NO. 16 EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price When Paid in Advance $1.00 When subscriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. These terms will be strictly adhered to in every case. Democratic County Committee, 1880, coed), M. Bower ~Iatriek Garrety Joseph W. Gross Bellefonte, N. W i 8. WwW HW. Wenn Centre Hall Borough. Howard Borough... Milesbury Boro h.. Miltheim Borough. Philipsburg, 1st W 4 Ma Ww dW. wough. “ wenn, LL Gardnre « Willis Weaver wn W. Hartman wion John M ~ Phill +1. F. Adams H. L. Barnhart wee ARIE] Grove cessnennssnn ee 1s 8. DeLong John T. McCormick «Samuel Harpster Jr Ceo. B. Crawford 1 ville B Unionvil 4 echtley “ E. College... Gregg, S. P. recs Np . J 0 A. Bowersox A Wm. Balley J. C. Meyer «Franklin Dietz John Q. Miles wn), W, Herring wu Ha Haines, E. P........ “Wp RAR EARREMIER wets sas sms sasnsssassns aus Harris Howard Huston Liberty Marion Miles wi Patton ..... Penn... ..... Potter, Snow Shoe, Ww Spring Fayl WM. C. HEINLE, { DEMOCRATIC post masters are appearing lively in this county. -—— SAMUEL Jonsson, sentenced to be banged for the Sharpless murder, has again been respited by Gov. Beaver. ,—— Tre Harvard Base Ball team played fifty games last season and The standard of educati vill have to be raised. won Live it Harvard cto FREDERICK Dovarass, tour through the South, issaid to have expressed his amazement at the advance How « 314 of the colored race in the past few years. .——— Trae Prohibition discussed more and more every day, yet none of the leading Republicans of the state have announced thei the question. Where do Gov. Beaver, is being question ” r position on Adjutant General Hastings, Quay and | the others stand ? No one knows, Tae Supreme Court of the United States having affirmed the right of a state to prohibit the liquor traffic, there is no danger whatever that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania will interfere with the popular verdict should it be favorable to prohibition. ——————————_ Tue Altoona Tribune says: When the Philadelphia Press intimates, as it ¥l that the locomotive shops here were ) burdened with work that the men could not turn it out, it struck far from the truth. The employes in the shops mentioned are only working nine hours | a day and Saturday afternoon off. A SOMEHOW or other the people of Cres- | Some called for washed wool, others for | ton, Ia., got word on Wednesday that ex-President Cleveland had been assas. sinated. Rumor even particularized to the effect that the dreadful deed had | been done by a colored porter on a Pull. | man car between Philadelphia and New | York. Sothe Creston flags were half. | masted, RT ———— A to contribute to a fund for the relief of the suffering poor of the city. He replied that he would cheerfully. Said he **I will contribute 100 barrels of flour and 100 hundred hams to the fund and I will give a barrel and a ham to the family of every poor man in the city, who neither uses tobacco, drinks liquor or | . beer, or keeps a dog.’’ It is noteworthy that there was not a single applicant for a share of the flour and ham relief. .——— Send For Uresident Harrison, ArLexrows, Pa., April 12.-A redue. | n of 10 per cent. having been made in the wages of the employees of the Crane Iron company, Catassuqua, to take ef. | fect on Sunday, the men refuse to ae. cept the reduction and the furnaces were banked today, preparatory to be. ing blown out. A similar reduction hag been made by the Catasauqua manu. | facturing company and the Allentown rolling mills. The latter shut down yes ferday, the men refusing to continue under the rinetion, $1.50 per year, wd. W. MeCormick | J. Bing | p Confer | J.C. Rossman | Weaver | prominent manufacturer in the | city of Worchester, Mass., was asked OFFICIAL STATISTICS SHOW WOOLEN MILLIS ARE IDLY, wny | The American Farmer Will Not Grow Wie | Because they Can do Detter, and the Tarlfy on Wool Compels Us to Foreign Cloths, Import Special Correspondence to the DEMOCRAT, New York, April 7.