wi OLD SERIES, XI. NEW SERIES. XVIIL THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED KURTZ, Evrror and Pror's. | The legislature adjourned last Friday. Should havé done that two months ago. i oni The President has appointed Henry Ward Beecher's son a collector of cus. toms for Oregon. GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL AND THE EXTRA SALARY BILL VETOED, BUT PASSED, The Governor, on 9th, returned to the House of Representatives the general appropriation bill with his objections to some of its features. Among the items objected to were those allowing compen- sation to the officers and employes of the two houses for services for the extra a ————— The Ohio Republicans have again | nominated Judge Foraker for governor, | He was defeated by Hoadly last time, | pi ——— Gov. Pattison last week vetoed the bill to allow Sheriffs 50 cents a day apiece for boarding prisoners. How will this! affect the grub of prisoners? —— po One hundred and three guns were] fired in honor of Logan's election, at! Washington. Why was Mrs. Logan thus glighted——is Logan a bigger man than “old Mrs. Logan.” rent ei c— The Philipsburg Ledger is agin the Bi-| bles. not in the Ingersolian sense, how- ever—it goes for the Bibles of the Centre Democrat, merely. Come, boys, don't| fight, and we'll set em up, pervided yer drink nothen but water. ca ————————— Evening Independent is the name ofa sprightly little daily which has made its appearance at Altoona. Itisa live dai-| ly and no doubt will soon be bigger, un-| ess the people of Altoona don’t appreci-| ate a good thing. We invite the Inde-| pendent to call on us every day. | ; a ——— One of our exchanges heralds the com | ing of a new potato bug. It is smaller in| gize than the original vine destroyer, but| seems to have equal if not more power, as immediately after attacking the vine lant becomes as if frozen. The col-| 50 days of the session over and above the 100. While approving the item for salaries, the governor disapproves of the excess appropriation above the salaries. He makes the same objection to the ap- propriation for salary of the Chaplain, and he disapproves of the items in sec- tion 9 of the bill for the payment of post- age, labor, express charges and other ex- penses of the office of the Resident Clerk, and of the Librarian of the Sen- ate, and of the item which allows com- pensation to those officers for the year during which there is no session of the Legislatare. The compensation for the Chief Clerk during the off year is also vetoed and the item appropriating $1,200 for the payment of the stenographers and clerks of the Standard Oil Company investigation last summer. The bill appropriating money to pay the officers and employes of the Legisla- ture for the forty days over the 100 dur ing the session of '83, was also vetoed and the fact messaged to the House at the same time that the other message was sent in. Both bills were passed by the house by a two-thirds vote, notwith standing the veto. Most of these bills have been passed over the veto of the governor. : mgr r— Saturday's issue of Bradstreels contains the following editorial regarding the present banking conditions: Auother large New York bank robbery suggests vegetable growers to look out ls The Union county Republicans held} their convention last week. The follow-| ing is the ticket nominated: Associate] Judge. M. W. Cramer; Sheriff, P. VW. Brown: District Attorney, J. F. Duncan, Jury Commissioner, 8.0. Herbeson; Sen- atorial delegate, J. V. Miller; Represen-| tative delegate, W. F. Campbell. No in-| structions. rte op Ap ——————— i The legislature passed an appropria- | tion bill with a heavy batch of extra pay and increase of salaries. Gov. Pattison | vetoed this steal last week in the inter-| est of justice and the taxpayers. But the Republican legislature | What will honest bills over the veto, Republicans say to that ? | else is down in price, but salaries for| Harrisburg loafers are put up. i Apr esis Dr. W. D. Hartman, of West Chester, | has hit upon a plan to get rid of the lo-| custs. friends by had been living on locusts for some days.