S. T. SHI'GERT & K. L. Oil VIS, Editors.
VOL. (i.
' &lic €t\\Ut fJemowai
Term* f 1.50 per Annum to Advance
AN explosion occurred in a coal
mine at West Pocohoutu?, Ya., last
week, by which oue hundred aud fifty
lives were lost.
IN Huntingdon county the iudep N
dent Hcpuhlicaii have squelched the
boss ringsters, and will appear in the
State convention with a Blaine dele
gation,
EX-SPEAKER KF.IKEK is cri.'htvd
with saving tliat he will retire from
public life at the end of his present
term. Shouldn't wonder, and iudma
. tioos are not wanting that the terra
' may he shorteued materially by the
House.
IT appears it was not Boss Don
A'atneron who returned from Europe
the other day and created such a flut
ter in Republican political circles,
now doing a little machine work ou
their own account, but auothcr Came
ron who is called Dun.
KELLOGG and Piuchback hear! the
Louisiana delegation to the Republi
can national convention. The dele
gation, composed chiefly of those who
figured in the iufamous frauds and
transactions of will be appro
priately led by this pair of beautiful
4 ducks.
THF. names of the private score
ft,
taries of the senators recently chosen
under a resolution of the senate, al
lowing each member a clerk, have not
yet been publicly announcer!. Why
| is this? Is it because the seuator,,
wrives and daughters have thus been
put under pay from the public treas
ury ?
THE Philadelphia Record sums up
the star route business briefly, thus:
"Two or three small contractors were
fined and jailed ; two or three influen
tial politicians were tries! and acquit
ted, and two or three lawyers were
| pai<l enormous fees. All the big fish
I found holes in the net spread for them,
through which they escaped with their
ill-gotten body."'
SECRET*BY LINCOLN'S boom for
the Presidency will probably lose one
very prominent element of its strength,
when it becomes known that the other
day he refused to appoiut a colored
clergyman, highly recommended, as a
regimental chaplain. He preferred
the "white trash" and chose a man
with few hackers instead of the "col
ored brother."
THE protective tariff advocates J
should recollect this is a bad year to |
rehash their old war cry to frighten '
and control the votes of working meu. 1
"Pauper labor" won't do to rally in,
when they have filled every town in
the country with importation of this
Jtind of labor to compete with and
'depress the wages of labor of our own
THE testimony in the contest be
tween Ex Speaker Keifer and corres
pondent Boynton, for championship
as the greatest liar, is all in, and now
only awaits the report of the congres
sional committee to determine the
point at iseue. From all that has
transpired, the general belief is that
the ex-Speaker has won by a large
majority, and will be declared the
champion.
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AT LAST ! Congress ha nt last re
moved the align*. which to the dia
grace of the country, was permitted
tofft upon the name of Hen. Fit/.
I Joan Porter. I/Ogan's vindictive
twaddle failed to control all the Re
publican members o( the senate, and
the bill which recently passed tbo
house was oobcurred on Thursday last
by * vote of 36 yeas to 25 nays-
WAmong those voting in the negative is
Mitchell, the miserable nobody whom
gave a seat in that body to
. represent Pennsylvania.
I
Aimim, it nocm*, lIAS H l>ig con
, tract on lnuid to carry the delegation
; of New York to the National couvcu
| tiou. It is said (hut the Independents
are organizing to openly antagonize
him, asserting thai he could not possi
-1 bly carry the state if nominated—
j that his rattdidaey in that Mnte would
he ni disastrous to the party as was
that of Folger, his candidate for Gov
' ernor.
1 POOR AY ! How sad he must be,
i when he announces that he will fight
|no more political battles. And who
, will work the ting machine for D°"
'wlun Matthew steps down? Tom
, Cooper is bull-headed and an aspirant.
Magee lacks experience, and John
Stewart is ouly on probation, hut
promises efficiency after reasonable
drilling.
THE Governor of California ha.-
called in extra session of the legisla
ture. The object of this call is that
' the legislature may take such action
upon the railroad corporations of the
; state a will secure obedience to the
laws upon their part, in the payment of
j taxes and subject theru to a more
, strict system of state aujiervision.
j The railroads have refused to Ix-ar
i their proportion of the tax burdens,
and decline to pay the taxes assessed
i upon them.
