A 5 » v re Lemocrat., CLEVELAND'S STRONG VIEWS He is Opposed to the Idea of Seiz- ing Territory HE URGES CONSERVATISM Our Venture in the Philippines is With- out Precedent—Sailing Without Chart or Compass-—Sounds a Note of Warning. One of the most important events of the past week was the remarkable speech by last Wednesday evening in New city, at the Holland Society. entire, delivered Ex-President Cleveland, York We give it Ex-President Cleveland said : The cordial welcome you extend to me is exceedingly grateful and comforting for it gives me a grain of satisfaction in the ordeal that confronts me. I am con- vinced that the artof making an after dinner speech without distress is for me a sealed book ; and as the years pass I am only saved from complete wretched- pess in my efforts in that direction by the kindness and toleration of those who are good enough to listen to me. I can not resent the charge that I am apt to preach a sermon on occasions of this kind for I am afraid this accusation is justified. It has been my lot to much on the sober side of life and to feel the pressure of great be responsibilities. Besides, I believe it sometimes happens that an excess of light-hearted gayety creates a condition of thought that may profitably popular and impulses, be steadied by sedate suggestions and the expression of conservative sentiment, even though it may be called sermoniz ing. take u humble place among the sermon At any rate I am quite willing to izers, in this time of headlong national heedlessness, and to invoke the cultiva- tion and saving grace of Dutch conserva- tsm. This that counts the cost, but for the sake of is the kind of couservatism tae principle and freedom will disregard the cost ; that lays out a voyage by chart and compass and follows chart and com that the and national happiness which rests apon sure and tried foundations ; reve pass to the end loves liberty that teache=s ice for national traditions and en. courages the their coun conservatism in had its bi the strengthens the conservatism of justic people's satisfaction witl try's mission, It is the kind which our «¢ rth and which has thus f; source of of honor, of honesty, of industry, of fru. gality and of contented homes In this assemblage of those who know 80 well the meaning of these things, the question is sugeested whether this « in present conditions mservatism character izes the conduct or guides the sentiment of our people. There answer to this question. C has in a great degree, been jauntily cast can be but one aside, or condenmed as opposed to our country’s welfare and glory. A strange voyage has been entered upon, without count of cost and without chart or com- passs’ our liberty and national happiness have been discredited The tried and sure foundations of Reverence for our nas tional traditions has been relaxed and with country’s The constitution satisfaction our mission has been undermined restraints and limitations of our have been galling and irksome under the temp. tations of national greed and aggrandiz. ment. Our old love of peace, honor and justice has been weakened, and frugality and contentment are not now traits in. seperable from America character, War even with the world's advanced civilization may still be sometimes nec essary and justifiable ; but whether nec essary justifiable or not, the demoraliza tion that follows in its train, can never be evaded. Ii teaches bloody instruc. tions, which, in a county whose citizens do the fighting, cannot fail to leave their impression for a time, at least, upon pub. lic and private life in time of peace Thirty years after the close of the war for the preservation of the union, a treaty of arbitration was formulated between the United States and Great Britain, which, if completed would have gone far towards removing every pretext of war | between the two countries. Thus these two great BEaglish speaking nations then pod in advocacy of the abolition of war, with the hope and expectation that the example would be followed by other na- | tions and that a more general adoption of arbitration as a means of settling 1n. ternational disputes would resuit in a of war thoughout the world, ate of the United States, champions of and arbitration are still operating in “parallel lnes—one on the Philippines and the other in South Africa—but uo louger for peace and arbi. | overseers of poor, CHAS. R. Kuk1Z, Proprietor. | tration. Both are killing natives in an effort to possess their lands, This indicates a sad relapse; and in our case it is a most serious one, If England succeeds in her attempt in South Africa, she will but add another to her list of similar acquisitions ; so a brave people be subjugated, and because of our engagement, in a similar engagement in another quarter, they will miss the ex pressions of American sympathy which we are accustomed to extend them who struggle for national life and indepen dence. On the other hand, with success in our snbjugating effort, a new untried and exceedingly perilous situation will be forced upon us. We can conquer the Philippines, and after