THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY, MAY 20 1897. 3 10 DA THE DELAWARE Governor Griggs Signs a Bill to That Effect. JERSEY'S NEW MARRIAGE LAWS, Runaway Couples From Nearby States Will Find It Necessary to Secure a Minors Must Marriage License — Have Parental Consent, Trenton, May 19. yesterday signed the license bill passed by lature. The new law provides that in cases where both the contracting par- ties are non-residents of the state they must, in order to get married in New Jersey, procure a license from the clerk of the county in which the ceremony is to take place, for which a fee of 60 cents must be paid. It must be estab. lished that there are no legal impedi- ments to the marriage, and in case of minors the consent of parents or guar- dians must be obtained. No license is required where one or both of the con- tracting parties reside in the state bill goes inte effect July 1. In all Governor Griggs approved 13 and disapproved 85 of the bills passed by the recent legislature. This prac- tically finishes up the g work passing on the legis as he has now less ’ : ozen Governor Griggs Lloyd marriage the recent legis- The wernor s lature's work, thorize river at the Trent WAYS, half authorize vate contract the ox of railway kow., Under this gians must pros per cent 3 year mstructi fy guarantes« not to be gis x~Convict's Sault for Wages. tion by confined five years he was forced to days. He files a sul $1 a day for this tin was compelled on pain of to do the work. The case will n the convict camps to be gated to ascertain if the ing violated by Sunday aims that time $181, charging He declares he f punishment y doubt use laws are be. work Opposing Duty on Barley and Lumber Oswego, N. Y., May 19 Ing was held last night to protest against the proposed duty on barley and lumber. Ex-Mayor Richarigo., the largest real estate owner in the city, presided, and spoke against the proposed duty, claiming It would com- pletely destroy Oswego's lumber and barley commerce, Including the closing of seven m houses and the possible closing of the Standard Oil and Dia- mond Match companies works, Sev. eral others spoke in a similar vein, and strong resolutions were adopted Dentes the Consuls Statemonts, Havana, May 10.-La Lucha editor lally Impeaches the accuracy of the consular reports as to the distress of Americans in Cuba, upon which Presi dent McKinley's special message to congress’ was based, and questions whether there are actually 600 hungry Americans in the island. The paper adds: “But now that congress has voted the $50,000 there will soon be 6,000 alleged starving Americans anxious to figure in the consular disbursements. MeKinloy's Coban Message. Washington, May 18. President Mo- piinley yesterday sent a message to congress urging an appropriation of $60,000 to aid distressed Americans “in Cuba. The message was entirely poace- ful. In response the senate quickly passed a $50,000 appropriation bill, but the house refused to indorse the action, the Democrats endeavoring to include Senator Morgan's recognition resolu- tion In the proceedings. As a result the bill went over. vests | A mass meet. | A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thursday, May 13, The court has settled the mayoralty fight In Omaha, Neb, and have given the chalr to Mayor Moores. President McKinley will not accept any Decoration Day Invitations, will remain at Washington. A negro leper who escaped from North Brother Island nearly two weeks ago Is still at liberty, and is hidden in New York. It Is sald that an American volunteer leglon of 25,000 men has been recruited in various parts of the country to help | the Cuban Insurgents. Friday, May 14, A balloon, minus a basket or car, fell Into the ocean about seven miles south west of Sandy Hook. Julio Sangullly landed in Cuba on May 3, and Roloff is sald to have met him with 1,000 men at San Juan de Las Playas. Advices from Honolulu say that the arrival there of the long expected Jap- anese crulser Niniwa caused no usual excitement The supreme court of Missourl is In a deadlock partnership Involving over $1,000,000, and a special is asked for to settle the point. saturday, May 15. Official reports show a large decrease In Immigration for the past year, un- over a estate Judge Richard Coke, ex-United States sena- from Texas, died at Waco, Tex d up a train In hed Cessation of Hostilitles In Gives Buovanos Europe to Wall Street. New York Mas Thi f Porro teed General Markets phin, May 1s “Io au wir fie eV ; i # £3. 1564 Mail Vents winter MIELE ity i flour dull per barrel Wheat dull eat, May, S30%3%e.; No rand red No. 1 northern spring, spot, & Ni No. 2 red, May, 784 do. June TH oO September " July, 8% 2%. do, December, $c. Corn quiet and corn, Spot, WEY extra, 8.2 ‘ Rye _ Cot wi Pent i spot No. 2 Delaware do stead steamer 4 & No, 2 yellow for loeal trade, 31% No pe LE Thal) Ma 1 dull + White oe. A May, 7 ‘ do July, HUG Has grades choice timot dull; beef hams, 5 family $10.506 11 steamed, $4.10 creamery, 11414 Flgins, 14. Imitath New York dairy, 10614 11% 14 fancy prints Jobbing at 17892 do. extra, Pennsylvania, wholesale, 1% Cheese quiet; large, $Go%e small, 10% ¢ part skims, $467%¢ fall skims bd Eggs stoady New York and Pennsylvania, 11 western, fresh, 100,40 J« southern, MMe, mixed plat | FA spot, 2 carlot June nd firm for de $1441 14. Beef Pork stead westory woestery £1 10 Oats sirable wotory, TU \ Creamery, 9 ao creamery a bi Je Live Stovk Markets, New York, May .