—————————————————— THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED KURTZ, . Editor . . Cextre Harn, Pa, Feb. 8, 1883. Vanderbilt has a scheme by which he proposes to reduce the time between New York and San Francisco thisty-six hours. The entire journey can then be made in about four and one-half days, instead of over six days as at present. —— i ti cmon Somebody expects to make a million out of a patent ballot box, says “an ex- change. There can’t be much improvement, for dozens of millions are made by some fel- lows out of the dld ballot box. co From Vicksburg comes the following horrible piece of news: Early this morning, 29, a metal coffin was caught floating in the river at Delta Point, oppo site this city. Upon examination it was found to contain the body of a young la- day bandsomely dressed in a white rep silk dress, with a rich lace collar around her neck. The dress and collar were as white and perfect as when first buried. The face of the corpse was much discol- ored. The coffin was of an old style in use some twenty years ago and was heav- ily white enamelled. It is thought the body must have been buried fully fifteen } or twenty years ago and to have been cast into the river either at Lake Provi- dence or near Goodrich’s Landing where the cemeteries are caving into the river. The body, after being viewed by a number of persons, was buried at Delta Point. at —— Winter in the North-west seems to have had a terrible effect on live stock. Advices from the Canadian northwest state that ranch compenies in the Bow River district have lost several thousand head of cattle owing to the severity oi winter. The Cochrane Ranch Company have been obliged to drive their cattle southward from the Collgarry district to Fori McLeod, where, owing to the chinook winds from the Pacific coast, the climate is warmer. - > The Supreme Court of Vermont has declared the liquor law of that state un constitutional and on writs of habeas cor pus, discharged three persons from pris on who were serving long imposed by a justice's court for selling liquor, on the ground that the liquor law was unconstitutional when it allow- ed such commitments, not giving the ac cused the right to appeal to higher courts and a trial by a common law jury. The opinion was given by Judge Powers and attracted considerable attention. sentences, , -— A despatch frora Matomoras, Mexico says :—“At the fireworks factory of Seu Meyra, in Amacuecs, a territic explosivi occurred, foliowed by flying rockets avo bomous. Mey:a and jour other mewbers of his family were burued to death aud 2 nuiuber of other persuns were bad) ivjured.” ms —— PT — ff —————. Jumbo Solomon, of the sausage and pon-huss orgau, wishes us to auswer questious. All rigut, bat we first fia stipulations: 1ty, Tue questions must be easy and pot ugly —eise We'd aliuust =8 suon be bit win 8 snow-bali as answer. 2iy, 1 Liere must be Du Bucs du them. Ji, Tuere wost Le uo Laun words iu thew. 4iy, Tuere wust be LO povlrY. bly, Ae Sowm nu says he Was a schoul-teachier, glug wih a guzen uther trad. 8, there wust be uu bad spelling as on tumu stoues in un adjoining vilisge put up wuen he was teacuer aud stoue-cubier. Biy, The stunners must but Le dsked iu winter, #8 we dou't want the dog days broughis Ou vut of sessull —Ouly luvs Bek QUesiivus In COId weatuer. ly, All we contedriws muse first be sent th RerPoxTeR fur revision. S.y, Tuey mu t nut Le tu Bu issue of bis sheet which Liss Auy Hierdiure beggiog lor apples, musa gus, puti-huss Or vtuer trucs, us we cvuld not, lu suc Ao Evel, Buswer seriously aud wituout lsoghiug. 9ly, There must be uoue 01 your awfuly profoend “suiz- busiuiog” about them; sutz 18 ueed Lu make bresd, sud you vave already spoil. ed your dougu with bed sutz. Teere i» no weed uf showiug off profound, all ad mit your great deptn, yasticalriy ace 8. the pou-tivés sud bresuuvsske:, uly, Tuere wust be nothing aveut beiuy grasping, is would be out of piace irom uhe who is graspiug mto the trades of all his ueighibors who are coutent with one trade, bbly, (Sawe as vol. of RePORTiR) We must have the privilege of faliing back, in this mateer, ou Proverbs 26:4, [. These jost stipulations being xed, w. will agree, in vur suswers, not 0 touch upon eytuing hike aidiog and abetuny furging and swindling as a rale, such a was siluded to in the Watchman whe Jawbo Sulumon was the republican can didae for treasurer. That nothioy in our answers shall touch pos avythiog relat ing w » frauda'ent bili fur some or $400 fur printing the new Coustitution in the ~ho-8 urgan, which