IT apiear> (Jov. l'attisou was chosen
oy the Philadelphia conference a lay
delegate to the Methodist General
| conference which is to meet in Phila
delphia in May next. A member who,
j of course, did not like to see the ad
ministration divided, proposed to make
the Attorney-General the Governor's
alternate. But, ays the Record, "the
good brethren would not consider the
name of Attorney General Cassidy a*
an alternate. This is making flesh of
| oue end of the state administration l
and fnh of the other, hut as it is the
season of Leut Mr. Cossidy can pro
bably bear up under it.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR ha- uot lived
in vain in New York society, and of
course knows how it i* himself. Ac
cording to the New York lIVrM, he
proposes to deal with the Mormon
question in a manner which cannot
admit of failure. His plan is "to
have Salt Lake City invaded by a
score of milliners who will set up
magnificent establishments filled with
finery for women. His theory is that '
the Mormon wives will be attracted bv '
the disp lay, will go to running up
hills, and in a short time will disgust
their lords with the plurality of ma
trimony."
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IT cannot he disguised that the Re
publican party in Pennsylvania have
on hand a very interesting fight, not
withstanding the I toasted harmony
which their journals proclaim is per
vading the party. The people are for
Blaine everywhere, hut the machine
works in the interest of Arthur, armed
with the federal patronage. So ac- 1
customed are the people to yield to the '
mandates of the bosses, and so care
fully have they been educated in
obedience, that there is little doubt of
the result. Arthur will be sustained
by the convention when it meets, and
the people's favorite will again step
down and out because of their cowar
dice.
IN Robinsou county, Texas, three
fiendish negroes a few days ago, butch
ered a family of five persons named |
Martin, consisting of an old man and ,
his wife, their little boy twelve years j
of age, and two grown up daughters, !
after the most brutal outrage of these
persons. These were mwt revolting'
aud brutal murders, but as the mur- \
don-re were negroes in quest of plun
der, of coarse it will not count in
Sherman's history of southern out
rages intended to discredit the civiliza
tion of the south. Tire fiends were
captured and dealt with summarily by
the people, after receiving their con
fession of the crime and the amount of
money obtained by its commission,
which wgs $l2OO.
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"Kyi'A I. AND KIAtT JU STICK TO AI.L MKN, or WIIATKVBR STATU on PEHM'AHION, HELIUIOOS OK POLITICAL."—J*Or*oi>
BELLKFONTK, I'A.. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, IKHI.
' Mr. Tllden out of tho Rn?n.
Wo publish elsewhere an interview
| by Mr. Howell, of the A(/untia Con•
dilution, with Mr. Tilden, which es
tablishes definitely the fact that this
distinguished favorite of the people in
lint u cttiulidate for the Presidency
' and will not permit hia name to ho
' j used in that connection. Since that,
'during the last week, the I lon. Wil
liam S. Stenger, our secretary of tho
' commonwealth, who a* a member of
; congress in 187G, and one of the com
, iniltee charged with the investigation
i of the frauds which deprived the
i I rcoideni elect of the office ami Con
ferred it upon an usurper, made a
friendly vi-it to Mr. Tilden and com
! municates the result of that visit, s<>
. far as the public are interested, to the
, llarriphurg I'atriot, in which he con
■ firms the statement of Mr. Howell in
the main. He Bays: 'I hadnt seen
, Mr. Tilden for several years, And was
pained and shocked to sec the great
j change that had come over him dur
ing that interval, Initial of the
plump, vigorous aud determined spcci-
I men of manhood, he is wasted away
; so that his skin seems to hang on his
j bones. So emaciated indeed has he
i become that alt exertion seems pain
ful to him. His hands shake so vio
lently that he finds it necessary to rest
them on a table before him. His
Voice is husky and weak and he enun
ciates only with the greatest effort.
