voLUME { OLD SERIES, XL.
PUES TTR
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'r.
National Ticket.
Fi R PRESIDE NT,
GROVER CLEVELAND,
NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
OF
State Ticket.
CONGRESS AT-LARGE,
GENERAL W. W. H. DAVIS,
OF BUCKS COUNTY.
dress is go
yuld need to
84
106 LIAS ordered
if with a Vice.
vis, the fellow Ben
Charleston
missioner. He
Messrs. Greist and Wolf
economy in our county
What w
been Ben?
n for
Was a popul : i the county
treas.
turer l
convention. Every body seems friendly
nt, has been
Democrats
in the service of
one of on nost ive
lost
and
an arm his coun
trv. We predict fi
the largest
bave it too.
yr Charles Smith one of
} 13
should
majorities, and he
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The two Democratic
are * atsels % 1
county auditors, Solor
nominees for
non Peck and J. N
Dinges, are two highly gen-
igl
for this important office. We
have known them these many years and
competent
tlemen
we know they will
lrnaolv arsverds md
closely scrutinize the
accounts of our co flicers and see
¥
gfully spent. Both
are experienced business men,
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print Gov. Cleveland's letter of ac-
It should
be perused by every voter, It is brief
but contains sound sense than
Blaine's letter, which is ten times more
lengthy, Mr. Cleveland proves himself
an ardent friend of the laboring classes
and what he says in behalf of labor is
only in accordance with his official ac-
tion asjMayor and Governor.
.——
The nomination of Chester Munson
for associate judge, is a very fitting one.
Mr. Munson is one of the best citizens of
our county and Las large business inter
ests at Philipsburg. His qualifications
are above the material ordinarily found
in the seat of an associate judge, and his
nomination is a credit to the Democratic
party and will add strength to our coun-
ty ticket.
Mp i
Itis all right to talk about Blaine's
foreign policy ; that only tends to divert
attention from his infamous policy at
home. What do the laborers here care
what his feelings are toward England ?
We have abundant evidence of how he
feels toward us here, He is one of the
heaviest stockholders in the coal and ore
mines at Elk Garden, West Virginia,
and within the past two years this com-
pany have imported the majority of their
laborers and their mines to day are filled’
with foreigners, principally Italians.
This is the policy in which we are inter-
ested, and if Mr. Blaine expects to get
the labor vote of this country ho must
do better than employ foreign talent in
the works in which he is interested.
iniy o
that no money is wror
ceptance in another column,
more
$100,000,000 PER ANNUM.
The process of wringing from the in-
iil-
annuin
dustry of the country one hundred n
lions of unnecessary taxes per
continues,
Already four hundred millions of (
lars in excess of the wants of the
ernment have been taken as toll
the hard earnings of labor.
When congress shall meet
immense sum will be a standin
tion to that body to make reckless
lavish appropriations.
It has cost not
less than twenty
lions of dollars to collect this
ry revenue, a great part of whi
have been saved by the abol
QRS ¢
ction of this vast sum
be redistribute
willing ths
Hing
MLrAZeous
OrTespo
Press savs
drift
ver and «
f
LAUT
pPPer
dri ven 100 feet
sloping or le
f the Susquehanna river
ler analysis, contains $19.
the ton and 70 per cent, eng
of
hows a vien
teen inches, carry 45 per cent. of
These
+f
drifts show there are mil.
fi st \ irs ¢%: +e "| 3"
of tons ore in the mountain.
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The temperance candidate for Presis
St. John, in recent
Jervis, N Nl
he wi
dent, Gov. aneect
Port
Logan's celebrate
a mulatto boy some
Port
the
pened in Jervis
old
At the beg nning
x
This is
Bt. John,
rebellion St.
home
(Gov. of ti
John, who was a young
member of the Coles county bar. entered
the service under one of
for volunteera
was short, and
the first calls
:
The term of enlistment
) being mustered out previ.
ously he was at home on October 1, 1862.
