‘rat. Vol. 14 BELLEFONTE, PA., THU RSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1892. _— a ——— NO. 49 Ohe ¢ CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price . . . $1.50 per year, When Paid in Advance $1.00 “" When subscriptions are not pald Inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Editorial. give the full text of President Harri son’s message to congress, last week. - BELLEFONTE people are anticipating a business boom this coming spring. There is promise of some of our idle in. dustries starting up again. - ship. Feb. 1st, "94. nse — CLEVELAND will not make any more | ag | Col. McClure of the Philadelphia T¥mes speeches until March 4, "03, when he will be inaugurated. eth little, e Tue will of the late Jay Gould was offered for probate Monday afternoon. | The executors say in their petition that the property in this state consists of £2.000.000 in realty and $70,000,000 in personalty. - Tne annual session of the in the hall of the house of tives on Wednesday. of York, master. representa- Senator is candidate for a worthy IT is time that city, boro and town. ship officials be looking ahead for the annual spring election. Changes in the manner of nominating candidates, ete., | should be carefully studied as to avoid mistakes, 80 GOVERNOR ssell, of at | did not s election. He te. There are plenty their boodle got vernor of Massachusetts 14 setts, says tl on his re and INASCE cording ng General Greenland, fo tenance and transportatic will foot up Wan already been drawn for 8375 bill of the pany u 2450 000, Pennsylvania ra aggregates 252 000 - By the changing of the state boundary Dela they into 1 line between and that Pennsylvania families find moved from Delaware Pennsylvania. All their properties are recorded in Delaware and thers is much the of the boundry commission and many in- teresting complications are expected to arise, ware several have been excited discussion over report - Tue republicans are making desper ate efforts to gain control of some of the western states in order to have re- publicans sent to the U. S. Senate to retain coutrol of that branch of ernment. Should they be successful in this they could block all attempts of reform in tariff, pensious and other leg - islation, which the democratic party pledged itself to enact. They will not likely succeed, yet there is danger of such a course, BOV- - Tre move on foot to chose presidents by the popular vote is again being agi- tated in Congress and by the papers, For a number of years, always after a presidential election, this form of agita- tion arose and then subsided. But each election the fact that the present elec. torul system is bad, is more strongly im- pressed upon the attention of thought. ful men. Of late years the evils due to this system have become more apparent than ever. We doubt if the congress will attempt to inaugurate such a radical change: it would be use. less as the republican senate and pres ident would not be in sympathy such a mode. The opportunity of buy- ing enough votes in a pivutal state that would insure the election of a president by its electoral vote would be gone. Campaigning in a few states also would be gone. Every voter in the country would be of equal importance, no mat. ter whether he resided in doubtful Indiania, democratic Texas or the re publican strongholds of Pennsylvania. That would be frir, equitable and In barmony with our American institu- tions. The electoral system has out- lived its usefulness and it remains for the democracy, under thenext adminis tration, to inaugurate this much needed reform, present with entre Zlemocyai, | | Bills Changing the Term to Six Years and | President id £ this i | commitlee, yf } A page 8 188ue we | ON an Inside page o 1s 18814 | measure will soon be held. { term of Congressman shall, after Much talk avail- | | Springer 's resolution. drown, | | of votes cast for ea | event { fail THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT, — i | | Providing for a Popular Vote, The House Committee on the Election | of President and Vice-President held a meeting last week and considered sey- | eral measures regarding the election of Vice-President, Mr. | Beltzhoover's resolution providing that the term of the President shall for | six years, and that he shall be ineligible | for reelection, sub- | A meeting to consider this | and be wns referred to a Representative Spr inger appeared be. TR fore the committee and advocated his | resolution providing that the shall vote directly for President and | Vice-President, and that the Governor, people Secretary of State, and the Chief Jus- |, tice of the highest appellate court in the | 1 v . | State are to constitute a Board IT is said that there are fourteen ap- | t ' : plicants for the Bellefonte postmaster. | Mr. Fiedler's commission expires | | the vote cast to vass the vote, dividing the votes among can- the several candidates in proportion to for each; also that 1896, | be for three years and begin on Jan. 1. | also appeared and advocated Mr, The resolution most favored by the | t is one introduced by Mr. De tiee | 1 Armond, of Missouri, the m of a num. outcome of tl It Presi. | comimi which was ie considera this character. the ber of measures of provides for the election of | dent and Vice President directly by the | people ; that the States shall have the