BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 189. JOHN A GRIER ANSWERED Ghe Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ EDITOR { million d i i would if iron were im { Mr. John A. Gries “ww Lh TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price When Paid in Advar tint not erro When subscriptions are no sh wars $2.00 will be charged di ; iron at i 3 "wi Hditorial. {iron at our custom { he insists that this twenty u | N v — 1] Als Tepresents the A REPUBLICAN FARCE ———— | tion. ut Mr. Gr 1oes not protect 18 poss) Protection is ler blunders. A protective impor. According to the sentiments expressed | by most of our contemporaries, through. | tax « when out the state, the majority are opposed to a constitutional convention, believing | jess when it does not permit an advance that it is ill advised and would prove | of the the detrimental to the interests of the |, arly or quite equ people. imposed on the imported product. The constitutional convention idea is the creation of the republican politicians. ! The masses in l'ennsylvania saw the great evils of our present election system | by which hundreds of employees, under the control of large protected indusiiies were annually driven like cattle to the | op, computation well within the limit polls and compelled to vote the repupli- | of fant. can ticket or, as they well knew, be| pg strange that, after years of dis. discharged. In the larger cities the | cussion of the tariff question, anybody bums and thugs, illiterate foreigners | should be found so ignorant of and whiskey-soaks are bought up with | ject of protective tariffs as to Suppose campaign boodle in droves and taken to | that the measure of tax which they the nearest polling places. It was to | draw from the pockets of consumers prevent, if possible, this great and glar- | could be ascertained by the sum of rev. ing evil of modern politics, of S. Quay is the champion, that the people | the vanlta of the Federal Treasury, — demanded Ballot Reform. So strong | Record. was the appeal that the leaders of the | republican party found it would | mean political ruin not to comply with | the demand. Accordingly, at the last | world is there to be found a state of in. session an excuse for a Ballot Reform |tellectual advancement the worth- | t tion price domestic product uJ to the sum of duty By adding the Government the additional sum lev. ied by manufacturers of iron upor sumers of iron by reason of the wall built around the country he will find that Dr. Groff’s statement is a mod the ob- which M. | enue from duties which finds its w iy to i —_ —_ Our Farmers Probably in no other country in among measure was passed, requiring a con. | People who cultivate the soil, equal to | stitutional convention to make it legal. | that which exists among our American This was unnecessary as the same end | farmers. Some cases they are manifest ould have been accomplished by sub. | The tiller of European soil seldom owns ¢ « i A p 5 ] . “ ¢ mitting an amendment to the vote of | Dis land, and it requires constant vig. pitting an ; A the people; and it would not have com. | lance and unremitting toil on the part led the people to resort to the ex { of himself and his whole family to pay pa yn 4 i ut : lv “av R travagant and dangerous experiment of | rents and make both ends meet, leaves calling a constitutional convention, | D0 time to gratify any but physical ap- which they fully expected will be reject. | petites. On the other hand, our Ameri. o sy | CAN farmers are mainly gentlemen of ed by the people at the polls. They | comparative leisure, who till their knew they could defeat Ballot Reform | ' {own land and carry on agricultural in. in this manner and still attempt to ha oomply with the demands of the masses. | dustries with as lauch ease and far less The whole affair is a sham and an fm. | Worriment of mind than our city men e 0 i sas H . ! position, formulated to defeat and de. | Conduct their busicess. The farmers lude the public. pe ) : tional advantages that are to be had in The republican press and its leading | g ) wu litic are opposed to a constitu. | OUF entire country, and it is long since a I - ed pe they hesitate t | well-established fact that the ablest and 0nal conven I h . 