VOL. LXXI.
NO. 1
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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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
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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
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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 ?
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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) '