THURSDAY, Ja Jumiary , 1880, pins ————re sro Published ory Thursday by the ‘QENTRE DEMOCRAT PUB. Co." poi Er rn inte CHAS. R- KURTZ EDITOR LOCAL DEPARTMENT. ~Church sociables are in full bloom at thus place. ~The Methodist revival at this place is still in progress, ~The celebrated Till Family will be in town next Thursday evening. —Mr. Sechler, the grocery man is erecting a large dwelling on Water St. ~David Harshbarger of received an increase of week. —Ellis L. Orvis, Esq., was ¢ the house the past few days on of sickness, —Rev. Hamill, who has been quite at his home near Lemont, from bronch affection, is improving slowly. —Dr. W. A.Jacobs, of Centre Hall was quite low last week, suffering from neuralgia of the heart. —Frank’s novelty store has moved on to Allegheny street into the inom for- merly occupied by C. U. Hoffer. —C. P. Hewes, Esq., purchased the Perlstein stock of goods sold at Sheriff's sale last Saturday and is selling same off at cost. —{has. F. Richards, the jeweler took | a short trip to Philadelphia, last wee k | to visit relatives and for a short vaca- tion, {Tublersbhurg ansion last Mrs. living on Linn street fell on the and her —Last Sunday morning James Armor, porch at her residence arm. broke the Al the —An alarm of fire brought out fire companies en Monday evening. burning flue was the cause of all excitement. — Williamsport wants a patrol wagon | to haul the drunks to jail, instead of making the police carry or haul them on | a wheelbarrow. | —A judge in Chicago has ruled that | telegraph companies are liable for errors | ngfwithstanding notices to the contrary | printed on their blanks. —Daniel Daugherty the silver tongued | orator, of New York, is to lecture at the | Academy of Music in Williamsport on | the 18th of the present month, ~A full account of the terrible storm | which spread ruinand desolation over parts of this state last week will be found on the inside pages of this issue. | —On the night of the 3d inst, burglars | broke in A. J. Campbell's grain house, at Coburn. and stole about two barrels of roller flour and seven or nine hams. PALSE PROMISES. A REDUCTION OF TEN PER CENT. MADE. The Promises Made During the Campaign are False. The «Mills Bill” not the Cause An Explanation in Order, The events of the last Presidential campaign remain fresh in the minds of our readers. The tariff discussion ab- sorbed all other issues and on that line men talked and cast their votes. The battle was flercely waged and many were ready to stoop to any form of mis representation, virulence and malignity to deceive the public and thus accom- plish their end. In this county, with its many and di versified industries, the ery was raised that if Cleveland would be re-elected, the Mills Bill would pass a great | amity to the laboring classes. A tion of wiles would follow sure} wany works would nec essarily/ /suspend operations. On the other hand contimsid employ- ment, higher wages and, better times were promised inthe yf of Harri son’s election. No 1 disputes these cts; they dare not, 4 Workmen down gt the nailworks were uring the c canpaign by their em. aril reform meant th | and | i here to the lowest wagessaid in its pro. { another thing—the most prolonged wage | contest between employer and employee | | have this reductian of wages, | ployee will oppose it, but the end is in. | i evitable—the | the year 1888, through mills i ufactories rendered id | saving tothe workingmen of t! | were made to believe i and they cause of low wages Does anyone doubt this the | extracts from a'stock-holder of that ras scattered around. of an address firm I am interested as a stockholder in tlons were the Bellefonte Nail Works which gives | Perkins, of Boston. WIS employment to 225 operatives PRACTICAL OBSERVATION, The agitation of the tayiff in the dis- six months has driven the nail market lower than at any time within four years, consequently causing the reduc- ruin to | ‘nt and the agitation at | assertion ? If so let him read | | which | | of our county. cussion of the Mills bill within the past | { Prof. W. | tion of wages and profits to such an ex- | tent that both employer and employee | are down to the narrowest possible mar- | i gin. It simply means reducing the py our wages | workingman in producing it duction at any other point on the globe. | If