’ (OLD SERIES, XL. VOLUME | Ngw SERIES, XV THE CENTRE REPORTER. By FRED KURTZ. | The State Treasurer of Alabama is a lefaulter to the amount of two hundred | thousand dollars. did it, Speculating in cotton | — ri —— A duel with axes is reported from New | At Socorro, N. M. | Sheriff Simpson brought to town as a | prisoner a Mexican who took part in a | terrible duel on the night te and another Mexican had been paying In settle their claims to the girl they themselves in a room and attacked other with axes. The brought to town had chopped 1 | in a horrible manner, severing the head | {from the body, while he himself is cut that he cannot live, And phan. Mexico, as follows : pevious, order to | locked | attention to the same girl. each man Was, | $3 118 now the girl may be left feria emia | The Williamsport Banner says J. K. | Bogert, of the Wilkesharre Union Lead: lamation. He recovered the fu of his claim. . That is the with such customers. class of persons who would, and oft Way There is anotl cheat printers out ol honest work, th candidates for positions, thinking newspaper men won instead of lawful gain. come next in order. across only 2 or 3 of the latter small potato patriots ee - —— The New Jersey House which provides that a vote of nine or more », and four or more of jury of six, shall be civil cases, of a jury of twelve taken as a the Government of Kl and several peasants have commi icide to escape witnessing the their starving families, ——t i The Supreme Court of tl rendered a decision of gre tance toboarding house keepers, lawyers justices, and the case in which the opinion was general originated in Allegheny county entitled Smith vs. McGihty. was for a debt, the defendant failed to pay a bill for board plaintiff and suit w what is generally known a ing house act,” in 1876. as insti passed by ti The justice before whom ase was originally heard rendere ment for the full amount of the | matter was appealed to Court, where the justice's decision It was then taken by tl plaintiff to the Supreme Court, and that | tribunal sustained the opinion of the Dis- | trict court, the judges holding that the act of "76 is unconstitutional and in con- | flict with other laws on the statute book, | and that a debtor has the right to the benefit of the “$300 law” in an action to recover a board bill t reversed, same hat he has in suit for any other kind of claim. sion, of course, “knocks the of the law,” and keepers of public houses |; will have to resort to some other means | This deci tom out to protect themselves - _——— "- : In another column we print the Gran- | ger tax bill as offered in the Legislature, | There are some good features in it and some too which will not meet with gen- eral favor. The second section seems to us to be too inquisitorial as to private af- fairs, and would be as unpopular as a similar provision was in the late U. Income Tax law. We haveonly given the bill a hasty reading, yet we observe a number of commendable features which the Rerorter may refer to hereafter, N In the Legislature Mr. M' Knight pro posed an amendment to the constitution reducing the number of members of the legislature to fifty, and senators to thir ty, and fixing the term of a senator at six years, and that of a legislator at four years. The members of the legislature shall receive a fixed salary per annum, the amount of which is not stated in the bill. This may be better than the present number, but we would say let there be 100 in the House and 33 in the Senate, as formerly, entting off 100 in the House and 33 in the Senate, It is thought by many congressmen that an extra session will be called by the President if at the present session there is no tariff bill passed. Sp on wt Jumbo must make no groundless charges, lest he find it the most sorrow - ful of any of his trades, L THE TARIFF IN CONGRESS, The tariff bill is kicked and cuffed in congress, what will be the outcome is hard to say. The Republicans are trying to dodge it, and had expected that the Democrats would undertake factions op- The party lines were not strong- The Republican plan is to re- their full strength in support of each dis- fi 1 whether this plan can be carried into effect when those schedules are reached location than . The Republi- ed more by geographical by party considerations cessity of making some revision of the ariff in deference to the strong current f ng in favor of reducing tax- tion, but they offer a mere pretense of a ff public fe a misleading devi- Ces, The Democrats, on the other hand not only be clear and intelligible bnt revenue by reducing not by the prohibitory rates. The Senate has re- the most difficult the metal schedule so rapidly he dues and imposition FS } cently gone through that the friends of the Kelly bill express ed greater hope of passing it than they Their purpose is to and to allow the disput- f course will be the most portant, t led by a committee of conference, » Pon t whether there of the House vill be time to whole bill is the net pre vision, to 3 . wet 11% 1088 11 i