THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 1, J KYS, EXAGGERATED REPORT! Governor Black % Denounces Stories | of Soldiers’ Starving, BUT POINTS oor SOME DETECTS, | come the period of greatest danger, Division Hospital fn Which | Ninth Are Quartered Is in a Bad Con- Bays the the Sick soldiers of the York dition. New Chattanooga, Aug 81. Governor | Black, of New York was night newspaper and to the found the New York re as well as those at di vision hos Black said there appeared perfect hy- drophobia” among newspapers over the 1 of the soldiers, that the press bristled with such prhases as "hollow eyed” and “starving” in articles de- scriptive of the troops. He gave it as that the matter was ex- “manufactured in 'and "the outcome and re- knavery."” sald Governor f the camp of the New York Chickamauga is not half as expected it would be, The un- 1iti f he camp and doubt, been seen last by an asked as them in representative conditions as he camps of the giments, itals, Governor to be “a conditl his aggerated opinion news- impression,” naked after death lying days that an aut no preparation Care or intermen time fot has « suit urt martial hy MERRITT LEAVES Gives the lTusargents send an Agent to Paris Aug 1L.-The Unit China left here 1 board Major G iis staff MANILA. Permission 1 Whittie Merritt's Aaving was mission for the insurgent represent ther ceedings of the Paris peas General Aguinalde has to Hong Kong to inform cillo, the insurgent leader this duty emissary to pointment for Quartermaster Killed by Negroes, Altoona, Pa., Aug. 31 Soldiers ing through Altoona tell a strange gtory regarding the death f Quarter master George B. Franks f Company GG, Twelfth New York regiment. The regiment amped at Chattanooga lecause of the death of three hospital after drinking milk = # living in the neighborhood Company GG would negroes to sell anything Friday night g gang of Franks outside of the and after beating him threw him under a then the shoot any the camp TL i= on nis by the Pp mtie negros quartermaster of not allow the to his company negroes caught camp grounds nearly t death passing railroad train. Since guards have been ordered to negro who attempts to pass lines No Starving at Fort Moe Pherson, Washington, Aug. 31. ~The surgeon in charge of the hospital at Fort Me. Pherson, Atlanta, Ga., reports to the surgeon general that the 600 patients | there are being well cared for. He has | 71 temale nurses and plenty of ice, milk and other things, and a fund of $2,000 to expend for anything that may be neefled. Any reports of starving, he says, must have come from some ty- phold convalescent, who was not al- | lowed all he wanted to eat by sur. Keone’ orders, so as to prevent a severe relapse New Jersey Volunteer Drowned. Jackskonville, Fla., Aug. 21. ~Private Peter Reddy, of Company L., Becond New Jersey regiment, was drowned at Pablo Beach yesterday while in bath- ing. He got caught in the undertow and | was drowned béfore help could get to him. The New Jersey commission fin- | ished its Investigation of the Second regiment from that state yesterday, and aiso of the camp. The members will return home today Alleged Anarchy in Manilla. : London, Aug. 31.<A dispatch to the | Daily Telegraph from Manila says: | “All the outskirts of Manila are In a | fate of complete anarchy. Insurgents are hunting and pillaging the Span- lards, while the natives generally are racking villages, robbing vehicles and Stealing horses.” i | Island, £2 | Be. | ge | white, Biailo | do | easier; No ! Ho, # western, ie. Hay steady; No i = and buttermilks, | oma, $875 Sheep steady: | lamin 100 higher: other grades steady; four DANGERS OF CAMP WIKOFF. Dr, Benn Says the Camp Should Be ‘Speedily Abandoned. New York, Aug. 31.--Dr, Senn thinks that within a month g¢very person suf- fering from typhoid fever brought into Camp Wikoff, at Montauk Point, will have recovered or have died, and that by the time the conditions begin to look as if they had Improved there The precautions taken are almost useless, according to Dr. Benn. If one typhoid, or even a dozen, were then the precautions would be |] case of treated, of use, require an fectants and sterlizers germs that get into the wpital here imes cach day « ni Lt prinkled a mparative L 1 MAJOR WEBB'S SCHEME. gnnlze the National National Control Guard naar Kness' that ked the hos- Lawton's Health Report, Aug 1.