conquering them the strain upon our institutions, the demoral can probably govern them. It isin lization of our people, the evasion of our constitutional limitations and the perver. sion of our national mission that our danger lies. bishop bas said: “The question is not what we shall « As a distinguished lo with the Philippines, put what the Phil. ippines will do to us?" Our country will never be the same again. passed beyond the old lines, For weal or woe we have already The republic will in some sort be saved, Shall it be only in name and semblance with fair external appearance but with the germs of decay, or shall it, though changed, still survive in such vigor and strength as to remain the hope and pride of free Americans? Its upon the extént to which the ol The problem is a momentous one solution ism and good sense of our e can be rescued from impen Thus these are sober days for thoughtful for citizens—days sermonizng If we are to be saved from disaster, | through the cultivation and enfor of that sort of couservat that sm find a congenial home in the Ho In the midst of reckless the greed and society, and in confused rage bloodiness this conser should defiantly stand forth and a hearing. Let it be proclain American freedom and popular ru Pog net perish except through t he net perish pt throughth those who have them and by the blood and sacrif father, by the lofty achieve n free institqtions they established, by our gloriod® victories of | ance on the pr letters and packages from the the ofh last escaped Pp a disappeare Stone and it was immediately he and the decoy was He was of et imme extent Wise known A Shot Gun on the War Path A few days ago an old h me Valley, fk over hot gun that stood in the of Rufus Sheats in SURAT irom some un known cause and went own the stairs into the tumbling kitchen where four ladies were sitting engaged in conversa tion. Tu each barrel ofvthe gun was a cartridge and both were discharged dur ing the stair descending act. Fortunately none of the ladies was injured but they ran out of the house 1 a hurry. the all No reason for the falling of given, Cl gun can be Democrat His Neck Broken. A young man named Elmer Harry was taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. Har. ry Stoner, at Salona. Mr Harty is suffer. ‘ng fron a broken back and the lower portion of his body is paralyzed. He was jujured by having a tree fall on him while he was working in the woods in Potter county a few months ago. Siuce the acc dent he has been in the hospital at Austin, | His home isin Rebersburg, where he was taken on Monday, ou the train as far as Coburn, - Poor House for Clinton. March 30, the people of Clinton county, outside of Lock Haven, will vote for or | against a poorhouse, A petition to this assumed leadership in the path of peace | request was signed by all but one of the Lock Haven being an incorporated city, cannot participate in the election, however, should a poor house be decided upon, the city can | place its paupers therein for compensa | tion, gread advance towards the abandonment | This | treaty failed of confirmation In the sen. | Less than five | years passed, and these Foglish-speaking Former Loganton Man Killed, Charles A. Weaver, who for several years was a miller at Loganton, but who has been working near Readivg, was caught in the machinery Thursday and killed. His remains were taken to Re. bersburg, where the funeral was held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, | & short way from it OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW Further Account of Indian Invas ions in Central Penna MANY SETTLERS MASSACRED I'he French Incited Them to These Acts to Exterminate the Early English Settlers —It was a Time of Danger and Great Hardships. th of Feb. 1 Captain Patterson wi On the 2 s Gordon, party, ne Indians at Middle in with sor in Comberland county f whom they ilped and put others to flight ving one of hi men wounfe from J with cckin plunder and scalps, and burning the houses, and destroying the grain in the The probably Indian whom they scalped was Shecalemy's sister's son, as the following “Fort from McKee, (SIX OF seven April 5, 1756 Shipp will appear etter from Thomas dated at Hunter's mill, miles above Harrisburg and ad. dresed to Ed at Lan- caster, “I desire to let you know that John Shecalemy, Iudian, is come here in the afternoon, and gives me an account that great there is on amongst the 1 ' ing } i {ies was fo McA jane ( d, Alexander hrat ar missed. McA burnt, and Adams, James two clyldren were ers house had been a number of cattle and horses had been driven off The ous, as they « enemy was supposed Id eat and to b¢ numer carty off a great deal of beef they had kille rette The place where Fort Granville had been erected, was called "Old the bank of near Lewistown, Mifflin county, where a Town, on left the Juniata river, company of enlisted soldiers were kept under the command of Lieutenant Arm strong. The position of the fort was the most favorable. The Indians who had been lurking about there for some time, and knowing that