: penn J A RANGA AN I o> &he Contre Bemoorat, That Growing Surplus. Acting Secretary Thomp-on, (f 1h treasury department, in spesking regard to the probable condition of the 'poasury at the end of the pres. fiscal yenr, said: “The approprati » bills havirg all been passed by the present Congress some estimvte cun pow be made of the probabls surplus of revenue for the fiscal year endii June 30, 1889, over the expenditure. for the same year. Estimating one or two minor items they amount « she aggregate to $306,000,000 Wh the e: timated expenditures from tie permanent annual sppropristions, which are put at $115,640,798, th. y me ke a total of $421,830,798, The total estimated reveones are $440.500.000, making sn excess «f revenues over the total of the appro- pristions of ahout $19,000 000. “Bot this bv no means represent. the actu-1 surplus of revenue for the current fisonl year. A careful es i- wate shows thet of these appropris- tions, which are specific and contiou- ing appropristions, there will be at least $37,000 000 which will not and eannot be pr perly expended during this fi-ca: year, which makes an actu. al surploe of $56,000,000, which ix subetantinllyv the same am. unt eatima- ted by the secretary in his annoal re prt. Buteven this does not tairly re nt the sarplus revenues fr th. fiscal year 1889; for in the appro, ris tions ab ve sated there is included the sum of about $18,000 000 for de- fici-ucies in appropriations for 1888 and prior years, which should have been »pprepriated at a prior session of Congress and pald out of the sor plos revenues of former years. This added to the above sam of $56,000,000 imcreases the surplus revenues of 1886 : to $74,000 000, “This dos pot include the balances which will he covered into the treas- ury cn the 30th day of Jane, 1859, of unexpended appropriations of 1887 and prior years, which, according tw the careful estivates made, will pot be less than $6 000,000. In the ex- penditures there is included pearly $48 000000 fr the =i: king fund, which i« really a part of the surplus revenot s snd, if added, will meke a total of 8122000000 of revenue in excess of the actual and necessary ex penditures of the government for the fi-eal year 1889, which would mate an actual iuerease of surplus at the end of this fiscal year of $104 000,000 “The ahove statement has reference to excess of revenues for the present fiscal yesr over expenditures for the same time, and isentirely independent of the surplus now in the treasury smountirg to-day to $97 934,305.63, ineladin ¢ £243 17,548 820f fraczional eosin Any portion of this present surplus not expended within this fis eal yesr for the purchase of bonds must be adeed to the $104,000 000 wo arrive sat the actual surplus which will remain in the treasury on the 30th of June next. “There is no reason to believe that the actual receipts for the ficeal yea 1889 will fall below the estimated re eeipts. In view of the increased ac- tivity in w!l branches of husiness it is believed thet they will fully equal if pot exceed the estimate.” —A———— Judge Carey's Views Hon, Charles 8. Carey, solicitor «f the treasury, who lives ia Olen, N Y, bas just returned to Washingt from & visit to his home, Il: says th claims made in the Republican naw. papers as (0 Western New Y rk ar simply preposterous, He says there | no tariff scare in westgrn New York and thet here are more Republica who will ote the Demoer tie tick than thera are Democrats who wil aote the Republican ticket because of the tariff questing, The significant feature of ha ation in New York is, Mr C ros Save, the change inthe attitude of the Trish. men. Had it not been for the Dm oorstin | ishmen who voted (or Blaine in 1884, Cleveland would sftp have had 100000 wajority. This year at leas | BO per rent. of those Irishmen who voted for Blaine in 1885 will vote fur Cleveland. He adds that the D mo crate | This change is marked wil make gains io Albany, | A Plea for the Mills BIL The folluwing petition addressed to from New ‘Hav n, Coon, 10 Wash- irgron on Tuesday : “The workingm-n of Conoeeticat, wage-ea ners, manufacturers and far mers, use upwer is of one hundred million dollars worth of raw materials aunual'y in their indostries. A large am unt of thest materials canvot be obtained in this country, Nearly all of these muterials come from without the borders of our state. The increas ¢d cst of these materials, particular Iv ot weo', salt, lumber, tin plates, e ¢, by reason of the tariff taxes, has become an intolerable burden. The Mills bil', which now comes before you, relieves us from many of these