tes | Stale | same number of Grange Patrons of Husbandry convened | at | elect electoral votes as and the distributed present provided by be the persons voted for in the and Vice. J gal } law, among State at President oral votes shall » large as President respectively in pron vided th if two | have the «ame num! the one having the popular votes shall be | President, as the « the adres two election accordis from House the variou of Represe & who wn to that office If t would : : be eligible to « this amendment were in force | not operate against Mr. Cleveland serv. ne x: dent when el 2 second term. as he was not Presi. Hayes Inaugurated Twice tutherford B. Hayes March falls President. elect Ex-President says that when the 4th of on Sunday the the His case was the said, should be inaugurated an instance in “1 was at White House ¥."” he “with President Grant, Chief Waite and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. talk at that tine of | Mr. Tilden being inaugurated at New York, and as March 4 fell on Sunday and the inauguration ceremonies were point, on Sunda Justice There was fixed for Monday, it was thought that a question might be raised as to the legal ity of the inauguration on that day. So Chief Justice Waite administered the oath of office to me at the White House on Sunday.” A A Nest Trick For the benefit of our merchants who do not advertise, give them the following pointer from a Clearfield ex. change: A entered of the grocery stores in the town and ordered we man one a good outfit of provisions, one of the items being a goodly supply of tobacco, The fellow working in the stone quarries, the store represented that he was having some trade with the quarrymen, The goods left he had some the story was not doubted, Jefore the man casually remarked that he other business to attend to and would come for the goods in an hour 80, but as he wanted some tobaceo he would take that package, several pounds along He took it and himself out of sight but pot out of mind of the storekeeper, The balance of the goods were returned to the shelves, It was a neat trick well played, were put up. or - - The Bridge Case Appoaled, The attorneys for the Lock Haven Bridge Company have taken an appeal to the Supreme Court from the verdict | reddered at trial of the case in the | Union county court. The case will be argued before the Supreme Court on! ' March 18th, the |, § HE Te "1 terior AMAZING FIGURES, The following shows, at a glance, how pensions have been increased in the last twenty-seven years. Up to the end of the current fiscal year the sum paid out will aggregate over 21,500,000,000 ! Fiscal year ended June 3 Number Pensioners , WA. 086 126,722 163,183 100,643 187.93 Yearly Payments, $ 16,438 811 15,605,358 2,006,052 23,TH2, 087 8476, LY 1 1867. A540, 502 W440 805 bo SCRE 2.00 421 (KB ALS 19% 685 F137,001 0,121 482 0.777.174 50.0% 280 61,545,194 60,012,574 9,100,957 53, 400, 804 bi J. 102 557 944 i 140) HOG, S08, N55 124,415,961 ——————— 139,085,613 For the fiscal year ending June 30, Xs | 1863, an approptiation has been made of £144.056 000, Commissioner Raum es- timates that there will be a deficiency | | of 810.508 621. For the next fiscal year he estimates an expenditure of $165,000, NN, The actual expenditure will | | ably not be less than 8200 000,600, .— Organ Recital months extensive repairs n in the interior of the i Presbyterian urch at this Among the improvements will be g | iandsome pig wi tir 5.00 at | handsome pipe organ costing 85,000 that will be a fine musical instrument as well. We cannot give a full list of everything being done, only say that the entire in- be and frescoed. the Luilding would Chri refurnished remodeled, i that will It was announced be co npleted by stmas time when a grand cital would be given at tl and sucl have be customary with all buildin ] unavoidable delays arise building will not fore the 10U} : Ke, and the opened b The organ recital for y will be a rare musical tre number of celebritie and other cities will be the musical treat ther particulars and v ) ’ given later --— Stray Antunes Inquiry is frequent] law regarding stray ar to If you take up a stray ani made as imal ' in relation the matter directs about as follows mal you must, within ten days, give notice of it to your township clerk, who must make an entry of the same; then you advertise the animal in your local paper; and sixty days after such adver. tisement has appeared you apply toa justice of the peace to sell the animal; warrant to the constable, notice by posters he issues a who gives ten days’ and you get it ing to tl and then sells it, or your he animal , and besides EXPenses, aw cond se stray 85 penalty for taking and not giving notice is this place and take it anything. up = the owner can come upon your away without saving .