Armstrong's men were few in number, sixty of them appeared, July 22nd, before the fort, and cha! lenged the garrison to combat : but this was declined by the commander, in con. sequence of the weakness of his force. The Indians fired at and wounded one man belonging to the fort, who had been vet, he got 1a safe ; after which they divided themselves into small parties, one of which attacked the plantation of one Baskins, near Juniata, whom they murdered, burnt his house and carried off his wife and children : and another made Hugh Carrol and his family prisoners, On the goth of July, Capt. Ward left the fort with all his men, except twenty. four under the command of Lieut. Arm- strong, to guard some reapers in Shear man's valley. Soon Rfter the Captain's | departure, the fort was attacked by about one hundred Indians and French, who having assailed it in vain during the NM BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 1001, | afternoon and night of that day, took to the Juniata creek, and, protected by its bank, attained a deep ravine, by which they were enabled to approach, without fear of injury, to within ten or twelve yards of the fort, to which they succeed Through a hole the ed in setting it on fire, thus made they killed Lieutenant and private, and wounded three others while endeavoring to extinguish the fire, The enemy offering quarters to the besciged, if they would surrender, one Torper immediately opened the gate to them. They took prisoners, twenty-two chi burdens soldiers, three women even dre whom they loaded with The fort was burnt pur commander and drove them off rAet suant to the order When they by Captain Jacobs, the | Indians of rench the reached Kittaning, put y death with the most horrid They Turner te tortures tied him to a post, danced around him, made a great fire, and having heated gun-barrels red-hot, th his him three yagh body Having for scalped him alive, ran them tormented hours, they at last held up a give ana boy with a hatchet in his hand, to him the finishing stroke The di nearly reached its acme depict their sufferings, alarms, and fears, the of the Susque- tress of the frontier settlers had Au attempt to would prove a failure n fall of 1755, the country west bhavna possessed CAree thousand men fit ¥ to bear arms; and in August 1756, ex sive of the Provincial forces, there ‘re not one hundred ; fear baving Ariv. the greater part from their homes the province. — Gor conting murders were occasiona pon the frontier settlers, by till near the ose of the war the English and the French had amoung between in 62 for there been a secret con. rderacy formed Shawanese, the ibes on the Ohio i its and ahoul I setliements on 1 was deliberate Cumberland was * Savages, io 17¢ who set houses, barns, corn, hay and every thing that was combustible ; the inha! tants were surprised and murdered with the utmost [bose Bedford 1a gar. cruelly and barbarity who could, escaped-—-some to where Captais Ourry commande rison at the same time, some went to Shippensburg, others to Carlisle, where houses and Late in t fall of 1777 ing he on the head waters of the S isquehanna A stahles were crowded Al some marand. Indians disturbed frontier settlers all the frontier settlements Wet Allegheny and along the Branch, and westward to the river Families were mur dered or carried into captivity dwell ings reduced to ashes—crops destroyed the settiers exposed to the most unheard : of Indian cruelties. None dared venture | forth, without a loaded rifle as his con stant companion ; for it was a time when they had reason to expect 10 meet a savage concealed in every bush and thicket field and church ; fire arms were carried to both and their lives were | only secure by untiring and constant | vigilance ; and even then, at an unwary some victims to the blood thirsty Indian. Blockhouses were built dlong the West Branch, under the pro tection of which, the first settlers alone in safety against the prowling, | tawny foe. With all these necessary precautions, several persons were sur. prised, through this region of country, by the enemy. A man named Saltzbarn, on the Sinnemaboniog, and Dan Jones, al the mouth of the Tagascootac, were cruelly murdered late in 1777 FEA hour, fell were “In the spring of 1778 Col. Hepburn, | Afterwards Judge Hepburn, was stationed with a small force at Fort Muaucy at the mouth of Wallis’ run, sear which several murders had been committed. The In. dians had killed Brown's and Benjamin's families, and had taken Cook and his wife prisoners on Lovalsock creek. Col, Hunter of Fort Augusta, alarmed by these murders, sent orders to Port Man. cy that all the settlers in that vicinity [should evacuate, and take refuge at Sun. | | bury, Col. Hepburn was ordered to Contiffued ou page 4, column 4, | tary; J. 1 | Emanuel Malick, OUAY DEMOCRATS DENOUNCED Democratic Representatives Score Traitors READ OUT Or THE PARTY A Series of Strong Resolutions Adopted Action is Approved In All Sec- of the State No Room Iraitors tions for ay Succ election to the 1 the These tion of Marshall as the control of all the le