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ner says, the loss Of the paper Injured
to the benefit Of the people, inasmuch
as orr debt was liquidated up to just
the amount lost, while the interest we
are paying on tho 10000, 900 bonds is
Squeezing pennies from millions of
workers. perhaps to add to the wealth
OF some one who already has more than
an honest worker can earn in lifetime.
Beside the enormous cost of silver
fractional currency rs shown above,
there is considerable loss by friction,
losses by fire, water, dropping from
pockets, etc, With l think would, on
careful investigation, le found to offset
the losses of fractional paper.
Il do not remember Of ever losing o
piece of scrip, but / have now in my
possession 5O-cent silver piece with
hole punched in it. It was filled SO l
did not notice anything wrong when !
took it. / suppose / could get some
thing for it, but choose to keep it, as
an additional argument that silver costs
the people something as we'll as paper.
The value probably went ont of that
silver piece into some rogue's pocket.
"Still l would not quarrel with the
silver if we could have the paper too.
Doubtless there will be more or less
loss Of either, to the individual; but, in
addition to the individual loss, beg
you to notice what the silver costs the
| people as whole--not as an argument
against silver, but to annihilate your
| argument against paper.
"lon urge that the classes / mention
as desiring paper currency constitute
only small minority; but / challenge
you to show half as large class who
are injured to any degree by its circu-
lation.
by the term literary people, did not
mean to exclude all who do not make
literature profession. The reading
public would better express my mean
ing. The people in this country, who
remit fractional parts Of dollar for
books, magazines and other periodicals,
may not, strictly speaking, be literary
people; but they form large and re-
spectacle class. / have yet to hear of
any equally large and respectable class
that oppose the fractional paper. So
| far as | know there are only two small
/ classes of them-those who have q
theoretical reverence for intrinsic value
in money, and the dealers in money who
know their interests are better served
by keeping cheap money away from the
people.
Il believe it is admitted by all busir
ness men that we have not nearly
enough small change. Small store
keepers are constantly running from
one store to another to get bill
changed Pray let us have more
small change, and of kind that will
not compel us to go to the postoffice
and buy stamps or postoffice order, if
we want to remit any fraction of a del
| lar
Zone publisher of books told me that
the book trade had been nearly ruined
by withdrawing the fractional paper.
This may be an extravagant statement,
but no one can study the subject and
not see that the book trade, and many
other trades, have suffered much by
losing SO convenient medium Of ex-
change. Please tell us who has gained
| thereby.
"Still hoping, and still hearing the
hope expressed by others, that the con-
venient scrip will be restored to us, /
| am, etc.
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THERE are 100000 opium-eaters in
the United States.
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

| A wind-storm did considerable dam
age to farm buildings in Otoe and Nemaha
counties, Ncb Several persons were injured
by the fall Of houses they were occupying.
4 heavy gale at Anita and Adair,
Iowa. worked havoc with buildings, fences
and crops At the former place people
sought shelter in cellars and caves
During storm at East Tawas, Mich,
il 4 mes fe'l me; surfing three inches in
G rcimfe.ence
At White Oak, Ark, number OF
h. We're lloan doAn and three pc sons
fAta'is injured
| 4 heavy-snow storm prevailed in the
region Of Deadwood Oak on the 18th and
ith of April, blocking the railroad and stage
lines and tearing down the telegraph wires
Memorial services were held ut
springfield, Ill. on Sunday, April Is which
was the eighteenth anniversary of the death
of Abraham Lincoln
/ Judge Highley, of Cincinnati, has
decided that pigeon shooting Us commonly
practieed in ties of skill In Workmanship
comes within the purview Of the law against
cruelty To animals
At Chicago, one Roman Nowaik, a
cabinet maker, fatally wounded his di-
voreed wife and then saved the hangman
job by blowing out his own brains Drink
was the cause of the tragedy
Gen. Cook. recognizing that regu-
lar troops are useless in warfare against the
AHatshaS il, tb.. p,aunta ioan. 4. ,,ut,,. ,,,, ,h
border OF Mexico, is arranging for the en-
[ployment # Indian scouts against the hos
titles The General has information that the
Mexlcans are not sparing either men,
women or children of the Apaches
The building in Broadway, New York,
occupied by the Remington Manufacturing
COMPANY, the Bradstieet Com, any and the
Hall Safe and Lock Company was burned
the to.al loss being $3.50 q; fire a'so de
lstroyed a furniture factory at s.. Louis, the
loss upon which l. 500, everal stores at
ICrtiield, Md. causing loss # 81 n,oa);
a warehouse Mt Menom:nee, Wis yauel,
with contents mt s3u,Na; and Butrhard' i
block. a. owen Sound, ont involving loss
of $1,000
| II IN, Deyoy and Mooney, speak ng
to large assembI;ge ut Rochester n T.,
denied that the Land League coun enan ed
as>as mat on.
