SI )t petite A Prtnocrat. SHUUEKT A FOIiSTKtt, Editors. VOL. 3. ®lw {£ nitre grworrat. Tarns* 11.50 par Annum, in Advance. t~r. SHUQERT and R. H. FORBTER. Editor*. Thursday Horning, December 1,1881. THE wealth of Jay Gould is estima ted at 875,000,000. This is a fair competence for a uiau of moderate am bition and needs. THE Republicans of Marietta, Lan caster county, bave commenced the work of reading nut the kickers. They have notified twenty three of the Wolfe men that they will be no longer nettl ed in the party ' of great moral ideas." That is right, let none but stalwarts be on guard iu the ranche of the bosses. THE Grant stalwarts are again in power in all the departments of the Government at Washington. The re vival of the lobby, which under I)em cratic ascendeLcy iu the House of Re preventatives, became useless and went into retirement, will again be in full life and vigor. Bosa QUAY appears to be such au iucorrigible joker that the Republican organs are entirely uncertain whether he is serious or joking in naming Galusha A. Grow as a candidate for Governor. They had better consider the joker serious for this occasion, and trot Galusha out upon the course. He made a brilliant independent, and no doubt will be a valublc compromiser between the stalwarts and half-breeds. A DELEGATION ot Kcutuckians are at Harrishurg demanding payment of policies they hold to a large amount iu the grave-yard insurance companies of the Capitol. These institutions are DOW undergoing investigation in Judge Pearson's court, and the 'chickens came borne to roost' at an inopportune mo ment. It is said the companies de cline to settle with the Keutucky spec ulators pending the action of the court aud the perii which surrounds the bu siness at present. THE trial of Uuiteau is still progres sing at Washington. The crowd at tending the sittings of the Court is very great, composed mostly of ladies. The assassin was placed on the staud on Tuesday. There was nothing of a sensational character iu his testimony, which merely gave a history of his past life, which has evidently been a cranky one, hut related by the prison er to impress the jury aud mark the record of a very distinguished persou age. He is said to begin to look hag gard aud that a pale haunted expres sion seems to have settled upou his countenance, indicating perhaps that the little intellect the fellow possessed is breaking down under the strain. THE New York Sun publishes a let ter from one Redell, a former coofi deolial clerk of that exalted patriot and statesman, Dorsey of Arkansas, to the late President James A. Gar field, in reference to a series of confi dential interviews he had held with Attorney General Mat-Veagh, in re gard to Brady's "star-route cases." This letter of Redell's contains divers damaging statements, and is accom panied by an affidavit made before a notary public, io which the writer avers that his allegations are true. One of these allegations is that Attor ney General MacVcsgh sought to in duce Redeii TO STEAL from the office of bis employer. Dorsey, certain evi dence of the complicity of Dorsey in Brady's devious star-route business. In this letter, to the truth of which Redell swears, he prove* himself to be a measureless liar, and hence any in jurious allegations against anybody should be received with many grains of allowance. If the charge made by Redell against Mr. MacVeagb was preferred by any one but a self-coo dieted liar, it would be incumbent ou the Attorney General to repel it, but coining from the source it does there is.but one auswer, and that is silent contempt. "tyUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIOIOUS OR POLITICAL."-Jsffsr^B Bad Candidates. The New York Sun says that three of the five conspicuous candidates of the Republicans for the S|eakerhip Hre tainted with unwholesome records. Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota was a con spicuous member of the order of sala y grabbers who attained uch unenvia ble fatne in 1873. Mr. Orlh, of Indi ana, liecame so notorious through his complicity iu the Venezuala frauds that lie had to l>e dropped as a candi date for Governor utter having receiv ed the nomination of his party. Mr. Kasson, of lowa, was constrained to retire from Congress years ago after publicity was given to the proceedings of a divorce scandal. Hut the party which has just openly espoused repu diation in Virginia, and has adopted Mahone as a leader, ami which endor sed the Credit Mobillier coriuption, is not going to pay much attention to such ordinary objections as these. What the Republicans want is a can didate who can command the necessa ry votes to secure an election. The cardinal principle of the Republican leaders is that the end justifies the means, and that nothing succeeds like success, no matter bow it may be at tained. Now the Settlement. The victorious Mahone it seem is not to have his own way iu Vir ginia, unchallenged. He