CS eg. ome "OLD SERIES, XL "NEW SERIES, XVIIL THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'n, REDUCED RATES TO THE INAU- GURATION VIA THE PENN- SYLVANIA R. R, The inauguration of President elect Cleveland on the 4th of March next promises to be a note worthy event in the history of Washington. The citizens of the capital are working energetically and systematically to make the occasion a great success. In anticipation of an enormous throng of people, every effort is being put forth to provide accommo. dations for all who may come, Beside the regular hotels and boarding-houses, — with which the city is well equipped, No ome yet knows who will be injnumbers of private families have agreed Cleveland's cabinet. Cleveland, no to entertain visitors, and sleeping quar- doubt, knows what he is about. [ters are being improvised in halls and It is not likely that any. body EY ba other buildings as are suitable. : : : {There will doubtless be ample accommo- this county will be a member of the cab-| | ; : ; inet. Yet We have stulf for two. | ations for all, but those who desire to ; —— -- [secure their lodgings in advance can do Nancy Wilmore died in Wilmington, 80 by applying to Colonel L. P. Wright, aged 116 years. She was a Presbyterian. | Chairman of Committee on Public Com. Methodist, as she called herself, and fort. Preparations for all the ceremonies died singing and happy. {are in the hands of competent commit- — ——— itees, and every measure calculated to A rumor comes from Korti that Col. promote the comfort and pleasure of vis- Sir Redvers Buller attacked the Arabs|itors will cheerfully be looked after. entrenched at Metemneh on Tuesday, For the benefit of the thousands of 10, and carried their position by assault. | people who will be drawn from points A — pe —- In the houses at Harrisburg, a bil was (Slong its lines, the Penn’a Railroad will reported favorably, reducing the fees of %6ll excursion tickets to Washington notaries for making a protest to $1.50. | from all stations on its system at greatly Its facilities for trans This should pass, the present high fee | reduced rates. J : was fixed when everything else was|POTting passengers will be increased by high. y : |the addition of special trains, which, riisn—— a — {with those regularly in service, will The cashierof the ; Belleville, Ohio, prove sufficient for all the demands of bank, disappeared with $75,000 belong- travel. The Baltimore and Potomac sta- ing to depositors. (tion, Washington, into which all trains : a eel Se er —— {of the Pennsylvania system run, is situ- The Hocking Valley strike is 80° ated on Pennsylvania Avenue, in full i J res : holsioed os being 2% 2a end. ter county 1: and within a two minutes walk of 18 r 3 reo Y, . 3 1 OSter COUNTY: | the Capitol, en the line of march of the and has caused great excitement there Cy '|inaugural procession, and is easy of ac- From all parts of the country come cess to all the principal hotels and pub- tidings of Monday's fierce snow-storm lic buildings, and to any portion of the and blockaded railroads. city by horse cars, bus, or carriage. The pn {station is large, the facilities for handling At Trenton there is an ice gorge 40|incoming and outgoing trains and their feet high, and much damage is threat: contents are ample. Application shoyld ened. {be made to local ticket agents of the en———— i. A 3 R - . n 2 In the senate and house congressional | Pennsylvania Railroad and ita branches apportionment bills have been agreed |r full and detailed information ss to upon by committees. Each gives the | tickets and rates. Republicans 19 and Democrats 9 districts. | FOUR MURDERERS EXPIATE The senate bill makes Centre, Cameron, | THEIR CRIMES ON THE Forest, Elk, Clearfield and Clinton the GALLOWS, 20th district. In the house bill Centre | s : i « das . kh, i 3 Ho 'y Clearfield, Clinton snd Elk form the | 7%; F; Beach, at Holidayaburg; Trouke 20th district. Johnson, at Little Rock, Alabama had snow on morning of 12, and the ground was frozen. it —————— The greed of the Republicans in office to remain, under a Democratic adminis- tration, is unabated. SE Ep The Reporter has no cabinet to make for President Cleveland, we think he will attend to that himself, ay I SA ei A — A] oso ——— A rf A AI In Philadelphia, the other day, Wm. Holidaysburg, Pa. Feb, 12.