the law di- rected should appear four weeks in suc cession, previous Ww ele. tion, but appear- ed only one week bel .re, PT | ” fraudulently dated bak, and bill hen sworn 10 before Jumbo, of the ponchos organ, who st that time was a republi can Notary and sliowed the oa h bt) be taken knowing sometuing was not right, An At a meeting in Dublin to device meams for the relief of the distress io [retand, Justin McUar hy said he antici aed a proch of famine to be leit i Feb roary and Mareh, O'Donnell, member f Parviament, made a violent attack ups the Goverment, whioh, he sai’, had mi li ms to spare. for biyoneting Egyp- 8 bot none tor relief work, W. Grodrich, Weightavills, Pa. says: Reown's Leon Bitters entirely cured me of loss of appetite and lack of energy ” | QOetewayo has been reinstated King of Znlniand: About 5,000 Zulus were pres A Bride to Hand. The Hartford Courant prints the fol- lowing extract from a letter received by a Hartford lady from one of the return- | ed Chinese students: “I went home to | see my relations the last of March. — | ntives | were to see me looking so well and ro- | They all flocked around me and many questions. My little | nephew, sent by I : { Dis mother, came be-| to see if it} were real or false, I am going to tell] ron something which will surprise you. | Vhen I first landed in Shanghai my | father wrote to me that while I was| away a great many of his friends had | offered their daughters to be engaged to had at last, without a mandarin. Yeu know that it isacus- | tom here for the parent to contract mar- | those who are to be united. On hear-| ing of my engagement I tried to break it off, but without success as the Chinese | consider an engagement of marriage the most sacred contract. 1fit is once made it can never be broken. According to the Chinese custom, the younger broth- er ean not marry before the elder one. 1 have two younger brothers who have can. Therefore I was urged very strong- | ly by my relatives to marry right away. I did not like to displease my father by | opposing his wishes, so 1 consented to be united on the first of April Of course it is not a love affair, but 1 shall try to do my duty. A month after my marriage I came back here to resume my studies. After studying 4 months ten of us have passed the examination as midshipmen, and we are now awnits | ing to go on board the training ship, | which has gone to Canton for repairs. | chow river. The place has about four thousand inhabitants, and has principal street. each end resting on the river, forming in shape a horseshoe. — We sometimes go to the Chinese theater. It is very mountainous here, but is ev- erywhere cultivated, even the top of the mountain, We often elimb the moun- tain snd ramble among the rice fields; semetimes we go through a village, | where we meet village maidens wear-| ing ear-rings measuring four or five] inches across. Another country girl] hair with so many pios, | sticks, and toys that it protrudes about | a foot and a half from ber had” E—— Muoffs, Unmistakably. While in San Francisch Sara Jewsatt, KULress, told some friends t she was in England a y¢ WAS one dresses her © ung man nsked | as wed in whether it true a voung girls were a ail tha $08 } $ » Fy su 130 4 ica 10 go Out waiking, i wis replic d Miss Jewett, “it f the United States! "Yes," many parts -perhaps in most.” “What an eggstronary coun un « the in 3 is the trv." re-| “And have yern ont that way?’ Frequently.” “And did the men never try 10—10-| kiss vou, vou know?" Ng vor.” “What a lot of muflis!” ————— ® A— r nuous Briton. ¢ | | Girlish Troubles Thoughtless people who imagine that! girlhood is free from the cares and apx- | jeties of mature years will be to know that the spring time of exist-| surprised} ty “My sister is ¢ died mor good-natured than I" said] sixteen to her friend, “but then] has none of my troubles. Her! m SET I08. ta Hey inl aati lite cu Extract from a female phy ieian's oops | tifieate, filed at the office of the Boston | board of health, on the desth of a gin baby: “Age 5 minutes; cause of desib a long term of sickness.” : ———— BAI — Districts Jallefonte borough Milesburg borough ildiheim borough 4 Puilipsburg borough 43 Howard borough b5 Unionville borough ) Beuner township 50 Burnside 8 Cullege Curtin Ferguson Gregg Haines Harris Half Moon fiustcn Howard Liberty Marion Miles Patton Penn Potter Rush spring snow Shoe Taylor Union Walker Worth State Ta $82 17 § © oD $4502 vd 630 1811 400 399 19 Vag a 15% RN id wid why a9 8 4 <4 8 i yi! 30 5 10 70 85 a 2°20 ot] 78 04 9 Tt ix i