OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES, XVIII THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED. KURTZ, Evrror and Pror's. I ———————— NE. Dynamite in the hands of socialistic devils did bad work in London, the oth- er day, as will beseen in another column. No good citizen will fail to condemn the aim and action of the socialists. Suppose some one would set off a dy- namite bomb among O'Donovan Rossa and his gang in this country when they hold their next meeting, just to show them how it works. It might both kill and cure. Cameron thinks of putting up Beaver for governor again, next time, in consid- eration of his having agreed notto inter- fere with the senatorial election and to allow Don to have a walk over. Neither congress or the state legisla- ture has done any thing this winter, so far, to be worth mentioning. The heay- iest performance has been drawing sala- ty, and Flannigan would say “that's what we are here for.” Ay Judge Furst occupies the bench this week, his first regular term. He pre- sides with dignity and has the ability to make a good judge. Centre county isthe mother of jutiges=we had the Burn- sides, Hale, Linn, Orvis, Hoy and Furst, all within thirty, years, The Liberty bell has been sent to the New Orleans exhibition guarded by four policemen. A soft snap for the police- men. At Altoonsabout 8000 people had gathered in the vicinity of the depot to get a glimpse at the bell. General Owens delivered a short address, ——————— A —— A man in Grand Rapids, Michigan, got a verdict the other day for being kicked down stairs ten years ago. Ac- cording to this a kicking down stairs, like wine, must improve in value on ac count of its age. Who wouldn't be kick- ed down stairs for $10,000, New York has elected Mr. Evarts to the senate in place of Lapham. Evarts is a man of brains and will not be a pig- my in thé senate. Pennsylvania has re-elected Don Cam. eron, a political boss, and not a man of brains, What a contrast between the representatives of the twogreatest states in the Union! Business failures occurring through- out the country during the last seven days as reported to the mercantile agen- cy of R. G. Dun & Co. numbered for the United States 371 and for Canada 40, or & total of 411, as compared with 420 last week and 457 the week previous to the last. The casualties are still unusually numerous in the western and southern states, and there is an increase in Cana- da. In other sections of the country the failures are about up to the average. In the senatorial controversy in New York, among the standale utiesrthed is the fact thet in 1868 Jim Fisk and Jay Gould gave Wm, M. Evarts $70,000 for a legal opinion on which the Erie ring based their action which gave it control of the directory of the company. The exposure of a transaction where Evarts was claimed to have given corrupt ad- vice for a princely fee saved a member of the Bar Association of New York from expulsion on asimilarcharge. The World makes a caloulation and finds Evarts got $506 a word for his opinion. Ten thousand men resumed work in Don Cameron made a good haul of suckers with his throw-net last week. He bagged the whole school of republi- can legislators at Harrisburg, save three, at one throw, This makes Don the re publican boss of Pennsylvania for six years more at least and the Indepen- dents will be independent in vain, They deserted their colors at a period when active opposition to Cameron's re-elec- tion would have been effective. While the legislative nominations were being made throughout the state, Cameron was taking care that his friends were placed upon the ticket while the Independents stood indifferent thinking that Cameron was asleep and allowing his henchmen to put it out that he did not want a re- election—and thus did the Independents permit themselves to be hoodwinked. You don’t catch a Cameron naping, nary time, when a senatorship is lying around, nt fp pe Thirty-nine lashes and the singing of an affidavit that he was a malicious liar is the penalty which G. W. Murphy has just paid in a Georgia town for slander- ous remarks concerning a respectable lady. Murphy told atale to several com- panions which was subsequently con- veyed to friends of the lady. They de cided to hold Murphy to account. He was first taken to the office of Clerk Phillsbury of the Supreme Court, where he affixed his signature to a card saying that what he had said was “a base and malicious falsehood.” He was then tak- en to a secluded spot, where his should. ers being stripped, a cowhide