Y, August 80, 1588, a ——— — ia Dutt WU SUBNCE containing. important be Jiadly reeelved for et fon in paper. No communteations will beinsert. Recon hed by the real pains of the Patrons wil! confer a favor by report fonder HAL ftice at this office. — When in Bellefonte don’t Fail to visit Will Perlstein's Dry Goods store, the only exclusive dry goods store in the town. Nothing but dry goods, notions, dress trim- mings and furnishing goods, All soods markedin plain fisures and sold at ameprice. Now Bush Arcade. NOTICE. Edward Pletcher is our authorized col- lector and solicitor to whom all ac. wountsmay be pai I. He will visit every partof theCounty., Give Mr. Pletcher Four nameanddl.00 and the paper will Be seat you for one year. Local Department. Sinee Belva Loc’ wood got into The president tussel, The paralyzing fast is learned She doesn’t wear a bustle. This ought not to hurt her eanse : The simple tra h is, neither Of the othier candidates Wears a bustle either, we Journal, ~Get registered. —Court is largely attended. —Mr. John Burtruff has had a severe seige of the fever. —American work for American work. men is a Democratic motto. ~The public schools Of Lewisburg begin Monday, September 3rd. —Aaron Williams and wife visited Harry Teats, of Carwensville, last week. =A pair of n>w signs are noticed on the outer walls of the Conrad House. —The Republican convention was held in the JProtective (#) Tariff Club room. ~The Reforms and the Presbyteri- anspicniced up Buffalo Run last Fri. day. —~Lo00k out for Mr. Garman’s new stabi: It will b¢ a dandy—so sayeth Daniel. ~gditor Kurtz aud his son Charles dropoed into our sanctum Monday for a | few moments. ~The town was fall Monday ; Tues. | day it was fuller—we mean people at. | tending court. —We learn that Mr. 8. is srwly improvia i —Jonductor Po ties first week in Se tember. —The inditute connected with the | B 1:<aell Univers!s, is to have a full @ or Ssstra composed Hf young ladies. ¥@ | —Clell Bamford is as happy as a lark. | is a girl and weig 3 12 pounds. Clell | is two inches taller since Friday last} | ~The festival held at Filmore Satur. div evening! was a grand success, and quite a number from town went up on | the special. | tS | —Mr. Robert !Tanter, of Benner to yoship, and Moss». W., IL. Kurtz and George Sweeney, of Centre Hall, are jurors this week. ~—A colored tariff reform club was orgeaized| at Harrisburg Monday. The club starts] with «ix teen members, Many mice it isfsaid wii oin, ~T. R. and Frank Harter. of Tylers- ville, were in town last week. Tom will leave in Septeraber for Gettysburg to attend” Pennsy iv. nia College. ~The Kennedy Sunday School, of ME. Eagle, held a picnic in the grove below Stiner's mill jast Saturday. Other sc100l8 were present and a good time was had by all, ~Brother Fiedier of the Gazette, was not a candidate {or (he Legislature, al. A. Stover, | wr » has been very ii! with typhoid fever, | snberger's case will | €om3 up in the Cle urfield county court | ——— " parted for Omaha to accept a position tendered him, James Curtin, of Roland, accompanied the General, gong out there for the benefit of his health, Among the gallant soldiers of Pennsyl. vanin none made a better record than General Curtin, sud yet no one wonkl suspect the quiet, unassuming gentle- man so familiar to Bellefonters, of be. ing one of the hardest fighters in the late war. He rose step hy step from the command of a company to the command of a brigade, A curious incident is re. lated of Genernl Curtin and General Gordon —a Confederate officer — now Governor of Georgia, After the sur. render of Lee, Curtin was in command at Farmville. Gordon, who had been parolled, was on his way home, and stopped to accept the hospitalities of General Curthin’s quarters. After sup- per, which was late, the two officers and a number of others of both sides, spent the evening in pleasant conversation talking over their campaigns. General Gordon ask his host if he did not want to purchase a good horse. Curtin said he did, as his riding horse had been shot from under him and he had nothing but an ordinary army horse, The Confeder. ate officer said he wanted to sell his for two reasons: First, because he had no use for a horse, and secondly, because he had no money- The two gallant sol. diers slept together that night and the next moming after breakfast General Gordon's servant brought the horse around. He was a magnificent horse frame, but the angles and corners were $0 prominent that Curtin hesitated for a moment. * He's a good horse. Gener al,” said Gordon, ** but, like his master. he has been fasting for some time." Two hundred and fifty dollars was the price asked. Curtin paid