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Buosixess Norioss, in the editorial columng, 15 cents per line, each insertion. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. THE OLEVELAND SCANDAL. A Non-Partisan Inves. tigation Result A COMMITTEE OF REPUBLICANS AND SIXTEEN INDEPENDENT MAKE AN EXAMINATION ISSUES AN ADDRESS, N.Y. Ihe following address was to-day adopted by the National mittee: Burravro, August 11. Independent yn of As Republicans and Inde To the Independent Republicans the Nation : peadents residing in Buffalo, and hav ing peculiar means of knowledge, we have been called upon by private letters and otherwise for information in regard to the scandals which have been put in circulation respecting Gov. Clevelan d's We have felt it be a duty imposed on us by circumstances private life. to to examine the stories in detail and mske a formal statement of the results No such examination would have been but it read the nescessary to satisfy ourselves, was due to those who have charges against Governor Cleveland, without knowing personally his general | character and reputation in this com the position or the information of those who munity, without knowing either have made the charges, that we should not put forth a mere geseral statement without a previous investigation. have, therefore through a committe for that deliberately appointed from our number purpose, carefully and make have taken every available means to as such an investigation and we certain the precise facts in each case The general charges of drunkenness and gross immorality which are made against Governor Cleveland are absolute ly false. His reputation for morality has always been good. There foundation for any statement to the contrary. Ile was sought out and nom inated for the Majority against his will, and was supported for that position by the larger portion of the educated, in- telligent and moral citizens of Baffalo | without regard to politics and on pure- ly personal grounds. After he had gone through this contest he was again | put forward as one of the most distin guished citizens of Buffalo as a candi date for the Governorship, and again re ceived the support of the same class of fellow citizens in this community, where he had lived for twenty years, and where his life was and his character well understood. This nine support would not have been given to | im bad he been either a drunkard or ertine, We are able to speak from personal knowledge as his acquaintance of long standing and to say that his gen eral private life has been that of a quiet orderly self-respecting and always high. ly respected citizen. Since he assumed his present office bis visits to Baffalo have been few and of short duration, 1t is susceptible of absolute proof, and has been proved to us, that upon no one of these visits has sunything occurred to justly the statements which have been made by his detractors, The charge that he has recently taken part in a drunken and licentious debauoch in Buf. alo, on the occasion of such a visit is entirely false, We have been particularly careful and thorough in our investigations of the alleged betrayal, abduction snd in- human treatment of a woman of this city as detailed in a local news paper, The circumstances out of which this story was fabricated occurred eight year ago. The woman in question was at that time a widow between 30 and 40 years of age, with two children, the younger of whom was 10 years old, The facts of the case show she was not seduced and the allegations respecting abduction and ill-treatment are wholly false. We deem these the only features of the charge io connection with this We i Is no | ; 9 known | | matter which constitute a public que | tion requiring any declaration on our part, Our examination of the other charges which have been made against Govern or Cleveland's private character shows that they are wholly untrue, In every instance in which the reports and in- sinuations have been tangible enough to farnish a clew to guide usin our in- vostigations they have been positively proved to be false, The attack upon Governor Cleveland thoroughly discredited the It was first publicly character is when consider from we sources which it comes. made in Buffalo by a newspaper of no standing whatever, We have twice call: ed upon the editor of this paper snd asked him to produce his proof, the and other particulars DAMES, dates 2 | which he had publicly stated he was at 5 | liberty to show. He declines to doso or | to facilitate investigation into the truth | of either his own charges or those con- | tained in the anonymous lettes which [ he published. He admited that he had | no evidence to support any accusation | against Governor C'sveland except in i the one instance to which we have par [ | ticul rly referred. {on that story, and 2¢ to that he is con ile rested his case { tradieted by the witnesses having per { sonal knowledge, | The two clergymen whose profess on { h | these charges have no personal kn ledge of the stances « been invoked give weight to wots, and