v VOL IL BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1889. The Gratre Benoa, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 per year, $1.00 When subseriptions are not pald inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Democratic County Committee, 18809 Regular Price When Pald in Advance A, M. Bower Patrick (inrrety Joseph W, Gross J. W, MeCormiek wre M, 1 Gardner A) ini Weaver LL. W. Hartman «1. 1D. Ritter Ww wal. H. Riley 3 Wa Jackson Gorton Dalonville Borough..... wesenlis oJ. Bing Benner. " ~John Mechtley Boggs, N. x. Philip Confer “ W.P. wel. F. Adams = Br H. L. Barnhart College... Daniel Grove we Te 8. DeLong John T, MeCormiek Samuel He arpster Jr, «Ceo, hE ( wellefonte, NW, " 3 wo . Ww, WW... Centre Hall Borough . Howard Borough. Milesburg Borough. Millheim Borough coe. Philipsburg, iy Ww $l p “ Fe rRuson, r Fol tiregg. A Fr Hal nes, oF of '. Rossman ¥ Bowersox ol A. Weaver Wm, Hippie Wm. Bailey £. Busia. Halfmoon .. Hails Howard... Huston .... Liberty D.W, Herring Marion... . . a Henderson Mies............. waar uesmns ssus sss wend . of. (HERMMICY Patton . -.D. L Penn..... W. F. Smith Potter, B. F. Arney . Meyer Gg. L Hugh MeCann wes By CO. Wilcox . WilliamKerrin ~R. J. Haynes, Jr J. N. Brooks Wm, T Hoover Aaron Fa MeCauley Levi Re Chairman Snow Shoe, W ha E.P. Spring Taylor... Union ha asih J. H WM. C.HEINLE, rawford | «Franklin Dietz | «John Q. Miles | Goodheart | A SCHEME OF LONG GROWTH. THE REASON WHY THE VANDERBILTS PURCHASED THE BEECH CREEK RAILROAD, A Rival of the Pennsyivanin-~A Link that | will Farnish Competition in Transports. tion Across the state-The sdvantages of the Rout—The Increased Earnings of the Boech Creek, It now seems that there is more in the purchas of the Beech Creek Rail. road by the Vanderbilt family than was at first known. enormous proceeds the road earning, which no company cares more appaernt or Is It is all very well to have the 5 now incentive to the purchase was the cul. brain of William H. Vanderbilt four or more years ago and only now being practically executed by his decendants, | Here It is: It has alwavs been known that the one hobby of senior Vanderbilt | have a through line across the State of Pennsylvania and IN COMPETITION THE PENNSYL- VANIA TO Meek | When the South Penn was in process J Fanizatiol i thought Id be stly on paper the on a competing | ¢ line tant. minated mo grew vague al howes w Vanderbilt ) ith Creek, the east, the i Lil Democratic County Ticket. ASSOCIATE JUDGE THOMAS F. RILEY, of Harris twp : PROTHONOTARY A. SCHAEFFER of Bedle forte DISTRICT ATTORNEY CALVIN MEYER. of Bellefonte J, COUNTY SURVEYOR GEORGE D. JOHNSON, of Howard FOR CORONER Dr. J. W NEFF, of Snow Show {iron Editorial. “LET'ER go, Gallager.” Are you | making a nice thing off of vour contract on the Milesburg bridge and do vou and Henderson expect to have a “divey’’ of | the spoils, - -— IT is remarked that Commissioner | Henderson is looking better than usual. | No doubt he has followed the Demo. CRAT'S advice and changed his diet from soup to a suqare meal at the hotel, -— Way did the county commissioners employ Gallager to build the abutments i the Milésburg bridge when compe- | and honest mechanics could have been obtained in Centre county ? Hen. derson, no doubt, favored a man of his own stripe, Next month Harrisburg will have three political conventions. The Dem. ocrats will meet on the 4th to nominate a candidate for State Treasurer. On the 26th the “temperance voters” are called to meet in convention, and on the 25th the third party Prohibition. | fats, : —— - Workymex at the Milesburyg | bridge are working every day and part | of the night to get it completed. This | is being done to make up for the two | months delay of the Commissioners. Men working at night cannot perform anehalf the amount of work as by day | light and the county ust bair the a. ditional expense, for wnexcusable delay, penses are saddled upon the taxpayers, awllon account of -n incompetent Board of Commissioners, Do the voters of Centre county see their folly! If not they ave paying dearly for