oneaa Victoria il still unable to
stand Tor any length OF time. owing TO the
Injury To her knee.
| The Marquis Of Lorne will probably
succeed the Mar iuis OF kpon a vicerov OF
India
Twenty thousand dock labarers are
OH Il striks at Marse,lles. and business Is
much in.peded i'll conse iuence,
Numerous are Is are constantly he
ing made in ST. Petersburg of persons ac-
cused OF shilst.c affiliations, and IN several
instances this month quaint, les of exp!o ives
have been discovered or these event : az
Wei ts OF the trial OF Sihilists Row in
progre T. the Russian press is forbidden TO
III 4kc meation
| TIC steamer HISTORIAN, Viii IA ar
rived n Bo.tan last week, brought - Irish
msn women aud children, w!.usp ass 20
mol! , IL paid b. the BRITISH Govciuil. Int.
They were all ia destitute circumstances
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NEWS CONDENSED.
EASTERN.

The New England Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church advises that the
temperance work OF the church be kept free
from ENHANCEMENT with woman suiirag,
and other irrelevant issues
The large structure Mt Church aud
state streets, Rochester, n. Y, which had
been condemned by the Fire Marshal
collapsed the other morning. burying seven
teen persons in the ruins Two men were
killed and three were nortally injured
The boot and shoe factory of Riley,
Pebbles h Co., Mt Natick Mass. was dam.
aged $4,000 by fire.
At Hickory Bush. n. T., Jacob Camp
and Constable Donovan engaged in spar
ring match The latter hit Camp too hard,
when he knocked Donovan down with a
bowlder and beat his brains out
The Lyman Cotton Mill, in North
Providence, X l., was wiped out by fire.
Loss. s'5,oon
The Herman net, which virtually re-
pcals the usury laws, went into effect In
New York several months ago. and IL found
to work to the disadvantage Of legitimate
traders, who are unable to compete with
brokers In the money market Many recent
failures are attributed to the operation Of
the new Inv. and the effect. II Ia claimed,
will be To drive mercantile firms out Of the
state.
Eleven great ice-houses, containing
COCO tons Of Ice. the runs, engines and en-
Kine houses, the store houses, and the
wharves Of the Knickerbocker Ice Company,
at Booth Bay, Me, were DESTROYED by lire.
Total loss sl-o, oco; insured for $4,000
The late Peter Cooper left an estate
valued at sa,too.ooo which, with the cxccp
ton Of 100000 bcqueathed to the Cooper
Union and $500, ouo in special requests. is to b,
divided between his son. ex-Mayor Edward
Cooper. and his daughter. the wife OF Rep.
resentative Abram 4 Hewitt. Of New York
A mob assailed the house of Cannon
at Boston, whose daughter recently sued
the Catholic Archbishop and a priest FOL
taking away her paper images. Fires wer,
made in front Of the residence, which wa.
pelted with sticks and stones.
A collision occurred at Bound Brook
N j.. between train of the Lehigh Vale,
railroad and one of the Philadelphia ant
Reading railroad trains. The rear car oI
the Philadelphia train was overturned ant
took fire, but all the passengers were extri
Gated A number of the passengers wer,
seriously injured
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The exchanges of twenty-six clear
ing houses last week-sl .0oo, l55, 949-ex-
ceeds the showing of the week ended April
, by sl65, 2ss,a'l indicating an increased
general business throughout the country.
The Rev. Mr.. Black, m evangelist,
in sermon at Clinton, Ill prophesied the
conversion of the Jews in 1a41 and the ar
rival Of the millennium in 1887
The death is announced of Hon.