under the circum {i not possib’y have ich hey {sta'e, as facts known to thems wu! | knowledge have ventured to ' $ eives, »l i 1 ries which rest upon the merest hearsay and which, when traced to theiralleged sources, are in every case denied by the persons to whom they are ascribed We have designed to make a candid of the results of {the matte on of and judicial statement ir investigat without partisian cols thougt if necessary or proper t y repent against Governor Cleveland in de nor to present in full the evidence which they have been disproved, Buffalo N. Y., Signed by August 9, 1854 John H. Cowing, Ashley Wilcox, William F. Kip, Thomas Cary, { George P. Sawyer, Raph Stone, Joho E | Ransom, Henry W, Sprague, Josiah G Bar ohn Munroe, Lawrence DD, Rumsey, ret Rich, Charles PP. Norton Tallman Davis, Henr Larned. » Information {) mstead, J. man and J. N, Wanted PERTINENT QUESTIO ONNEx XE FROM TH ATH ORGAN O THE TICUT There are some Irish reans who are shouting loudly are a few laboring men nding that Ww manner, dem our next present hy thus it we arte is difficult 10 under OD LO me 1] pen i the above classe «wili « ier undoubtly m«ke many convert, by lowing reasonable questions Duariog a publie career of has | Blaine ever done, by word or action, to over [twenty five years what James 6 merit the support of Irish- Americans ? In that same public eare:r what do, by assist the poor man or better his condi did he ever word or deed, { tion ? 3. What measures did he ever in ro | due e or champion the national house { of representatives or the senate that | tended to favor the producing classes? 4. Is there asingle instance, during | » long and public career of more than | | a quarter of a century, where James G, | Blains has been on the side of the pro ducing classes and the iaborer ? 5. How it was possible for James G | Blaine to become a millionaire in a few years on a salary of $5,000, Did he se cure his mill ons honestly, or by selling | his official influence to corporations and lm ynopolies ? 6. Can our “vigorcus' foreign-policy { Irish- Americans point to one single case | where James (i, Blaine, as representa | tive, as senator, or as secretary of state | spoke one kind word for struggling | Ireland or demanded that Irish-Amer” | jean citizens should be justly treated [and immediately tried or liberated | when arrested by English officials with out warrant or cause ? | 7. Will some one inform us why | James G. Blaine appoint such a snob {ns James R. Lowell to the court of St. James ? And, fioally, will some one beso very kind as to let us know why this same Blaine bowed the American eol- ors to the flag of Eagland and order od a salute to be firedin honor of Kog and at the celebration at Yorktown? Wa fail to see any good that has ever . me by the efforts of James 0. Blaine, + “he Irish-American, to the laboring ms., 'r to the masses in gen. eral. He is nov n sympathy with the people and he cares not for their hap: piness or prosperity. He had many chances to prove his love for the op: pressed, but he most disgracefully fail. ed or blundered, We osnnot afford to extend his power or give him an- other trial. We fear be would waste too much time, if he were elooted ee TE Ta Cleveland and Labor. The national Labor party { have held a convention in Chiengo on | 0th ult, | tive committee reached that Inet | Monday. Another in | New York and issued a pronuncismen- were to on the A part of the Execu- city part remained | to postponing the convention until Sep’ | tempber, on the ground that, the letters | of Mr. Clevaland and My. Butler not | having boen made public, the party | was not yetin a position to knows who {it should support for President. | part in Chicago, having been joined by Fhe | some thirty or forty delegstes, and de gparing of the coming of any more, re solved that no and nominations be made adjoarned the convention until 30, The most important thing they did, however, was to put July 1888, out a document in the following words: “We hereby re-affirm and adopt the demands formulated and presented by the York, which were adopt | the Independent Labor party of state of New ed and incorporated in their platform by the Democratic party of that state in | | | | | 1882. ss follows : | “We aflitm the policy always maintained by the Democratic party that it is of the first importance that labor should be made fro thi "and secure of just remuneration 15d viet labor should not come into com ion with the industry of law abd tizens ; that the labor of children ing « th guards th, their educati ind their fi { mbers of should be surrounded as their heal ture the community that workshops, whether large ye i} should be under such the yf those emg oyed A 1 shall have : that labor rights as capital to combine { protection, and that which cramps industry or when « the power | tooppre | ind to r we be repealed terests of } ection i sialls specting the improvements and needs, abuses of the various branches of indus ry. i esd the demands for reforms made by workingmen of New York have 0 been accomplished