has put up his personal lieutenant, Riddleharg er. for United States Senator, but he does not receive that uuanim< u* response that the new boss expected from the Republican party he had thrashed into line. In forming the Readjuster State ticket, Mahone gen erously allowed the Republicans one subordinate position in the permit of Senator Lewis as Lieutenant Gov ernor. Now it seems that Lewis and other Republican* show some signs of setting up for themselves, and in con sideration of the important part they took iu securing the repudiation tri umph, claim the right to furnish the colleague of the "wee William" in the Senate of the United States. This dot* not accord with Mahone'a views of the fitness of things ami his late Republi ran pals are directed to staud aside, which they are not willing to do, so far at least as to permit the electisu of Riddleberger, ami it is supposed they will rally in rebellion against the r jately chosen boss. Plunder is said to be cohesive, hut in this case it looks as if it may have a disintegrating power, not provided for by the repu diationists. TIICRK appear* to have been a per fect epidemic of villaoy in the man agement of the public business of Phil adelphia in all ita department*, which ia coming to light through the honest official* brought into place through the instrumentality of the Reform organi sation. Careful investigation by Hun ter and Pattiaon ahowa that the tax payer* have been robbed of fabuloua auma, and the book* doctored to cover the frauda. All this under the admin istration of the ring bosses who have so long run the politics and controlled the elections of that city. It is Mia that full exposure, soon to be made, will disclose such a startling extent of swindling as will amase aven the Phil adelphia stalwart Republicans who re gister the will of the bosses year after year in blind confidence that all is right, merely because they antagonise the Democracy. TUB first session of the forty-seventh Congress will begin on next Monday, and there is considerable speculation as to the organisation of the lower branch. The Republicans lack one of a majority, of all the member* but have a contingent power outside of the party in a number of Greenback members with radical proclivities and several Virginia re adjusters. It is scarcely to be doubted that they will find one man among these to give them the necessary majority and the Speaker. BELLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1881. The Speakership. The Washington Post snvs that ac cording to the best attainable informa tion, there are but one hundred and forty-six Republican members of the House of Repie ci t ilives ; but, judg ing by the claims of the friends of the various candidates for Speaker, there are at least three hundred and fifty. As between the roll in the hands of Mr. Adams and the aggregate count of the supporters of Kasson, Hiscnck, Keifer, Dunnell, Ortli aud a few oth ers, the only way to reconcile the dis crrpaney is to iufer that most, |H-rhup all, of these gentleman are mistuken us to the size of the support upon which they rely in the appruaehiug Repub lican caucus. At best, correct surmises as to a suc cessful candidate for Speaker are dif ficult. Even when there were but two or three aspirants for the honor it wa* no easy matter to pick out the success ful one. Rut when there ate, as now, al least a half dozen Republican mem bers openly in the field, it is next to un impossibility to speculate success fully upon chances. Many things are to be taken into consideration, which cause sudden and sometimes unusual combinations. Locality has its influ ence —whether the Speaker shall be from the East, the Middle States or the West is always to be considered. But this being mostly a question of sectional pride is not so extremely dif ficult to overcome. Another and more practical matter it the formation of the standing committees, absolutely in the bands of the Speaker. Many a vote in caucus depends upon the posi tion to lie assigned in committee to the member who owns it, its effect upon the friends whom he desires to serve, and the interest*, party, sectional or busineax, which he is anxious to pro mote. Tbe present contest is full of just such complications. Hiscock is the Eastern candidate and Kassnn tbe most prominent Western; but the former comes from the section which has the least number of rotes in cau cus and the State wherein the Presi dent resides. If the West were united on Kasaon, he could he readily nomi nated, but while Hiscock has no oppo sition of consequence in his own sec tion, there are several western men who, with considerable show of strength are contesting the prize with Kasson. It is easy to see that neither candidate has so far a majority of voles, as eager partisans of one or the other would lie very certain to make such a claim if anything like the fact existed. But as ouly about three-fifths of the Kepub