VOL. LXXI. NO. 1 WASHINGTON LETTER. ————— A LITTLE SURPRISE IN STORE FOR THE MAJORITY. No Farther Miuquerading Will be Allowed on the Financial Question.—-The Sen- timent on Pensions, WasniNaTOoN, Jan. 38rd.—Senator Teller has a little surprise that he in- tends to spring on those Republicans who, although pretending to be bimet- allists, are doing nothing to counter | act the effect of Secretary Gage's ef- forts to have the entire world believe that Mr, McKinley and the Republi- can party stand for gold mono-metal- lism, Senator Teller believes that there should be no further masquerad- ing on the financial question; that the constituents of every Senator have a right to know to a certainty whether he favors bimetallism or gold mono- metallism, and that his little surprise, | in the shape of a resolution he intends offering and pressing until a record vote is taken on it, will do the trick. | This resolution did not originate with Senator Teller, but was written by the late Stanley Matthews, a Rapublican Senator from Ohio, and was adopted by Republican votes in the Senate in 1878. It declares that “all the bonds of the United States, issued or author- ized to be issued, (under the refunding | act of 1870, the act to provide for the | resumption of specie payments, ete.) | are payable, principal and interest, at | the opinion of the Government of the U. 8, containing 412} grains each of | standard silver; and that to restore to | its coinage such silver coins as a legal | tender in payment of said bonds, prin- | cipal and interest, is not a violation of | the public faith, nor in derogation of | the rights of the public creditor.” Reckless assertions have been made | concerning alleged changes among | Senators on the silver question. that reason, if f For | Senator In addi- | would-be i resolution | wr no other, one, the this Teller’s idea is a good tion to smoking out straddlers, a vote on will Gage and his goldbug assistants in and | out of Conguess, of the hopelessness of | their efforts to secure from this Con- gress legislation authorizing the issue of gold bouds for the funding of our | public debt, or for any other purpose, | doubtless convince Secretary in a position to get a new batch of troub- i The administration has put itself le, by meddling in the contest amoung the Maryland Republicans the election of Senator Gorman’s success- or. It was supposed that when the administration ascertained that it | could not force the election of Post. master General Gary to the Senate. it had dropped out and decided to allow the Maryland Republicans to choose their own Senator, but that was only a supposition. Within the last three or four days the administration has | openly shown its advocacy of Judge MeComas for the Senate, and has com- | pelled Gov. Lowndes to withdraw in | favor of McComas, | Ex-Pension Commissioner Murphy, is opposed to the publication of the | entire pension roll by the gevernment, | over because of the large expense, but he | thinks it would be productive of good | results to furnish the newspapers with { the complete list of all pensioners | within the radius of their circulating. When Mr. Murphy was in charge of the office, all newspapers that applied | for lists of pensioners in their lo-| calities were promptly accommodated. The Republicans are doing more | crowing over the small surplus shown | by the Government receipts and ex- penditures for the month of Decem- | ber, than they will over the big deficit that January will certainly show. Mr. Dingley has taken advantage of the situation to issue a rosy statement in which he easily makes it appear,—on paper—that the deficiency of $44,000, - 000, for the first half of the current fis- cal year will not be increased during the last half, upon which the country has just entered, as though that was something of which he and his party had a right to be justly proud. What would the stockholders of a big busi- ness corporation think of a manage ment that reported a loss of $44,000, 000 in six months and only promised that the next six months should not increase the loss ? They would prob- ably change the management as quick as they could, just as the people intend to do as soon as they get an opportu- nity to cast their ballots against the present mismanagers of our affairs, The Democrat who isn’t pleased with the political outlook, must be hard to please. The issue of this year's Congressional campaign and of the campaign of 1000 has been made and the argument furnished upon which it will be