VOL. LXXIL.
SOLID AGAINST QUAY.
tvery Democrat in the Legislature
Pledged to Oppose the Re-
election of the Se-
nior Senator,
Democrats Resent the Claims of the
Quay Managers That the Votes
of Democrats Can Be
Purchased.
Caorrespondencs
{Bpecial
Harrisburg
too prevalent
st blow
on
wn of h
ant
time
appears to
ai Ge ve Vi A
FALLING ST.
thia
Kri 1
Lehigh, Thom
and
ckawanna,
of
Roth and
m of Wayne
" LV ler
Tho
Shutt
ge acquainted
gentle.
nn. or with them
i a
i 3 of
1st know that there
can be no pos
stion that any
wmance of his
ie excuse
will fail perf:
uty to his party and to his state.
HIGH CLASS DEMOCRATS.
for a sugge
in
the
perience In affairs and the average
lower house are, to a man, resolute and
unflinching in the cause of good BOV«
srument was shown by the frank and
unanimous proposition by them
the independent Republicans look-
ing to fusion on the speakership. It will
be remembered that although the mem-
of the lower branch had not all
been convened together before, in less
than an hour, and with little discus-
sion, except as to minor details, an
agreement was reached whereby every
member pledged himself to join in fu-
sion for house organization. There was
no haggling for prospective #polle on
the part of any Individual: no backing
and filling to gain points for scifish
ends, but all heartily united in a com-
mon purpose, which, if gained, eould
result only In good to the common.
wealth. It is quite as certain that ail
(members of both houses) will an cor-
dizlly unite for the success of the op
position to Quay upon such a union as
may seem 10 assure the best results for
the state,
Theextraordinary responaibility which
ia made to rest upon the Democratie
lepisiators by the peculiar Republican
situation is fully appreciated by each
une. Bo, too, the prominent Demo
crates of the state, and especially such
as are entitled to certain degrees of
leadership, r the of
made
to
Bers
arty and public conditions
n recent years any
exists amon
ii h :
HOw w the
to
wil
ocrats
as that
ment
accomp in important
Very niove-
ch were won
by the independent revolt from can us
Dossism
ov py
The Weather Outlook.
My last bulletin gave forecasts of the
storm wave Lo cross Lhe continent from
2totand 7 to 11.
The next disturbance will
wut 12, cross the west of
Rockies by close of 13,
valleys 14 to 16, eastern st
Pacifie coast al
great central
ites 17,
Warm wave will eross west of Rock-
ies country about 12, great central val
16.
floc)
VOU K IS
levs 14, eastern states Cool wave
will cross the west of country
about 15, great central valleys 17, east-
ern states 19
Tem erature of the week ending ¢
3. Wii
iit i
m., January : werage below nor
1 ’
Iai cus 5 4 =
WK ie and abo
west,
Precipitation sate period
will average above normal east {
Rockies and below we
Before the week. foll
of this bulletin, ends
temperature, a cold wave
will occur in the northern states, and
after a8 “norther”
with &
very considerable force
en .
| fs
The death of
iam M.
curred
wife of Hon. Will-
Mills, oc
et he
A
Te
: Ritter a
Hison, of Spring
scday Hoon Lie family |
home
irom |
plion
Oi the nat
il
fe Lio
was but li
Mrs, All
Miss Lur
Jol
ounty, .
recovery,
ison’ aide n
ab
Higman, of
te Y.. 8
most highly is eg
Wis |
ne
an Higman, daughter of
in Corning, Steulwn |
member of
and
familie
Money In Rattlesnake Skins
uake
§ al t1
Of siiake oll, ret
IRrvest, ship
Were
ped te tiie ¥
New York market re cently
Head Warden Et
un
hy
R
ters. of the Spruce
and Fish hese
I'he
innumerable
the
(iain preserve i
tthe warden about $200
is claimed PRN
medical virtues, while
Filters g
a for tick, which he
eke,
p safe
thir
holding them |
that he car
“ry
fast,
He
iy handle them. |
has wen warden “
the pre
killed thousands of
isa
Marriage Licenses,
The
were issued during the past week:
following marriage leenses
Herman Keen, of Boland, and Vir |
Jenner twp,
Gr. Gray Hastings and Minnie
Harry Kremiuer, Aaronsburg, and |
darker, Coburn,
Harvey KE. Bmith, Blanchard, and
Annie 8. Houser, Pleasant Gap.
Ammon F. Vonada and Virdie R.|
A -
The Pill Sign Swindler,
Farmers in some parts of the state
and secured permission to tack up pill
agreement not to tear the signs dWwn
for ninety days. These agreements
subsequently turned up as nivety duy
notes for $300 each,
ss A SSSA
Married
At the Lutheren parsonage, Centre
Hall, Wednesday evening, Jan. 11th,
Ammon F. Vonada, and Virdie R.
