OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES. XVIII. THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'r. The “Liberty Bell” has got back to Philadelphia again. It went down to tike a hand in the New Orleans Expo- sition, several months ago, and no doubt had a good time and was right glad to have an airing. ee ———— ———— It would be well if all duels ended like the one below—there would then be less duels: Houghton, Mich, June 19.—Samuel Lawrence and Charles Barry, actors at Cole's circus, settled a dispute last night by shooting each other. Lawrence is dead, Barry cannot recover. . on - of opposition to conference committee's prevented by lack of orders. emits The following temperance lecture is reported from Sharon, Pa: Thamas O'- son John, aged 21. John had been drinking heavily and returning home with a shotgun killed a family cat. His father reprimanded him, when he pick- ed up the gun and shot him in the ab domen. Death was almost John was arrested and lodged in When he realized what he had ous, Jail. frustrated in the attempt by his brother, —_ - -- - A prisoner with a remarkable crimi- nal history has just been received from Wayne county, where he was a few days ago convicted of forgery. He is Colonel Meredith Workman, an ex-Confederate, Morgan, Kirby, Smith, and bther raid- Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia than any other man in the United States. The present term to from Wayne county alone. He is 54 them behind the bars. Workman comes from an old Virginia family, is remarka- of the law. sn MI A The Hessian fly has made its appear- ———" THE NEW *MARRIAGE LAW, Whether the new Marriage act passed by the legislature will diminish the number of divorces in the State or not remains to be seen, but it will certainly lessen the number of runaway marriages, if it does mot entirely prevent them. This act provides that “from and after October 1, 1885, no person shall be join- ed in marriage until a licsnse shall have been obtained for that purpose from the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court in the coun- ty where the marriage is performed.” The license fee is put at fifty cents and any minister, justice or other per- son who shall solemnize the marriage ceremony or be attesting witnesses to the same within this Commonwealth, without license having been first ob- tained, shall forfieit the sum of $100, to be paid into the treasury of the county ig which the marriage takes place. With a view to prevent the marriage of miners without the consent of their parénts or guardians, all persons applying for a li- cense must be examined under oath as to the ages and residences of the parties contemplating marriage and if any of them are under 21 the consent of their parents or guardians must be personally {given before the license clerk, or certi- {fied in writing over the signature of the parent ¢r guardian, which certificate must be acknowledged before a notary or other competent officer, and duly filed ns part of the record in the case, for which an additional charge of fifty cents is made. So that on and after the first day of October next no man can take a wife in this State without paying at least 50 cents, and if he desires to marry & minor and the old Jolks are dis- inclined to go to court, he must pay $l. After he has succeeded in obtaining a {duly authenticated license under the {seal of the Orphans’ Court, then, and not till then, will the minister listen to his {application to join him and his betrothed lin marriage. —————— Twenty suits, in the progress of litiga- tion growing out of the collapse of the Bedford County Bank. at Everett, were entered in the Huntingdon county court, last week. These suits are brought by depositors against the parties who were stockholders at the time of failure or previously. The defendants are Wm. P. Orbison, John Scott, Wm. Darris, Geo. M, Garrett- son, David P. Givin, Horatio G. Fisher, John P. Glazier and H. G. Fisher and John M. Bailey, executoms of Thomas Fisher, deceased, who are known as the | Huntingdon county stockholders ; also Northampton, after an absence of sever- al years, The flies are making sad hav- oc with the growing crops in several places, and the indications are that the wheat will be greatly damaged. Last year the potato bugs appeared in such small numbers that the farmers congratulated themselves upon the pros- the pest, but it now appears that this hope is not to be realized. The bugs have appeared in both counties this year in greater numbers than before, and, as a consequence, they are & scourge of po- tato growers. Many farmers are using spirits of ammonia instead of Paris green, and believe it is as effective as a destructive agency as the latter. The to a gallon of water, r——————— os. fe sii Judge Biddle, of Philadelphia, says officers everywhere. His sweeping con- example. If leniency is to be exercised, it should