F. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Propriet Ors. EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER FTATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL,' Teed oflernon TERMS : 8L50 per Aviin ir Adven VOL BELLEFONTE, PA.. THURSDAY, A MARCH {, 1886, NO. ———————— The Crnre Democrat, Torms 81.50 per Annumin Advance FRANK E, BIBLE, Editor, “A Great Project.” Gov. Curtin has introduced in the House “a bill for the encouragement of closer commercial relationship and GroraE Pierson, chief clerk of the | House, grows rich on the plunder of | the orphans of the State. - - Tag letter of Ex-Seoator Wright, published in the Record, the | heartlessness of the syndicate control shows ing the Orphans’ Schools. -- Tae “Phenominal” is said to be General gan.” We knew it was a strumeat”’ but took it fora tin whistle. We beg the *“Phenominal's” for taking it for an r “outhin’.” - across the street Beaver's “or- “wind ip. | pardon a tin whistle. It's “organ” Toledo, , has been suppressed and its editors Tur S Sunday Demoerat, of Cause that mail languish in jail, poor fellows. No ent —indecent publication. Ww the work of suppr.ssing indec matter has pre pe r commenced, it would be rent The low cut dresses of to suppress inde female 80" matter, ciety.” - -> Law and of Tae Order Philadelphia is getting along society nicely, its members are getting rich by bribe taking and the society refuses to io’ vestigate members who are charged with crookedness. The thing will be the society engaged the beer business. No worse than taking “hush money” from the man who sells beer. next in Svurr. HigBEE to demn the management of the State | College, perhaps he may yet find something to condemn in the conduct of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ School. It is not enough for the people of the State to koow that the orphans fare about as well at the schools as they would at home. They must be better fed and clothed, better taught and cared for or the schools are failures > Tue employes of the Pe posyivania Railroad Company have rejected the relief plan of that company totally. There were many very objectionable features in the plan, and yet some that were very commendable. The trouble with the company is that they delayed their plan until their men had long adopted measures for their own relief wi hin themselves, and the severance of these ties and —- found time con-—- affiliations which hat been tried and proven ben- eficial, was a se rious stumbling block in the way. - Two members of the Orphan School syndicate, ( E. Wright and George L. of Mercer, and Chairman Cooper, of the State Repub’ George Pearson, Jican Committee, have been in ( alifor. nia for several weeks. They telegraphed regarding® the exposure and are now hurrying were east as fast as steam and free will transportation bring them. They are expected home to'morrow. The praciiced rec: of abuses ni exposures the Orphans Schools management of the Soldiers’ of Penn sylvania is causing tion and throughout the State, widespread agita’ in soldier citizen circles The people with ope voice are ealling for a thor ough sifting of the hers few the ol demanding a thorough i painstak’ ing investigation. Meetings are be fog held at various points, where citi’ zen and soldier join in a general demand for the searching Inquiry which will certainly follow. They al seem to feel it a duty to see toit that the investigation be made at once, and | thoroughly, too. Many are hopeful that the alleged outrages have no foundation in fact, bat are burning with a desire to know the cold facts o8, and, with eXof piions, soldiers are in the ease. The gentlemen compris: | Ing the committee appointed to make the inquiry intc the alleged outrages are capable, trustworthy sud loyal They are all well {known throughout the State, — Pittsburg Post, { and South lof Brazil”? - i of the bill is still longer, | not give it. bill is the construction of a railroad | | extreme southern | perous and boppy. until | tasted the the interest and perpetuation of Tnited States and in | peace between the 1 the Republics of Mexico and Central —Take a breath, The preamble which prec des the title and we can long The main feature of the { 4,500 miles long from a point on the | boundary of the Mexico { Peru ana Chili to the gentine Rej The Harri Patriot styles this * A Great Projeet It is not immense benefits would ace p ; construct entral Ar shurg United States through America, yahblic. Of cours to the an Aalio TH Stat fr the ple h a road. Itisno the build more that to havi already to the States We ney than and a few | objection roject United it | ave we know what to do with, led t of our 8 m Ye N y illions expend ) devel ' ' iatent ath op t he American we oeing i} th bankrupted, but em, and pay for the road in 80 cent dollars at their face We the measure, value, are heartily in favor of No i pe ple can be they railroad discrimi pr 8 have sweets of of plunder. Just think backs,’ “p ol