| tions and methods with the view of banking company is reported as saying that there is no absolute security ing teller. In the end the reliance is the teller's honesty. This is true, but it is not the whole truth. It is the duty of the directors of a bank to see that the ler works are such as to be condutive to the maintenance of his integrity to the full. It is believed that the degree of compensation and dignity awarded to the office of paying teller in a large bank under the present conditions are far from position. The paying teller is no more izing sigua- tures. He is a bank officer who is con- stantly acting for the bank. The present mode of certifying checks is sufficient to make good the point, Scarcely more than twenty-years ago the act of certifi- was on deposit. So rapid has been the that the certification and after that they would be eaten with | a relish. ee pl mos— Dr. Straaly, of Chambersburg, has a Liuman skull lying in his garret and a few days since it was found that a bird had built its nest in it. We know a good many skulls not on garrets that act as though birds had built jests in them. In the 2:33 class race at Williamsport, on Friday, Cummings’ Bessie M. took second money, being beaten by Pilot Joy, in 2:314, 2:34, 2:335. A tree was cut down on a tract of land belonging to J. Simpson Africa, Hunt- ingdon county, in which was found a bullet that had been fired there 105 years ago. What the Rsromter would like to know now is whether J, Simpson claims to have fired that bullet. — a a It is announced on apparently good authority that the Democratic leaders have been holding conferences on the silver question, and that a compromise has been arranged. The terms are un- derstood to be that the coinage of silver dollars shall be stopped, but that the Government shall on demand issue sil yer certificates for bullion, at its market value at the time of deposit, Buch cer. tificates are to be received as money by the Government and between banks, but are not to be legal tender between indi- viduals. They are also to be exchange. able at the option of the holder for mon- ey, or for silver bullion at its market val- ne at the time of exchange. Leading bankers are said to approve the com- promise as the best thing possible now, the applicant's note. Other reasons might be cited, but the above reasoning should be sufficient to show that the re- cognition usually awarded the position of paying teller is below the actual re- sponsibility involved. The consequen- ces are known of all men. eto A strike that throws 100,000 men out of employment for an indefinite time is a very serious thing, Such a strike has ciation of Iron and Steel Workers, with the deliberate purpose of curtailing pro- duction until prices and consequently wages are mised. If the Associa tion has funds enough to support its members in idleness during the sum- mer, there is no objection to its trying this experiment, but only an unusually sanguine observer can anticipate a pro- fitable result to the workmen from so long idleness. Whether prices will be affected is an open question, PM CURTIN AND THE OLD SOLDIERS. Gov. Curtin receives more applications from old soldiers to look up pension ca- ses than any other five members of the House combined. He is so well known to them by reputation at ledst that they do not hesitate to write to him about their needs and claims. “If I were sev- eral times a millionaire,” sald Mr. Cur tin recently; “I should be a poor man in a shott time if I responded to all the re. quests for aid I receive.” in Ml MP ——————— A few days ago some of the Iowa edi- tors called upon the President. There Chief these was introduced to the I ———— BLOTTED OUT BY A CYCLONE. Almost Sucked From the Face of the Earth, Milwaukee, Wis, June 8.—Reports now coming in from country towns lo- cated in the path of yesterday’s storm in- dicate that it was about eighty miles ip width, and crossed the entire state, from the Mississippi river to Lake Michigan The storm originated near the Mississippi river on the Minnesota side, where it as- sumed the nature of a cyclone, The little village of New Albin, Hous- ten county, was almost destroyed. The railway elevator, school house and seven residences were levelled in an instant. The fronts of all business blocks were broken in, many houses unroofed and many barns blown to parts unknown. Four people were injured, one clnld dan- gerously. The school-bouse, a fine two story frame building, was raised high in the air, dropping and crushed to eplin- ters. Boards were driven through frame houses. The loss to New Albin and vi- cinity is $50,000, Tbe viliage of Victory, in Veroon Co. opposite the river from New Albin, was entirely destroyed. The town building, wwo small elevators, hotels, church, three stores, school-house, 50 residences, were wiped out of existerce. The lossto