Cain, of Georges valley, were united
in marriage by Rev, J. M. Rearick.
————————
Headache for Forty Years,
For forty years I suffered from sick
headache. About a year ago I began
using Celery King. The result was
gratifying and surprising, my head.
aches leaving at once, The headaches
used to return every seventh day, but
thanks to Celery King, I have had but
one headoche in the last -eleven
months. I know that what cured me
will help others. Mrs. John D. Van
Keuren, Saugerties, N. Y. Celery
King for the Nerves, Stomach, Liver,
and Kiduoeys is sold in 60c. sud Ze.
IMPORTANT RAILROAD RUMOR
The West braneh tatlrowd May Not b
flailt
A railroad
[interesting
ramaor in cire
true,
Valley
The story,
and Huportant,
{It is that the West
| railroad may not be
jas given to the Frepre
Branch
built.
, came from a
i man, who stated he had, while in eon
versation with one of the SCHIineers
who had located the line of the West
Branch Valley ratiroad, been informed
that the Sugar Valley route
| ed several years ago, isd8
jer than the river route,
{ new railroad may be b
Sugar Valley
i»
enisyivanis
Hine Fhe
road Of >
be used from Bellefonte to Lana
hie dif
Lo De
rete |
a strong p
j gar valley route,
The officials of ti
routes nnder consid
decision will be
ed, however, th
i1ile §
IL in the
"ulley Foule is Chios
be built
on the rive
recently. — Lock Have
a
Hastings Last
Croveraor Hastings
*ifl
cises the stat
is made
chi ap
“reed
$
ive to
in its prose
&
FH) KE)
that cer
tors |
pe
wen
of
tors: compli
National Guard is
says thal apg
Wh
Fortnightly
1 ee Ii iwi
The discomfort
northern win
Tou
fo the sunny
Fhe first Ps
formation apply
Agent at 11
York, or
ist
WwW
General Passenger
to (sen
Nie
Station, Philadelphia,
at, Broad Street
- . -
Money in Printers’ Tank
A dispatch dated New York, Decem-
ber 31,
have been ten failures reported of con-
ods
Soe
says: Since Christmas there
cerns that made a specialty of g
intended for holiday
of these concerns carried
the
In one or more instances
sre (a,
large stocks
and were entitled to designation
thie
wre than $250.
The noticeabie thing about each
did
1 He
of the collapsed concerns is that it
the commences.
the greatest holiday
- Wy o—-
Facts About the New Year.
The calendar for 1809 these
facts: Washington's birthday comes
on Wednesday, and Memorial Day
and July 4 will be celebrated on Tues
days. Christmas will come on Mon-
day, Ash Wednesday on February 15.
Bhrove Sunday is March 31, and Eas-
ter on April 2. The new congressmen
will assume their prerogatives on Sat-
urday, March 4. May Day is to be on
Monday. The year ends with a San.
day.
gives
A nso
Population Inereasing
There is no danger of Pennsylvania's
population growing less if the present
birth and death rate continues, The
assessors have made their returns in a
number of counties and thus far the
births are reported as about twice ss
many as deaths, Centre county, last
year, had 1,110 births and 435 deaths;
Lycoming, 1,116 births and 763 deaths;
Northampton, 1,801 births and 0987
deaths; Perry, 0578 births and £270
deaths; Bucks, B07 births and 604
deaths in seven months, and Franklin
608 births and 348 deaths in six months,
To insure & happy new year, keep
the liver clear and the body vigorous
by usjog De Witt's Little Luis Rin
ers, the
packages by : a.
oe lo Ss
899.
nominated. Pratt was Inrgely respon-
Jy istivGTON LETTER. NN re ay Yh
| Manila by Vidiiral Dewey, a fact of
which he boasted in recently
being Ln
THE PHILIPPINES MUST BE GOV publish-
ERNED BY FORCE, : It is stated
that Pratt resigned his position, but he
to
[ed official correspondence
was probably officially invited
Should the Island be Annexed a Large Ar vas probably officially Invi 1 10
me
my Mast Hold It, Confederates Don’! }
: Asn role Snoerat Congress de.
Want Pensions » Democrats in i :
Lea cline to diseuss, for publication, the
Stutement against silver and |
iy Mr.