His tongue seems swollen ami para
| lyzed to some extent and his whole
appearance indicates suffering. He
seems to realize his infirmity, too, for
there is a noticeable alienee of that
confidence in his powers that once
characterized his movements, aud
though he walks alone servants are
always kept waiting within easy ac
, cess, as if in preparation to answer h J
, summons at an unexp-eted mono HI
This change came on me I:k•- an tin '
pleasant rc velation and compelled ne j
to relinquish the hope I have long
entertained that Samuel J Tilden I
wjuld again lie elected President < t
the United States and then inaug-ira
ted in spite of fraud aud fori*. Lan
reluctant to give up this hope. f.r i
was long cherished, hut after wl.ut 1
have seen with my owu eyes and In an
from his lijw there is no alternative
but to accept the inevitable."
In relation to Mr. Howell's state
t merit about the acquiescence of Mi
. Tilden in the electoral commissioo,
| Mr. Stinger thinks he was mistaken,
j "That is a subject that was nt refer
red to Iw-twecn us : hut my memory ot j
the events incident to that gnat wrong
are that he never gave his assent to it I
in any way. I Vn convinced there |
fore that in this matter Mr. Howell
must lie mistaken. While Mr. Tilden
lis weak and broken physically, lie
preserves all his well known nuntal
faculties. His old custom of careful
: deliberation in speech is still noticea
( hie, ami it seems impossible, therefore,
I that he could have made snch a state. !
ment regarding hii attitude on the
electoral commission. In speaking of
the impracticability of his ever again
becoming a candidate he used the very 1
-ame figure to me that Mr. Howell |
gives in the other connection. I had
alluded to the anxiety of the Demo
j eratir people of the oountry to right
, that great wrong, when he answered :
'Too late. It is past and is a wring
I that cannot be righted.' "
What They Will Do
The Lancaster Intelligencer, rob 1
| ring to the very evident effort ol the
Republican journals to revise the old
Randall and Wallace fight in the
i selection of delegates to the nationsl '
convention, remarks: "There is, in
fact, no evidence of any such contest.!
and its existence is exceedingly an- j
likely on the face of things. Penn
sylvania has the most moderate ex
pectatioo of being favored with the
selection of the national candidate
from her border?, and should she lie
surprised with the gift it is not likely
that any of her delegates would de-
| fire to refuse it no mutter who may b(
r the chosen auointed.
The Him of the delegation will l><
. what should be the aim of the con
4 volition, the selection of the best ami
4 strongest candidate. If he exists in
, ' Pennsylvania, the delegates from other
J states will he left to point him out ;
our delegates will he wise and prudent
. enough to refrain from obtruding their
, 1 own opinion a to their own men. This
( is dictated not only by good taste, hut
by good policy. Experience has re
, peatedly and clearly shown that if a
. state has a candidate, whom ahe sin
.. oorely desires nominated, the delegates
, do not best secure their aim by clamor
. ing for him until they have found he
, i clamored for. Candidates them
• selves have been taught bv a steady
exjierience that pmjH-r modesty in the
1 piesentation of their names is a-* con
ducive to success us it is judicative of
their worthiness of it. Mr. Blaine
and Mr. Tilden, who are said to be
again in the front of the candidacr of
: their respective parties, have both
been striving very hard to keep in a
safer hack ground, and can hardly
congratulate themselves on thecircum
stances which force them out of cover.
It the Pennsylvania delegates have
any hope of a Pennsylvania candidate,
there are two things they will not do,
I .
if they are possessed of the good sense
they ought to have. They will not
suffer the exhibition of any rivalry
IK tween Pennsylvania AS to who shall
bear off" that whirh is not yet assigned
to their state; and they will not un
dertake o claim it until they are in
vited to do so."
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THK proprietor of a cattle ranch in
Colorado, who was one of the fa.lhful
1 1106 hand at Chicago in I*7o, has
i utilised his medal by making it the
j <nd(ha brand for his cattle.
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A liemarkable Tribunal
i T! Ie re publican supreme court of the
I nittd States, remarks the Harris
-org J'ttriol, hns reversed and stnlti
. i .t-i It on a question of the highest
.•I , inifkirlance.