-1f any one should corapile a table of the perihelion th showing that these were the years when wool com- manded the highest prices, only a very { stupid and matter-of-fact person would attempt to pick flaws in the table or care whether its figures were accurate or inaccurate. A person of sense would simply say that the logic was at fault, as there was no connection shown between comets and sheep. When any one furnishes a table show_ ing that the highest or prices of wool are coincident with high { or low tariff years, only a person with no sense of humor will whether the table is aceurs rate. It isa jest. to be | those who know a hawk from saw. The two facts h The price 0 have more « : passage of comets, either care particularly inaccu- at » OF wghed Ave no © of wool ha onnect mw the producers ar peting with them; i8 once home market ar under contro tition comes in and “a foreign vrice or below it The American producer Lhe wool market for twenty.two y { had absslute control of have no organization, and numet : bile | petition one with another, ous that organization They are in the most ne au ed without mercy i speculators, by middieme { Any protectionist who will demon. | strate how protection gives the wool i producer under these | better prices than rule abroad will earn | the everlasting gratitude of all free. | He will knock the foundation | from under the protection doctrine and | bring it tumbling to the ground. | traders, } that every man who owns a sheep should | know. They have meaning and rela” | tion, and the lesson they teach to the | vast majority of men who do not own | | sheep is one that will make the shep. { herd bide himself from their scorn and | wrath. Our woolen mills reported to the cen. | sus burean in 1880 the amount of woo | required to keep their looms at work scoured. Reducing all these to grease or | raw wool, the number of pounds they can use with their present machinery is as follows : Pounds of Grease Wool TILA 416 107,81 7 1.00 woolen mills 7% worsted mills... 64 hat mills .... RE St 19 carpet mills, JK... HIS, 200 | TOAL.c.ocicinimmmmiiicsarnnes L005 50,778 | Without carpet mills . 50.40.0570 «Census Compendium, Page 1.19, of | These are only our woolen mills prop- er. To this must be added mills using | { wool mixed with other material, but of these we have no absolute fonly know that the amount is large. Careful estimates put 850,000,000 pounds as the least possible, but it is better to ' omit than to err, The production of wool in the United States by calendar years from 1834 to 1880, as furnished by J. R. Dodge, statis. | tician of the department of agriculture, is as follows: Pounds, ropes coves TAZ 0080, 060) coms ons JNOO00, 000 1; I——— XY 187 o Pounds. — YT s——— NT Ty TL000.0%) §- o—— nen 11,0000) ET | This is merely at the normal increase rate of the whole world. It is far below 'the increase of any new country like [ ours. Mulhall, page 483, gives the fol- lowing as the number of million pounds 4 of annual elip : lowest by ; circumstances | Hereare a few facts concerning wool | 17.018. 684 | data, and cence) 1,000,000 | FELH0, 000 weir | PP ne Countries 1880, United States tio Plate ' Cape Colony... Australia... Berit aks In 1867 congress granted the of protection to raw wool, It had pre viously had sufficient protection to keep out foreign wool, had increased from 5,000,000 to 18,000. 000 pounds yearly under a lower tariff, began to decline under a higer tariff, and it took seven years to get it up to where it was before it was so highly protected, The man who thinks that high protec. tion caused the decline in production is not wise, It is a coincidence, and noth” ing more. So is the fact that the remov- al of apart of the tariff in 1584 caused a decline, He who draws a conclusion from the one fact must draw the same conclusion from the other, and the only logical inference peamitsed is that any attempted interference by legislation injures production. This inference is not sound. 