it. Tue Philad, this week says: A Bellefonte correspondent nrges the anination of Colonel Spangler of that ce for State Treasurer hy the Pemocrata, He hasbeen twice presented for Congress by Centre county, and he has rendeewd highly ereditable ser. yice to the sufferers of Johnstown, of ye ht oot “Ho Know & Tut I ope iis. who would make a better a better record to his { and n connection ith the i lines the finished Port i Penn { route | though the { and passenger traffic i great on that { 1889, : pers { than the completion In trying to make up | additional ex. Times, of Tuesday of | eariern the South Pennsy ~late, Ivania southern tof the via the thers Fein: an uneons plete a thro : into consi the : enongh insoivent u fF vening competing 1 opposition : svivania. will be right and coke belt : & 3 Conk manufactur localities, and, Hy location and scenery will not Pennsylvania, not be neverthe compare with those of the Hay 80 account, it will advant many miles shorter and run through a regon from which it can draw the bulk of the coal and coke traffic, with a goodly share of the iron production. less have the age of wing Compare the resources of the Beech { Creek at the present with that of any other road and they are far in advance. The entire stock is only $5,000,000, pre- ferred and common, and in 1857 the gross earnings of the road were $786.8238. 41, while the expenses all told were but 8413, 638.45, leaving anet profit of $373,192.06, oran interest of 74 percent. on sub. | seribed stock. For 1558 the increase was to almost 10 per cent. and it is pow in fair way to show a proportionate increase for | A prominent railroad man said | f that it would not be until the Pennsylvania Railroad would | very long now have a competing line and that the purchase of the Beech Creek by the Vanderbilts was another link added to the connection. Nothing would please the heavy ship. of central Pennsylvanian better of such a scheme, as the Pennsylvania has always had {everything its own way and tariffed some things high enough to test the endurance of a saint, It has also la great tednency to keep down small | operators and build up the monopoly | and combine which is mach detested in [th 11% section of the State, . —— IX England the price of sugar is three cents a pound less than this country. Under the precious tariff sys. tem the duty | that the Sugar Trust can run the price {up ab will without menrring any risk of foreign competition, in in considerable quantities in England in competicion with the beet oot pro. ducts of the continent, Bat the mem. bers of the Sugar Trast concluded to | {abandon the foreign teade and cons. | mle maker, the copper miner and the | ‘ship carpenter, beside furnishing a Lachool for a navy, and a broom that pel] Amerienn constimers to pay more for 0. smaller quantity of production. This they are enabled easily to do be. hind the tariff wall, In order, thers. fore, to enjov all other like advantages and blessings of the tariff system, Ame. yet generally ! for than the present ow: ers, But the real | mination of a scheme hatched in the | was to | sandd 8,000 more than the had ! on refined sugar is so high | A few years ago | there was a large teede jo refined sugar, | tand the sugar of this country was sold | DECLINE OF AMERICAN SHIPY ING, The decadence of the American ship. { ping industry, under the blighting in- { fluence of the tariff, presents a picture of legislative imbecility that is dispirit- ing and humiliating. Navigation laws [ too, have helped in this wholesale de. struction of the merchant marine of the | United States ; but, as such laws are a { part and parcel of the protective (7) sys- {tem inaugurated by statesmen of the | tariff school, and by such perpetuated, there is no special need for making any {great distinction between navigation laws protective tariff; although en done by specinlists, when z the cause of the growth {decline of American shippng industry. and this has be | discussing and Under the navigation laws American citizens are not allowed to import a for- eign built vessel so as to exercise