0 | . ; proclaim their views and content them. Mout: cmv ben nes 2 be selves by pointing out to the people the | VNC Ii Our cities are sons of farm. ', { calling together a body of | ®™ Pick out of any city one hundred rt Pe . wg on most sacred | YOUN people, select an equal number of wrap of | the same age from among the sons and instrument that protects the rights of | tau Sars of ‘on TR the citizens of the Keystone State from | will Minn » Svat Sucunens, the greedy grasp of powerful monoplies | K ) 1 combines {mids better fllled with general in. an ps. | formation. The chief reason of this is Ballot Reform they intended to defeat . yA and this is the method employed. But that the iatter spend their evenings in they cannot deceive the people storing their minds with useful knowl. A din : edge, while the former waste their time WaiLe the election of county officials | in various fashionable forms of amuse. will be of little importance this year, | Ment, Where the highest intellectual there are good chances of a democratic | Mhievement is tote well up in small victory in the state. The state ticket | “VK. ~— Farmers’ Friend. will embrace candidates for State Treas. - fin ure and Auditor General. Since the | THE most jutere sting campaign of the great defalcations in Philadelphia have year will be conducted in Ohlo. Major been unearthed, by which over a million | McKinley as the exponent of the recent of the State's funds were stolen by | tariff law, wants to be elected Governor Bardsley through the carelessness of the Republican officials, it is time for the people to again awake to their interests. They arose and defeated Delamater the | it will be made on the tariff question bank defaulter of Meadville, to elect an | and both parties are eager to go before honest man instead —Robert E. Pattison, | the people. It further will be of na. Now let them associate with him officials | tional importance. If McKinley of the same stamp in the Aud. Genera) | elected by a large majorit and State Treasurer departments. The | endorsement State las suffered from the political | ringsters now in those offices; and we ! truly believe a change would work well | for the interests of the people who must pay the taxes. Political prejudice | of high tax legislation at Washington. should not prevent the people having | It will in fact be a test of the sentiments honest and clean publie officials | of the people on this national issue, The - D. F. Fortney for Delegate While the people may not vote to call a constitutional convention, yet dele. | gates will have to be electe) for one, all the same, next November. None but level headed men should be selected for the important position, en devoted to i tion. Aomori f4%0r, PUFY | ucaional campaign rom the begiaming ty, we might name D. F, Fortney as a | 40 the close, proper Nn for constitutional dele. - ate, as his record fills the bill, and we now he would be a useful man In such a body. ~ Reporter, We heartily endorse the suggestion of the Reporter. Let DF, Fortney, Esq., be the delegate from this district. He would Ail the position with credit to himself und @istinetion to th nty. jcumbent who was renominated by his y it will be an of his high tariff<high taxe~ideas; if Campbell defeats him, it will be a severe blow at the republi. can party, who are in majority in that will dwindle into insignificance with the greater Issue of tariff reform. Pub. lic speakers and prominent politicians from all parts of the country will flock | platforms but that will be discarded and . Weavy Artillery A 110ton gun is on record as having inches of fron, 20 feet of oak balks, 4 feet of brick work. A 12 6.10 inch Canet gun built for the Japanese gov ernment was tested last winter, Is hi Ix this issue we publish the rules grove. | maxmivm range was 154 miles, and it to the sum of duties collected by | the { Sons and daughters have all the educa. | against Campbell, the democratic in. | party. The fight will be a hard one as | in stateand a rebuke to the recent course | | silver question was embodied in their | nto Ohlo this fall and it will be an od. | seit a shot through 2 inches of steel, ¥ | feet of granite, 11 feet of concrete and 3 | erming the democratic party of Centre county and they relate principally to the holding of primary elections and county fired a projectile weighing 