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Laurie e 3r Bervices Brery Sunday at 10804. n.andT » = Sanday Sehool pel) at 230 ». x. Prayer Wgrting (Chap +i) Wednesday at 7-307, u. MM. B Church, Howard and K, Foster, Pastor, Services every Sunday at 16.30 4 sad 7 ». x. Sunday School at 2-3 r. x oeting Wednesday at 7-30 p.m, 8c. John's Protestant Eplecopal Ohu Allegheny streets, Rev. J. Oswald Davis, Services every Sunday at 1030 a. x. and Payer Mesting Wednesday and Friday evenings t. John's Roman Catholic, East Bishop Street, Rev P McArdle Pastor. Mam at 6 and services 1630 4. » ad Tow Reformed, Linn and Spring streets, Rev Rorvices av ry Sanday at 10.3 i Sanday Schoel at 2-30 r. x Meeting Wednesday evening at 7 Lutheran, East High street, Rev nds y at 1030 Prayer Spring Streets rch, Lamb and Rector J. F.De A. ® ri Chas. T. Steck, AN andTr Wad easdny evening High and Thomas Streets, Rev os every other Sunday at 1030 a. x. and Tr. xn. Sunday School at § 4. mw. Pray or Meoting Wodnesday at 7-30 p. "5A. M_E Church, West High Street Pustol Barvices every Runday morn , Spring and High Streets General na Services funday at4 rx Library and pin Lp pg ay A rx, daily 4 ‘nited Brethern, Wertman. Pastor, Servic Rev. Norris ing and svenis LODGES Bal'sfontes Lodge No Wy + ght on or before every fall mo Bad wei wy light of n ar No. 241, meets on the Jonstans Commandery No. 33. K.T riday night of every month Centres Lodge No. 153, 1. 0. O. F. mest every Thars- fay evening at 7 o'clock at 1. 0. O. F, Hall, opposite mash House. Bellefonte Encampment No. 71, meets the second and fourth Mondays of each month in the Hall o posite the Bush House, Bellefonte Council No. 2170, 0. of U every Tuesday evening in Bush Arcade, Logan Branch Council No. 141, Junior Order U. A M. meats avery Priday evening. Bellefonte Conclave No. 111.1. 0. H. meets in Har ria’ New Bullding the second and fourth Priday eve wing of seach month A.M. meets » Bellefonte Pencibles Jo, “B™ 5th Reg. XN. G. PP.) meets in Armory Hall ¢ ery Friday evening | — - - ~The Secretary of the Navy on Tues- | day accepted the following bids for the construction of the new cruisers and Cruiser No. 2 (Charleston gun-boats, Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, at $1.017.500; Cruiser No. 3 (Baltimore) Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia ; $1, 325, | Gon-boat No. 2, the 000. Iron Works and Dry Dock Company of | Baltimore, at $247,000. In the case of Gun<lapat No. 1 no decision has yet been reached as between the bid of Reeder & Sons and the bid of Cramp & Sons. As the figures exceeded the maximum nt fixed in the appropriation bill the retary was unable to accept their bid. He will probably refer the matter to Coogress with a statement of the facts, and reeommend that the appro- pristion for the construction of cruiser No. 1 be increased, or that she Govern ment be suthorized to build the vessel at one of the ravy yards, am ~The complimentary tickets to news the n Mi ticket paper men given b recent county far follows: “This probably, been paid for ten times over by the paper to which il is issued, It will be honered in the hands of any man wo- man or child, white, black, red or yellow who favors the association by presenting ft. It is good for entrance and grand stand, and the bearer, if driviug, will be entitled to pass & team free, This asso- oiati recognizes the fact that is splen suocess is owing largely, if not gholly, to the notices so freely given it by the press, and while we cannot ren. er an equivalent in cash we return our L gratefid thanks.” - —Carwenaville is agitating the sub- tof a gas well, or an electric light t. has ? | bail the accused languishet 85/100 | {rements must be paid for before in | | ous ace.d Rev. M | Prayer | Tr x | Meeting at | ng | PA AY MM mestaon T os | first Pri | Columbia | managers of a | higan, read as | ols the Opera H House and Ardomy of Music at Lock Haven, were occupied Saturday night. The Sawtelle comedy | company occupied the former, and the | Leland Opera company the latter, ~The passenger depot at Lock Haven Pini fire from the furnaces on Thure- de discovered | day and had a narrow | strue tion, { the fire and