the were in the Senate ANDY non-enumera- mbles two or des on which dif eable there shall be h ame rate of duty it he highest duty, and non- 1 paid on suc article which ifactured from two or AHBORS- any of chargeable, be it under the The last clause of to the The purpose of the original should article is an addition nrovision, of course, was to thwart the lang of ingenious smugglers, but the ad- to protect without reference to revenue tricks of vised w-eral said: “The manufacture that may be de- When this clause was under con- Senate Senator Vance is trap wide ion in the friend enough and contain having spread a strong enough fo gather in and every conceivable article manufactured by the ingenuity of man for his comfort and convenience, in the composition of its wonderous nomenclature have like- wise superadded this residuary dead-fall by shambles of taxation this unknown in- vader of the vigilance of the Senator from Vermont, Mr Morrill. It is intend- ed that nothing shall escape the acute the intelligent greed and searching rapacity of this bill, which is cupidity, tion of the great centenary infant.” With the clause thus described Mr. Kelly has begun the revision of the tar- iff, not content to protect all existing in- dustries, but determined to protect all possible ones without regard to the actu- al or possible ainount of revenue. ms AY Gov. Curtin's bill, giving one armed and one legged soldiers a pension of $40, passed the House. Mr. Curtin says of this bill I reported that bill to the House and advocated it, and it passed unanimously, giving to every man who lost a leg or arm, or an equivalent disability, forty dollars per month the remainder of his life. It was my deliberate judgement then, as it is now, that in such cases men who served during the war and who are maimed in the manner described in the bill, should be supported by the Govern- ment. Irs the first decade after the war the loss af life in the class of men who lost arta or legs was seven in one thou- sand. In the next decade, or that part of the maxt decade which has just passed, the mortality in the same class of men was 31% per 1,000. It has been ascertain ed, not only from the opinion of scientific men and men whose profession would lead them to investigate such subjects, a8 well as statistics from the insurance of fices, that the average duration of life where an arm or leg is lost between the age of twenty-five and thirty-five, at which these people were thus maimed, is only fifteen years, If that is correct, and the mortality should increase for the future at a ratio worresponding with the past, the Govern- ment will not long be taxed to pay this I notice that plaints are made about that part of the bill which provides for an equivalent dis- Whility, equivalent disability should not be hard to ascertain, and in my judgement a dis- ability of that kind should carry with it the $49 per month which the bill pro vides for those ncrease of pension. com- What would be regarded as an Phere are, 1 believe, 9,000 of this class f disabled no difficulty in ascertaining to whom the im the departing nt would he quite im- 3.1 \ possible, No privates and officers in this bill. Ad une the just distinction «exists in present pension serving as the officer, and generally in greater need, Mr. Curtin said in conclusion, that he iil. as he thought “And when it a simple act it ig proposed to extend equally meritorious, I will be found ac- é " tive in the support of such measures, fo make clerks work 504 the Gov- hour more The one king eight hours, ¢ very wrathy ear like troovers, It labor one ut the year would three hours a day, and it is t that they he required t satisfied WARS let congress. The indica- ¢ 48s of inte 18 the aginst if justi © . : athor Caner mn protesting » i Rk Work. se CHAPS, id be i { at Washington I GEINAnA . -— igh th tirely thro e personal efforts of rep resentative Curtin that the duty on semlock bark extract, used for tanpiog i valorem, Mr. Cur in stated that there are nine counties in ill to 20 per cent, a nemiock, and there are also forests in Maryland, West Virginia and states for ther south, who appealed for a redaction on this ar ticle, was a firm 10 Massachusetts which nad bosght a million aud a half acres of vemlook forests in Canada aod hoped with the duty reduced to oblain practi. cally a monopoly of the market, _— GREAT OIL FIRE, Creverasp, 0, Feoruary 3 3, — At | Snarwer & Teagie's refluery onjthe Kings bury ran vapivded, aud biaziog oil fluwed | wo and spend over the oreek, which was | swollea LY the heavy raius to the size of {a river, I'he oil floated dowu to the | Standard Oil Works, wuich at 3 o'clock | this afternoon were on fire, and a sweep I ing von agra jou is threatened. Halt . d..zen tacks are biaziug and the reservior of benziue isin danger, 1f the beuzine catches fire the exient of the damages sure to foliow cannot be told. Five 12.000 barrel tanks, two 5,000-bar rel tanks, four sulls, ose agitator, an en gine-house, 500 fees of trestle aud various stoall works were desiroyed. The tanks were nut all 1a. Not ess th on 50,000 barrels of oil were consumed. The total /0ss by fire is a matier of speculation. It is estimated at trom $150,000 to $300,000, SEVERE WESTERN STORM. Chicago, 1'linois, Feb. 3-~The storm which began eariy yesterday continued with great severity all night. It extended ever the greater portion of Wisconmn, [ilinois, Indiana and Obio, 1s effect ix most di-astrous to railroads sod the telegraph lines are prostrated in all di rections, communications with many sur- rounding cities being Sutirely saspened, Tie ruilroads, especially in Illinois, are blockaded, and but few traius are run. In thin city last night street travel was difficult. Rawlins, Wy. February 3.