OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES. XVIII. THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'n. Rev, Moses Hopkins, an ex-slave, has been appointed minister to Liberia. A Ape tussia and England have settled their dispute about the Russia-Afghan affair. ——— A PT ————— Mr, Day, the Democratic nominee for state treasurer is one of Philadelphia's best business men. Quay, his opponent, is an old wire-puller and machine politi- cian, If General Beaver is to be nominated for governor, let Judge Orvis, of the same town, be the Democratic nominee ~-an abler man is not in the Democratic ranks in this state, a—— imine It is ramored that the Bellefonte Re- publican thinks of putting out a Sunday paper. Ifit drew on the Bible for ac counts of the battle of Jericho and the like it would be news to its readers. ie . We like the new postal card—it is a pretty improvement on the old one. On- ly the kind of type “Nothing but the ad- dress can be placed on this side,” would puzzle an ignoramous of a lawyer to read. nr———————— I~ Ap —— In some quarters Franklin B. Gowan is strongly urged as the next Democratic candidate for governor, and is likely to sweep the state on the anti-discrimina- tion issue. He is brilliant and able and having used up the Mollies he would make it hot for the fellows who had used the Mollies as fools. i — A disease among cattle is prevailing in Bernville and vicinity, Berks county. There is no known cure. Many cattle have died. The cattle suddenly become ill and are only sick a few hours before they die. Death invariably results with- in twenty-four hours after the first symptoms appear. - enn On Tuesday of last week notices were posted on the bulletin boards in the shops at Altoona announcing that the working hours would until further notice be from 8 a. m, to 12 m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p. m., being 8 hours a day and no work on Saturday. As rumors of a sus pension of men and reduction of time had been circulating in the shops for several days this announcement was no surprise to the men. — ——— From New York, Pittsburg, and other business and manufacturing centers, come cheering reports of a revival of trade, and brighter outlook for business generally. We trust this may be so, as winter is near at hand and with a coo- tinuation of the last two years’ dullness there would undoubtedly be sullering among the laboring classes, thousands of whom have either been out of work or on half-time. a —_— The Mifflin county Republicans ke€ld their convention the other day and nom- inated Joveph Winters, of Bratton, for Poor Director, and Samuel Dell, of Der- ry, for Jiry Commissioner. General J. P. Taylo? was elected delegate to the next State Convention and W. P.Steven- son chairman of the county committee. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Quay and instructing the delegate to the State Comvention to support Beaver for Governor The great railroad injunction case, as we stated last week, was postponed. So- licitor Scott, of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, asked for a continuance of the South Pennsylvania Railroad in- junction ease, and the request was grant- ed, the time for the argument being fix- ed for the 20th inst, Those who expect. ed a great legal battle were disappointed. It is sald the Pennsylvania Railroad Co, in answering Cassidy's bill in equity, will admit the attempt to consolidate, but will contend that the Pennsylvania Railroad was chartered long before the law relating to the consolidatidn of com- peting lines was passed. tA It seems to us so unnatural that Quay ghould be elected state tressurer over Mr. Day. The masses have been loud in their expressions of hate of boss rule and machine politics. Now let us sce whether in November they will vote as they let on to feel, or whether there is no honesty in the majority of the peo ple. If Mr. Quay receives the suffrages of the people of the state, then all their professions for purified polities and good men for places of responsibility are sheer humbug and hypoericy. Quay is the embodiment of all that is loathsome in politics, whether practiced by Demo- cratic or Republican bosses, hence he should be defeated so that leaders may know that machine politics is at a large discount. Mr, Day is a business man of eminent fitness and not besmirched with intrigue, trickery and bossism. His character is as pure as that of any man men in office, are not consistent if they do not vote for Day and against Quay. AN IMPORTANT ISSUE. The Philadelphia Times thinks the Prohibitionists of Iowa have found themselves outwitted again on a legal point and, as a result, have suffered the worst defeat ever administered to them. Proceedings having been instituted against some liquor sellers in Dubuque their counsel raised the hitherto unheard of point that the proceedings were directly opposed to the civil rights bill and asked that the suit be transferred