be in behalf of the ignorant offender, not the cultivated rogue. The failure of the courts in many states to impose adequate punishment—or in many cases any punishment atall—upon high-toned embezzlers and magnificent thieves has too aften made justice a by- word and a mockery. Wé need more Judge Biddles on the Bench to send cultured thieves to their proper place. The fear of a long and certain imprison- ment is for this class a raore efficacious deterrent form crime than any other consideration. The judicial sentimen- talism which often turns theg loose up- 01 a community, after/a nom exyla- tion, is an affront tojcommon sense as well as a menance to gociety. i M. Barndollar, Simon Nycum, John Du Bois and Joseph Harris, known as the Bedford county stockholders. There were withdrawals of Hunting don county stockholders at various times, among the earliest being Wm. P. Orbi- son and Hon. John Beott, In 1881 the rest withdrew, returning their capitol to the First National Bank at Huntingdon, of which they were all stockholders. No notice, it is alleged by the plaintiffs, was given of the withdrawal, and although the deposits, now sought to be recover ed, were since made, it is claimed that the withdrawing stockholders are liable fir them. The latter allege that their action was so well known to the public, that no deposit could have been after- ward made upon the credit of their con- nection with the bank. REDUCED RATES TO NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT, VIA PENNSYL- VANIA RAILROAD, The National Soldiers’ Reunion and Encampment will be held in Fairmount Park, Poiladelphia, from June 28th to July 6th. The event will embrace an encampment of representative organiza tions of the citizen soldiery of the Un- ion, and detatchments of troops from the various arms of the United States service, The command will be in ch of a military committee composed of the most eminent soldiers of the land, and numbers of prominent leaders of the late war will be present as guests. The p embraces all the features of ac fun) camp service, the most important of] which is a series of competitive drills, in which the crack military organizations of the several States will contend for valuable prizes. Tiwre will be parades, reviews, and other interesting military manoeuvres. The Fourth of July will be a particularly interesting day, and the ceremonies are expected to be witnessed by the President and Cabinet and other distinguished people. The beauty of the amp ground and its accessibility adds i? little to the general interest in the mir, For the benefit of those desiring to at Railroad will July 6th, rates, : For the benefit O) rie attractive points, of those who wonld ens short excursions to e Pennsylvania Rail at great! 4th of yo ry all i more, the Penn com: Ivania Railrogd. the PREDICTS HIS OWN DEATH. A Farmer Selects His Oun Grave and Pays His Undertaker, Valley Cottage is a way station on the West Shore Railroad and is midway Dbe- tween Nyack and Rockland Lake, It takes its name from a hawlet, and the hamlet from the farm of John Ryder, who was long the most prominent man in tbe place. On June 11, Mr. Ryder died, and under circumstances that have caused widespread comment among the villagers. Mr. Ryder died after prophe- sying for three days that June 11 would be his last day on earth, Mr. Ryder was a wealthy farmer and a high official in the Methodist church at Rockland Lake, He was seventy-six years old, and his ruddy cheek and bine eye gave no indi- cation of approaching dissolution. He used to boast that he bad never been ill a day in his life. Up to a few weeks ago he worked his farm, going out to plow at daylight, One day he returned to the farmhouse and seated himself in an arm chair, When asked if he was ill he replied that he was not, but said: “I bave ploughed my last, 1 have sowed my last. Now, I feel that as I bave passed beyond the three-scoresand-ten the geod Lord als lowed me, 1 shall not live to see this harvest, God's will be done.” His farm work fell into the bands of his hired men and mechanically received their reports. All day he walked up and down the verandah, his head sunk on nis breast, deep in meditation. “I am tired” he would say when any of the neighbors or his relatives rallied him on his actions. “I shall not live long. Soon I shall tell you beforehand the day on which I shall breathe my last.” On Tuesday, June 9, he called his fam- ily around him and sent a servant afier the farm hands, meanwhile preserving a ealm demeanor, When all bad assem- bled he said, in deep impressive tones: “My friends, i time is drawing nigh. My sands of life have nearly run out. But two days more and I shall not he with you, I have received a warning and it portends death, My friends, I leave you, with a life, I hope, clear of erime and with a hope and belief in the infinite tendernees and mercy of the true and living