through their soce} tance and endorsements by the gre reform Governor ofthe Sinté of New Fatal pro EAs In York in the following measures lishing a Labor Bureau of Statistics the tenement ho hibiting manufacture of « FRO: prot ibiting the mak ng of contra for conviet | mak ssboring men creditors ing n assignments of emy ommission to exsmine the sanits ondition of tenement houses, factor ste, whieh sre commended as vila « to the peop are hereby declared to be the prin labor in the whole country: wgoing remarks, the Wilksbury i=} ive Ope | «tory of the re labor legislative wssistance. That it w and found [hat it istened to and endorsed by the went to the Democratic do the latch string out, needs were porty. [hat they were taken to the legislature and that from there they went to the great reform Governor and by him were eadorsed., Yet the Jay tioulds, Russell aod Whitelaw Reids and Charles Emory Smith's * | Sages, and Cyrus Fields, ral NnawspaAper Organs are irying to make the workingmen believe that the Damo not that Grover Cleveland is their enemy. —— A — Tue substance of the New York Times cratic party is their friend, lengthy exposure of Jay Gould's opera ions with the Union Pacific Railroad, is that the company now owes the Gov ernment, in principal and interest, $52 540 000 and that it is increasing st the It becomes lue in about twelve years. Its stock debt is $178,500,000, 000, rate of a million a year, and bonded or, including its debt to the Govern] | "ment, £230,000,000, “a sum sufficient to build the whole road three times and to spare.” The road is almost bankrupt ; with three competing lines, having one third the debt, the Pacific is hardly able to earn its bonded charges, and Jay Gould stands ready aside the wreck, provided he can escape the penalties of the law. The probabiii- ties are the Government will eventually | have the rosd on its bands, the worst thing that could happen. The responsi. | bility for the existing conditions rests with the officers of the Government in disregarding the Thurman law, and mil | lions of dollars were peid out in divi- | dends and building branch liees from the money ordered to be paid to the Government, All this throws some light on the declaration of Senator Ed- munds, made four years ago, to prevent Bliiae’s nomination : It is my deliberate opinion that Mr, Blaine acts as the attorney of Jay Gould Whenever Mr. Thurman snd | have settled upon legislation to bring the Pa oific railroads to terms of equity with the Government, up has jumped Jame Union | pants escaped unharmed. bolt of healthful | { at | e of the United States | { of heavy guns and | other to throw | Freaks of Lightning. WHAT ELECTBICTY FROM ACCOMPLIRIL IN ITH THE SKY PASSAGE, WILL Yes, lightning is a strange power and it performs many funny freaks,” said Prof, Halliday, of 8t. Louis, who is tem- porarily sojourning at the Notional Capi tal, to a reporter last The has carefully watched and noted phenomenal atmospheric events for the past forty yenrs, evening, Professor He is as full of rare and interesting information as a healthy lake is full of water. Out West is known as the old pro fessor of hurricanes and chained light. ning, a significant title which he richly deserves on sccount of his scientific ef- forts, “I have krown a flash of lightning, he continued stroking his long white beard, “to dart through a chimney into a room full ef people and go out through | an open window after having killed an | Innocent kitten that was lying asleep ander the sofa. The six human o2cu Ina Penn- sYivania town, rot Many years ago { lightning flashed through an open window at which a lady was sitting | enguged insewing. The lady was stunned and ts upon being resiord COLECIOUs i ness 4 wk that the lig S HO Duman " breaking that could have lit the needle so neat Lhe {to iy withiout electric laze, with sufhi knocl down ent power the largest bou ¢, had just nest die point Ihe specimen was aftersard and formed ly opened the A pre ne ng. on exhibition st Philedelphia ut three weeks ago the myster ids tore alo: my Stale and upon re ad taken shelter both sol upper ri Carolina iady er wo o i A 2D \ slrange exper ance last 1m was milking a cow under the cattle | shed, while one of tho e terrific South ern thunder storms was passing She was suddenly knocked sprawling and almost deafened by a loud A report stroke of lightning bad struck ia her half filled milk pail and the electricity milk wwper bottom of the pan tothe ground. had gone through the and Ibe pan was uninjured, but the milk | was turned to a dark blueish color and tasted strongly of brimstone and sul phur The professor stopped long enough to relight bis cigar and then continued the killing of the largest number of human “I bave a record which describes beings ever killed in one place and by one stroke of lightoing.” “It occurred at a planiog mill nea loronto, Canada, in the fall of 1842, I'bere wes but one thunder bolt, pre cedded, by a few minutes, a heavy and | Masses lowering gray clouds were agitating the r : Is is long continued snow storm, of sky and the wind was blowing a perfect gale, Eighteen men were at work in the : = mill, As the wind lulled momeni.