to the Federal courts. The Court granted the petition and the whole question of prohibiting the sale of liquors is thus given a different turn from any it has ever had, The section under which this action has been taken is the following from the bill of April 20, 187 Sec, 1979, Every person who, under color of any statue, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage of any State or Territo- y, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States, or oth- er persons within the jurisdiction there- of, to the deprivation of any rights, priv- ileges or immunities secured by the Con- stitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding.for redress, It is claimed by the defense that the State of Iowa had encouraged men to settle within its boundaries, thus placing the manufacture and sale of liquor among the “rights, privileges and immau- nities” secured by the Constitution and the laws. If this point be sustained by the Fed- eral courts the Prohibition people will learn something of the difference be- tween hunting the tiger and being hunt- ed by the tiger. Such an interpretation would turn the tables most completely. Under the State law the liquor selling is not only made a crime ; it is absolutely prohibited. Under the construction maintained by the defense, and now to be judicially determined, the State can- not destroy a business which it has per- mitted its citizens to follow and build up without compensating its victims, This is more than an interesting ques- tion of law. It has a direct bearing up- on the reciprocal relations and powers of the Federal and State Government, and the settlement of the issue will deter- mine to what extent the late amend- ments and the laws passed in pursuance of them have changed theoriginal orthe ante-war construction of the Constitu- tion. Itis given a greater importance because the Supreme Court has already declared unconstitutional those sections of the civil rights bill which were in- tended to secure to negroes equal accom- modations in inns, public conveyance and places of amusement. etme Some of the Chicago butchers aro will ing to make food of cholera hogs, and the facts below would almost tarn ones stomach against western meat. During last week the Health Inspector con- demned 170 cholera-stricken hogs to the tanks. In a slaughter-house in the yards he condemned 29 that had been killed and dresséd and were all ready for mar ket. The hogs were the property of va- rious scalpers, who do business in the yards. The heaviest weighed nearly 200 pounds and the smallest was only thirty pounds in weight. The puffed and dis colopedt flesh, inside and out, and the sickening smell which attached to the carcasses made discovery an easy matter. Cholera has never been so prevalent been this season, and scalpers, it is al- leged, instead of endeavoring to stamp out the diease by refusing to purchase, deliberately buy the stock, in the hope that they can evade the Health Inspect or. Butchers who will do the like of that should be hung. The Mollies are at work again and nine persons have been killed by the or der in the Luzerne coal region, and mi- nes are frequently fired. Murderers and firebugs go free, and the Coal and Ircn Police seem powerless, The “Moonlight” rifle companies are drilling unmo- lested, and the Association of Miners and Laborers is growing daily by hundreds, It is well known that the Mollie Maguire Brotherhood has been quietly orga izing since last April, and a general out break is confidently looked for before November, Detectives are watching for the approach of Socialist Gorsuch, of Chicago, who, it is thought, will try to organize a revolt among the miners. The familiar “coffin notices” have been re ceived by members of the Law and Or der Bociety, A MI CM A HL Thursday of last week was the He brew New Year 5046, It is sacredly ob- served by every Israelite, and is followed by ten penitential days, preparatory to the Day of Atonement, which begins with the going down of the sun on Fep- tember 19, For twenty-four hours neith- or food or water is taken by the devout Hebrew, September 24 the feast of Suc. coth begins and lasts for eight days This is celebrated to remind the people of the journey through the rildernoss. AH the stores of these people in Belle- LEVELING THE FORESTS. The whizz and puff of the steam saw- mill can be heard in almost every tract of woodland in Pennsvalley, and our stately pines and sturdy oaks and queen- ly hemlocks are fast disappearing—dis- appearing at a rate, if the operations continue thus, which will leave nothing but unsightly stumps in ten years, 'Tis a pity to behold this leveling of our for- ests, but the ravenous sawmill and the gain-greedy lumbermen know no pity, and the timber must go, It was useless for the poet to write, “Woodman, spare that tree”—sawmills know no sympathy and speculators in lumber know no use for a tree but to fell it with the unspar- These dis our