axes. The final enactment of the bill will be worth millions of d liars to our people, It will revive many in dustries which are now much depressed. It will tend to increase the wages of our mechanics and the profits <f our manofacturers, It will sdd valve to our farms and factories. We the uo. dersigned, citizens of Connecticut, therefore most respectfully ask that the bill be speedily passea by your | honorable body.” | This is signed by 500 manufactur ers, merchan's, lawyers, mechanics | snd laborers of Hartford, New Hav- ! len, Bridgeport, Meriden, Davbury {+nd all the m nufacturing centres of Convecticut. Among the signers are sixty employe of theaven, the officers no tactory, of New Hills aod Cult's of the Beach woolen m Hartford; the firearms factory, of Hartford; the St:vens hat msuufactory, of Daobury and E. P. Hivks, the large carriage manufacturer, of Bridgeport Senator | Gray has been meked to present it to | the Seoate, A A— A Begging Circular. Here is a copy of the}latest circular issued by the chairman of the Repub lican state committee, Huang R's REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE, ) Coxrixrxral. Hore Head of Grand Stairway, Puitaparruia, Oct 15, 1888, Dictated ] Dgar Sir—The finance committee of the Republican stete committee makes an earnest appeal for as gener- y1s gs subscription as you can make [he exigencies of the campaige in Pennsylvania require it. Lf properly supported we will make a net gain of st least two congressmen; if pot we will maken net loss of three. Upon every tariff question the conirol of the House at Washington is of the utmost importange, A thoroughly organized batile, such as the state committee can make, will not only save every doubtful congressional distriet, but the spirit of our battle will extend to New York aod New Jersey, The rule ia that the more promptly subscriptions are received the better they can be applied. We have few | officers to aid, and our chief reliance is upon the generosity of Republi- cEns in private life. lo this appeal we desire to remind vou that all Republican organizations the home clab, the county commitiee and the national committee dederve it ss well, and the importance of the canvass suggests & just and liberal apportionment to each. The Pennsyl- vavia stdle organization is cordially operating with the national com mittee, the committees of aH doubtful states; und with county and locsl or Please send “your con. tributi tte Republican state commiites by postal order ‘or check, 35 ft to Th iL | i Booms & and 7 ganizations, n 4) « V. Cooren, Ohairman - Rng 3 — — 5 Bright Outlook. The Democrats now claim Illinois fr Mr Cleveland. They have been mking a “still hunt,” and have dis. vered such a ragical change of front as 8 jusify thefli, the leaders say, in d.claring that the Republiean majors ty of four years ago will be entirely wiped out. Judge Goodrich, chairs ' mau of the Democratic exeeative com. mittee, says that the committee has official information regarding the change of front of over 10,000 voters, in many counties of the state, where old time Republican leaders have not ouly Covtivental hotel, | er of harvesters. A. M. Wright for ‘several terms presidevt of the board 'an extensive packing house, He was a Republican site senator uikd 1884 and was the Republican can@luie tor sheriff of Cook county in 1678, Wert D:xter, the eminent Chiesgo lawyer, 8B. H. MecCres, 8 prom ment commis sion man who was the Republican tremsury of Cook conoty for several years, George Pressiog, & well-known contacter, J. McGrg vr Adams, of the well kaown 1104 sud ruiiroad sup. ly house of Crerar, Adams & Co, 1% W. Jones; n wholesale statiouer. Judge Beckwith, the general counsel for the Chicago & Aton railroad. John J. P. O'Dell, cachier of the Union Nit'onal bank. William T. Buker, a prominest board of trade mau, Max Swern, a well kuown prio- ter. William M. Hoyt, a wholesale grocer. Gen A. C. McClurg, » prominent bookseller. The other gentlemen are equally well knowd aod most of them are employers of labor. Chairman Cambell, of the Demoerat- ie state central committee, and other prominent members of the party claim 10,000 majority io toe city of Chicago. They have not been indulging in any boasting, but are now in a pos tim to come out and claim the state Tues day was the second day fur rogistra- tion, and about 45,000 votes were ad- ded to the list in Chicago, Careful judges say the total registered vote will not fall ehort of 134,000. - i li — Biaine Answers Hisine, In undertaking to reply to Secre- tary Bayard at Rochester, N. Y., the other day, Mr. Blaine merely replied, unwittingly perhaps, to himself—him- self of old. When he was Secretary of State, in 188] he said in a care. fully prepared official report: “Undoubtedly the inequalities in | the wages of English and American | operatives are more thae equalized by { the greater «ficiency of the latter and | their longer hours of labor. If this \ | should prove Ww be a fact in practice, 48 it seems to be proven by cfllcial | #tatisties, it would be a very import. ‘ant element in the establishment of | ap ability to compete with Eogland { for our share of the eotton trade of the world.’ The cflicial statistics to which Mr { Blaine referred were prepared by Re { publican Consuls when they ‘were under no temptation to distort or con- | ceal the truth for partisan ¢flect. Mr { Blaine's report was written doring | the administration ‘of ' President Gar. field, who bad made fn the House the | ablest defense of the tariff ‘of 1846 | that ever was delivered, and who bad | declared: “Iam for protection that ‘leads 10 ultimate free trade.” | Whether Mr. Bisine made his re: { port to flatter the free trade views of the Republican head of the Adminis { tration eannpot be said, Hels certain: | ly capable ofsuchthings. Bot be fore ! that time he bad favored free salt apd jother free raw materials, snd bad or: ganized & Committee on Ways and {| Means in behalf of these reforms. He | is now ebdeaverisg to reply to him self by ateackiog the stocete opinions | of other men, Bat what, in his rage, he now saps on the stamp for trusts and monopolies, and in his contempt { for the iotelligence of the people, he anticipated in wo official report when | be wad nctiog ander some sense of re {sponsibility to the coubtry and no {doubt felt under some obligation to the trath as he fhund it in the bial ates of the State Department —— Shot Himself in the Heart, : - Greexpiern, Mass<John Weise man, aged 285 who wis romantically | married six mouths ago to & Penns | vapia girl in answer to an advertise mention & Polladelphin paper, was { found dead this moraing at bis home {in Shelburne, with & bulkt hole his heart and a pool of blood beside fhim, He lived in a lonely farm. | house with his wife, and the cause | which led to bisdesth is yet a myste- {ry. Medical Examiner Candry, after | a thorough examination of the vir cumstances surrounding the death of | young Welsman, concloded that it is a case of suicide. The girl whom he married, Emma Craven, comes of a [ells 0ulo family in Philadelphia, ber | father being a coal dealer there, and Boflalo and Rochester, and in other | come over to the Democratic side, but | her parents did not consent to the cities outside of New York The | ave advocaiog Mr. Clevelaod’s re | marriage, She states that her hus. Reonh'icans will come down to Har. | election. Meo like Owen Lovejoy, of | band got out of bed during the night, lem bridge with less than 45 000 ma- jority, | Privceton, ex-Staty Seoator | Wanting, of Twkidms, John C, White, The vo'e in Naw York city will be | the larger fir the triangular m wworal: Evaustou, Willi LD. of Provirie, of Prof. Be Iwwood, am H. of EMugham ty fight ax the Demseratio factions | Taytorville, and C E Cleveland, of will watch each o her to prevent trad- ng was recently in Chicago also, and t the Democratic views from a half _— en states at the Iroquois club, predict that the Republicans will be astonish: od tthe majorities againet them. are unfortunate in Chairman | Abiogdon, who were red hot Repub | licnns four years ago, are now stump- As for the West, Judge Carey. who | ing tor Cleveland and Fburman Ive vast majority of the German American vowers are out for tarifl re~ form avd th mesods of Irishmen who supported Blaine 'n 1584 are for Me Clevelaod this year. In Chicago and vieunity the charge has been a very marked one, , Oa every havd mn can be found who have been lifelong Republicans but who are supporting Mr. Cleveland, A the converts sayiog he was going to shoot a cat She afterwards heard bim open » window down stairs, heard a shot, and later found him deod. Shesummonnd the neighbors, and the proper authori- ties were soon notificd. A curious fact i« that Welsman was found fully dressed, the con’ being thrown Open, the bullet pawiog through two shir aud entering the heart. You may talk about your high pro lective tan till you grow red lu the face nnd are in danger of apoplexy. The fact remaios that it is x dividing the American people into two classes—the very rich and the very poor. The middle clam ate be- ing wiped out, obliterated, and the chance which a man used to have to erawl up