I :it e Uirl was deliberately packed
it one time to decide the legal tender
i a.-t ei'ti-tuiftional. Afterward, when
it -uit.-d the republican leaders t>>
demagogue on 'be subject of a resump
tion ..f S|M-< ie payments, the c.urt dr
eiibd against the legal tender quality
of the greenback A few davs sine*
the same court reversed itself by de
elarii.g the greenback a legal tender
It i a matter of general notoriety
that judges of the supreme court bavt
b cn appointed with the deliberate
understanding that they should serve
I -irne certain sjiocial interests. The
ajqsiintnifnt of Stanley Matthews, for
instance, was made with the intention
of giving Jay Could a representative
on the supreme bench in repayment
of hi contribution to the Garfield
electioneering fund. This is ojwnly
charged and the charge has never
been refuted.
What is to be thought of a politi- 1
cal party which lends its countenance
|to such prostitution of the highest
judicial tribunal of the couotrv ? '
What is to lie said of a political party
which give* the |eople a supreme
court that doee not know its own mind
from one year to another ? Let tbe
people answer at the ballot-box.
TIM Mexican Central railroad just
completed, w ill make the time between
New York and the City of Mexico
ale-ut six days. From El Paso, where
the American railroads terminate, to
j the City of Mexico the distance is
1.224 tones. The Mexican Central
< iinpany is utainly a Boston enter
:|ie, and the subsidy it will have
learned front tbe Mexican government
by its completion, is set down at about
f 18,(KK.t,tKK) reckoned in Mexican cur
rency. The subsidy, which it at the
rate of slo,2<Ml per mile, is payable
in i\ rtiScaiua in which turn-ban:* are
compelled jo pay 8 per rent, of all
duties at the frontier aud maritime
custom which enables the com-
e j pany to collect its subsidy at the rat.
of from 8000,000 upwards per ao
-0 num, according to the amount of
1-| duties paid annually by the inert as
1 ing commerce of Mexico. The rail
-11 road runs through the centre of the
r great table land of Mexico, which,
> with its temperate climate, ri< !i iron,
' tin, silver und gold deposits ami large
r areas of farming und gra/.ing la ids.
• already supports a population of near
t ly -1,000,000 inhabitants. All the
states through which the company's
11 lines pass have a total population of
• 5,309,101, There are twenty or,.- < iti.
jon the railroad of R.OOO population
• and over, ranging from that figure to
e 100,000 in lyv>n ami 211,00'' in M x
• ico.
♦
Tho Panama Canal
e ■
A *ei\ int r>-ting on the Pin .
. in. 'inal, by Lieutenant Raymond I*
I Rodger-, ..f tb" .Yivy, ha- ju-t f.- n
transmitted to the senate Ly - -crelary
- 1 ' 'iiatidi. r, in compliance with 11 lei .lu
f . lion of that body. 'lbis i- tin second
1 report o' I.ieti'cnunt Ibxlg n <-n tin
t P.'in itni 1 .mi!, and it r.-vi. w- tin- run
ditinn of the work nt the clo-e of the
v.-ar l*s.l. The number of men em
ployed in all sections of the canal is
' now a t least 15,000, brought eli. fly from
' : Jaiuai a and ' '.ir.hagena. It h feen
, a--.-rtd by tin- enemies of this great
, enterprise that the bad climate of the
. 1 Utlirnus would prevent its completion.
1 - but I.i-utennnt Rodger* observes that
, ! the climate tbu- far litis not proved as
I fatal as had been anticipa'e.) A- a rule,
tb. employe- of the company mem in
' fair In .illh, but the Kuropeatlf hare, ot
course, suit- red more than the natir.-s
of the tropica. I li" m ist sickly section
of the • anal i- .n the neighborhood of
1 Panama.
Aft<r renewing the progress of the
work L) tions l.ieuter an' Rojg.-r*
ref.-rs to tin- j ri-ln tion of M de Is-sej.