«Ge neral f the health « forces Santiago we: Total sick, 39 tal new duty, 1 THE PRODUCE MARKETS. Ax Heflected by phis and Baltimore, jelphia, Aug NM ~Flour slow, w stiperfine 15al #0 Pennaylvania roller, clear $3.25583 &;, city mi extra, 327583 Rye flour sold ins small way at £2.85 per barrel for choice Pennsylvania Wheat quiet, but firm; No. 2 red spot, August and September, 8000 Corn quiet, but firm; No. 2 mized, August and Rep tember 34 aM gc. ; No 2 yellow, for local trade, 8c. Oats steady; No.2 white, clipped, new, 20. ; do., old, Balle, Hay steady; cholor timothy $1080 a 11 for large bales Heef qalet; beef hams, 2a Pork easy mess, 190.25 $75 Lard firmer. western steamed, Butter steady: western creamery, 14galige.; do. factory, | I Elgine, 184e.; imitation creamery, Sale; New York dairy, Ilaile ; do. creamery, MiaiNigo; fancy Pennsylvania prints jobbing at Halic; do. wholesale, 1 Cheese dull; large, white, Tic. small white, Tale.. large colored, Tho. small colored, Be ; light skims, Saf'go: part skims, S'gafe.; full skims, 282%. Fggs steady; New York Washington ton's bulletin the Amerie Aug. W is total feve 13; 1 7; total returned to cases fever ieaths, 2 lis | and Pennsylvania, 18al6i40.;. western fresh, 160 Potatoes steady : Jerseys, $1. 2al 75; Long Is) and. $1 STLaiT08 sweets, Jerseys, $1128 50; southern, #1 Wald. Cabbage steady; Long Cottonsead ol] easy; prime sum mer yellow, Z%allc.; off summer yellow, 28a | Bo. prime winter yellow, alle Baltimore, Aug. 30. Flour dull and unchang ed. Wheat dull; spot and month, yg | Heptember, 00 af le. | October, Bs om cember, 67alTiq0.. steamer No. 1 red, Mabie. | southern wheat by sample fia’lo.: do. on grads, Corn firmer; spot and month, Migs Heptember, Biealitge © October, Bigs steamer mized, 5 al%o.; southern yellow, Onte 2 white, western, Tre. No. 2 mized, Migallo. Rye firmer; No. 2 nearby, fle 1 time haT0c. , §10.50n11 ow York. Aug. 20 —Beeves weak, cable firm: live aattle, llaldo. refrigerator beef, Baio, Calves steady; venls, Mal; grass Had 0; common werd good to cholos and a half cars unsold: sheep, Sad 30; lambs, Mas 25. Hogs steady at M 2nd 8; common “" Enst Liberty, Pa, Aug. W.~Oattle lower; extra, B00 prime, B06 common, | $400 a 88 Hoge steady: primes and good Yorkers, 84.0004 80; heavy hogs and commen to | fad Yorkers, 84.0004 15; grassers, stubblers and pign, ae to quality, $.70a4; skips and common pls. $ad.00. Kheep steady; cholos, §.00a468, common, 5.25a0.75; choloe ng lamba, §5.60m br common to good, Madi; veal calves, Ha "nn will Law- | ndition of | on | De alin in Philadel- | lt ael= 1 secure inter | A TEXAN INNOCENT ————————— INGENUOUS NARRATIVE OF HOW HE WAS PLAYED FORA GOOD THING. While Looking at the Tall Bulldings in New York Everything Portable About Him Was Carried Off Ly Entire Strangers— Fared Even Worse In Chicago. Alfred 8S. Wagner, general traveling passenger agent of the Texas and Pa- cific, has returned to Dallas from a vis it to St. Louis, Chicago and New York. It was his first trip out of Texas, He went away with a look of childish in- nocence and gullelessness in his eye and came back with the sordid, glassy stare of a bunco steerer or the caleu- lating glance of a burglar. He is old and sad and tired. He says he lived ten years In threo weeks, and when he left he was golng at the rate of @ year a second. If he had stayed an- other half day be would have been 2,000 years old, as they count like ip Texas, His experiences began in St. He was standing on the corner of Fourth and Olive, looking around at the big buildings, when a nicely dress. ed fellow slapped him on the back and sald: “Hello, Johnnie! How boys in Fort Worth?” That was what Wagner had looking for. “Go on off, but my name am not from For “Where “That's rig “Well, how are Ci ney Fegan and Bil rat ting Louis are all the now are y het gagement J Planters’ to see wl the door he ed at him up and grasped hl “Hello, er! Dallas? “Yesterday morning.” “How can Harry Hatch and Boyle and old man Starr Jo without you? What boots it to tell the tion that cost Wagner $107 to be enough to know that it 4) him a bill. Vowing never to be we ed again, Alfred