God.” Turning to a farm hand he said with surprising energy: “Harness up my horse and hitch him in the buggy. Do it quickly.” When the vehicle was ready ne sprang in unassisted and drove to the little burying ground near by owned by few of the old families ip the neighbor- hood. Arrived atthe graveyard he look- ed around, and rungping to a mound where there was a pile of stakes he marked off the space in which he want- ed to be buried. Driving home he did not spare the horse, and when his house was reached he immediately dispatched a servant to Nyack for a lawyer, who bad done legal business for him before. In the note he said he wanted to draw op his will. He also ordered the man to bring the under dertaker back with him, Tue undertak er came and jokingly measured the old man. “Now give me your bill, I want to pay it now,” he said to the undertaker. The surprised undertaker obeyed with reluctance, and the old gentlemen paid the money down. The lawyer came al- ter a second messenger had been pent for him. The will was daly drawn up, and after the instrument had been sign~ ed, giving the property in even propor. tions to his Nin and grand children, he invited the lawyer to come to his fu- peral, a8 he was an old friend of the family, and also act as » pall-bearer. The lawyer laughingly assented to the propo siton, thinking it was bot 8 whim of bis old client's. Mr. Ryder then named the three other men he wanted to act as li~bearers. In the lawyer's presence e named all the other details about the funeral and made disposition of his pers sonal effects and mentioned his friends. On the following day Mr. Ryder satin his old armchair on the veranda, The night following he got up several times and his family heard him Walking through the house. He was in bis uso place in the morning and appeared to be in his usoal health. Towards noon he called his family around bim, saying: “My friends, I am pow going. Good- by all and God bless you.” He then lay back in his arm-chair and gazing tenderly at his family gently closod his eyes. His lips moved in pray er and once in he opened his eyes and smiled, and again the eyelids closed and all was still. Those around him thought be was sleeping, but when they Salied bim be did not snswer., He was Many prominent citizens of Nyack and Vicinity vouch for the truth of the de tails of the old gentleman's demise. Ove of Mr. Ryder's sons, who is about forty years of age, is a prominent busioess man. Mr. Ryder died on Saturday, all his details and requests being religiously followed, mses A . SOLD HIS WIFE AND CHILD FOR A HUNDRED DOLLARS, Cleveland, Ohio, June 19.— Henry Sau. erbier, wife and baby, arrived bere from Logan, Ohio, and put up at the Empire House. Yesterday a burly Irishman, also from Logan, put in an appearance with Banerbicr, @ resalt of the me«t- 1og was the sale of Bauerbier’s wife and baby to M'Farland. The price paid wus $100. Bourbier hung out at first and wanted more money, but M’Fariand re fused to raise the bid, To-night M'Far- land, the woman and infant retarned to Logan, while SBauerbier took a train for icago, The deal was a genuine one, and is vouched for by the landlord of the hotel, who heard the trade talked over and saw the written agreement, a mse MY IN. WE COOKED AND ATE THEM . VENGE FOR RE London, June 18,~The native African Prince Allagogha, of the Brass River Territory, Viper Gainoa, while trading at a native viliage, was shot and wound: bya mative who escaped, The Prive nina villagers as hosts , fail produce the would ng n, he to oe, them cooked and eaten. Missiona- 00e professed to be a The first ilulgenoo ig in some sense legitimato-—ialmost enforced, either by acute pain ¢ chronic insomnia. THe latter is, penps the most dangerous, The pain, ifit lasts for weeks, forces recourse to fe doctor before the habit has became purable. Bleeplessness is more persisht-and to most people a much less” arming thing, and it is moreover or with which the doctors can seldom ¢al save through the very agents of mehief. Neuralgia, relieved for a time F chloroform or morphis, may be curelby quinine ; sleeplessness admits of hally any cure but such com- plete changed life as is rarely possible, at least to itworking victims. And the narcotist hak once formed neither pain nor sleeplestcas is all that its renuncis- tion would nvelve. The drunkard, i$ must be reembered, gets drunk, as a rule, but ocsionally. Save in the last stages of dsomania he can do, if nog without drik, yet without intoxicating quantities ¢ drink, for days together, The narcobt who attempts to go for a whole ay without his scoustomed dose sufferiin twenty-four hours far more eruellthan the drunkard deprived of alcohol i ns many days. The effect upon the stmach and organs, upon the nerves as wil as on the brain, is one of indescribale, unspeakable discomfort amonnting > torture ; a disorder of the digestive sytem more trying than