Vic tory is estimated at $100,000. Several persons were seriously injured there, but ao fatalities are yet reported. From this point east to Take Michigan the damage thus far reported was contin ed to occasional overturning and des molition of farm houses and small build- ings and injury to growing crops, gar- dens and fruits by hail and wind. The orce of the hail storm was unprecedent ed. In many places the fail of ice con tinned for thirty ruinutes, covering the ground to a deptl: of from four to ten in- ches, Everywhere within the path ol the storm windows having a8 west expos- are met with wholesale destruction. In many localities bailstones measuring from seven to eight inches in diameter were picked np. In Richland county a great number of hogs and sheep were killed and horses and cattle badly bruis. ed by the bail, In this county many buidings werealso unroofed by the winds, trees uprooted and timber destroyed. Large damage was experienced throagh- out Tank county, where no less than 100 wind mille were blown down. Hailstones in a number of localities fell with such orce as to split clapboards on the sides of nouses and to reduce a roof to splinters. From every section in the state in the storm's path come reports of destraction to small fruits, damage to crops, lrees and gardens. In some places the storm of wind and hail was followed by terniic thunder, and there are numberless re ports of stock having been killed uy lightuing, I mi THE EMPLOYES DISAPPOINTED The Attorney General Caulsone Ui Tre Wisconsin Touns Two ury Against Paying Excessive Salaries, Gisal- There was a large amount of pointment to the square inch about the capitol yesterday, says the Patriof of 1 When the bill for the relief of oihicers and employes of the Legislature passed the Senate, the objections of the Gov. ernor to the contrary notwithstanding, the proposed beneficiaries of the bill were telegraphed the resalt by their a sociales on the ground and invited to come and get their money. Each train yesterday brought some of them and by the time the Legislature assembled nea: iy the full force were about the corridor and on the floor. Soon after one of the number was deputed to visit the Treas ury to ascertain the exact situation of affairs. The answer to his inquiries was the following letter in duplicate and presented to the Auditor-General and State Treasurer. It was signed by the Attorney-General: Sir: Iam directed by the Governor of the Commonwealth to give you notice not to audit any secount, or draw any warrant for any officer or employe of the Senate or House of Representatives of the regular session of 1883, or the regu- lar session of this year, for any sum or sums of money in excess of the salaries fixed for such officers or emeloyes by the acts ot Assembly in force when such ol- ficers or employs were elected or ap pointed. Any scoounts so audited, or warrants so drawn, by vou in excess of such salaries so fixed will be in violation of the Constitution and laws and at your risk. The officials were greatly disappointed on receiving this information. They gathered in kno.s : ound the capitol building discussing the various aspecis of what was to them a gravesubject, man. um TERRIBLE DISASTER IN FRANCE, 200 People Crushed by the Falling of a Stairway Leading from a Court Room. Paris, June 11.-~At Thiers, a town in the Department of Pay de Dome, a mur- der trial has been in g for some days. The last doy of the trial the court house was crowded with men and wo- men anxious to witness the closing SCENES, When the people were leaving imme: diately after the adjournment of the ses- gion, and were jammed upon the stone stairway leading to the street, the lofty staircase fell, The scene that followed wus appalling. The immense masses of masonry from above crashed down upo the struggling people below, grinding through their flesh and bones, and maiming and mutilating them in a hor- rible manner, The fall of the staircase and the shrieks of the people lying helpless in the ruins caused a4 panic in the court room, and there was a rush for the now wrecked exit, Those who were in front were unable to withstand the pressure from behind and were hurled down up- on the men and women crushed in the FASTEST TRAIN IN THE WORLD. Erpress—No Dust—No Little Noise, [From the New York World. ] Over-confident Englishmen boasted a few weeks sgo that the “Flying Dateh- man” train, irom London to Liverpool, was the (astest in the world. Bat they soon found out that