id “" 43 10 at 45 58 0 22 09 20 90 23 97 17 76 TW 27 80 3 42 12 55 24 a3 109 52 14 30 84 60 9 10 1 80 2 7 305 It BRIG 3587 4 2840 48 1929 2, 377 21 550 & O58 Hu 1006 1739 & 9 3 1601 45 17356 bb 4400 24 823 It 3003 3 708 44 446 11 640 H4 2800 32 3963 8G $1260 42 $53005 4b Ah A —— -— wwee]f you want the best canned o Aeied feait in the world | the nicest oys- ters ; the purest and best sagars, coffee and tess; pure nnd nnadultersbed spices ; fresh snd cured meats; cheese, cracier- pens, vans, yegetubles, soaps, brushes, or anything belonging to the line of tem ity groceries, headquarters for such Secolers, in the Bast bouse block. Try hem, 60 17 77 So me WANTED | Two relisble men to solicit orders for sur Nursery Stock in this and sdjiinii g ‘ountivs, on a sluts, We give a month's tris! (and sdwsnes money fi ‘he expenses of the same), and, if speces. ful, sendy iy cyment and good pay vddress, Bi BASH di, (Eu. Uinse Nurseries, Poiladuiphin Pa, 0 close samp ) HN on8L ent at aT i May, chiefs ox 4 ‘ac wm Alu 0a which be was fused. » ebm - SARL [i 4 When the “Central America” went Down, Apropos of wet weather there comes to us a reminiscense of the loss of the Central Ameriea between Aspinwall and New York. Pony Easton, of pleas- ant memory, said: “The Deacon was walking the deck, Capt. Herndon and | were on the wheel-house, Where Billy Birch was I don't know. Well, the ship went down, and 1 thought we | should never get to the bottom. Then ' I thought we should never get to the | top—and poor Herndon never did. 1 came up alongside the Deacon, and we were all paddling away. As soon a8 | we could breathe the Deacon said, ‘Ob, Mr. Easton, this is a terrible moment! You have led a worldly life. Do yon feel prepared for the great change which is about to overtake us? Shall I} offer up a prayer? Now, if the fact | must be known. I was at that very time | doing my own praying and didn't want | anybody to hold my proxy. 1 spied a | man a little way off holding on to some- thing, and, as the Deacon was discour- | aging, I thought 1 would swim away | from him. It turned out Billy Birch, and, as 1 came up to him, he | sang ont, ‘Hello, Pony, is thut vou? | Terrible wet weather, ain't tf" | Quiz. 10 be —— i ——— Fighting Against F “Higher than Gilderoy's kite.’ The words came with mournful dis. | tinctness from the ashen lips of Aristides Muleahey as he stood within the pre. cinets of a vine-embowered cottage, his | handsome face pallid with gri while | the nervous twitching of the rian! mouth at ate, 1 y grief, that was overhung by a drooping muns- | tache showed how bitter was the pain | by which his soul was racks d. ! Bertie Ceeil, to whom he had spoken the words with which this chaptleropens languid fu ve gn 114 yshikosh smile ror his face. He 3 4 those super 10 v was seated cynical, I- playing ligh one of Ivy on a fauleuil, Vas whom nir steenth § en VO the rapid Ciy century has there in all hi pants one could see that been ind as he sat striped ouch his life and A gay AD‘; reckie i i 1 | day * & » # had held for him meh of disappoint | t and sorrow. “8 One, ‘So she refuses’, vou point bls 1. ot a . “Tea bear to ask i “She could nev- | i parents, and the little brothers and sisters whose lives were “erapped up in bers. God | love } "and the s fg s 18" he reply. er leave her dear knows | slepiin whi Hishe pair,’ Chi ago 1% . tM AGIs EI 3 y 2 : * a fad Result of a Deer-Hunt. Robert® of Chun arted out from Two brothers-in-law, James d William Capps, residents in. ¢ t 1 8B BLOTS fit : ent % A te home ot far from the branch sides of, | sve a bee. | { the ] SF ried, and ran inter "sir. Capps, ge be! ween Hobe deer, the Iatter fired. The deer reached the summit of a slizht ele- Roberts ran up and knees in the act of culting the deer’ g throat when Capps w alked up. as he approached, Roberts said to “Weil, Will, Pye got him." — replied Capps, ‘and you've got Roberts sprang up and look- ling at Capps saw blood trickling froma | wound just under his left eye. Roberts “My God, Will, have I shot you? CUnpps re- plied: “Yes, here in the left side.” Af {ter this utterance be turned upon his {heel and fell head first down the hill a i dead man. — Mobile Kegister. §¥ eer. hunt and Mr. « missed hi rk. in sight of Mr. Robert g undergrowth hiding 4 iret TH Bg & in ine ¥ r 4% 4 ’ rho was in « erts and the was on his La A “YX ¢ g'’ i | eried cn A AI Earnest Men's Imaginations, One more sleeping-car episode and 1 will close. A fat man frond New York engaged a lower berth last evening, and after he had retired he raised the cur. tain of his window and gloated in the cool moonlight and the fresh, pure air that came in at the partially opened easement. He was a great stickler for ventilation, and the thought that he was etting a glorious draught of heaven's pure air wade him happy. Finally, bathed in the magnificent moonlight, he sank to sleep. In the morning he awoke to find that the window was double, and that only one of them was open. Aside from the man who got up in the dark and kicked four panes of glass out of a bookease in order to get more air, and went 10 bed happy, 1 do not know of a sadder ease of misplaced confidenc.