sea sickness, a isorganization of the nerves which, aftesome hours of unspeakable misery, cubinates in convulsive twitch in mntal and physical distress simply indscribable to those who have not felt it. Where attempts have been made foreily and suddenly to withhold the acoustaed sedative they have not infrequenty ended in a few days in madness oo death. In other cases the victim hmsought and obtained relief by efforts nd hardships which in his or ber best days would have seemed or unendurable, Oue voman thes restrained escaped in des wbille fren her bedroom on a winter right of rctie severity, [ran for miles through %e snow, and was foriunaste t find a chemist who knew somethingof the fearful effect of such privationand had the senso and oour age to gve in adequate quantity the poison tht had now become the first necessariof life. In a word, nareotios, one and dl, are to those who have onoe fallen under their power tyrants whose hold san bardly ever bo shaken off; which punish rebellion with the rack and with dl those devices of torture which medisval sand ecclesiastical cruelty fouasd even more terrible than the mck itself, while the most absolute submission is rewarded with sufferings only less urendurable than the punish ment of remit, Ings, An 3.1 HnPossI De 3 nouch enough i, SA NUMBER SEVEN, The powsrs of a seventh son were regarded is miraculous throughout Europe down to a very recent date, and it is not quite certain that the belief is entirely emloded to this day. A per. son of this ort was known in France as a “marco,” and was supposed to possess the faculty of ouring certain diseases by touch.” Wo reserved our credulity & England for the seventh son of the seventh son; and in the early part f this century a Hampshire laborer, mswering to this description, was rogaried as endowed with extra. ordinary lealing power, and was looked upon withno little awe and wonder by the ignormt. Certain it is that he had a large coleotion of sticks and crutches said to hae been presented to him by cripples whose infirmities he had relieved. A belief in similar powers also very generally prevailed in the west of England, in Wales, and in Ireland ; vhile the Scotch female for- tune tellr constantly assumes tHe character +f a seventh daughter in order to obtain eredit of the gift of second sight. It is not eighty years since a Bristol tndesman wason this ground widely known as “the doctor,” and in 1851 them was living in Plymouth a lady chirtrgeon on whose doorplate was incribed * Mrs, ——, the third seventh daughter, Doctress.’ ne Gli BB ——" The Spanish masters of Cuba main. tain an iron rule Every man, it is said who expresses sentiment not strictly loyal to the Spanish authority, is arrested end imprisoned. Conspiracy is ™i EPIDEMICS AND ALCONIOL, Senne If I have not a very intimale ae- quaintance with cholera, I emanot say the same of yellow fever, for of this last I bave witnessed the ravages in differ- ent parts of the world ; I have also felt ita grip. It is a question not yet, as I think, decided, whether yellow fever is conveyed by infection or not. Certain it is that some persons believe it to be so; and I remember a diabolical at- tempt to introduce it into a healthy region by means of infected clothing. It happened at Bermuda during the period when North and South were flying at each other's throats in the American States, and when, by reason of the blockade-running, a good many Boutherners were collected in the Ber- muds group, There had been a bad outbreak of yellow fever while the war was being waged ; and before the dis ease had quite subsided, a discovery was made of a box, the passage of which had been provided for to the Northern States so that it might arrive in the hottest part of Bummer. It was found to contain the bedolothes and body linen (as was evident from the condition of the articles) of persons who had been afflicted with the epidemic. The intention, no doubt, was to introdace and spread the pestilence in the North- ern towns and districts. I quite forget how the atternpt was first brought to light ; but very little doubt was at the time entertained that it was deliberately planned, and was to have been mer- cilessly earriod out. It is a not uncom. mon belief that the free use of intoxicat. ing liquors, so common in warm cli- mates, renders one very susceptible of the fever, and takes largely from the chanoes 81 recovery if the disease be onoe induced. In its general, unmodi- fied form tlds belief is certainly incor. rect ; conditionally, it is probably true. As facts in support of my assertions I adduoe : First, that in the visitation at Bermuda several men known to be steady and hard drinkers enjoyed com. plete immunity from the attacks of fever ; second, that in the same epi- demic oocasional inebristes-—men who every now and then went in for a “burst up ” and then returned to steady habits for a while—hardly ever