was used with such effect as to draw yélls from the wretch, If all, male and female, of loose tongue were treated to a similar dose, it would be a blessing to a majority of neighbor hoods, and the retailers of petty slanders would learn to bridle their tongues, a ————— a —————— The temperance view of the “hard times” is taken as follows by the Boston Traveler: 1f the working people of this country want to know why they have hard times every few years we can tell them. It is not overproduction nor un- dercousumption, as those phrases are commonly employed. If they had kept the $90,000,000 they spent every year for strong drink in their pockets for the past five years of good times, the present temporary lull in manulactoring and business activity would find many of them able to bear it without being pinched for the necessaries of life, It is the overconsumption of whiskey that makes the underconsumption of food and clothing in this land of liberty and liquor. The annual bill for bread, meat, cotton and woolen goods of this great American people foots up a total of about $1,250,000000. But the annual bill for whiskey, beer and the taxes thercon is $1,400,000,000. In other words it unnec- casarily drank $150,000,000 worth more than it necessarily eats and wears, And the people who commit this folly every year are amazed that once in a few years they are hard up, and some want to holst the communistic red flag and destroy everybody else's property be cause they have wasted their own share of the national substance in rye juice and other riotous fluids. A — EXTREME COLD IN THE WEST. Chicago, January 22. —The temperature in this city is gradually becoming warm- er during the evening and shortly be. fore midnight the thermometer marked sight degrees above sero. The continued coid has, however, inflicted much hard ship upon the poor in this city. The ef fects in the surrounding country were even more marked, Specials to-night from points ia Illinois, lows and Wiscon- the conl regions last week, being the miners and laborers employed by Pardee & Co., Coxe Brothers & Co., George B. Markle, Leisenring & Co., coal operators in the lowerlportion of Luzerne county, at a reduction of ten per cent. in wages. This order affects’about 10,000 men who have signified their intentions to work rather than lay idle. In the Wilkesbar- re section the large coal companies have already nearly filled their quotations for January, and little work will be done during the remainder of the month. Farther detalls of the devastation caused by the avalanches in the Pled- montese Alpse are coming in slowly, the that nine persons were killed and many others injured in that village. At Chia- brandro every house was buried, and i some cases the masses of ice and covering the houses were twenty deep. The goldiers and the neighbor ing villages are laboring with energy to resous the survivors, of dead bodies have been taken out, and in many cases they bear no marks of Jury, showing that they must have been suffocated. Many of the survivers who have been rescued had been imprisoned in the narrow and partly wrecked ins for several days, together with corpses of their relations who had killed. Relief trains have been from Turin. sin speak of damage to stock, which in some sections was quite serious. Fruit in many places is t to be killed and has suffered severely throughout all the territory named. Winter wheat, owing to the heavy covering of snow, is believed to be safe. Numerous instan of badly frozen ve near Decatur, morning when the mercury was 24 de grees below, Aas—— terest, and is calculated, he is paying 11 to 13 per cent. These mortages were assumed on the basis of wheat at $1 per bashel. The oF wheel i te Staten of pipiaition. se w at to increase the te Size of the rigage. Many farmers are . tern agthey RS ed to meet their paymenis. The money they received upoa the mally been in break w 2 : fA ; g : E H DYNAMITE FIENDS AT WORK. ———— LONDON SHAKEN UP BY THEIR EXPLO. BIVES. Both Houses of Parliament and the Tower Shaken Several Persons Injured—No Clue to the Perpetrators, London, January 25.