—Dr. L. U. people accused of stealing jewelry, hav: ing been convicted, expressed a desire to marry. They joined hands and were married. The judge then sentenced il:iem to two months each in the House of Cor- rection. We suppose that is what one would call business on the first floor, The citizens generally do not favor the new court-house project. The pres ent one is not at all a mean one whether in its exterior or interior. If a court house were needed we would not raise an objection to a new one, out of simple prejudice or the more disgusting close. fistedness of some when a needed im. provement is to be made. The court-house only recently had a new roof put on, and the offices remod- eled. Itistoo good to tear down just now and plenty good enough for trying dirty cases for the next few years, tt sss I Pl A new Republican slate for this state is reported from Washington which would shelve Gen. Beaver, It is report- ed that the Republican managers have fixed up a new deal whereby Quay is to be made State Treasurer next year and Hartranft Governor the year follow- ing. The reason assigned for putting Quay into the Treasury is that he is poor and there he would have an opportunity to make some money off the state depos- its. Beaver is to be dumped because of his falling in with the Independents to make himself Senator instead of Camer- on. It is said that Megee has consented to this arrangement and Quay has gone off to Florids with the assurance that everything is right. ———— PT ho MAA Inaugural accommodations are being provided at Washington. Col. Wright, chairman of the sub committee on pub- lic comfort of the inauguration commit tee, in a report to the committee states that there have been registered with the committee 1492 rooms and accommoda- tions for.13,034 persons, 52 halls with room for 832 persons and 11 hotels with accommodations for 1,440; also 15 vacant houses which ean be furnished with cots and accommodations for 3500 persons; also that 10 dining rooms which can fur- nish meals at 50 and 75 cents each to 18, 300 persons have been registered, He states further that up to date quarters have been secured through the commit. tee for 11,612 persons, inclading military companies, clubs and other prime parties, that the average rooms daily is about one hundred, and and slept soundly is spiritual advisers Messrs. Killinger and Fiery were with him during the entire morn- ing. The prisoner ate & hearty dinner to-day and said: "I hope there will be no delay in the arrangements” The time for the execation was set at 1:30 on ac- count of an express wish of the culprit that he could take dinner before the af- fair took place. The prisoner walked to the scaffold with stolid indifference, and except a slight twitch of the bands noth. ing was no about the man to ex- cite comment while a statement was bes iog read written by the condemned man, wherein he declares the whole transac tion to be a dream. He stood viewing the crowd as unconcerned as you please. Even when bis limbs were tied and the black cap put over his face he still kept bis nerve and died without any Jeresp- tible struggle. The body hung about 18 minutes, when life was pronounced ex- tinct, the neck being broken io the full, The execution was one of the most suc cessful on record, Philadelphia, February 13.—Richard Treuke, convicted of murder in the first degree in shooting and killing Augusta Zimma, last , was hanged in the corridor of the county prison at 10:31 this morning. Treuke rose early this morning, but was too nervous to eat breakfast. He was wildly tated and moaned piteously as he made repeated references in German to his children in the Fatherland. At 10 o'clock he was taken to the gallows. His step was un. steady and be seemed in mortal terror and was to faint on the gallows, He made an effort and almost insudibly ssid that had ht him to his sad end. At 10:21 the drop fell just as Treoke exclaimed, “Gott babe erbarmen mitt miner sele, His neck was dislocated and in pix min. utes he was pronoanced dead. Little Rook, Ark, Febr'y 12.-El Parker, who murdered Lewis Fox in cember, and one ohnson, who murdered John C, Wali in August were banged here to-day. Johnson decl cut nnn CURTIN COMMANDER DYER'S 80UC. CESSOR, Harrisburg, Feb, 10,—At the afternoon session of the 3. A. R. the of Post that the best quarters have not yet been taken up. ALMSHOUSE IN FLAMES. Eighteen Insane Inmates Burned to Death, Over Two Hundred Roaming the Streets of the Qity. Philadelphia, Feb. 11.