THE PANAMA CANAL. THE SCHEME PROVING TO BE A BON- ANZA FOR THE CONTRACTOIS, Observations of a Returned Cincinnatinn «The Army of Leeches Who Find an the Bad Asylum on Isthmus Business, Cinciann'l A former Crosby Enq irer Interview, ) Cincinnatian, Mr. WW. J, Las just returned from Pavama, | The Great Marsh in Northern I Wa | O,000 to 6,0.0 persons * | children { about the marsh y berries are all picked Some where he has been since last eptember | fulfilling a contract for lightening cargoes on incoming ships to the shore. The yellow fever has been and now Is com mitting dreadful ravages there, and when his turn cmme kis physician and a friend hurried him out of the country, Mr. Crosby has been a number of years on the isthnus; at one time as an agent of the Pacific Steamship company, aod his | position gave him opportunities for ob creation which he seems to have im sroved to the fullest extent, ist of the Panama caval,” sald he “willbe a record of fraud almost unpar alleled dn the annals of any nation Already iL has cost the sum of 31.0,000,- 00}. debt of $40,000,000, and now they esti mate that Wieampass its completion £500, - 000.000 additional will bo neoded Lave they accomplished”. Nothing more than the trans tion tothe ob ective point of an unlimited amount of machin: cry, which is useless and can not even be converted into old. iron, as the rates for Rl i great de mand “The 1 The prolectors have in addition a | hint | freight away from the isthmus fire «0g | high as to véerider profitless any such vena | ture “The Nicarauga route is undoubtedly the best for canal purposes, but it is said | at the same time the longest selected by the French and German syn. dicate is the shortest, but it is fraught with difficulties which, [ think, bave all been too lightly considered, cven if they have been considered at all “For instance, the land lies very high in places, and the deepest portion will be a cut six hundred feet in depth. Now, the water surface of the canal will have to be 150 feet in width. This will neces- sitate a cut of nearly eighteen hundred feet in width at the top: 80 you can easily imagine the amount of dirt to be removed. The canal line follows closely the line of the Panama railroad The contract for removing the dirt has been to a Dutel and French cate for £10 000 000, and the contrac they seem the varying Of course they will elaborate syst tors have 10 have pects done nothing taken no of the have em of loc (8 feet from twe conditions [| « New England Farmers Leaving. Cheap tra \ bor have ca ancestral homes and the west and to! wre « industry. In many parts of this half dozen f New England the tra eler find farms clung to only by the older people, who are. to-day consuming the savings of earlier life and eking out an existence by the scanty yield of the soil; and if some wethod of g the process be not discovered and applied, the farms must pass, as in many localities they are now doing. into the hands of a foreign popula tion recruited from the peasantry of other lands—which will be content to consume only the fru of their tillage with but little thought or knowled ze of the broader jvation which has hitherto been the ti on and inspiration of New Eng 1H ati 11] and organized Ia led the young men fr yin thelr sen hie enters of states will arresting it 1s cu i nd nas Steam Power In London. Ex An English statistician, who bas studying the growth of London, says that without the agency of steam power the London of today would be an impossibil ity. If a sudden invasion of any calam ity were to destroy the steam facilities the citizens now en ov, they would be re duced, he aa starvation within a Week Aree been to Simple (nurs for Dysentory. : : Yolen! Joa in 180 county, lilinois Madison induced by the repress niations od WOMAN to make the trial in dysentery and diarrhea, of tablespoonful doses of pure cider vine ar, with the addition of sulticient salt ye noticeable, and it acted so charmingly that 1 have never wed anything else ¢ practicing in