CENT XVIII. — PA DNESDAY, F vl 1885, “NO. 6. CENTRE REPORTER FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pro's. etc iHE In Youngstown, Ohio, Miss Reed shot her lover, Edward Shell, because he re- fused to fulfill his promise to marry her. A The Democrats of Illinois have nom- inated congressman Morrison for U, B. Senator and the Republicans have nom- inated Logan. The legislature is a tie, and it is hard to tell who will win, There may be a dead-lock. ————— : GREED FOR OFFICE. The greed of the republicans to remain ; ia a {in office, after an uninterrupted lease of ing in incre of maga 124 yur iy asonishin to say oki etoad bv the goVernor. . of the cheek it requires to ask and ex- : — |pect retention at the hands of a Demo- ¢ board of pardons will not interfere cratic administration. That Democrats the case of the wife-murderer, Dr. {should be anxious for the places, after ] Altoona. and he will have to asking nothing and getting nothing from 2 {a Republican administration for a quar- [ter of a century, is quite natural and llow in North Carolina made a Wa- right and proper. The Democrats are r that hecould drink a quart of whis-|gptitled to the offices, the people meant in forty minutes. He won the bet!that when they voted for a change by lied in two hours afterward. Whis-|glocting Cleveland. Now let the change is bound to kill. {be made, from high to low, where an Aber. down in Easton |ROnest Democrat can be found to accept yublican paper dow : ce . xs against Beaver for governor next a place of trust ihe greed of the Republicans to stay flice far exceeds that of the Demo- rind BUS in. : tO i I'he RerorTER suggests that hereafter » called O'Dynamite Rossa, instead Donovan Rossa. - he legislature so far passed one act, Et 1 Roy iE i Mp i . Unfortunately for the General, he only one leg and can't kick back, he can have it Don somehow we —— i ihe Bell Telephone Co. of Philadel- 1 last vear paid a dividend of 41 per Yet they charge enormously fi f theirinstruments which would »fitable at half present char- "’ give us cheaper telephone - lit in I'he anti-treating bill, which has been sduced in the legislature, subjects v person who treats, or accepts a treat y intoxicating drink, to a fine of or ten days in jail, or both, and in tion 1 ae uting the case. 17 A Mi itn ssn ive Rhone has mailed us islative Record. The Record, as four weeks behind. What a 1 thing it would be if our law-makers 1d abolish that costly nuisance, and urn, The people would then say for » “well done.” AN—— y not elect the U, 8, Senators by a ar vote and do away with the pres. Cameron, and favor a pending upon a vote 1e people he would never reach the Brains would win, R wt wentat i is 1 a rive x barbarous mode? would i ie I DOSSes, not such uge—Decause « tics ere seems to be very little sympa- r O'Dynamite Rossa on account of ing shot by Mrs. Dudley, Thie in- s a healthy state of feeling so far npathy for the methods of the dy- ters is concerned. Rossa will likely ver from the shooting and live to be t at another day. ty oi son » Dauphin county grand jury in its entment to the court, reports skating ks a nuisance, because they are “det- tal to the health of young pecple in a great measure destructive of the of the youths who frequent The grand jury inquired into he moral feature of skating rinks at the siggestion of Judge Simonton in his ras © ee — Inthe house, at Harrisburg, the fol- ing bills were favorably reported: thorizing muotual fire insurance com- nies to insure against storms; to pre- ut perpetual building restrictions on | estate; enabling city, county and bor- li tax collectors to collect taxes for Payment of which they have become iable ; extending the time for collection; cating the office of Recorder in Pitts- burg; prohibiting the treating to intoxi- cating drinks; prohibiting the propelling of traction engines in the highway un- less the machines are preceded by two persons at least 300 feet distant to give warning of danger; for the government of cities of the fifth class; making the lowest liquor license $500 and the high- est £1,000, and prohibiting no more than one license for every 200 assessed vo- ters a ————se i MPA The roller skate is the coming