won by the Democrats by this administration, which after going through the farce of sending three em- inent bimétallists to Europe as a Com- mission for the alleged purpose of se- curing the consent of European gov- does not even wait until the members of that commission have officially re- ported, before it announces to all the world, through its financial spokes- man, Secretary Gage, that it doesn’t want bimetallism at all, either nation- al or international, only gold mono- metallism, Many Lawyers ln Congress. The preponderance of lawyers is espe- cially heavy in the membership of the present Congress, says the St. Louis Republic. Of the 89 memoyers of the Senate 60 are lawyers of more or less experience and renown. Of the 358 men who now sit in the House 245 are members of the bar, members choosing lawmakers, and it more flourishing in this cotintry than in any other of the world. Nor of its laws as does this, The parlia- ments of Kurope are not now, and, Old Laborers, driv- in the ery department of activity, artisans, musicians, artists, cab ers, men skilled professions abound in the parliaments and unskilled we do not hear that the laws of Eu- than in the United States. cf cm —— A Leadiog Dally The Pittsburg Dispatch i+ one of the leading dailies of the country, and for the coming year promises to maintain T has a complete cable servie Dispatch +, with ics of vital insportance, its special correspondents in the world, to chronicle all important events, early and accurately, SOLDIERS WIDOWS. A Measure to Protect Uncle Sam from Be, ing Defrunded, Senator Gallinger, chairman of the senate committee on pensions, acting on the recommendation of the commis- sioner of pensions, endorsed by the sec- retary of the interior, has presented a bill intended to protect old pension drawing soldiers, and also the govern- ment from designs of wily young wo- men who marry these pensioners of ing heir to the paternal care of Un- cle Sam. ing the war, or married soldiers dur- ing or soon after the war, are entitled to the kindest care and protection the country can afford, but not so the wo- men who now marry pensioned veter- in view of By an act passed March 3, 1873, the were increased that amount, such increase not to apply to They act- cur in 15898 The Dispatch will main- tain its independent stand the held the Conclave of the Knights Pittsburg b patch. year will be Triennial efforts of The y the teresting volume of information illustration fit { ‘arpenter, and for any Dispatch correspondent, will exploring tour, 25,000 miles in extent, through South America, both andl darkest will : Hone the be worth In June 1890, a law was passed giv- ing pensions to ineapacitated soldiers and dependent widows of soldiers, act. There are over 4,000 pensioners 1500, and only a limited he benefits and enjoyments to 801} balked but the nation A their will benefit grateful in coun- gener vie- he struggle for freedom, but 1 an easy prey to dishon- Bp apm - Gold Output of the World, mation now at hand says that there is that product of gold for the calendar year approximate, if substantial evidence the world's not exceed, The gold product Was $53.- 100.006 © for 1897 £61.500 000. ' it will approximate of Africa fo or 1887 The product r 1806 was it is estimated &e., are pleasing features with all Dis- patch readers, pure in tone and charm- Address, The Dis- ingly conducted. tt cin Take Silve Would Gilad) Now, We don’t y do hear them from one about pint and the western limits of the State, signee of one broken ban! assignee of another has given notice The three-cent institu- of con- on the dollar. tion had deposits to the amount $400,000, and both of the busted cerns were run by “sound mney,” ali- “honest dollar” McKialey men. “dishonest” silver dollars in exchange for their claims, dollar for dollar. sn A—— A — Recent Union County Deaths. In Montandon, Cyrus Murray, aged about 75 years, In New Columbia, Mrs. Mary Chap- pell, aged 81 years, In Lewisburg, Mrs. Elizabeth Sny- der, aged 83 years. Near Kreamer, Snyder county, Mrs, Mary Benfer aged 74 years, — i flo i Broke an Arm, A little 8-year old son of H. D. Ross man of near Penn eave, while playing on a sled with a dog, fell over the sled breaking his left arm above the elbow. There is no medicine in the world equal to Chamberlain's Cough Reme- dy for the cure of thros} and lung dis- eases. Thisis a fact that has been proven in numberless cases. Here is a sample of thousands of letters received : “I have tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy while suffering from a severe throat trouble, and found immediate and effective relief. I can unhesitat- ingly recommend it."