988 pounds with an energy computed to represent 5 penetration of 37} inches of wrought convention, Iron at 2,000 yards, QUAY AS A RESIGNED he become As enter the a resig Hdd] commission to stant Com- missary General of the State under Gen® | ral Irwin: he resign Agent that to nt of Aransportation a resigned ud he resigned that when elect. | ature, the one position he . oT y L 3 IL resigmaiion Secretary of to become Recorder of this leity; he resigned the Recordership to take the Chairmanship of the republican State Committee; he that to the Secretaryship of the Com. monwealth Hovt; signed that when Hoyt declared for the 1882: he State Treasurership in 1887 to the resigned accept Gov, he under Ie Independents in resigned the United States Senatorship, and he is reputed as contemplating a double resignation of the Senatorship and of the Chairmanship of the National Commit. Quay as a resigner is a » in Pennsylvania politics, but his rule has been to resign one po- sition for promotion to a higher one. It has not been his custom to resign office retirement, alogy ceases when he is discussed as a to go into and therein the igner of the Senatorship and Chair. manship. The Senatorship is the | "ue est trust in the gift of the State; the : Chairmanship is the highest party trust | ire not the sort ms that Quay flings away like a worn.ont Resigning either of these offices mean a retrograde movement down the ladder of fame, and whatever Quy may do or not do. he will not take to of the nation, and they of positic show, must politi the down grade until be can’t help it He not only will not resign just now, but he will make it lively for the fellows who demand his enforced resignation on the 4th of March, 1804. Quay is a prac. ticed resigner, but be always resigns up wards—not downwards, and that makes | all the difference possible in discussing the movements of Matthew Stanley Quay. in s i iiba—— Road te be Extended The Tyrone and Clearfield railroad. which is a brunch of the Pennsylvania road, just like the Bald Eagle Valley road, isto be extended The Philipsburg Journal “It will that back as 1884 this road was graded from Curwensville tos point nenr the head of Bell's run, but It re. mained in this condition for five vears. Pennville, LYN be recollected as far never ironed when Mr. George W. Hoover. of our | | city, succeeded in persuading the come pany to lay the mails to a point about three miles beyond Curwensville, in or. der to reach his vast tracts of fine white pine timber The company has now decided to lay two and ahalf more of trek | which will reach Pennvyille, from which point several spur lines will be built to coal mines Another important feature of interest to the traveling public is that this will | shorten the staging distances to DuBois { by about four miles." . Be a Man An exchange thus advises its delin. quent subscribers : “Bes man! Some men take a newspaper for four or five yoars without paying for it, and then ; when a bill is presented they get mad and say, “the paper Is no good anyhow. { There's nothing in It.” If you don't like a newspaper, pay up and stop it, Don't sponge on the editor for several years and then abuse him when he wants his pay. Be a man, a Rov. J. 0 Davis Leaves On Monday morning Rev. J, O, Davis, i who for the past five years was rector of the Episcopal church at this place, left { With his family for Beatrice, Nebraska, miles and prosperous congregation. Beatrice i# a town of about fifteen thousand In. habitants and bas all the modern Im. | provements fo make it a desirable | location. | Have you vy oud goods at Herr's | shoe store, HH 1Jé building, Allegheny st. army i accept ] where he nccepted a eall from a large | GREAT KEYSTONE (¢ ROS Indiestions of 22,500 000 Rushels of Whent Fruits Plenty cretary Edge, of of Agriculture, who ha ae the State Board correspondents has received 10 Lis Crops : crop wr of estimated 22. ne wheat De 00.000 bushels. | 1t has been harvested in good condition. Oats will yield an average crop, but the yield is decreased by wet The hay reasons of weather during the Spring, crop Is an average one, The early crop of potatoes did well, but in parts short and unsatisfactory ON of the state it was The crop of late tubers will prove an excellent one, | and altogether there will be about 11. 