thing. The next campaign will be run on roller Candidates will electioneer on skates, them will be left behind. Men and wo men will go to church on roller skates. Doctors will visit their patients on roller skates, toral visits on roller skates, Fellows will skates. noun te ¥ 3 Y Lads, ete, will be put on roller skates. church for having the Gos by a minister on roller ska What a nation of fools we may yet be on roller skates. { The people of Washington evidently ‘understand that an inauguration only {occurs once in four years. A glance at ithe advertising columns of the daily newspapers indicates that almost every- body who has a room or window on the line of march from Capitol to the White {House is willing to rent it. Out of a score of advertisements the lowest price for single windows is $10, or two for §15. The highest prices asked are $50 per win- idow. The average is from $20 to $30 One person near Ninth street and the avenue offers to rent 40 seats at $5 each. The most exorbitant rentals are at the lintersection of Fifteenth street and the |avenue. Thirty dollars is the very low- lest agked for a fourth story window, the {price increasing from that to $50, accord- {ing to location. - The United States Consul at Malaga {reports to the Department of State, in {regard to the recent earthquake in Spain {that fifty villages have been destroyed |and 2,000 lives have been lost, He also {says that not less than 30,000 persons {have quitted the city of Malaga, and that 'the rest of tl:e population sleep in the ! The death rate from disease {has increased 300 per cent. At Jovenaa river which ran through the town has entirely disappeared. At Albunuclas the |earth opened, swallowing the church and other buildings, so that nothing remains iin sight but the weather-cock Jof the lchurch spire. Two hundred bodies have already been taken from the ruins, At Velez-Malaga the prison, churches, con- vents, and City Hall have all been lev- elled to the ground. aetm— LICFNSE BILLS, Among the measures introduced in the House at Harrisburg, are three license bills by W. C. Wesley Thomas, of Phila- delphia. The first fixes the license fees of retailers of liquor in quantities less than a quart at ten per cent. of their an- inual sales, beginning with $35,000 or | more, for which the license would bé $5,- 000, and then running down to $3,000 or less, for which the retailer must pay $300, The second fixes the licenses of wholesale dealers at 5 per cent, of their sales, the sliding scales running from an annual business of $500,000, down to any sum less thar $6,000, which would cost the dealer $250. The third fixes the li- censes of manufacturers and bottlers at five per cent. of their sales, the lowest license costing $500, for a trade of $10,000 or less, and running up to $50,000 for a business of $1,000,000. Each of the bills would turn half the revenue for license into the treasuries of the counties where they are collected. —— PA ———————— Congress is getting afraid of dynamite too. A writer says: The occurrence caused considerable excitement in view of the fact that it seems a threat has been made to blow up the House of Representatives and that members are greatly alarmed at the fact. It is said that more than twenty members excit- edly approached the desk of the Ser geant-at-Arms and demanded that great er police protection be afforded, and that every precaution should be taken to in- sure the safety of Congress during its sessions. Two things led to this state of alarm. A Senator communicated to a member of the House the circumstance that a lady interpreter in the State De- partment had spoken of a plot to blow up the House of Congress while in ses sion. The othersuspicious circumstance was the fire on the roof of the Capitol, which it is stated never could have been occasioned by spontaneous combustion, as at first given out. While every means was taken to conceal the excitement and apprehension of the members, the fact leaked out that the American Congress is thoroughly frightened ‘over the ru- mors that some plot may be hatching to blow up the capitol. Why the dyna resentatives of the people who y ize with Ireland is incompre- Pendle i open air. ! ssa cn tts If O'Dynamite Rossa recovers from Mrs. Dudley's shot, he might adopt this a8 his motto: What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, .