euphonious nation and the “draw “rebates,” “com’ binations, “divvies* ele, with names offer up an extra paler for the privilege of Spanish What Mexican greaser but will being fleeced by a Yankee railroad magnate? We hope our member has incorporated a clausge in his bill pro. hibiting the construction of parallel or competing lines of railway. Come r, and “tl Mexican Ga and South American and uld have While direction | petition breaks up monopoly North American, Central the inter (ireat Const, railway in interests commercial no competitors, no rivals. we are reaching out in the Mexico and South America we should not be unmindful of our neighbors to the west, a line of Washingt Dominion of Canada and Alaska, tun- nelling we Prince of Wales reaching Asia at Eas railway from say ton (air line) through the Behring Strait at Caj t Cape, thence throughSiberia to China would restore cordial relations belween China and the United States, now somewhat strained. The ice fields of Siberia would then be tributary to the United A bran nort States, bh road running west hern coast of 8S Russ! irope, along beria wuld reach through E under The great system of wi thence west by reach Fogland a, crossing tunnel Strait b Dov r advantages to gained by this be road pro railway would ' : . equaled only by that of the The railroad in their J ected by our member. systems of the We connection with world are yet infancy wash our hands of any further Run road and will devole our time and attention to reaching Europe and Strait. Al ask is “the old flag and an appropria tion.” we ne Chioa via Bebriogs —— AI—— Responsible to the People The firwness with which President Cleveland resists the encroachments | . i in the! of the Republican majority Senate, on the prefogatives of the executive, will meet the approbation | {of all fair minded men. The object | | of the Senate majority is to make po. litical capital for a party, bankrupt | in character by a long series of official { crimes, jobbery and plunder, and to do this at the expense of geod govern- ment. The right of the Senate to | access to all official information in the possession of the President relating to America and the Empire | of | the Buffalo, | test upon President President concedes, and private information in the possess ion of the Executive the Senate has no right of access, except as the Ex- ecative may think proper to furnish: Nor has the Senate the power to de |t*rmine what information is of an private char the ir the private correspondence of official and what is of a acter, As well might President { call | ta Senator. Nor would the President formation de- the | be able to furnish the ip | sired, conceding that body to it, for in many cases suspensions and removals have been made on ver. bal i formati The lebrium of 1e three ment can only he preserved by each in. equi govern departments of our g nt confining itself (o its pre CLCrond be r in which de will rogatives, and any hment of on the other must resisted. manly and firm manne President Of the meets the absurd mands the Republican Senate pe To the people alone is the President Ex. ii the governme nt. } be sustaioed by the ssi | Sh . ible for the mduct of the epartment Senate's duty i ium on u land's argums answerable, Twice party has it he Exe Republican pted to subju ' Alien gals to the legislative banc } in 1867 President J fr empts ithe same thing by a round: When Grant Congress repealed , be President was political he House and Senate, of Edmunds to in his party are ernment, " right of takis from shnson removal m | it atte | about bx about CAMme the way. ent Presid law of 1867 ause the in accord with The efforts rehabilitate himself pitiable ims man of his great ability. When the Republicans of the Sen: ate fiod that they cannot co President they will likely ge little sense they are ¢ redited with. grand march of and the t bac k the In i the meantime the re form will go on, will ge aless Bxecu partisan Senate, — A — pH Ple between an honest and f ive and a narrow of President Cleveland's administra- tion, says: There has now been a year in which the executive power has been President that the enf the hands of a Democratic No law has not The not suffered in complaint is made been pr perly ion of the na- d or at reed, eputat tion has abroa home. None of the predicted calami- to gr out of ministration have ties Democratic ad. made their appear- ance. Remarkable care and delibera the re appointment of pablie n exercised ! The finances his ve been tional fee ling ¢ HH has almost disap peares The m our poli of th needed to tics, ecommeaind na 0 President to Congress are ¢ be prudent and conservative. As far as we have progressed there is no to the ision of the people at the polls in November, 1884, The session of Congress and the par- ticipation of the Executive the busicess of legislation will put a fioal reason regret in Cleveland's ca- pacity; but there is much less reason to doubt of it to-day than there was March 4, 