our workingmen are ready for this, let them indicate it by their vote. This heading towards free trade means that this country has ever known. The i home manufacturer competing with the | foreign product admitted free must The em- wages must come down, | the mills stop or the employer be bank. rupted. The loss of wages already suffered in | aml man. | le because of even an oak tree limb. MUSICAL CONVENTIONS! As this is the season for pfuicn con. ventions in some portions of our county we publish an item tyken from the Centre Hall Reporter, aid of intorest on this subject, : Apropos to this ubject we might say that the first mugleal convention hicld in this county, eamie off in Centre Hall some 30 years ao, under the direction of Prof. Cartgr,of New York, It was then lookeddipon as a **big thing’ being something new, and noted singers from the county and other parts attended. It was the first convention of the kind held in the central part of the state, and of course, attracted attention far, as well as near, This convention was a success and largely attended. The nexteonvention, we think, was held the following year, in the Luth. church, at Aaronsburg, and was gotten up by the lovers of music there, J. G, Meyer, W. C. Duncan, J, P- Coburn, J. G. Kurtz, and others, who also secured the services of Prof, Carter. This, the second convention, was also a grand success and largely attended by singers from a distance, After that these pleasant gatherings became more numerous, wih J. G. | winter following, until they became billed every winter in near dozen | localities. Every instructor in | music coming in for his share of con- ventions with his classes in vocal music | and local talent is mostly relied upon to make them a success. | Subsequently a number of held at Centre Hall by Prof. a Curns, | Lock Haven, also held conventions for | | a number of years in different sections Later on these musical conventions were mostly conducted by | T. Meyer, then by P. H. er, Lowell Meyer, and J. S. Meyer. His Skeleton on a Tree, About two vears ago Daniel Metzger an old man 60 years of age dissappear. ed from his home a mile out from Ma | tinsburg, and nothing was heard about i { him or from him to tell of his where, | abouts A brother, [sage M. Metzger, living In Martinsburg. and a son, Isaac Metzger, in this city have mourned him as dead. | MecMasters, | Last week Alexander while passing through the barrens about three miles from Martinsburg | across a perfect skelet on hanging from By the hat and coat | | still hanging upon it the remains were | identified as those of the missing Metzger. Snow Badly Needed. Lumbermen now say that unless they the possibility of the Mills bill becoming | get a long season of good hauling the) alaw is far in excess of any possible € nation | in the next five | I. W.4. these under that measure Years. Many laboring men at | i WOl4s | such si VOi# cast then Harrison was elocte { looked forward for ~—Jonn Shunk, who had been a pauper on Haines township, for some years past, | was buried on the 7th, aged 79 years. He leaves two wives, one more than the | law allows. ~Editor Geo. S. Lenhart, oft he Wil- liamsport Breakfast Table was in town on Monday looking after the interests of in this section. —Mr. W. H. Grove, of Coburn, | hours per day a | half time; even { of each month there was barely enouul i . . | coming to pay their his paper, which has a large circulation | SO™!I'R 10 PAY TIE higher wages, WHAT WAS TI] * For months pa | this place have been runni nd then only if thes worked the beard and clothing { There has been constant complaiat of | no work; and now to make the situat'on all the dropped in our office and ordered the DEMocRAT for 1889, Mr, W. H. Beck, of Nittany, did likewise and will be happy for the next year. —James Pierpont and family, who | took passage on the ocean steamer Umbria, arrived safely in England last week, the vessel having made the trip in six days and two hours, the best time on record, ~The Eureka grocery has moved in the new Bush Arcade and oc- cupies the room adjoining the post office, Editor Tuten must be kept busy over seeing theee newspapers and a grocery thrown in. Last week we stated that Centre Hall had seventeen widows and all well fixed, in this connection would remark that Messrs