—~The most daring and disastrous attempt upon the public safety vet made by the dynamiters, oc- curred yesterday afternoon, Three in. fernal machines at least, and perhaps four were exploded—one in the house of parliament, one or two in Westmines. ter hall, which adjoins them, and one in the tower of London, four miles away down the Thames, Saturday, when there is no session of parliament, is the usual visiting day at the houses of parliament. There were more yesterday than usually come, and the attendants recall that the number of women was unusually large, and that many of the women carried parcelsupon which they seemed to bestow une common care. The suspicion has arisen that the seeming women were men in women’s clothes, seeking an opportunity to deposit infernal machines and leave them to be fired by time fuses, Mr. Edwin Green, a civil engineer, was visiting the bouses of parliament on a sight seeing trip with his wife and sis. ter, who, by the way, are both Irish wo- men. They were in Westminster hall, As they were about going down the stair way leading to the crypt. Mrs, Green saw a parcel that looked like a roll of clothing lying on one of the stone steps, Smoke was issuing from the roll, The party ran back, calling to the first policeman they saw. His name is Cole. He seized the bundle and ran up stairs with it, meaning to carry it out of the building. Just as be reached the top step leading into the hall he dropped the bundle and it exploded. The ladies were thrown to the ground, bruised, and balf stripped. They both fainted. Mr, Green was hurled a dozen {- 6% and dashed violently to the stone floor. Several of his ribs were broken, and his clothing was torn to tatters, Policeman Cole was fearfully wounded, and another consta. ble named Cox, who came to his assist. ance, was almost equally injured, A large quantity of explosive matter had been placed inside the great orna- mental gates leading to the orypt under Westminster Hall, These gates were blown off their hinges and thrown to the ground. All the windows on the north and south sides of the immense baildiog were blown to atoms, The concussion shook down from the grand oak roof of the ball the accumulated soot of cestu. ries, This in its downward movement made such a dense cloud that the offi. cers on guard became alarmed and dared not enter the room. In the lobby the splinters were for a time as thick as flaks in a blinding snow storm. They were propelled ia many cases with dangerous force. They cai and ripped the leather from the seats and tore out and scattered the horse hair stuflin all over the house. A man who happened to be standing upon a scaffolding near the crypt when the explosion occurred was knocked forcibly to the ground. The great window over the main entrance to Vestminster hall was smashed to atoms. Three minutes had hardly passed whea another explosion completely demolish ed the lobby of the house of commons in the parliament buildings adjoining and opening into Westminster Hall. Here the dynamite must have been deposited under the peers’ gallery, back and to the left of the speaker's chair. Gladstone sits to the right of the speaker; Brad. laogh's favorite seat was to tue left. The The explosion came from under either the peers’ gallery or the strangers’ gal- lery, still farther to the left, and very close to the seat usually occupied by Mr, Bradlaugh when be visits the commons, The lobby was completely wrecked, the strangers’ gallery was torn down, a chip was torn off the speakers’ chair and Mr, Gladstone's seat was badly broken, The western extremity of the house is a total wreck. All the woodwork in that part of the building was shattered, and a wide hole was made through the floor, The gallery was displaced, even the solid stonework of the doorways was either Iverized or shifted from its position. ry pane of glass in the house was smashed to atoms, The gallery benches were overturned and broken and the gallery generally dismantled, Had the commons been in session at the time of the explosion, it is believed that not less than 200 members would bave been killed. This number would necessarily have incladed Gladstone and several of his ministers. Even more strange, if possible, than this is the fact that, under the same circumstances, veither Mr. Parnell nor any of hig fol owers would have been injured at all, for recently soy bave sitting on the Sphosi #idé of the house among the rvatives, and the tory quarters os- almost undisturbed. The police ect to see in this singular colnoidence a carefully planned warning to the gov. ernment, The glass roof of the house of com: mons was completely shattered. The clock in the house stopped at precisely 213 k i A heavy bua which Sotmed ® supports to the gallery, under which Charles Bradisogh - pel A med to sit when he visits the house, was pro ected into the speaker's chair, seriously aring it. The Statues of King Wills « in ca act) pm, Acocrdi to the earlier ot was the most su cossfal whioh