they were mistaken, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company sends a train out of New York at 9 o'- clock every moraing that beats the time of the “Flying Dutchman,” Considering the distance covered, it is the fastest train in the world. When the care-worn business man journeys from New York to Philadelphia, Chicago, or Bt. Louis, he finds in the parlor cars of the Pennsyl- vanis Railroad a luxurious home on wheels. As he is being whirled along at the rate of sixty miles an hour or better not a jolt disturbs his serenity. The rails rest on a bed ballasted with solid rock, and the joints ure made with a kind of chair and fish-plate, of the company’s own make, that causes the miles of track to be as unbroken #8 one long jointiess rail. There is no dust, little noise, and aol 8 « Af there The Pennsylvania Cinders inder, A few weeks ago were pat on a number of new parlor cars finished at the company’s sliops at Als toona. i of the ordinary flat win dow, they are fitted with five bay win- d- ws on each side, each about seven feet wide. The passenger can look up or down the road for wiles without leaving his seat, and the windows admit twice as much light as the old ones did, The cars are somewhat larger than the old style, and are divided into a main saloon, tadies’'s bauduir, smoking room and ree tiring room. Recently the entire runniog time bes tween the Atlant and the great weslern cities been reduced. On the 9 o'clock morning train the time to Chicago is 24 hours; to Cincinuati, 21 hours; and to 8%. Louis, 20 hours, with a correspondiog reduction to other points, ‘his speed is maintained without the slightest danger to the traveler. Daring the war of rates which began last winter, the Pennsylvania Company alone maiatained its rates. Beginniog May 25, though, it fixed the fare to Chica. go at $15; to St. Louis at $19; and to Cin- cinoal at $14, with corresponcing reduc. tions to other points, ¥ | Blea seaboard has eA A A ———— : APPORTIONMENT VETO fouse and the C { Kno was won by the Re- ongres chked Oud, senate on Wednesday he Congressional ap- the or, was forfeited yes- we. The result in both sing. In the Senate the i two-thirds two-thirds btained notwith- ican bolted. In the blicaps have seven more ¢ two-thirds, but ting set by the Demo- re fruit in sufficient iting to defeat the bill, i ling three Democrats voted with the dominant party. There was jit ussion of the sub. ker Graham said that the mat portant, end that all members in their seats in order to be recognized and maintain order, 0 guar- rect Both directions wed. The noise in the cham- i and every member seat. Then Hulings iefly in support of the bill, and onsler followed with a partisan ha- rangue that drove all but three of the doubting Democrats into line. When he resumed his scat the roll-call began, and at the close the Clerk reported the result as yeas, 129, aud the nays 08, being with- in & of the necessary aflinnative vote, Nearly half the Senators had seats on the floor pending the debate and call. when the call was ended and beforethe result was announced, strenuous efforts were made to induce some of the Demo- crats who had voted in the negative 0 change their votes, but the labor was un- availing. During this effort the greatest exciternent prevailed. Mr, Mackin call. ed the attention of the caair to the fact that a person nol entitled to the floor was engaged in lobbying, and this fact increased the confusion. The offending person withdrew from the floor, order was restored, tas vole carefully verified by the Clerk and the result announced, I'hen the routine business of the House was resumed, but the managing Repub- licans were sadder men even though w' oer.~Pairiot, 12, sy The Middleburg Post contains the fol- lowing regarding “Fat” Chariey Bmith, well known in this county: Last week we made mention of the robbery pom mitted on C, L. Smith, familiarly known as “Fat Charley,” at the unveiling of the snyder monument at Selinsgrove, Want of wpace prevented us from giving the facts of a comic incident that oocarred in connection with the robbery, After Mr, Smith bad discovered the loss of his pocket book be related the incident to Mr, R. Bower, of Shamokin, an old friend of his, Mr. Bower laughed heartily at his friend's verdancy, aud then remark~ ed, “You see, Chariey, men who have traveled as much as you and I ghould know how to provide against pockets. I tell you I've never beon and”-—he paused to reach into his pantaloon pocket and then finish the sentence with “Dane ner-ung-wetter | now hens sie mivesaw !” And 89 they bad with the $42 that wes n it” dH, notwithstanding Necessary : Was « 16 dis er was i should Le % i recora. i al 58 A006 34 ONOD, Own simi MY — TRAIN SMASHED BY A CYCLONE. Sioux City. Towa, June 12.