• that the canal will be ojrf-ned by tin
s-ear Iksh, <'onaidartng the en'.rmous
ex< .vat. tb it are nei-r -ari . ar 1 al
j low n z for tlie rr. it with *h>li
tin- w .rk i pro e<ut-1. Ii <lor ri-it
tflink tl. it It will 1m complete I for kfillu
|)ear- later. As the Panama Canal ap
| r>.e tn - ie.il n In r. guru- the que.
lion its to w|,, tie r tin* i a better route
than tli.it >f N car.tgu.p v of • p- rt:
cat moiii'-ut
I h. -emiteha* in this rejwrt saiflt>-icnt
iriformation to justify tiie conclusion
{ that tli I'msm i i',inal before many
years wdl be an aecomplisiiod fa. t
When the funal a undertaken at
I tempt* w-je made to frigliten subsetip
| tiou- fr-.m it- -t->ck Lyra s ng cxtrava j
gilit pretens .as under a perverted
tluorr o' tb. Monroe doctrine Rut
the... pret.-n-ioris hav. brenw.ll n'gh '
nb-imb n"d Til" ran i', when completed, !
will be under the m-inag-ment of the !
pr.vntc company who capital is ri-ked
! in it, .md. lik. th> Suez (anal, jt will be
•nd'-r tin pint. ■ tion of nil rotnmrr. il
tuitions, '-in. ■ tho senate i in |vosrs |
si..n <>f iimo d< tinit- infitrmsfion in re- '
gsid to thermal. th<- first <ep of eon '
, are--, -bolild be to make treaties of
re. ipi.H ity w tb nil the state- of I Vntral 1
and < utli Am.'r r<,.. -• to take prompt j
advant g- of tin- great impetus that will !
b< given to trade tiy this junction of the j
two <" ea"s This will be uiu h m<n- to
the pi r|> . than b.-eding the snarls of i
, d.-ncigoguc :i ii n enterprise-which the]
whole ii i/eil world wvlcom.-s. The j
treaty with Mexico is a small advance
in the right dirs-o ion. Before the canal
1 is completed the whole western bemi j
' sphere should be embraced in a i stem
of trade reciprocity. Although thia
i country hitd comparatively a small finan
| cial share in the Panama Canal it i*
( destined by exorei- ing a liberal poliex to
1 reap its greatest oommercial advantages.
' Philn. Ii front.
Adtlitlonal Local.
—The following It from the OHHIOH
.e -nt of leek Haven and will b" UU resl
iug to many of our reader*
A faw month* ago, the question, '-Who
I rang the Liberty Bell?" came up in iha
history class of the senior division of ih
Ud Ward grammar school, of thi*rity,ar..|
all hand* had more than lhay could do i •
answer It. It was lhara suggested that the
question lie sent to rem* of the Philade'-
phi* paper* for an answer, and Misa D*s.ie
C Lesher i* tha first to report an anivm,
through the Ootrfrn Dsys, .fame* Klvers. n
Pull|her It t* interesting and curieu•,
and net in accord with our hl*t Man*; here
if las
"A |roi'n*nt authority etatra that the
TKHMS: pir Amium,in Arimnrv
c slot) lll,on. til" ringing of the l.i'trrty li,.<
. m July 4ih, 17T;, by an old lIIHII, W<M
f . panie-d by H little boy, whocriedout ring
ring' '• 8 | r 0c ion, the oulc wi<- of
lutil imagination of a well-known novel
it Kxcrptlng the member* of
* j who were tilting in *ecrt wwion, no or.-
( kr.i-w that llm !>•-, laraliof] vt> being ROR,
( ei Jef, d b> tllbt body. Thl; resoi'illoli ■
J-.lv 21, 177' i, *n* of till! greatest iuije I
am-.-, the r -citing forth the rca
for the act b- ing considered a metier •
but little moment by pereont not in lb
Coiigre*'. Ttiera wa* a pubic eeb bran •
, on the ► ii of July, when all the h. I .
i'liiladeipliia acre rung. The name of r„
bel'-.inoer at that time *► ff-irri '•
AH tiling* Considered, the ale.Ve
to I,- a more plausible account of tbi* 4 I
'if ii •• , r y tJ at . the or.e bund in t •
't B hi- 1 ' l>, 1 bi- B-i II * j' J '
the 1,1, ,ve : ,11. li . :*, a ] l |„ f, 1, y,, ■
liov Pun . pack-r Cuued
A hut bcr <)' c tii-n* in v. w <jt t.
r. lir m it of lie Iter. 0 J- n
1 [•!• k.-r I ,-11 'I , jM.'or i- f>! ),,- M •
j < bur- ii of tiiin |lk • for ano:lier eji!,et,
ol du .. -i* erobb-ii at 111e |. IN i.)Ji--v O
Mer*. ilu-t ng A Jfenl-r and inveigl
ed tJie rtveru'd g Ittleiuan m;o i)*- .