senate was largely due to work of a few democratic traitor men voled for the ele peaker and that put 4 Rislative machin ery and the “plum as well in the hands of and enabled for 3 cowardly tra the Quay people them to give This what gave the Quay people For this patronage insurgent voles 1HOrous work the victory work, the of the balance woyal democrats at Harrisburg, of the senate and house, assembled and passed the following appropriate resolutions read- ing the traitors out of the “Whereas, Wi first legislative county, elected as a democrat represent faithfully a stituency and, “Whereas betraved party of the Schuaylki last November, and pledged to democratic Ham J district ted Galvin, of was cle con - Galvin has basely AS well as Lhe organization of the democratic by voting with the Marsha and again the said his constituents state party, ust repat Cans or sg er of the house 4 ' LUay jor Lhe therefore wolved man ul sh with an who spons of A. H who perm Resolve Squier ted himse cou as pair the vote for senator with a man who was not a member of the house, and when arrangement whates been = ie for thus no paring of th eC re hat every WAL GEmOoCTat should Lo € That ex Rev the fiftieth i who for Kesolved who district represents ar been most : wd) Las by to the Usited Stat 80 doing they base the ad desired bs Juay but that in their party, retarded much peopie of the reforms communwealh condemva unqualified That he speaker making tiees not 0 regard Messrs Kain, Fake and Galvin as democrats we respectfully re f the house in Rothrock - —— 01 rs of the © Directors Fe d their id . uryghe ws Nn phan Home near Sunt an 4 nual meeting and elected the follow ers for the ensuing year Ine W.H. } first vice president; E. C er, president Holman Wagner, sec. Hillard, Shoemaker, assistant secretary There at present thirty boys and eighteen girls md vice president; S B secre | treasurer Are cared for by this institution, rangiog in age fron five to fifteen years. A committe was appointed to devise means whereby a home for the aged Odd Fe their wives may be established ows and Embalmed Milk Barred In a test prosecution brought by the state pure food department agents in the Blair county court a jary convicted Stephen Kirsch, an Altoona dairy mers chant Jof adulterating milk with formalin, A substance injarious to health. The state proved that the proper use for formalin was in embalming dead bodies. The pure food agents sav that this con. viction will stop the adulteration with formalin, now preyalent among the dairy merchants of the state. Rabbies Killed Cattle. Some time ago some of the cattle near Manor, Westmoreland county, went mad, and Dr. M. A. Griffin removed the brain for examination, Unfortunately he had A sore on his finger, and a few days ago be begon to act queerly and showed signs of rabies, Wednesday he was taken tothe Pasteur institute, New York, for treatment, in hopes the ravages of os n— VOL. 23, NO, 4 . FACT, FUN AND FANCY. Iright Sparkling Paragraphs Selected and Original A TREAS! The homeless girl are alike | beauless nowhere to lay their heads “For men must work men must weed," else how would seal. skin sacks and things When a poor young man marries a he women rich girl all cenary mer. but when a marries a poor girl tk 1s the most beant SOME OF JOSH BILLINGS’ PROVERBS ¢ Rostet Nicht rsey Shore, red the wed- { of Palmer Chumway and Mrs. Harrie Filly sever 176 years 5 YEArs. age t Francis, aged YECATS Ago the couple were engaged to wed, but a quarrel estranged them Both MArTie became the mothe: father MM» ago Mrs, } Three weeks ago Chum. ) the home of Mis Potter county A reconcili and Wedne Francis Chumway the Seven years ago and three years rancis came a widow way went t Francis, at Ulyssess was effected Mrs tion home of son marned - - For School Wilkesbarre, on Directors At Thursday Judge Halaey handed down an opinion which determines the powers of Schoo! Diree. tors. The president and secretary of the School Board of Wyoming borough con. tracted for song books, music, etc The bill amounted to $474 20 A taxpayer took the matter into Court, claiming that two members of the Board could not make a binding contract. Judge Halsey sustained the objection, In his opinion the Judge savs a School | Board must exercise its powers by joint action as a Board and not as individuals. The contract is declared invalid. NOT DEAD YET. Two weeks ago the Democrat ane nounced, apon what was given as rellab’e authority, that Jeff. Shaffer, had died of typhoid fever. Jefl. writes us, not from the grave, but from terra firma, the fol. lowing : “lawistown, Jan 16, 1990 :Mrs, Shafl+r has received several letters from friends wanting to know the trath of the statement in toe Centre Democrat, re. fering to the notice of my death. [am the threatened malady might be prevent. | bot dead and if | am dead [am certainly ed. The poker player who is given the top cards on the deck gets the upper hand, a very lively corps; where | work the boys have named me Lazarus, Very truly yours, C. J. Suarrun.”
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