the most estima- | ble citizens of this county, without an enemy, a Christian gentleman, and useful in the all the walks of life. He which would He was a de-| la wrong deed or that grieve a fellow mortal. i : { voted and life-long meniber of the Lu- | | i | } i i { i theran church, active in all church | | | work, liberal in contributing to its] support and one of the kindest of | What a blessed tribute to | leparted one! His esteemed wife died several years | They leave no children, except | an adopted daughter, Mrs. Blanche, | wife of Siney Hoy, who occupies the | the deceased | interment | wmestead where The tery on Wednesday forenoon, a large | concourse of friends and relatives ac- | anying the remains to their last His age was about 60 | His health the | past few years, quick consumption set | became delicate in in, altho he was in Philadelphia sev- | eral times for treatment, he found no relief, and the grim messenger over- | took him. He was an original member of the | or =e ange but liberal in his views which gained him much respect ; he was sec- | retary of the patrons’ fire insurance | company for many He was a veteran of the late war, having | years, also served all thro the campaign and risen | from the ranks of company H, 49 P. V., to its captaincy at the close of the | struggle. He was a prominent mems- | ber of the Grand Army of the Repub- | the Veteran League. tic and also of He is survived by a number of broth- | prominent members of the Bellefonte | In his demise the editor of the | a mourns the leperter”’ ished friend. - » Barn Barned, | the | the between o'clock Wednesday morning hours of three and four carriage sheds on the Abram Elder! farm, half mile of Stormstown, | to round their contents, 1 enst the g was burned with all together farm ’t “ he ist n now occu pied Walker. Tuesday Mr. Walker and his men threshed out of and it curled up in smoke together with the by Isaac five hundred bushels oats thresher, All his farming implements ed, suffered in Two horses and four calves also! 4 the flames. Itisnotknown how the fire originated. as it seemed to have caught near one of the fe eding { if FOOMS, — (foe —— Hogs Stolen, Last Democrat, Mr, Austin Dale, of Spring | twp., had which would weigh at x0 | two hogs stolen that pounds each. Trace of the hogs was | gotten, and last week Mr. Dale went | i i to Snowshoe and identified the hogs. | 3 i time about i The man in whose possession they chased them, for $13. He had fattened | them and was going to butcher them | The | thief is known but has not yet been arrested. A —————— A New Health Law Jy an act passed by the last legisla- ture and approved the 18th day of June, it is made unlawful for anyone, but near adult relatives, to attend the funeral of any person who has died of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, ty- phus fever, diphtheria, diphtheria croup, membraneous croup or leprosy. In addition to the immediate adult relatives of the deceased, a sufficient number of pall bearers may be in at tendance. Bt ims sss Cattle Theft, Nine head of cattle were stolen from the farm of Sprankle Bros., near Ty- rone, a few days ago. Detective Barr got on the trail and soon learned that they had been sold to a butcher in a neighboring town. It cost the butch- er $500 for buying the cattle, AS A os -~ Suicide Near Lewistown. H. D. Musser, truck farmer, commit. ted suicide by hanging himself to a rafter in the garret of his home. Fi. nancial troubles and the insanity of his wife are said to be the cause. He was a native of Lancaster county, ————————— A ronson. ~~Although all lines of clothing and dry goods have advanced in prices, the customers of Lyon & Co., Belle fonte never are aware of the fact. In the face of the advance a big reduc tion has been made in dry clothing and shoes. See their price list on page five, : AA — A A AABN at their store. ~Subscribefor the REPORTRE, $1.60 | death of H. M. Meek, who had been living in Altoona for the last few years, He formerly was a citizen of Ferguson He leaves a wife and four chil dren to mourn their loss, the children are all married, and daughter living in Altoona, namely, David, Bigler and Mrs. Lilla Gillaford and Mrs, George Miller, Pinegrove, a stroke of Interment made at Altoona, Sunday, 24. Two sons one living near His death was caused by paralysis, was D. F. Fortney, esq., is taking quite a A i i meeting of the School Directors Asso- ciation of Centre county, on Thursday the 19, institute topics and timely matters will be dis- week, [mportant David Burrell, of Spring Mills, ex- pects to move to Centre Hall, He landlord is the father-in-law of our next The Boalsburg Modoc hunters came back from their Stone creek hunt with no deer, the fate of most hunting par- ties this fall. Capt. James P. Bmith, of Co. C., 40 P. V. L., died at his home in Roslyn, Washington, on Oct. 7, aged about years. He was born near Potters bank. and served during the war. wounded twice. being th Bishop MeGovern Speaks In all the Catholic churches of Har- the dis a dispateeh risburg and in other parts of cese last Saturday, says from Harrisburg, a letter was read from he sail He calls hem deadly microbes and SAVE: { ! haps not twenty per cent. Bishop McGovern, in which t “Outside the Catholic if our » NM young men are consistent members BOs, { ‘hristiag anchorage against If these seCret the purely secular education, lelity, political are legitimate offspring as he 5 by taugt in inference the fact of ur i N wr public schools, and t i nearly two generations oO youth have grown up under its influ. di nce, then it is time for all true Chris. osterity the blessings of civil and eligious liberty to remove the impend- which our ional life with premature dec ay. threaten a- § hristianity, the true light which en- ighteneth the world, is worth pre- Secular and Christina to form the 1 must go manners, A» He Catches 8 Deer One day last week Harry Shirk, tout boy, captured a doe, about a year id, in a field about 40 rods from the three The animal evident- a about dogs, and reaching the Shirk premises nearly ex- hausted, Harry spied the deer and set his own doglon it which fastened to the was captured alive and is now kept in On one of its hindquarters it bears a scar as if from a former cruel rifle shot. A Clearfield County Owl Story In July 1860, Jacob M. Smith, a far- | mer living a few miles from Penfield, ly post to catch an owl that was carrying The next morning | the staple was broken off and the trap was gone. On Thanksgiving night this year Smith set another trap and at 7 o'clock he found in it a large owl. When he killed it he discovered his other trap and chain fast to its left leg, the bird having carried them for over five years. The owl measured four and one-half feet from tip to tip of wings. e———————— A New Industry, Wm. Colyer’'s new building, erected near the railroad station within the past six weeks, is nearing completion, and will serve for a steam saw-mill, planing mill and stave factory, likely to afford employment for a number of hands, Mr. Colyer has purchased 100 acres of timberland from Mrs, Gov. Curtin’s farm about 1} miles east of this place, for $4000, which he intends to have cut out and logs brot to this mill to be manufactured into lumber. hE cH tae, A ———— ~-A new overcoat will be needed for this cold weather, you will want to keep warm, and that can easily be done by making your purchases at Lewins, Bellefonte, He has every DISCOVERED. Linn's History Describes the Occasion When a White Man First Sets Eyes on this Beautiful District Among the Potter papers 1 Oct. 8, 1882, a paper in the handwrit- and or | on the west side of the { the 6th of Aug. 1766, i { lands on the west side, river, it was i the | terms as for those on the east side. on HAT more than three hundred acres could be applied for by any one withou | evaded by applications in the Murgical Hotel Dr. Hartman is reported as say- ing that no one need catch cold if he slight willing ii ¥ attention by date, but from its reference Justice Tilghman, must have heen of the W. H. Potter’ then tradition of the first entry white man into Penn's valley, Patterson was one of Judge first clerks at Potter's Mills. Alluding to Chief Justice Tilghman, of the Agricultural the valley, and prefacing the 1 Mr. lent f a notice which as presi Society takes o emark events which that a narrative of the led to the discovery of Penns valley would be interesting, he = AVS, James Potter was a man of strong and penetrating mind, and one early habits rendered a life Nature had given him a powerful and athletic toil, and enterprise familiar. . rd : frame of body, with ! AIRS Bi the might well give As an ial army, engaged in he tis} de- +} officer of the frame, Provine fense of the frontier, conceived natural idea that, which on ever of mountains « return from £ } t be his view on hi there mus a fine country. I Augusta, y to be to bh ning, After be (FRE LI rt rior Ors ing ordered to discov- Havin lea of a fine eountr ered again returned itn. obits he wd snmmer West with wiih the vear | Branch EK Hilies, ale Creek, & hen ing reached th 2 § FP and noble forest api. out to his Thompson, Immedis any ied Beaver's skin was With t he face, Capt Al scraped from a dr their only subsistence. siarva- tion staring them in striking through nd Potter determined on the m for | ouniains for ort by good fortune happen Augusta, an don a creek, Jol Was or » i to which they gave 0 i is i i ittle dreaming ich entered the Bus Penn's Creek, ] the same creek wh Isle of Que, Known as P the they arrived where provisions could be had, and finally reached Fort Au- Capt. Potter and his compan- quehanna at the 1 Penn's Creek. ursuing siream, gusia. ion communicated their discovery, and it 80 happened that Indian, Job Chilloway, was at the fort on their ar- an rival. Learning that they had been in the valley, and determining that if it must be lost to the Indians he at goes to Col. Hunter and sells to him the right of discovery. Col, makes speed to Philadelphia and sells his right to Haines. In the mean time Potter hurries to etuben Capt. On this we remark that it is true that Capt. Potter was on the 2d of Oct. 1754, in command of three companies alluded to in Fithian's Journal page 17, post. But we are satisfied the dis covery was in 1759, just after the pur- chase of 1758, when Potter was at Bed- ford and had been just promoted cap- tain of Wm. Thompson's company, Capt. Thompson having resigned, and that Capt. Thompson was his compan- ion. The tradition is that Haines