VOLUME { A THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'a. I'he son of Senator Fair, of Nevada, tried to shoot his father, the other day. The boy is 20 vears old, and was intoxi- cated. The Czar’s coronation has been post- poned until the 11 of June. This has been a favorable spring for lumber operations. The paper was struck by lightning and burned to the ground on evening of 19th. mill near Cattawissa - ——— — Once Massachusettslcomplained loudly because the southern plantation overseer flayed the back of the negro. Now the Tewkskury alms! investigation de- velops that Massachusetts gros hide. Ouse tans the ne- ———aics fefnstfmsmmguma—— Dukes altho’ cleared of : murder, wears the mark « foul of and bids fair to walk the earth dispised and hated. The following incident occurred one day last week : Dukes was stoned on 17, by Miss Nutt's younger sister, Annie, aged fif} she most Cain, en years, of the she was passing along side of the wried a cobbl jumped into the house : The school chil he walks him standin front ) HOUsSe as saw Jennings * opposite I it street, and an. the stree Star i Mr. RB iim to represent thi in of the Czar. Vanderbilt thinks of 1 for the Penn'a R. Seaman, a resident of lively WwW. W. about three months, says Alto that he 1 that Tuntingdo Vanderbilt £1 ikki agent for MifHlint y tA Altoona, 1134 hii risburg, wn, } Hollid town, and other important ii tha Poanndceivearni the Pennsylvani: rone, Ay ly reached by tem will be tapped by Vanderbilt's route, He mays they have three thom sand men employed in the Clearfield re- gion and that about thirty-five civil en- gineers are engaged in locating the road thr Clearfield, Blair and Cambria rough we World thi Massachu ets, he ihe weve thelr Butler, will scares ly deny ous may be ing of bodies of paupers for the private behoof of almshouse keeps the tan- te 1 OTe ning of the skins of « the | paupers and of paupers fo pur- " for the keep “rag rugs are objectionable denndation pose of making er's floor practices. that but these practices would not have been brought to light. The moralists are, however, compelled to maintain either that these practices not a discredit to the keeper of the almshouse, or else that the exposure of these practices, although it would be a cretlit to anybody else, is not a credit to Governor Butler, or else that the Governor deserves the thanks of the Commonwealth for his action. We may be sure they will not adopt this last course. Either horn of the remaining dilemma is painful for a moralist to im- pale himself upon, and it will be amus- ing to watch which is selected by the moralists of Massachusetts as the less painful, J Neither can the moralists deny for the efforts of the man of sin are We a s——— A nice question has been raised in Massachusetts by a suit against a mem- ber of the Legislatare for $10,000 dam- ages for slanderous words gpoken in de- bate. The plaintiff maintains that while perfect freedom of speech in debate is allowed any member of either house, sich privilege does not extend to words spoken maliciously and not in execution of the official duty of a member. bly if this action is successful, the prin- viple may be extended to holding mem- bers of the bar accountable for verbal nesaults on witnesses, A penalty for of fences of this character is vastly more needed than one against legislators, says the Pittsburg Post, and the Reronrter thinks so too. No lawyer should be al lowed in court to slander a party to a suit or a witness in a case, which is so of- ten done in court, and is highly unpro- fessional, i Pe RE]. oo. e The patent process flour has got into the U. 8 Supreme Court, and an argu- ment was begun in & case which may prove to be one of much interest and im- portance to all millers who make what is known as “patent process” flour, The case is that of Robert L. Dounton, appel- lant, against the Yeager Milling Com pany, which comes there upon appeal A —- from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missoun- ri. “It is a suit brought for infringement of a patent granted April 20, 1875, upon the improved process of manufacturing middlings flour by crushing grain tween rollers. Among the defenses set up by the Yeager Milling Company is that Dounton’s patent is void for want of novelty in the invention. If the deci- sion of the court should turn upon this point rather than upon one of many oth- er points of law involved, and thus settle the question of validity of the patent, the case would be one of much importance, be- since most of the large mills in this coun- try have substituted rollers for stones, and are now manufacturing patent pro- cess flour. ’ o> The gtar-route trial closed last week in hearing Next long witnesses, come speeches by a half dozen or more law- vers, who, it is hoped, will get through in time to let the jury clear by the dog- If