—-—— A Rich One Miss Helen Gould's inheritance makes the richest young and unmsrried woman in Amerien. The fortune of Miss Gu daughter of the late president Baltimore and Ohio rallroad, is larger than Miss Gould's, but a part of Miss Garrett's fortune has been made by her own business sagacity, Miss Gould is abundantly competent to take care of her interests, of her father's business quality, although in disposition she suggests her mother. She richer than any of the daughters of William H. Vanderbilt, and very richer than any of the Astor girls, her, probably with one exception, yd t rett, of the 3 for she inherits some IS how much Filling the Whee! For the past two weeks jury commis sloners Bower and Alley have heen at work filling the jury wheel with new names for the ensuing year. As many new names are put in us were drawn forjurors during the past year, so that when a name is put in the jury wheel it will remain there until itis drawn. The commissioners say there are a num. ber of names in the wheel that were put there five years ago, and by pure chance | failed to be drawn in that time, To Ali the wheel with men of good, sound judgment, honor and integrity and to select them from each township according to the pro rata vote, is not an easy task If it is to be well done. a — —— Lag’ s MEDICINE Moves rae Bowers Baca Day. inorder to be healthy this Is necessary. ———— rob. | place. | a to the | WASHINGTON LETTER, Senator Vorhees, whose political wis. dom teeth were cut some years ago, publicans really wish to see the demo- crats control the Senate of the Fifty third Congress, as absurd. Said he: “The idea that the republicans will stand back or give in an inch is as ridiculous as the story that the demo. crats are afraid to meet the issue and organize the Senate, and the last is an insult to the intelligence of every demo- erat. We will assume all responsibility | and we are ready to begin to-morrow if need be, The dernocratic party can be depended upon todo two things—re- move the unjust burdens of taxation from the necessaries of life and provide | the necessary revenue for the govern- | ment, | talk of our mistakes. We may have | made mistakes, but theirs have been | crimes.” {| 11s now certain that when Senator { Hale made that public statement about his and other republicans wishing to {see the democrats control the Senate his intention was to throw the demo- | crats off their guard in order that a { deep laid republican scheme might be i carried out to defeat the will of the | people by purchasing votes enough in | certain state legislatures trol of the Senate and enable | tected millions the pro. aires to continue to pocket | their exorbitant profits. The schemers, | among whom are such experts as Clark- fanle Estee, met Wash. ington and their meetings were attend- ed by millionaires | who, it | R® i . 1 : son ¥ ana in s supposed, are the purse hold. ersfor the ring which wants to buy | some more protection. Little things | committee on | work of preparing ti | propriation bill has discon eight hour law passed at the | the The House its count up. Appropriations in | L 4) will increase expenditure government about 15 per cent Detnocrat printers who in the big Government print. SLICK type ing office in the near future, whether Mr. Harrison extends the civil service rules tot be interes blishment or not, wil; sentative Scotl's employment of ap Mr. Scott says uld be employed by Lhe gon el that { aX a wive who wish { learn bree po iLilers atud pressmen shi establ and ishments rans It has been decided House pur. caucu | ¢ den and Senate ina few dave pose of pping out just what business, exciusive of a} ation bills, shall be taken up at this session, A poll of the House and Senate shows a majority in favor of the restriction of immigration in at this ses. yet to be reached upon the best method of doing tH [8] SOIC Way sion, but an agreement has it, although the one year's suspension appears to be the f Senator avorite method the of the present sil. Teller says silver men will oppose Lhe repeal i | Yog* Ver law ou I Asus in prox re ! Representative Catchings, of Missis. sippl, who n Pi Inst wnaged Speaker Crisp's confident that Mr. Crisp will be Speaker of the next House. He “Of course there will be an opposing candidate or candi- dates: the Speakership of the House is too great an honor for any man to ex. pect to get without opposition, but the in my oppinion, the remotest chance of becoming strong enough to defeat Mr, Crisp, .—— campaign is MAYS opposition has not, Important to Sapervisors Judge Woodward, of the Luzerne courts, recently gave an important de. cision relating to a of common abuse road supervisors supurvisor conld not minor children or for owned by themselves, work of teams The decision is in complete harmony with both the letter and spirit of our laws which forbid public officials from contracting with themselves and profit. | ” | | ful man as was “Paul the Apostie™ for ing by their own delegated authority, and there is little reason to doubt that every judge in the state would affirm Judge Woodward's decision, if such an issue came into their courts, . Fees Reduced Postal The United States Postoflice Depart- ment hag issued an order reducing the fee for registering mail matter from ten to eight cents per ounce or fraction | thereof. The change is directed to take Peffect January 1, 1883, And yet, not. withstanding this new order, the system | | of money order and postal notes is the quickest as well as cheapest for small sums, 2 1 : | rightly chacterizes the idea that the re- | The republicans are prone to | to retain con- | Alger and Pullman, | sundry civil ap- | itute that is better | He decided that a | be paid for work | done on the roads by the supervisor's | IMPERFECTIONS IN THE BIBLE It may serve to mitigate the intensity of feeling over Professor Briggs’ trial in New York city and that of Professor