| ad 3 f3 1: 3 TT 7 "si SOLE AGENTS FOR THE SOUTH BEND CHILD Plow. 2 vB We intend selling goods low--and keeping up a fine assortment and have increased our stock largely which ts the largest in the count Y. +H. A. McKEE & BRO. LL) A IR ANSE, RA SH ar 2 z ’ | AGENTS FOR Atl, THE CELEBRATED M11) L #- TOWN BTOV/SS 4 ov ¥ v —————— w— A large and fine assorted dock of Hardware, Stoves, (i. luind-, and everything that Jen erally kept in a firs! 0 0 0 0 0 - - . w A class Hurdu i Store, WOLFF'S HOME MADE @ THE FINE ; J THE FINEST LINE op _ TINWARE. BEILILEFOIN Hl. PA. CUTLERY. % 2g. 808 8 f i$ 3. 8% "7 8 3 g gt sentenced for a set time, but it is pro- | chequer was probably rightin regard vided that the sentence shall uot ex- | ing the yield from the death duties as ceed the maximum term for which | likely to be inelastic, the offender could be confined in a State prison for the crima committed. It is thought that the opening of the new instiution will have an immedi- ate effect upon the sentences given by the courts. That clas of young min who were previously sent to the coun~ ty jail, the house of refuge and for short terme to the penitentiary will now go to the reformatory. The law provides that when there is room in the establishment any of the penal in- stitutions may be drawn upon for the younger and better disposed of their inmates. | The ownership | of land ih this country is rarely now the means of sccumulatiog wealth. Of the twenty fortunes uxceeding mills m lion each which have been noted all wese made in business, Among the twenty ove other estates with each only three or tour of great land owners. The desire of rich men to become own ers of land is apparently decreasing. It is seldom now that money is left to be invested in the purchase of land. Next to the five millionaires, largest personal estate left in the last twelve months was that amounting to {| £654 431 of Mr. Perrins, of Lea & | Perrios, of Worcester, at whose shop, it is said, a lady on her return from ludia, many years ago, left by chance a receipt for a curry, which suggested that for the famous sauce; and to Mr. Periin's was the estate, worth £656 449, ot Mr. Thomas Jessop, of | Soeffield, who generously gave back | to the company which bought his | business £40000, the amount by | which the valoation of his stock and | | p aot exceeded the estimate, Mrs Pemberton Heywood, the widow of a Liverpool bankei, left £651.226; Mr. Charles Cave, a West India merchant snd partoer in the Loodon bank of — WAI —— MEY OF MI_LIONS Some of the Largost Fortunes in | England. Wills of Deceased Millionaires and the Amount of Money They Left— How British Money Making is Carried On. The Mondon Globe hes the follow- ing: The incidence of the probate and succession duties has become a subject | of interest. The exact amount paid Prescott, Grate & Company £613 900, Tespect of these duties for the finan | oj Mr Hardie Farquhar, a banker year just ended has not been published | in St. James street £544 684, Mr. more than a million peropally, were | The succession duty for the year 1346 1887 yielded £814,764, and ‘he pro- | bate duty £5,037,469. The latter at the rate of three per cent, therefore, represented personal estate valued for probate at about £121,000 000. Since Christmas last four wills been proved, passing personality of more thao £9 500,000. Miller, a Scoteh merchant, leit £1 121 831; Lord Wolverton, a banker, of Welsh descent £1,820,229: Mr. Hagh have M'Clamoat, ano Irish merchant; £3,-| 121,931; and Baron De Stern, 8 Ger | man financier, £3 544,978. One other estate exceeding a million was, it is] widow of Mr. James Morrison, who, understood, passed by a will proved | io the financial year just ended. Ia no previous year, it is believed, bave five estates paid duty on more thaa ten and a halt millions. In ten years | the Chancellor of the Excneqaer said | Sir William | Robert Campbell, one of the early set ters in New South Wales, left £617 818; Mr. George Banton, the contract or, £605,593: Mr, Charles Waring £552,000, Mr. James Haworth, who who died Mr. J Fielden, £402,508, and Lord Hindlip, | the senior partoer of Allsop & Sons, £5567 577. Sir Alexander Matheson, whose personalty was worth 643 759, ‘| i » intestate, £593 008; had much landed estate, but he was also a part owner in the Rio Tinto copper mines and the head of an old Me:. Mor was firm of China merchants rison, who left 612,000, the after serving sn apprenticeship with her father at his