Philadelphia Itranch. f \ Don't Forget —THE— J Philadelphia Hranch IS A , ONE-PRICED STORE. > /TO Is agaiu to the fore with an exten sive assortment of Fall & Winter Slothing 1 , and respectfully invites the public to call and examine our olegaut Suite and Over Coats, for Men, Youth, Boys, and Children's wear manufactured for our i trade of the best material, and in all styles to please. Our stock of Men's suits in Cuta ways, Sacks, Prince Alberts, Double Breasted Coats, Reversible, Chen chilla and Beaver Overcoats are Su perior, and Invite Attention. And now just look here, Meu and Boys, are you going to freeze this Winter, or not? Why, of course you're not. You must have Winter Cloth ing, and what you want is the Best in the Market for the Lowest Price. You have got your money honestly, and of course you want the most for it. WE WANT JUST SUCH BUSINESS, and therefore in- j vile your visit to the PHILADEL PHIA BRANCH. Our business re lations with the People of Centre County in the past have been pleasant and satisfactory, and in offering our Thanks for the Liberal custom hereto fore given us, we renew the pledge upon which we started out — KAIK AND Jrsrr DEALING TO AIL. / REMEMBER THE FINEST AND :C I LEA PEST OlOTttlflG, 18 AT THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH ON ALLEGHENY STREET { 9 - LEWI A Be TO., Proprietor! Bellefopte, PA EXCELSIOP. M'F'G CO. (siTal Closing Out Sale OP wmmmsm i AT AND UEI.OW COST. TIIE ENTIRE STOCK MI ST HE SO/.I) HE OA HI)I.ESS OF COST TO (JCIT 111 SISESS. Big Bargains in Suitsl FOR MEM FROM I'l'M'A HPS Hoys AM) YOCTH S si ITS ALMOST (J I VEX A IP. I J', am.DUES V CLOTH ISO WAV DOM'S. OVERCOATS FROM $3.00 UPWARDS, ALL M'OOL MESS /MA TS FROM $2. fin UP WARDS. THIS STOCK UK CI.OTIIISO MIST I'OSITI V El. J' HE SOLD REGARDLESS OF COST. TAKE NOTICE, Every sl,bo invested in purchases at our Store will he entitled to a | CHANCE TICKET to win either of the two handsome GIFTS to fa; j drawn by the lucky numbers which ONE AND ALL have the same ; chance to possess, Ist. Prize. One Handsome Bedstead, poplar wood, beautifully tini-bel; Double Enclosed \\ a-li Stand; Teapoy Table; one licautilul French Dresser Herman Plate Glass 17xAO: tiir.-e Cane S. at Chairs one Cane Scat Rocking ('hair; one Towel Rack. Top of Dre-.-er, Wash Stand, Tea poy Stand, imitation Tennessee Marble. 2d Prize. One beautiful RnuueU covered Walnut /'run,. Lotiny. KEYSTONE CLOTHING HOUSE, ; Siyn lied Flag. Ifdhfont >, Pa. I SEC'III. Ell .1' CO., CJrorem, Hush llount Html., Dillrfonte, Pa. NEW GOODS —FOR THE— STRING ami SUMMEIi TltAlHil! We have (odMiond t" gel the vt ry beat of every thing in "or Hoe, end now have some really (.'HOICK (lOODS. FINK CREAM < HEESE, Extra luirgr FRENCH PRI NKS, SEE EC T O VST EES, N WEET I'O TA TOES. LARGE RIPE CRASHERRIES. PRVNELLEs, IMPERIAL FIGS, HEIGHT NEW LEMONS, FLORIDA OR A NOES, Frincw#i Paper-Shell Almonds, Kvuimrntcd Dill llf PEACHES. A FULL LINE OF CHOICE CANNED FRUITS. PRESERVED PEARS, PEACHES, PL CMS and PRCS ELI.FN. PLAIN CANDIES, I'INK CONFECTION FRY, —AND— GOODIES of all Sorts and Kinds teirWe invite the people of Centre c ui.ty : < all and ins|set our NICE GOODS, which cannot fail to please. itf SKCIILKR As CO. Doll ,r Attnt/lr--llihilH tC f hum 3\DIR jivDvDvDD Boot or Nlioe TRY - —I DOI L A MLXGI !L I— wmmmm—mMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmHa, FOR Style, Quality and Cheapness. We defy all competition. We have the largest stock—and bought for cash, and sell 10 per cent, cheaper than any store in the county. Uuf- OU R SPE CI ALT IE S. REYNOLDS BRO'B., Utiea and I). ARMSTRONG'S Rochester shoes for Ladies, Misses and Children. Hathaway Sonln and Harrington m Fine Shoes for Men. LIEISITIEIRI ! 810 [O IT IS, THE KINO OK TILE M RKET. We have a Shoe Polish which will not crack the Leather as eood as the best and only 15c. DOLL A MINGLE. Bellefonte, Pa. 5TJit €tntxs BELLEFONTK, PA. Appropriationa for 1885. SECRETARY KOLOKK TRANSMITS TO CONL.HKM lII.M ESTIMATE!