-Buropean quote American steers at 114612. weights, sheep at 12613%e.; refrigerator beef at #i¥ee. Calves quiet and steldy veals, MOLI. SBheop quiet yearlings stendy; lambs lower; sheep, 8364.00; yonr. linge, $66.25. lambs, $887.10, Hogs steady at HG4.2, Bast Liberty, Pa, May 18-Cattle strong; prime, 1000.05; fair, $3.0004.10; bulls, stags and cows, G75; common to good fat oxen, 12G4.10. Hogs fairly aotive; prime medium, G38; best York ors, $1.7503.80; heavy hogs, §3.9063.80; com mon to falr Yorkers, $.70§3.75; pigs, $3.75 e800; roughs, $2.5002.25. Sheep steady; choles, BLIGE, good, GL); choles lnm! £546.15; common to good lam HONS; vou! calves, Fas. , cables but dressed | | TERRIBLE WEAPONS. A PAIR OF THEM WHICH A TRAVEL- ER PICKED UP IN PARIS. The Venom Box Which Contains the Most Powerful The Needle That Does Its Deadly Work In a Sllent Polson Known and FPerplexing Manner, em wo of the most beautiful and at the same time murderous objects I have ever seen in all my travels I picked up in Paris during my trip there last sum- { mer,” said J. V. AtkMNson of Savannah to a friend. “I bought both of them from an old gunsmith in the Quartier Latin, and he | assured me they were, without doubt, | the only ones in existence, as far as his | knowledge of death dealing instruments went, and he also told me that he had | purchased them of an old Spaniard who had spent most of his life in the South | American countries. “I am sure he must have bad them made to his especial order, for, as I have already stated, during all my travels I have never seen apything that would in any way approach them for villainous, murderous purposes, “The first, as you see, Jooks innocent enough, and when I ask you what you think it is you will reply’’— “A silver matchbox, '’ answered the report } igerly handled the beau tifully ch i silver object, At flew opon on a powerfully r touch the 1 disclose . bat Enix the will die the first, fatal “Yon can readi weapon it would bx unscrupulous villain and the deed the victim would simply imagine that be had been scraped by a pin. Yet in a close fight with some of the despicable footpads and murderous thugs who are infesting your fair city I do not think 1 would have any scruples about using it on one of them myself “It would be difficu class physician to dis sight "Its companion piece, devilish in. genuity, is a neadle gun, Peculiar look ing thing, is it not?" asked Mr. Atkin #0n as he passed a richly engraved and filver mounted object that looked like a cross between a miniature double bar. relod shotgun and a revolver to his friend, who bandled it with extreme caution, “That little gun is about five inches over all, and yet it contains within those chambers, in the boxlike part be. tween those fine watch spring steel bar- rels and the pistol grip, enough of flend. ish mischief to lay out a dozen strong men, “The charge is a strong but powerful | cartridge made of a highly explosive | chemical which, by the peculiar con. struction of the chambers, makes so lit tle noise that it could not be heard by a | person ten feet away. The instrument | of destruction is a bunch of fine cambrio | needles thut have had their heads slight. ly flattened to offer resistance and ecatoh the propelling force, and their points | have lain in the very same sort of ven. | om of which I spoke until they are thor. oughly corroded with it. | "As they leave the gun they scatter | and peneteate to the most vital spots, where their terrible work is quickly done. Nothing short of a post mortem would be done, whiie It even for on first over at the first Just how the man met his death would betray the cause of death. ''—St, | Louis Republic. An Experiment, early?’ ““Apothecary’s. Wifo got sick last night." “Doctor been there yet?’ “No. 1 jost found a presoription in the streot when I was in town, and I'm going to have that made up and try it." ~Fliegendo Blatter. Pliny says that the almond blossom was regarded by the young people of his age as an emblem of hope. | SHYNESS 1S SERIOUS. | from action that would bring npon her | Just criticism, examination of the most rigid kind | | fort. —New York Journal. "Where are you going, Michael, so | nowadays?’ asked the mutoal friend, MEDICAL EXPERTS BAY IT I8 A B8YMP- TOM OF MELANCHOLIA, '"t Takes Various Formas, but Is Invariably » Forerunner of Dementin-A Disease | That Should Be Time Affects Men as Well as Women. Carefully Treated In At last it has been discovered that the reason the girl who seems exceedingly | ghy acts in the fashion she does is that she is demented. | This is the result of extensive investi. gation by insanity experts on both sides | of the water, Exceptional bashfulness, as it is called, is really shyness, It isa | morbid condition of the mind, a certain | sort of dementia, Often is the expression heard that a | person is painfully shy. Yet in such an | instance no doubt has been raised as to the mental condition of the object of | the remark. Nevertheless, it is far more | than probable that the individual refer. red to was suffering from insanity just as much if not more, than many per- sons who are living out a tortured exist- ence within the walls of a madhouse, It is a well known fact that one of the most notable symptoms of insanity is that which causes the person afflicted to shun the company of others. Loneli- insanity, Con- prison gether an neentive t HERR 18 ment in a solitary cell n As there Are WAVES ( neanity. 