~Two men have just arrived from nine miles north of Sionx City. They were gers on the Bijoux Falls train on the Chicago, NO. 24 a wy Vows On MIAME — It is obvious that Dr. Holmes dislikes nicknames or diminutives, and his dislikes is shared by many people of the present day. In the last *‘ Portlolio” he says: “Here is an extract from the letter of a young lady who, having received at her birth the ever-pleasing name of Mary, saw fit to have herself called Mollie in the catalogue and in her letters. The old postmaster of the town to which her letter was directed looked at the stamp and read on the envelope the direction to ‘Mist Lalu Pinrow." He brought the stamp down with a vicious emphasis, coming very near blotting out the nursery name, in. stead of concealing the postage stamp. ‘Lalu!’ he exclaimed ; I should like to know if that great strapping girl is not out of her cradle yet. *** Why a grown youn; woman allowed herself to be chespened in the way so many of them do by the use of names which be- come them as well as the frocks of a ten-year-old school girl would become a graduate of the Corinna Institute, the old postmaster couldn't gress.” Then the doctor goes off to attack the “YFranks” and other names of her sterner sex, saying : “Since even grave stones use the names belonging to infancy and child. hood, churchyards full of riddles are bequeathed to prosperity.” If people would only bestow the pro. per construction upon their children, it would not be quite so bad, but how often are we surprised at the receipt of wedding-cards or the announcement of a death of one who sre accustomed to speak of as Lulu, Lily, Ellie, Minnie, and the like and then discover, to our utter (astonishment, the real baptismal name to have been Dorothea, Abigail, or Eliza Ann. The present generation of young mothers have taken a step in the right direction by insisting that their chilnren shall be given the proper name from infancy, frequently cor. recting a thoughtless friend who pre. verts it. The tendency, too, to write it ont infull upon the visiting card and elsewhere rather assists in correcting the blunders of a former period, when, perhaps, less thought has bestowed up- on such things In fact, when one comes to think of it, the world grows wiser and more sensible every day. There are not one. balf of the shams now apparent that were 80 patent twenty-five years ago (to judge from books). Thackeray wouldn't have made all smart women so bad or his good ones so silly if he had been writing today. And as for Lord Chesterfield —bah! he would be oons signed to the shades with his false sentiments. The further you go back into the past to constrast with the present time, the more creditable does the nine- teenth century appear. ———— DAILY FOOD OF THE OHINESE ama Many Americans believe that dog soup, cat {ricassee and rat a la mods, are to be found daily on every table in the empire. The fact is that there are some peculiar people iu China, as elsewhere, eredulous snd superstitions ; and some of these beliove that the flesh of those animals I have mentioned possess med- ioal properties. For instance, some silly women believe that the flesh of rals restores the hair. Bome believe that dog meat, also ost meat, renews the blood, and quacks often prescribe it, Then it is also true that there are very poor people who have no money fo buy proper food, and therefore subsist upon what they con get, rather than starve. But 1 have lived fifteen years of my life in Chins, and have experienced at public banquets, social dinners and public meals, and in company with all classes of people, 1 hisve never seen oat, dog or ral, sorved in any form whatever. ; "8 swarm with fish; crowded with pigs, land aud geese ; our flelds are times every vear with ri some seotions of the empire barley are produced ; but rice usual substitute for bread. These meke up the everyday food people. But there are certain unknown to your tables that are sidered great delicacies by everybody, one of which is edible birds’ nests. An- other is sharks’ fine. The Chinese do not keep many cows, and it is true that beef is not estoomed as good as and that mony will not eat beef scoount of religious butiter and