—— So long as the Penn’a legislature does nothing it does no harm—there is that much “reform” anyhow, a —- Last week Senator Wallace of Clear- field, introduced an anti-discrimination bill in the Senate that is very exhaustive in its provisions. It provides that any railroad shall have the right to intersect, connect or cross any other railroad, and shall receive or transport passengers, ton- nage and cars, loaded or empty, without delay. Any railaoad or canal company refusing or neglecting to act as a com- mon carrier or demanding an exorbitant compensation shall forfeitand pay three- fold the actual damages suffered to sons or corporations by reason refusal, Of Any railroad or canal directs official or employe neglecting or to aid in the performance o road as a common carrier shall be refusing + f that rail- ad- judged guilty of misdemeanor, subject to imprisonment for not more than six monthsg and pay a fine of not more than $3,000. Any railroad demanding or re- ceiving exhorbitant rates for trans ion of freight or passengers is subi porta- ct to payment of threefold damage to the par- ty injured, or employed so ch recd JArg A SiiaAi be adjudged guilty of misdemeanor, v the punishment stated in stance. Threefold awarded where unjust discriminatios practiced. the £ rat Lilt ITEL lamaos i camage is 1 it at of or 1 tal fap 3 +3 ur legislature is cutting out a lot of work for the session, bills affirmatively, bills : Kmong which fil : 3 3 following have been reported s ts} " " ane titles indicate good Making appropriation of $10,000 for State representation at New Orleans ex position, To encourage mation of and authorize Co-operative association farmers, mechanics, laborers and o To provide fi common schools, Regulating the teachers, To extend the to ix months, Relating to the study and hygiene i Fixing th yr better supervisios a. ETD minimum n the pul ¢ standard weight ure of milk sold in ; To regulate {ge practice « the sale of poisons an thi toration of drugs. Regulating the contracts f and purchase of stocks, etc Compelling butchers pay mercantile tax. Among the bills presented were the following For the government and regulation « county jails and prisons. Supplement to the act to prevent sale of intoxicating liquors on Sund To prevent treating in saloo other places. Authorizing the couris to direct rule or special order the advertising « sheriff's sales in German newspapers, To provide for more uniform methods in the keeping of State accounts. Providing for the payment of newspa. pers for publishing mercantile licences by warrant of the Auditor General. The house committee at Harrisburg has reported against the grangers’ road tax-bill, - MACHINE SHOP BURNED AT HUNTINGDON, Huntiogdon, Pa, Febr'y 8. ~Clark & Baue's machine shop caught fire this morning sud burved to the ground, Ma- chinery worth $5,000 was destroyed, on which there was $2,000 fusarance. No insurance ou building, Origin of fire un- known, ‘ THE EXCITEMENT IN HOCKING VALLEY, Columbus, Ohio, Feb'y 8.-—Hockiog Valley was excited last night over ru- mors of a couceatrated attack by the strikers. Over 400 shots were fired io the neighbortiood of Nelsomviie and Buctite! about 10 o'clock, but no attack was made. The patrol trains drove the strikers off. ~ Decidedly the Worst snow storm thus far this seas n set in aboat 8 o'clock to~night. Advices from other points indicate that the area of the storm is large. It is snowing at Omaha aud sleeting at Bpringlieid, lil, KILLED AND EATEN BY WOLVES, Kankakee, Lil, Jan, 22.<A. H. Batts, Secretary of the Chicago Lumber Com- pany, has just returned from a loging camp, near Metropolitan, Mich., a point in the pineries, forty miles nirth of Es canoba. He said the night before he left camp the mercury bad dropped to 43 de- grees below zero. This was the climax of four days of very extreme cold weath- er. That night an o!d trapper and In- dian hunter, vamed Tow Dudging, re- tarniog from a honting trip, was killed and eaten by wolves within two miles of the camp. The wolves are more numer. ous and bold than usual on account of the scarcity of small game, Tlis friends in searchiog for him the next morning found his closely gnawed bones and thir teen dead wolves lying near him, pierced by his rifle balls, snd his Winchester ri- fle by his side, with one chamber still ‘ - a —— FALL OF KHARTOUM. THE CITY CAPTURED BY THE MAHDI IN ADVARCE OF ENGLISH RELIEF, London, Feb, 5.