quickly extinguished escape from The employes it ~An old man named Barr and a six- teen months old child were burned to death near Pennsylvania Furnace on night. The caught fire while the inmates were { asleep, and before the old man and chill could be rescued, the building { tell in, burying them in the ruins. —A man goes by the name of | Roether sted Be [other day, charged with burnivg his Thursday house who Was Arr at {ford the | neighbor's barn, poisoning two horses | and several hogs, and driving iron pins | in his meadow in order to destroy the In default of $1000 hin jail, | harvest mac shinery. -A lad aged about 18 years, commit | ted suicide at the residence Fri mother for the of his father { at Williamsport on lay morning He asked his revolver for the purpose of shooting a cat. Short- | ly after a report was heard, form in a wood at | father found bis lifeless shed, tributed for the act. No cause whatever can be -Thursdey last a young man named ! Coultar, son of Thomas Coulter, | los above Atkinson's Mills, met w'th a very painful and seri_ i at. Yo wat out in the woods hin of i.e gun ra a atone he placed his hands soross the muzzle and leaned over {0 rest bumself, the wespon to slip from the stone when it was discharged and the load, consist- | wrist and right hand, It is feared that i 1 | the hands as young man may lose both a result of this unfortunate accident Lewistown Free Press. Pa cairn, junior proprietor of tt tti Pit Tribune, Mi g irons at the They Andy Clabaugh iff T. G [od until Thursday, when the rough ~Gov, son and Dr. Hugh the went up on ice mountain to try their shootin footed Messrs | and on mnday fleet- with deer, encamped J. W. 13 Bell, and remain- Fries ex -Sher | weather drove them from tke mountain. Esch bad a Sine deer. was The governor's n fine three-pronged buck is credited with having killed it, having put a and he ball directly through its heart. and The but All he wants is a first-class chance Prayer | { he is sure to bring down his game, doctor took home a very nice doe, didn't like to be interviewed too close- { ly aa to the manner in which he came | by it.—Altoena Tribune. "The almanac for 1887 gives a few New Washington's Nt. items of general interest : Years | day comes on Saturday; Valentine's Birthday on Tuesday; { day on Monday; April Fool day on Fri- | day; Memorial lay on Monday; Fourth of July on Monday; Christ nas on Sun- | day, Easter Sunday will be the 10th of March 2. of the April; Lent begins There will be four ecli | of the moon, One February, visible as | & partial eclipse in the United States. ni | The others that occur are not visible in | the United States; the annual eclipse 19 of pees, sun and two of the sun, Febuary 23; the sun, August ~IupPoRTANT TO Mercmants axp Manu. | | PACTURBRS.— Murphy's Consolidated | Business Directory of the four great | cities—New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and American Manufae- turer's Register, for 1587, is the title of a new and valuable book about to be issued, at the nominal subscription price of three dollars per copy, by the John L. Murphy Publishing Co., 527 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, company was recently organized, with a cash capi- tal of $200,000, Murphy, the veteran publisher and proprietor of the Daily State Gazette, st Trenton, N. J. This John L | President and Treasurer of the Com- | pany, which is a sufficient guarantee of produced. It will be found indispensa- ble to our merchants and manufacturers having correspondence with or buying goods in marts of the country, Manuvfacturers’ Register is a valuable sfidition to the work. The combined features and low price should insure it an immensa circulation, co — . Higbee to be Prosecuted. It is reported in Harrisburg on official authority that Superintendent Higbee will be prosecuted immediately, togeth- with the owners and managers of the four syndicate schools for soldiers’ or- phans, and that the papers io the cases are now being drawn by Deputy Attor- ney Geoeral Snodgrass in conjunction with the attorney general, the object being to push the suit so that a trial can take place in the January term of court, It transpires