mda IN Nd Vol. 13 BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JUNE II, i89l. She ¢ CHAS. R. KURTZ, - 4 AVY HE) entye Demo EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION » LA Regular Price ) When Pald in Advance When subseriptions are not 00 will b sars §2 ¢ chargea Editorial. ExGLIsH nobility play baecar amusement and profit: prefer the old reliable time America ticlans known as ‘poker,’ every Hoi > Ox Tuesday the great baccarat trind n London came to a close. The Jury retired and fifteen minntes later return. od with a verdict against Sir Willa Gordon Cumming, which means they find that he is guilty of cl - James Milliken left on Mond: the West and no doubt will tak several hundred extra copies of flint » wy for Ww 2) him county papers containing his article on legal tender, to distribute broadcast among his silver acquaintances in that | si country. - Tue Prince of Wales was compelie Jast and insult tin to appear in court week subject to the taunts attorneys. There was ty was considered far above su wt the wi lemocracy is spreading - world is growing Om July 4th next, and thereafter, the lag of the United States will contain forty-fonr stars. Wyoming was not admitted until after July 3th of last year. and the United States law perserib- ed that the star for a new state shall be wi mitted to the flag the next fourth of July following its admission. oo Braise has gone to his howe at Bar | Harbor, Maine, to recuperate as his health is somewhat broken down from | overwork. As Blaine presidential stock has been on the advance of late, the Harrisons are very much afraid lest Benjamin should not receive a re-nomi. nation. There will bea lively canvass made for delegates between the Blaine and Harrison forces from this on -— Tue republicans in Union and Snyder counties are very much dissatisfied with the recent Judicial apportoinment of the state which makes those counties a | new district and insures the re-election of Judge Bucher, a democrat. in a re. publican district. The district is all right, only Bucher is such a popular democrat that everybody is for him and no republican can hold his party vote against him. - EVERYBODY should take notice that the clam has joined the oyster in retir- ing from business during the months without an *r.”” Governor Pattison has signed the bill making it unlawful to sell clams and oysters in this State | during June, July and August, Lov. ers of the bivalves, however, will still ined them in profusion at the seaside resorts, for New Jersey makes no such AWS, - A bank-cashier story from the South has a pleasing variation from the usual form. The cashier had served for many years, had been compelled to retire from his place and soon afterward committed suicide. The incidents are unfortunately not peculiar thus far, but in this case an examination of the cashier's accounts showed that instead of a deficiency there was a credit of 870,000 in his favor on the books of the bank. The desponden- cy which cause his violent act was sim. ply due to the feeling of regret that old age prevented him from longer perform. ing the duties which he had faithfully discharged for so many years, —— - Facts About Tasos, For the next two years our Govern. ment will spend annually more than $500 000 000, To pay one year's expenses of the Gov. ernment it will take nearly bined wheat and oats crop. Our annual output of gold, silver, cop. per, iron, conl, peteoleum and lead will net foot our tax bill for twelve months, Nor ean we do it with a year's prod. uet of cotton, wool, rye, barley, wine, potatoes and tobacco, The combined capitalization of our national banks is #3000000, One year's taxes will nearly swallow it up. Now, all this is the Federal tax. We have also to pay city, county and State taxes, We pretend to be u nation of plain people, with no aristocracy, no priuces, no army and no expensive frills, and yet our taxes are more enor mous than those of Austria. Germany or Great Britain, the com. | THE | rgd RL s of the i REPLY T0 MILLIKEN. NEW ESTIMATE. nui Cin fm oan Editorial Slap-—-Bellefonte's Politionl Economist Drwindles ounty papers <h an extended : £1 if : he pen of Jns., 1 The aricle was d Legal Tender Mon. ittempt to make the that what the regard to the believe piel In the goy- a1 currency YORK TRIBUNE'S | st Published Milliken'sarticle and then | a the paper, and a considerable part of the outstanding credits besides, operate {in the market to affect prices. What i Mr. Atkinson meant was that the world’s commerce accepted gold as the | mesure of values, in transactions of { great magnitude and number, in which, | It is a comparatively simple game, {as a rule, no gold whatever isemploved, | would have ini in this and | other countries really includes a great {deal that Government neither creates I nor Jut the money which {the commerce of the