Thos. Hutchinson, Chas, P. Hewes and Walter Bayard were over there Sunday last. Will Perlstein has taken charge of the stock exchange office in the Bush Arcade with Wm, Marshall as operator. Mr. Miller and Harry George the former operator, have gone to Philipsburg to open up a new office, ~Harry Davis, a flagman on the ania railroad, was killed at mi last week. He was the oldest “son of the late W. C. Davis, of Philips burg, and was born in Bellefonte and married only a few years ago. wet, J, MeClintick's bank barn near store Cet py le dal Ong OU dollars Insurance #500 on barn the wages of the Mailers and feeder | This reduction will not be reduction g worse was a cent. made this yeek in accepted and {| will result in a shut down forsometime, Tariff agitation has practically ceased and a high tariff policy will be followed, by the administration for the next four years, But the promises have not been realized ; prosperity has not yet bestowed her bountiful blessings of plenty upon these laboring men. What is wrong ? have they been deceived. It will now be in order for lows who soably (?) comprehended the | situation during the campaign and in* structed the nail mill hands how to vote to secure high wages and steady employ- ment, to arise and make another ex- plafiation. We pause for a reply. Fr——— How I! Works, A number of mills and factories have been shut down in Philadelphia within the past few weeks, and hundreds of men have been thrown out of employ- ment, Only two months ago a strong pressure was brought to bear upon these employes, cn the ground that the elec tion of Cleveland would necessitate a cessation of work. Mf Cleveland had been elected no doubt the workingmen who are thus tured out in the dead of winter would have blamed the Demo. eratic party, but with Harrison victor. fons and the high tariff untouched, they ean at least understand that an attempt was made to deceive them, and to che a them out of their votes. ~To discontinue your advertise ment,” says Jobn Wanamaker, Phila- nd | | recently addressed to | will 10 191 ] = | . | Sunday had his | of the Da 3 half of fumbermen their will not beable to get in stock of logs. some not be able to get in any of their timbe! rood snow comes, T1 unless ag 10 prospects atenwents i are that the 1580 stock of logs will not reach by 50,000,000 the run of 1888, Divid nd Declared of the Board of Directors Valley Railroad Com the Sth inst, Al a meeting kl Eagle RH five per cent, was declared pit tock. on the « was mailed at “The Sex the Knavy Departinent,” and the intelli. gent clerk sent i State Penitentiary, «A letter —A Hungarian, while riding on a at ilin's iron works, on last leg eanght between the Hmb will 8 1 8 x bumiers of the cars and the have to be amputated. iliness of Hon, B. F. Hunter, of Hun- ter'sstation. On Monday afternoon he was suddenly overcome by a paralytic stroke and has been unconscious since. The attending physicians entertain the fel. i { little hope of his recovery. | e=Altoona had a big fire Wednesday the 9. about one o'clock, when the wind was blowing a regular gale. It was the property known as the Eagle Hotel and Brewery on Fourh avenue between Fourteenh and Fifteenth street and which was almost totally consumed, The loss is of $20,000, ~The truly wonderful weather of this winter is producing astonishing resultsa few miles south of us. In Washington for several days past hyacinths and crocuses have been blooming. “On Capital Hill the bright yellow blooms of the forsythia und Japanese quince have astonished everybody, and particularly Northern visitors, by appearing two months ahead of time. Some of the blooms were picked and sent away to dwellers in more rigorous latitudes as a proof of the loveliness of Washington winters.” ~Tuesday evening, at about 10 p. m., Allegheny street had a sensation and a large crowd with no policeman until all was over. The cause of the trouble was among the colored gentry of the town, who evidently had been indulging in too much fire water, No less than a half Meyer a8 musical conductor, and from | { two to three were successfully held each | 1 quite common, and now we find them | vocal | conven- | Prof. | of | | failed came | s semi-annual | Pittsburg Secretary of | it tothe warden of the | —We are sorry to hear of the sudden | ADDITIONAL LOCALS, ~Joseph