went on to New York He had letters of introduction t people, but was afraid to jest they mig ht tern out to met § a second 1 + J vy AED Nes 26 rk ’ sae present them mis Wagner looked and ) he did not see the man on the when he turned around the the voice had disappeared. He strolled around a few minutes. He remember. ed that he had an engagement to meet a friend and reached for his watch The timepiece was gone. 50 he went and bought another and kept the mat. ter silent Wagner believed that the next man who got anything off of him would be a dandy. He strapped his new watch around his waist with a trace chain, secured his shoes by straps over his sdoulders, fastened his necktie to both his vest and shirt and felt reasonably That night he went down to a music hall to see the greatest vaude- in America. As he was leaving one Aan on a corner said “May 1 trouble you for sir?” ville a match unbuttoned and reached In @r the match. He handed man grabbed his right another flinched his pocket. insiCe vest pocket He. could recover from his were lost In the Wagner his pocket the match hand while book from fore Wagner surprise both crowd He had no adventures in Chicago. because it is sald he would nof venture out of the hotel without an experi- enced bodyguard. This is what he says of his trip “I bad the hottest time you ever read about. It was a continual whirl from the time I left Dullas till I got back, and | am giad to get back to a place where you can shake hands with a man witho#t keeping your other hand on a gun or a knife. My! but those towns are warm ones. New York is sald to contain 3.000000 people, 1 be- lieve that 2.976.000 of them are confi dence men and the other 25.000 are honest just because It pays. Texas is good enough for me for awhile.” the his men The Veloelty of Light, It requires four years and four months for a ray of light to reach us from the nearest star, and yet light travels at the rate of 186.330 miles in a second. At this rate a first-class ex- press train running at the upeed of thir. ty-seven miles an hour, would require a continuous run of 75,000,000 of years to reach Alpha Centauri. It would take 260,000,000 of years for a cannon ball travelling at the usual speed of such projectiles to reach this same point, | which is our nearwet star neighbor, TURKEY HUNTING. One of the Diversions of Hallroading in Vusettied Parts of Arkansss, They do some queer things rallroad- ing i Arkansas. On some of the new roads there the tracks runs through a vild country where the wide swat! at in the timber for the right of way was the first blow to the primeval for est. The Hoxle, Pocahontas and North arn road, which was opened only last November, is a line of this sort It is not a great trunk line, and it boasts of nly sixteen miles of main track be tween Hoxle on the main line of Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis rallway, and Pocahontas the Cur rent river A mixed train of one com bination baggage car and passenger roach and usually a box car makes * wo trips dally over the betwee [ts (wo terminals The deep bottom land forests stretch Away on each side of the track broken only by one or two new lumber camps The wild turkeys have not yet learned that civilization has lald claim to this land, and this fall they often perch calmly on the branches of trees along the rallway track The train crews noticed this and engineer and fremen have y hunt for the game They their engine boxes with shot guns in their hands while train along at the easy i an hour When t} turkey regions and if they kill any they train, back up to the pot b ’ passengers enjoy th the on line a dail git on twelve into the they them and retrieve the he toey 3 ked Were f to the boots, which iurprising length, turned in and AVIing an easy cons Heepiy Ke a healthy baby the Along came ir passenger and paid his fifty cents 0 iwo minutes he was back at George Min berth enhoe Was before the » A ow x ar left iepot anoth. jiman There's a berth ne.” he sald hotly, "and he's feet high How am I'd like to kn man in of about going to i oly there ¢ ox at him In went P , lank shi his arms he bed and his fest were ortably P uliman--mad man's knees were ut were stretched stored for him. Pu inti! he awoke, and ie wanted the whole ave to pay 