Smith at Cincinnati if the excellent poople who fear lest modern scholar- ship is undermining faith in the infal. libility of the Bible will bear in mind these few solient facts: The doctrine that the Bible is the word of God and a perfect rule of relig- faith and practice does not necessarily include any claim that the book which is known by that rpame contains mixture of human error. This will be easily seen by a few instances. In | the first place, the only Bible that most { church members ever read or could read is a translation from the original Hebrew and Greek languages, in which the several portions were first written. | There are two sorts of translations in common use among Protestants, known | as the old and | differ from each new versions, They other in thousands of | tal importance, to be sure, but the least | of them sufficient to prove that both In the second place, each of those versions was based upon what biblical scholars call a “text,” i. e., 8 Greek parison of thousands upon thousands of “various readings’’ found in the dreds of ancient manuscripts and frag- ments of manuscripts of various por- tions of the original Seriptures that have been preserved and handed down No man living knows, no of any theological | schools pretend to know, to a certainty just what the Greek New Testament and Hebrew Oid Testament hun. to our time. reputable scholar original terrors in the “texts” as well as translations no | and Hebrew Bible made up by com- | Lyon & Co. — In Earnest. { Men's Wi 1 2 wortn ong and good, half give Wie loys’ Clothing | big STO k of ur line of suits, doub rood goods—1 nd to © » were. There are unquestionably human | the | Inthe third place, theoriginal Hebrew | { had no sonant skeletons of the while “vowel points,” only words original Greek had neither marks nor discrimination between cap tals and small Je toy ETS many 44 s \ instances the precise meanin ho ! ure passages depends on these things, that have been sup time to time according to fallible } judgment It would be easy to extend but the above will amply sufli that in teaching that there are eles nm to be | he men now of human imperfectic oad the Bible, t heresy are not advancing : . being tried { any and terrible doctrine, or doing a i le of neces that is in the slightest « | sity, destructive to faith in Holy Script- { ure as a sufficient rule of religious fait! igi and practice jing the therto 1 | biblical learning to certain hitl well recognized methods yo glected departments of the sul calling attention to tend to show that the man imperfection, long and nniversally acknowledged to exist feat- evidences which elements in certain ject, and | con. | the | punctaoation | of Seript- | They are merely employ- | of | Order De- Send for samples of new an immense re A A Mall we have of hu-| ures of the Bible, are presented also in certain other features, — Press. - —_—- A Trem Mr. Henry M. Hickley, of Danville, | Pa., will lecture in the court house | Look at our line of low priced goods. want cheap for a man's suit at $3.50 winter coat for $1.50 and £1.35. Say you something common wear, Monday evening, Dec, 19th, under the | | auspices of the Young Men's Christian | Association, subject of lecture, ‘Saul | Paul, or The Manliness of Christianity.” He is the author of this lecture and is a man of broad intellect and deep thought, his oratory is sublime and his flights of : eloquence carry his audience by storm | and never fails to hold them intensely interested during his discourses. Mr, Hickley spoke here some weeks ago for the Young Men's Christian Association and those who heard him will, no doubt, be glad of another opportunity to hear him, and those who missed his talk on the former occasion will no doubt | glad of this chance to hear him be The | the most flattering press { never fails to benefit those who hear it. { It is a masterly effort on the exposition | | of christian character and especially as it is found in “Saul of Tarsus" convertion made him such a wonder { Jesus Christ. Those who come will | not only be well repaid by the lecture [ but will also help on the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, in Bellefonte, which is seeking to broad en its facility for the comfort and welfare of our young men. There are many things needed to do this—money is one thing. Will you help us and better yourself by hearing Mur. Hickley at the court house, Monday evening, Dec, 10th? Admission 25 cents, X BE ————— «The Cex: DEMOCRAT and the Philad, Weekly Times, one year, for | $1.4. lecture is one which always brings forth | notices and | whose | We have s Ye fond mothers come its for little, wee toddlers and sec out bottle braids, $0, 3.00, 4 00, All sizes, 3 years up. Jersey suits in navy blue, green, brown, trimmed in and embroidered..z 5.00 and $6. Ladies, no matter how hard you may be to please in a coat, come and We are sure to please There is not a style and price we do not have, trimmed $s, s 12 and $15.00. Plain of any sort and from $3 up. Bound in wide braid at all prices, see our stock you 5.50, 0, 7, 8, 10, Misses hoods in light colors, trimm- ed in light furs—fur loops, ete, Lit- tle girls refers and long coats from $1.50 Chenile table covers from 1,25 to $s. Table scarfs by A beautiful line, the hundreds. & Co. Lyon
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