any act of the ownership over the same, { can they have a foreign built ves el im. ported, and registered to sail, under the | protection of the stars and stripes. Un | der the same Jaw, any and all forei are forbidden any interests in the fits of American though may line docks with fore pro- they our Yi ssl, shores and crowd to end of 1) built vessels sailing Were s Cilizens lo own our from end the coast, {er Amer. ¥ 1 4 14 rm flag . fn a] States wi] Censes iy owner no matter how his interest the vessel siines after bei AC quiring such ow “for more than one VERS In ans and publi \mnerican proper lying repaired, vessel be must pairs at a 1 und ere ake en “nited St tariff daty of st be paid up pay a 18 the vessel lands at port of entry The foregoing | Inws. an the tax against Hor navigation laws unre added the tariff of fore the United Stat Ameri TLR gn goods into the the reason for the decay of the he obtuse mind, But let theresults of navigation In American ESL LIN can merchant marine will to the most us examine custom-house restrictions, foreign tonnage of was in round numbers 12 resched 764.000 tons in 1811, to the tariffs of 1524 and 15258 it to 614,000 in 1532. Under the low iff of 1848 it rose to 2.20000 tons vessels but owing tar. in 1856, and when Buchanan handed over | the administration to Lincoln, the for. ! eign tonnage amounted to 2, 497 000 tons From 1861 to the present time, the for. eign tonnage has gradually decreased, until now but 920,000 tons represent the | total of the American merchant mar. ine engaged in foreign trade, In respect to the number of vessels | built, we find in the records of the bu. | the | reaun of navigation that under “Walker free trade regime, to 1800 there were built 24.50 vessels, or but 1.000 less than the number built | during the 33 years from 1511 to 1844, number from 1870 to June 888, With these facts known, will the citizens of this coun’ ry continne to up hold a tariff | system that has driven their flag to the high seas, or will they vote for the re. peal of all restrictive laws imposed upon | trade and commerce, and give to Amer. | ean ships and American seamen a fair | opportunity $0 regain what has been | lost, and add to the list of industries | that of American shipbuilding ? In this ange of steam and steel, who is there that doubts the ability of the Am. erican people to again lead the world upon the ocean high ways if the tariff | on ship materials were wiped away for. ever? Who does not know that the building of American iron steamships would pul new vigor into our industry Cand furnish the best of home markets | for the farmer, the cord wainer, the | ' would sweep the foreign vessels off the | pp nor | LHErS | apparent | It | fell off | " from 1844 | built | {can bave this tective (7) tariff from 1861, to 020.000, 1 ed SH11000 tons ! ct CANNOT COMPETE WITH PENNSYLVA. NIA, The iron and steel manufacturers, of New England complain loudly that they cannot longer compete with Pennsylva. nia and the West, and they intend to ask Congress for free raw material: that is, free foreign coal and ore. The Bos ton Herald states that those who still continue to carry on business are find- { ing it exceedingly difficult to make both ends meet, and are compelled in a meas. { ure, to confine themselves and their op- erations to the use of such old iron and {steel as can be purchased in this part of the country—that is their raw materials are the waste and second - {hand materials of the New England | States a business of conversion which at best is unsatisfactry,” q -—— Tre publicdebt statement for Au. [gust 1, 1888, under Cleveland, a decrease of $4,737,200: for { 1888, under Harrison shows of #1.317 212, showed August 1. an increase Tue ettes to bovs ur Hw proh ib ting the 1 1¢ of eigar. ler sixteen vears of age, into effect in ledl certain hind 2 es 5 which has just gone Con. necticut, has dealers to get Ltheslot a person can drop a machines with a dropa-nickle-in arrangement whernh --— Wien H of money are thi Ki wonder that the the enpenditures of vast sums it the § pos] of men of : my of J. C. Hend JANICES own sta lerson of are not sufficient ml that roperts their Hend } 1118 reasesl Hersam et eYer r of Centre counts 4 ! when demanded. .