var | OLD SERIES, XL. VOL, {NEW SERIES, XVIL THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'z. I CHRISTMAS. Here comes Christmas for the 1885th time—yet all mankind Welcomes the day and every man, woman and child of all Christian lands is glad. All have a peculiar longing for this the greatest of all Holidays, because we know it com- memorates the greatest of all events, the giving to mankind the greatest of all Gifts, the child Jesus, Washington's birth-day, the Fourth of July, Decoration Day—these may all pass away and cease to be observed in ages to come, or from a change in the character of the Republic, but Christmas will go on down to the end of time when the angel Gabriel shall appear to sum- mon all the good to a closer fellowship “above, of those who in sincerity of heart hail the coming of Christmas here out of true love and honor of Jesus and grati- tude of the Father who gave his only Son that mankind wight be redeemed. What a priceless gift! how unbounded should be a Christian's joy ! Let all cares of the world, all sullen- ness for once be laid aside, and all put on the genuine garb of happiness and think only of the great event when the star-guided, humble shepherds went to the lonely manger where the Savior was born end whom the wise men of the East came to find. There never was a glorious event like it, there never will be again, until the ransomed gather aronud the Throne with songs of praise unto the Father and Son. Christmas | The glad tidings of 1900 years ago still proclaimed by Christmas! The gift and the promise are as fresh and full and precious and overflowing with fervent Love to us as when Herod sought the child that he might destroy Him. Peace on earth and good will to men. was the sacred proclamation. Let us re- echo it to our neighbor, to the stranger within our gate, to the benighted he en, to those steeped in sin that they may receive its holy impressions—proclaim it over and over again to all. Do this now amid and throughout our Christmas festivities with such a will that it will roll in reverberation until started anew with the advent he next Christ- mas, Let there and and praise and giving of gifis and rejoicing in Christian commemoration of the birth of the Savior—these are fitting, and du- ties full of joyousness, There is a singular charm about Christ. mas. The babe that has learned to lisp the name of “mother” longs for Christ mas. The lad and lass have pleasant dreams of it long before coming of the festival. Men and women look for it with pleasure. It is the occasion of joy above all others, hence all lisp it, dream of it, and look forward with longing for its coming. Christmas! well, the Rerorrer wish- €s all its readers the merriest Christmas, May they all live to read the wish again, repeated in 1885 and 1886 and 1887, and farther on. Upwards of 2000 Christmases have passed—none of us have seen half of them, "tis true, and let us not fret over that, but ask the biessedness of living to gee many future Christmases. Christ- mas comes but once a year. Let us hope you, readers, may all get to Heaven, there they have Christmas all the time, are 2 ath- on £4 ii be music 8 ‘BE 2, It did not hurt the state any to have a Democratic governor. There is a sur plus in the treasury now of one million dollars, The report of the financial of- ficers of the state announce the payment during the fiscal year ending November 30, of $684,000 of the state's debt, the money being used in the redemption of state bonds. The report of the auditor general and the state treasurer announce that the revenues of the state during the past year were $6,226,050.38, a decrease of $545,479.51 compared with the last pre- ceding year, and that the expenditures were $7,643912.30, The fact should be taken ito account that of the expendi- tures there were $1,700,000 paid out for government bonds, which are still held, and on which the state draws interest, and $684,000 of the state debt was paid, payment of a considerable sum of inter- est being thereby stopped. There are almost $1,000,000 in the treasury, and the condition of the treasury is better than it has ever been before. Eu Jay Gould predicts a business boom in 1885. What reasons he has he don't say, but what he does say is this: I believe that after the first of Janvary we shall begin a new era. I think that the year 1885 will be 