ER ERR THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED. KURTZ, Evrror and Pror'z. ey Tilden won't have it—so we think it 11 be Grover Cleveland, and he'll wi be elected. .-- The leading religious papers—hereto- fore taking sides with the Republicans— aro strongly opposed to Blaine, lp» Virginia has two Republican electoral tickets—one by Mahone and the other by the straight-outs. Mahone is down in the mouth over Blaine’s nomination. Arthur “because 18 He wanted Arthur for us.” ———— i es ———— 1di 1 This is a clos2 ji t HN Tied vi ial GISLTICL, the Democracy wish to be sure of it is absolutely necessary to have a strong lo- A weak causes sulking and a staying away from I : va Democratic President Judge in a Democratic President Judge 1 43nd cal ticket. locab ticket always the polls thus operating against the oth- er nominees who are worthy. Let Demo- crats think of this in time. - —— member of Hayes’ cal pport Blaine. oo In another colu give f f leading and influen- ich : refuse to a number these The ta wo nrint are only from one-half t3 we print are only il m one-naid support Blaine and Logan men have a tainted public ree ionrnals and their earnest protest iinees of their own party. by als * av always stood emia, Chicago ews, Newport, BR. 1 es, Flushing, 1.1 when John Brown was ti lican idol, J Logan among other oat 1 allindineg tn the Ties ¥i vind Mngs in alluding tO he new 4ivl id heis a “traitor, thief and sc 1 Logan has never repudiated this at yished to yon that poor Brown's soul jeclaration. From what happened x CARO We would not be ast hear preity s i“ has quit “marching on,” and won't help put Blaine and Logan through. . Blaine received no votes from his own section of the Union, outside of Maine, where he has promised them a million and a quarter of school funds out of the whisky tax, if he is elected President. Where the people have hahdled the man they dispise him. Look at the vote from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire and Rhode Istand, given to men who never expected to be nominated, but hoping thereby to defeat Blaine. But out in Towa, Kansas, Indiana, West Vir- ginia, and in localities where the people don't know him, they went crazy for To us, this thrust at the “Plumed Knight,” means more than can be seen on the surface.’ And a parailel cannot be pointed out in a Conven- tion of either party. There is more in this omen than there is in Puck's unmans tied statute. Why did New England, the home of Blaine, refuse to vote for him at Chicago ? snsmes—————— The Star Route Convention, at its re- cent session at Chicago, sent forth one of the largest, but the most meaningless, set of resolutions as a platform that was ever set forth by any party. The decla- tions are those of a first-class demagogue, and if Blaine wrote or dictated it there is harmony in what has happened. The editor of the New York Sun relieves the reader greatly by giving the documents in a condensed form as follows : The Republican party has not tri- umphed in six successive Presidential elections. The Republican party did not save the Union, The Republican party has not cared a continental for the elevation of labor, The Repablican party has not respond- ed, either quickly or tardily, to the de mand of the people for purity in legisla gy for integrity or accountability in all Departments of the Government. The Republican party is a fraud, and the same old platform lies are made to do service n in this year of grace and hope. : The platform claims that the party has done all that is denied above. I MI SN, HAI, Blaine’s old nurse has been found at Waynesburg. Well, the Revonres thinks she could him. home case Tilden’s rofusal to'be nominated brings Cleveland, of N. Yi; Bayard, of Del., and M'Donald, of Ind., to the front as the possible nominees, with chances in or- der named. i» A meeting of Republicans who will not support Blaine, was held in Boston, on Friday. It was composed of leading members of the party, and they appoint ed a committee of 100 to call a conven- tion Blaine on account of his bad record. - The Democrats in congress are doing their duty towards rest ring the lands, in August. They declare agains: During the present session of congress the house has bills providing for the for- of nearly 70,000,000 acres of lan granted to railroad companies. The land i8 1 New Indian Territory, Mis- Mississippi, Alabama feiture Oregon, California, Arizona, 0, Texas, Arkansas, Isa na. . >. iden declines to have his before the Democratic National Convention for the Presidency. Samuel J.’ name brought Four-fifths of the American people will pre woul( 1 } i +g t regret this—he was the unanimous of the Democracy and inmphantly elected. { ference have been nomi- of his in an- Perhaps the Convention will 14] nate the noble Tilden regardiess letter of solamn. afiizal which wa Drint refusal, whic we pris vO POINTS 2 HUMBUG PLAT FORM. x wlat fore APE 2 cago platform says, n the sub- i grants: lic lands are a heritage oi the he United States, and be reserved as far as possible for smal } actual settlers.” holdings by should This declaration, says the Sun, come Bar #1} ALET Wi ie party that makes it has given away to railroad corporations directly, * 5 $s - # 3} 1 i to States for the use and benefit of sucl yorations, in grants actually made fo: s sitive § MOoUunung ary has vote s New York. he Republican iinstered this Governmen® It has demor alized and corruptes v hole service, The Howgales, rascals are atike the products of a loose ie The and er the departments. 3 3 oa ak avd } a the Burnsides, and bigger rrapting system. reatures o/ this system cfowd The forge rs, false witnesses, the fabricators of frandu- returns, and the who were the instruments employed bj John Sherman, W their confederates, to Louisiana, Florida 1876, are now holding important offices the perjurers, the thieves, the 4 aad ens whole vile crew E. Chandler, and steal the i. felonious which they got as rewards for service. In the face of this experience the Chi- cago platform says: “The reform of the civil service auspi- ciously begun tinder Republican admin- istration should be completed by further extension of the reformed system, al- ready established by law, to all the grades of the service to which it is appli- ie. In other words, it is proposed to pro- tect thieves in office against any possible intrusion, and to make a close corpora tion of the rogues who have not yet been caught money in their pockets, This is the sort of civil service reform which the Republicans approve and have put into operation. It is only another phase of the fraud, deception, and trick- ery which that party has employed to keep possession of power. The people are weary of misrule, of shams and of corruption. Now is their chance. with 50,000 ACRES OF COAL A RAILROAD, Philadelphia, June 13.