—- Justice F if he : AT | : 'r Hi NA Winx aq eld was"asked, some nten ded to carry in ¢ aire} 135 ind will not carry that Judges pelled to arm themselves known of Con of assaults offered in con. their Ww Hine tn Judicial actions Hssolve the ( ourts, oO let | Sider the Government a failure, aiety laps into barbarism, nm .-——— Mr Wm. H. Peters, of Toledo. 0. . | expects to have his family move to our { town and will oxeupy a portion of R. and : 1780 the | | M. Magee's residence. Mr. Peters, is a traveling salesman and thinks he will | make Bellefonte his permanent resi. | dence, — Lock Haven over the | prospects of a knitting factory being es. | tablished at that place. The operators {are to be a firm by the name of Craw- {ord ; if they are the same “breed of cats” who operated a factory at Mill- | heim. would say Lock Haven beware. is axeited ~All the New Woolens for the com. | ing season now being received, Liber. al discount for early orders, during the {dull season. Our Fall stock will be { the finest we have ever shown, Prices and a good fit guaranteed. Moxroomeny & Co,, Tailors, i ==OUm account of a legal Aaw-the sim. ple omission from a deed of five words | the town of Huntington, in West Vir. { ginia, stands a fair prospect of being ruined. The Chesapeake and Ohio | Railroad shops, @mploying 1.200 men, which are located there, are about to be removed by reason of a recent litigation {deel ring void a deed for the land upon | Which the shops stand, The suit in. | volved 8150000, The mistake in the acknowledgement which will esult in | the collapse of Huntington, us the rail | road shops supported the tows. was a simple one, The acknowledgement read, “Sarah H. G. Pennybacker acknowl. ' edges that she has signed, ete.” while it should have read, “acknowledges it to be lier necount and khe hassign:d, ete.” |The omission of these five words is like ly todestroy a flourishing town. J The Cextae DEMOCRAT and any of the following weekly papers for $1.75 i” you year, ladelvtia, Then Press, veord, or ¢ Pittsburg Post sigh ; Harrisburg Patriot, orld, or Star. This is a New York ie Ofori ty ibn down $1.75 any of the 1 RE Reduction under high tariff, Arms | : it | THE WAY T0 TREAT COLDS, ARRESTED AS A NUISANCE IN A COM MUNITY. Five Hundred dollars Stolen from Hun garians by one of Thelr Own Country. men Other Items, The arraignment and fining of a wom. an in Jersey City in a police eourt on the charge of being a common scold has already borne good fruit. Four women were arrested in Philadelphia on Thurs- day on a similar charge and compelled to give 8500 each to keep the peace, Unfortunately the law in only a few States covers this subject, and even in these the statutes do not go far enough. bonds They make it a misdemeanor for a wom. an to be a scold. It should be a felony. A woman with this unamiable weak- ness can render the life of the people ina whole block miserable, el She is, moreoy slanderer { 45 well, She takes away people's reputa- | tions without a single thought of the trouble she may do, and they have no redress, The { was one that but | whiop not only a nuisance, but a ancier hment of “ducking’ this crime, like the t punis exactly fitted it has gon post a Ineasury effect would NCTA together the ws she di world they put | them the nen o and ueht before in- Think of |, have | Ph Le ladelphia the erally followed | oa that | PUCKNEL mace of | disappear and thousands of | ering husbands will bestow Arines f | Dial \RD K. i a vel: at we were able to oid : Hungaria The facts as i few, Itappears that several ive in a shanty keeping their and had hundred the chest their number Later the broken chest was found a short distance from their house and all the money taken therefrom. At this writing nothing has been heard of the thief or the money. .