—Eightoen rav- ing maniacs were burned to death inthe insane department at the Blockley alms- house on the west side of the Schuylkill river to-night in a conflagration which needed nothing to make the most hor- rible disaster of the kind ever known in the history of the city. The fire origin- ated in the wing of the old building of the insane departinent of Blockley ion fronts toward the Shuylkill river and di- rectly east of the main building of the almshouse. This wing is 115 feet front and 60 feet deep, connected on the south with the main building of the structures of the insane department which runs south 400 feet, a similar wing to the one in which the disaster occurred. In this north building where the fire broke out there were sixty separate cells for vio- ent patieats, twenty on each floor, In addition to this there was a large room on each of the three floors in which cots for 12 men were placed, and all of which were occupied when the fire broke out. On the second floor opposite the central cell of the row of separate cells on the north side of the coridor which runs from east to west was a dry room heated by steam. This room, which was about 10 feet square, was directly alongsidethe middle stairway leading to the floors above and below. Here the flames orig- inated, but from what cause isunknown. At the time there were insane patients in each of the twenty cells on the three floors—ten in the long large room on the first floor and twelve in each of the large rooms on the second and third floors. From all the conflicting accounts to be obtained it appears pretty certain that the first alarm was given by an insane tient on the first floor of the main Building. This man, Joseph Nadine, oc- cupied a room which adjoined the stair. way and drying room with abouttwenty other patients. When about ten minutes to eight o'clock he saw smoke issuing from above the door which opened into the wing in which the cells were situat. ed, he ran to the big iron grated door fronting on the main corridor of the building and cried out “fire,” This fear- ful sound reached the ears of Joseph Shroeder, the attendant of the ground floor, who was in his room directly appo- site the one from which Nadine had yiven the alarm. Mrs. Umpstead who Boar general charge at night says that it was about 8 o'clock when the alarm reached her. She says that an attempt was made to put out the flames with buckets of water and at first it was sup- dd that the flames were only burning rom the ground floor near the stairway, but the point from which the danger came was on the second floor. She then hastened to get all the patients from the bwiding extending back from the east wing. Attendant Shroeder says: “I do not know who sounded the alarm. As soon as I heard Nadine's cry 1 rushed to the foot of the stairway and after a short at- tempt to check the fire at once set to work to get out the pa ients, First I un- locked Nadine's room. By this time the flames were gathering in a fury and the dense volumes of smoke were ascending into the upper stories. I succeded in unlockin, the doors of all the cells on the first floor and although with diffienl. ty some cases in getting the inmates out. bad no time to look after them further than to run them out into the yard for the flames were getting so fierce that it was almost impossible to breathe in the now flercely burning building. The smoke in the upper stories was #0 thick that breathing was impossible.” —— FINE STOC KILLED OX THE RAILROAD. Huntingdon, Feb, 15.~S8hortly after midulght last night an east bound freight train on the Pennsylvania railroad was thrown from the track by a broken flange, midway between Spruce Creek and Birmingham. Sixteen cars were demolished, twelve of them being filled with fine stock, 2 indred sheep, hogs and sev orees were Kified sh MIM ————————— A STUBBORN BATTLE. The Fight with the Rebels in which Gen- eral Earle Lost His Life. Loudon, Feb. 12.~The Standards core respondent with General Earle’s column sends the following dispateh, dated Dul- ka Island, Tuesday : e British troo advanced to attack the enemy, who held a stroog tion on the bills, Afier some fighting the enemy was completely Finding i ible to dislodge th ng it impossible to e rebels from the fortified oation Gor Earle ordered the troops to charge, Gen. Earle was killed while leading the at. tack. The black watch regiment captur- ed the position at the point of the bayo- net, the cavalry taking of the enemies’ camp, Gen, bury upon the fall of Gen. Earle assumed command and ordered the remaining positions of the Shamy 10 be stormed, by swimming the river, is SI AN ENTERPRISING, RELIABLE HOUSE, Spey UPN | e such io as have well known merit, and are pop- re arab} Musaibita ng always en ing, and ever reliable. Having serured th for the celebrated - — - Winter by the Sea. ATLANTIC CITY. [From N., Y. Home Journal, January 25th, 1865.) Five or six years ago Atlantic City was unknown except us a summer resort. For a few months in summer thousands througed its beach, snd dis ported iu its turf, but with the coming of the au- tumn they vanished, leaving the town to sleep in quiet through the long mouths