Chas. b. Lawrence, a distinguished jurist
and ex-Judge of the Illinois Supreme Court
He died in Alabama while travelling for
health and pleasure.
Persons at Montreal, who claim to
have knowledge not heretofore made pub
lie concerning the murder of Thomas
Darcy McGee, in ISIS, offer to impart the
facts to the authorities, on condition that
the information be not used to their injury.
The National Department Of Agricult-
ure ut Washington reports that the condi-
ton OF the winter grain crop April in all
the States was: In Michigan and the other
northern territory the wheat was still coy
cred with snow. In the Ohio valley the win
ter protection had been partial for term
LEGALLY VARYING from three to ten weeks,
after which the loss from freezing was quite
general The average depreciation IL greater
In the upper part OF the Ohio valley and In
Kansas than elsewhere. East of the Ale
ghanies the condition Is good in the northern
belt. declining slightly in the lower attitudes
II Is not up TO the average i'll any part of the
South. The average for the crop il eighty,
while last April il was lo4, and In 1881,
eighty-iye. A careful examination of the
roots in many cases showed that they were
healthy, while the plants were brown
There = good reason for believing that the
real condition of the wheat is, therefore, less
unpromising than it seems
A5per cent. semi,annual dividend has
been declared by the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad
\ shipment of | 900 barrels of whisky
was made from New York TO Bermuda lest
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WESTERN.

After a trial extending over three
and ill-feeling than anything ever before
known In Lafayette, Ind. Mrs Helen M.
Cougar has been awarded verdict for
ssNo damages from Capt II I. Mander,
Chief OF Police Of Lafayette. Mrs.
Cougar IL a prominent prohibition and
woman suffrage advocate, and publishes a
temperance paper, which during the cam
In favor Of the election as State Senator
IF Mr. w n Wallace, who is also a pro-
hibitionist and woman -sutfragist shortly
after the election Mandler made the state
ment to Mayor Mckinley that he and anoth-
or person had seen Mrs Cougar and Wallace
enter the law office of the latter at o'clock
one night and remain there until after mid
night The story became public and Mrs.
Cougar hi fought suit for SANDER. asking sic,
No During the trial 40 witnesses were
examined and the testimony was of the
most contradictory character
A shocking tragedy was enacted near
Earlville, Delaware county, Iowa Charles
Smith, prosperous farmer, while laborng
M is supposed under temporary fit OF in
sanity, murdered his wife and two boys,
aged Is and years, using an ax to accom-
plish the horrible deed, and then com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a
butcher-knife. Two daughters made their
escape by iieeing from the house while the
maniac father was dispatching their mother
Fowler Brothers. who own and oper-
ate very large packing establishment, en-
ploying several hundred men, in Kansas City
have issued an order that all employees
while either on or off duty, must abstain
from the use Of Intoxicating liquors, and
must not visit gambling houses
Constable Mooney, of Chicago, was
fatally shot by a drunken saloon-keeper
while in the act Of reading warrant for the
latters arrest on charge Of wife beating.
Smallpox has been practically
stamped out in Illinois
One man was killed and another Sc
riously. II not fatally, wounded by mob of
riotous rolling mill strikers at Springfield,
III
Section G of the Normal School at
Normal, Ill, undertook mock funeral, in
which Section was supposed to be inferred,
and row resulted between both factions,
resulting in cut skulls, disfgured noses and
shaded eyes The conflict was short, but
fierce,
A party Of six men organized in Utah
in ISL to prospect for gold and silver in
southern Colorado While in the vicinity of
the present site Of Lake City, in Colorado,
binding storms coming on, they lost their
way and the food gave out For days to-
gether they lived on rosebuds The men be-
came desperate and some crazed While his
companions were in this condition Alfred G.
Packer deliberately fell upon and butchered
the whole party, and for several weeks lived
on flesh cut from their bones Packer has
Just been tried at Lake City, the scene Of the
awful crime of eleven years ago, and con-
victed OF murder.
There have been sixty cases of small
pox reported to the Health Department ut
ST Louis within month
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-04-19
How Protection Protects.
"What is tariff projections"

hat Is tuIlH pIotcetioH
II farmer should get law passed
to tax all the farm products of the
country, except his own, 40 per cent of
their cost, it would protect him in the
same manner that protective tariff
affects our manufactures.