these rascals, Brady, Dorsey & Co., don’t get to the there is not much use in having those in- stitutions any longer. days. penitentiary, then - The Philadelphia Recorders act has by the Gov- wipes out a $30,000 been repealed and signed ernor. This vear office that was created a per few years fat a reward fi % » 1.1 i nnn hilican LHe epubiIcans Boss Quay managing the machine and from which % 3 ago by tO make a thing for as Tr 1 to derive the a heavy assessment to grease machine. This is a commendable 4. } 3 “ ¥ - y i, 5 step in the direction of Reform » at Milton, iv lor “ . Bchuyler, and Pa., by B. neatly printed, the Cextre Re- wlitorial and local make- ability as does the mechanical skill. I, : Rec ¢ wr, and & graduate of - AT HARRISBURG. The test upon rie TY 3 silemnity the indemnity “ the constitutional ry amendment in the House on { r ler” hikit AERA proposed ) 9th on second reading was a genuine surprise to both si anti-prohi- ies. The bitionists had no idea their vote, which to retain the “rider,” would Was i WO large, while the temperance advo were simply disgusted at the sight structed delegations, notably those of Westmoreland and Clarion, going back on them. The vote, 110 t , was a fair notice that the House means to crush the in this The tem perance men will now rather turn in and kill the amendment rather than let it go ont to the people with the indemnity “rider” attached. ways friends, £2 ii amendment, and the movement Legislature is a failure, The temperance cause has al- suffered most from pretended The compensation amendment to the the prohibition act was defeated in the House on Friday, by a vote of 151 to 27. The 27 voting in favor of compensating the liquor men, are: Messrs, Barnes Bierer, W. C. Brown, L. B. Brown, Bur nite, Bart, Carey, Dearden, Gates, 8. R. Graham, F. Hall, A. W, Hayes, Himmel- rich, Hoofnagle, Hulings, Jenkins, laf ferty, Martin, Meyer, Mayton, McCrum, McMillan, Neeley, Parcels, Smith, Stees, W. E. Thompson. The congressional apportionment as fixed by the Senate committee, gives the Republicans 18 and the Democrats 10 members, Our district is made the 20th, with Clearfield, Centre, Clarion and Jef- ferson. The Reromrer is inclined to think the Republicans will hardly find the Democrats green enough to help them in this 18 to 10 arrangement. The other districts in the central part of the state under this bill would run thus: Twelfth District—Luzerne and Carbon. Thirteenth District—Schuylkill and Lebanon. Fourteenth District—Dauphin, Frank- lin and Perry. Fifteenth District—Bradford, Tioga, Potter, Clinton, S8allivan. Sixteenth District—Lycoming, thumberland, Montour, Columbia. Seventeenth District—Fulton, Bed- ford, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, Sny- der, lighteenth District ~Cambria, Somer- set, Blair, Nineteenth Cumberland. Twentieth District—Clearfield, Centre, Clarion, Jefferson, Twenty-first District Fayette, Greene, Washington. Senate bill requiring notaries public to J weph Nor. District «York, Adams, | place the time of the expiration of their Senate bill to prohibit from | treating other persons to drinks was passed third reading, after an amendment offered by Mr. Henning er to except various malt or li persons intoxicating brewed lig- aors, i Senate bill to prohibit change of text books more than once in five years was passed. — — The Ohio Reg the back-track on the prohibition question a few years ago they were ra miblicans have taken mpant prohibition, and lost the German thereby. for vote They are how steering in an opposite direction to get it back again. The Pittsburg Post says: The liquor law passed by the Republican Legislature of | Ohio, not only provides a IH cense, but relieves the large the operation of the Sunday is a novelty in Legislation, and i8 clear as sunlight, That is the Republican Germans to t moral ideas and prodigi } law is correctly stated no party ever before so truckle liquor interest. It: laws in the rural districts in all or, but abolishes them in Cincinnati and Cleveland as a bid fi And the party th country wmintains the Sunday their vig- ir the German vote at 18 doing this is the COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS COMPAR- | ISON, The Harrisburg Patriot says: . the most interesting items in che tics furnished io the annual reve pariment is the indebtedness of ail the counties in the state, the debt an ing to the large sumpf §76,301 87¢ average of more than one millios county. Philadelphia county | with $68 453,820.67. Next comes Alleghe- | ov with $4423 003.07. Delaware follows with $465,000 and Chester with $320 000, Lancaster is not much behind with 8279,- 000, after which comes Crawford, Berks, Armstrong, Dauphin, Lackawanna and | Lycoming in order named, all owing more than $100,000, From this sum the figures dwindle down, Pike being the lowest on the