at which time the mulatto boy tramp
called at his door and begged for some-
thing to eat, saying he was nearly starv-
ed and that no one would either give
him food or work because it was against
the law,
Capt. 8t. John gave the bov a break-
fast and for so doing was promptly in-
dicted under laws which John A. Logan
had previously introduced and engineer
ed through the Legislature. It does not
appear that the indictment was vigor
ously pushed, as 8t. John was of a good
family and a member of the bar, It con-
tains three counts, the gist of the action
lying in the last, which charges the de-
fendant with having given sustenance to
a starving mulatto boy. The indictment
clearly shows how persons connected
with the “underground railroad” were
brought before the bar of justice even sf-
ter the anthor of the law had entered
the Republican fold and when that party
was in sole possession of both National
and State governments and had been for
two years,
i
Elsewhere we give many reasons ad
signed by New York workingmen for
their support of Mr. Cleveland. When
Mr. Cleveland accepted the nomination
for the Governorship of New York he
indorsed the labor planks of the platform
and said :
The laboring classes constitute’ the
main part of our population. They
should be protected in their efforta to
assert their rights when endangered by
aggregated capitol, and all statutes on
this subject shonld recognise the care of
the State for honest toil, and be framed
with a view of improving the condition
of the workingman,
In his administration ss Governor,
(Meveland has been faithful to the dec
larations of his party’s platform and the
pledge of his letter of acceptance.
so. - - 2
SIXTY CENTS A
DAY.
Allentown Chronicle says: Under tar
ifls of the last twenty-three years, all
made by the Reg
last corae to be
ore mines are
‘y cents a day! Is this
all the many furnaces in
one is now going! Is this prot
War RO
and China.
CLEYELAND'S LETTER.
[HE
DI
ABLE
cesxitien of the case reg
jidate accepting sucl
miy enfory
We p
ple. It is not
rrogaieos 10 iis
airs, seeking 10
senting hem t
srowth of our Insitutions, but a governmes
uy the people when one party fastons its
pon the country and perpetuates power
ng and betraying the instead «
aem the
result which would represent
pepie
A government is not by people w
the intl
vill of free thinking men is or can be determined
iigent
oy the shameless corruption of thelr suffrages, Hut
hen an election to office shall be the selection
uy the voters of one of thelr number to Asume for
& tithe a public trust instead of his dedication to
he profession of politics, when the holders of the
allot, quicketied by a sense of duty, shall avenge
iruth betrayed and pledges broken, and when the
nffrage shall be altogether free and une orrupt
se fall realization of & goverument by the peo
le will be at hand ; and of the means to this end
aot one would, in my judgement, be more effect
ive than an amendment to the constitution dis.
JGalifying the president from reelection. When
ve consider the patronage of this great office.
the alluremants of power, the temptation to retain
public places once gained, and, more thao all, the
evailability a party finds in an Inedmbent whom
a horde of office-holders, with a seal born of ben
«fits received and fostered by the hope of favors
yet to come, stand ready to ald with money and
trained political service, we recoguize in the ell
g ibility of the president for re-election a most se
rious danger 10 that calm, deliberate and jnfelil.
gent political action which must characterize a
government by the people.
A true American sentiment recognises the Aig
rity of labor and the fact that honor lies in hon
edt toll. Contented labor Is an clement of gation
ul prosperity. Ability to work constitutes the cap.
ial and the wages of labor the income of a van
ramber of our population and this loterest shonid
ba Jenloms'y protected. Our workingmen are not
siking unreasonable Indulgence but as latelligont
and manly citisens thoy sosk the same considers
ton which thos demand who have other Inter
edn at stale. They shonid receive thelr full share
of the care and attention of those who make and
execute the laws, 10 the end, that the wants and
mavagers t
have been dev
yuting and {0 arrang
dickers” ith Butler and Ke ily
York Democratic Committee ha
Nn MAKING a careful personal can)
f the 2,000 election districts in the Sts
1 5 gry 4 4 i} * } af }
have found in the 1,750 of th
and
ich they have polled
iblicans who will not » for Blaine,
cent. of
or whom are
They have also fi
i
wn i
Cleveland.
the reports of Democratic
that
rales Opps a
have been greatly eXagreral« J, and
number of Den i
Cleveland is steadily diminishing. The
canvassed are all outside tL
the estimate of 75,000
kickers” therefore,
those in New York and Brooklyn,
districts
large cities, and
does not include
ery man who talks with his fellow-men
knows that where one Republican open
Blaine there are two who say nothing
about it, but will vote in the same way,
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FOR REVENUE ONLY.
{Chicago Herald |
In Missoonri hogging societics have
besn introduced to swell the church
reasuries, and a paper gives the follow
ing scale of prices : Girls noder sixteen,
1H eents for each hug of wo minutes:
‘rom sixteen to tweniy years of ego, 50
vents; from twenty to twenty five, 75
ents: school ma'arme, 40 cents; widows,
wecording to looks, from 10 cons to $2;
old maids, 3 cents a piece, or two for a
nickle, and not any limited time. Miu
isters are not charged, Editors pay in
Wy rtisements, but not allowed ro pre
ivipate until every body ele in through
.