valley will one day be 1 ing axe. pearing “WEDNESDAY, OUTLAWS BITE THE DUST. Jim and Pink Lee Shot to Death by De: tectives., Gainesville, Texas, Sept. 9,—This com- munity was startled at daylight yester- day morning by the announcement that the famous Lee brothers, the terror of Northern Texas, had been actually kill- ed. The first intimation of the killing was the arrival of a farmer's wagon near 1 o'clock this morning, containing the dead bodies of the notorious outlaws, Jim and Pink Lee. While John and Henry Roff, two re- a Be arching expedition in the Chickasaw | Nation for cattle bearing Roff’s brand, the not far distant future, We wholesale have learned already destruction working disastrously the agriculturist as it minishing of rains, ranid the moisture in the the surface and streams of the and percolate throug! they In the : rushing of water du rains i dr Pe. yi held by the leave face and goes dow ranean springs. we know t ne subter-| reservoirs which keep 1 * ariel ol In the open and cle ! } A148 18 arti J not Lhe case, | Ty \ H-mell to the se “oy The water] rushes pe Lain } + fhe showe swollen only as long as ] rain as was} wer, and fall as rdpidly afler a their rise during the sh But, notwithstanding all these experi-| ences, and the words o at | have been printed subject, it seems the fore must go, and | the woodman won't | spare that tree. Ireland's pop American Indian, is on the decay. frsea dat goubt one igration to America is no the great causes of the decrease, whil the wrongs of English another cause, = plied under the and in spite of Pharaoh's ef them on the decreased. rale till the Hebrews mult severest task-masters ors to | Forty-five years ago the population the “Green Isle” was 9,000,000 peo) large population f size of Indiana, To of forty-five years, the 5,000,000, a 1 ws in leas thar The famine of 1843 had much 4 this, but bad go by her landlords have dor famine and pestilence t beautiful Isle. It is when a man a leave the home that has been the home! of his ancestors for vernment or ged fo! any years, when on account of bad government, unjust | and cruel system of t been driven away nearly population, the question done?” comes up, I whe draws the rent cannot always enjoy it in| Paris and London. Ie must have part in the fortunes of the people of the coun- try he quits, Tyranny in every form is to pass away, and the day is coming) MWE nantry th bail ere has| of the} “What's to be! landlor i The when all men will be blest with good] government aud just laws, ge IN THE BOTTOM OF A BHAFT. Lying Far Beneath the Surface for a Week Without Food,” Lebanon, Sept. 8--The story of a thrilling escape from death by slow star- vation came to light today, Clayton Klick is nineteen years old and is the! son of Henry Klick, a weaithy former of | Union twp, this county. Last Wednes- day morning be took a walk through the “Narrow Valiey” for the purpose of gatbering bloe mountain tea, 'Lais was the last seen of bim until late last night, when be was hoisted ou: of the shaft of a deserted coal mine about 140 feet deep, more dead than alive, he uot Laving bind any food since his disappearance, He says that while walking along he sud. deniy found himself sinking into the ground. He was born down into a dark abyss, often striking its rocky sides, un- til he found himself at the bottom, The wonder is that Le was not killed. He landed on his feet, which were badly crushed, while his legs and body were bruised by the concussion, Here he lay, day after day and night after night, in almost utter darknese, within a narrow space of six feet square. He was unable to move and be would have giadl to his sufferings. His father believed that the boy lay in one of the mine holes, bat never expected to see him alive. While walking along the moun- tain he saw an © sir hole near the edge of a bill and Leard a faint groan. He shouted into the cavers and received an answer that his son was there. The neighbors were summoned and a number of ropes procured and spliced. With this he was slowly Lavied to the surface, When ho sconid away, ‘or ull those days be lay in tortare at the bottom of the cold, damp air shart, with nothiog to est or drink, He hed become 80 desperate that he had torn portion of bis ciothing into shreads and tried to devour thow, Hig body is ters ond bt will require caretul Ni iri y th the Roff brothers and the two offi-| 5, whose bodies lay exposed for sey-| Inpumerable rewards have been oller- ed for the capture, dead or alive, of Jim The Governor offered a! we reward, Cook county offered $1,000 half a dozen neighboring couniies| ed a price on their heads, until the! amount of guaranteed rewards reached §7,000, the heaviest by far ever fered in Texas, The rewards drew a of detectives to this part of the As many as forty Eastern and | host OUD. wards, but few of the Pindertous were i tion in searching for their game. The] wicago detectives gave up their job in isgust after looking