list, the indebtedness be- ing only $2,800, There are no fewer than twenty-nine counties that have no dei atall, Among these figures are not in- cluded the city, borough and township indebtedness, which would swell the ag- gregate very considerably. acnasp——— I Aa so The Lebanon Independent publishes the particulars of the consternation that was created at 8 mock religious revival meeting near Pine Grove Behavlkill county, the other night. The meeting was organizedfin a bar room, and design- ed as a take-off upon a meeting held pre. viously in a neighboring church which had the effect of depleting the patronage of the bar. One blasphemous wretch af- ter a mock sermon and prayer invited his associates up to the mourners’ bench where they went through a mock cere mony of an emotional character. They were about to partake of a sacrament of the Lord's supper, lignor from the bar having beenjprovided for the purpose, when a figure entered the room that summarily dispersed the gathering. The figure was black with large flery eyes, lower limbs pacing like a goat's and round hoofs like those of a horse. In his hands he held a book in which he asked those present to write their names, He looked very much like the traditional “old nick” and his appearance sent the ‘blasphemous parly scampering in all di- rections, nue onnts § SRR OF a wee Sweet potatoes at Sechlers, Oran- ges and lemons at Sechlers, All the best canned and dried froits at Bechlers Fresh and enred meat always to be had at Bechler's meat market. The finest gyrup in the land at Sechlers, The best and purest sugars, coffees, teas and spi- ces, at Bechlere. All the vegetables in season at Bechlers, Fine confectioneries, nuts, eto., at Sechlers, The choicest to- bacco and segars at Sechlers, Queena and glassware and wood and willowware at Sechlers, Btooeware all sizes and shapes at Sechlers, In short, everything in the grocers line, guaranteed fresh ure and wholesome at Sechlers, All inds of country produce taken at Sech- lers and the highest pr paid for same, 4 SSAA A SI MO ie In New York Mr, Bowen charges Pat- rick Quin with offering him $100 to poi. ton his wife. ARBITRATION IN TRADE DISPUT. K3, William A Wallace hes been making sn interesti the senate Pennsylvania in favor of a bill introduced by him into that body providing for the ng argument in 0 trade disputes to special tris purpose. The de. rainged., The arguwent cowprises an ins teresting review of what hus actually boen done in different countries by applying the ile of In this arbitration country bee long peculiarly Lo older and more crowd ed countries, that we could scarcely expect much to bave been done with a device that can only come into general use rad of fil bas after the become clear, and Moreover, Lhe success of such constant us, a device, consisting as it does idance of nerely in of a The most gainel in the trouble, is not rtling ucee:s his been CON 2 %, us or sia kind. ortant s rs quarrels ware svoided by purely of the question at iss In England the building trades at Wolverhampton and the manufacttrers of hosiery and gloves at Nottingham ir years conducted ary reference have by arbitration jut the greatest successes of the principle ance, where there are : y ly submitted ibunals organ. om 20.000 to I pr { ference belween emp 10y~ TC Are Over one the em Every em- who con workingman fulness of strikes irial bel end, 1 uld foresea re { would he ught, but peace would s game terms upon which nade alter a great waste is true of war is fact And what #, which are in the WAN nly moral les! which can ke is that of expediend fled; if it fails, But in any case the time ' t ieceeds it is just i fad nsumed in il are absolule If look into imperial boards could the condi all 8 She success or i failure of is, 50 as Lo say when a de. higher wages is made whether ¢ demand is likely to be successful if ens rdered whether the reduced rate { business enables ¥ + at: a ¥ is clear that their s y iablishment would resull end ins great ge th f war would That is Lo say, i course the power of the law 1s Tbe R¢L Nn decision of any other tribunals What the law can d facilitate the submission of differences to tribunals before which both parties are fairly represented and which command the confidence of poth their in teiligence and integrity. The babdit submitting differences to arbitration must be formed, so that men who differ about any question of trade will natarally think first of a reference and not of a strike, Any legislation which tends to establish this habil is to be commended, and Senator Wallace deserves thanks of his fellow citi. zens {or baying introduced and urged the which promises to atiain this caninot hamper [reedor iaw cont or precribe thal men abide the ih th writs of Iustio than Lhe couris of jusiice ois lo ws he o { measure object. LIQUOR SALOONS IN MAINE Neal Dow, in