—/poER W. Wairresore, Editor Grind Rivera (Ky.) Herald. For sale by 1, H, Ross, Linden Hall, 8. M. Swariz, ville, F. _ ernments winterpstionsl AE) iF x ill Australasia for 1806, 845 1597 the indications are that it w £51,000. 000, Mexico for 1894, £8 530.000 . it is estimated at $10,080 000 Canada for 1506, $2 800.000 © it iz esti. 7 mated for 1897 at $7,500 000. $7,500,000, an increase of $1,400,000 over 1 R66. tussia’'s gold product for 1896 was =, 000 000, are that Colorado will lead in the pro- ably $19,000,000, With the exception of the Btates of the South Appalach- ian raage, it is believed that there will be an increase in every gold producing State and Territory. ET THE GREAT PRESS ALMANAC An Encyclopaedia of Useful Information Which Everybody Should Have The Philadelphia Press Almanac for 1898 is not only worthy of the great newspaper whose name it bears, but is fully the equal in most respects, and in some the superior, of the nation’s foremost almanac publications. It is a well printed volume of over 500 pag- es, and contains information on all topics which the student, the profes- sional man, or the workman can pos- sibly desire to consult, It will be es- pecially interesting, because of its lo- cal statistics, to every resident of Penn- sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Special attention has been given to matters of vital importance to the farming and agricultural interests, The Philadelphia Press Almanac is, in brief, a comprehensive and exact stp- plement to the great encyclopaedias and dictionaries of the country, bring- ing their wealth of information up to date. It will answer any question in the scope of an almanac, which may be placed before it. Its low price, 25 cents, renders it indispensable to all, Married, At the Lutheran parsonage, Centre Hall, Jan. 5th, by Rev. J. M. Rearick Mr. Jusper A. Wagner and Miss Cath arine E. Lingle, both of Georges vai- » Were united ig lage ' NEW TELEPHONE LINE. THE MILLHEIM COMPANY TO COV ER THE COUNTY. ! Work to Begin on the New Line April Ist and in Uperation by July A Canvas Made In Different Towns, of was in | W. L. Goodhart, secretary the | Millheim telephone company, town a few days ago making a canvass among business men for the introduc- {tion of the 'phones of his new compa- | ny. He met with we understand he made contracts for nine instruments in the town. It [the intention to extend the line [through to Bellefonte where sufficient | encouragement was met with to estab. success here, and Ix About seve nty-five It is intended to begin work on the line {lish an exchange. contracts were made in Bellefonte, about April 1st, and have it completed about July 1st. Bellefonte the lines will county, with the likelihood of anot All scribers will be given long distance in- From Lhe her be extended all over exchange at State College, sti b- {struments and the lines to be of metal- The subscribers the of {through Union, Snyder and Northum- Will Also [lie circuit, the given privilege the lines | berland counties free from tolls, touch- ing Lewisburg, Milton, | mokin, Middleburg, { Mount Carmel, aud other points rate offered is $2.00 per month. Sunbury = linsgrov ©, I'he wer Bo ny - A Play In Words A tall girl named Short long loved a big Mr. Little. Little, of Bhort, loved a little Long. Little proposed to little thinking inss named To make a long st sho Long rt Little’ eeting Long lf { longed to be even with s short- Short | threatened to marry Little before { which caused Little in a short marry Long. Query: Did tall love big Little less because Little love In Comings. NO long. to tim Lite Long ? — > - COBURN A Breezy Letter Point With from this Mach of Interest Have you all turned a new leaf We are not dead, only intervals, Ephriam silent Jartholomew rep on the sick list. in A happy and prosperous New to the REPORTER and its patrons, ¢ «A iriends The teachers’ local institate whi was to be held at Millheim on the 71 and 8th of Jan., to James Burd and daughter Bessie. near many friends at this place Alvin i State ( ollege, spent failed materialize, Lewisburg, called 1 0 1po last i Eisenhuth and family, over a week in| this vicinity visiting friends and rela fives, A series of meetings were commene- | ed at Paradise church on levening, Rev. Brown, | Mills circuit officiating. Mr. Keister, of Lamar, Pa., and his | newly wedded wife, spent a few days | A. J last the Sunday f ing | Of spring | at the home of the lady's father, { Campbell, at this place. | Charles Weiser, | Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, a student in the | spent his vacation of two weeks at! | home with his mother Hiram King, the gentleman { will occupy the hotel at this place in | the spring, was here a few days look- y Dear this place, who | ing up his business in that direction Last week one evening, a party of | | young people to the number of twenty- | | two, had a sleighing party to the Los. | pitable home of J. W. Kerstetter. That | they had a good time goes without say- | ing. i A. J. Campbell came up from Sha-| mokin the day before Christmas, and spent the holidays with his family at | this place, and departed for his field of labor, on Tuesday morning of this | week, | The members of Trinity Y. P. 8. C. E. are observing the week of prayer in the Lutheran church. Their meet- ings should have the encouragement of all church going people, regardless of sect, The protracted meeting conducted by the U. Ev. congregation at this place, Rev. Lohr pastor, closed last Thursday evening with about a dozen converts, and several accessions to church membership. The fall of the beautiful on last Fri. day made merry the hearts of many « young swain. For now the merry jin- gle of the bells is heard everywhere, as they scud along over the snow with their best girls by their side. Reuben Boyer, the retired merchant, will move his family to Colyer, this county, some time in February and will engage in the mercantile business at that place, in the room formerly oo- cupied by Mr. Crawford. The entertainment given by the members of the Reformed Sunday school on Sunday evening, Dec. 26, was a grand hit. The children acquit i ted themmlyws very creditably by reo- i i : | dering their parts in a very able man- | LOCAL ITEMS, ner. —— | Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest Jacob Lee, the accommodating and i from Everywhere. last year has been employed in the sta- | THE NEW YEAR, i | Here's a Happy New Year! He left for | Sunshine in the sky. | Join the throng | And swell the song, Kreider W. has ac- | Stover That comes a-floatin’ by. Wear a smile fur strangers Welcome all yer kin Harter, the! of the i On Tuesday James FE. new merchant, took charge Carve the roast And give a toast eas. 4 To folks that happens in and removed the same to the building | on the corner owned by M. D. Rockey. | After he has his goods on the shelves Wish we all may prosper Iu whate'er we do. An’ Ef each’l] just mist we he no doubt will be pleased to have his friends call upon him and get prices. Ww. vacated owned by D. Croll, of Ashley, Pa., which he oceu- . felp the others L} Merchant J. Glasgow, Help th al Siar the store room (reorge To-day the sky indi BROW, pied for about ten years, and removed hi i & FON good . : Chicago is wheat 5 to his own spacious building Mr. most convenient people ¢ for slaughter in prices as Jimmy is . . . oh market, on the first of the vear. Glasgow . Ohio is steams the Han- now has the room in 3 na and anti-Hau town, and now the n look sch out rap, Das bound to win. coo oa ———— SPRING MILLS, py. of Neighboring Burg London, What Has Our . . Interest . : Canada, cau Oeearred in gout 3 ‘ ‘ + a few days ag Sleighing and moonlight nights ” well te ore EO wether, of course ovseler = 1ppers and dancing parties are now in order. Commercial agents have been scarce for the last week or ten days: all home no d mbt, holiday te invoicing stock and ing up profit and loss, Last week a few trimmings ir A ignited from a store window of merchant C Moy- illage, lamp ma The flames were dur- BOON €eX- tinguished-—damage trifling. The snow storm of ast was Travel Friday | . thi ¢ with deep LEAS quite severe down Way. a make ope to foroe a dr here was about a foot es it was difficult passage way through the drifts. BOW y #1iny's deep un followed Harry Frankenberger. of our ways Lo be clo man of ay an was ad- } B.C. Ad. m, a few iis chick- January Tanus, postmaster to Wm. cient Rom P. (ded t valuable ng rare abilities, formerly Cierg i#tat and assistan Pealer, is now en » the Ron gaged with CC F. will prove a lover ered Runkle, of P rly of this village, died His * to his mother’ in remains : Coburn, iZzht “ 1 ng and Mif- 3 ri and on the . : at terred in the cemetery ne hia} 'h . le, esq., © bell ite, Archibald Allison, Eq. ne of out . : . 