1 My dear gir,” sald the tall man ontract is a contraet. have paid you ifty cents for half this berth, and, as rou see, I'm occupying It. There's the sther hall” pointiag to a strip about ix inches wide, "Sell that and don't siurd me again And, so saying, the nan with a wart on his face went to jeep again He was Abraham Lin oin & Sensible Pad. One of the most sensible “fads” tmong the girls Just now is to save ap all their old jewelry, old gold thimbles which have the tops worn ff, goid fob chains, gold bracelets and pins, and even necklaces, and take em to some reliable jeweler, who will either melt them down and make what she wants out of them, or else will exchange them, allowing her for he weight of the gold. One girl made + collection for several years of sroken bits of jewalry, and, with some sf her grandmother's added to them, wid them to her own jeweler, and sow is the happy possessor of a beau iful pearl necklace which she got in xchange A Mad Habit Grawing The practice of dressing for the treet in the theatre and church before he play or service is over is gre wing fn the theatre women put on their hats hig ones-—at the beginning of the last wi. It is almost impossible to hear the losing words of a play. and if the cur Ala goes up at the close the actors ooking down upon the auditorium must see something which looks very much like a panic-atricken crowd. No sue is in a hurry after the outer door # veachad, and this mad haste inside 8 As strange as it is 1ll-bred and dis sEvaeable. In church the rush is not 0 mad, but the sentiment is even mors bjectionable Vietoria's Coronation Cross, There is a ring which the Queen tharishes more than anything else she porsesses save her betrothal and wed. fing ring--a circiet of flat gold in which shines a ruby cross surrounded with diamonds, signifying the Sovere. ®v's union with her nation; her cor mation ring, In «fact, which she has worn every evenlog since the day it secame hers by right, and which Is esiously guarded when not socircling wer finger. Deer for Paroacses, Ax automatic door for furnaces and ocomotive boliers has a standard se’ ‘mm the end of a rod which runs through be floor and operates a lever to ralee be door and sawing It back wheneves be standard is stepped on, The Shah's Bate Pips, The pipe smoked by the Bhah of Persia on state occasions Is set with fiamonds, emeralds and rubles. It in "ald to bave cont £80,000, Fairfield, Me, A man at recently waded twe gravistoves for a bieycle. Dewey Americanizing the Philippines. Wherever Battle Ax goes it pacifies and satisfies everybody - and there are more men chewing JeAx PLUG to-day than any other chewing tobacco ever ma Be The popularity of Battle Ax is both national and international. You tind it in Europe :- ~you find it in Maine: — you find it in India, and you'll find it in Spain (very soon). Our soldiers and sailors have already taken Cuba and the Philippines! it to Are you chewing it ? emember the name when you buy again. . s EDUCA IE I Coast Ag f Pa. a , Book. @ | English Branches for the “ol @ 7000 BICYCLES High Grade, ot $05 75 to $17 SOA >: A viaer MEAD CYCLE ¢ L Nie W. H. MUS UNION CENTRAL LIFE INS. CO CINCINNATI, OHIO. on 2d for + Bellefonte, Pa. Hock sr YX — Mew Crider's Stone This Company has the Following Advantages : $4” Average interest rate for 20 years has been over 7 per cenl. and the aver- Death Rate Jess than Three fourths One per cent. rT. Receipts from Interest for 25 | years have more than paid all death | losses. t# Realizes the Higbest Interest and | has the lowest death rate of any company Assetts Dec. 3ret, 1857. 5:5,708,130.31. JOHN M. PATTISON, President. BE P. MARSHALL, Secretary. MONEY TO LOAN On first.class real estate security. limited amount in sums of from $1600 and any number Fol loans ese in larger sums. Brin in person to AE 214 1. Bishop uN SSER| ‘Maple Sugar and Syrup Fin ne (Groceries = Ee a — —— ee — — - NEW FISH. - - Canned Soups, Bouille | Mock Tartle, Consomme, Tom ato Mulligatawnew, Chicken, -» QUEENSWARE, Tin Ware. (rumba, Enameled Ware, Brooms and Brushes. -_- The best place to bring your produce and the best place to buy your groceries, ete, ete, \'SECHLER & C0 HIGH STREET, BELLEFONTE, PENNA.
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