—— A Fish Story. | foreigners who ) | furnace had been their building five in a chest in saved up a sum of about dollars. Wednesday morning was missing and one of also, A negro fishing in the Savannah run, hooked a hugh eat.fish which ran down stream al a rapid rate, the fish not stop. ping till exhausted. It was then eap. tured, but placed in water. The next day the negro tied a rope to it, attached the line to his boat and turned the fish into the river. Down stream the boat went faster then oars could carry it or wind propel it. The fish is fed and petted with care. A set of harness has been made for it. The negro i= now trying to educate it to go up stream. -—— Anniversary Tha 28th anniver wad of Co. E., 45th. Penna will be held in the ah. grove, Sept. 8nd, 1886, All soldiers of other commands are cordially invited to attend. Citizens and others are invited to participate in the exercises of the day CoMMITTER, > —y I¥ our county commissioners would lounge about the Court House less it would not be necessary to raise the valu. ation of property to pay unnecessary sai aries, If you tric wire hanging down anywhere. Jot it alone and do not attempt to monkey with it. However experts may differ as to'the killing power of the subtle fluid this fact stands out in bold relief, that there is imminent peril in monkeving with an electric wire, sspocially if not absolutely loose at both ends, Farmers Toons Woodward and Pune stable township who visited Lock Hav. chance to see a loose elec. : money Excurslon Tickets to Grand Army of the 23 public Encampment at Milwaukee via Pennsylvania Hallrosd. For the Annual Encampment of tle Grand Army of the Republic at Mi. wiaukee August 27th to 30th. the Penn. sylvania Railroad C ympany will sel round-trip tickets to that point at a single fare for the round.tri p. Tickels will be sold August 23d to 27th valid for return trip September Sth, 1856, until —— CENTRE county was to be Inanaged and conducted on an improved plan, In the present board of commissioners. Ir . stead of reducing the rate of taxatio they cannot keep under the former ru: and instead of raising the number mills they raised the valuation property throughout the county. Thm need more money to meet useless penditures and pay off the exhorbit printing bills put in by Hender gan. Henderson is a scoundrel and Isis mouth piece is no better. The first legation we can prove and the second is ith. — on alt ex- Aut Son's oy accepted asa tr SALESMEN SALESMEN WANTED CANVAS for th ale of Nursery Stock! employment guar toed “ Ary paid to sucoessiul men. App ” Mention t CHASE BROTHERS (: Steady 4 expe nee stating yak © Rochester, N.Y. NIVERSITY Presipewy, of staudy wits LINKS ; Tree solu n Ast romano of two years ® a * eo fortin, 8. = aps of Instroctors, RHOADS, r L. Brown) we see [PVEALER IN oe Anthracite Coal, —: Bituminous Coal, Grain, Corn-cars, Shelled Corn, Oats, Straw, and Bailed Hay, ete. —— # rm pommmennnd Respectfally solicits the patron- sge of his friends and the public. Xeon) AT (=x BROWN'S OLD COAL YARD. Near the Passenger Depot V ALUABLE REAL | ESTATE o-)AT(-0 PUBLIC SALE !! A fy free X By virtue of an order of the hans Cowrt., of Centre county, to me directed re will be exposed to public sale at Spring Mills, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 188, The following described real tae, The prog erty of Henry Krmrine, dood : Nol. ALOT OF GROU Dat Ding Mit adioining lands of Mrs, Bareraft and Mrs. =~ rah Zeigler Senting on the main Pike oe DN iahane ONE ACRE AND A HAL fot ix conveniently located for bullding purges. LE] Xo A LOT OF GROUXD fa Spring Mills, adjoining the residenae of the late Henry Krumrine, dood, and fronting on Water St. Nao, ALOT OF GROUND in Spring Mills, adjoining the 101 of said Henry Krusrine, decd. on the porth and fronting on same street as No. 2 Nod A TRACE OF WOOD LAND situate in Greg Jownshi A hee gg po of Musser, Samue) ore, containing Wart? ty “re Do piece of ground is well for purpoves 4) ineasily © A VALUABLE FARM. No 5 A VALUABLE FARM, situste In fin, adjoining lands of dno 7 CA ein and others, CONTAINING 10 ACRES bees, Having thereon : Bk a Feral and the tan nae | ied
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