Smith, of Karthaus, Clear- field county, lumbering for Cochran Brothdes on Big Moshannon , lost a very fine team of horses on the 4th inst. They were working onthe slide, when both Horses aud badly injured the driv- er. =John Shunk,of Aaonsburg, aged 80; Mrs, Harriet Leightly, of Milesburg, 60; Mrs, Letitia Haves, of Eagleville, 84 Mrs, Joseph Jordon, of Aaronsburg 80; and Jesse Richards, of Huston town, ship, are recent Centre county deaths, ~ Editor Deininger of the Millheim Journal, we are sorry to hear is not im. proving in health and is unable to attend to his business and editorial’ work, 1. A. Bumiller the, former editor, is again at work until Mr. proves, ily Samuel, Faust of Centre Mills, dropped into town last week ; first of April as he has some twenty fine sleighs ready for customers, Samuel, ask the good Lord for snow and He will provide, — Every day adds to the traffic on the | L. £4 T.R.R. lengths almost added. Nerdy daily, every and more are day several ear loads of ore pass over the line with ore | mined away at Lake Champlain for the | i | Bellefonte furnaces ; and other freight i 18 increasing with great rapidity. ~The young gentleman mentioned in last issue as threatening to shoot him- self on account of a girl at Milesburg { denies the report, | a miss-understanding and instead of | shooting himself shot a dog, that tack~ | eled him. Thisis the (Wright { and suppose it is the correct one, story | Mey | ~=I1 is said that it become ecetey | | on Saturday last, to take Ww. | Watkins, of Williamsprt, a voung man about 18 years old, who was a clerk in Horace the Dun & ( omany Commercial Agency office, to the asylum at Danville, of trouble smoking of cigarettes. Cause ~The convention of Kinghtsof Labor. | which had been In session in Pellefonte i for several days was slimly attended has | instruments of wondrous musical pow. adjourned. The principle object which the convention was called, of consolidation with another distriet, of accomplishment. Another of convention will be' held at Bellefonte | in April. ~The ring of the telephone bell is no more at Millheim the instrument having been taken down by Supt. Malin, Last year's contract had expired and | some of the stockholders were unwilling i to renew the The week pending the of said holders to renew their stock. ~The intelligence Mr. F. D this place, contract, Coburn will be left up a wire to or so. conclusion share reaches us that Cunningham, formerly of is lying quite ill with typhoid at Johnstown, Pa... were he is em. ployed in a large hotel, Mrs, Cunning. ham and child left on Monday evening fever to care for her husband at that place, Since writing the above we are told that Mr. Cunningham, was able reach home Tuesday evening. — Among our callers this week were Messrs Wm. Shortlidge, to | the Penna. R. R., of Pittsburg. Mr. | Watt is making a tour of the west. | ern portion of the state, looking after | the interests of the company: he isa busy man with an extensive district to | { ook after, but always finds time to pay | | he editorial fraternity a visit, when ! here, ~Just as Francis Murphy, perance orator, the tem was leaving the Turf | saloon, in Terre Haute, Ind., Mon- | day, after inviting the frequenters to attend his meeting, the porter, a col. { ored man named Edwards, and a white | gambler named Joe MeCaun, got into a i quarrel and the latter shot Edwards, the | bullet entering his neck. MeCann fired a second shot at the prostrate form of the negro, but missed him. He wasfiring a third time when he was prevented, ~lowisburg and Miltontown coun. ¢ils are having high times with their water companies. At Milton the boro authorities refuse to pay the rent for the fire plugs, alleging that it is too high The water company in return has dis- manteled every plug in the town. At Lewisburg the same trouble exists, the water company asks 81200 for the use of fire plugs while the boro is willing to pay only 8700. In case of fire both towns will have to depend on getting their water from the river, ~The hotel de Hungaria, at the iron works had a feast last Sunday noon, The wore astsutive and chicken. Of course head to be Kinlod and decapitation was decided upon and this is the way it was done. The head cook called one of the men to assist him. He gave the assistant the chicken to hold