cheese are articles of diet. The Fé Hi THT fs : HOW VINCENNES WAS SAVED, More than once M. d’Herisson tock a personal part in the negotiations, not without profit to his dountry. Ina con. ference of officers and plenipotentiaries Gen. Valdan expressed a hope that the Parisians might be spared the *hnm- ilistion” of having to surrender fortress of Vincennes, Tt had hisk associations, * * * Marshal ' Moltke marked that they were not dealis questions of sentiment oo Vincennes was surrounded by . and therefore strategically indispensa. ble to the German armies, Gen. Val answered that he did not believe | position was really of much importave he only wanted—and he b ged Marshal's pardon—to procure semblance of patriotic satisfactio the Parisians, ete. The Ma inflexible, and Vincennes was abouti sbandoned, when M. d'Herissor tured to interpose: “ Monsi Marechal, I ask your Excelleno thousand pardons, but I belies mistaken.” * How #», Mou taine 7” replied Moitl as if from a distance. i ress of Vincennos is not with wood. The forest is .ides to it, but you cannot eay ih: the neighborhoad of a fo rounded with wood” “1: pardon, Captain; the fort is com; surrounded with wood Iu we can easily decide the Prussian officer Marshal a colored Intter spread on the labile enough. Vincennes appeared | green. “The map is tained M. d'Hervisson wood on that side. Then right, they have completels to indicate the camp of BL Marshal began to doubt. “Let us loos st your map,” he cried, turning sud- denly to Gen. Valdan, Gen. Valdan shrugged his shoulders and looked M Jules Favre. Neither of them provided with maps. Luckily d'Herisson always carried with him regulation map which Gen. BScha bad caused to be distributed among members of the staff; and greatly t Marshal Moltke's vexation proved thas the German map was incorrect. The line which the French bad contended for was then adopted. And thus the fortress of Vincennes saved ‘by Gen. Valdan "—as M. Jules Favre pus in in his dispatches, st AP the MADLSL eagerly pry gv wold a Liable ws A HOTEL IX THE The situation of the hotel where I am stopping is especially charming built over the water, so that the sea sctually passes under the rooms. There is a Jong glass-enclosed balcony looking seaward, from which one never tires of surveying the blue Mediterranean be- yond and below. There is always variety in the movements of the sea Now its wash is so gentle and soothing that it is the most effective of lullabies when one wishes to go to sleep. Again, the ses is in an uproar, and the spray leaps up to the very windows. The illusion that we are at sea is quite hard to shake off at times. The fish have learned to watch for the refuse that is committed to the sea from the hotel i and are comsequently very tame. Portly looking fellows a foot or two long, come right under the baleony and stare impertinently at us. The temptation is strong to make them atone for their great temerity, and not a few of them have been hauled up with rod and line to the broad veranda. One day somebody got up more enthusiasm than usual and cast a torpedo from the balcony into a school of exquisite ma- rine beauties. A boy sprang in after the explosion and brought three fat fellows to the surface. Many others were stunned, but not sufficiently to keep them from evading the swimmer. Nets are also cast in front of the hotel, aud many bushels of fish meat captured. SEA. ‘1s Tmt A I ns CHOLERA VACCINATION. wm after a duration of about + Young man,” said a revivalist, sol emnly, “do you feel that you are pre. answer the summons at any and the extreme silver men are thought |his extended hand and kissed it. She 10. be equally favorably disposed towards | was a buxony Iowa matron and a red-hot{ ple in the street were already trying to it. Though not perfectly satisfuctory to| Democrat. ¢ Presidsnt was so em-|rescue. the advocates of sound money, the pro- berrassed that he omitted to ask her if! The dead alrecdy number twenty-four posed law will be a great relief from the [her husband was a candidate for a post and the total number of injured is places fourteen are very seri. present danger. office. ously injured, and some of thew will die, | * ; - fall of the staircase, and whom the peo- a at 7:10, The train was # Sone Toy every cay a rou trom © smashed to passenger coaches oF orden as Ne number of persons were No details bave been received, § 4 9 i ‘ Milwaukee and St. Paal road here atraok bee
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