70 Our importations of wool are of two Kinds: cheap carpet wools taxed only 24 cents per pounds, for our carpet mills, and clothing wools taxed 10 and 12 cents per grease pound. tition with American wool, we can drop them and the carpet mills from I'he impos on. tations of clothing wools for three years have been phenom enally he ind make up ie droj ft) , ui avy " i our own P du tion : il because other « rops paid better a { the mill could not import faved ar paren pay the high duty and make the | cheaply aa it could be imported But while our woolen mills w N pe did nn vented from making the cloth, we not go without it. If we could not American workmen we could and did vmport the cloth, We consume in cloth over 700,000 000 our mills make less than one-half, al though they could make it all and sup- ply an export trade. Over one-half our cloth was made in foreign mills, from foreign wool, by for. eign workmen, and imported as a finish. ed product, The exact amount of wool made up in the imported cloth cannot be ascertained as no separate accounts are made of mixed goods, but to take only the all.wool goods is enough. The bu. {ean of statistics (p. 685) reports the im: | portations of all.wool cloth for 1896 follows: : As Manvfact ured from ponds of foreign raw wool ed 46.971 ARO, 0 Fes SRR TIN 214,451 aan 2.940 644 1.00 084 12,202.05 EAR EA Povineds of cloth IR 18.657 OR RT 7.050 0a 61.19, 180 Wi, 0 Litas ad 00 Fa lo $000), TRY 1.551.066 Inport Balmorals Blankets... { Clothing Cloths Dress (Goods Flannels..... Knit Goods | Other KAS. 4n } Tv al pownds | Total foreign raw wool Imported in the foreign made eloth { Total maw wool produced United States ws | Total raw wool Imported ’ wor 0 AX1.0002 in the . Po REL RTS 0 i Total amount made by American mills into cloth sonrenssns sos vemnvasanee STE, 216.000 The amount of raw wool imported ig reduced to grease wool. The actual fig. ures are as follows ; Toial pownds, Grease Wool, 5.0446 16%, Tot him. | Unwashed... 2247.50 {| Washed... S819 Béoured. 101.29 Total pounds imported of [grease Combing. L] %72, 30 wy 20,216,000 It takes 2 pounds of grease wool to wie "oooh 1 pound scoured, and the republican congressmen insisted that 4 pounds and 41 pounds of grease wool for a pound of cloth was too small an estimate, There is a difference of opinion among experts. In reducing cloth togreass wool from 4 to 44 pounds has been taken to avoid dispute, Any figure may be taken, the | tised. highest | Production, which | AS our importations of carpet wools do not enter into compe. | consid- | port raw wool to furnish employment to | pounds of raw wool annually, of which | 06.2% | letters remaining in the Post Office at | make 1 pound washed, 3 pounds to make | | tii a i { question is not material, amount of foreign raw wool mixed with other goods. The undisputed facts are : i the amount of wool they require their machinery and plant, and less than one-half needed for our clothing. doubled in twenty-two years of protec. 000,000 in 1886, This is only the norma increase of the whole world, and as our population has doubled, it is no increase per head. Other countries—Buenos Ay- ers and Australia—have quadrupled and quintupled (Mulhall, p. 453), That the present tariff on raw wool makes it cheaper to import the foreign manufactured woolen cloth than lo im- { port the foreign raw wool and have it | i notorious for their willingness to make | { made up by our idle machinery and idle | workmen, That protection has not increased pro- | duction, and that less than one-half the | raw wool we must use is produced by {the American farmer, That the sheep farmer is a dog-in-the manger who cannot eat the hay himself and will not let the horse eat it Protection his under own ha theories does not in rease the price receives r his wool iv keey It wer eign wool and kes Ie i " q v our iooms. Aftert Pie Amer nployed in an workmen ir woolen i forall woolen cloth i be damne If the people want let them h foreigners to foreign mills, from then import it. They and SMAarvesan Care, ire 1 make it in foreign shall not you wool, and import the raw wool th make the tha an let cloth here i nor will I raise wool to g | things that pay me better.’ h Lh I'he republican sheep-farme: ive you work, for { raise other is a self. fish beast, and that will vet be the unan- moss venlict of his countrymen. T. I - Witsox. - wh's 3 ( : it aad thing store Jrocker v, has an immense rush, 11 of this month a new charges was adopted by the Lins Express company by which they i | 1 is H ) ‘ ith "4 eo It more money from their cus. +. Express rates were high enough without this raise but what can we do about it ? ~FProf. Frank Atherton, a graduate | # {5 | ingdon, where he will give instruction | pit the violin, piano, and and teach bands | orchestras and musical societies. He is one of the best violin players in the state ~Whilé farmer Van Dyke, of Mun. cy Hills, was plowing a few days ago he { dropped his pocket book containing 8600, { It fell into the furrow, and on the next [trip he made around the field it was | plowed under. Since the discovery of his loss the distracted farmer has been | replowing the field over and over in the | | hope of turning up his lost property, but | up to the present time he has not been | successful, ~Mr. Geo. Harbaugh, machinist met with a serious accident at the Bellefonte | machine shops, on last Thursday even. (ing. He was standing on a ladder and was trying to shift a revolving belt which caught the ladder and wus thrown to the floor. The ladder was Car, ried to the ceiling and came down with considerable force on Mr. Harbaugh's | ; head rendering him unconscious for ‘some time, He received several bad bruises on his scalp and face but is able to be at work again. —Miss Elizabeth Lanaing daughter of Rev. M., B. Lanning of Unionville. Centre county, was married on Thurs day April 18th next at the home of hex parents to Charles E. Grove M. D., of | Philadelphia. Immediately after the | ceremony Mr. and Mrs, Grove will take | Horace Greely's advice and go west and (will settle in Washington territory | (now state), where they will make their home, * ~Following is the list of unclaimed | Bellefonte, Centre county, Pennsylva. nia, April 15, 1880, A. B. Brawn & Co., John Breon, John Bridge, John Brooks, Henry B. Chamberlain, John A. Holderman, Rick Packer, 8, W, Reese, Maggie Roads, Miss Ewma Schrark, Miss Carrie Swabb, This table does not include the large That our mills can get but one-third for | That our production of wool has only tion—from 142,000,000 in 1864 to 285. | slate College, has located in Hunt. | WASHINGTON LETTER. | HATPENINGS AT THE NATIONAL CAPL TAL. Sunset Cox Visits the President Govern. ment Vessels Used by Obes Holders. Thurman on the Electio:, “Sunset Cox, the ever smiling Rep resentative from New York, was met coming out of the White House by your correspondent, and asked what in the | merely a slight scar. SINGULAR DOUBLE CURE A distinguished physician of this eity tells of a recent case in his practice thai has certain features of interest. Ia a household of this city there wis a boyd 12 who possessed many excellent quali. ties, being amiable truthful and upright. Passing along the street one day a plees of board fell from a second story ef a house that was being built, and struck him, inflicting a wound on his head. After a time the wound healed and left But it soon af duce he was doing in that gang of place. | terward appeared that the boy had wus | hunters. “Oh, I simply called to say | dergone an unaccountable change of good bye to my old friend Benjamin Harrison, as 1 am afraid these fellows | character. He had become a liar sad » thief, and was almost brutal in his 1 | may worry him to death in their mad ! ture. At last the parents consulted tie on hunt for office before I return ington.” The Republicans have always been use at all times of United States vessels { and who made a study of the case. | for private pleasure parties and being | out of power for four years and without precedent for that length of time not changed them a particle in this re. A ssistant Secretary of the Treasury Tichenor t a party of fire hi spect. On Saturday afternoon ook 10 Jalti. rr | ne and started on friends m re they got Mel cak Bay, wil wher aboard the Ne more ¢ ch lasted wih ! : on the It XR § ‘ ) is going faster t) the would at the end A ssistant | Secretary Bussey, of the Interior De. | partie nt, before whom appeals from ithe decisions of the i Pensions are heard, seems to outdo the “Corporal” in his construction of the | law as applied to pensions. It is esti. | mated that the decisions of the late Commissioner Gen. Rlack which Bussey an it man most radical had