by tthe logs run away, jumped out, killed | Deiningers health im. | purse of 8500, he wants | the Weather Bureau at Washington to | send on heavy snows from this on until | { | recent move in accepting Trains grow to greater | challenge, | the contest takes place Centre oo | will have [resh laurels | to the ox He says he did have | that | | five octaves, were colle of Bellefonte | | and Thos. E. Watt, Passenger agent of | SOBER vs. Dr. CARVER. PIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. Dy. Carver Issacs the challenge, K. sob. | er of thiy County seespis-"ufse of R300 wd Other Facts. | Nearly all of onr readers have heard spread over the world, Dr. ( won his reputation by ‘nrver has all sections of our country, His princi. he holds the ‘championship of the world.’ In alate issue of the Field and Sport the leading sporting paper of the country, Dr. lac halle nge to shoot with any man for t he “chinmpionship of the world” THE One day last week CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Mr. ( lumberman at Sober station, this county ina letter to the editor of that pape, Kk. Sober, a accepts the challenge and accompanies { . a the same with his check for 250 as | guarantee of good faith, Weare proud to hear of Mr. Dr, ( and feel confident that mrver’s when minty won for her by one of her prominent citizens, Mr. Sober performs wonders with his gun, and will teach Dr. things of which Carver some few never dreamed Some may be surprised of Mr. say that he is fully aware of the situation and will be equal he Sob '% undertaking, but can asion. SOMETHING GOOD ! The Till Family Concert Bell and plavers, AJpear here in the Court House Jan. 24th inst, This is one of the most novel and unique Co. will tock (lass comeert companies either in England or America, having the character of its musical instruments. variety and tone : of 3 surpassed all others in in originality, “There's musie goed ng of sefl. | is absolutely a fact with this wenderlul musical family renowned in both Europe and America for their artistic skill the manipulation and construction in the sighing There's mnsie in the rash of ers out of rocks. The Messrs, Till were engaged eleven years in the perfection of the ROCK HARMONICON, The toned rocks out of which this in- strument is comformed into scale of ted in the Lake | district of Cumberland in England, | country which Wordsworth, Coleridge and Soutehy made famous with their a - WILL SHOOT FOR THE CHAM- | i i tanspntated the | for a felon. of Dr. Carver, the celebrated wing shot | of this country and one whose fame has | | Renovo on the ple feats are in shooting after moving engine tank and the stone found; objeets, such us pigeons, glass balls, ete. | Carver, threw down the gauntiet in | and a | ! have been oy a | PoP +. 1 SODCT'S IX ADJOINING COUNTIES henson sor “ A new Methodist Epiccopal clinvels will be built at Atkinson's Mills, Mifflin {eounty. : Meu, Adam Rbeam, of MeVeytown. had the index finger on one-off herhands otherday as a radial care Mittin county years will be one old next September, hundred and the ques. | tion of cel ebrating the centennial is new his skill in hand. | ling a gun and has given exhibitions in | being agitated, E. 5. Robins was crushed to death at Kil inst. the bin of ad DORN B10 the coal wharf. The thirteenth annual teeeting of the State Hortieutural Society will be held in Lewistown, Mifin the 17th and 18th instant, county, on Sinee October 1. 1685. win 1 the act went into operation A071 marriage licenses in Mit sued the » vi 11d ged * - anieq ih eomly, 165 havine been is 158 Year. MeCahan, of Ttrbett Tuniat Lf ¢ £11 {rom near Mapleton ewan atl ='ewart Low ~ ship, 0 the bridge working on the stained injuries, I McKean Co Hin con inty, ality ONCE Ur Serious Davi Mif fon of CON. his home in White on the 5d inst, after ro died at that county, mis Hall, a lingering illness, in the 74¢ I ver of his age, There have been filed witls the pro thonotary of Clearfickd co seventy - {or hotel for breweries for distillmg, make inty nine app 48 AL101s for restaurant, six wholesaling and one Heenses | one , 1x for | ing atotal of 108 in i The barn of John J. Me Lamar, Clinton county, by fire on the evening of the with mostof | ing implesnents, oto. tintick, near was destroved th suminer’sc Top, inst, farm- Two