world accepts a | its measure of value is that to which transactions are adjusted and by which | they are governed, It is in this sense {and in no other that sane men propose {to employ the gold standard only. It {seems amazing and almost incompre- | hensible folly in Mr, Milliken and other { men like him to imagine that prices wey of account | The mi recognizes, must of necessity be depressed by the | enrds. at tl when | | use of gold alone as a standard { the purchasing power belongs to and is | | | | held by all the paper in circulation and | a large body of the commercial credits, | all wi These do the buying, and prices are af- | qokes * | sected by the volume of these, and not ? | by the volume in circulation of a par- 1nHaw them a aoa orth of silver they ald be the greatest { isadvocated with | | effrontery of mod- their in men in ment, which ian sixty-four to 3 cents on every er mined by them. nment would be (3 | 1 collectively, to bolster the | he expense of the nage the govern. the raw silver sold to it into debased | of silver stamped as worth one dollar, And worst of all, the coin—50 cents worth government would | be required to coin silver into debased {eurrency and return it to the owner | free—with at least 25 per cent. of its original value added to it by the govern- ment’s stamp. Mr. Milliken, we are | told, is largely interested in silver ope- | rations in the far west and naturally { would find it to his interest to see such His characteristic { greed is well displaved in this instanee | where he, with other heartless finan. | cers of his ilk, stand ready to scrape | the very cuticle of the nation and heap {more burdens upon the wage earners {and toilers—the only wealth producers {of the country. Mr. Milliken with his a measure adopted. | customary egotism boasts in print of | { the merit and ability of his effusion. ! we begged the proprie- | | Weare told that | {tor of the North A ican Review to accept his article, but it was rejected. | Next it was taken to the Forum and | there it was considered not of sufficient | merit and was again rejected. In his | dispasir he carried it to the office of the | New York Tribune and finally it was | maven space there, for which he no doubt {paid well, as he did to have it inserted | In some of our county papers. As the | New York Tribune is the leading and | recognized journal of the republican | party, founded by Horace Greely and [ the HY i wthpiece of the present adminis. { tration, its editorial comments bear with them more than usual significance, And this is what they think of Prince Milliken and his article. 1% | From the N.¥ | Tribune, May " MORE MONEY FANATICISM Between the extravagances of Mr, Milliken, whose letter is printed on the fifth page. and the extravagances of Mr. { er hard to choose, Indeed it is extreme. { ly difficult to comprehend how a man of average sanity and commonsense can get into a state of mind to say some of the things that Mr. Milliken does say. of conviction. His notion that paper can be and is “coined.” and made ab. solutely money, by receiving the stamp of the Government, Is contradicted, as the Government itself has placed upon every note issued by it, 1 notes do not declare “this is one dollar,” more or dollar,” more or Jess, I than ordinary irresponsibility of mind to ignore this obvious declaration by the Government, in order to assume that the stamp imprinted has transformed a plece of paper into money. There is not the slightest suppost in the decision of the Supreme Conrt of the United States for the assertion that the legaltender paper issued by the Government is money, in the sense in which the Constitution empowers Con. gress to coin money and regulate the value thereof, The Supreme Conrt rec- ognizes only the power of the United States to issue its evidences of debt, and to uire its evidences of debt to be ed in the settlement of public or Jiiviee obligations, Neither is the crit. ism of Mr. Atkinson, on account of his statement that “gold is the standard of the world's commerce,” by any means more reasonable than the statement it- self, The word standard is apt to be confusing requires more | Atkinson, whom he criticises, it is rath- | { tienlar kind of coin. Does Mr. Milliken { really imagine that doubling the num. ber of yardsticks in the country would { played at | double the yards inlevery piece of cloth? It is hard to conceive of a more foolish statute than the one proposed mn Penn sylvania, and advocated with such fran tic enthusiasm by the writer, namely, an act to forbid individuals from mak. ing contracts to pay gold or any other specitic form of money. { which such pens to be fully exposed by the state | ment of Mr. Milliken, who says “The statutes of the State govern the con. | struction. validity and obligation of con. | tracts, and under those privileges the {declared policy of the Government | daily nullified by the making | contracts, payable in specially ds | odd pieces of gold, neverthel | and by this avoidance of the law Lis attempted and pul attacked.” No man can poi | wherein usury isaccomplished or | i way facilitated by the making of spe i contracts to pay in gold, or in any other thing upon which the parties may agree. No one can suggest ment is in the least degree assailed in its policy by such contracts, Yet Mr. he to be arbitrarily robbed of their right to make such contracts as they may agree upon between themselves. The sole motive for such an arbitrary injust. jee is to foree into circulation and more general use some Kind of money which the common-sense of the business com. munity does not desire, will not accept, and which is therefore, in spite of all enactments, comparatively discredited, .—— ORJPECTIONABLE IMMIGRATION There are two classes of socalled im. migrants who particularly and rightfull repugnant to the American One of these classes is compos re people » ed of mechanics, artisans and laborers who to take advantage of the difference In are enterprising enough wages between Ameries and Europenn tries duri spring brings iw LH 4 Every f class, who pay their cheaply as steerags jarssengers Soure { remunerative employment thn ; Summed their actual turn home to pass the wintes parative leisure tl ings. petition with the American working. the months, spend little lwyonnd HYing expenses, al and enn TT These men come in direct com. man, share his wages, and even help to depreciate them, and escape most of the | set burdens which are placed upon the native mechanic and 11bor in the of protection name The theory on | an enactment is urged hap- | profit, rh the Govern. Cnil- | THE BACCARAT SCANDAL. Thegame of baccarat is an old one, said to have been introduced (nto France from Italy several hundred years ago. and no interest t! One and deals out two cards to Before hands are examined, each player in front of him the stake he desires for. The objectis to nineteen or twenty-nine, except for © } element of gambling. t PETSON Acts as “banker” each player, including. the juais 4 1a writ get Th capds count ten and the others accord. play ning fines ing to the number of pips or spots # Pi I them. A pl pol iver may call for two more he risk of exceeding twenty forfeits his When the hands are examined the banker pays Id better bands than his, and the amount of nine, which stake, from others the their stakes, According Arthur Stanley of Mr, Wis to the testimony Wilson. it ie, baccarat the hous but hi Was not of Tranby Cro his father father objected ind mother in 1580 to it it played again until last September. Then upon the occasion of the visit of Prince of Wales, a game was bly for his and made, presuma. incidental and and He acted as banker, William Gordon the players Me Wil amusement wit Cumming was among testified yesterday that on eg in the following taken rood one, he would tember 8 and HINES, cated hands were iropping or push ' representing ion to the stake he f his hand was ould thus be mn his stake would Poor of ! LL stoall, wh De large, : trac Mr. Wilson says he noticed this se. Milliken imagines that individuals ought | tion of Sir William ot i m the first night and mentioned it to Mr. Levett and to his mother. The next night both Mi: Levett and Mr. Green noticed the same thing. Then, in order to avoid a “scan. dal" which would distress Mrs. Wilson and would unpleasantly involve the Prince, Sir William Gordon Cumming was interviewed privately, and on the advice of Gen. Williams and Lord Cov. entry signed a paper declaring he would never play cards again, This, it was supposed, would hush up the matter: but somehow it got out. Cheating at cards is considered dishon- orable in English society, and Sir Will. | Pop | but realy it am Kpew that unless he could clear kis tation would be cast out of that paradise, his club, and hie Englishman's | would be compelled to resign his con this | mission in the army. So he brought ome | suit for slander and it is this suit that Nir William Gordon technically 8 iu OC Woon tral, ming is the plaintin is he who is on tral, and and not the nominal defendants The real point of interest in this case enn | however, does not lie in the guilt or in nocense of the plaintiff. Its most nota. ble feature is the disclosure it makes of of the “Prince of Wales the Prince 1s there is The “set” gamble, presum ably, in onder to kill thse. It would be the chameter Where gambling There is nothing to uncharitable tosuppose that they do it prevent their coming, and their number | in order to keep the Prince in pocket are Increasing every year. But object. lonable this growing class is to American workingmen and American | interests, it is every way desirable com. ns money, and, besides, there is no evidencs to show that he wins more than Iw loses, This is the set to which some Ameri. pared with the other, which consists of | cans have Leen and are anxious to intro. fa type of tramps absolutely, This lat. [duce their sons, and especially their | ter class does not have the merit of even danghters, It is the set especially whose to all appearance with absolute sincerity | representing skilled labor, as is the case | manners the Anglomaniacs of this | of the English, Scotch and German country aim to copy. Its influence for |stonecutters and metal workers. 