2 money-making year. The balance of the trade of the world is now in our favor, Foreign na- tions are buying of us more than we are of them. They are paying us the differ- ence in bard gold coin. Millions of this reahes us on every incoming steamer. END OF THE WORLD. The Adventists have issued a procla- mation that on January 4, 1885, accord- ing to calculations based on scripture revelation, the world is to come to an end. This leaves little time to settle up business, and puts a veto on the New Orleans exposition, and obviates all ne- cessity for storing up ice unless some ex- pect to go where it is exceedingly warm and may think a big chunk of “water fast asleep” may come handy. It iswell that the end predicted does not come on | January 1, for that would knock the] a habit squaring their accounts with the| beginning of the year, might find moth-| er earth too shaky to make things even, | and those little bills would have to] “stand” and “run.” If this here world is to stop wagging | January 4, and will come to an end on| that identical day, will the Republican | press afterwards attribute the calamity to] the election of Cleveland? shouldn't wonder, The offices, of | course, will have to be spared, so all can | get an account of the biggest racket had. | What will become of the 4th of March and Cleveland's inauguration, and all-| fool's-day, and the 4th of July and the] Washington monument ? Let Cleveland announce his cabinet, 1 i newspaper ever at least before January 4, will then the pending sudden taking off. for the Re- will 885, pepole f, have some satisfaction for All persons who subscribe i PORTER before January 4, pay for it if the aforesaid circus comes off on schedule time. And here's a mer. > i haps for the last time, to all. .- RES LEASED NT AN ACRE. On 17th, in Senate, Senator Dawes | presented a petition which was referred to the committee on Indian affairs, ask- ing that steps be taken to prohibit the carrying into effect of a lease for grazing purposes on the Crow Indian reserva. tion, made with the Indians by a syndi-| cate of capitalists and cattle men. Mr. Dawes said it was rumored that a lease of 3,000,000 acres had been made at the price of one cent an acre. He had been | surprised that no informatiof of such a lease existed inthe Interior Department. | In order to quiet the apprehensions of the people of Montana he would state! that srk i¥s y Chris 3,000,000 ACI Cl + the : ale | ¥ no 3 without the sanction or approval of] such lease could legally ex-| the Secretary of the Interior, and it did he 81 not seem possible to Mr. Dawes that ¢ Secretary could sanction such a lease, Mr. Vest said he had offered a resolu- ion, which the calling on the Interior Department for! information as to such lease, but no re-| ply had been made. It was extraordi- nary, he thought, that a transaction in-| volving 8,000,000 acres of Indian lands be| published in the press without attracting the notice of the Interior Department. | Subsequently Mr. Dawes offered a reso-| lution, which was adopted, calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for all in- formation in his possession. ! Senate had agreed to,! * : —— Governor Pattison hax issued his proc- lamation setting forth that during the the State debt has baen paid. The un- expended balance in the State treasury is almost $1,000,000. The receipts of the year ending Nov, 30, were $6,228950.38, and the expenditures $7,643 813.30 but the latter includes the payment of $384 000 of the principal of the State debt and purchase of $1,700,000 United States bonds, on which the state draws inter. est. Deducting the $1,700,000 paid for Government bonds and the $684,000 paid to redbem maturing debt from the 87, 643,913.30 expenditures, the ordinary current charges are seen to be only about $5,360,000. The State's financial condition is, therefore, really very good. The Reagan substitute for the Inter- State Commerce bill befere the House, from the Commitiee on Commerce was adopted by a vote of 143 to #7. The prominent feature of the committee bill was its provision for a commission. The Reagan bill does away with the commis- sion and goes straight to the mark by affixing a penalty for unreasonable charges prohibiting discrimination un- conditionally and forbidding a greater price for a shorter than a longer haul. The substitute was considered for