*. WASHi M.TON, December 5. —The Secretary of the Treasury transmitted to ('on gross to day the estimates of ap propriations required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885. The amount estimated as required for all ex|<enses of the Government is 8283,125,305, which is 822,323,282 less than the ag gregate of appropriations for the pres ent fiscal year, ami $57,151,857 less than the sum called for in the esti mates submitted last year. The ap propriations for the present fiscal year, including deficiencies and miscellane ous, aggregated $305,418,587, the esti mates on which these appropriations were based calling for $340,280,162. The estimates submitted to day are divided as follows : Civil establish ment, 822,045,003 ; foreign intercourse, 81,-<69,601 ; military establishment, 827,130,152; naval establishment, 822,7 17,7•" 1 ; Indian affairs, $8,460,• | *10: pensions, $40,000,1)00; public works, 817,700,214; j>o*iul service, $2,058,111 ; miscellaneous, $25 293,- 905; permanent annual appropria tions, $115,147,037. I lie estimates which show an increase over the amounts appropriated last i year are as follows Ifj. T + HH i ml • •übitshtnrM I -47.210 s > •-•■ i.t i>i ■, i.. Nstiil ettal |iihm<-til , M „ 7 .114 IndWaiAtin . .. . I abUa . ik. 11| V .I.t Mftk- . .. Mk ■ kmmm U#AMT Ihe increase in the estimates for the naval establishment is due to pro visions for completing the steel cruis er-, the monitors ami a dispatch boat. I he increase in the estimates for public works is owing principally to an item of $*,<>25,500 for improving rivers and harbors and to an increase in the esti mate- for public buildings from 81,- -'•'l.:;<><( to $3,847,007. The increase j in tic < -timates for the jsistal service is to cover a deficiency in the revenues of 82,f'58.J11. I nd< r tic- le ad of public works apjear the follow ing estimate* for pub* ouiclings in Pennsylvania under the Treasury Department >. . SVOJUO I'tWsl .* I - r*t ■ & *tlllsn.tf. n . •,.<. I •-r buildings under the War De partment the following appropriation* | are included : Allegheny Arsenal. §ll, 5' HI : Frank ford Arsenal, 8 15,081. Postal Facta and Figures. till \nm At. DEPARTMENT REPORT Of I-us I M A-T l.ll'i, I.N HI! VI. i.KIMIAM. lii hi* report for the fi-oal year end ing .ItiiC 'O,l >*>.;. Postmaster-General < iroshaiii *t#t< - that the receipts of his department were 8.6 |x-r cent, more than tho*. of last year, but 3 |>er cent. ! h-ss than those for the three preceding y<nr*. for which bo accounts by the j fact that the public was induced to limit it* purchases of the three-cent stamp* in anticipation of the issue of the two-cent stamps. The revenues under the new postage rate* are estimated BS follows: Esti mated ordinary postal revenue for the year ending June 30, 188.5, on basis of three-cent letter rate, $54,967,458.* 61; deduct estimated loss occasioned by reduction of letter rate to two cents, $7,893,380.30; add net profits from money-order business for the year ending June 30,1885, as cstimat ed by superintendent of the money order system $430,(8)0; gives total estimated revenue for the year ending June 30, 1885, on basis of two cent letter rate, $47,104,078 31. It- 1864-'65 the cost per letter for delivery at nine of the principal cities was 1.1 cents each, a* against 2.4 mills foe the delivery and collec tion of each piece of mail matter in one hundred and fifty.four cities in 1882-'3, a reduction of 8.6 mills per piece. —— ♦ Fx-CLERK MTIIEKSON'H tabular statement of the present membership of the National House of Representa tive shows the representation of par ties as follows: 196 Democrats, 118 Republicans, five Readjustcrs, three Independents and one Greenback Labor. There are two vacancies— one in Mississippi and one in Virginia. Of this membership 265 are lawyers, eight farmers and one mechanic. Minsrainc for ths Cairraa DBVOCBAT. TfioTtltthka'fr V - ! ' CERTAINTY