Shamokin, Pa, Aogust 20 ~The Buk
Ridge mice owned hy the Philadelphia
pid Reading conl and iron company, je
tn fire and it will be necessary 10 flood
it through the Greenback colliery. The
lose wiil be heavy to both collieries, The
ire is supposed to have caught from the
waachinery.
27. 1884,
SONGS OF THE PEOPLE,
the author «
at I
f +O}
1
il i
Folks’
id
PBensidos
1,000,000 copies
‘(Ya
his
and of his Dog Th
theses
§ 02 ’
SUSANNA
UNLry eines
'isby J. P
1845
Webster,
®{
the half-mullion stage.’
a ——
GOLD LEAVY,
Ue DOA
ten into such
that they will
flected light
Le
na ooh sey
UAracaen
en by re
tain the C .
metal ; but by trans.
have a decided bimish
ickness of these films
extremely small What
be before the film
miting sufficient
said
be-
to be appreciable to the eves cannot
ly fixed, as this will depend
witivenoss of that
quality varies with different
We may
n experiments
il *
mi the ser
slate, however,
have shown
gold ean be beaten
a space of seventy-five
y mingle grain of
y Over
i hes, which would give the film
+ thickness (thinness would sound more
ne.-267,650th part of
i fact affords a striking
linstration of the wonderful malleability
oparty in which it surpasses
Microscopic slides con-
ng a small square of gold beaten out
hin #8 to be transnloent, are favorite
1 for microscopists, and may be pur.
1 of dealers in such articles. The
tility of gold —that is, ite quality of
itself to be drawn out into
is quite as remarkable as its mallea.
it is affirmed, for example, that
vhen a eylindrieal bar of silver is coated
th gold (by galvanic means, presuma-
wr) and drawn ato the fine wire used in
mbroidering housings, ete, which still
*xLibit the golden eoloration imparted to
hem, a single grain of gold will cover a
ength of 845. 6 feet of wire. Wo have
10 doubt that films of gold might, with
iwiern scientific artifices, be prepared
{ the thinness of the one-millionth of an
wines a continuous ooating of gold
ig sch extreme thinness may be
lily obtained by galvanic means, the
uly difffenity in the way being the ex-
mely delisate operation of removing
io film from the surface on which it is
loposited and transferring it to glass,
where it may be exsmined
priate)
srpithing
Tire.
lity
NO.
ALMOST OUT OF THE WORLD,
Away off the coast of Maine, out
between
protecting chain
1d Penobscot Bay, exposed to she cease.
$ aus 1
8s beat of the waves and to the fury of
and most primitive spot on the Americar
t, the Isle an Hant This
an oi b the carly
NAmS Was
Frenc
Inland
Jat Was
£xn Tone] Ye
The natives
{erm
glimpses of
he islanders ever get
when, on days, they sen
glass passing vessels o
and Boston and Ds
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MODERN GUARD DUTY.
As ordinarily perf this involves
one night ot most posta,
3
frequently one out of three and seldom
more than one out of five Guard duty
that during the 24 hours of iis
continuance the sentinel shall make a
march under arms of some 16 miles for
one-third of the time, and be “ present
for duty equipped " at a moment's notice
always. If this happened once a week it
wonld be often enough. Coming, as it
does, twice or thrice, it imposes more
labor and exposure than all other mili-
tary duty, and year after year of it tells
There are two ways of meeting this
trouble ; one, by relaxing the regiments
of guard duty to some extent, and one
by enlarging the number of men upon
whom it is imposed. Its proper perfor.
manos, 80 far as security of buildings
and stores is concerned, or even the re.
striction of travel to certain directions
does not require full aniform or even 14-
pound musket. ‘To take charge of all
public property in view, when nothing
can be seen by the naked eye but a 20-
ton gun and a cobain pump, hardly de.
mands that a man should pace majesti.
oally back and forth from one to the
Jie other forever. He would be just as
aseful if he oarried a switch and a came
round st intervals ; if, in fact, he dared
to consider himself less of a sentinel and
more of a watchman, In these days of
telephones, when offices, stables, quar.
ters, &o., ean all be put into immediate
communication with one another, snd a
man at his desk may in a moment sum-
mon into his presence, or receive a ro.
port from snybody, whether a police
Sergeant or posteurgoon, the time.
honored formalities and display of guard
duty may well be relieved of much that
is out of date and out of use. It can be
made much less mechanical and tedious
with no loss of value.
SATA
Il you want a good Tross go to the
Centie Hall drog store,
nieANS