the money, and took the horse. The two soldiers never met since that time. General receipt for $250, The story was told us by a friend of the General's, and repeated by Curtin himself shortly before going west. It i8 one of the pleasant incidents of his soldier iife. Death of a Bright Little Boy. James A. Beaver, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Lunger Wian, who reside a short distance east of this place. died Sunday evening at about eight o'clock. The cause of his death was pneumonia of the lungs. From the time that James’ little blue eyes peeped on “mother earth” up to the hour of his demise, sickness of some Kind or other had ever been with him. The little one’s sufferings until a short time prior to the flight of his spirit to the God who gave it, were intense and agonizing in the extreme to those It was the vision of a gentle and tender spirit that brief life of James® and many eves unused to ters will grow moist when they read these delicate lines: * He only crossed his little hands, He only looked more meek and fair! We parted back his silken hair, We wove the roses “round his form — Wrapt him from head to foot in flowers And thus went dainty Baby James Out of this troubled world of ours.” He was aged nine months and nine | days old. The remains were intered in the Union cemetery Tuesday. ~If you want to vote get regis- tered. The Game Laws, Grey and fox squirrels may be shot between September 1st to December 1st, The partridge and quail season opens October 15th and ends December 15th, Pheasants may be killed from Octo. ber 1st to December 31st, The rabbit season opens November 1st and ends December 31st, Speaking of Sunday trains a Penn. sylvania railroad official remarked the other day thal there are two hundred and ten trains leaving and arriving at the Philadelphia depot every Sunday. One-half of these trains are run for the accommodation of suburban people at. tending church services in the city. The Reading and other companies possibly operate fully as many trains altogether, Last week General J, I. Curtin de- Curtin bas in his possession Gordon's | { Judge Orvis. J. L. who surrounded the minute death bed. ! Jno. B. Leathers and Jno. G. { ler. | absence of Mr. Breckenridge, which had | been telephoned 10 various sections of | the county during the day. the meeting i | wasone of the largest ever hold in the THE COUNTY NEETING.| RA AAR A AG A GREATGATHERING OF CEN- TRE COUNTY'S STURDY YEOMANRY. & AN AH era, BELLEFONTE CROWDED A A— TWO BIC MEETINGS. OLD CENTRE THOROUGHLY AROUSED, The evening trains which arrived with- in a few minutes of each other unloaded hundreds of Democrats from Penns Val- ley, Lower Bald Eagle, Snow Shoe, Fer.’ guson, College and Buffalo Bun while vehicles of every description brought in those living off the lines of railway, Four bands accompanied the Penns Valley delegation, and two came in on the Buffalo Run train, Long before the hour of meeting the public square was crowded, and the bandanna was con- spicuous, as handkerchiefs, necties and drapery for the young ladies, The meeting was organized in the Court House with Gov. Curtin as pres. ident and the following named gentle. men as vice presidents and secretaries; Henry Meeker, Burnside; 8, K., Faust, Miles; G, B. Mickle, Haines: G. W. McWilliams, Harris; John Conley, Pot. ter; Michael Shafer, Walker: John Marks, Worth: Robert Haines, Snow Shoe; Geo, W. Gill, Huston; Arthur Brown, Bellefonte; Geo. McGaffey Philipsburg: James A. Lukens, Philips. burg: W. A. Tobias, Millheim: Hon. B. F. Hunter, Benner; Hon. J. P. Gephart, Bellefonte; Jas. 1. Delong, Liberty; Conrad Singer, Curtin; D. L. Meek, Patton. B. F. Bowrrsox. Fer. | guson; J. J. Orndorf, Haines: Jacob Deitz, Howard; A. J. Griest, Union- ville; Dr. E.J. Deshler, Aaronsburg; Mr. Buchanan, Spring. Secretaries; F. E. Bible, 1. B. Ulrich, Hon. P. Gray Meck, R. A. Bumiller Wm. Kuntz. Speeches were made by Gov. Curtin, Hon, C, 8, MeCormichand | Spangler read the following telegrams: J. L. SpaxoLen, House revoked all leaves and this pre- vents my absence, I regret this sines rely. Wm. C, P. BRECKENRIDGE. P. Gray Meek. Regret but utterly impossible, fully engaged in Court. W. U. Hexsu, P.Gray MEEK. Have seen Breckenridge, impossille for him or others to leave. L. 0. Meek. P. Gray MEEK or J. L. SPasoren. em pesnibie for McAlarney to go to. day, fear noticeis too short to secure another, How would Fow do? Wire him. B. M. Mead. OUTSIDE MEETING. An overplus meeting was organized outside in the Court House yard with, | Geo, W, Rumberger as president and | viele as Viee Presidents. The meeting was addressed by D. F. Fortney, Esq.. followed by Ma. Npsang- Notwithstanding