’ (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 |
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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-
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of inte 18 the
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if justi ©
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Caner
mn protesting
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CHAPS,
id be i { at Washington
I GEINAnA
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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,
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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, :
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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