{ OLD SERIES, XL. VOLUME THE CENTRE FRED REPORTER, . KURTZ, Epiror and Pror's. One of the questions that ‘threatens the harmony of the mext National Re- publican convention is, who is the first lady of the land. li Ap Quite a number of papers in this state are mentioning Wm. Al Wallace for president. Some favor Gov, Curtin, and SOme gates have already been in. structed for Sam'l J. Randall. — , the Republican deputy boss, has pronounced in favor of a modification of the Tariff. Don't all who have been fol- lowing Quay's lead, howl at - -_ The boomlet in favor of Logan for Pres: ident, is very pale and delicate threatens to kick the bucket. It have a larg pt Ae The Willismeport Banner says: In 18 4 forty years ago—the Lycoming Ga- the only PADSF then published in willi iamsport, was owne x] and printed by John B. Beck & Co. Charles 3 Eldred, ¥isq., was editor We might add here, as of interest, that the press upon which the was printed, is now used in the Cexree Re- PORTER office to print posters. - i» has de dele Quay, once now, and won't funeral. zetle, (Gazette is ided to build a works at Lewis- bed a bonus of A rolling and burg, the citizens $3000 which was accepted. —————— - wn Free Press ig no sued semi-weckly—just what the Aeros Tek has been thinking about doing for the last six months. -—e The Centre Democrat in making able manner of ( ounty C finances of the follow- company mill nail sie Fygavps SU0sCri # The Lewisi is favor- comment the in upon which the present board om- missioners have managed the our county, ing, which we can heartily endorse: “Before the is but just to say that the board of commis- sioners were ably advised by their attor- ney, D. F. Fortaey, Esq., on all questions of law, and his opinions on all economic methods were a departure from the usu- al routine of business in the office made a necessity, lowed. voted necessary burdens of taxation. tin It now turns out concludes with dismissing subject, it » were been strictly fol- He is an able counsellor, and de- have that was hung at Williamspori Britton, a colored man, the jail yard of that city, Platt, on March 22, arrested and charged of Jacob Bay. been stabbed the ught to bea N WV. 1¢ in 1871. was hanged in by Sheriff John 1871. Britton with the murder Jay was supposed to have with a sh arpedge dd tool, chisel, on the evening of 3, 1870, The real murderer of Jacob Bay—al- A mulatto, named Thompson, who re- cently died in Canada, while on his death bed the startling confession that he himself inflicted the wound that Jay's death. The confes sion was made in the presence of a col- ored man now on a visit to Williamsport. The cause for the deed, as stated by Thompson, was jealousy, Thompson's wife, part Indian and part nulatto, was of a loose character, and nompion was jealous of a party that visited the saloon, and especially Lloyd Britton. While Britton and Bay were in the room on the evening of Nov. 18, 70, Thompson was in the kitchen ; he black- ened his face by a burnt cork and took his position near the fence, on the oppo- site side the road, awaiting Britton's ap- pearnace. It was Lloyd Britton that Thompson intended to stab, and not Bay. Britton escaped, probably before Thomp- son had left the house, and Bay coming out, he was mistaken for Britton by Thompson, and stabbed with a large knife. Thompson's disguise by blacken- ing his face had the purpose of avoiding detection, and therefore when Britton was taken before Bay, he thought, on ac- count of Bitton’s dark color, that he was the man that had stabbed him. The Supreme Court of hin stale has decided in the ease of Holland ve. Barns, reported in the 4th Cuterbridge 206, just issued, that a letting of a house by parole for a certain sum per monthly, withoot anything being said about a year, consti: tutes a lease from year do year, as has been commonly su And when a tenant from month to po ob over for more than a year, he does not be- come a tenant from year to yegr, but res mains & tenant from wonth vo month, The tenant in such cases is not liable for caused Jacob to three months’ notice to qnit Al month's notice to quit