me cers shop by Lon- don Bridge, hecame his partoer —and her's—and in time built up the great wholcsale trade of the Fore street warehouse, they were able to discern between spiritual ahd political domains +> CALL AT THE < JOB OFFICE i | ET LLL LLL TT Ta the | | -JOB WORK- next | sane E— sees WS Bee? a ae NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE "CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” ONLY £1.50 PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE, — OFFICE IN OLD CONRAD HOUSE BELLEFONTE PA. it New Advertisements, Mr. O'vrien ssid that the present or in his budget speech, <uly ihe estates | of three million each have paid pro- | The late Commonore Vandebilt is bate daty. Fifteen other estates last | said to have Jied worth 185,000,000, year, varying in amounl frpm £496, o; about as much as 1000 of the rich- 000 to £665,000, gave a total of near- | ot estates in England paid probate ly vine millions, and twenty one, with | duties upon last year, personality exceeding a quarler of a million aad under half a million, paid duty on seven and a half millions more. [iis probable that about 100 wills were proved, disposing in each case of less tnan £250,000 and more than £100,000, with an aggaegate of, perhaps, filteen millions, PROP ERTY DISTRIBUTION, ABOUT VANDERBILT. To have made a fortune of two, or three, or even five millions of pounds sterling in twenty or twenty five years, is spoken of as not an uncommon in Ameriea, Such fortunes, if, indeed, they are made at all, most, of course, | be made by speculation, and nol in the ordinary course of trade, There is no indication that wealth can be acquired | in this country even on a small scale, | in the way that it is ssid to be gained | in America. Riches, when not inherit’ | od, seems to be slowly earned by the | people whose wills are proved in Enge occurrence The whole namber of wills proved in this country last year may very likely have been about 50,000. From " *hage more than a tithe of last desl was worse than twenty of Balfour ian coercion. The Irish had enemies enough without taking blows from hands from which they at least desery- | WALL PAPER, ‘Window Shades, | ed them. It was heartbreaking to think that such a rescript in the name of Rome should be thrown into the teeth of the Irish people A courageous, re- spectful, firm protest was necessary, | The crowd dispersed in an orderly manner, A AI The Population of Bellefonte, Is about 7,000, and we would say at | least one hall are troubled with some affection of the Throat ond Lungs, as those complaints are, according to sta tistics, more numerous than others We would advise all not to neglect the opportunity ta eall on their druggist and get a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. Price 50¢ and | 8100, Trial sise free. Sold by all drug Paintingand Paper Hanging S. The BR( 46 HIGH ST, BELLEFONTE, PA. SATINS and MICAS at 12¢ Embossed GOLDS and FLOCKS trom 4% 10 $1 15 por r COLOR BORDERS AND FIXTURES, A SPECIALTY AT H WILLIAMS Largest Stock of Wall Paper ever brought 10 this town at prices lower than ever before, JWN BAUKS Te, GRAY BACKS Bo, PATENT BACKS 10e, WHITE BACKS 12¢ GOLD from 18 wo 450 ace. 6 band 12, 5 band ten 01... : and w ot i d, y year's probate daty . as Visine w— ——— » § Over a third of the duty was contrib The Rescript Condemned | uted by the estates of not myo 150 rich people. dhe average an. unt | of whose persooslty considerably eo, - ceeded £250 000, while the average of all the other estates would be probably lesk than £2000 csc, Tle insutae tax returus show Lost 16 this country propery is becoming more evenly distributed this year. The re- sult of this distribution seems 10 be | made spesches, Ti n‘fesio | rol Can Put Them Up at Short Notice. that less wealth is accomalated than [Of the Irish members "™ aoa glos Spavin, Lidinat ¥ Mao We have good painters and paper hang. when property was io fewer hands, | 40med by acolamation, ol + Sof, or wo ors constantly in our employ, Are pro. The income of the country does not appear to be increasing at the same rate as formerly: Notwithstaudiog windfall this year from a few rat tate \ hoa eho re | i a’ AE "R’ on by the Irish Catholic members of | Parlin, cent Paps.’ resoript, Priesia press, was only moral doctrine, the Vatican would treat no other coun. try in Europe in the sams way. The I my they wold thaw the world (hay w—— Dustin, May 20 Sx thousand per | 7 sont assembled in Phonix Park today