-~Intelligence has just been received here that Khartoum has been captured by the Arabian rebels, The whereabouts of Gen, Gordon isunknown, He is probably a prisoger in the hands of the victors, The war office has issued the following: “Telegrams from General Wolseley an- nounced that the fall of Khartoum took place on Jan. 26. He says Col. Wilson arrived at Khartoum Jan, 28, and was greatly surprised to find that the enemy in possession of that place. He jm- mediately started on his return dowa the river and proceeded under a heavy fire from the rebel When some miles be- low the Shublaka cataract Col. Wilson's steamers were wrecked, but he and his whole party managed to reach an island in safety where they are secure. A steamer has gone to bring them back to the British camp near Metemneh,” tien. Wolseley says he has no infor- ation regarding the fate of Gen. Gor- and does not know whether he is vd or alive, Chere 1s no longer any doubt but that ie Mahdi holds possession of the town of Khartoum, Some hopes are still en- tertained that Gen, Gordon may still be holding out in the citadel of the town, A native reports that the Mahdi had 60,000 men in the vicinity of Khartoum, and that he introduced a number of his aries into the city. The emisearies freely with the native troops winder Gen. Gordon, and by bribes, aud on their religious em to mutiny, Seven i of the garrison deserted to the leaving Gordon only 2.500 faith- With this swoall force he at- to hold the city against the great army, but after severe , in which a large number of the # were kilied, he was compelled to rrender, When Sir Chas, Wilson reached Khar- m he found the Mahdi's forces occu- th the town and citadel. He tried nd ascertain the fate of General this step he found impossi- emy’s guns were turned up- fi He was thercfore » turn his back upon the fall. ti al ii 1d working duced Lh Porat of t} { the downfall of Khartoum rave apprehensions in re- je Egyptian problem the members of the cabinet, Mr. ¢ and Earl Granville started for soon as the news reached 1. The cabinet council will be held % evening. ye § EEN & Hee 2.00% MASSACRED AT KHARTOU ‘eb. 6.~Rumors have reached men were massacred at he news of the disaster has entire European The English garrison 1,200 at Alexandra, 3.850 150 marines at Suez. There ‘ort Said excepting one y man-of-war Monarch is at . EAT 10 WIPE THE FACE OF THE EARTH, jon, Feb. 6.~The following is the message from the Madhi to Col, Wilson “I call upon you to surrender. 1 shall not write again. If you do not become Mohamedans, I will wipe you off the the earth.” The statement is PENN) over the THE the latter was enabled to capture Khar. $ 7 f Gen, Wolseley sends the following dis- “Calvot’s convoy has reached Gu- afely. The enemy at Metemneh been entirely inactive since Janu- Bry The rebel force there is estimat- ed at between two and three thousand men, of whom 250 are horsemen and 500 have rifles. Our men are in good health, The wounded are doing well. The Kabbabish tribes are still carrying messages and supplies for us to Gakdal Wells. A message has been sent to as- certain the fate of Gen. Gordon.” The decision of the cabinet in giving General Wolseley a carte blanche has caused the liveliest joy everywhere. Groups of people are gathered in the streets read- ing the latest issues of the evening pa- pers. EXCITEMENT AT THE WAR OFFICE AT LONDON. London, Feb, 6.