last week's Independent gives an interesting pen picture of the kind of liquor saloons they find in Maine: When in any inn or shop or othor plac. es of business, it is suspected that liquor ara sold or kept fur sale in violation of law it may be searched the same way as stolen goods would be searched for, the liquors it found are seized as tlolen or smuggled goods would be, and the owner or keeper is arrested upon the spot and brought be. fore the court to answer to the charge of soiling intoxicating liquors or keeping them for id, in violation of law. These searches are conducted in the most careful and thorough manner of which I will mention som e examples and they ocour more or less every day. 12 A place was searched, not a shop, but a low and dirty hole where a man and woman lived. Nothing whatever could be found in the sleoholic line, At last, the cooking stove was carefully examined and under the oven, inthe ssh-pit, the entrance to which was closed by a plate one-half by fve inches in sige. 8ix flat half-pint bottles of whisky were found and dragged out. One hundred dollars sand costs and six months’ jail, 2. In another place, searched carefully above and below, no sign whatever of li- quor was discovered ; but in the cellar was an open well, the water in which was within twelve inches of the top, One of the officers passad bis cane around the well and it ennountered an obstacle, Fulling his hand into the water, he found a nail & fool below the surface, to which ware fasts ened lve or six strings and to each string a ww “ bottle of whisky. One hundred dollars ani coste and six months’ jail, 5. In another case the place was search. ed thoroughly without any appearance of liquor; but in a cock-loft was a bed, which was moved away, and it was found a small trap-door, which concesled 8 jug of whisky. One hundred dollars end costs and ix months’ jail, i Another place was carefully searched and, at last, the officers examined the pig- pen, beneath the floor of which a gallon jug of whisky. J8i5. benenth found Was ound osme lite, same Another place was carefully iy The offic satisfactory information that for liquors, but in vain. ] the der 18 Gen, really sold by the woman of last, they saw that she At was abnormally broad in the hips. “Hand out those bottle hidden ut they aid. wore by bowly vargio that thers be Four skirt, She Were no ie offi tles there, “Hand them out’ i, Yor Hand them She out, and be quic cer sal Wo ll search you k about iL” raised her outer skirt, and from each hooked from the belt a bottle and one of whisky, One and costs ard six months’ jail. All t within my knowledge and I might continues the hese cases are Own list of others like them enough to fll columns of Tae ISpErExpEsT; but suf. fice to show what sort of aor their hese will native | shops we have in Maine and what stocks of liquors are and what ¢ of the trade is i a A RECT WHO BELIEVE IN MENT FOR SIN BY LACE 2 THEIR BODIES. FING Ther i on . 11. »} “oD ‘Enver Col, March itory of New Mexico ie : and persons bel nging to a fanantical #ect who believe in the peri ALONE nt for sin by inflicting on thei agonizing tortures, ly connected with arch, th i lies Thev were original- the Roman Catholic but Archbishop Laney, shocked 3 eir barbarous cruecities, promuiga ted a decree banishing them from that ommunion. Its membership has great. ¥ decreased since, and now be onging to the order reside principally in at four counties in the Territor care is taken to prevent the « their ideatity, ail being maske condn their annoval penance the de- volees often traveled hundreds of miles to undergo the prescribed tortures. los Griegos, a small Mexican village near Albuquerque, boasts of the great body of the penitents. Yesterday morning their ceremonies were inaugurated by an ins troduactory procession containi about thirty mean and women, those . (are at of hile 3 ting tl ng ARBAROUS PROCEEDINGS The procession of purification by tor ture began at ten Five men, naked the bare-footed, and weariog black robes and hoods that com- pletely concealed their o'ciock. 10 waist, identity, were ig , Jed by a master of ceremonies, who carried a genuine Two large wooden crosses, weighing 250 be each, were placed on the shoaiders of two of the seil-tortorers. The sharp edges cut into the naked flesh, causing the blood to spurt out and drop 10 the groond. One penitent produced asharp goad, which he thrust into the flesh of his fellow sufferers from time to time. while the procession moved up the street sing ing a wild chant in Spanish. Halting once the crosses were transferred to the shoulders of others, the attendants mean- while applying their rawhide whips mer. cilessiy, each blow takiog off skin and bits of flesh. The procession again start. ed, and took its way to the goal, hall a mile distant. During the march uot = groan was beard, nor