over the field. It} pained for a Texan named Heck] homas, of Fort Worth, to vanquish 1 : fa hel Fhomas learned that the Lee brothers) assumed names near Dexter, aking with him Jim Taylor] Jim Settles, both of Cook county, he] started out Monday morning in search| of his human game. Each carried one 16 repeating Winchester, with an extraone slung on his saddle. Their side arms! were 44 callibre Colts and a flask of y. The Lee brothers were welll wi to each of the three officers. Af- r photographs of the Lees, the officers wo John Washington place atl o'clock in the afternoon, Thomas soon | ied the two outlaws, who were at that me engaged in cutting John Washing s pasture fence, The three officers] ode up within 50 yards of the outlaws] sree the latter discovered them. They smounted, and Thomas called on the] to surrender. Taken unawares rh they were, the outlaws answered their revolvers, when the detec As the delecti Leos, by Jim's order, laid flat on the ind whiled about on the ground pite-| y il the next volley put an end to] offerings, As the officers fired they | Jim Lee returned the iet in hus neck. revolver, Jim crawled over to where his] dead brother lay, and grabbing Pipk's| weapon he emptied it also at the oncom- | ing officers. About forty shots were fired | fect. Perhaps no band of criminals in the] United States ever did such bloody work in so brief a period as the Lee gang, Within two years from the first of last] May 42 human lives were taken by this band of cattle thieves, a — Quay is the man who had “addition, 3 elected state treasurer now ? Or will you vote for Mr, Day, one of Philadelphia's most upright ‘business men 7 wlll THE WONDERS OF AN EGG. Every ono who eats his matutinal egg eats a sermon and a miracle, that gzooth, symmetrical, beautiful shell lurks » question which has been the Troy town for all the philosophers snd peientists since Adam. Armed with the engines of war~the microscope, the scales, the offensive woapons of chemis- try and reason—they have probed and weighed and experimented, and still the question is unsolved, the citadel un- sacked, Prof. Bokorny can tell yon that albumen is composed of so many molecules of carbon and nitrogen snd hydrogen, and can persuade you of the difference between active and passive albumen, and can show by wonderfully delicate experiments what the aldehyiles hava to do in the separation of gold | from his complicated solutions; but he | can't tell you why from one ogg comes a “little rid hin,” and from another a bantam, You leave your silver spoon an hour im your egg cup and it is coated with a sompound of sulphur; why is that sul- phur there? Wonderful that evolution should provide for the bones of the future hen. There is phosphorus iso in that little misrocosm and the oxygen of the air passing throngh the shell unites with i$ and tho soid dissolves the shell, thus making good strong bones for tho chick and at the samo time kiow a good deal now about albumen, fonte were closed until 6 o'clock, p, m. and if they cannot tell ife dist Sk SEPT. 16, 1885, TO NCAA ve r——— NO 36. DOFFING THE HAT, All Jewish congregations worship with their heads covered; so do the Quakers, although St Paul's injune. tions on the matter are clearly condem. natory of the practice. The puritans of the Commonwealth would seem to have kept their hats on, whether preachiug or being preached to, since Pepys notes hearing a simple clergyman exclaiming against men wearing their hats in the church; and a year afterward (1662) writes : “To the French Church in the Savoy, and where they have the Com. which I never saw before, the minister Third scandalized his eubjects by following Dulch enstom, and keeping his head Lurch, did ered in ch please him to do his ponderous hat dor. church-going and when it heinvariably donned it as unted the pulpit stairs, When DBoseuet at the age of fourteen, trected the gay fellows of the Hotel de Rawubonillet to a midnight sermon, Vol. { out with his hat on, but un. when the boy-preacher hod finished, bowed low before him, saying I never heard a man preach sat d s0 late.” Asa token of respect, uncovering the head is one of the oldest of courtesies, faire Sie Lael § gh Noe BO ALY an Lamenting the decay of respect toage, ¥ TT a pops le 34 1 : a Clarendon tells us that in his young days he never kept his hat on his head before elders, except ot dinner. A curious exception, that, to modern notions of politeness, but it was the custom to eit wginning covered at meals down to the | of the Finett, deputy master of the ceremonics at the was much puzzled as Prince of Wales 2hiould s i ordi bing Em eighted tir Jon nth century. Bir to whet t covered or not 4 as one of the guests; since the latter, as the representative of a king, pected to James a hint of his di vail his bonnet anoovering his head for a little while, present were bound to his Lat 1 sy an ¢ Eampie fli follow ; and then, pulling on again, requested the prince