bas yet been any of the publis buildia ration of the presen mite warfare, The famous wan crowded with visitors he explosion, made upon since the in. era of dyna old huliding at the time o a mber of persons hp Rad been injured hy he’ a : ors were varried th the po and eoustantly the hah rho repo, njared, of them ortally hurt, i Kone An old mbscriber of the Tero i soon. THE EUROPEAN BED, Lot it be recorded that a room in a European hotel does contain a bed, writes a correspondent to The Chisago Inter-Ocean, ‘When you hire a room youn going out and purchasing soap, candies, comb and brush, letter paper, ete, (one usually prefers buying them outside ot the hotel ; but I believe the bed is usu. ally included as a part of the furniture of the room. Whatever else there may be deficient, let it be set down that the bed is on band. I have yet to discover a place, also, where a cerlain amount of water is not allowed to each hotel guest, Let justice be done though the heavens fall. The continential bed is good enongh, what there is of it, and there is enongh of if, such as it is, There is not enongh of it, such as it ought to be, however. In other words, it ends too quick. After testing several score of them, I am cone vinced that as a rule there ought to be a few more inches put on the average bed. Tobe sure, I can just manage to wedge myself in between the head-board and the foot-board, but I always thin when ¥ commit myself to the arms of Morpheus, what if I should swell up during the night like a sonked codfish under the influence of this lachrymal weather? And I am not Titan in stature either, But the chief feature of the continen- tal bed against which I wish to launch the invectives of my outraged manhood i8 its quilt There is a sheet, a thin counterpane and then a slender, puffy quilt, filled with feathers, a little larger than a pil low, It is sufficiently warm and light, but so small that the least motion may jostle it overboard, You carefully poise this enriosity upon the pit of your stomach and then lie perfecily quiet for a few moments, The reenlt is most gntifying. Bat presestly you tire of this lyiug-still process, and discover that you are uncomfortable This is an alarming discovery, for now yon eannot be content until yon have shifted your position, and the moment yon do so that dumpling of a feathered quilt loses its equilibriam. Perhaps you get to sleep before any such aenident ooours, which in a remarkable stroke of luck ;: but toward midnight you awoke to find that the aforesaid quilt had sauntered off into one corner of the room. There is one remedy, You ean geta dictionary and put it on top of the quilt; but this renders it impossible for yon to breathe, and though it may be some satisfaction to you to have circumvented the obstinate quilt, it is quite inocon- venient to be unable to breathe Be. sides, the doctors say that it is not con- ductive to longevity to be deprived of the capacity to breathe, ll BM — TEETH, In the case of the great sanrian of the Nile, all that Aristotle tells us is bor. rowed from Herodotus, with the ex ception of the number of eggs it is said to lay ; and it is carions to notice that he even tells the story of the little bird (frochilos) which eats the leeches out of the erocodile’s mouth—a story long dis oredited, but which has been to a great extent corroborated by M. Geoffroy. Saint-Hilaire, the eminent French naturalist, who long resided in Egypt and had repeated occasions to ascertain that the story of Herodotus was correct, in substance at least. He found thats little bird, the black-headed plover, (Pluvianus arggtis,) flies incessantly from place to place, searching everywhere, even in the crocodiles mouth, for in. scots, such ns gnats, which attack the great saurian in innumemble swarms, and entering his mouth, cover the inner surfage of the palate with a brownish blaak erust. The little plover comes and Salivers him from his troublesome ene. 08, a 3 WHAT 18 ZERO? Puthape not one in a hundred can tell off-hand why a point thirty-two degrees below freesing point on Fahrenheit's thermometer is called mero. For that matter, nobody knows. The Fahrenheit scale was introduced in 1720. Like other thexmometrio scales it has two fixed points, the freezing point, or rather the melting point of ice, and the boiling Resumuor soales call the freezing point zero and Tieagury Shurarau in both di. rections. a very natural arrange- ment. Fahrenheit kept the principle on which he graduated his themometers a secret, and no one has ever discovered it It is supposed, however, that he oon- sidered his zero—thirty.