1885. Wages Takes a Rise ia Read!ng. moulders in tl e two foundries of the | Reading Hardware Works were ad- vanced ten per eent, this morning. | Notices were posted up to this effect The moulders were reduced ten per cent in July, 15884, and this is now re: stored to them. Touday the advance in the wages of all Philadelphia and Reading employes in the company's shops in this city went into effect. The employes number nearly two thousand and this increase amounts to eight per cent, right | office and now | erce the American | all around me | of these telephone companies. ‘1 | retire him. banks, graph companies | { f " : var : Y p removals or suspension from office the | Railroad and Bank Directors in Congress But to unofficial | West very Reprsenctative of irginia Gibson, v plain but simple facts on the floor of the House, and handled Mr. Pulitzer, the fellow Wi y runs a cham Democrat New York the merciless manner. Pul- ' element , has been stating some ic paper in called World, in a itzer represents the plunder in New York and is engaged ng the admioistrati The « of the World have been open Bell telephone plunderers who throng t and its himself with the in fig numns 1o monopoly and all the the the capital, editor has allied lobbyists who are as Mr and he sailing Garland and Lamar. (iibson's speech was timely, has called the attention of the pe ple h they Ameri- can to a conditi on of whic should pr ceed t next fall, Anti monopoly House as they are ne with the and Senate % B81 § w, is simply out of the y 18 not a railroad un der whose discrimination the tries of our wantiry are lang vernment ur million d it does not and c debased The Standard Oil Co. has its minions in both House, he Bell Telephone Co., Henne syndi the Eads jobb Is, Pacific, Northero the 2 » | ES : ennsyivania silver that ne it into a dollar and the Senate pin the Pacifi » and a dozen Union the cate, ways have their What is to be niatives f a Cor What legislati 8 repres f x pected 80 made up. Who corporation Not th for they are simply look people? to blame? 18, ing out for No. 1! food for thought in the compositi the National House and Senate. Gibson said: “I stood on the fluor this Hot and heard a men boast that he held hundreds of ands of dollars o There is certainly n of 150 her thous- stock and ’ ve. Bees 3 " would combine with railroads to clog f railroad but no 3. } men who hold railroad up the courts with business, yulery was raised against foe stock and national bank stock voting Tue Philadelphia Record, speaking | with the stock in their pockets, and If I am President of no outery is made against it, late the Senate was himself counsel for one Who If I am correct not misinformed a cried out against it? President of a national bank stock- ly informed the present the holder.” We would not exclude a maa from or House he held bank or Senate is the Senate vimply becanse railroad stock, any more than we would exclude a man because he was a minister, a carpenter or a lawyer. But when your railroad congressman would try to break down railroad competition « y home industries depend for life, or m which your when your bank director would try to the of banks and brokers and the interests of the people we would say It that railroads, telephone and tele should friendly to their interests in Congress but the great mass of people who are not connected with these corporatious force legislation in interest against is well enough have men | except as the victims of their oppres- | sions and greed, should have a voice ‘there feeble though it be. What man | in the House from Penusylvania has | | ever proposed legislation, or identified | himself with a legislative measure | Reaprno, March 1.—The two-handred | calculated to break up the discrimina tion that is driving our manufactures | from the State? sii ———— A] A Gillinder & Sons, glass suitur on of Philadelphia, have leased the old East Liverpool glass factory, which is within the natural gas belt of Ohio. The glass house is one of the most com- plete in the United States. Gillinder & Son's find the cheap fuel a necessity, The concern employs 200 hands, ~(iot your sale bills and job work done at the Dexocrar office, General Grant's Memoirs. Charles L. § 01 Webster General & C hoy the Grant's book, sent Mre. Grant a check yesterday for publishers $200,000 as her proportion of the pro- ceeds wo far the drawn derived book favor Grant on the United bank signed by from the sale of The check Mrs. Julia D States N ational General's is in of f this city, and Mrs. ig‘ the receip, Grant specifies that unt eale of V Mq moirs of UU. In a letter concerning check written to Cyrus W. Fiel Webster “The ¢ General Grant for the ‘Mem was 8 ago t the check LO apply on accel profits ac we I of Grant,’ raing from the un ‘Personal the i, Mr. ith niract publication of HAYS Ww the rH goed just a yesr day, Kince bo k 1 8&8 regards time and the amount involved i# the most ex p io literature traordinary result of authorshi ¢ Ei: rlial 0. SAIN 1 the Fe! sler gave Wu s for or day the ruary 27, y General Grant The in a check for £1000, sum lump by k for given by his pub. fret f E ngland itt made about $500,000 largest ever received befor OTH an author for a book was a che MN i LINK) (100.000 lishers to Lord Macaulay as the pryment on his “History Bir Walter Sc by his pen in something like ten years, but $200,000 in one less than er unprecedented. year and $500. 