to take action on the resolutions adopt’ | the re. d Chere were no | Mayor Bexton | nent with reference to nt, Lord her Parvellites | p Mr, Dillon denied that the reseript , trish would neither submit nor bow to that she knew Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs was a superior reme- when others had no effect whatever, 5a to prove this sad convinos you of its provided, and Messrs, John Dillon, | merit, any druggist will give you a Sam- William O'brien ana ' Blemishes from horses, Blood Bpavin He waid that | Can A . Sore snd «wollen Throat, Save $50 by use Jf one bottle, Warrant. ol. Sold by ¥. Polls Green, Tien=sict, Bei lefonts 1 4, inate, 150, 4 band 250, 3 band 35,2 bands 450, 1 band $1.00 10 $2 50 GOLD EMBOSSED pn RDERS 5 band 25¢, 4 band 850, 8 band 430, 2 vend TE 1 band $1 00 to $2 50. Special Prices for Furnishing Paper on the Wall. oom he Handsomest Lady in Bellefonte, Kemarked to a friend the other day v, ns it stopped her coagh imstantly A FULL LINE OF WINDOW SHADES AND FIXTURES. le Bottle Free. Lazge size 500 and $1. pared to axeculs jobs quick and in n work. man-like manner, Telephone Connection: Call and examine our stonk; Splints, Sweeney, Stiflec, Sprains, Coughs, Ete, New pdvptisements, -- SEASON OF 1887-'SS, To Tre— W. I. FLEMING. The Fashionable <>MERCHANT TAILOR < Has just returnen from the Eastern cities with a new stock of the Finest « Suitings . and = Overcoatings Ever brought to town. ‘Workmanship the Best and<~ +>Prices Down to Rock Bottom All Work Guaranteed, AN Dr GOODS + AS + REPRESENTED. Special attention given to += CUTTING AND FITTING. se NO FANCY PRICES FOR INFERIOR MATERIAL. The Largest and Best Stock in Ceniral Pennsylnwania te WwW | | pay inflated prices for a suit when you can get hovest goode al honest prices, A well dreesed gentleman is » pleasure 1 look at, and every man in Centre county can be well-dressed if he is judicious in the selection of his tailor. Cull and examine for yourself r ant task for me to show my goods and quote prices, “1 haw | novelties and at prices surprisingly Low. | drop in sod see my stock. y | pe 7 W. [. FLEMING. | Crider's Block, | DIAMOND 156m Sedect from. iis a pleas- the very latest Before buying a Suit or Overcoat | Bellefonte Mason & Hamlin = ALL © Ca TEN Organs and Pianos. The Cabinet Organ was Introdocsd by Mason & Hamlin in 1861. Mason & Homie Organs have always maintained their supremacy over al ere, ha received Highoet Honore at wt Great World § Buitleoons i : _— ‘Walter W. Bayard. | in the room Intely o®upied by W. Ho will keey constant y on hand » full line of i ARTICLES &e. Ihave TUBE PAINTS for Kensingt o Duls OF PERFUMERY and i SACHET POWDERS | Telepho s | receive my prompt attsniion Warren W. Bavanp. D Rr HAS OPENED A | U Wilkinson on Alleghs ny street, an i | DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET Work, ne in the store, and all orden “Wl | Prescription Prepared at N . ratty THOUS ight or Day WORK FOR ANOTHER, or on snail salary! Why ty t ure d living foam Se eh Blpbpateedt or Wesvits since 1887, | “ ——————— nn Why work on rented land? Why not start Ser Pa NT “i vented u ¥ Bol secure at shies sae of the Fr— oA » Ph mel sy ” be, a lrves i» faded nt very fertile and well hornted lends . consraciion, ; onneng f+ to malivonde now tc be abinined by thse » otment in "i ret gi Tee | Northern Dake and Minotsts where you eam 0 teetiv. nine : Wake & larger wot profit per wore than on eh - muvicians, tomers, aol Mise priced oF warnont lard yon now sccapy ¥ Wy ot Ly he bi free, £0 and Took the oituniion over. anil see fad oF 8 Jews bale ithe vr nation, w MUL free if pam will adbieas OR Wantinfyd Gen, Pass. Aeent, 81 Pant, No BUSINESS CENT UNS The buiiding wi milronds in 8 ven and Tetile couniey MASON & RAMLIN ORGAN 2170 PLAN) 00. 40 Bast 14% Or, (Tale Sone vr TOIL, ob hae revatntiohiesd he world dur hg IR Tt half century. Not [nventio a Tp i an we am to 0, I WAR. Bl Kebbel, { . and posits Rg of over the | BEX, Gu. Pass Mgt SL Pood with on wg woth their ge es | Any one can do the ath thet a Worth Dalits powey of oid wo “ 848 5 ha poo tes pa is vad | PRASPRROTTS, X70 vom PORE 10 We ASA wu will seed vam free, et ong © Pro 1 Thee 5h er Foret watam amd Foose bes de vg Thal el ees od RTA A oes po SE “v8 fn mom oem, whieh wb Chu man now seems oy aH = RE " Ll a had EE LE SE h Vlg i Seis ! Rs an W— VOM Loe Aires on bo oe, AN, Wale nies, Tus im Yuh, Mins. - : i vi
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