-two degrees be. low freezing-the point of absolute cold or absenoe of all heat, either beoanse, bo. ing about the temperature of melting or because it was the lowest nataral tem- perature of which he oonld find any grounds on which Fahren- GRAVES IN THE CRIMEA, Catheart Hill has now become the one Jritish cemetery. Extending from the Alma to Balaklava there were 130 burial places, and it was found impossible to { look after them all, and now Cathoeart | Hill is to be taken care of as 8 monn. mental record of all the British who died in the Crimea. About 70 feet has been added all round to the old inclosure, and consecrated, and a substantial wall sure | rounds the space, with a house through | which visitors pass into the cemetery. | Capt. Harford, who nots as English Con. (sul at Sebastopol, has taken a great ine | terest in this work, and has got the place | into very good order. A number of the principal monuments from the other ceme- | teries have been moved and placed on | Catheart Hill. It would be imposible now | {to move the bodies, but the hesdstons | |if placed in this new cemetry, will be | {safe from damage, and will be still {records of those who fell. It is a heavy (work to remove these headstones, and | some have to be carried a great distance ; {it is to be hoped that & grant of money {will be made to have this done now once land for all in a proper manner. For | been subscribed by the publie, but if the Government did this part of the work, | which is their duty, 8 monument should | be erected on the spot toall who fell, and {that might be done by public subserip. | tion. During the siege Catheart Hill NO. 4. HE GAVE HIS BROTHER POISON, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jan, 19~Geo. and Ray Sweet, the little sons of Officer Bweet, were playing doctor yesterday afe ternoon, when George got on a chairand secured a package from the top of a clock he had seen bis father put there s few days ago. He gave a portion to his brother for the stomach ache. Hearing groans, the mother rushed into the room and found Gray in convulsions on the floor. The remainder of the powder be- side him was found to be strychnine bought to kill rats, The boy died ina short time. Ar A MUST GO. The horrible nauseous worm-seed compounds called vermifuges and worm syrups, many of them as worthless as they are obnoxious, have had their day. It is downright cruelty to compel a child to take then, when McDonalds Cele- brated Worm Powders, so easy to take that children will take them and never know that a medicine is being adminis tered, can be procured for the small sum of 25 cents. Any case of failure to exe- cute expulsion where worms exist, the money promptly refunded. Sold by J. i Murray. Jouxssrox, HoLroway, & Ce. Philadelphia, Agents, — a THE GREAT ZINGARI For toothache and neuralgia has no equal. Warranted. Only 16 cents at all drug stores, Joussrox, Honroway & Co., Philadelphia Agents, ————— EXTREME COLD AT CHICAGO. | went to for the purposs of seeing Sebas. | { topol and to get a glimpse of the opers- | (tions. All knew it. It is still the spot | where visitors go to ses the ground of the | great stroggle. The piece of ground | has been made over to the British Gov. | jernment, and a substantial and fitting monument on the historieal ground wonld be a record of the past as well as a | monument dune to the memory of the | brave who died. The Russisns have | done their duty in this respsct to their | dead and we should not be behind them. In addition to the memorial chapel in the Bussian cemetery, a very fine new memorial church has been built in the middie of Sebastopol over the graves of four Admirals who were killed, or at leat died, in connection with the defense of tho place. It was Admiral Lagereff who created Bebastopol i the fortress and the Black Bea fleet were produced iunder him. He is one of the four Ad- i mirals buried in the new church, and so | prond are the Ruossians of the defense of Sebastopol that after the siege they erected a monument—a statue on a podestal—to him in the midst of the {ruins of the city he had founJed. The | statne is colossal and stands in front of { the ** White Buildings,” overlooking the (harbor. These “White Buildings” which were barracks, are still roofless and in mins and the figure of the Ad- miral, which is black, has rather a ghastly sppearance with such surroundings. A REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH, A tiger photographed in the very aot of killing a