lican members are yet in the city, some thing definite may be known soon after the presence of'tbe entire party in force. IT was believed that the cootest for Clerk of the House of Representatives rested between Edward M'Pherson of tbia State and Rainey, a colored ex member of Congress of South Caroli na. But it now appears that another Pennsylvania candidate for Clerk is promised—Chris. Magee perhaps—un der the patronage of the Camerons, which ia intended to defeat any hope that M'Pherson entertained of success, as well as to puoish him for preferring Blaine to Grant, and forcing upon the bosses a very unpalatable endorsement of the late President in the Republi can machine Convention. Subsequent labors to elect the boat ticket will not count to his credit. Tax numerous friends of Jeremiah M'Kibben, late of tbe Girard House, Philadelphia, will learn with regret of his death. Ha died on Tuesday last of heart disease at St. Joseph, Missou ri, where be bad been proprietor of a hotel for some months. Few men per haps in Pennsylvania, where until re cently be has resided, had a more ex tended acquaintance, or more sincere friends. IT ia said that Kamon, of lowa, leads in the Ilepahlicau raoo for the Speakership of the House. "Loss Talk and More Aotlon." Upon the subject of the star route prosecution the Lancaster Intelligen cer is of the opinion that it is now in order to have "lees talk and more ac tion." The Intelligencer says that Mr. (iilwnn, the special deputy of the at torney general to examine into the star route letters, has made a report of the result of his inquiries, which very conclusiv ely shows that the late cc ond assistant |M*tm&ster general, Hra dv, administered his office with an eye single to the interests of the con tractors, which were his own. Few |>ersomi need any further evidence of thin than they have already for a long lime had. Jt may be said that no intelligent citizen has any doubt of Brady's guilty complicity with the mail contractor's in their speculations. The only question that is doubtful in the matter is as to whether Brady is to be punished. The publication of Mr. Gibson's report would seem to show that the authorities who are iu charge of the prosecutions are quite as doubtful as the people as to wheth er anything damaging to the guilty will result from their efforts toward their conviction. The public do not care for Mr. Gibsou's report, because it proves what they are already con vinced of; what would be interesting to thein from the attorney general's of fice would l>c an assurance that the guilt tous proved is to be punished. They will be quite content to await the evidence at the trial. The previ ous publication of it in this official way seems to be an intimation tbal the trial may be postponed long, if not altogether. It seems very strange, indeed, that the conclusive evidence of the frauds of Brady is with such difficulty brought to bear upon him. Tbe very first step towards bis trial has proved abortive, in away that is quite unintelligible to the people. A United States attorney general, aided by three distinguished lawyers, from the front rank of the bars of the three respective cities of Washington, Philadelphia aod New Vudj isve not even l>een successful at tempt to bring the accused into court; and if this lack of power is de eloped in tbe iuilialory and matter-of-course movement* of that trial, what may we not expect to occur to hinder the course of justice through the dangers and difficulties that lie in wait for it during the progress towards conviction at the hands of twelve of Mr. Brady's peers? If the grand jurymen could not be trusted to render a majority verdict according to the evidence, can a unanimous verdict be confidently ex pected from the jurymen ? Evidence, however convincing, does not always convince juries. In this case of Brady the atmosphere around tbe court is ex pected to be inimical to conviction. Mr. Arthur, like Mr. Grant, is known to stick to his friends io evil and good repute. Brady and Dorsey occupy high seats among the chosen stalwart band. Grant protected the whisky thieves, and that Arthur will b as good to the postal thieves is a fair in ference from bis character, associa tions and contaminations. M. Gibson fires off his gun now perhaps because be b doubtful wheth er he will ever have a chance in oourt; or it may onlj be to iuform the public and intensify the popular demand for justice upon the thieves. As we have said, it was not necessary for thb pur pose; nor is it really proper in the government, if these men are to be tried, to publish the evidence against them in advance. It is the jury sum moned in their cases that b to be con vinced, and they ought to be unpreju diced men uniformed as to the facta which will be detailed to them in court. The general publie can welt await the testimony then produced. Let us have lem tail and more effect ive action from the attorney general'* office. ORB of the heroes of Gettysburg b proposed as a member of President Arthur's cabinet. It will not be ob jected that Gen. Loogslreet was a he ro on the rebel side. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. THANKSOIVINO HERVICES —A union sr vice wa* bild in tbs Prenbyt** rian cburcb on Thanksgiving day. A large congr> g*- lin wa* present and an able, eloquent and appropriate sermon *> delivered by the ltv. J. I Doliing, of the Reformed church At tho P. K. church, K-v Jl.hri H-wit 1 , pastor, an exceedingly appropriate servic which greatly interested a large and alien live audience wa* held. lIYMENEAL.—Our well known towns man, Mr. Charles Mi-Caff, rty, wa* mar ried to-day in Philadelphia to Mi*a Calli rine William*, of that city. We under, stand the newly married pair are expect- d to reach Uollefonte thix evening. We ex tend our congratulations, and hope tin j may enjoy together many years of happi ness and prosperity. A BUMPTIOUS FEAST.— On la*l Thurs day the present proprietors of the Brock orbolT House, Messrs. A A li. Brocker hotr, regaled the guests of that popular bo tel, and a large numte-r of invited friend witb one of the most elegant and sumptu ous Thanksgiving day dinners ever pre p-ired in Bellefonte. The menu wa* an elaborate affair, embracing almost every thing ealablo that could in any well grati fy the palate <>r salbfy the appetite, ami was served in an elegant and highly satis factory manner. Among the inviu-d guests who enjoyed this feast of g<*>d thing were K**v. John Hewitt, E. C. Hum*-*, John G. Love, Austin Brew, Frenk Mont gomery, Dr. James 11. Dobbin*, Jonathan Harper, Cieorgs Brew, John G. Kurtz, John I Potter, W. P. Reynold*, Jr., Jam**- Hamilton, T. K. Hamilton, Simon Leb. M. Montgomery,Meyer Lyons and Charles McClure, all of whom speak in the high est terms of the kindness of the Messrs Briickerboff, and of the polite attention paid tbem by ad connected with the hotel Mr. McComber, the genial and *ffhle clerk, coins* in for a lari** share of prat**-. He was untiring in his efforts to render th occasion a pleasant ooe to the friend present. A FATAL ACCIDENT.—A tad ACCIDENT occurred at Yalrnlinea Works on last Sat urday Afternoon by which A boy named George Orubb, between five and til year* of age lOAI bit life. Tbe particulars At re lated to ut are About A* follow* : Tbe lit tle boy bad accompanied an older boy, DAtned John Slack, to tbe liable* attached to tbe work*, where tbe latter wa* engag ad in pdltiuK bay into the rack* for tbe wnliea. While in tbe act of pitching a fork lull of bay hit companion in some way ran ta froat of tbe fork, one of the tinea of which caught him Ju*l below tbe eve brow in the left corner of the right eye and pene trated to tbe brain. The unfortunate lit tle vicum of this tad mithap almost imme diately went Into convultion* and d-d about eight o'clock the tame evening. The child waa a ton of George Grubb who It employed at tbe work*, and tbe grief of tbe family over the *udden and terrible death of their beloved one cannot be de scribed. Tbe funeral took place on Tues day, tha re-uaint being eonveved to tbe church yard of the Advent £hurvh, in B->gg* township, where they were deposi ted in their iaat reeling place. —The Bellefonte rifle team, represent ing Company B. of the flftb regiment, came out considerably behind in tbe con test with the Johnstown boy* on Thanks giving day. In tbe 100 yard range they did tolerably well—the score standing 70 for Company B. and 7ft for Company 11. In tbe 200 yard range theacore wa* Com pany B. 42 and Company 11. 62. Compa ny B waa represented bj Messrs. Ilale,Geit singer, Gross and Van Pelt, of Bellefonte, and Company II by Meatra. Parflt, Cope, Gregg and lishn, of Johnstown. —Dr. K. W. Ilale, was elected a mem ber of the State Board of Agriculture on laet Monday evening by the Agricul lural Society of C 'ft county. lie ia worthy of the honor Wd will make an efficient member of the board. RSTSI Department Deports. Wstainoron, November 29.—Secret*. Slfunt today gave out for publication • annual reports of the Bureau (MB cera of the Naval Department for the fi-c*l year. Sisty-nine vessels have been wholly or partiallv equipped at an eapenditure of $B3 094.07. and $333,807. 70 have lieen espended for materials. Among numerous reontnend*tionion that the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia be removed to some point on the sea aoast. The Pennsylvania Railroad compa ny's aahihit for ths tea months ending October 31 shows an inerewe of $2,314.