1 are waves of morbid shyness, jost waves ide, resulting Waves of ridge jumping, killing with razors or knives, shooting and death by poison “Many suicides are due to temporary | insanity, brought on by a variety of | One of the first symptoms is | Persons afflicted with this | the sciences | f certain rn om f t CAUSOHR shyness, sIyness never take up any of or professions or become students, They | inck the will power necessary to do s Where the normal ind of difflenltion shy, retiring nan over COmes troubles when they come, tho man seeks | relief in suicide Dr. Henry Campbell, who is the phy sician in charge of the Northwest Lon don hospital, says that morbid shyness | is, like other mental disorders, an exag geration of an unnatural physical state It is among women, he declares, that this symptom of mental disorder is most often seen. Lacking the physical strength of man in most instances, they are un. able to withstand the depression that sometimes seizes them, That depression gives birth to a desire to be unobserved Hero is the beginning of the fit of shy pess which results in unbalapcing the mind and creating the idea that the very sight of others is an affliction to be avoided, Several New York doctors who dis cussed the question at length said that they bad noticed particularly among young women whom they had been call ed upon to see that those who had ex hibited the greatest embarrassment in the presence of young men were lacking in that mental equipoise necessary to the normal brain. Modesty is one thing, they said, sbyness quite another. The one causes the young woman to rofrain The other is simply ime pelled to a course of action for which there is neither rhyme nor reason, and one that only results in general discom- Abont the Same. “By the way, where is the major ““He is in an institution for the treat. ment of tho feeble minded,’ said the eolonel, with a trace of acrimony in his voles, “You don’t say!" “Well, sah, thoy don't call the place by that name, sah. But you can see for Joeit Wht it amounts to the same ing. It is oa water cure establishment, sah, "Cincinnati Enguirer, 'MOSTFAMOUS OF Dr. Greene's Nervura Cures the Manager of a Great Newspaper, Harry Hunt, Manager of the Bridgeport Morn- ing Union, and Composer of “Soldier Boy in Blue,” Made Well by Nervura. 1e Sheep's Gymnasium. The Dairyman’s Profit. h all but the sheep very town wher we have none Improved U. S. Separator. We wi Catalogues free. Vermont Farm Machine Co., Bellows Falls, Vermont. SHrIry NS XAL} By virtue of sundry w « of Fim fssned out 0 the Court of Comm on Pleas o tre Co. Pa. and to me directed thers » osed 10 Publie Sate, al the Court he borough of Bellefonte, Pa, on SATURDAY, MAY 2°, Iw the follow Howe at 10:80 o'clock a.m ng rea in Liberty inded and desrib north the east by pub All that certain tract of land situate and Howard townships, & od as follows, te wit on claimed by Jacob Holter, m lie road. on th« south by and of John B Thompson, and on the west by land of same, containing about 4 acres. Thereon erected a twostory frame dwelling bank barn and other outbuildings ALSO All the right. title and Interest of the defend ant in a certain tract of land situate in Liberty and Howard townships, bounded and described es follows Commencing at a pine at publie road : thence by land of Jacob Holter, south 41 degrees west, 1M perches loa post: thence by land of Joseph Gardner, north 42 and 5 de Tees west 145 rehes to stones; thenee by and of David B. Delong. North 831 degrees east 27 perches to stones; thence by same 78 degrees east 30 perches to stones; thence by Iand of Henry Thompson, south 20 degrees fehes Lo a post : thense by same south +» east 60 perches to post, and north % degrees east 94 rohes to stones ; thence by publie road, south 5 degrees east 5 3530 per ches to the piace of beginning, containing #3 acres and 07 Y perches, net, Seized taken In execution and to be sold as the property of Jacob Holter. TRrMs~No deed will be acknowladged until purchase money is paid in full Sheriff's WOM. CroXIsTEn, Sheriff, Bellefonte, May 6, 1807. the hose ey hy land | COALS SHIPPING e 0 0 0 0 @ o o COMMISSION MERCHANT DEALER IN ANTHRACITE AND BITUMIKOUS +COALS<~ Corn Ears, Shelled Corn, Oats and other Grains, Baled Hay and Straw, “++ KINDLING WOQD.... By the Bunch or Cord, in guanti- ties lo suit Pwrchasers, Clean Washed Band, Respectfully so lieits the patronage of his (riends and the public at his coal yard NEARPF.R. R. STATION, '
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