that there was a dispute At lsat weeks’ meeting of the inspectors between General Wagner and SBuperin- tendent Highea ss (0 the extent to which the specifieations call for private toilet secomiaodations for each pupil, General Wagner claiming that every child should have separate towels, brushes, napkins, ste, ting equirrels w' oa putting the butt |; His weight caused | ing of large shot, passed through his left the character of the work that will be | the four great commercial | The American | Wilson's Btory Exploded. Worcester, Mass, Doc. 3. Mrs. Geo. M. Rice, of Uxhridge, called with her husband at the Gazette offide to- day. Mrs. Rice is the oldest daughter of Jonas Wilson and a sister of Levi Wilson, and is some 17 years older than Mrs. tered by reporters, he is. Rice has been pes but has refused to talk, not caring to be mixed up in any way with the Moen matter, and fear- ing misrepresentation, tional All the sensa- of her statements are toundation. reports without She now comes forward of her own accord, after re- flection, to tell what she knows about “Doe” Wilson's parentage. Her story is direct and to the point and completely contradicts the story of Wilson that be is the son of Philip L. Moen. She was at home in North | Oxford when Levi was born, and she | had watched him grow up as an infant | and through childhood, He was the | son of her own parents, without any | question. named after her Fessenden, Her father (died at Quaddick, Conn., and she was { with him all through his illness. Levi He was | uncle, Levi and his | i » . " | was also living at home, There never | was any death-bed confession by her She knew Levi's suddenly becoming rich, but he never explained it to her. She | bad received gifts from him, but only She oever re ed anything for keeping any secret, She though Levi must be out of his | mind. | father, as stated by Levi. Ol (in & brotherly way. | ceiv Purxay, Conn., December 3 Wilson-Moen affair has caus excitement here and the * n in Wil This afternoon a reporter went irr mg towns where lived. to Ezst Thompson and had an inter- view with Mrs, Porter, Wil mother, She said emphatically Lyman son's that she is Wilson's own mother and that Jonas Wilson was his real father. She also said that the reports of the rccord of Wilson's birth at Oxford, | printed in the morcing's papers are She thioks that Wilson is not in his right mind, or that he acted She | correct impulsively. does uot know of | any mystery. She is 68 years old and Ww ilson is a periect picture of her in the face, is broken down in health. especially the pose, forehead and ex pression of the eves, and there is no ~Tonr Veroier Uxanidouvs, —W, Sult, Druggist, Bippus, lod, “1 can recommend Eleetrie Bitters as the very best remedy. Every bottle sold has given relief in every eno mun took #ix bottles, and was Rheumatism of 10 yours’ standing, Abrahum H re, druggist, Bellville Oho, affirms: “The selling medicine | have ever handled in my ex perience Electric Bitters.” Thous ands of others have added the r testi mony, #0 that the verdict is UNADINOUS that ElectricBitters do cure all disenses of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood. Only u half dollar » bottle at J. Zeller & Son D, tentifien : One cured of " be st 20 years’ is POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies of marva of purity strength and wholesomenass. More economical than the ordigary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, slaw or hosphate powders. Bold only In cans ROYAL BAKING POWDER C0, 106 Wall st, New York formerly | | TONIOS, quickly and completely | and ENRICHES THE BLOOD. WEAK UNDFVELOPED PARTS of thet, QFED STH No [7X } rowliseme nt ARGED DEVEL ahi fnierest ing ed tru ries we wil about this Bighly indoors BITTERS Combining IROX with PURE YEGETABLE LEANSES Quickoma the action of the Liver and Kiduere. Clears the | complexion, makes the skin smooth. It does not injure the teeth, conse headache, or produce cone | stipation ALL OTHER IRON NERICINES DO. question but that she is his m ther, | She never saw ( late years. Her husband was a shoe maker, and Wilson. Mr. avers that Wil« 8 supported mo wl Porter says his wife n is her legitimate s His sisters at $0 to a reporter this morning, 0 oniy p s#ifnvie dou™ { eras fis father, as Mrs. Porter ing faltered in say it was Jonas, “Jonas was his father, bat I know something bad will become of me Whether this apprehension is in re | gard to her future support’ or on ac- teount of her | truthfully concerning the paternity of Wilson is a question, — Druskessess, or Liquor Hanit can BE Coren ny ApMiNisrening De. 