of winter, Wise heads, however, saw thas there were a mildoess of climate, an equabllity of temperature and re- cuperative properties in the sea alr, which would some day attract as many visitors in winter us in summer. An enterprisivg hotel proprietor kept his house open for one winter as an experiment. People came, a few at first, but all experienced decided bepelit, and the number inereased from year to year, until its reputation us a great win ter sanitarium ls now firmly established, Last ses- son six or eight Lotels were filled with winter guests, and this winter others have joined the pl oneers, and there will be ample accommodations for thousands of visitors. Many conditions eombine to make the place & great winter health resort. Its favorable location on the southern shores of New Jersey at & point, it Is said, necrer than any other section of this coast to the Gulf Stream, secures for it a gentle news of climate unsurpassed on the North Atlan tie, Behind the town is & vast waste of sand, which abserbs the atmospheric moisture, and aids langel fin drying end purifyiog the alr. There is no body of fresh water within fifty miles: the soft sea breezes, tempered by the ocean's warm currents, bringing 10 land the health of the sea, while the land winds are robbed of their damp- vess (no thelr course over the sands. These influ. ences toue down the severity of winter w a de gree that is remarkable when the thermometer observations of Atlantic City are compared with those of poluts of the same latitude further (n. land, ¢ medical fraternity bear overpowering testimony to the efficacy of the climate (u pulmo. pary and other kind diseases, ahd their re sjofed patients are willing witnesses to the same act. Apart from these considerations the eity itself presents a number of desirable features. It is a well governed, handsomely built, and attractive city of some eight thousand permanent residents All the accessories of city life are at hand. There are miles of handsome avenues, street railway, stores of every description, churches, and sau ex cellent market, supplied with all the sbundance of the land. The hotels, originally built for sum. mer use, have been reconstructed and refitted with the appliances necessary for comfort in the winter. Oped fires supplement the heat of stoves for the luvalid 100 walk 10 face the eager Tr. One's enjoyment of out of door exercise is per fect. The bright, bracing air, charged with the freshness of the sea, is a constant temptation 10 walks, salls, or drives. For the pedestrean a hand. some board walk along the whale ocean front af fords a fine field for exercise, A splendid beach drive of ten miles, and s variety oF roniion of all descriptions, offer fine facilities for driving, while the inlet Is famous as well for its sailing es for its fishing. There is no need of idleness if one cares Ww be active, No Spidamic disease bas ever prevailed at At lantic City. The sanitary messures sre in the hands of a board of heal fully “Pp sition. Pure drinking water I introduced from the interior, and a system of sewerage is now be ing provided, which promises to prove a most po- tent factor in preserving the health of the grow. ing town. The topography of the town does not mit of natural drainage, aod formerly the re fuse and waste were carted off by contract. This pian proved unsatisfactory. aod 11 was determin. od Ww employ some more ¢ffective methods, The commitiee studied the question with care, and chose as the best what Is known as the “West System.” By this method the waste and sewer age are forced through pipes to & central reser voir, and thence pum oul 10 8 point beyond the corporate limits, where, by the ald of machin. ery the solid substance If converted into phos phates, and the liquid PL filtration, is allowed to Bow into the bay. This is the most effective method, and one that has been used with great success. The work of laying Pipes is belong pushed with great vigor by a New York firm, and the Sal) Soespdeon of the work i condenily ex pected. Iu the matter of accessibility no resort Is more favored than Atlantic City. it is a ride of 14 and frome New York 43 hours by the Pennsylvania Raflroad. To the residents of the east and north i offers the double induce ment of easy scoem, spd & complete change of climate. In a day's journey they may pass from the of the northern winter into the genial: ity of ear! suing Although © season is not considered opened, the vanguard of the coming ariny is already st hand, and the hotels ary receiv daily aco Lum of guests. Every indice points 10 & most successful season, A Aes BURIED UNDER THE SNOW, The Town of Alta, Utah, Swept Away. — Sizteen Pereove Killed, Salt Lake City, Utah, February i5.