the unavoidable county. The Democracy is thoroughly aroused, united and harmonious, and that fact presages vietory in the county and a gallant fight for Pennsylvania, ~W. F. Reber, Esq., has been offered and has accepted the position of steno- grapher to the Democratic National Committee in New York. This is a compliment well deserved. As a steno. grapher Mr. Reber has few equals and no superiors. He leaves next week to enter upon his duties, ~~Harry Johnston, of Mt. Eagle, has returned home after having spent sev. eral years in the West. He gained much useful information from his travels, and comes home thoroughly posted in the ways of the western country. m——— A ~Don't fail to register. A. CRRA ~The Protective(?) tariff club of Bellefonte has erected a handsome and appropriate transparency in front of the windows of the club rooms. John Spangler, of Centre Hall, | through town oy Friday on their home. | Perlstein’, ~Will Kurtz was a juror, =8ehool teachers are in demand in Cambria county, ~Mr. John Bullock is taking a tum. ble With the Ocean billows this week, The furnace of the Centre Tron Company is again in blast, and this thine is working splendidly. ~3e0. Me Gaffey and C. A, Fanlk- ner, two of Philipsburg’s prominent Democrats were courting this week, ~The Bush House was very taste. fully decorated with flags and bandana cloth—Teller’s a “rebel” yon know. ~Puffalo Run is having quite a number of plenies this season, it being the boss place for social gatherings, ~The First National Bank will be an imposing structure and one of the finest Wuildings of its kind in this part of the State, -The Bellefonte Nail Works are now running full time, everything is moving off nice and smooth, since the last strike. ¥ ~On Monday night two drunken 8in- dividuals were put iu the cooler for fight. ingg on the streets. They were fined sev. eral dollars, ~Orin Vail and John Calahan, two handsome voung Democrats from Phil ipsburg, were among the many in at. tendance at court. ~The picnic and exhibition of the patrons of husbandry near Centre Hall, | promises to rival the Williams Grove concern in a few years. — Thursday, September 6th, is the last day on which you can get registered. —If your business is dull why not A little printer's ink now and then is relished by all elusses of men. advertise, Besides it helps the printer, ~We noticed Prof. W. A. Krise. one of Spring Mills an our streets this staunchest week, was attending court. Prof. -We are under obligations to Hon. | Haven for a pre. | mium list of the Penn. State Fair to be | i I.. A. Mackey of Lock held at Philadelphia Sept. 3nd to 15. — Fd, Munson of Philipsburg was in Ed. has sold out his | furniture store to Maj. Wolf and is] town on Tuesday, going to engage in the coal business, —Although disappointed at the ab- | Demo- | sence of Mr. Breckenridge the eracy of Centre County turned out thousands strong and listened intently to the speeches. ~The little bandaonna club were mad as hornets because Mr, Breckenridge did not come, they expected to escort him to the Court House, but the boys had their parade all the same, —~A meeting will be held in the Knights of Labor Hall on Friday night | of this week to consider the propriety of | organizing a Castle of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. od to all, «Mr. David Delp, of near New Beth. | Demorrats | Krise | An invitation is extend. | ~Don't fail to register. ~By some oversight the Jetter of Chatrman Williams to the Democrats of Centre Comnty was not published last week, Mr, Williams begs leave to as sure his friends throughout the county that the ticket nominated will have his hiesrtiest support in the coming came. paign, and requests that lds friends give it the same support. He also returns his thanks to his friends throughout the county for their hearty support of his candidacy, ~Murs, Corbin Sehook, daughter of Prof. F. V. Irish of the Lock Haven Pa. Normal died of consumption at the summer home of her parents in Lima Ohio, on Friday the 28nd, inst. Mr. and Mrs. Sehook resided in Bellefonte for the past year, he being foreman of the Centre Domocrat. Mrs. Behook was quite young, and the only child, The berieved parents and husband have the sympathy of their friends in this place, ~Mert Conningham with a gang of men is busily engaged, in putting down 4 concrete pavement infront of the new | public school building on East Bishop | street, when finished it will be a great improvement to that end of town, The concrete pavement is one of the most durable and substantial pavements made, and Mr, Canningham is just the man for that kind of work, —On Wednesday Mr, George Tate sent his littledaughter Lulu