Waa i f an 1H] A Land able (4 azn Nowa The ( hinese of New York city are de veloping n taste for roast pug dog. and there is said to be an increasing scarcity of that kind of the canine breed metropolis. This practice of the China men is most laudable, and shouid here Pruetioa, The route | to | in the THE LUSCIOUS HUCKLEBERRY, Indiana Yads and Lasses Ploking Herries. [Pittaburg Dispatch.) “The great huckleberry marsh of north- ern Indiana is a curiosity,” sald Mr Howes, telograph operator, of Wilkins burg, Ww a reporter. “1 understand the crop season,” he continued, “but last yearit During the season from men, women, and their quarters in and and remain until the build shan ties, tents, and ail provide themsel with everything necessary for a residence of several weeks The come from all parts of the radious of twenty or thirty miles. ” “Do tha pickers find a ready market for their berries?” “Yes: buyers are there from New York, Philadephia, Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati, and other cities. Formerly the berries brought very low prices gor i cents a but now, owing to the for them, they bring 5 or 6 cents. Some of the pickers make $4 or $1 a day.” “iow do the people amuse themselves when not engaged in picking berries” “There is no lack of amusements Dancing is one of the principal diversions, aud the way the Hoosier Inds and lassics trip the Might fantastic Wonld Catisc a Pittsbieg. d dnc dg unser 10 grow groen wilh any Hallta dozenifiddlers, moro or Jess. strike—up-some-wel kno wi air, and ‘ie human through off kinds of figures, and some times no- figures. Everything is of the goas you please order, though flagrant breaches of * propriety seldom occur Dancing 1s kept up nearly all night, the monotony being varied by an occasional fight for the possession of a girl or on a count of wo much whisky having been imbibed by the belligerentss OUnee in a while a general row breaks oul, when fists, clubs, and sometimes more danger ous weapous fs small this 8 very large take up some erect quart ” themselves : “They all gamble. Fakirs from all parts of the country flock there with their gambling paraphernalia and remain throughout the season. 1 have seen hun dreds of fare, chuckaluck, poker, old sledre and other games In progress at tue same time. The slakes are sinall, of course, but as the sharpers nesrly always ut of thelr fleecing during win the amount 8 considerable. When tl no money { the season is MH ent SUK iskeors 1 tl sake thelr pickers b hey oh ber LC % Or | Such Is Science, ‘ 11 Arar i marshale A sources of errors wt ref 1 given ‘with the “} A guand is set upon the bias of enthusiasm the bias of previous slatement suid the ¥ { ed robbie error bins hoped-for dis may fot lead astray 0 whil res et i ~ : 1 : LF H reasoning, iL is 4.50 & n tr An Artist's Pride. Fag I Lo look uj | Why, Mr. Hart | just look up there similar the sky is to the sky ©r skyl Limes How very vaur ple ticed | T be gave or wo com ps on and said complacent but my sky is the finest funny enongh, but when that he was probably refe position and asrangement t hit and color, not Lo ig to be escusable YOu he one gan NY, Yes I'hat sounds you consider fo com 1 cioui ing the remark OG Dn # on OMrran ants Tart in aling with Men If the pledge of secrecy was removed from those who were familiar with Grant during his army life or during his public life hundreds of stories could illustrate his net in dealing with men But this much may be sald in a general way. none of his officers ever yuarreled or ever showed any heat of discussion in his presence. None of them questioned a decision or an order of hin McPherson might protest against what Sherman did or sald, Logan might be impatient over what McPherson said or dd, *herman might be a little testy over wimt MePher sou or Logan or MecClerpand said. but in the presence of Grant or in the face of an seder issued by him all of them were sub missive, unresentful, and quiet They ne'er attempted to explain this but those of them who are