YOL. LXV]11l BETWEEN FIRES firmation in the Senate. Senators are disposed to favor him be- Blaine. Congress will adjourn GRESS late James (3. for the holi- The Republican Body Shows Its Inability and will probably not meet again be- fore the 6th or 7th of Jan. to do Basiness. ~The Fight McKinley Between and Reed —— Moyele Superstitions Dee. 16.—President to Washington to find that, notwithstanding all the Re- talk public business by absenting Washington, the Congress is in no conditic WASHINGTON, Folks open to the influence of or omens the SU pe rstitions, compiled Journal: “The allows a horse to pass To one signs Cleveland returned should read following list of bicycle neglecting himself Republican publican about his by the Minneapolis wheelman who from him will die before the year is out, mn to act up-| be chased by a yellow dog with on a special message and the corres-| blue eve and ol indicates bad fall, slug we black eve a pondence with Great Britain concern- the Monroe Doctrine, owing to Speaker Reed's in- To see a small with the Lx 'y a ing the maintenance of shot alongside road is a prophecy of a puncture. If you pass a excusable delay in naming the House the Re- President called white horse driven by a red-haired la- Committees. It would serve dy, your rim will split unless you say publicans right if the ‘eajandrum’ and hold up two fingers. The rider juice on the track will the attention of the country to this in- who expectorates tobacco ability of the House to do business, by lose a spoke. sending the correspondence and his | If you take your machine to the repair special message in this week, instead | shop, it is a sign that you will not buy of waiting until after the Christmas do but that He may wish that new t of clothes, Kicking the recess. ‘and he may 80, man who ¢ he make of your wheel isn’t certain. and riches WR to take immediate action after the col ithin a year is the sign of and for | a double donkey. O ipt to hold oman learning to ride respondence is made public, atten that reason may not take ad his opportunity to show Re pu yy criticising his tai Think how ridiculous the made themselves | About This diness, ret SOE Ver structions V ood it The keystone of Secretary irlisle’ r killing a newspaper: Just let your ti hie 111] fi that of subseription g i! a doll y ial 1 v annual repot the fina: it. 3 annual message as mad as greenbacks and top the paper other words, hen go went from \ banking busi- 0 borrow your 1 igl or's,. When Ue governn were in- worth $100 and t need you; thie gover without nmen are very likely to do som LOO eX pen- ing all the same, Usiness slack and Reed would b (‘ongress let the subject But it 1 » < +3 1 tal y baa ll sf, seri} that tarifl jegisiation sisi I } : OT 1 { oved is you omize. Never drop in to see inless you want a free com- thy ol Never the MeKinleyites are s or a leng ittaa- Te red» oanybody. When “Yes, tie sheet, but itdon't amount ative, the front, and it is very ubtiul f ommend the pe t sper whether Mr. Reed will + to openly | vou speak of it always we sav, oppose the idea. the MeKinleyit Keep this up a year ortwo iinet HIE o make a very dd bow on all the other booms in vegint and you will have a dead newspaper, a fight on the Rex HI, dead set of merchants and a dead town. I schange have money to burn, unl ——— them are doing some tall Senatorial Extravaganes, hold r agitation in attacking profited largely by the robbery f the iobb it i cording to the story ere, an Senator Pefler has gotten of a i1e halioy i eye generally believed, some ached to congressional McKinley tariff and who hoy ¢ 10 prof- ut als t i government has cost the it still through a similar aT % % more iargeiy + $20,000 to bury gle senator, cited a sin astite have eon- : ; measure nave Cobh-iand while cases might be in dollars to be t McKinley's! \ Cinl . McKinley justice to put tributed half a million of which it would be well worth the mon- { § i 3 . & 3 % spent in bringing abou s , it is none the less an outrageous in- nomination. Permanent such an the public treasury. The Senate of J ex pense upon headquarters are to be at in Washington for ing McKinley and before Congress, and newspaper bu- once opened the peronse of keen v 3 wae p rj ¥ Of Ke P the i nited States is the most extrava- McKinleyism be- gant body in the world, and its cor rupt and dissolute habits are growing upon it. Senator Peter at last found a useful field of labor. reaus are to be established in all the has large cities for the purpose of working g i up public sentiment in his behalf, a he N ' : ie St Louis Pay of Railroad Mes. had for a while every ticket Ue convention that can be for mon-| According to the report of the rail-| ways of this state to internal af fairs department for the last fiscal year, the total number of employes on | ey is to be bought MeKinley An experienced the shouter. newspaper a large man is to be put in charge of fund which is t ‘pe > impecunious Republican editors that o be used to rsuade”’ the Pennsylvania road is 51,872. Their | ** Leompensation amounted to $39,346,674, i McKinley is the right man to boom in | op, average daily pay of $1.85. There | their papers. In short money is to be | oq 4 