only four years old out to Pittsburg, Lulu went i all the way by herself a8 bravely as a {reorge is awful proud of Lulu she grown lady, the little girl and well he may be. never whimpered and doubt would be general favorite on the cars | that the little tot no when it was known was travelling alone, -We believe the letter purporting to have been received from the missing Mrs. Bover by her husband is a forgery. Mr. Rover, as far as we can learn, has failed to show the original letter to any | pretenses, | to the Grand Jury The following cases have been div. posed of up to the time of our going to press, Quite a number of cases have been settied, Conanonwealth vs. Henry P. Kiss Inger: assault and batfery. Goilty, Sen. tenfie: #25 fine and costs of prosecution, There were two indictments found against Kissinger on both of which he was found guilty, On the second the sentence was #10 fine and costs, Commonwealth vs, Frederick Kurtz, Prosecutor, W. P, Shoop, Libel con. tinued. Commonwealth vs. Charles Roney : cheating hotel keepers. Prosecutor, William Shortlidge, Not guilty, Costs divided between prosecutor and de. fendant, Commonwealth vs. Nathan Haupt’ assault and battery, Guilty. Sentence 850 fine and costs, Commonwealth vs, Chas. Watson. F & B. Guilty, The parties in this ase are willing to be married, but ag the girl is under age and her father re. fuses his consent they cannot be married: Commonwealth vs, Henry Brindle, Samuel Grimes, William Baser. William Stewart and Wesley Decker, A firay. Guilty, Ten dollars fine each and costs, Commonwealth vs, Jack Cogan, False Guilty, Not sentenced, Commonwealth Vs. J. H. DeLong; Assault & Battery, Not guilty, county to pay the costs. Commonwealth Vs, Foster Garman F.& B. Guilty 830 fine & costs, £30 ly. ing in expenses and #1 per week for 7 Years, John Dawson was appointed tip staff in place of Capt, tunkle deceased.) —Prof. W. A. Krise, grand juror. and Hiram Durst gave the DEMOCRAT call Tuesday, a 5 “The Democratic club will hold its meetings every Tuesday evening instead about There is the | disappearance of this woman that Rover | person, 8 mystery cond { Ie ar up i rhaps better than other Person. The told by | | greatest suspicion of foulplay. HR ar —~Are you registered 7 -— We are glad to learn that Leathers of Mt, Eagle isslowly recuper - ating after having undergone a severe at. tack of typhoid fever. He was brougot home from Snow Shoe several weeks a. { go and his condition was so bad that it { was thought he would not recover, but by | careful treatment received at the hands | { of Dr. Hensyl, he is now on a fair way i to health. ~{300. B. Brandon the jovial landlord | of the Brokerhoff House returned from a trip East last week. i He took a trip | i excellent ports a delightful time, over the Sound on one of the Steamears that ply between New York | and the Eastern Mr. Brandon | was formerly an officer on one of cities, { hese | boats and his old friends were delighted | tosee him and made his visit extremely | pleasant. leben, Clarion county, and exSheriff | wird road from Butler county with a fle lot of cattle, Fifty rigs ofjdifferent kinds passed up Bishop stevet on Sunday morning bound for Clintondale campmeeting aml no less than 300 persons occupied the fifty rigs. A niceday and a general good time was reported. ~Edward McNulty, who has been a guest of W, C. Heinle for several weeks and while here made hosts of friends, returned to New York City Saturday. Ed. likes Bellefonte and while here en, Joyed himself very much. ~The camp meeting at Clintondaie was well attended last Sunday, about 5000 people being there. Good order prevailed the greater part of the day, but there were many cases of drunken. ness and several brutal fights, —=R. C. Leathers, of Mt. Eagie, was in town last week attending to business, Mr. Leathers says a Mr, and a teacher of large experience, will teach the school at that place, ~The Concert was a grand sucess, praassed Headley, graduate of Kutzstown Normal School Mr. Robert Cole, architect, is now giving his entire attention to architect ure, with orders, and is crowded ! signs for the new 1. O. 0. F. building {in Tyrone. Mr, Cole is also a practical | mechanic and contractor, which enables him all the more to thoroughly under. stand the details of drafting. ~Wm. C. P. Breckenridge is not only one of the finest orators in the House but he is ardently devoted to duty. Publie office is a public trust and mach as he desired to be present at the Connty meeting on Tuesday be obeyed the call of duty and Centre county Democracy though it failed to hear his eloquence, endorsed his devotion to his country. ~The work of grading East Curtin street