THAT THE PIMJT lIOAT COLUMBIA A NO HER I HEW ARE I/7HT. NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—A fishing smack having arrived at Htapleton, L. 1., Tuesday night, having on board ' wreckage picked up off Fire Island, belonging to pilot boat No. 8, the 5 Columbia, it iH now deemed certain I that the Columbia was the pilot boat . run by the steamship Alaska r Sunday morning. All the pilot bouts in the harbor have flags at half mast. , The loss of the Columbia has been confirmed at the office of the Handy Hook pilots in Hurling Slip. l'ilot boat No. 8 was built four years ago by I'ollion.at a cost of 816,- 00<). She sailed from the harbor on .Saturday last with four pilots on board and a crew of six men. The names . of the pilots are as follows ; Christian Wolfe, of No. 1 13 Kut • ledge street, Hrooklyn. Thomas H. Metcalfe, Htapleton, H. I I. Ralph Noble, No. 11 1 Kleventh t Brooklyn. , Charles Arnold, No. 46 Van Du/.cn , street, Stuten Island. The name of the boatkeeper was : Whilliam White. , The cook was John Fortbladc. The • crew of four men were foreigners, ■ shipped for this cruise. Wolfe was forty-three years old and • leaves a wife and six children. Met calf was fifty-seven years old and leaves a wife and two grown children Arnold wa* thirty-five years old and , married, and Noble was fifty-three ; years old and a widower. White, the boatkeeper, who was twenty-three . years old, and Fortbladc, the Nor wegian cook, were both married. A Mormon View of the Message t NO roWKRON EARTH STROM. I.MM oil TO BREAK IT POLYOAMY. ' HALT LAKE CITY, Ctali, Dec. - The A'ks, the Mormon organ, sax . I iu a leading article "The President's message wi.l be hailed by the hireling clergy with ' | pleasure, and will receive an amount !of popular support. It is not shown in what way the destruction of our local government would afTect the 'question of j<olygamy. The pluiai ! marriage* of the Mormon* are not recognized by tie Territorial law*, and . could not bo dissolved bv • •mnii*- . | sinners, by edict-, by nrmie* or other . earthly power. They are eoclcsiasti cal, perpetual and eternal. I ntil the Mormon* liecome recreant to their faith with High Heaven these uni .. will be recognized by the Almighty Being who e*tabli*hed them tor the benefit of Hi* js-ople and the fullnt-s* of Hi* glory. The President's re marks on Fiali polygamy will not add force to hi* message nor credit to hi* statesmanship. They are a sop to bigots and breath to the tlarne of j popular passion. It is doubtful if it will have a practical bearing on con gress. It will certainly create no com motion among the God-fearing people of Utah." The same journal throw* a sop to the Democrat#, and hope* they will defeat the measure in the house. Suit for Slave Property. PROMINENT CITIZENS of TEXAS AIIOtT TO llEolN AN AiTION AOA INST THE I'NITKD STATES OOV ERNMENT. ST. Loins, Dec. 6.—The tilohe- I)rm<>crat state* that prominent parties in Texas will soon begin a suit in the Court of Claim* at Wa*hinglon to recover the value of *lare* emanci* pated during the late war. The anion will be baaed rhiefly on certain clauses of the State Constitution which were approved and indorsed by congress at the time of the Annexation of Texas, and which, it is claimed, make the United State# Government liable for slave property. The plaintiff in the case was a strong and very pronounced Union man during the war, and the proposed action is indorsed and will lie pushed by some of the best lawyers of Texas. Further fact# regarding the suit are as follows: It is alleged that Texas was admitted into the Uniou tinder peculiar and different circumstances from any other state, and this action will be brought in good faith on the advice of some of the best lawyer* in Texas and without any idea of creat ing political excitement. __ A Row at Limerick MKMHKHH OK TIIK COMMON CO f NCI I, KNOAOEI) IN A WAR Of lIAHHII WORDS. London, Dec. i). At a meeting of the Common Council of Limerick to day it was decided to confer the free ; dom of the city upon Mr. Ihiwcon, the lord mayor of Dublin. Hcvcral Tory and Liberal mem born violently op posed thin proposition and attacked the i dominant florae liule element, who were the fathers of the resolution. , During the di*eu.