amendment after its adoption in lien of the Committee bill. It matters little what the House may do, as the Senate 3 present constituted will never pass e bill. oem ion Md Judge Krebs, of Clearfield county, has made it incumbent on the applicant for license to swear to the facts as set forth in his application, and at least three the signers who recommend the grant ing of license, are required to testify un- der oath, that the facts set forth in the petition are true and correct. SA I MP ARAN Blaine denies that he was interview- ed. Well, at all events, he can’t deny he was weighed and found wanting on ov. t CHRISTMAS CHEER, One of our poets very happily puts it that— “Christmas comes but once a year, But when it comes it brings good cheer.” and, as the English are noted as a peo- ple who are fond of i the good things of is—~should be—not only an abundance of special dishes set’aside for the occasio + 1 Las England” and the Chris i dir £ In the Middle ages consisting of two sirloi tha la Laas LAAi ¢ he festive bog hief attractions of t and the legend of the Knizhtho Loin by CharlesIL, however apocr as a matter of fact, hs § 3 Tr $e thenticity to make one no accepting the tradition. Plum puddi ward the latter part of } 1 Ing was ugh } been a century, tho i lengthened In a boar's head is a very i : 3 litian Huon t 3 1 ARE Blane : es : repast, and at Quee is or was tal the tabie with great ny, being accompanied by an ancient Latin coral an: rival, Game pie i , and the peas requisiiion a T1814 3 L154 toothsome, as { skin and featl esd me tha t out and tae Mine have long be aril i ana 1A, than, at prese introduction daring the § iUcks andeven sixteenth century, geese swans, have also ditions to Christma also be mentioned, th in request, and of course poultry in the shape of “good f The originated with om drinkis fathers, with whon sail,” answered d he ith ” Tha store aith. he sto ¥ no y v dy i ticern, who by her winning ways took Wena, enough f ssnndaticon $s WULGALVION i some Wis long anterior. } 31 i iri owls or loving cups « in the middie ages are still Ca : mpanions| when Drought jorwar 1 d of City of for their! i theme of general admiration beauty and splendor. London Reader, - “The Last Message to the House ¢ rael” is the being distributed, and a copy « has been received by us, It is from the - Is] 3 i t circular which § s itie of a : : { which! GREATEST OF CHARITY. hal 10lidays are THESE close upon us Kays #, and there are signs of festivi- tha ple It is {that all should enjoy the holidavs i Old peopl »" ii wi with right f pos- ty. : y should 1 ps | i Bh pie i il their | bless the renew ; the middle age 3 , Happy present wa f al and h future, and 01 i {hae young should have pleasure in abun. st and most endnr- should not befor. i ent Jy Ul 4 8. The cheerful giver ness that is denied vg 4, A MONDERFUL NEW SUBSTANCE. Paraffine wax has to~day no successful rival for the the insulation of electrie wire, and the growth of the demand for this purpose keeps pace with the mar- vellous growth of the electric lighting system. A single Chicago concern buys paraffine wax by the car load. Its price i8 but balf that of beeswax. The demand for parafline for candles as yet heads the list. Then comes the needs of the paper consumers. In 1877 a siogle firm in New York handled 14,000 reams of waxed pa- per. This year their trade will be 350,000 reams. Not only for wrapping candy is this paper invaluable, but fine cutiery, hardware, etc, encased in waxed paper ie safe from the encroachment of rust or dampness, Fish and butter and a score of other articles are aleo thus wrapped, and there seems literally no end to the | uses found for the paper saturated with this pure hydro-carbon. In the chemists’ labratory it is invaluable as a coating for actic xposed to all manner of power- ful dissolvents; brewers find it a capital thing for coating the interior of barrels, | and the maker of wax flowers simulates | nature in sheels of paraffice, No fairer substance ever sprun most unpromi SOOWY. £8 ax g from g parentage than the pure, tasteless, opalescent wax which is evolved from the loud smelling, | pitchy dregs of the petroleum still. This [its smooth soft beauty, defies agents | which can destroy the precious metals | sat up the hardest steel as water dis- olves sugar. Bulphuric and other po- { tent acids have no more effect on ozoke- {rite than spring water, It is alike im- | pervious to seid and to moisture. Its ad- | | : | i sation in this age of electricity, { Every overhead electric light cable, or VIE hn | N OU. 50 LAID DOWN IN FRONT OF A TRA VE N, Peoria, Ill, December 15.