- MS in gross earnings. $t,778,744 in e* penses and $A36.114 in net earnings over the respective items for the oottws ponding period of 1880. All lines west of Pittsburg and Rrie show foe the ten months a surplus of $2,734. SI3 over lia bilities, or a gain of 228,478 as compar ed with tfaeeame of I MO. indi cating a loss for October of 90,703, as the gain for the nine nafcbs ending with September was as $319. TKRMB: |KT Annum, in Advanre, A Itemarkahle Will. One of the m<*t remarkable wills ever registered in this Htate i that of the late l'anl Darling, an old citizen of Brookville, Jcller-on county, who lied on the 4th instant, and whose will was admitted to probate a week ago. Mr. Darling seem* to have had no immediate family, but his circle of friends, or those who will now IKS glad to consider themselves his friends, was si large that he made bequests to mote than eighty individuals, aggre gat ug considerably over $200,000 in '-usli and including real estate and securities of various kinds to a large amount. The majority of his legacies to individuals were evidently iuteuded merely as evidences of frieud • hip, and many of them are so charac terized in the will. They range from $25 to $ 50,000 in cah and annuities of from sl,(Kit) t053,000. Among the peculiar items are a legacy of $25 to George A. Jeuks, the ex-eongres*man, "lieeause 1 am proud of hiru a* a Jef ferson county production, and like liiru a a man to Judge 1. G. Gor don, of the supreme court, $25, "on account of long friendship;" to Judge \V. I*. Jenks of the Jefferson county court, "whom I have known so long when we were not worth $2OO. hut we have both since dug along, $25 "to help them in their business, J. 11. Gar rison, John J. Thompson and Joseph Darr, each $O,OOO "to lift him out of trouble, to Jas. A. Gathers, $5,000" —a lift which will be gratefully ap preciated. Mr. Darling haves $2,000 for a soldiers' monument in Brookville; $3,000 a year for twelve years for tM-autifyiiig the grounds of the Brook ville public schools; $2,000 a year for twelve years for the poor of the town ; for a public school building at Smeth (Mrt, McKcau county, $15,000. To all the Brookville Protestant churches handsome bequests are made, and the Presbyterian and Methodist churches are made residuary legatees in the proportion of two thirds and one third respectively. A Priftr-Cirfd Bride. ■ aikikd ir*T rot astm nn *t*ic* BCATOKATiOS To HEALTH. iml Cvrrwto th Tivu+ I)tiiKT', Pa. ,November 29. The wedding of Liliie D. Tyler, of this town, lo John Mitchell took place here on baturday, just * year (mm the •lay on which Mih I'yler wac cured o( a long standing disease m a moat myteri out manner. Hhe had been an invalid upwards of six year*, had been treated by eminent metropolitan physicians, and finally, in November, 18X1. wai confined to her bed. An alleged mira cle worker in Connecticut, who waa said <o ruie all diaee by prayer, wai non suited a* a last resort. Thi woman ap |M>ini-'l Nor* in tier 20 a* the day upon winch Mi-s T> ler and ber friend* should pray lor her reooverv. The in*tructions were followed, the Kev. Thomas West cott, her patnr. being present. They prayed for three hur, and before night Mnw Lilhe was alaiul the house, and ibe day she waa married waa an ideal bride with may cheeks, the picture of health. Mr. Wrstootl married the couple, and the truth of the "cure by prayer" ia vouched for by all the young woman's relatives. Since her sudden cure Mim Tyler, now Mrs. Mitchell, haa felt no illness whatever, and baa en joyed exceptional good health. The Greenback Vote. There ia always a certain lapae of time I after an election before we can learn the vole of tbeGreenbeck party. thir Greenback friend* generally charge this to the jealousy of the old parties or the Aaaociated f'reas managers. But the truth is, it ia of no account in getting at I the general result and it ia considerable ! expense to those gettiog returns by lei , '-graph to get the necessary vote, and the Greenback, Prohibition, Auli Maao i ttic and other minor votes are left for | .lower but cheaper and more accurate official reports—which puts the Green back vote thia year at 14.976. For thn benefit of onr Greenback friends who still wish to amuse themselves in their usual way. we give the vote of their par , ty since 1878: j For Mason for Governor, 1878...81,7-VI i For Button lor Treasurer, 1878 57.2U7 For Weaver for President, 1880 .. 20,888 Pur Jackson fur Treasurer, 1881..., 14,978 A little figuring will easily fix the vote for next year on the present sli ding scale. After the polls close they need out worry about return*, but just put down the vote at about 8,000 and go to bed satisfied that thsir estimate ia not far wrong. A Schoolboy Crajied by Bat*. ressa tb* PbeMctpMa Tiwn. Eat*. Nnvembe 29.— George Karaites, a boy aged nine years, w* accidentally locked in a school house room here to day and waa attacker! by a swarm of rata. The boy fought desperately lor some time, but became exhausted and when discovered was King senseless, with the swarm of rodent* tearing at his fieah. He will live, but bis fright bee probably deprived him of hi* reason, Wfaitelsw Hetd. the editor of the TW bumt arrived at New York on Monday by the Germanra from Liverpool. * :V • i,- J NO. 48.
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