alive today will bear testimony to the truth of the observation Ie tod to ever the Deapest Bore Hole in the Ward, Lith An AN Iie deepest boring yet made is at the village of Fchladebnch, near the lhe between | eipzig and Corbetha. It has | been made by the Prussian goveroment to after intuence in their favor any harsh | anti {mmigration legislative measures Wishes to Know, A scientific authority wishes to know why the bodies of elephants and wild Aiitinle geuerally are no rarely fonind after | test for the presence of coal, and was pored with diamond drills Its depth is | #00 meters (4,50 feet , its breadth at the bottom 2 inches, and at the top 11 inches It has occupied three and a half yours to bore, and cost a iiitle over 5,000 pounds sterling The teniperaiurs al the bottom Js 118 degrees Fubiranhoim, country within a | mass Begins to move! are used with telling effect. ” | “What else do the pickers do 0 muse | Ratlroads. EAGLE VALLEY R I YYA I.D B Time Table in effect May, 12, WESTWARD, [14 } Lonve Lock Havens... ... 5. Flemington. ..... Mill Buhl. on cece 40000 quvins Beech reek .oovinninnss Eaglogille.. ui’ Howerd........ RPh i Mount Engle. coms imers 7 TR Wow WR Milesburye Bellefonte. devas oes saasuns Mileshurg. cooooivonns he Snow Bhoo 1nt...cessnses Unionville. o.com oper eos JUliuh obese on sasresnsns Martha... OMAP . Port Matilda Hannah Fowler covswsiin Frrntarat toh Bald Eagle Val aessassnsssssassssesssrse Arrive at Tyrone........ TARR EASTWARD. Tyrone... covisrniinnnnens East Tyrone. | Vail. Leave FOWIOr... iil ie aiiaeesn fEssash *ort Matilda BRAT Roce nnensnnessss SULA: «ov ne 200 0asnansssappmmmn Unionville Snow Shoe I Milesburg Bellefonte. iiminin, | Milesburg..... Curtin ...ovrsisniosa Bas Shean Mount Esgla..cic.oiinn Howard PPP Te \ Eagleville Beech Creek Mill Hall : Flom baboon: cee coven Arrive at Lock Haven 0 10 0 16 10 3 10 10 ELLEFONTE & SNOW SHOE R.—Time Table effect Show I R 1 May 25 i Leaves Shoe O lellefonte HOG A. IN Leaves Bellefonte 9.00 a. ¢ | Enow Shoe st 10.20 8, ™m 0 4:40 wi. al Leaves St sh | Bellefonte 5:51 Leaves Bellet Snow Shoe 11, 189% WESTWARD Arrives at Erie NIAGARA EXVHEESS Leaves Phils Harr Arr. st Wi | Passenger in Bellel FAST EASTWARD LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Leaves Lock Haver Willinms port, Harrisburg Philadalphi DAY EXPRESS Leaves Kane , Ret : arr al } Hav W ' arr st Harrisburg Philadeipl ERIE MAIL Lenves Erie Wh 1 Ror 40 Lock Haver i p Wi inmaport 100 a iartiebure.... 49 a 7 50a connect al M.S RR; at at Emporiom and st Drift NEILSON, Gen'l 8 ip't VO are al Philadelphia Erie Mail East and West Brie with trains on LL. 8. & Corry with B. P. & W.RR with BN. Y. & PP. BER wood with A. V. RR R No disenses have 20 thoroughly baffled she skill of the medical profession as mucerous affections and ae they have al ways been considered incurable, it has been thought disreputable to adopt tneir treatment as a specially ; and hence physie cians have neglected their proper study. But of late years new and important dis. coveries have brought forth a course that now proves successful in any of its forms, with certainty, without the use of the knife or caustic plasters. We have a treatment that is comparatively mild. Tt is not poiscnous, does not Interfere with th» heaithy flesh, can be applied to any pat of the body, even the tongue. We ke nothing for our services until the eancer is cured. Address D. J. HULBERT, Engleville, Centre Co, Pa. |g | I), F- Fol 4 I [ASTINGS CANCER CURED. Professional Cards, “ HENRY KELLER, ATTORNEY -AT-LAW BELLEFONTE, PA Orvice wit D8 Kener T21 tf CALVIN MEYER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Bellefonte, Ps Lr OMes with Judge Hoy Jno. H ( JRVIS, I OMiee Woodring’ | | HARSHBERGER, LAW e 10 Yooum & Fleming's Talloring Onvin, CO, M. Bowen JOWER & ORVIS, ATTOUNEYBEAT-LA Ba Hetoste, Pa first 1 Ww, apposite the Court House, Block { SUCCESROT ATTORNEY AT Diamond, vext door to Establishment Belielonte, Pa EU Ty. Harshberger) Oice N. E. corner . ErANGLER, | c.r > vr “ YUL YC ANGLER & HEWES, ATTORNEYS AT-LAW, | PELLEFONTE, CENTRE QOOUNTY, PA. | Special attention to Collections; practice in sil the courts. Consultation in German or Buglish, ¢ Hewes ATNEY, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Ofce Iu Conrad House Allogheny street, Special attention given to the collection of claim All business attended to promptly G. LOVE Js , ATTORNEY -AT LAW, Bellefonte, Pa Office in the rooms forme sy vooupied by the inte P. Wilson : Ww vol 5 54 | FBOMAS J. McCULLOUGH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PHILIFEBURG, PA Office in Albert Owen's building, in the room form. { sry cocupied by the Philipsburg Banking Company RINE PD. RH, HASTINGS WW. Fr REEDEA & REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW BELLEFONTE, PA Ofce on Allegheny street two doors eset of the of | Bce occupied by late firm of Yocum & Hastings, 0 Arrivesig | ANEE A. BEAYER J. WESLPEY REARY B* VER & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Oce on Allegheny street, north of High fonts, Pa W. fasta ri he lefti Belle >. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW BELLEFONTE, PA se i ( ‘LEMENT DALE, WW M. P MI FRA II'CHELL, RVEYOR | K HAVES ivi IONE, Business Cards, ARBER SHOP, i ot Plret Nativnal Bank BELLEFONT I's Propr, A. Beck, | (\ENTRE COUNTY BANKING J COMPANY Me James A 3.0. Bug Bean shny, Canhior ta, Pros Pos MANS DYES are ee A |] es Tor» jon. Fam i iat RC ners Free’ 2.0 manne Oseh'r [IRs NATIONAL BANK OF BELLEVONTE, Allegheny Street, Bellefonte Pa CHRISTIE'S School of Business. pis Rp ledge, and to LR netitution is de alty of voted mparting bu jualifyi to the ness know g the young and middle aged of both sexes by new and prae tical metl wdas for the responsible duties of business life Hates moderate or. Advaniages pper- For particulars address, 8S. N Look Haves, Pa. | tha borough and in the subuthbs, sud 25-0) ely | Bond Valentine, General Insurance and Real Estate Agent, nite Pa. OFFICE IN BUSH ARCADE, SND FLOOR, Al Fire Ina, COMPANIES repre ented Pires L. Orvis | are first class, Traveler's Life an | | | Accident Policies, Special alle tion) griven to Real Estale THIRTY HOUSES HUNDRED LOTS Jomted / rou have agUvs and FOR SALE. different parts of | + location and style are bound to please the purchaser, Many of the | residences are very desirable and sll are good, The jots will make excellent location The houses range lo price (rom BEOO to S,500. | First payments small | deferred the purchaser, Those who want to buy shonid Those properiies are in for building. payments to suit copenll ma, PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE. Autumn term begins Sept. ©, 1885, This institution is lopated in of the most bean tifn! and henlthfol spots of the entire Allegheny region. it is open tw students of both sexes, sud offers the fol. | one | lowing Courses of “tudy i ! | 1-1) TRE CENTRE CHRISTIE, Principal. | | intere 1. A ¥Yull Bejontific Course of Four Years 2. A Latin Belontific | 8 The following ADVANCED COURFES, of two years | each fic Course COU ree following the first two years of the Bclent! AGRICULTURE; (bv) NATURAL HIBTONY CUHEMIRTRY AND PHYSICS ; (4) CIV! ENGINEERING A short BPECIAL COURSE in Agriculture, A short SPRCIH! L COURSE in Chemistry A reorgan MECHANIC ARTE bining chop work with steady fn pad course in tH two ung Ladies Hy Graded Preparatory Ceurse, EPECIAL COUREES ware ary wants of lodividus! students I Course years) in ages WW moet LLe itary drill is re identals very low Tuttwn fre ‘ ¥ Lindy Principe Informati ATHERTON LD Brats Corina sug indies un chr ge of a Compete For Catalog Gro "a Ww r other address Presipeny, Cesy 2x Co Fs DEMOCRAT BOOK and JOB OFFICE HIGH STREET, BE PA. LLEFONTE ® Ww GREAT 1N TO OF FRRIY DU EW “ ¥ LANE Plain Printing. We hin LAW B PAM or Faney OER PHLET CATAI 6 for ad, hes, Seald He Blot he ail A SOREMS ent by mail for } eerie boxes £1.95 n stamps Address, Dr. SWAYNE & SON, Phils delphia, Pa. Sold by Druggists. 