But how would this protect the
farm hands, or the labor this favored
farmer employs?"
1t would add 40 per cent. to the liv-
ing expenses of their families, provided
the other farmers did us our manufact-
urers do; add the amount of the tariff
to the market price of their products.
Couldn't this favored farmer divide
his ~ per cent with his employees and
tins protect them also?"
He could, but he wouldn't, not being
obliged to, more than our manufact-
urers divide their 45 to 80 per cent.
protection with their employees.
But could our manufactures COM
pete with those of foreign countries
employing pauper labor without pro-
tection?"
II, after 100 years Of protection,
there is an American industry that
cannot stand, without being tailed up
at heavy expense to every other en-
terprise, it is hardly worth preserving.
And, from a broader and more human
itarian standpoint, it looks as though
English manufacturers, in order to meet
the tax imposed upon their importa,
ton into this country, might have been
compelledto reduce their employees To
"pauper wages" thus making us re-
sponsible in part for the crime of THEN
condition. Anti-monopolists must be
imbued with philanthropy broad
enough to embrace humanity, and {
sense of justice keen enough to permit
nothing in their creed to benefit them
at the expense of their fellows in any
other part of Gods green earth
chicago Express.
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POLITICAL.

Touching the recent Michigan cleo
tion, a Detroit dispatch says: The official can
yass Of the recent State election was made
Yesterday and to-day From returns nearly
complete it Is rendered certain that the Flu
sion nominees for Judges of the Supreme
Court and Regents OF the University are all
elected One Judge (sherwood) is not likely
to have over 900 majority. The other ma
jorities range from 1900 to s,o00'
Hon. William $. Holman, of Indiana.
denies being candidate for Speaker, and
also announces himself favorable to Mr..
Randall rather than Mr.. Carlisle
The Prohibitionists of Ohio are seek
chise and the plant now in use in the pub
licaton of the Cincinnati Journal, for the
purpose of giving the party thorough
going organ
Bills have been introduced in the
Pennsylvania Senate to prevent the manu-
facture and sale of internal machines. and
to prohibit stage representations of any
drama in which divinity figures
A proposed amendment to the State
constitution prohibiting the manufacture or
sale of Intoxicating liquors was defeated in
the lower house of the Connecticut Legis-
lature.
An error by an enrolment clerk has
invalidated the Revenue bill passed Mt the
late session of the Alabama Legislature.
The Georgia Democratic Convention
nominated Henry D. Mcdaniel for Governor
by acclaim, after special committee had
reported in his favor
Over 800 enthusiastic Democrats
gathered at the Palmer House, in Chicago,
to partake OF the second annual
banquet given by the 1roauois Club and to
listen to the flood of oratory which followed
the feed The principal speakers were SEN
ator Bayard, Of Delaware; Col William f.
Villas, of Wisconsin; James O. Brodhead. OF
Missouri; William Henry Hurlbert, OF New
York: Lyman 1rumhull Of Illinois, W. c. p.
breckenridge, of Kentucky; L. r. Wheeler,
Pr, sident Of tine New York Free-trade Club.
and Mayor Harrison Several Of the more
prominent invited guests were not present
The Delaware Legislature has enact
ed new law concerning murderers II
found insane, they will he confined in jail
or ASYLUM. Ii their sanity is regained, they
will be liable to trial or sentence.
4 proposed prohibitorv amendment
was defeated in the lower house of the
Michigan Legislature
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FOREIGN.

Lord Alcester admiral Sir Beau
champ SEYMOUR, speaking at banquet
given by the Lord Mayor Of London, paid .
high compliment to Rear Admiral Nicholson
| and the men of the American navy who
| were with him in the bay of Alexandra dur
| ing the bombardment of the Egyptian me-
tropolis last July
In testifying against Brady at Dublin,
Carey the informer, swore that he received
the sacrament Of the Eucharist regularly in
the Catholic church while plotting the
murders, and that he had been promised
| pardon for himself and his brother IL his
testimony was given freely and was salts
factory to the authorities
The examination of the dynamite con.
spirators in London was postponed after the
prosecuting counsel had made q statement
declaring that the Government had ample
proof of the connection of all the men ar
rested with a plot originating in Americs
and supported by funds contributed on this
side of the Atlantic. It was intimated that
the charge against the prisoners would be
changed from the minor one of unlawful
possession Of explosives to the graver one Of
conspiracy, and possibly to treason felony.