T Amiaay
that
fisaeriion
nn favor
Richa
Organs
WasniNagroN, Jan: 9.—Senator Ma- |
fired
into the ranks of
' f ex ie ie + 1
800 an un x pected bomb-shell | Of expansion, m ide | rd
the Philippine an-
nexationists when he offered his
Croker, head of Lh
zation, further than to say they
f the
Vérsy-
‘rolror! tie
ition, starting with a quotation from . Lroke tha
the Declaration of Independence iz individaal
1] Mit BE tial § Kile i i
9, all just powers of govern- i ; and that as such it jg worth
Lhe of | BO nore fhan the opinion of any oO
vidual Domo of
» derived irom consent HF
«al
and declaring that vila
Lat ' Private]
ittempt fo govern ii ALIN,
ry with-
ople them.
pe
force to our
'
will, Unk
el
aldo and
ii
ly from what
re
Commiitee, nl
af i!
the Commit
bir unanimous in
acceptance of =n
Vvoiunteer
army, by
his
seal 10
Mr. Bai-
fusing to cert
ANON
ite soldiers ag
i
of
i
tier.
pensions Menator
formal memorial to
the Butler idea,
velerans
of Oca
was more real than us.
, the House sitting as
whole actually vol
appr priation for
in the
Judicial
‘ommission,
and
vis
id nay vole was
rasnriat inn o
wopriation gol
wis year's scar
and Repre-
Va., made
senator Vest's
lonial system
Muitiply the last thro
£7 $3 54 i -
iter pointing out \
result and the sum or
presents {
the trade advan / .
. two ligures—8 times 8 SUAS H4N]
* UY the annexs .
" ‘ . {
plus 4 plus 8 equals 18
Malu
LW
vines, would not be.
: : i niv the la two
the 4 X pense of Keeping :
; figures, add the resy
iHief that the THR .
. resets Loe fir-t two
ii prprort imperialistio poli 3 4 . : io. 4 - :
’ a | . ies 18 equals 1782; 1 plus plus 8
are {ros 1080 who are working tol | .
v 14 - ernie is
flensive and defensive
between the U
bring about an "3 " . \
MuIply the last two figures by
wld the and the
first t figures
times 8 equals 02:7 plus 4
114
Minn
Brit
Ti
ar ply tot
8. and Great
Senator Caflrey's speech was
the holi-
day recess by Senator Platt, of Coun
Hq enid:
is advanced that the right to govern i= |
second figur resnit
2113.
$ SU represents tae wo
hat made before e .
plas
equals is
“Here the bold proposition
" the resuil add the first two figures and
broad and imperial and without limi-|
If the ar- |
- ires
gument advanced by the Senator from | uals 99
’ { Blinds W,
and sound, then i {
the individaal rights of man are to be |
held by the U
al despotism
the total represents the two last
81
fi»
. ‘ > aL”
tation by our Constitution.
9 times 9 equals 81; pias
Connecticut is true Ket 3 . .
Lultiply the third figure by the see.
ond figure, add the fiest firure, mulli-
ply the sum by the fourth fig vid
: ‘ . | the result and the total represents the
no despotism; it sedulously provides |
i i i . . . first two
against despotism; but right here is a
= under a Congression- |
* ; ire,
Oar Constitution knows
Rites n i
figure 1a;
limes 8 eq tals
wy aif iy, sy :. a
: | fe plas 1 equals 73: times 9 equals
| despotism of the most flagrant charae-| ‘=| I [ERIE ay dob l
: { 657; 6 plus 5 plas 7 equals 18.
: - . om.
A Rafiroad’s Lxprases
i ter possible.”
No one doubts that the treaty of
| Peace, which went to the Senate last |
| week, will in due time receive the nec- | Purdue University, Dr. Chas. B. Dad-
to ratify it, ley, Chief Chemist of the Peonsviva-
with a number t1 spare, but it does not | nis Railroad, with headquarters at Al
| necessarily follow that the Senate will, | toona, had for his subject “The Rela.
{in the meantime, consent to be muz- | ion of Che mistry to the Railroad.”
{zled. This was fully demonstrated He gave some very interesting fig
| when the Senate adopted, over the | ures on the amount of money spent hy
| vigorous protest of Senator Davis, | the railroads for various materials, |
{ Chairman of the Committee on For | which very forcibly illustrated the lm
| eign Relations, and late a Peace Com- | mense importance of the departinents
| missioner, Senator Hoar's resolution
{ calling upon the President, if not in-
compatible with public interests, to
send to the Senate copies of all instrue-
tions given to the Peace Commission.
ors, and of all ecoirespondence with the
Commissioners during their stay in
Paris. The Senate took the ground
that it ought to have this information
before voting on the treaty.