—It began gnowing here on Monday last in the als ternoon and it has suowed incessantly until Thursday night, accompanied by high winds, Raflroad traffic is at a gtandatiil, All trains on the Laramie di. vision of the Union Pacific sere aban doned yesterday, The reilroad Jompany has sent out snow-ploughs and a large foree of men to o the orm is general throughout southern Wyoming and fears wr en for stock and especially sheep. Toronto, Ont, Feb, 3.-~From one to three feet of snow fell in western and porthe n Ontario last night, The pas- senger trains on the various railroads are several hours late and the freight traios are at astandatill, : 6 EQUALIZATION OF TAXES, The Granger Bill to be Presented to the Legislature. st smn The following is the Granger tax-bill presented to the legislature : Be it enacted ete, Brcriox 1, From and after the passage of this act assessors of the several townships, boroughs and ci- ties of this commonwealth shall annual- ly, in the month of December, nssces all taxable persons, natural or artificial uwning or in possession of real estate and visible personal property at its actus: notes, bills and other evidence of debt of juterest, and due from solvent debtors, be exempted from taxation by the first tution of Pennsylvania, Bec, 2. To enable said assessors to as- every taxable person, firm, association est bearing bouds, mortgages, notes, bills ebt of any and amonat of which several obligations shall be eet to the name of every such taxable person, firm, association or cor- thus ascertained sball form the basis or shall be taxable, and any aod every obli be entered in the assessor's book shall, while so withheld from sssessment, be uncoilectable by any suit, process or pro- commissioners’ office all the statements Bec 3. The said sesessors shall assess ue of their capital stock as represented Sec. 4. Assessors shall state in their upon the premises of sny taxable person, association or corporation or charge thereon, and deduct the same from the valuation of the encumbered property : tector of the tax, which amount the ssid taxable person, rm, association or cor- poration shall be entitled to offeet a8 pay- i i | 1 i 1 { i i Sze. 5. Assessors shall make return an- nually, on or before the 15th day of Dee eember, to the county commissioners or board of control, as the case may be, of their assessments and valuations. smc 6. Toe county commissioners and and papers for each district, and every ity of law shall, before enberi upon the duties of uffice, make oath or Lrenation as directed by the provisions of this act ; lect or refuse to assess all property at its cash valve and wmske a return thereof by a fine of noc less than one hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for « term of not less than thirty days por more than one year, : smc. 7. Coonty commissioners and boards of control sball annually in tue month of December, tabulate the returns of the assessors, to ascerfain the exact amount of 18xable property in their re- spective counties sud cities. And it shall be the doty of the governor of the state 10 furnish annually to the said county commissioners and boards of control an estimate of the amount necessary to be furnished by the several couantiesand ci- ties respectively, to defray the expense of the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the state government, in- clading interest on the public debt, ex- penses of the department of public in- struction, and the smouat authorized by iaw fur common schools, soldiers’ orphan schools, charitable institations, pensions and gratuites and Natiooal Guards, to enabie the commissioners and boards of control of the several counties aod cities to form sn approximate standard of as- sessment ; and commissioners of coun- ties and boards of control of cities shall sonunaliy estimate the cost of their re spective county governments, including expenses of the courts of justios, support ot prisoners and all other institutions in care of the county, The proper officers of townships and shall annual. iy estimate the cost of the township or borough government, including cost of hos al f a thesame support of poor, and report to county commissioners annually. The several amounts #0 ascertained of tax re- quired for Je annnal bet af the gov ernments of Penneyl en togethe er shall