1n | evil is not limited by the boundaries of | | speaking of them the Dingley report on | England, or even those or the British : | amazes is the size of the counter cur. | rent, States to Nap! present wants they hasten to their old |] i he well knows, by the language which | the subject of immigration says: “What | Empire, It is perhaps needless to say that Sometimes a8 many as 1,000 [there is “society” In England, of the less, but “the United States will pay one Italians eame back from the United | highest sort, that takes no part in these in the month of De. | things, and cember. Wheel they have made a few | Prince's “set” por the Prince himself | dollars in the United States beyond the | 18 received on terms of intimacy, into which neither tin Light is a good thing, and the fallun | homes. They love to spend their sav. | 10 hush up this baccarat scandal, and ings in Italy: it seems to them almost a | the light it shed upon the manners and These people ate of the worst possible type. While they are in this country |KO] effect, of the “awful example” | for all points South, East and West. | i sacrilege to spend them elsewhere,” CUStoms of a certain portion of the English “aristocracy,” ought to have a | they are either vagabonds or practically | sort, both in England and in this conn. serfs. They work in hordes under the | WY. New York Mail and Erpress, | charge of a master contractor. They earnings, and when the season is over | they return to their haunts in the old world, Their annual voyage costs them less than they would spend if the stayed among us, and so they go and come, a fiith, reeking tide of humanity. with no purpose of becoming citizens, and with no other ob ject than to acquire spend next to nothing of their scanty | | - ~It certainly Is encouraging to see the clouds of smoke arise from the Valentine Iron Company's furnace, and the vast body of men going and coming from their work, ~Towin keeps things a moving; they A MAD MAN RUNS A TRAIN. { slurted fo an WILD RIDE BEHIND A CRAZY ENGINEER. Condactor and Fireman Watch the Man at the Throtude-Wilkesbarre Without Crash-An Exelting Trip With his hands on the throttle a crazy engineer on the Pennsylvania Rails made the run of an express tral tween Pottsville and Wilkesharre Friday, guarded by the conductor It was an exciting and sational passage. The train was made up of a baggage fireman, car, smoker and two day coaches, and at 12:80 o'clock left the Pottsyille sta tion. Engineer Elmer, who had ran the Pennsylvania road for was considered one of the most compe- in the service. He talked many year tent. men pleasantly to was nothing like insanity until, afte: running a few miles, Elmer stopped the train. In explanation he told conduc. tor Zach Moyer that there was a fre: ahead, and without orders he would wt proceed. NOT THE JOKE IT SEEMED. Moyer, thinking the man was joking, | laughed, and said it was all right ahead. | Thereupon the trip was resumed. New Castle was reached, and again Elmer asked for orders. Moyer's sus. ions were aroused, and during the Morea he movements from the baggage car, [oie 1 Ha Ww) at times acted as if he were about to leap from the cab window. In running « Jong streteh of track he suddenly stop- ped the train, and said the water for the boller was low, although the tank was almost full, Up to this time the passengers knew nothing of Elmer's strange antics, Then the fact leaked out, and it was with fear that they remained seated as the train rushed along. Conductor Mover and the fireman came to the con- clusion that Elmer's mind was deranged. THREE MEN AT THE THROTTLX. Then Moyer elimbed into the cab and sat beside the crazy man, who seemed pleased to have company. Time and again he tried to stop the train, howev. er, claiming that the water was about ‘out and freight trains were ahead, The conductor watched the throttle as » hawk would watch a scared chick. | en, and whenever the crazy man would put on an extra head of steam the other men shut it off, By flattery, pleading and resorting to numerons strategical moves) the train was brought safely into Wilkesbarre. | Daring the perilous ride Elmer was in | { good humor and offered no resistance. | That right he was taken to Sunbury and the rext evening sent to Philadelphia, where he will probably be sent