any idea that hart ti | A SHOTS & this time me ago, and no Can {foresee Commissioner of has already reversed, will cost the Gov. { ernment more than $1,000,000, He should | change his name to Buster, The “Copo- ral,” not to be outdone by his superior officer, made an order last week that will cost more than £50,000 a year. The following is the order: “Whenever a | pensioner is disabled in a band or a foot in a degree entitling him to 228% month under the act of March 3rd 1883, such pensioner shall by reason of that fact I he entitled to the rate of 830 a month under the of August 4th. 1884." Nearly 80 pensioners get an increas of §72a year by this onder, and | from Aug. ith 1886, “The noblest Roman of them Allen G. Thurman, late candidate for Vice Washington last week on legal business The old gentleman is looking well and { feeling well with the exception of slight rheumatism in his legs. In a conversa. | ion with a friend be said: “The peo. { ple of the country were good enough to | me to vote that I should stay at home and personally T am glad of it. but 1 regret the defeat of the party very much | as | regard it a great calamity to the country, Mr. Cleveland brought about a great many grand reforms during his | term of office, and would have no doubt | have accomplished many more if he had | been reelected.” | Washington April 15th, O_o HSSoh | =Itis now stated that the {Jonny Ward's sudden refs country from BE mostic, His wife act arrears all.” Democratic President was in : y Min Mat. Ward has | = Wash. { physician to whom we have referred I | Ginally suggested that the boy should is trephined, inorder to ascertain if an injury had been done to the brioin wise the skull was eracked. When the operation had been perio: he vid war mwa the Inusids AT carefully | properly dresses i. To the ds mac is which ha ome unknows: med int he found that ; of the skit from ced the brain, ul been moved and the 1 $1 po WIE DOY IT then He was chang the ami that WOU es # LON eau » at CANES THE VYROTY TIVE TARIYY ¢ XN ovemnbes i x * iif NTE Bund is blo d ry workingmes stem which ved a ed for the benefit y frond of Us on fo the pot ve tarifi™” can Is of wag lark thread com. J. Asthe New The tariff has not combination bw r thread is main. broken, but the were so solicitous workingman whes their voles were & be cast for em against the high tariff duties that afield have not been down then tion ’ of { tl pany near Nes es in the - man ufa ¢ 1A for the wel won Lo shelter for combinations restrained from cutting Wages, It isn't necessary . however, 10 goo - side the proction state of Pennsylvania for eveidence for the inabilty of Ow monopolistic system to keep up wages. This neck o' the woods is full of illustes. tions -— Excursion Tickets to New York via Poss. sylvania Rallrond for the Washing. ton Inauguration Centennial. For the better accom modation of The Jarge number of people who desire io witness the elaborate ceremonies sr ranged for the celebration of the Cen. tennial Anniversay of the Inauguration of General Was hington as First Presi pent of the United States, in New York, on April 20th, 50th, and May 1st, 1888 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets to New York from all princial stations on its system between April 27th and May 1s, incle give. at three cents per mile. The wate from Philadelphia for the round trip will be £2.70, from Balti more 85.58, snd from Washington 86.84, Pittsburg $13, and proportionately from all other ¥ 1) “o stations . Tickets are good only for comtinvous passage on through trains to New Yok from April 27th to May Ist, but po tickets will be sold on Ma y Ist for any wriving in New York later than HOON that day Returning, the tickets will be sold for less than one train ’ ol dollar. -———- New Marble Works Heisler & Gross have opened new marble works on Water SL. near spring Bellefonte, Monuments, stones and all kinds of cemetery x All stock new, no old weather beaten stock. And we are down on the high t hve been charged for poor ave stones, Give us a call and 1 work and lowest prices Hen en & Gross, re (RCUTOR'S XOTICE EXE an i of Mil
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