~The war office was thronged throughout the day yesterday with foreign ministers, members of the house of commons and other public of- ficials, Orders have been sent to Ports- mouth to hold the various transports now there in readiness for immediate service. At various political and other meetings had nrahout the kingdom yesterda the speakers expressed sympathy wi Gen. Gordon and the hope that the gov- ernment would adopt vigorous and de cisive measures. The newspaper offices arebesieged with an xious inquirers. Mr, Wilfred Blunt says it is his opinion that the Mahdi being humane and well sccus- tomed to the usages of war, will treat Gen, Gordon well, THE SOUDAN WAR TO BE PROSECUTED, London, Feb, 8~General Wolseley naked for specific orders as to what he should do in event of General Gordon being found dead. After a very animat- ed and prolonged discussion the cabinst replied that the campaign should be prosecuted until the rebellion was sap~ pressed, ¥ og MRS. DUDLEY BUOYANT. New York, Feb, 5.—~0"Donovan Rossa's asailant, Mrs, Dudley, was in her usual placid frame of mind this morning when a reporter called to see her. Bhe had just finished reading four letters which ad been brought to her from the morn. ing mail. One of them bore the postmark of Wiliesbarre, the others wers from this city, Mra, Dudley said she had re coiv ooh atory messages from both Englishmen aod Irishmen, Rome offered assistance, others advice, She read, with considerable amusement, the report from London that she bad doriog ber youth studied for the stage. Ste ie still reticent concerning hier personal his ones eo: Pera r— i {KILLED AND INJURED ON RAIL- It is said that the French railroad ROAD TRACK, companies are about to adopt an electric! y1,-{ingdon, Feb. .—Annie and Ella gate opener. A catch connected with ani Miller, uzed 17 and 13 respectively, were electro-magnet keeps the gates closed, | struck by the express at Mapleton last When a train approaches it closes the Digbt, Ells was instantly killed and Ao- a pa was seriously injured, but will proba- circuit, releases the catch, and the gates! iy recover, The girls were walkin on fly open. The last train as it passes the railroad track and were on their way through opens the circuit, and the gates home from prayer meeting. are again closed. The same apparatus! rings a bell violently on the approach of| a train, — When wvour children are threatened with croup or whooping-cough {how you lull them to sleep with g : ; {syrups whose principle ingredients are Lead tanks which withstood sulphurie morphia or opium. natural eff acid perfectly, Mr. 8. P. Sharples re. of the lungs to expel the suff ! {ppsm § weytior hi nig {ep el pop Cols ports, were soon destroyed by hydro. SE: a ; DE ule 8 Le : : . . (ed English Cough Medicine ( is » a o » wv chloriec acid. In some recent expert nyorphia or opizm in any fi ments undertaken to destroy cotton fibre its stimulat by means of hot hydrochloric acid it was bowels, and found that leadlined vessels wers soon if ee pi ' " : . yreaking up and expelli andere 2] Bas Piva ; - | " r nd red useless by it. Even the cold , 14: from the system. Money refund acid could not be kept in wooden tanks ed to dissatisfied purchasers. Sold every- lined with lead. Most anthors say that where. Jomxsrox, HoLrowa 1 3 2 % 5 4 i i ‘hiladal nb lead is only slightly affected by hydro : i hiladel; 0 hloris aad o 1 by J. D. Murray. chloric acid. , J GETTING iLLINOIS, Jacksonville, Ills, Feb. 9.—The worst beware Wh rr coneh T% ne ocat: ntaing ns rm, and ing actions on the ki pores ofthe gkin, more tha 7, assists Nature wi ny ines ‘DeYE, 11 0r 4 ng the bs a ret Y, & Co., ia, Agents, i £2. £0 { ry LIZZARDS WORSE IN On brass, a technical jonrnal says, a B steel color is developed by using a boil. careful coloration. for optical instruments, is obtained from a solution of platinum chloride to which tin nitrate has been added. solution of copper sulphate, alum, au verdigrie, figure of the planets fraction of their constituent elements, with very slight angular velocity. Their a revolving ellipsoid. M F. A. Forel has slaled to the Acad- emy of Boiences, Paris, that a secon trip to the Alps, made towared the end of August, has enabled him to confirm and complete the details of the luminous phenomena observed around the smn in Switzerland, as previously communicated by He inviies acronauts to study some of these effects of light, and es- pecially the red coronas round the sun, scarcely able to be perceived from the plains and low elevations, but perfectly visible at altitudes of from 8 000 to 6,000 feet above the ses level 6 Iasi a - that waters which circulate or stand