--ion, Councillor , O'Callaghan called Councillor Daffuey a rowdy. Councillor Caffney retorted . by intimating that O'Callaghan was . an inveterate blackguard ; that he had , proved himself one at every opportun- I ity, and that it wa- within the recol . lection of every one pro-cut that Mr. O'Callaghari had been recently sound ly thrashed for indulging in his low lived propensities. This outburst wa- followed by a tremendous uproar. Kverv member shouted at the same time, and the nearest neighbor- shook their fist- in eaeli other's eyes. When <juiet was restored, the vote to entertain Mr. Dawson was passed. .V I.W-I'AI'l.l: < OMMI.M -. J lie 1/ondou papers to night refer editorially to the row, and instance the frequent fights and bickerings I among the member- of municipal gov ernments in Ireland a- being surely I indicative of the total incapacity of the Irish for home rule. I "If tlieycanuot decorously conduct the afla;r- of a mail city, they -av, "is it within tin- r< aim of Icq*- that they will ever IK* able to carry on, with even n a-onahle -ucce--, the affair- of a nation ?" Conduct of O'Donnell's Case ! COKHESI*! Nl!.\< J. |;j."rwi::x I 111, AT torney-oi:ni:i:.\i. \si i.-uj. cot.l. mis, K. Lnim fy. c.Sr Henry .lames, attorney-general, ha- written a letter . to Lord < hiel .Iu ti •< ~eridg' taking exceptions to the <■ ndu t < . t';.<* coun t sol for the di-fi-:. • in tin; O'D uinell , caae. The ittorney-geoeraP auggeats that should conn- i i:i future caws , attempt to into -el Matement- which j are in the nature of evidence, the l jus tii " Is for. wl. in theciv i- being j tried shall inf rm < .tinwl that such . p' i r ng i- inadmi-siloe, and will not . !>• permitted. Should an apjieal be . taken lr mti rui.ng ti.< que timi is to be dei i li\ the full court. Had . Justice I > i.iiian, he say, objected to the stati t.;t - ma;- by Char].* Ilu— sell in 1. polling of the O'Donm U case, the defence aj• j. ab-1 and the full bench decided the word- admissible) • • Donne] 1 w uid have b<n ac quitted. The lord chief justice, in reply, savs that in November, the judges decided by a vote of If to 2 that such statements should not be allowed, which decision had j reliably escaped Justice Denmark- memory. Chinese Massing Troops Around the City of Canton. MINI-TI K KERRY - \ MKIROVS VIEWS. 1'a RIK, Dec. The yellow book i upon the Tooquiii affair was dis tributed to the members of the < ham her of Deputies to-day. It contains I the Chinese memorandum which Prime Minister ferry, on the 2*lh ult., gave !to the ToOquin Credits Com mi tie. The memorandum state- that France had imposed upon Annam an unjust treaty, ignoring the rights of China; that Franco had invaded Annam and manifested an intention to take Hsc- Ninh, the key of the Chinese Empire, etc., and that China. while feeling compelled to resist agres sion, appealed to the honor of France so to act as to prevent bloodshed. It also contains the note of M. Ferry to the Marquis Tseng, the Chinese ambassador, suggesting that special power be entrusted to the mili tary chiefs in Tonquin to effect an un derstanding by which China could surrender Hac-Ninh and Sontay peace fnlly to Admiral Oourbct, and that subsequently a definitive settlement could be negotiated. The Marquis Tseng, in replying to the latter proposition, says that he re grets that i- ranee regards the occupa tion of Bontar and Hac-Ninh by her troops as indispensahle to the settle ment of the question. 11c also says he fails to preccivc the necceasity of France occupying three places, which, she is aware, the Chinese hold.
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