—~As the east bound Chicago, Barlington and Qainey passenger train passed through Elmwood this morning Jd. P. Peagan, aged thirty five, deliberately laid down on the track with his neck on the rail, The train panned over and beheaded Lim. He leaves u family, wor i a Taxe Noricx or mais Spres: GAIN. ~The “New York Weekly W ous of the best weeklies in the 17; States, by special arrangement with World publishers, can be had very by clubbing with the “Reporter.” Two new names, clubbing for the “Reporter.” will each get the two papers, the “ World” and the “Reporter” one vear. cs vance, for $225, : for the two being the “Reporter” can h and “Reporter” for $2.50, is for §2.25 when eclubbip Lames, wr OW the $3 - i TRYING TO CON VERT a ZARD. Reading, Pa., Dec. 18,1 ters and others on the bave started revival m convert Abe Buzzard anc banditti A band of Li between 8 and 10 have i kystematical and reside eel eel 7 robbing stores, E. - Bey The Reporter and New Weekly World, to three new su ciubbing with of our scribers, at $2.35 per year i y “ the i + i vit bug : $i 0 one pre “Lt san 6 BEYanoe, HIS THEN | underground conduit, or slender wire, cunningly wrapped with cotton thread : aes 1 ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS TREES. hristinas trees and evergreens in con- tion with the celebration of Christ wre n he “Antequeiates Curiosae” (1815 the very dawn of christendom, Tradition says that the first Christian church in Britain was built of boughs, and that the disciples directed this 0 be done 10 act the notice of the people, because the monks had bailt temples of this description in imitation of the temples of Saturn, which were in every instance constructed under the branches of the ocak tree, The great feast saturn was held in December, and as leafless, the monks FHI £ ne a8 i ' Ler att air § { of Sat veel the OoBks were Lhien required the people to bring in boughs { evergreens, and Christinns adopted ye custom on the 26th of December, wid DETAILS OF A FRUSTRATED PLAN 10 ASSASSINATE EMPEROR WILLIAM, Leipeic, Dec. 16,~The name of the an- archists, besides Reinsdorf and Bache for attempting to cause an explosion at the unveiling of the Neiderwald monu- ment to Germany, are Kuechlen, Rupsch, Hoizhaoer, Boehugen, Rheinbach and Toe trial will ast a week. Four counsel are employed for the de- fense. Raupach bas confessed that Reins. dorf ordered him to fire the mine. This oy £ lconsisted of a large stone jar and a glass { bottle filled with dynamite and furnish church. It concludes that on January ed with percussion caps. To these a fuse 4, 1885, the world will surely come to an| was attached and the whole placed in a {arain which crossed the road about ten | minutes’ walk from Neiderwald. He was {pen of A. J. Rawson, pastor of a Chicago 1. i end, and advises the people to prepare| for the great event. - A o—— | | B The colored pe world's exposition in Chicago, next Sep-| tember. There will be mach darkness) about it, no doubt, and the exhibit of] ivory and chalk won't be mean. Still the white folks should give it every en- couragement and patronize it well, .-— TERRIBLE DEATH OF A MANIAC. Seymour, Conn., Dec. 17,—~A passenger train was derailed and wrecked several weeks ago on the Naugatuck road thro the negligence of Willis A. Kane, who was discharged with a reprimand, the Superintendent saying : “You should be more careful.” The remark was repeat- ed by Kane's associates and finally be- came a sort of by-word whenever ho ap- peared. It preyed upon the poor man and he finally lost his reason, and until his death, which occurred yesterday, he was a raving maniac, imagining he was tending switches, operating the breaks, wildly waving his signals, frequently call- ing out “Change cars,” and just before he expired he fancied that he had been crushed by a train passing over him. His contortions were horrible and it required the combined services of thee strong men to hold him down. “There's the train!” he finally shricked, and as he fell back from his struggle hg was a corpse. A MIN sople are going to hold ¥ i i E CAVES IN. Wilkesbarre, Pa, Dee. 17.