to Kirk. bride -——— Train 17 on Pennsylvania BR. The new passenger train which was placed in service on the 25th inst., by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., has proven a great convenience to the traveling public. This train leaves Williamsport at 4 p.m. daily except Sunday, arriving 2t Watsontown 4:45 p. w., Sunbury 5:21 p. m., Millersburg 4:14 p. m., Harrisburg 7:05 p. m., mak. ing direct connections at Watsontown toad from all points on Wilkesbarre & Western Ry. At Sunbury for all points in the coal regions, arriving at Wilkes. barre 7:50 p. m., Seranton 9:01 p.m. Hazelton via. Nescopee 7:56 p. m., Pottsville 8056 p. m., wriving at Shamokin 6:20 p. m., Mt. Carmel 6:55 p. m., at Millersburg for points on Summit Branch R. R., arriving at Lykens T18 p. m., Williamstown 7:30 pom. and at Harrisburg for the East, south and West, arriving at Phila. deiphia 10:55 p. m., Baltimore 10:40 p. mi. Chambersburg 9:25 p. m., Hagers. town 10:20 p. m., Pittsburg 2 a. m, Train 112 now leaves Bellefonte 2 p. m, [connecting at Montandon and train leaving Scranton 2:38 p, m., Wilkes. barre 8:12 p.m. connects at Sunbury with this new train from Williamsport The public will notice the close con. nections made at all junction points, i The connection at Harrisburg with train 71 is a great convenience for parties going West, Passengers from the coal regions ean now leave Wilkes. barre 7:05 a. m. Pottsvill 6 a. m., Hazle- ton 7.10 a. m., connecting at Senbury with News Express armying at Will. jamsport 11.15 a, m., returning leave Williamsport same day on new train at ip.om, ———————— «(rood stock In every pair of shoes sold at Mingle's store, The Centre Democrat and the Philad | i "i the fiseman, and there | ght i watched Elmer's | The ! ! ngineer shifted about in the cab, and O. N 23 Mention vgs ophin and Nun. McEwen Visit among n. They ago to ples aud tills and best IY Vislley, i orshurg a ~ extended ite Nn ths and abont farm y HOW OF ne prios for where call cing with at his Thes rramiey™s Be. a WOrKkmman. { x Hes A in. place, democratic f the work ces of Mi ghter. r two «y have he Ti mong Triends n, Mr. Beck's until are tiav- Beck is nly unnatars! locks, which hat old is ad. j manner is still me forgets these pres. thinks only of the past Long may you live and enjoy the hon. the wish of Jor. stay age . Yad orable days of old | yo | is ur many rien 15. -- Nittany Trem | We have hop* for one 3 this place; he nearly Ix ont HS nerd trying to get away from his shadow the other night. But, presto, how brave lw was about it the next day. The Misses Alma Zimmerman ssl Laura Johnson, of Jacksonville, were the guests of A. A. Pletcher over San. day. A numberof our young fraternity gathered in the evening whom the later lady very agreeably entertained by rendering some very fine music, both vocal and instrumental. Had lots of cheek —the fe low whose face came in contact with (he rear and {of a bumble bee. while he was fishing laa nen ol {on Monday. | Some of the long-wished.for rain has | at last arrived and now the gaunt and | hungry steer can smack his lips in The | ariticipation of a good hay crop. Jacob Lose is on the sick list at pres. {ent The latest —tafly served on ice. News is scarce this week because we sent nine of our reporters to Danville lately, and the rest are on a drunk. Well Burt, we talked to you shout | smoking, with tears in our eves, bulyou | would smoke and got—sick. { If you want anymore you can siag it yourself, JUNEHAWKER. | N.B. We have removed our busi. ness office from our old address to resus over Nihart’s blacksmith shop. Musin { entrance at rear door. Freursion Route Poul. The Pennsylvania Railroad's sunsaes excursion-route book for the season of 1801, just from the press, is undoubtedly one of the most elaborate reference oom. pendinms issued by any railroad com. pany in the world, The company this year has used new illustrations, prised on a very !igh grade of paper, whilew decided departure from the old cows heretofore binding the work is sesmdn the new one, which is beautifully illumi. nated, and would do credit to the bewh of a Rossi, so cleverly French is Rin every detail. The new map embraces territory from Canada to the Caroline, and from the British possession of New Brunswick to beyond the Great Toles Lakes, When comparison is made with this volumn of 212 pages, 100 Hatten. tons, and over 150 routes, a book whieh enters its year of manhood the first duy of June, 1801, and the tiny pamphistel 24 pages and 63 routes lsued teeny. one years ago by Ihe Pennsylvania Railroad, and considered at that times marvelous departure in railroad adver. tising, the growth is hardly credible, ———— =Mr. Christ, Smith, of this place, the young wan who so skilfully manipulsbes New Summer Weekly Times one year for $1.45.
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