in leaden pipes or vessels not only take up particles of lead through mechanical ao. tiou due to friction, but aitack the metal because of the affinity of several of their constituents, the result being generally lead carbonate. Minute quantities of lead introduced into the system must rank among the fsotors of ansmia and defective nutritions in large towns Therefors, concludes M. A. Hamon, pipes, cisterns, and utensils of lead ought wtirely $c disappear, At a factory at Thann, Francs the frst products of the distilation of orude benzol, which are oalled light benzol, are used in dissolving caoutchuoue. A workman engaged in making the solu- tion died of poison taken into the system during the operation. The light benzol contains, besides oarbon disnlphide, sthylic aloohol, carbides of the series of the olefines, amylen, hexelen, elo, ben- zol, methyloyanids, or soelo-nitrile, a small quantity of an isooyandie. Messrs, Werner and Noelting have traced the poisonous properties of ordinary bensgol to a little of this isocyanide. Animals poisoned with ethyl isocyanide exhibited the same symptoms as the person who fell a viotim to the light benzol of Thann. The benzol, when freed from the iso. cyanide, had no poisonous acotion. John Avis, jailor of Jefferson county, Virginia, during the whole time that John Brown was in prison, denies in an affi. davit that Brown kissed a negro child in its mother's arms on his way to the soaf- izzard of the season began last night, accornpanied by thunder and lightning, stood at zero, but it wes rapidly geting colder. All trains are delayed. The Ciu- cago & Alton refuse tc take. out stock At Franklin a senseless and the entire village was shak- ten up by the shock. i Get us one new subscriber and $2.25 and pay us $2.25 in advance for yourself, aod both will get the “N. Y. Weekly Reporter” 1 year, if AJ Gen. Gordan was treacherously ered at Khartoum, Dubuque, Iowa, morning of 10, 81 be. {low zero, Accounts mare of great snowstorms this {porter can get the New York Weekly | World, each one year, for 82.25 sent os {in advance. A great bargain, © 4 THE SPORTSMANS PARADISE, i | The country of the Upper Nile was, par excellence, the wonderland of the Ro- man world, as it is still the grandest out- door museum of natural curiosities. Zoo- Jogically there is no more densely popu- {lated country. All the wild beasts and birds, made homeless by the devastation tof Northern Africa, seem to have taken irefuge in the Nubian highlands. In the {terraceland of the Nubian and Abyssi- inian Alps there roam herds of elephants, [buffaloss, wild goats, wild sheep, and {lopes, Further *below the hippopota- ‘mus and white rhinocerous haunt the [river swamps. | Prol. Blanford enumerates 200 species {of water birds With these harmless settlers less desirable guests have crowd. {ed in—the spotted hyena, the jackal, the {black and yellow lion, four spiecies of smaller cats, wild dogs, and, above sll, the cynocephalns, the wily and mis. chievous baboon. Three varieties of these Darwinian pets inhabit the rocks of Bouthern Nubia—the little babuin, the eynoocephalus proper, and the celads, or mantle baboon, a flerce and powerful fellow, whose shaggy mane protects his body like a cloak, and enables him to brave the climate of the upper highlands. Profs. Kuppel and Hotton agree on the fact that a troop of these brutes, in rav. aging a corn-fleld, will not only hold their ground against all comers, but on the slightest provoeation take the offen- give in a way mot likely to be forgotten by the unarmed natives. Dogs have no chance whatever against a full-grown baboon. The old males do not wait to be attacked, but charge them at once with an energy and skill of co-operation that would do credit toa troop of well drilled soldiers. The hyrax, a queer pachderm, allied to the European bad. ger, coinhabits the rocks with a hiber- nating marmof, sod the coast jungles {swarm with wild hogs that multiply un. disturbed, for the Abyssinian natives share the pork prejudices of their Mo. hammedsn neighbors The Eastern Cancasns was formerly a similar hunter's paradise, but the hun. Musoovites clean out the forests at
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