A significant declaration was made
by the Italian Minister Of Foreign Affairs,
while explaining to the Parliament the alli.
ance which has been entered into between
Italy. Austria and Germany. He said 1t was
hoped that . way might be found for solv-
ing the Tunisian complication, but that
i tall, not
| single power to obtain an exclusive pre-
ponderance In the Mediterranean, nor
would she allow the constitution OF great
empire In Africa
| In the course Of the examination OF
Featherstone, arrested at Cork recently on
| the charge Of conspiracy to murder, and
| who claims to be an American citizen un-
Justly accused, document found on his
person was produced, which was Endorsed,
"A cure for gout," but which was in fact a
formula for the manufacture of nitro-gly-
cerine.
The Irish National Land League has
received $500 from Australia Redmond
says the Phoenix Park tragedy and its devel.
| opments are hurting the cause in that
country.
The trial Of Joe Brady, the first Of
| the Phoenix Park assassns arraigned wac
| concluded ut Dublin on tho 18th of April
The jury, after an absence Of forty minutes,
returned o verdict Of guilty. Counsel for
the defense Immediately made motion 70,
arrest of Judgment, which was denied, and
Brady was sentenced to die on the 18th OF
May. He protested with vehemence that he
was innocen
Hong Kong dispatches report the
probability of war between China and
France, growing out Of the Tonquin affair.
China expects the assistance of some Euro.
mean nOwer
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WASH ON.

The Postoiiice Department has placed
Charles H. Rowan, presenting the Excel
sior Manufacturing Company, at Beaver
Dam, Wis, and j. n Williams, representing
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how much of the unredeemed amount
is in existence. ] will admit, for the
arguments sake, that it is all lost, and
even then show that the metallic cur
reney which replaced it has cost us
more than Sl,0OO,OOo n year Allow
me to :uote from n recent letter from
Hon. /. L. Spinner, ex-Treasurer of
the United States, in contrast to what
you say about the loss of 1000. 900
and Oh whom it falls. The Watchdog
Of our treasury is good authority, and
from his letter, dated Jacksonville,
Fla, Feb. 2, and addressed to Wallace
+. Groom, New York, quote verbatim
'lou will recollect that the Government
borrowed $40, 0OO, 900, Mt 5 per cent. in
terest, wherewith to buy the silver from
the kings Of the silver mines, for the
coinage Of the fractional tokens OF
the fractional paper currency, over
81 10000 annually was lost Tile
must have assumed this, for it cannot
be proved This loss by individuals
Injured to the benefit Of the whole peo-
pie Of the United States, us the public
debt was decreased to the amount oil
the lost currency. II the metallic cur.
rency Is lost, II Is u dead loss, benefit,
ing no one
Mr.. Spinner calls to mind the fact
that our Government borrowed Si0,-
DOC, 900 at ire per cent. interest To buy
metal, with which to make currency t.
replace that which cost lis nothing,
and answered the purpose nearly as
well in all cases, vastly better in nearly
all. The interest on this sum is 81,
600, 900 year, and has been paid by
the Government, the people, since 1874,
making SIC, 900, 900 as the cost to float
the metallic currency eight years, Il
sum greater than the entire cost to the
people during the fifteen years use al
fractional paper currency, admitting all
outstanding an cunts to be lost. 1t il
even worse than this, for, Us Mr.. Spin.
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JrDGE not 10y appearances. 4 woman
can carry IL pockethook in her hand just
as proudly when it only contains two
horse-car tickets and latch key a.
when full Of bills.-L0UeH Citizen.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-06-07
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Coon ESorGu THE closing exami.
nations of the Unionyille and Centre
Hall Grammar Schools were interesting
and satisfactory. | was also present at
the closing exercises of the second and
third grades Of the Philipsbure schools,
which were creditable to both teachers
and pupils. The teachers and pupils Of
the Millheim Grammar School began
the collection OF minerals, for which
the Board provided a suitable and con.
venient cabinet They also supplied
the school with a Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary, set of charts and outline
maps, and frames for the preservation
of specimens of drawing and penman.
ship. Go. Saya H1L " Pnna. N.ia9'
Journal, for imr.