The boys who tried to eat the “em-
baled” beef issued to them in Cuba
and Porto Rico will have to read the
testimony of Alger—controlled army
officers in order to find out what ele
gant beef that was, and how mistaken
they were in finding fault with it, A
man who was in both places and who
knew be was talking about remarked:
“The testimony of some of these offi
cers In quite as nasuating to me as that
embalmed beef was,"
There are reasons for the belief that
his dickering with Aguinaldo cost BE.
Spencer Pratt, the on of U, 8
| essary number of votes
i
i
{ inspection. He said that the purchas.
ing agent of the Pennsylvania Rails]
road spends from $17,000 00 to $20,- {
00,000 a vear and of that amount |
about $5,000 for robber bands, $7,000
for lead peucils, $1,000 for plus, $5,000 |
for ink, $2.000 for toilet soap, $1,000
000 for lumber, $60,000 for hose, and |
called attention to the very interesting |
fact that it costs nearly se much for |
stationery with which to carry on the
business of the road as it does for iron.
A HA
Churen Dediontion,
St Paul's United Evangelion] church
at Green Grove, will be dedicated Jae
uary 20th, by Bishop R. Dubbs, D. D.
LL. D., of Chicago, TIL. First service
to begin on Saturday eveniug previ
ous, at 7 o'clock; Sunday at 9 a.m,
and 7p mm.
I AI AMPA MAM.
1 Perry, of Columbus, Ga.
od wn for Airs years, au thew
LOCAL ITEMX,
Culliugs of More than Ordinary [nterest
from Everywhere.
“ix
Monds fn dis Gundry, Can Shek Gut,
Mine gundry dis uf dee,
*wede lant uf liperdee,
Uf dee I zing.
Iant vare mine faders dite,
Lant uf der peclkrims’ brite,
Fum efry mounden site,
Led freetom ru
ng.
That Good Time § Coming.
Every little while they Bay
That the yY
Have Quay
Where he cannot get aw ay
jut, in gpite of all the ¥ do,
(2'1ay brings down a plum or two
Fvery
Meeining
tres
jt toe wre a ran!
100 Lo cure 4 rap !
Tr « 13f
a prende life
lie shakes the
time
What ist he
i such a chap
Wi
Oh, sav,
th such a snap !
s gver come a d iy
When they
Will lay
Quay
Away
14
had four wes
gr the “xX pect
ceded upward stride,
ff men mean to be honest u
yt ¥y
DEE
musics
many
> nn four
£ a= 10 OTs
unces the
atl Centre
Aud now they think
Win. Wer
| Hes hidden
the Pine
intments,
ip *
at Georges val-
Sune
re Hall,
P. Jone
commit
in said to
arene.
hw Williamsport
IRGS is « ur handy shell becanse it is
and wrk fob
it nil times-~much in a small space.
Leech
sold
he of Pix sant Gap, wi
A Neat handy we reference
Fhe well-known
I.inde nhall,
farm, near
to William
intends
has been
ho
* it next spring
Andy Lung
it a number of years
Dr. George W. Thompson, a well
knows of Mount Un-
Dr. Thompson was
resident citizen
§ sn
of John Thompson, and was
born in Halfmoon township, Centre
in the vestibule of
Gov, Hastings’ mansion at Bellefonte,
hundred dollars,
chandeliers through the
house will range from five hundred to
ie chandelier
«iil ost seventeen
the other
''e New Year opened in Haines
lively rup-offs. Seymore
Winkelblech had a sleigh wrecked,
but saved his own bide Ly jnmping.
%i1th two
some boys with sleds, and a smash-up
The M. E. Sunday school of Mill
heim, passed resolutions of respect, ex-
pressive on their esteem of I. A. Bu.
“Inst the services of a respected and
er of the choir and the music in the de-
partments of charch work.”
Robert Hayes, of Northumberland,
aged 90 years, died suddenly on Satur
day last. He was a relative of Joshua
T. Potter's family of near this place.
his aged patriarch was hale enough
yei last fall to cut 40 shocks of corn
fodder in one day and aversged 20
ehacks per day during the cutting of
the crop.
Grorge T. Angell, of Boston, presi
dent of the American Humane Eda-
cational society, says a half a teaspoon
ful of powdered sulphur in each shoe
or stocking ls a complete protection
against grip, cholera, plague and pesti-
lence, Persons employed in mateh
factories and sulphur mines are known
to have escaped the malaria. Salphur
Is cheap ; try it.
In January comes the 800 anniver-
sary of the death of Edmund Spenser,
the author of the “The Faerie Queene.’
The anniversary is made the occasion
of a comprohensive sketeh of Spenser's
life and work written for the Junuary
by Mr H.C
by portesi
[|]
Shelley and il
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