from the good to the butter the better to the best is be- 111 io | A very exciting dusl took Buarritz, Bpsin, plave at uesday vight of this ihe United States Senste, wae wnt of trade. Jobo H. Clovigh, who reas week. The doe] was for ght by cau- die light. Two young Spanish. gen (tlemen at a si irce in the villa of Bu | on De Ber, got into a warm di-pure about & young Spanish lady, A duel became ivevitbe, Dueling pistol. | were obtained and the two walked in. | to 8 garden und six lighted cave bra were 80 p'aced as 10 enable them to see their aim. Two shots were ex- changed aod one of the a ‘versuries was shot in the right shoulder, buy not seriously wounded, Tue seconns were his Highness Prince Oldenburg, of Russia, 8 cousin of the Cz uv; Dou Alfonzo de Alfams, an officer of Cul- rassiers; Comte de Lessa, a brother o the rien Spanish bankes, and the Duc de Tanaves, a grandee of Bpain sud a nesr relative of the Ex -Empress Eugen'e, Mr. Quay's Proclamation, { Says the Philadelphia Evening Her- ald: The proclamation of Chairman Quay offering a reward for the detec- tion of fraudulent votiog should not ueceive the public or induce the Dem- ocratic Wansgur to abate their vigil ance io guardiog the purity of the ballot tox from its Republican enem- fee. That is one of Mr. Quay's old tricks, Itim« been played seversl times in this State as a closk to cover up its most outrageous frauds. No doubt it is deri zned to accomplish irs work in New York asd Indians now. That the Republicans contemplate gross fraods in both States cannit be ocoubted, It has been discovered tha the pilgrimages to ludisnapolis orto sibly for the purposeef paying tiibutes of respect 10 General really for the purpose of facili ting colovized schemes projected. At every station which the trains touch covered and efforts will be made defeat it. i A . ww | Charles E. Voorhees, of this State ar lower wards of the city and waking | preparations to corrupt the vote, B Hariison are! H Where apple blossom flutters down At eve and morn, In orchard slope sneer 8 town Long left forlorn; Or idly watch, within a moss, The sleeping ily buds afloat ; Or, grazing past the reeds, drift slow A crumbling castle wall below, Lat 106 be dpulat ot Jue lo at my ease, While lazily the clouds go by Along the seas; Aud gleam and shadow set the ships in and light, And like a dream the sea bird dips From morn tll night; And ripples swirl slong the land, And perish fn the amber sand While o'er their unwrit doom the breese Chants dirges (n the sea marshes, Thomas Ashe in Detroit Free Press, The Fool's Nimble Klxpenoes, Bome clever rascal In London advertised that be would, on receipt of sixpence in Stamps, return to the sender one shilling The advertisement was published nently enough to attract considerable atten. tion, and it naturally excited remark. To most persons It seemed 8 very transparent bumbug, too silly to be called a fraud, but there were a few curious individuals who de- termined to see whether the advertiser was n emak or whether be bad some game, wo they sent on their sixpences. By return mail each one received the shilling. A few days after the sume advertisement appeared sguin in reveral of the newspapers, and everybody who had tried it before told all of bis friends about it. The result was that s.veral hun- dred sixpences were received, and next day as many shillings went back. The third time the advertisement appeared the mail received hy the clever sharper was siroply enormous. Letters came from all parts of the kingdom and from all sorts of of people, high and low. | rich and poor. The rogue pocketed several thousands of pounds, and, curs wasly enough, | neglected to make any returns. —The Argo naut, Refuges for the Fallen, New York bas no les than ten reforms tories for the rescue and bel; { fallen wo- some of the pilgrims are dropped for | the purpose of voting on election day, | Fortuostely the scheme has been dis- | to | In New York John C. Delaney and men, Philanthropy is in the { for fifty years ago the poor out ascendancy, AL Was OO | pelied to seek a temporary shelter inthe de grading atmosphere of the alo ber isolation and » | self, But in hearts and wise heads have ia isery by this benel | engeged in the work of colonizing the | | sides that, it has been shown that tha | 3 | most gigantic scheme of coloniz { raral districts bas been insogurated ia for the purpose of shielding thee | men in the perpetuation of crime and of the Republican Committee, —— A AIO———. Which Plan do yon Like Best, President Cleveland proposes prevent the surplus, over taxation ir the future, by