buffalo is probably an oo- currance unparalleled in the annals of the camera. Yet that such a photo- graph has actually been taken, is vouched for in the Indian press. The artist, it appears, had focused on the buffalo, which was tied for the ocoasion to a tree. stump in the middle of a field, and had just put a dry plate into the camera, when the tiger, brought up to the spot for the purpose, went at it, and struck down the great horned beast with a single blow of his right paw. * My in. strament,” says the photographer, ‘was about seven yards from the buffalo, and the tiger might just as well have come at me if he bad chosen to do so, but he preferred the beef, and taking advantage of the moment he had sprung his victim, 1 released the spring shutter just as he had The negative is good enough to give an authentio pictare from the life of the most terrible of earniverons beasts at the precise moment when it bad stunned its huge prey. The buffalo, though fatally strack, had not even had time to fall be- fore the ** sun picture ” of its dying mo- ments was fixed upon the faithful plate, and so there it stands with its knees just giving away under it, and its great head drooping in death. A quarter of a second later and it was lying on the ground lifeless; but on the photo- grapher's glass it remains forever in the 'motnal attitude of dying, and at the in. stant when it is drawing its last breath. After slayirg the buffalo, the tiger stretched its head round over the neck and, slipping its mouth down to the but life blood. ‘This fact is an extraordinary what were considered indisputable ob. servations, that the tiger never, by any chanoe, commenced its meal at tho throat. Sometimes, if there were a fight, it would wound its adversary in that spot ; but, as o rule, it trasts to its fist blow to break its victim's peck, aud then pulling it Chicego, Jan. 19.~This has been the thermometer ranged anywhere from 19 degrees to 30 degrees below zero, the sig- nal service quoting 19 degrees below, The same condition of affairs prevails througout the state. Winnepeg is quo- ted at 14 degrees below, Jamestown 16 below, Fargo 19 below, and Bi, Paul 19 below. -» BUCKLENS ARNICA SALVE. _ The best salve in the world for cuts, Drulses, sores, nicers, salt robeum, fever sores, Leder, chapped Lands, ctilblains, Corus, and sll skin eruptions, aud posi- Cures plies, or uo pay required, It is guaranteed 10 give periect saustuc- lon, or money refunded. Price Z5cents a box. For sale by all druggists, janly CHILDREN BURNED ARD A WO- MAN SHUT, Louisville, Ky., Jan. 20.—A negro wo- man, Nancy Swayer, jeft two small chil dren in a cabin, near Lowsvile, and went Wo a neighbor's house. In her abe sence Lhe cabin and children were burn- ed, Jane Finley, colored, was shot fatale ly at a dacce w-night by her lover, whose name she refused to divuige, ws So Ada —————" How often we hear middle-aged peo pie say regarding that reliable old cough remedy, N. H. Downs’ Elixir: *“W hy, my mother gave it 0 me when I was a child, and 1 used itin my family: it al- ways cures.” Who can name another medicine with such a good record as this. Dr, Baxter's Mandrake Bitters are another good medicine ; and Arnica and Oil Liniment is just what it is recom- mended to be, Sold by J. D. Murray, Centre Hall, 4 jan Se —— efi ————— WEDDED TO A CHILD OF TWELVE. Gainesville, Ga, Jan. 18.—Nicholss Van Horn, a well-to-do farmer and wid. ower, of Habersham, the father of two children, aad over 36 years of age, was married to Miss Ivey, a child of twelve. During the ceremony the child began to sob, when the man paited her on the head in a fatherly manner and wiped away her tears with his big bandanna, REGISTERS NOTICE~-The following accounts have been examined, and remain fled of record in this office for the inspection of heirs, legatees, creditors and all others in any wise interested, and will be pres sented wo She OivhANS Court of Centre Sout} 08 . Ie J fo alow. sad cont o Anu, A. D, 1885, » Account of Bamuel Gramiey, adminis. trator of &c. of Daniel ' bred ry Conser, late of Miles town Emith 2 The first and final scocunt of J Ww Sdminthauior Sian. ot James Ary Inte of 3 The firs and partial scoount of t Dale, administrator kB. N. CF 4 of de pot vid , inte of Benner twp, dec a. 4 The account of Joseph W. Marshall, execu- tor of &G, of Aun Cathars, late of Pons: oe Pp, dec'd, & The nocount of A W Ulrich, executor of &¢ of dec'd, Korman, guardian of & minor child of M E Jami by DW Garbrick and = { .
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