000,000 bus) gathered. No report of rot has yet n received. The peach crop will | especially th | trict, in | crop will be a be quite large, Mountain dis. The apple fair average o and | prices will be good. Pears will prove an | unusually good crop, and | coming into market {The crop of small phenomenal { unusually plentiful, | AN Average crop. | n the Sou Hata eounty, ne. are already in fair condition. fruits | will be blackberries one, Grapes will yield .——— { The Credit System, Credit is simply a loan without in. | terest or security. No expects to | get money, even from his best friends, | without giving good security and pay. | ing interest until it returned. But { everybody asks the merchant and trades | man, who have turned their money into { goods, to let them have the goods and | wares on their bare word that they wily { pay for them in time. None expect to | return the goods or pay interest. and so one in | many do not pay at all that the financial ntry eight merchants out of ten die bankrupt. Do | Fou see the “reason why” the eredit is a | record of this em show that yrhi tn be abolished? -—c——— Nittany Valley Posches The pea bh crop h Valley this oe YEARS Ehinciine, uid on the farms sit. late within Ny tans the distance of two miles between Shaffer's gap and ills gap | AT os Is intied a Lie tite L060) bushels, vant Woaihiam Hayes has a peach 21) se kevville borer in which there Ire] trees ist coming | ec estimnmates his er Pat il ntire crop is sold to first -L.. . ” Patlipabairg, and the ade Lo Sf pent will Is H. Express, morrow, - That Beech Creek branch rod to Bellefonte my be built some day: as yet there are no signs of it mater ializing. On Tuesday night of last week the house of Irvin G. Lucas, one mile from Snow Shoe, was totally destroyed by fire. It probably caught from the flue. The | furniture was also stroved Mr. An nee on his house {| Lucas had ners | and 8100 on the | urniture, ~Money can be carned in spare time by good square men or women as local agents for the warranted fruits, flowers and trees of J. E. Witney, Rochester, IN. Y. Yearly salary is paid for steady | work and a permanent, honorable busi. | ness is quickly built up. ] : ] ] | ~From the number of people who attended the boro water appeal on last Friday evening there is much dissatis. faction over the new method of assess. ing the water tax. It is an easy thing to kick, but much harder to have your taxes reduced, ~~Miss Rose Fox and Miss Stella Ar. mour, two of Bellefonte's accomplished young ladies, have joined a camping party of Tyrone, that is spending a week in the woods at Ardenheim, ~Chas. Nau, the professional planist and restauranter, Tyrone, Pa.. Is now the manager of a colored ball team at that place which he is willing to mateh against any team in the country, either for stake money or gate receipts, ~To<lay Tharsday the M. E. Sunday school of Bellefonte are holding a plenie | In Seller's Grove along the Buffalo Ran | railroad, about five miles above town. [A large number went up, the fare for round trip being only 15 cents. ~Last week Mr. Ed. Wasson found a turtie on tw Andrew Hunter home. stead that bore the inscription on its back “A. HL 1811." The eritter must be an old ene, and it lived in the same locality all hese past fifty years. The Stats of Pennsylvania has Just completed he payment of the members of the National Guard for their services during the riots in the coke reglose, The total anount foots up the snug sum of #35,000.31 { A. R Encampment at Detroit The selection of ir. A. R. campment for 1801 fell to the fortunate lot of Detroit. The encampment er will commence August 4th minate August sth. 1 Railroad w rate of « | sell excursion first Pp going and eomi ne class { the round ti { same route. Excursion tickets also | be gold at one and a half cents i | short line distance, going | and returning by another, a ol | sage to 15th, inclusive. | depositing them with Joint Agent of | Terminal Lines at Detroit, but will not. | { turn passage later than September 30, | - —-— ! | {| Warren 8, Krise has ret Spring Mills, urned from a | weeks visit to relatives Johnstown. | During his visit there he was elected | '° East { Of | assistant principal of the : | emaugh schools. our station one dav last distributed among our citizens. The members