'RTZ, Proprietor.
QCAL
REVIEW
the
~ CHAS R.
OUR HIST
A
Pioneers Cleared
Dense Forests.
How the
CABINS
EARLY LOG
THE
Were Rude Structures Compared with
Modern Logging
and Were
Dwellings Bees
Husking Bees Great
Frolics.
ANA Yall,
how the
aomes,
for
thrown uj
grubs, Ne
leaving
cess of
”
m
anner
around t
hes
chop enti
three or four in w
cast, har
ground
this i
an excej
a
crop.
Wheat
secon
gs and
women follow to
chunk
logs are
up the fires In a day or two the
nigger
at the length of 12
or 15 feet ; sometimes the entire tree
v | +)
consumed When they are thus reduced
to lengths that can be handled by men
: He
neighbors
the owner has a log» ing rive
fhe u Soraoo0fh
the
day before the froli
semble r &
genera ly
into two companie
chosen by acclamation fos
pany he captains choose their com
panies, each
When the
work,
naming a man aternatel
whole 15 formed, they
each company er
0g heaps than the othe
Nothing is charged for the work, and
only thing exce
(ics, is the immo
In general, great hiia
these meetings, like many others in this
county, are by
dreadful combats persons
composing them,
The general price of clearing land is
five dollars per acre, put under fence six
rails, and a ground pole 4 feet round and
ready for the plough.
cleared on the shares, and then If the |
proprietor finds the grabber in boarding
sometimes disgraced
between the
| it in himself,
bargain 1s
Sometimes it is | ————
| and lodging, finds horses, feed, and puts
the first
If the
the grubber gets
crop, or the half of the two first,
undertaker finds every thing, he gets the
two first or the three first crops, accord
as he can make his bargain, and the
usually dete the
the land and the difficulty of
ing
rmined by
juality of
clearing. Meadow land is cleared fo
from four tO seven Crops.
In addition to our log-rolling
we have frolics to haul dung,
e our buildings
ng-hauling frolics
{ vogue—and never ought to have
been practised, because a man can do it
corn done at
busking is
the dawn of day
y dinner, eat and go it again
Methodist Church Destrove! by Fire
The Methodist church at Munson
Philly
in thorough repal:
near
burg, which of late had been put
and was a beautiful
tie place of worship, was totally de
That the
’
" :
foyed 'y
fire night of 10 ult
Nn Dre wa
that in an ot
tween the
work, where
were found
aturated w
mated at al
eof §
a : Gal 1
an iT
¢ rebuilt Hoss!
possi
and an effort made un down the
cendiaries
Fire
The dwe
Near Eagleville
ing house of Charles Wagner,
m Marsh Creek, 1/5 miles west of Bagle
burned to the ground at
o'clock Saturday morning. The origin
attributed to a chimney
burning out. Only the household goods
on the first floor were saved. Loss $600.
Insurance $400.
ville, seven
of the fire I»
The woman who tries to take up two
seals in a car must be beside herself,
BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, go.
THE MACHINE
DENOUNCED
D. H. Hastings Takes a
Courageous Stand,
Ex-Gov.
REBUKES CORRUPT MEASURES
\ Severe Stone s
Lourse
Arraignment of Goy
and the \
the |
Keviewed
| |
icious Legisla
ast General Assembly
tion of
made the Re
phia, Alle
other
ade
gheny, in Lancaster and strong-
holds of Republicanism No, it is direct
y changeable to those who have trifled
with p edges
hoodwinked the
their and promises and
great Pennsylvania
of Republicanism until securely
and power, where
the
place
the
the
honor efficiency and the
18 have been
UAES JOT persona
security
You have seen men, elected to repre
their
their thei for
people ar best interests,
y the mess
of pottage thems by those
the
the leaders of Ra publicanism,
who assume to x
and
sages and prophets
"You have witnessed the adroit use of
lative machinery, like a
mio the
of the
y to draw forth the money
crawling
reptile by devolus way and
of
geneanl pablic
darkness assumed ignorance
in the public treasury to pay the price of
official perfidy
MAY LEAD TO AUTOCRALCY.
You have witnessed the betrayal of a
publicly expressed pledge to give to you
| a ballot law that would correct the evils
| of the existing statute and provide surer
against election frauds and
| protection
| ballot stuffers. This pledge you Rave
seen willfully ignored by the authority
f Its maker, moreover, the attempt made
by the honest Democrs members of
the recent Legislature to carry out the
will of their party for ballot reform wa
by the same authority persistently og
posed and finally thwarted
the consumma
“You have witnessed
tion of legislation to overthrow the
ernment of great munici
deprive citizens
¢ and
humat
If you bave watched . §
cK
measures at
ounrse
of legislation you have seen slator
compelled to vote for which
they revolted, in the fear of offending a
power that conld deprive worthy loca
of the usual and ne essary
The
support for charitie
charities State
support present system of State
should be corrected
¢s every such charitable asylum
titution at the mercy of t
constitutes every
ing
fortunate inmate a club 10 compe
who stand sponsors for them 1
the demands of an arrogant |
YORK
msequences of ref
usal
REMEDY YOR
but
lamentable recital
CHINE RU1
“These are a tithe of the whole
which has continued
until the fair name of Pennsylvania has
become by.word her sister States.
In sense of
right and justice has become so blunted
n in
t possible that the publi
80 calloused that
cans Pennsylvania will not
or the true Republi.
in rise in
SHORT
their sovereign might and drive from |
dou county, now past 76 years of age,
| place and power those who have profited
| by this domination, who are responsible
for it, who manage it, and who claim
that they themselves are the Republican
party of the State? They do not con.
(Continued on page 4 column 8,
| same place he did in 1861,
VARIETY OF
COUNTY NEWS
Items of Interest Gathered From
All Sections.
AXD TO THE
1at Transpired Worthy o
Past Weel
tion, the
farms
of from to
potato crog Acres
and may
Albert
1of §
suspected Howard |
seed
, of Port Mat
nt
not
Jones da. was rob
be wo while wi Thursday,
eher, of W
the
port
¥
House
and had a warreut
who was hoster
at
with having
Reber le own
seen
langeron
fever ] Lsreninger d 1 of
The
had a ph
the
Ameri
same
N
sease on July North
Can in A recent issue toga} h
of the ail
ADJOINING COUNTIRS
The Newton Hamilton camp meeting
opens Tuesday, August 13th, and closes
Friday, August 24
Jacob Long, of Cole's Summit, Hunting.
while mowing last week found a tortoise |
that he had cot his initials on in 1861,
just 40 years ago. He found it near the
and be says
Continued on page 5,
Bright
FACT
Snarl
Pain
and Mere
the
ck M
me
Harry
Sharkey, fourth.
00 Tage,
esDUrg,
B.,
second
-
Legal Bonds Require Stamps
Bonds of administrators and executors,
which were formerly heid to be exempt
as bounds used in legal proceedings, re-
after July 1, fifty cent
stamp. The bonds of guardians, receiv:
ers or trustees are taxable. Such bonds
as are ased as prosecution bonds, injunce
tion bonds, bonds upon appeal, writ of
error, for costs and those given in claim
and delivery action for property not tax.
able.
quire, 190%, A