— Laramie Boomerang. Lighthouses are better appreciated by sailors than by actors. : ¥ we Read the published figures, of re daetion in prices on goo: 8 88 ant: unesd tn the new adverisement of C. D.nges, tound in ano her column, The Bar gin store bins made a yery important nove, Spnixe Mis Acapnmy, will open Apri 16, 1883, with Prof. LEWIS Reiren ws Priovioal, Siodents tanght all the bran: hes hecess ry to prepare for col -otlege. Boarding reasonable, 17jar 1 For low prices in job work, sale bills vbr, enll BY the Reporter office, or, sand your orders by mutl, Try us, 1 IN. I¥mreey, Ancrioneer, Spring Ml g—satis'ition guaranteed. and chwr- wen mn 1Hjandt is 3 Kitty's Prayer. “The misthress is dyin’, the docthors have said 840, Oh, who'd be a docthor, to bring us our deaths? sO, A feelin® the pulses, and countin’ the breaths! To drive to our doors In a vehicle stately, Outs. ‘ the hand for a fee on the wy, To settic our deaths for us very complately. An’ very contintedly lave us to ring “The misthress a dyin’ —it is such a pity— The master Just worships the ground ‘neath er trond, y— 1s there no cross ould woman could go In her stend? She trates us so kindly, we think it an bonor To inrn from herself ber own fligant ways; | I loved her the minute 1 set my eyes on ber, | An’ what will 1 do when she’s dead if you plasc? “1 hate our fine docthor! he ought to be | cryia’, But smiled as he ran to his carriage an | MIO, Jist afther he told us the darlint was dyin’— Bhure If she recovered bow quare he would look i i God's knows I am 8 poor little sarvint,” says Kitty, | “But even a sarviot can pray, 1 suppose!” | But shove all~even docthors—who down tion, With anger and grief in a terrible swing, Irish tongue praying with utter devo- tion, In faith that but few to their prayers can bring. The poor little OVE Implored with af oree that | | | gervant-her tears flowing | my verse cannot | the zeal of a saint, and the glow of 8 Haver, That. in spite of the doctor, the mistress might Hive. His stupified A hand De prayed, to be sure, but no hope bas his prayer in; in fuel, be was dazed, and could scarce un. derstand, Her delicate lips bad a psinful contraction, Her sensitive eyes seeming sunken and ginzed; He knew in hi tion: sorrow just 8 heart there could be no reac ye He just Suzed, sat and saw ber-in fact ho Was uivere A pallor loss ghastiy—the eyelashes 9 den sur Life springs to the face in a suc THLE Sho smiles at the master, her soul in ber A ROL ul hope—is # hope? alt terror? 1a aps up in his heart while he watches bis In it ite before death? is it fancy's sweet er Or oy A it be verily life? Oh, send for the doote r--death bangs on each minute ait for his fmt as that of a god— y remarics that there is something + leases of life with an autoerat’s Joy rings throug bh the house that was silent in RONEN, ster believes that be ne'er felt de spair, And Kir wl a) To think th atthey none of them knew of ber prayer ~{3004 Words, the servant lsughs out, ‘mid ber . Company, of Centre County, Pa. Cesta "Jarl January 8 1883 —In sé with the provisions of their twenty ~ffih annual statement of the trans actions of the company is here hy preseul od. ASSETS re aivable be- Pee nium notes 3 peyuhie by men be rg for insur sues Lie past year Pad on same fo which nddiax No 12, {s+ 8+« per cont off fur collection Cash in treasury Making ihe total avmilavle amels of ithe past year EXPENEES. Com pensation ot Di réclors ‘ninry of Bev'y Sainry of Treas, Printing, rent, post. age and stationery Election bogred Balances due Mrs J. Ww Conley Stewart, Appraiser Hainnce due Bem’l Vaniries Sam's Gramlev int O Dingoes lye on goods wtvd house J. W Evans loss On hogan Prof. D M. Wolf legs on library los Baker, int, Mrs Whitehill loss uf house Let Kimport loss on farm implements Buiunce due John H. Neidigh Coliipiln Cchimrier, Lhe Bill ' ¢ W joe msg $ 25995 19 601 0b 392544 196271 8,717 8400 $30,550 50 180 31 100 G0 60 00 3 oD wm Ee rt