of ¢ ongregation held a Saturday evening, but well wing there were several other fest 2 Evangelical estival on not 3 : f last L was to very attended the ivals on the same evening in the neighborhood. W. B. Rankin and family spent a few days at the Cave hotel, J. F. with a bran new “‘safety”’ bicycle. Millie Duick will the Matilda school next winter. Mrs. John P. Condo is very being threatened with brain fever. Mrs. David Barree, who has been ailing for several days, is able to be up again. The Union Sunday school will indulge in the luxury of & pic-nic next Saturday. ——— Heelan Items teach Jas. and Wm. Stover, College, were the guests of their sister Mrs. James Tyson. Dr. H. H. Rothrock, a former resi. dent of thi place, but now of Lock Haven, is circulating among friends here, Our farmers are through garnering extra yield this year, Mr. and Mrs. David Downs, of Beech Creek, were visiting Mrs. Downs’ par. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Yarnell. Hecla is booming things along pre. paratory to their festival, which is to be held Aug. 1st. From the amount of work, preparations, ete. , excel anything ever held here. Graham & Co. are just about finishing up sawing the timber and shingles on their timber tract bere. Whither they will move their mill I am unable to say. near Centre Line, June 28th, aged 79 years, § months and 4 days, - - A Constable Outwitted A Sharon constable was outwitted one day recently. He detected two men fishing in Shenango, near Clarksville on Sunday, and was about to arrest them. says the Greenville Progress, but they promised to appear before the squire on Monday mornig at 8 o'clock, and he let them go. About 3 o'clock Monday morning the two men appeared before against the other for fishing on Sunday. The fine is #25, and one-half goes to the informer. Both of these men were fined, and each got onehalf of his com. (rade’s fine. At § o'clock all parties ap. | peared before the squire informed him that he had just fined the men for the offense and, therefore, could not fine them again, me p— Collar Bone Nroken An unfortunate accident happened Archy C. Hutchinson, of Warriorsmark, on Saturday afternoon. With some members of his family he had been in attendance at Farmers’ Grange plenie and after departing for home in his carriage his team in some way became frightened and unmanageable. The pole broke and following it the double tree. In holding to he lines Mr. Hutchinson was thrown forward to the ground. He was picked up and Dr. Crawford called, who pronounced one of the collar bones broken. a. They Succeeded Kentiunky. One minded his ows busl. En- | | er mile, | qo by one route (] These tick- | | ets will be sold from July dlst to August | 1, inclusive, and valid for return pas. | The return lim. | {it on the tickets may be extended by | in however, be good for any portion of re. | C1 Ten fresh air children were landed at | week, and fact that | ‘earick has equipped himself | Port | cast of near State | their wheat and rye crop, which is an | they intend to | Mr. Godfrey Baisor died at his home | the squire and each made complaint | erty of George money is pad or arranged for in full. | Bhorif's Offiee, 3 Avraham Lincoln used to tell a story about two men who made a fortuce In | rattles and a button, you touch the but. nese «od the other let other People’s | ton and the snake does the rest. SHERIF] AL} By virtue of Venditie ndry wr Faclas f ¥ { GE On he Court of Comin Yar Prop- | and ter. | | he Pennsylvania ad mit ur: volwegt i] rected ise and cution orvigan or da Ke road, on the east or th b 1ze4 Lak the property « en in ¢ {1 id John ( rf] Al nd siluate i township in unaeq aod de hoeast by publie south-east by A of James havi wrty i Os | ser { han Ong, on the he soulh-west mn the north-west by ie road, « ark and « “re ny { land iste as fol y lads of f Atxses oR n Decker and on the : containing ereeted 1 acres M story h nort} by tof Mrs on the east by a street tof Mrs John Cole and « & went a i containing in front 60 feet aot DE back 150 feet, thereon erected x 1 | tory frame dw ng house ar the Meized taken in ’ 1 4h he so I situate in the 1 deseribed us nostreet, on the on the north by an of { ® of Frank Knarr un the west by lot i erecied a8 house bulldings ALBO, All that certain Fenn townshis con bounded