- like simultaneous discharge of & full battery there was a deafening report the of a broad The bolt had darted glare flame, through thejopen work shop, and the eighteen | men lay scattered about on floor. Six teen of them were killed outright and the shock, That stroke of lightning was the most two were only stunned by The upon ife on record. stunned stated their return | consciousners that they did not hear the report or see the flash. In fact they did not know what had struck them. “This versifies the statement that al person does not see or hear the bolt | | that strikes, and after you see the flash all danger from the stroke is past, An of atmospheric electricity occurred during the war, A thunderbolt exploded over the heads of strange freak a company of Confederate soldiers in | | Eastern Tennessee. among the bayonets of the men, doub- ling up three of them like pot hooks | It then passed to the earth, doing no more damage. About one year ago, while a schoolgirl was going to her home near Atlants, Ga. a flash of light. ning entered her school bag and burned all of her books to ashes, “The girl was badly frightened, but not at all injured. | have numerous records,” sald the professor as he turned to enter the hotel, “of great balls of elootricity—ball lightning, they are oslled entering the doors or window, of houses, and after rolling about for a fow seconds, like illuminated ghosts, uietly floating out in the storm just as they oame in. The entrance of one of these brilliant and unwelcome visitors js S00ngH to terrify the bravest house. old.’ contrivance | is | ] i I+ X ] J tw 3 3 BR over. | i 3 | the fo! The bolt flashed | £70 Ww 81 Bush Vases and Plaques to which we invite your attention. The vines are in high relief, and when skilifolly painted and glaz ed with A MBER ENAMEL, rival the celebrated = English Doulton ware, costing from 8100. they range from to 83. NO FIREING OR BAKING REQUIRED. Call and examine the designs at GREEN'S PHARMACY, flowers NF cl in pnice ouse Block, Bellefonte, Pa. We have Telephone Connection. | AND PI t K ND PITTSBUREH Thirty teachers wend for new i MR Aria. MM | w hers Cala CONSERVATORY OF MU2IC 100 full Music Lessois [or of C. PERSH] iv ? IMC, Pittcburgh, Pa 1S after the the Tailors exira inducements in low £ large ord JeTE, ds are now | * ~The season ren - | erally dull with {fering We ne wrices the coming in Leave y« Moxreomeny & Co. Tallo Buy your Grand Army suits at Lew Philadel; Branch, Pa TRIX N( tars { have ven and | ¥ r ! er now re Bellefonte bis ECT lates TICE. — Letters ¢ evtate of Jobu ate of Walker township has . 5 rane 1 make ale payme against the same to pre y law, for we sell ioment ELIZABETH MEYERS : | Exocutrix The Farmers’ Favorite, | : | Double Foree Feed Grain Drill, | WITH THE HM Savorite,” "Wizard" Attachment {“MARK'S" THE crisp plants with uniformit three First Award Medals ai the 8 i ieville, Rentuck)y J.S, Wait £ Co., Agents, State College, Pa. A. C. MINGLE, SUCCESSOR TO DOLL & MINGLE. Boots & SHo: Durability as well as| appearance is the best] test of cheapness. | keep the best makes -goods of manufacturers | who have gained a rep- utation for honest] ‘work. BES) tuibern | Fall assortment in Ma | dissstrons single discharge to human and ! men who were | | have the best Mor's $3.00 SHOE MABE in AMERIGA, BOOTS & SHOES Madeto Order. | SHOE POLISH That will not 150. 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Call | Bod examine the goods and the price, If 1 do not fulfill strictly all 1 claim as | to prices being LOWER than ever be fore heard, 1 do not ask your patronage. | The greater amount of goods | ean sell | the lower prices can and WiLL sx ware, Respectfully, W. H, WILKINSON, Agent, " -_ . - . “nd OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN . That Austin J, and James Gramley, sxeonton of the last will and testament of Joseph Grambes, Inte of Miles township, Pa. have taken out let ters, otc and all persone having clalme against the os tate, 10 present the same duly suthentionted for settle. ment, ei AT A MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BAR of Centre county, And wow, July 35, 1884, the members of the Bar, having continned the entire civil list of canoes for the second week of A wt Term, it is ordered that the second week of mid term be diapensed with, and that thers be holden but one week of the several comrts of, in and for the county of Centre at Augost Seem Bext thatthe publish thin order in the covers] papers of the county, and that the Bhyeriff of Centre county will summon wo more jurors for said second week, and that he notify them y summoned not to appear, ADAM HOY, BJ. Cortifind Nom the Record this 24h day of July, A bas, I [onAL.] 1 2XECUTO R'S NOTICE. —Estate ate A of Tenry Beck, of Walker township, Osnire county, Pa. All claims against sstate to te to Mas, Aww Bua Buck, os os a ExEcuT RIX NOTICE. —Notice
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