and Potter compromised, Haines taking the eastern end of Penn's valley up to Spring Mills, and Potter from there up. Certain it is that one of Potter's first warrants of Aug. 1, 1766, was laid on the farm late Gen. George Buchan- an’'s just south of Penn Hall, That the discovery was made in 1759, or at least before 1764, is decid by the fact that the warrant of reser- vation of the manor of Nottingham, west of the fort is dated Dee, 16, 1763, and is necurately described as near the ‘Indian path from the head of Penn's ereek to old Frankstown. All of Penn’s valley was within the purchase line of 1768, but it was not until after Col. Henry Bouquet had dictated his own terms of pence to the subdued Delawares and Bhawanese, on the banks of the Muskingum, on the 14th of Nov. 1764, and Lieutenant- Fo fit subsequently conveyed their rig the person paying the purchase Morris, f ‘ ’i ey. Baynton, Wharton, and i for instance, used the names « hielr vedores, and clerks. KRllors, ste Their instructions required the for " the § uly surveyors to suryve y the honorable the ] tenth of all the land sur of proprietary opri Aries hundred out y five every These Heres selected and surveyed n y thie legal sury “Manor fr direction ingi valley was made under Ae eput) tember, 1766, deseribe I of Ps Ii 0's creek, above 3 1 ciay, aeputy survevo of Nep head al spring and northwest thereof. Manor o¥ Buoeryri.—This 14 for s ity wd : Cli i § #i! 1 slood mit his manor contained 1037 was held by the Penns until t . thre they divided it into iF | ed a white oak for northwest Land odd purpart; No. 1 on ti west, 3 next Vantries and h' «4, 1704, to Jacob Straub, Jd No. 2, Feb. 7, 1794, to Micha Jack and Wm. Young, 34 acres 1 perches; and No. 3, next to Odenkirk's. April 16, 1794, to Gerardus Wyn- In 1794 the road | Huntingdon ran along the southern Cringeri ® 134 15851, COOP. Sunbury | boundary of the manor. The manor {in 1766 is described as being “near the 1 | Penn's creek to Frankstown.” | manor is w holly within Potter town- | ship, commencing near the | house west of the Fort hotel, bounded on the south by the public road to Joalsburg, and embraces Dr. W. 1. | Wilson's second farm, Maj. Wm. F. Reynolds, and all the farms thence up { to and including George Boal’s, Leon- ard Rhone’s and E. Keller's. The southwest white oak is still standing. The last survey made under the pur- chase of 1754 confirmed in 1658, was | the “Matthew Troy,” surveyed Sept. 28, 1768, by Samuel Maclay, patented March 9, 1793, to Henry Falls and Fergus Potter, embracing now the Joshua Potter farm, Leech's ete., and Harris township. milton Electric Bitters, Electric bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more gens erally needed in the spring, when the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fa- tal bilious fevers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, indigestion, con- stipation, dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. Only fifty cents per bottle at J. D. Murray's Drug store, SMH AB. As an emergency medicine, Ayers Cherry Pectoral takes the lead of all other remedies. For the relief and cure of croup, whooping cough, sore throat, and the dangerous pulmonary troubles to which the young are so 1i- school thing in the clothing line, Governor John Penn's proclamation able, it is invaluable, being prompt to act, sure to cure. many vears, to be {night and day, and steamboat, mught a Deen done wi iAve £44 A 4 1 Lie HVE, Lo on. a Ha a few doses HY checks it. T bid iii $200.00 in Gold Gilven, Balti yer re y of the pre- amiassion., other es for Xmas holidays. Wf Write them immediately. — — A New Legal Tender. IE. OST ng pecially A young 0 a Mifflintown store. . 3 1 WE i. Var ng lady st per I'he you for a would was abashed she cloth and handed moment and replied that The yedd up Tair 2 t see ¥ fair purchaser who {take four yards, cut | off, nicely wrapj to ie received it with “Send the bill around to my grandmother, she will 4 1 be smile and gaid : a | settle i i — By Local Bits of Interest, This faii’s rains, up to has Monday last, and softened | the ground deep enough to aid plow- | ing but did not cause but a slight rise | in streams, and not helped the springs any. helped the cisterns | Rev. Rearick on last Sabbath after | noon treated the juveniles of the Sab- | bath school to an illustrated lecture {on the ways of Satan in binding his victims to prevent them from doing good, Living Associate Judges, At the Centre County bar meeting over the death of Judge Rich, Judge Furst, in an admirable address, named the living ex-associate Judges as fol- lows: Hon. Samuel Frank, of Rebers- burg ; Hon. Chester Munson, of Phil. ipsburg ; and Hon. Thomas F. Riley, of Boalsburg. The ex-president Judg- ges are Hon. Charles Mayer, of Lock Haven, Hon. J. B. M'Eunally, of Clear- field, aud Hon. A. O. Furst, of Belle fonte, i The wife of Mr. D. Robinson, a prominent lumberman of Hartwick, N.Y, was sick with rheumatism for five months. In speaking of it Mr. Robinson says: “Chamberlain's Pain Balm is the only thing that gave her any rest from pain. For the relief of pain it cannot be beat.” Many very bad cases of rheumatism have been cured by it. For sale at 50 cents per
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