, |-r < ii ,if er u bicli tin- n-ri-m ny *,
. Cutting <-11.111' 1,1 •-■1 till ler tin- b-ol Ol
tlie i i.i a'a ratige-t, I' |. 11;*.• ing
, \\ e i< •• i <! lited to the JtV-ri for lin
follutt ,ig r i oyii 4
Mr Ha- tii g* preceded .o t. ,i lb v.
Mr. IV t pi'kef tirat the ge ute>i
gathered ar iuu'l liim regarded bun iili
much re-peci arid abrairatiit, . bat a i
arkriowlt <lg>- the imporuo* *t vice
.of the reverend gentlcm n wri■ 1— m
B-liefonle. lie bad trengtliene I*r i
cemented the church of which b
pa*lor in the 'ace of great obatac'** it -
I compared U*v. I'ene packer's etl -its • •
- thote of an Littern Geoeral, tlie p, ,
ol wboae army waa obit rooted wi •
• now and ice, and prog re*.e iu--'i a I
mmt impxiibl* until the ii-oeral, in
pcron. led the way in clearing a | <t>
and hi" courage at length spread am -i
hi* officers and then tisoi g, the men
umii final) the a'tny went inward -u
cr ••fully. If -aching hehm 1b :u .it tit
p'Oj.er moment, hegra*p d hat *r eiee-i
to be tlie weapon held in Mr. M
hand and exlnbiu-da very elegant g<n i
'headed can- whn-h he eai 11 ho" • pr
ent derired him to give to ker I'-M
packer a* a lei nonial of e',eem 'm*n
I hem. lie gra fully extended the
cane and r< tir d to the rear apartment
He v. Pen*pH*W or. although vidblyaf
ferted and much rurpriwd, nev, r'he
|e. re nonde f a! aome length, review
ing hi* paator it-r here and te*tifving ti
the warm friend nip* he bad formed ro
wel) a to aotiie he had aacrificed IK
eaue hi* do rr ran rather to do tight
than to ree.. |Hipularily. lie "courted
no favor att l feared no frown."' Ofie n
loubtlena. be had erred, but hta ac
lion* had be. n influenced bjr a atrirt
•cne of duty. ll* thanked tbro for
the appropriate gift.
He wa followed by I>. p". Furtwey
j and S. |. Gray, Kvji., the latter get,
tlentan aayiog that no member of the
Metbo !>t elmi-b had given anything
toward* tlie pun ita*c of the cane, that
, It carne entirely from those outride
i that chun h
I hit called If v l'enepacker to hie
feet again. He a-.id th*t he did not at
; firat under.tand that the memireta of
bi* own c rgregation were not repren-n
te<l in tlicgifi and '.nat he oonsequentiv
did not ray what h would otherwise *
have aaid in reapon-e. In reference to
bit re'ati with other churchea, be bad
alway* preacheo Mt thodiam moat earn
! eatly, tut hid never in the courae of
hi* pa.torate .aid a d.aretpectful word
of other worshipping tiodiea, of what
ever name or form lie loved Metho
dam and Methodist batter than otbet
denomination* • he loved the Pennayl
vani* comrade* with whoa be went
forth to war. better than New York
aoldiei* or thine of other tjbttea But
because he loved M-t hodiaU more
oo re*sou Why be hou)d not do bia ew
tire duty tow*H otherCbriatiaaa.
With theee r-marka the formality of
the gath' ring ended and after all ha"l
duly limited the elegant gift the com
pany *c|-erated
—Very latest style bata and c.p* at
t^win'a.
—Four cabinet* for lea* money lhaa four
card #iae. would mat e'aewhere, at Beyer >
Biah.ip *tret.
—Kr cry body la ti-rlted to (foarfoe* A
Mayer *tn buy bread pie*, cake* and ocn
| (.etlnai
—f. tee'lent ftng 1 .u, for (j.e canM ner
yard -C) r ian'*.
NO. 12.