escaped, and bardly ever recovered. The habitual topers not only did not take the fever, but they seemed to hsve an instinetive knowledge that they were guite safe from it. Not one of them evinced the least apprehension when every one else was panio-stricken ; not one of them condescended to make the slightest plteration in his ocopions and flery potations. They fearlessly performed for the sick and dead officers which sober mon were not very eager about undertaking, and they seemed rather proud thet a time had arrived when they became of some importance, for ordinarily they were reputed and treat- od as besotted, useless rascals. Itis an unpleasant truth for the blue ribbons, but it seems to be the truth neverthe- less, that to keep well saturated with sloohol is a safeguard against yellow fever. Bl i, PERFUMES AXD DISINFECTION, — Prof. Mantegazzi found that nearly sll the essences used in perfumery, and many others not appropriated by the perfumer, when exposed to air and light, develop ozone. He saysthat “the oxidation of these essences is one of the most convenient means of producing ozclle, since, even when in every minute quantity of oxygen, while their action is very persistent ; that in the greater number of cases the essences, in order to develop ozone, require the direct rays of the sun; in asmall number of casos they effect the change with diffus- The Prussian Diet has been asked for grants for the extension an. comple. tion of the network of Btate railroads to the extent of 60,700,000 marks. Of this sum 49,484,000 marks are required for the construction of 14 new lines of a total length of 865 mies, and the balance is needed for the completion of existing railroads. One of the latest specimens of the work of the Messrs. Heury of the Puris Observatory is a fine photograph of the cluster in Perseus, showing stars down to the thirteenth ' magnitude. The negative was obtained in 50 minutes with a 6.8-inch object glass of 83-inch focal length; it has been enlarged four times, and reproduced graving. by helio en- Balfour Btewart and William Lant Carpenter have made a preliminary comparison between the dates of 3 nic storms in Great Britain and those of magnetic disturbances at the Kew Observatory. Finding that in 30 cases compared 23 presented a distinct wmag- netio disturbance preceding the storm, for the most part, by somewhat more than a day, the investigators conse. quently intended to pursue the subject exhaustively, At a meeting of the Geographical So. ciety of Paris, MM. Schrader read & paper on the masses of snow moved about by the wind among the mountains. These masses are not moved about by chance they obey very simple laws which cause them to be deposited at spots where the wind is diminished in intensity, and gave them forms which may be easily analyized if the quality of the snow, the force and direction of the wind, and the contour of the mountain be taken into scocount. M. Gaston Trouve is raid to havo constructed a portable electric glow latnp, intended for use where there is an explosive atmosphere. The lamp is intended to be for service in mines callslose factories, flour mills, spinning mills, ete. It is. automatic in action, and itis stated to be very simple in construction. There are two varieties of the lamp made; one of which will only light itself when taken up in the hand ; the other when itis hung up or pul down. The eurrent is produced by & balmy soptained in the lamp. Admiral F. 8. Tremlett writes that on the soniptured dolmans of the Depart went of Forbihan, France, about 80 sculptures had been found, iuvariably on the interior surfaces of the capstones and their supports. It is remarkable that they are confined within a distance of about 12 miles, and are situated near the sss 2cast, beyond which, slthough the megaliths are numerous, there isa complete absence of sculptures. The sculptures vary in intricaey, from sim- ple wave lines and cup markings to some that have been compared to the tattooing of the New Zealanders. Mr. Woodall, speaking at the Wedg- waod Institute, Stoke-on-Trent, Eng- land, said thet there was a levelling process in many things relating to in- dustry going on all over Europe. The jomg bours of Continental workmen were being reduced, and their wages were being raised ; their diet was stead- ily becoming more generous, while the cost of animal food had increased in the samo degree as in Great Britain The competition of the future would consequently be a matter of skill and the race would be won by the country which devoled itself most intelligently to the enltivation of its people, and es- poaially of its youth. Dz. a T. Rochebrune has writien an » Prof. Ivison Macadam has completed of the chemioal composi. tion of some samples of Scottish ensilage with that of forage grasses. The result has shown that the oil or ether extract
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