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Pa. ned whereas 46.34 U DITOR S NOTIC] naders yrphane Court 0 ty strite tion of the balances in fa of He A. 0. Farst f the estate of Jane FF Mans, deceased ng Uae Logan! titled ¢ wi meet | the parties interested at bis office in the Borough of of Bellefonte, Pa, on Monday, the 27th Jap of Decem ock a.m. when and where all per ® having said ewtnte are rp red § present the sas fr wid fund F 46-0 JSTR AY NOTICE VY T ere came to the residence of We 1 » John Homan fare ™ hear Pine Geo “2 yo» the same alma age inet MM ASCHART white on the back and belly, white bull, with » tithe red about the head and neck, The owner or owners are motif : LD J al fwise they * - & F MILLER Pine Grose, Contre Co, Pa. | | | ] eharges for | vertising, oth | ] CH DRSINES | UDITOR'S NOTICE. The undersi lined, an Anditor appointed hy the Orphans’ Court of Contre county, 10 dispose of the sx. ceptions filed 1 the account of B, F, Leathers and Thomas J. Taylor Execators of Ke, of Jacob Taylor deconsed, and make distribution If necessary, will meet all partion interested therein at bis offer office in the Borough of Bellafouts Pa, on Wednmday, the Sth day of January 1887 at ten o'clock a.m, when sod where all parsons having interest therein are raguired to be present. JAMES L. HAMILL, aa Auditor, AY DITOR'S NOTICE, y The undersigned an Auditor appointed by the Orphan’ Court ofCentre county, to make distribution of the fund In the hands of John Brus Administrator eta of Mollie Bram 4 and ® those leanhiy entitled thereto, will mest . the fhtdas Interest. od at his office in the Porough of Bellefonte Pa, on Thursday the 85th day of December 1888 at ten o'clock a.m. when and where all héragint clnima agninet sald sutate are roquired to awe or be debarred from coming In on sid JAMES IL. Auditor, | MINN & OO. of the ROIENTIFIO AMERICAN #08 10 aot ar Solin wa for Patents, ( Av aats Neos ] args, Copyrights for Lhe United Staten, Can | Barks. ROO. Germany, oto. ine Book abou ants sent from, pr) Sevan «x per enon, sols odtadned through MU NA & ri a] In Lhe BO RNTIFIC AMRRICAN, the ar most Led sctentifo pe andid ang! riroan oopy of Lhe Lifes Adtresa Ni’) ) oO AEioan Offer. Xi Bead way, New Yo - BOTTLES SOLD AND NEVER LUNE LOR GE ) SEYS BI QO HOS PINAL Bm | ALL | ings SILKS AND WARN EN ROO INGA CASTO ill Sana RRR ay Ay Sa for Infants yh A TA %, NS bn and Children. “Castoria is no well adapted to ~hildren that ription [recommend it as superior to any prem known tome." YL A. Amcuen, M.D, 111 Bo. Oxtord Bt., Brooklyn, X.Y, HOLIDAY Tux Cexrave Courany, Castoria cures Colle, Constipatic Bour Btomach, Diarrhaa, Kru tat) Kills Worms, gives sleep, and pre otAes dhe gestion Without lnjurious medication, 1 Fulton Btreet, N. Y. - v J he) ¢ 00S -A.T~ Green’ Belle Jfonte: Pharmacy, Pa. iB. rigtions Dress 1 and Socks fu These goods were a if purchased early Ww earlvevery re advance ir ler Ana fescrig on ndab in every r trade de « tr tio J r ' "w i Fore ans NOW ON SALE COMPLETE LINE OF 42 INCH WOH, CAMEL Hair, in Gray Mixtures at 45 cts. This is & Q Br wn TRIPE HO eta WOOL je at SUITINGS » Cla h CAMEL'S HAIR MIXTURES ge 45 hes wi FANCY CHE( ors 42 inches at 7 Hine at 60 ce Also great sssortment of French 1344 \ 42 0 #6 inches wide at 50c. to $1.25 in Plain goods, in IS hecks, Stripes and Mixtures Plain and Combi= nation Suiting! $1.00 and $1.2 TRICOTS ! Doub Widt 26 per yard TRICOTR ! 5 Py h Tricosts, cis. in al j colors, COMPLETE STOCK OF INCH TRICOTS in ali grades ings at 65 cts. to $1 50 per yard VELVET. » NH TO and color- In theses si al values, grades ‘ { nus but own oe rintions, in wil | whether a Stripe Velvet at 75 cts. or Silk | st $4.00 por yard. 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