removing the tariff for the benefit of consumers and also of raw material sous to benefit the | manafacturers who employ labor en- { abling them thereby to give mure con. | stant employmant and better wages { to whom they employ and evable them | 10 compete successfully with the for- | Mr. Quay’s buvcombe proclamation | diverting attention from the schemes | to} | from many of the necessaries of life | rile 1 oe Ging 10 rest | transpires behind the soer { who really reform genera matrons s Wa bis wun TL Nate] INDSS. THE BANANA Bus Preparing the Soll—Puttirg O8t (he “Soters"eDendly Foes Mr. Cennedy took me in char Lom the wharf ion the shady » gnve rae the sevount of the banana business that I shall try to reproduce i better ¢ fir carly, and { the ched t do to settle in Ja | bananas, and ti | have learned about | weed is likely to | eign manufacturer. He also advises a | “0 { revision of the tarill {10 42 per cent, Gepersl Harrison's plan to dispose | of the surplus is to allow it to accu | malate at the expense of the tax-pay- | ere aud vse it to purchase governme: | bonds not yet due at a bogus of | per cent 1het is pay and lift i now when not due at £1.20 { when due would be but £100, } bonds vatil Liderest, | How would vou like it of Centre county for | Commissioners to uhnes : you $40 200 annoally, from 47 per cent i8 Lb whic h, Thess due bear but 4 per eent BX payers ur Coanty esarily tax that what yOu are pow undecesantly taxed nas ticnally, sod thew spend that surp! {on building uncalled for bridg { throughout th coun y That illus | ustrates the principle Torepeat: President Cleveland dors | Bol. Want Lhe vonrCisary tax of iff levied at all. General Harrison advocates a tariff or tax that burdens our people with vonecessary taxation for the purehase of bunds not yet dao Choose between them. The tariff or tax which the Democratic party pr % is i ] H ] tar any previous tariff levied by any po heretolore in times of profound peace, yet these false Republican howlers for a deceptive political purpose eall it free trade. The only free trade » hich we have in our country is the com- mercial intercourse that exists tween the States of this great noion themselves. The products and manu factured articles of this country is wold aod shipped free of duty from one State to avother, that and that alone is free trade and is as it should be. Prwideot Grant, President Gar- field and President Arthur, and in now both howl for a highly protective heretolore strangly advised and advo. cated a revision of the sarifl. The re- vision now happens to be recommend. ed bya Democratic President aud consequently is condemned by Bisine sod Bherman and all Republican par- sans of that charscter. Their ao y wm | poses of 42 percent is high r than | litical party which has been in power | be |! fact both Bisine and Sherman who | tariff for «purpose sloue have all | ‘sucker pong | { the | nthe alter pl reached {12 Tull sige, ter befght, thd stalk then inches ter at o ban # | IY ug | fourteen 1 NE In Glathe andy The frult is always cut Mach Mak § & Oni) the fruit t that stalk, snd the sialk “suckers” are produced {1 i enltd band has to be cleared of trees (his Increases the cost con siderably. Once I, the plantation is good for five or sis without much far cloar df wonds |! #larie VOR ther labor bey at cortait But the foe the il Keeping a8 wORWIA banana planter has a deadly in burricanes amd high winds that frequently sweep over the West | Indies. The banana tree has very small | roots and® is easily knocked over, Bome- | times even with nothing worse than a lively | “porther” an entire plantation is destroyed in an hour, and there is vothing for it but to start over again, As to the risks and profits, | Mr. Eeunedy says: “From my experience 1 do not think the banana yields the planter a very large profit, though there are excep | tions to the rule. A tropleal hurricans will swoep a banana cultivation level with the | ground In an hour. Desides thes bured- | canes, wo neually have very strong winds, (morthers) during the winter mouths, that often blow down acresof bananas. The tree Iseasily blown down, especially when it bes | | & large bunch of bananas hamging from ite | top, Were it not for these great drawbacks, | planting bananas would be a in- vestment, It is important that a ter understands tho basivess, aod koows how te work the Jumaloa labor," Willam Drys dale in New York Time wat the Differwnes, Oubblus, in one of the rare moments he devotes to the enltivation of his was reading alowd (rom & work oa
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