and described as { ginning at a stone, thenes a C. Duncan south 53° west stone, thence satne s wath 2 tostone, thence alos £ lan north 84 Cast 15 810 perehs thence along same n wih 6 Elk creek, thence in said creed 116K perches to the place taining 3 acres neat measure a two story dwelling house, burs and of | bulldings tract of piece Centre ALSO, All that certain lot or piece of round situate in Penn township, Centre cou ity, Penasylive bia, bounded and deseribed as follows. to wit Bounded on east by land of WW. M. Smith and Millhelm Turnpike rosd, the west and south | by land of John Reighart #1. a) snd Pik ereek containing 1 SCTE More of less, thereon ¢ reeled | a two story dwelling house. 1 vies, slangh | ter house and other outbuild ALSO { 3 Interest in and to acres a | land situate in the hor bof Milibeim, bound {ed and described as follows On the east bs | land of William Henney estate. on the north by | land of Jacob Gephart, on the west by land of C.F. Deininger and Millheim « cmelery, on the south by Turnpike road ALBO nierest in and to § acres the borough of as follows, to wit {Campbell d 144 perehes of of land situate in i1heim, bounded and de seribed On the east by ad of E © on the north by land of William Henney estate, on the west and south by Jobw H. Harshberger ALSO 17 acres of timber land situate In Penn tows ship. Centre county, Peansylvania, bounded {lands of KE. C. Campbell, John Kern, ot Seized taken in execution and to be sold as the property of Michae! Ulrich ALSO, All that messuage, tenement and tract of land situate on Bullets Run. in the township of Howard, Centre county, Peonsylvania, bound od and described as follows, to wit Beginning | 81 post thence by other land of the sa 1 John | Hughes north 68% east 41 perches to post, thenee north I west 33 perches to a maple, theurs | Dorth 157 west 14 perches to a stamp. thenee | north 44° east % perches, south 44° east 12 h north 0° east 7% perches to stones . | thence by land of Isaac Packer and . | heirs, north M4" west i ferches oa ? thence by land of Phillp Barnhart south eo stones by a chestnut oar, west M5 perches to | thence by land of F. Leathers and others soath | 4° east 186 perches to the piace of beginning, | containing 100 acres and 147 perehes and allow | ance of 6 per cent, ete, thereon erected ? twe | ory dwelling houses, bank barn and other outbuilings. Seized taken in exe culion and te | be wold as the property of George I Johnston, and George D. Johnston exsontor of ele. of Henry Dopp, deed ALBD | All that certain tract or plece of land *iluate { In Union township, Centre county Pennsylva | bla, bounded and described as follows. to wit | Beginning at a hickory, thenes north G00" eam | 2200 perohes to stone, thence woth 18 past 106 perehes to stones, thence north 76° west | perches to stones, thenoe south 5 wedi DB | perches to stones, thenoe north 27 5.30 perehes 0 stones, theaoe north 4° east 51 8.10 rerehon | to stones, thence north T° east ¢8 perehes to i the place of beginning, containing 8 | Wiekory {eres and 5 perches neat. thereon » a | new house, stable and ofher out bal h | Beired, taken in sxecution and to be sold as | Property of Joseph Gates i ALRO, i AN that eertaln tract or piece of land situate { In Union township, Centre county, Pennayive nia, bounded and described as follows, to wit land of Mrs. Woods, on the {| west by land of I. Henderson, on the sast | tand of K. WW. Richards and on the north lands of Mrs. Hichurds and others, contain { J acres more or less, thereon sreeted a house, stable and other outhulidings etre, | taken in execution and te be sold as the prop erty of Milligan Richards | ALSO : {On the south b [AJ that eertaiy bot or plece of round sitaste in Central City, Boges lownchip, bounded | desoribed as follows, to wit buildings. on in xecution And to be sold as the prep er No deed will be acknowledged until purchase July 3, ten We A teakan - row the Botton When you see & rattlesnake with ten busines! alone. Both of them got tick, | . lived, Jorgr and died Lappy, A —— The Centre Demociat and the hilad —- Weekly Times one year for 81.45, | ~The county Superintendent will hold examination for grantivg professional oer acates, in the new school houss, Relifonte, Aug. 2th, i
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