form the standard of taxation, Sec. 8. The commissioners the several counties and the boards of control of vities shall lev asuually on or afore the firs day of May a mill rate of taxation on all person, pnt gr BAL t ty, ° . ito f he ve districts du h ey of ha firms, Sra su Qurporutions assesed n aguardanee with this act, County Sec. 9. boards of control shall shall give a judgement bond, with ap proved sureties in double the sum of the amount of his duplioste ; said bond to contain a confession of judgement; and the said commissioners or board of con- trol shall enter the same of record in the court of common pleas in the proper county, Every collector appointed under this act shall be required to collect the several amounts oa bis duolicate by the tirst day of January next succeeding his appointment und pay the same the to trea- surer of his county or officer of his city authorized to receive the same, and when a collector has paid over all amounts not exonerated by lawful an- thorities, he and his sureties shall be dis- charged from his bond. Collectors shall be entitled to a commission of 5 per cent. on ail sums collected : Provided, that any taxable person, firm, association or cor poration, who shall pay his tax direct to the county treasurer on or before the first day of Beptember, shall bave abated from his tax the amount of percentage otherwise paid to the collector. Sec. 10, Commissioners of counties and boards of control in cities shall annually auathorize the treasurers of their respec- tive counties and cities to pay to the treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania, on or before the first day of Beptember, the amount provided for the state govern. ment in section 7 of this act; also to the treasurers of the several townships and boroughs and school districts io their re- spective counties the amounts provided for township, borough and school dis- tricts in section 7 of this act. Sec. 11. County treasurers shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the county com- missioners of the respective counties, which salary shall not exceed one and one-half per cent. on all moneys received and disbursed, Bec. 12. All laws which are inconsistent with this act of taxation by general law are hereby repealed. Senseo A An t—— URIAH MOYER, MIDDLEBURG. Governor Pattison issued a reprieve for one week to Uriah Moyer, one of the mur derers of the Kintzlers, who was to have been executed on February 28th, at Mid- dlehurg, Snyder county. The respite was granted on a petition containing the name of the president judge and his associates, iogether with the commissioners snd a 'srge number of other prominent ertizens, In ssking for the change of time, the rea. sons urged were: That the execution hav. ing been fixed for court week, it would pecessilale unnecessary expense upon those excited state of the people,.and as the sher, iff would not beable to sttend 10 his usual court business. The sheriff of the county, who was talked 0 recently, says Moyer hes given up all hope of commutation of his seutence and that the impending doom fully occupies his mind; is i= ever constant with him, the last thing when he sinks to rest upon his prison couch, and the first thing when he awakes in his cell in the morning —turn where he will he sees in his imagination, the scaffuid, and seems to realize the dread performance in which be is to be the unwilling principal sector. The sheriff appears to think that Uriah will nerve himself 0 undergo the sore or- deal without flinching. As yeu. however, be has not schooled himseil sufficiently to speak about it without appearing affected, The doomed man seems 10 bave s good appelite and relishes his meals which be takes with great regularity, and apparently sleeps well. The visit of his son, who isa young suan, to the cell of the doomed father, which took place last geek, was an affecting scene as described by the witness, During the conversation, which occupied nearly two hours, no reference was wade to the sad event which is to deprive the son of his father. The buoy amused the father with several tunes performed ona mouth organ, on which be is an expert The execution will take place now on March Sth. i ut SNUW SLIDE. Terrible Disaster in the Rocky Moun tains. Dxxver. January 81.— Last uight aboyt three miles from Crested Baltes, occurred one of the most disastrous snow slides ever known in the Rocky Mountain regions, Late in the night thirty men, employed in the Howard F. Smith suthracite coal mine wore startled from sleep by an ominous rumbling noise, and almost instantly the avalanche was upon them. The building in which they were sleeping was crushed to atoms and the human occapants hurled down the mountain side. A rescuing pan ty started out from Crested Bulle ss soon as the news was received, and after severs al hours, of indefatigable labor, tho men were all recoversd. Philip Carmin, Lo gan Inman, Louis Richards, Wm Moore, Chas. Bette, &. J. Raymond and one other, name unknown, were found dead. Righ. teen others were