~The Inquirer will publish the details of the purchase by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company of a tract of bituminous coal land in Clearfield county embraciog n early 00, 000 acres, Toe land is locared near foow Shoe City on a spur of the Penusylvania railroad, over which road the output will be hauled to Tornuicken or Mt. Carmel, where a connection is made with the Le- high Valley system. Tue contract regu- sating the the rate of toll over the Penn lylvania road was signed to-day and the land was purchased immediately afters wards for $1,000,000 cash, The land is rtially developed. Vanderbilt's Beech reek road runs through the property. sini i SO A LAND FOR For constitutional or scrofalous eca- tarrb, and for consumption indaced by the scrofulous tint, Ayer's Barsaparilla is the true remedy. It has cared num bers joss cases, It will stop the nauseous ca: tarrhal discharges, and remove the sick. ening odor of the breath, which are in dications of scrofulous origin, Ca] a wi—— Pailadelphia, June 15.~Yeste rday morning a collision oocarred on the Camden and Atlantic road bet ween the express and an excursion train, killing seven persons. Toe collision oceurred between an Atlantic City traio and « Afocial excursion train from Camden. testify, that Jecms too was once akickor. h locomotives were eutirely demols ished together with the tender. I —————— THE CORK OAK. At present we depend for cork upon the countries bordering the Mediterrai- ean. In theso countries the actual ma - ket value of cork is ten times what it wes at the beginning of the century, and it :8 likely to go still higher. In BSardinis, Sicily and Naples, extensive cork plants. tions are being destroyed for the purposs of obtaining the tannin of superior qua - ity yielded by the bark and carbonate of soda from the ashes of the wood. This destruction has been going on for year, while planting has not even replaced the trees destroyed, except in France and ifs African dependency. As long ago 88 1822 the French Government sppropr- ated forty-five hundred francs, whic were to be divided among those whe, planting in 1823, should possess at the expiration of ten years plantations of ten thousand vigorous saplings. In 1334 only three persons had been entitled to the reward. But France has now over five hundred thousand acres of cork plan- tations in Algiers, yielding a considerable revenue to the State. About fifty yews ago the Spanish bggan to encourage the planting of the cork oak, and the pumber of trees in that coungry has increased. This increase would have been greater but for the fact that, while in some prov. inces cork has become the chief source of wealth, in othefl ‘many proprietors de stroyed their trees in order to clear ther ground for more valuable productions. The cork oak grows to the height about fifty feet. In Algeria and in the Spanish provites of Estremadura the die velopment of the tree is somewhat grea’~ The tree reaches a great age. It oor- tinues to grow for one hundred and fifty or two hgdred years, and after its growin it still yields cork, though of an infericr quality. In some parts of Spain it is customary to destroy the tree when ths quality of its cork begins to deterioral. In Europe the tree is met with as high #3 forty-five degrees north, but it needs a In France and in Spain er. warm climate, level of the sea, while in Algeria it occmrs at double that altitude. The tree ean bear & minimum sverage annual tempers. ture of fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit. It prefers land sloping to the southward and pear the sea. Granite lands and slatey, sandy and silicious soils are very nnsuit- able, and it does not take kindly to damp soils. It grows spontaneously in virgia soils where silica or silico-argillaceons compounds abound. Lands suitable for he vine are also suitable for the cork. is AAA AAI EVOLUTION OF THE CORSET, Aslong agoas the days of the Greeks an i lomans a slight, dances figure was ad. mired and stoutness looked upon as a de- formity. Martial ridiculed fat women, and Owid put large waists in the first rank of his remedics against love. Bev. eral means wore ‘ried then, aa now, not only to restrain an expanding figure, but to enhance the beauties of a very slight But they were of a different kind from those with which we are familiar. nandages were worn with the generie name of fascie mamiliares. These consist- ed of the strophium, the cloth worn roun 1 the bosom ; the tents, a simple band be- low, and the mona, or waist-belt. When bandages failed those who valued the beauty of their figures had recourse to a remedy prescribed by Berenus Sammoni- cus. They enveloped their busts with garlands of ivy which were thrown on the fire as soon as withdrawn and after ward rubbed all the upper part of their figures either with goose-fat mixed with warm milk, or with the egg of a patridge. Men were as vain as the women, if we are to believe Aristophanes and other writers. The great comic dramatist mocked his contemporary Cinesias for wearing busks of linden-wood, and Capi- tiolinus, in his biography of the Emperor Anthony, mentions that he also had ro. one. figure. Testimony is conflicting, how- ever. Some contend that the ancien's wore veritablo corsets, arguing that when Homer, in describing Juno's toilet when she wishes to captivite Jupiter, speaks of the two girdles worn around her waist the one bordered with gold fringe, the really describing a Greek corset; and that the egide or cuirass of Minerva which Virgil describes is to be interpreted in the same manner. Bat this view is surely mistaken, for no monument of antiquity, no artistic work, no evidence gleaned stiff unyielding whalebone corsets. ——_— AP ——— Power will intoxicate the best hearts ns wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trust. ed with unlimited power ; for whatever qualifications he mey have evinoed to en- title him to the possession of so danger. ous a privilege, yet, when possessed, others ean uo longer answer for him, bo- cause he can no longer answer for himsel{ Wy Ce | — EX