— The startling news was brought here last night that the town of Alta was nes wiped oot by an avalanche, It has been snowing for a week and is now 12 feet on a level, with storm still raging. Fri ga night, soon after 8 a tremendous volume of snow x down over the Emma Mine works, ng no damage there except taking the smoke-stack along; then it struck the town, crushing about three-fourths of it, but fortunately many of the houses were deserted for the winter, The piace is built at the foot of con- yerging gulches and the slides bad a fair Tucker's boarding-house was swept away sod his hotel crushed. The Vv works, including buildings and tramways, were crushed. Two men st this mine bappened to be in the drift and escaped injury, Two stores were in- jured slightly. A butcher shop and drug store were he onl buil ja es caped entirely, tion of the victims were in the i house and hotel. Twenty-eight in all were buried, but 12 were dug out alive this morning. The rest are undoubtedly dead. Three had been taken out at last accounts, amid moch difficulty, the rescuers bat. tling with the heavy storm and low tem- perature, , ihe members of which reciale the responsibilities of thelr po -—— Lovett's Guide to Frult Cultare, Of all tho publications of nurserymen ther is no other that can bo compared with Lover’, Guide to Fruit Culture. It is resily a val uable work on Horticulture, giving, ss i does, fall instructions for planting, pruning, culture and ment of fruits of all kinds, and impartial descriptions of ali worthy va- rietion. It is a book of over 70 , with an flluminated cover, elegantly printed avd em bellished with hundreds of engravings and several colored plates true to nature. Price, with colored plates, 10 ets. ; without plates, b eta, Every body at all interested in fruit culture should send to J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, New Jersey, and get a copy. smssm— A ——————————— » THIRTEEN MEN KILLED, a ei © ot tho od n an n t of the Vale colliery at Westville, T men were at Vale colliery atthe time of the explosion. Thirteen perished, the others were taken out alive, same of them badly isjared, Get ns one new subscriber and $2.25 + Week year, a —————— NO. 7. ONE DAY'S CRIMES IN PARIS, se The progress of crime in Paris is still marked deeply in blood, and during one Bunday alome no less than four desper- ate attempts at murder and one suspeot- ed crimr were recorded by the metro. politan and suburban police. In the Rue Saint Honore a quarrel broke out between two women named Loyal and Levyonski. The latter getting the worst of the quarrel, called her, ‘‘pro- tector” to her assistance, The man was sitting in a wineshop at the time. Rush. ing out, with a stilleto in his hand, he plunged it three times into the breast of the woman Loyal, who fell bleeding on the pavement. The ruffian immedi- atly ran off, but his mistress was arrest. ed by the police. The girl Loyal was taken into a chemist shop, where her wounds were temporarily staunched She was then conveyed to the Hotel Dien. A woman named Martin, em- ployed in a perfumery establishment, carried out a strange plan of revenging herself on a rival. Having procured a wetted the former, and waited inside the entranoe of the court for her unsus- pecting victim. As the latter passed and then beat her brutally on the head with the loaded cane. The unfortunate creature fell senseless in the roadway, and was taken up by the passers-by in an alarming condition The woman Martin was arrested. AtSt Denis an engine fitter who owing to his cruelty, had compelled his wife to seek the shelter of her mother's house, went to endeavor fo bring tke woman back to her home. The man was half drunk at the time, and, as his mother-in-law tried to pacify and fired at her. The bullet, however, missed his mark, that he had murdered his wife's mother, turned the revolver toward himself, and discharged one of the barrels into his brain, the bullet entering the left eye. hours of intense torture, cious deed was that of a fishwife at the Central Market, who beat a little boy of twelve, whom she met on the stairs of her house, and caused him to fall down several flights of steps. The boy was seriously injured. It appears that the youthful victim had informed on the son of his aggressor, who was lately convict ed of thieving. A——————— A fn ——— AN M. PF. AT A TYPE CASE, I'tfis related of the second Mr. Walter, of the London Times, that in the Spring of 1833, shortly after his return to Par- liament as a member for Berkshire, he was at the Times office one day when an express arrived from Paris, bringing