5-8-1y BIGGEST frond on tavery face [Tv5u ould oul bemnem or our goods, we willeend sample free, Wo have pn article that every man, woman and ch id neads and appreci. ples Frery houschooper and evervhodv ele will buy IIE pays agenia lmao nse rebiis and g vee immense salinfaciion. We want § AGENT in cach county male or female. Mention this paper and vou will get cirealars and full information EE. Buwples sent Mrequesied Address Fuse h THE TER CWILILR ¥ Cork Shavings For Mattresses. Now e tim ) LL) gz 1s malireswss and we would 1 CORK SHAV- INGS s+ being the eat and mort durable ar ticte that ean be need The. will Bll a large I» For Bale by ARMSTRONG, BROTHER & CO, Hone #2 “vee - olirects PITTSBURGH, PA. IL ovetts Guide to Fruit Culture ' i f mars nn be tHe It is re ture giving, ss i1 does prawn £.000t a yman, thee : ie Hortd wee for planting fof fruits of al] kind rofthe varbedion, 18 Rl TOR te compared with * Lovett s Gui y a valus ofl gr oy «fa ¢ work ELLER a re At mpartinl descr ina book of gover TO pages, wit an Slogantly printed and em bolle engravings ahd several sles Lime of nainy Price with tored plates 10cis bh | 1 plates, 5 wot Bob bs buat a pert of the Everybody at a fruit tare should send to J. 7. Lovett New Js i ma wd 1 uminsted 1 with hundreds of whore te red ot Lithie Silver rary, hod go HAARDWARE.! WILSON McFARLANE & CO. DEALERS IN STOVES, RANGES HEATERS. ~- ALSO - Paints, Oils, Glass and Varnishes, - AND} BUILDERS HARDWARE TWO | G | eral traveling pul | to this Firstd { comforisat r | Court 4, A. Lehman, | sbout twe | burg, Centre and Bpruce Creek Railroad, with literature | | ross b | modations will fale quired, Expenses for board and | oower | JPASSMORE HOUSE, Frowt and Sprace Bly PHILIPEBTRG, VA Good Meals and Lodging st stalling stiached Tu ar moderate 1aiey JAMMER PAREMORE, | QWAN HOTEL, | Barney Coyle's NEWLY HOTEL, BURG REMODELED Feil first i i { vw farnisbed, mabliy A J good an LT i I AF “ARMAN'S HOTEL, Opposite Court House, BELLEFORTK ra TERMS $1.26 ER DAY A good Livery sitached a USH HOUSE, BELLEFONTE, PA nghe gentl B Families and of mt well us The geo bis 1 nite lass Hotel, where they will Spd bom aeonaliie Libera] reduction to Ju iv ¥} and r Tin men are rates rymes y and others attending WwW. BK TELLER, Froy'r BUTTS HOUSE, Corner Allegheny & Bishop streets, ) BELLEFONTE, Pa, Propr ' This popular hotel, under the management of 1% present proprietor, is better fitted thaw ever for the entertainment of guests, Bates reasonable. | me) A B88 ILLHEIM HOTEL, MILLMEIM, CENTRE COUNTY WwW. S FENX'A MUSSER, Proprietor. The town of Millhelm is looated in Penn's Valley miles from Coburn Btation, ou the Lewis roundings that make it a Good trout flaking in the immediate vicinity every train. Al the Milibsim Hotel be found Sretclase snd t - Lh r ler June £3, 157% 1y* | New Brockerhoff House. B | 4) | C. G. MeMILLEN, Prop’ Good Sample R on First Floom 83 Free "Bus 10 and from all Trains. Epecial ra to witnesses and jurors 1 ROCKERHOFF HOUSE, ALLEGUENY-ET., BELLEFONTE, PA ”i -r HOTEL, te the Kallrom HO, CENT ( \ENTRAL {Oy * Kent J in S. 7. Frain, RAY Proprieicr, PER DAY P A TES ~ wz trap dl a Ine “wi ea crs, Swayn« i | ASN ms Marble Work N. Centre Hall, Pa, am now prepared to fur- | ish at the very lowest fig- ure, the best Marble, and Granite Monuments Headstones, with the most or and workmanship. antee satisfaction in stances and ask only and a share of your paron- age : Respectfully, FRANK WASSON. “For Neuralgia in the ils pack, breast, side, Shoe anywhere else, take 1 eu» “Yor Cramp of the Shon iar h OF \ wn it Fer Dough. Astros, rUIRCERTIS hor trons of Breath, fees 3 Priva hd For Chromic Nasal Catarrk, Bron. ehitie and Save Throat fake Pama.’ SPER NA I the purest, soos prompt, odicine Known to man.’ 13 00°18 s1noq Siu . » 13008 JERCX AL" sal Ontarrh, Bright's bodes of the Kideegs, ** ia Pieters, 8. B11 For Constipation snd "es, take ATENTS he ne ors for Cirirk On on Lis Sa. we Tard fo =. hronsh L&} FIC AMERICAN, the fey
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