000 in two years is altogeth Nor are these all facts with the remarkable connected book. copies, is the largest first edition ever published. Of the The first edition, 20,000 that number only 11,000 copies now remain in the hands of the publishers.—~N. ¥. Time — A — Telephone Decision great Chief Justice Niblack, has taken the bull horns in nt decision that the State has a right to regulate the license The judges were unanim of Indiana, by the his reg de laring of telephones Supreme Court us in the Chief who “Property thus devoted for timate regulation and « opinion rendered de a public by the Justice, clares use becomes a legi sub ject of legislative trol.” The de { mum sion establishes the Olisle selves for a decision so the license not been so courts | slephone charges, but if its appli’ maxi rental at The tele- blame them Had the ye arly. phone mono; can radical. excessive would not have intervened. he law may be good as it relates to cation was widened, there would be serious cause for alarm in other de partments of enterprise. The inter f states in fixing and regulat ing prices is fraught with danger, and | | if carried out to only a partial degree | would subvert the laws of trade. | The license tax for telephones has | become #0 onerous that the people will ‘not ery out against the decision of a | | state court which regulates the price | within its limits, but they would be heard from if there was interferance outside of what is termed the “com. mon carrier obligations to the public. The telephone monopoly has over reached itself in the matter of excess ive license rates and there is a reso. tion which will break it down. Public opinion will sustain the above decision, but does not want too much of it—Dry Goods Chronicle, EE ——————— i — John herty, a conchman in Chester was thrown {rom Lhe seat of a oar ference o five | seriously. Saturday by runaway horses and killed. News in Brief Three masked men er Co's office on ¥ Texns Camer Br tered night the nd then ridaw riany ut wood, made cierks secured $1 left a8 suddenly up their The r hands a HOG as they had # they degmried they were OK tixleen glass foor le was lake: nd died soon after Alexander Fitzhugh, of Hartfotd Kv. bed Deputy Town day The Marshal had levied on a he aging 1 At Coll hot « | £008 Ana ally slat Marshal George g ingers on ii evening wee bee o Fit zhugh insville, Ky., John Th mpeon Fridsy politics two men, man. killed Amos Flight on about killed Flight was a peaceable night in a dispute Thompson, who has escaped. wring a drunken at wgow wn, Ky., on Saturday night, Will fratured the skull of J row Gle Cooke ames Dene ght The m { old vester- nison with a tw pound wei row was the culminatic an Dennis a was d on. athe. 34 i . W hile several cars of coke were ing run down the siding of the be- Blair mpany, in Gaysport, last Wednesday, the track spread and the « Iron and Coal C ars left it. One of the cars continu- ed its oo top- e just in time to pre vent from going through the bar room Blair House.— Holtidaystury urse across the street and ped over on its sid door of the manu faclurers of ew York, have restored wages that prior to January 1, 1885, M her Juz to the scale blained #8 Cleveland gave the nd of the of congress on Sat- the E00 to the ladies f members « eh parties of famlies rday, fifty guests being seated table The Oh men's Association and other agricultur- al organizations have adopted tions aff at y State Grange, State Dairy. resolu listing with the Trades Assom- and will shortly in be represented Wl body. street car on the Metropolitan Railroad in Washington was run into. Saturday atthe corner of Virgin avenue and Four-and-a-haif street by a train | on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. The street car was kod and but none badly wrec persons were injured, Thera was no excitement around McCormick's Reaper Works Saturday, not more than 100 men congregated there. Itis claimed that not more than 200 and probably not 50 men, wil] be on hand to go to work at Mr. Mo Cormiek’s terms when the works re- open to-day. At Potteville to-morrow the Philadel phia and Reading Company's colliery repair shops, employing about 600 men and which have been working three quarters time, will resume fall time, and 8 per cent, reduction in the wages made in January of last year will be re. stored, The several great stove foundries at Troy, N. Y., are idle in consequence of a strike of the moulders on Saturday for an advance of 25 per cent in wages, -
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