the speech of the King of the French on the opening of the Chambers. The express arrived at 10 AM. after the day's im. pression of the paper had been published and the editors and compositors had left the office. It was important that and Mr. Walter immediatly set to work upon it. He first translated the docu. ment ; then, assisted by one compositor, he took his place at the type case and set it up. To the amazement of the of the staff who dropped in sbout noon, he “found Mr. Walter, M. P. for Berks, working in his shirt-sleeves.” The speech was set and printed, and the second edition was in the city by one o'clock. Had he not “turned to" as he did, the whole expense of the express service would have been lost. And it is probable that there was not another man in the whole establishment who could have performed the double work— intellectual and physical-which he that day executed with his own head and hands. Ans a B—. ADVICE AS TO USE OF POINTS, en Young authors should avoid what may be called guaintness in style of punctu- ation. For instance, Stern was very fond of the dessh—which Cobbett calls a “cover for ignorance as to the use of points "—and used it to a ridioulous extent; and Cobbett was too fond of com- pas. It should be remembered that the “style” of punctuation is very difficult now to what it was some years ago. Lindley Murray says : A simple sentence when itis a long one, and the fnomina. tive case is accompanied with inseperable adjuncts, may admit to a pause immed. fately before the verb,” and givea the following example: “The good taste of the present age, has not allowed us to neglect tha cultivation of the English would now use the comma in this case. The tendency of the age is to use as few commas as possible. Wo think it was Walter Besant who said that printers dislike colons ; and an attentive reader, whohas read any carly English literature connot but fail to notice that the point is not used nearly so much as it was, BAUBARIC PEARLS AND GOLD. Some French traveller, name unknown, has returned from Stamboul with wonderful story of the sights he saw. Ho is eloquent about two thrones, for instance—one of enamelled gold, with encrustations of pearls, mbies, and emeralds ; the second, called rise evidently christened when the reigning Bultan was in a mood for paradoxes. In another room he saw two caskets, even more magnificent, studded with rubies snd diamonds, in which the hairs from the Prophet's beard are jealously pre. served. There are also several curious instruments made of gold and tl studded with gems on the ba were used as portable + seratel Another room wae Lung rm sceptres ; caskets and escritoires lay or the table. The old escritoires are al | shaped like a pistol; the inkstand is | placed at the spot occupied by the | trigger, and the reeds and a penknife { are in the berrel There are also inl | stands in the shape of trays, each con- | taining "five for ids ¢ BAUCETS ink, drying | powder, and other « is used { by the writers. In another room are the | costumes of all the wn to { Mahmoud IIL Each of the costumes has a silk scarf attached, together with a magnificently-chased dagger and a | diamond algrette. Then, heaped pell- mell in a side room, are the keys of the finally .% : Sultans d« | | gortresses of the empire, and | comes the sacred treasure, consisting of | the relics of Islam; the and | standard of the Prophet, his sword and | bow ; the swords of the first Khalifs | and the oldsst MSS. of the Koran. The | gentleman is not bringing out a pew | edition of the ** Arabian Nights,” mantic a THE XEED OF SLEEP. Dr. Malins, in a recent lecture at Bir- mingham, said that the brain requires | twelve hours of sleep at four wear | gradually diminishing by halfhours to ten hours at fourtee: thence to eight hours when the 1 full grown and formed. Goeth i most active and productive period, nesd- | ed nine hours, and took therm. Kant the { most laborious of students—was strict |in never taking less than seven. Nor | does it appear that those who have sys- | tematically tried to cheat nature of this { chief right have been in any sense | gainers of time for their work. It may be a paradox, but is not the less a truth, that what is given to sleep is guined to labor. —————— A woman who thinks for he weak, but a woman who another is decidedly strong. rsclf is hinks for $i Lil Ym — C DREISBACH, LEWISBURG, PA. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEAL ER IN GENERAL HARDWARE, Saddlery and Carriage Material, Blacksmith Specialties, Oils, Paints, Window Glass, LARGEST STOCK IN CENTRAL PEXNA. Conklin Farm and Lumber . 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