a word spoken, but Just before reaching the goal, a small abode hut, an order was encounte.ed which tried the nerves of the boldest, SICKEXING SCENES, For some distance before the door cace tus plants bad been thickly strewn upon the ground, and as the barefooted cross bearers approached one hesitaied, In- stantly balf a dozen whips descended up- on his bare shoulders, and with a bound he sprang into the thorny plants, his every step and the footsteps of his fol- lowers being marked with blood. As the torture grew more terrible the chant grew louder and the thongs ‘fell with more vigor. Reaching the door of the house the procession was lost sight of, a sentinel guarding the entrance, and only broken whips and poles and blood bear witness to what transpired within, Isen- ing from the bouse the procession re- formed and returned to their house of worship, and so the horrifying exercises continued, one band of penitents sac- ceeding another until night, when a grand procession and chant wound np the exercises for the day. Daring these marches to and from the house of refuge the scene at times was too sickening lor description. Powerful men submitted their bodies to the most merciless flagel- lation until, in some instances, the bare muscle was seen quivering at every blow, ’ The whole proceeding was a savage at- tempt to honor the Easter season. Hith- erto the law Has make no attempt to check these wild exercises, altho’ once a penitent who threw another beariog a cross into the river near San Juan and drowned him was lynched by the infari- roy § i = cal-o e-181 Gs " woes All competitors have been disc tanoced by Lewis & Co. for cheap ¢loth- ing, and the jadges have aw the Philad. Branch tue ium, Now its the Philadelphia Branch sgainst the world for cheap suits, and in which there is no guile. The and the short of it is, one can always pore chase a suit at this establishment and get iat rom $s w 912 lower than e'ses where. PERSONS DROWNED VILLIAMSPORT Williamsport, April 19, ~— During a hear y rain and wind storm sbout #ix o'clock this evening two bouts, in which 8 number of men were returning from on a boom in the river here, capsized and four of the occupants, Herman Hartman, Del. Rbos- los, Grant Moore Wilts, were frowned. The others narrowly escaped The unforiunates Willis FOUR AT And he were all young being only twelve years old. A couple of Hungarians went bar room of one of our hotels HOWE into the the other intent on economical drinks “Fi cent gay” fa wr ARY wi said the spokesinan jaa iquiringly the lund. we i } . No drinks less than ten cents”! The thirsty ¢ ; K { vITEly compatriot of Kussuth nodded his No five cent Whisky,” replied lord Bead in token that he accepted the situs ton, and the decanter an two gia illed sud of were viaced on the cou a tum. banded who nad Dier to the brim, drank 1 he other half J kKiy putito Then putting departed -while Hi through the alphas re $ A f : bisown name for a strong enor O express his in. 4 * i y i + iignation, and his customers were = long way out of range before } fc he found Wt Ecchange, - -_—— Twenty more men have been arrested in County Clare, Ireland, for conspiracy to murder landlords and others, and two of the prison ave tn lah of the prisoners have turned informers. - -_——» The N contains n Amer ine articles, ne which discusses come the present moment prom lic mind, John T. Morgan writes f*“Mexico”, and sets forth the considers tions of commercial advantage snd inter national comity which are rapidiy bring. ing about amore cordial understanding be- tween that country snd the United States. The Rev. William Kirkus, taking occasion from Bishop McQuaid's vaticina- tions regarding the decay of Protestantism makes a vigorous counter charge upon the papal system in an article entiticd “lhe Disintegration of Romanism”. In “Emer- son and Carlyle”, Edwin P. Whipple dis. courses with all his old-time keenness of psychologic insight ar i perieciign of literary f upon the strangely diverse menial an noral characteristics of those two greal thinkers, Prof Felix Adler of. fers **A Secular View of Moral raining,” arguing that the current skeptical nabit of thought demands an independent system of practical ethics, based primarily on ob. servation rather than on revelation. * Com- munism in American’’, by Prof. Alexans ier Winchell, gives very forcible expres. sion to the apprehensions of those pessim- observers of the trend of events in this country who think thst th ey see in our political and social development sll the signs of impending national decay. The sher articies are “Affigities of Buddhism atid Chrnsuianity’”’, by the Rev. Dr. James Freeman Ciarke ; “Woman as an inven- wr’. by Matilds Joslyn Gage ; “Colleges Endowments’, by Russiter Johnson and Extradition”, by A, G. Sedgwick. 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