wounded, several fatally. was destroyed. A passenger (rain yester- day, when within six miles of Crested Bute, divided, the engine going ahead to clear the track. When about four miles from where it left the connhes the engine was sirack by a snow slide, ditched, and fs now under about twenly feet of snow, ing, could not gel nearer than two miles of the conches and returned to-night for provisions for the starving passengers. AR MS MA A Ml pol TWO PUGILIST IN A DYING CONDI. Pierssusa, Jagvary 31. MeFerrop, TT ET "NO. 6. AAS - one of the principals in last Saturday's rize-fight, near ester, this Btate, is n a dangerous condition and it is believe ed that he cannot recover, He is suffer. ing trom an affec ion of the heart, which wae seriousiy aggravated oy the fight The Swede, Gilsone, who fought several weeks ago near Sharon, is also in 8 very precarious condition. The referees and other particija its in both figlits are pre~ paring to leave the city in the eveut of the death of the men. - a» BAD FOR BRADFORD, A DISASTROUS FLOOD INUNDATES AROUT FIVE HUNDRED HOUSE: Brapyorp, February 4 —Brodford was visited Baturday night by a disastrous flood which inundated about 590 houses slong Pearl, Globe, Buvaton, Floreuce, Pine, Main, and other sivects. The low. er part of the city, was submerged in some cases to a depth of fen feet The flood was caused by the rains of Friday and Saturday and the melting of the snow in the mountains. Five bridges were swept away and several houses slong the banks of the creek were badly damaged ot totally destoryed. Eighty five fawi- lies in the flats between here and Tarport living in one-story houses, had to flee for their lives when the ice gorge broke, leaving all their effects, and many of the houses were swept away. mss i onal. Mp ro Some Animal Btories. 1 used to know a lot of stories about animals and things,” said the old man, dropping a Nevada paper and regarding the exchange editor earnestly. “Some of ‘em was quite curi’s and interestin’,” and he leaned back im his chair and joined his finger tips meditatively. “Animals do some very strange things," assented the exchange editor. “Which reminds me of my roan mare,” continved the old man. “1 think that roan mare know'd more’'n & hired girl. She had a tail that reached the ground and you ought to seen that mare catch trout.” “How did she do it?’ asked the ex- change editor, brightening up. “Well sir, she'd back up tothe stream and flip her tail in the water, and out Sometimes the air would id mare a Oh, she was old Sagacity. Once a man stood watchin' her and dodgin’ the fish, and all of a suddint he referred to one as a speckled beauty. That roan mare just his brains “Served him right!’ commented the exchange editor energetically. “But she died,” sighed the old man “How did that happen?’ “The trout fixed it up on her. One day about a gross of "em got hold of her tail to once and hauled herin. She made it pretty lively for ‘em and when she went under a good many fish came to the surface laughin’! “That's pretty strong," exchange editor. “Speakin’ of strength reminds me of how my old brindle est used to open clams. She'd sit around and howl until the clam med his shell to throw an old boot at ber, and then she'd stick in her claw and tickle the soles of his feet till he got to sleep, and then she had him. iams is 8 very sagacious bird, too. Ever watch one?’ “Not until he was cooked’ the exchange editor. “] had one that was right up on him- self. The flies and mosquitoes used to bother him when he opened his shell, until he caught a spider and made him weave a web across his mouth, and then he was happy. Curi's thing about the clam. After that he used to open himself in the back to feed; opened on the hinge end 80's not to disturb the spider. My darter claimed that be was s young female and hooked up behind, but we all know'd better. “Can you show the clam ed the exchange editor. “No, sir,” replied the old man sol emnly. “He came to grief, too. You soe that clam was very fond of rats and used to sit in front of a rat hoie all day long and smell like cheese. We never could get on how he did it, but he did, That was his sagacity. When the rats came out he'd go for ‘em and I've seen him get eighty to a hundred a day. One day pr astager and that was the last of him." “Make it short,” muttered the ex- editor. “Yes, sir. Well, he the rat by the tall, and the rat just climbed over and tickled him on the other end. He open- ed and caught the rat's foot, but of course he lost his grip on the tail. The to scratch him pretty badly and took in “ other foot. In way the rat got shall conceded the sighed now?’ .— wasn't very hard. The until he his Then he had him." ," remonstrated the wasn't room for ‘em and the clam had to came,” he go?’ inquired the ex- editor. our Naow." answered the old man, impressively. — Brookiyn Eagle. During the last twelve months Amer. ean have been received by mail in nnd af {the rate of more than 28,000 a day, or ten millions a
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