calves per. ished in the flames. Supposed incendiary Shak. the injured so badly Ast Rober young man who by being caught in at Irvona, Clearfield county last fadl, died on Fri. day night He was buried ut Lack Haven, Monday Jwhere his patents reside. He was aged 20 Years. WAS the live rolls ina saw mill from his Injuries. Ovearseors-of the poor of township in this county, attempted to place Jas. Ebbs upon the borough of Mifflintown last week. Ebbs lived in that place years ago. The overseers maintained that | Mifflintown is uot his place of residence the | song. is made vocal by the rocks which | A n ‘ | Baisd. of Milesburg, deft his home for the a skill admira- the Till family play upon with that excites both wonder and tion. Spring Mills. Spring Mills has a host of aspirants for the post office, Among the names mentioned we have heard of Billy Brown, Billy McClellan, and Billy Krape, what a lot of Billies. Genera Harrison can’t accommodate them all Some ct the republicans wonld like to have it remain where it is, because it | 80 centrally situated, and besides they all admit that post master cannot be whole valley. is found in the land | struck his wogen., | knocked over and Mr, | It was a narrow escape for Mr. a more ascommodating | | W. A. Brown and Faank Ream have | | ordered a lot of organs and sewing ma. { chines and having rested W. A, Krise's store room expect ina few days to open | a music store. Hiram Grove is teaching | for W. A. Krise, while he is at Belle | fonte attending to the duties of county | auditor. Calvin Musser having taken unto | himself a wife in the person of Miss { Annie Gettig, looks so unspeakably happy when he meets you that all the old bachelors in the neighborhood are envying him his good fortune. Ed. Ruhl still takes his Maggie out buggy riding every Sunday afternoon Travelers whostop at his father’s hotel say they often hear him si “Land of my home is flitting Flitting from my view, A gail in the sails is sitting, Foils the merry crew.” If you wan't to know why he i | that song #0 much, just read the chorus. Spring Mills will have a musical con vention about the middle of February. John Shok has purchased a share in the Spring Mills creamery and will soon learn the mysteries of butter making, ~=Mrs. Martha Jane Kepler, Altoona died Jan. 8, at the advanced age of 65 | years, 4 months and 15 days. She was born near Half Moon in Centre county, August 24, 1823, and the most of her of the Methodist Episcopal church in the southeastern portion of Centre county, After the death of Mr. Honderson she | { hip. and thabhe cannet become a charge on, that conunnnity. Ebbs isover 90 years of age, and is well known to all Juniaig people vesiding in this eity. A ecobdedt at the Nail Works. On Wednesday wosning Mr. Joseph Nail Worksnear Bellefonte n old mas Mr. Baird rs of age was drying crossing *R2 is a of about 65 yeu he almost deaf. A rays wad Nall Works came thundering the BeAr the passenger ower the along and It was that the horse Baird wasthyown some distance, receiving slight injuries. Baird The resu the wagon was wrecked, and horse ~{m last Saturday evening a fracas occurred at Morrisdale mings in front of | the company's store, while the men were receiving their pay, which might have resulted very seriously. T'wo men who are relatives became mvolved in afamily quarrel, which resulted first in a lawsuit, and finally in a deadly combat, in which knives were used ; and one man named Peter Shaddock was stabbed near the Dr. Taylor, attended the wounded man and pronounced the wound a serious one, although be thinks not fatal. Mat Hemmis, who is said to have inflicted the wound was arrested and bound over to court, RPHANS COURT SALE By virtue of an order of the Orphans Court, there will be sold at Public sale in Pine Grove Mills, at 1 o'clock p. mon SATURDAY Fun. 2. 1888, The following described Real Estate of R. P. Craig. dee'd to wit: Ag 1, edi Beginning on the i horth sldd+ wide of Pitts. corner, HK deg's a0 a foot to stake: eer righ 41 deg's Jonxaruan Huss Adm'e of IL Crate dee’d (ORPHANS COURT SALE. By virt. ue of an Order of the Orphans Court there will be soli at Public Sale ou the Promises SATURDAY JAN. 26, 1880, at 1o'clock, p.m, the followinng described 0)~<REAL ESTATE: (0
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