falling spent everywhere that it will influence | ee 0 thie votes for McKinley. The deal the Republican made with the Populists could not be kept secret, of Ne- vada, the renegade who off of 25.930 employes | The Philadel | phia and Reading employ 15,520 men, | their total yearly compensation being $7,491,965, an The total number of employes on the | eight largest roads in the state was | now calls himself a Populist, made the | 154 119 the yearly compensation beiug | deal, and he gets the lion's share of : 3 » various roads, Senators average of £1.82 daily. Senator Stewart Republican $76,816,453. the price,—~the chairmanship of the Pacific Railroad's Committee, promises to be one of the most import. A large amount of wheat was stolen ant in the Senate this from the farm of Adam Huunsicker, in Populists will not vote with the Re Bethel Lebanon county, publicans to reorganize the Senate. | yw. farmer Hunsicker examined his That wouid be too hard to explain 101 granary he found a pocket Look con- Fhey will nomi- | taining £20, in money and a check in { favor of a wealthy neighbor for $22 aay and after voting tor them on one bal- | { which had been dropped. This is sup- lot they will go out—to get lunch or | posed to be the first case on record for some other purpose—leaving the | wore a thief was honest enough Republicans free to elect their officers | pay for the wheat he stole, on the next ballot, i ry The free silver Democrats, who ree-| Attending Tostitate, ognize Senator Harris, of Tenn, ns Our school teachers, Ed. J. Wolf, leader, have established national head- Frank Foreman and Miss Helen Bar quarters, in a house near the Capitol | 516mew are attending teachers’ in- stitute at Bellefonte this week, The schools have been closed for two weeks building, from which the movement to elect silver delegates to the Demo- giving the scholars a nice vacation, smi — cratic National Convention willbe di- Oppose It, rected, and where visiting silver Dem- ocrats will be welcomed, Many Senators have received peti-| The practice of clipping horses is be- tions asking them to oppose the con-|jng opposed by farmers and others, and resolutions to this effect are ap- proved heartily when offered in agri. firmation of the nomination of Col, Coppinger, to be a Brigadier General cultural societies of the eastern coun- ties of the state. in the army. The eharge, which it is ssn A understood is brought by the A, P. A, «4 Ibs. nice Mixed Candy, 25c. at which | A Generoos Thief session, The township, their constituents. nate their own officers of the Senate, O to his naturalization papers for about CLEVELAND STANDS FIRM, DECEMBI PENN'S VALLEY | Matter What the Cost | The message which President Cleve- { land sent to congress on in the respondence, expresses in forcible terms his belief that the enunciated to Lord Salisbury Tuesday connection with Venezuelan cor- Monroe doctrine as in secre tary Olney’s dispatch of July last was “Founded upon substantial considera- tion and involved our safety and wel- and that it to our present conditions and was di- rectly related to the versy."! Heexpresses deep disappoin ment that the States fe fure was fully applicable pe nding app al of the for arbitration most friendly feelings nations directly cong to the sense of ju nanimity of one ft the world, and parati should have procues The disput ed such a stage a LO one com sults.’ bent upon the i measures to det accuracy what line between d he ment of a comn Guiana, an stating thi dation | sibility conseqgu ertheless, ous thing t« English jot as being oth petitors in the there Lion iS No on ate was sti eral sen plause the met the heartiest the Senators clapping their giving other evidences of g while the few spectat ies joined in the Appearance f being presiding officer - EE State News Items, valuable hounds to Everett Henderson, of killed by a foxhunt them tog Eleven were ether by a train Crossing. near there before The Decs county © mix wires closed next day § regular term of court ever county. There are twenty lawyers the i id transact all the essential legal business, n pl in summer tn county and two of the and some of ti run 1e marbles and ay barefooted and ne, in the cars. died Harrisburg, ago, aged over 100 years Peggy Castle at The planing mill at Williamsport leased by McGraw Bros. & Co., and & T. M. Rathmell w burned Sunday morning, "= owned by E. entailing a loss of $5000 partly insured. Whaiton Bierley, son of J. 1. of Tylersville, died Sunday night his home in that place. Robert F. Mull, was iy elected cashier of the First National Bank of Philipsburg, died on last Sat. urday afternoon, Bierly, at recent who - » Altoona’'s Water Famine, The water famine is more keenly felt in Altoona today than heretofore. The extensive foundries of the Penn- sylvania railroad are shut down in consequence of the lack of water. The Edison Electric company also compelled to close and other depart ments of the railroad shops will also be compelled to shut down. The se- vere weather freezing up all the streams is the reason of the scarcity of water. was ws AMY YP AB The wife off Mr. DD. Robinson, N. Y., was sick with rheumatism for five months. In speaking of it Mr, Robinson says: “Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is theonly thing that gaves her any rest from pain. Foe the relief of pnin it cannot be beat.” Many very bad cases of rheumatism have been cured by it. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by Wm. Pealer, Spring Mills, 8. M. Swartz, Tusseyville, R. E. Bar tholomew, Centre Hall. A A] ASIII — Raisins, 5c. 1b., Flour, 90c. 50 1b, sack, Silver Prunes 12je. 1b, Clear Toys, 10¢, 1b.~G. O. Benner. fs that Col, Coppinger has only had three years. It is not clear yet wheth-! Benners, Thurston's Blackberry Cordial, for bowel complaint, Krumine's drugstore 1776-NOTES FROM A MINIS- TERS JOURNAL. [IN Extracts from the of a Mioister Who was Journal # Supply Over a Century Ago The History, are fi V. Fithian, Linn he journal ol | £4 visited Bald Eag following extracts, in ia who and Penn's vall July 31, lives fred the eaves r, and of It makes ag bl table thinner, i i“ deeper than other pine. } ex lent ingredient in beer. ‘At ten 1 took my leave, cross y ridge, and rode eight unfrequented fs: Lifes much difficulty. Two or three forsak- en Indian camps indeed I saw on the and a little before sunset | creek bank, arrived at Capt. James Potter's, at th head of found very § ride 1 ii (>t Hol valley, This Penn's uncomfortable; my Ee Jame with but one shoe, a stony road, I lost my way in the gap of the moun- tains, more than ten miles of the way I must go and my poor horse without I let the woods, wi in of him feed, however, there I fed myself on huck- these are water oH re ere i= plenty good wild grass, In leberries, woods spotted with black spots. 1 saw like the hazle, ripens in the winter, like heart cherry. these woods are great plenty of wild and is now 0 “Wednesday, August 2nd. An ele- a neat house, all express. not a flea, not a chineh, as I know of, within eighteen miles, #0 that this morning, by God's merey, I rise, in part recruited from the ruins of many day's distress. Capt, Potter took me walking over his farm. He owns here many thousand acres of fine land, some, indeed, I saw is a most fertile walnut bottom. One great inconvenience, however attends the place, the want of water, Some few springs there are of good water and in plenty. But there ought to be many unfailing brooks. Oats and fiax here are not yet ripe, and there is now the greatest hurry in getting in the wheat and rye. Afternoon I rode down the not charge me anything for shoeing my horse, The people seem to be kind Indian Delore and extremely civil. are here it wakevening We {OO and I returned, camp. Ten sturdy VE were sitting ¢ % Household Treasure : W. Fu RAVE that Canajol an Dy ier, of i ) oa } He AIWaVs Reens New Discovery in the | family has always { results follow ils © be without it, i not Dvk t emian druggist, Cat Dr New is undoubtedly the vest cough r gays that King's that he has used it in his family | never failed to Why not try a remedy so long tried and tested. J. D. Murray's legular size 6c. eight years, and it has Trial bottles free at Drug Store. £1.00, and A ff A Large Deer Quite a number of deer have been Harvey Mann, of Romola, who Killed The legheny mountain a few days ago, and it sport. ed a pair of antlers on which were twenty-three prongs. According to the version of old hunters, this would make the deer about 25 years old, This buck when killed is said to have weighed 238 pounds, which easily en titles Mr. Mann to the belt for eaptur- ing the most venison in one hide up to date the present season, I Musical Conventica in Georges Vailoy. A grand musical convention will be held in the Lutheran church, Georges valley, beginning December 30, under the direction of Prof. P. 8B. Meyer, Concerts will be given Friday and Sat. urday evenings following. No efforts will be spared to make this one of the best conventions of the season, NO. 50 Biante Grange. Williams- G00 delegates met in s FPA TH grange Al About wong them the leading eli iy one out 3s 3 it $ {118 ¢exoeliens f OT en Of Craugy injuring the 0 phs sician be such was of Mr. J. YY. SBehe » Caddo, Ind. Ter, y girl, two with the ex- ok, editor Banner, when of A severe “My doctor, fielice 1 years Age was attack of wife insisted but our of town I Chamberlain's ireatened croup. He says: that I go for the | family physician was out | purchased a bottle Cough Remedy, which relieved her { immediately. I will not be without it in the fature.,” 25 and 50 cent bot- | tles for sale by Wm. Pealer, Spring | Mills, 8. M. Swartz, Tusseyville, R. E. i Bartholomew, Centre Hall. as on i ————— A —— | Did You Ever | Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not, get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine has | been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Female Com-' plaints, exerting a wonderful direct in- fluence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have loss of appe- tite, constipation, headache, fainting spells, or are nervous, sleepless, excita- ble, melancholy or troubled with dizzy spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and strength ape guaranteed by its use. Large bottles only fifty cents at J. D. Murray's Drug
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