began on Tuesday morning. Commissioner Shaughensy would have had the work done before this if the street committee of council had ordered it done. Better late than never. This is the first work done on that street east of Allegheny since it was opened in 1884, - Sunday afternoon, September 2nd, the topic for discussion at the Young i : any conflicting stories i goods, notions and gents enough to exeite the | Haupt | | ra Falls, where they had been spending Mr. Brandon re. | At | present he is engaged in making the de. | of every Monday as heretofore. y wil 4 : N i L ¥ | — EL Ver VUMBDBE YOu needa Ui in furnishing Hine can he Prox ured at Perlstein’s EK. C. Poorman and J. K. Barnhart have returned from Buffalo and Niaga- their vacation. —~Mr. Harry Grove, who clerks in Pete Keiclhiline's store, treated the hun. gry printers of the DEMOCRAT to a fine {lot of peaches. The “devil” took his in whole. The Locust Union Sabbath School of George's Valley picnicked last Saturday in the grove near the Decker school house. Addresses were made by Prof. D. M. Wolf and W. A. Krise. A Democratic meeting will be held at Farmer's Mills Friday evening next. Grove Lit of unclaimed letters remaining in the post office at Bellefonte, Centre | county, Pa., August 27, 1888: Mrs. Jennie Bartlett, George A. Bar. Chas. Baldwin, R. J. ilt Bover, R. 8. Craig. Houser & Len. sr. R. A. Jackson, Miss Ellen Lewis, | Ed. McGee, Miss Lizzie Miller, Miss i Minnie McHacan, Miss Mary Rinehart, | W. H. Rigel, John Saylor; Thomas | Sale, Rev. J. Smith, Peter Shultz, F. Taylor, C. ©. Thompson. Persons inquiring for letters named in the above fist will please say advertised. Jas. H. Dousixns, P. M. rett, Boneson, M ~The “Dall Season’ approach. Ex. tra inducements offered in fine Wiloring. Suits and Overconts —made to order from new {all goods, si very low prices. Moxrooneny & Co, Tailors. . BELLEFONTE MARKET. Guar, "as corrected weekly by Gerberick, Hale & Oo.) RB 4 Wheat, new, per bashel, oom nnd 100 Mixed Wheat, a a ——— nd Men's Rooms will be “ The Relation of Employer to Employe," a striking con. trast. Every man, young or old, inter ested in the great questions in this country concerning labor and capital should be present. Meeting to begin at The cozy little hall was filled with the most refined and appreciative audience that could be desired. All the perform. ers acquitted themselves admirably and won hearty encores upon every occa. sion, and no one thinks about looking at the running of trains on Sunday in any other light than that they are not only a convenience, but a necessity, ~Mr. Richard Lutz, who is employed though Brother Tuten advocated his nomination strongly through the News. Perhaps that's what killed Feidler, ~Jack’ L. Spangler, Esq., of Belle. Houte, is the cholic of the Centre county Inthe transparency line it is immense, being the largest thing of the kind we have seen for years, It being the work of a Democratic artist C. P. Hier and te or raits of Candidates Harrison and IIIT. sn SA BO Rg a - a td we, iH 1 Retwetata for Congress. He isa bright Mawyer, a fine speaker and could carry that district by 4 bg majority, — Renovo News. as a carpenter at Collins Bro’s round house on the Buffalo Run Railroad, while in the act of gathering wp his tools preparatory to quitting work, on Morton sre very fine. In the centre isa cog wheel, doubtless representing the wheel of Industry within this whee stands an elegantly dressed gentlemen ==Allen A. Patterson aged 30 years has wandered away from his home, at Glenn Hope Clearfield County. He has been missing for more than a week. 4 o'clock. Good singing and short talks, Io Run's bright and intelligent young ~=Mr. Frank Hartsock, one of Buffa- | | | | | L 3 i} 1 i il Pefszsureresfordvorrns. Hilf i i | Friday evening of last week. was so my men, gave the CENTRE DEMOCRAT a fortunate as to Jet one of the chisels slip with a silk bat and fine overcoat on representing the fellow protected while Any information leading to his where = Mr. Gotlieh Haag, proprietor of the abouts will be thankfuly received by his from his hand, in falling it struck the top of his foot entting only a small hole next to the big toe severing one of the clad in shirt and pants only is the fellow who labors and pays high tariff taxes so that the protected millionaire may build friends, «Collins Bro.'s, of this place, are put, ting up & very neat and commodions | DIURIOY SRINARY % sisal arteries, the blood flowed freely, It was not thought dangerous but medi. cal ald was summoned and found that it needed the best of care. “Dick” was put on the retired list for several days, oe :
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