3 appoit receiver of the Pennsylva- of Was venerable and highly dined Mr 7808, with the family of his son- Allon Mrs. Juno. Condo, at , on Christmas. Mr. A hat the occasion was a in-law, and » i= county, ison remarked t cars, have most delightful one, number James Leitzell, Jr., one of our active zens, might now be called the great Si ing ia the county good ex- He | cept where snow drifts interfere, and | the lovers making Aid ‘medicine man’ of Penns valley. is selling the ingredients for a com- good use of the pound said to be a sovereign reme ly f that to, for all the ills flesh is heir One Centre Hall vo tells the Some say it even cures hams. with , and out | Reporter he hailed 8 The bright pages of the Rerorten were ut [the * liversally missed last week. We | or these five hit ap- | pearance, and always finding in its | gi to suit My-Christmas-GG i the mia 3 » {go its weekly This Christmas was enough and brings wait all | s toatl i slligoanoe 1e latest intelligence from see whet Pn quarters, that a single omission of an a op a Easter I 8 greed SAaster, issue is a loss we keenly feel: of course | Have vour publ printed . i ave you PUBIC sxe “ Wi € i= loing first the editor and compositors mus ave | . 2 : 1 pe tor m 151 have | at the Reporter offi stp- a day off too, on holidays, like every. | it 3 ‘ . : . : . i plied with every facility body else, so we'll not complain, but |’, tle ® Cillss WOrs A i ym ped the Keh al reasonabis prices, has been issued to Haven Town as, illegal gh funds being y mandamus Year. Politics in this neighborhood is re- markably quiet, Council to produc r bo and the atmosphere f singularly free from political electrici- ty, notwithstandiag it issaid the Re- publican machine in Bellefonte, has a | i PO slate already “doctored up” for the 1» - % ., (Centre Hallat 7 p. m rank and file to swallow, of course its l church at 10 2. m ; : i church at 10 a, a trifle early for any special racket, but butch 5 ! ; iC ch atl < p.m. its generally understood, that both | ,, : , ' : ” {| Centre Hall bids fair i» havea giant parties are sick and tired of machine |, James Sand 18 va 1d and boss rule, and will use every means naa Hogs in th : ! ar oi fair or foul, to overthrow the incubus. [80d his length is already 6 fost inch, Naturally, lively times are ahead. with youth eaough to 3 inches Christmas and New Year day were more in prospect, celebrated here in about the usual man- . : > ner. Presents exchanged, royal din- Young Leiter, the new wh oat boss of . % ? ® gE z pegs Fy 5 ners enjoyed, and of course the little | Chicago, sold his 7,500 000 ! ushels of folks were made happy with candies wheat to several partios s* Slo—the and toys from the great store house of greatest wheat deal record. His profits were about $1,500,000 Santa Claus. All our stores were open In Zurich, Bwitzerland, Dr. Schilat- from daylight ‘til midnight, our mer- chants not yet having learned the up- ter some three months age removed an ailing woman's stomach entirely to-date rules adopted by nearly every village and town in the state, of clos and joined the esophegus 10 the in- testine leading from ti.e stoniach. The ing their stores at noon on all holidays to afford their employes a breathing woman recovered, eals ard digests food, and is doing her work. co ol A Tennesse: lady, Mra J. W. Towle, of Philadelphia, Tenn., has been using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for her baby, who is subject to croup, and says of it: “I find it just as good as you claim it to be. Sines I've had your Cough Remedy, baby has been threat- ened with croup ever so man v times, but I would give him a dow of the Remedy and it preven’ 1 hi. having iL every time.” Houdr ds of mothers say the same. Sold by J. +L. Ross, Linden Hall, 8. M. Swartz. Tussey- ville, F. A. Carson, Po! iors Liills, and j expenditure boroa { alleged, Roy Sanday Re Jan The following are wicks ap- 2nd: At Johns reorzes valley intments fo i at al Jim 1% Coup ior on fashions, ete. this respect, so forward.” Vhy is Spring Mills in “backward in coming ts. Se——— GRAIN AND CATTLE MARKET, Philadelphia, Jan. 6. Wheat 95.1.2, Corn, No. 2 mixed, 33, Oats, No. 2 white, 30, Butter, fancy western creamery, 221, Penn'a and western prinis, 24c, Eggs, fresh, 21.- Live Stock.— East Liberty, Jan. 6. — Cattle, prime, $4.90; common $3. 25a 5.60 ; bulls, stage and cows, £2 to 8.70. Hogs, prime medium, $3.70a8.75. Sheep, choice, $4.75 ; common, $3.25 83,75 ; eholoe lambs, $6 ; common $4.50 veal calves $8.50a7,25, Chicago, Jan. 6.—Wheat cash, 89,34 Corn, cash, 264, Ost, cash, 2) '
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