wssndor to do likewise. “Hats nead be raised hers” so, it is said, runs a one of Nuremberg's streets w % amas notice in here, the goverament officer to stand to com ve their Late, because, under that the retreating army of Napoleon 1 Ww {1 C Ti Mosc oN Whethe T fhe ion is in foroe at this day is more 3 we know. raised inscribed ity 14 be on WAY, Where a A Ge s— CHINESE PRIXTIXG OFYTICE In n Ma office thie manner San Francisco Chinese printing of putting a newspapes on the press and printing is very primi. tive. The ciitor takes American news. papers to fnends, from whom he gels a tranzialion of the matter he needs, and after getting it written in Chinese in a manner satisfactory to him he carefully writes it upon paper chemically pro- pared. Upon the bed of the press which is of the siyle that went out of use with the last century, is a lithograph stome. Upon this the paper is laid until tho impression of the character is left theve. A large roller is inked and passed over the stone after it has been damp- ened with a wol sponge, and nothing re- mains but to (ake the impression upon the newspaper to be. The Chinese pressmau prints three papers every five minutes, five papers in the same time less than Benjamin Franklin had a record for. The life of a Chinese jour. naliet is a happy one. Ie is free from care and thought, and allows all tha work in the establishment to be done by the preoman. The Chitess composi tor has vot arived. The Chinese editor, like the re«t of his countrymen, is ini. tative. He does not depend upon his brain for editorials, but translates them from all the contemporaneous American newspapers he ean get. There is no humorons department in the Chipeso newspaper. The newspaper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment. The editorial room is connected by a laddne with bunks on the loft above, vere the managing editor sleeps, ard next to it is, invariably, a room ‘where an opium bunk and a Inyo} ye reside. Evidences of domestic life are t the place, much room as the press. no disposition is shown to position of the * printer * above roundings. If au editor finds that nalism docs not pay, he gets « job wash. ing dishes or chopping wood, and he VERY VYENTURESOME, —a— Mikle,” eaid Uncle Silas, “I ntureoine, ns you'll say your- sclf when I've told thee how itwas, I had been helping to move Unels Jim's family out to Iino, an’ weson my way back with ox teary. It had been rainin’ right smart for several days, an’ » Blue Bear river it was on I tell thee, Mikle, it , but T didu’t think nothin’ It was runnin’ bank fall, a comin’ down heavy. I in to gel back Lome, for I'd y quite a spell, an’ I knowed it didn't rain any more, it he river several days to run had a turrible good yoke of oned fellers they was, mind I'd resk it, Jist to drive in, a woman came Wie bank an’ begun to “ Yi allus was ve an a regia LY, Or re & looked ea of it then an’ drift was ¢ i vy, big- y» INY . § iv ine On “Whats the malter, mam 7 says L ‘Oh, sir,’ says she, ‘don't you try to 0 over there, or you'll never come out alive, you'll lose your team, too, an’ s onpowerful good oxen, an its a pity to waste ‘em’, says she, wipin' her her aprun an’ kind o' chirkin’ an’ them’ “I told her I had fo be gitlin’ home, an that I would have to chance it. Ap that she begin to bawl agin, an’ tole me to put my trust in God, an’ sim for a big sycamore tree thar was on the other bank. 1 thanked Ler kindly, shook hands, an' yelled to the off ox as I fetched the nigh one a lick with the gad. Into the water we went kerchug, leavin’ the woman standin’ there ringin' her hands an’ ervin’ as though the frost had killed all her cabbage. It kind o' un- nerves a little to hear her yt 1 had no time to git flip- The water riz up into the wagon bed afore I got quite half wey, an’ them we begun fo strike the current, which was runnin’ snpowerful swift, an' to save me I souldn't keep the oxen from bein’ washed lown stream. They veered down an’ that we took a circle an’ kim out on the same side, about eighty rod down stream. “Don't ey BH any mom’ mid fe woman ; ‘you're a darin’ providence by 80 doin’,’ “ But my dander was up, sn’ I was de- termined to git over this time, 50 on we went kersplach, but I yelled back to the woman : “ «If I don't come out on t'other side, write to Lifalet Z Cloverprice, Bugtown, Muoskeetur eounty, Indians,’ to which she yelled back : “‘Korect! Bar a leotle more haw! “That saved me. I had been goin'a lectle mite too munch gee, but she could soe from where she stood better'n me, an’ by the time they struck the stiffest part of ithe current I'had ther heads fur enough up-to slide ‘em through, an, arter a hmr® tussel we come out all right ; but-Tell thee, Mikle, it kep’ me so busy with the gad that when I landed I was allinek swet, an’ the cattle was so warmed upawith 4he:trip thar wasn't a wet hair onvemvinefive minutes. The woman was 80 tickled tossee mo strike the bank all right thatialie rashed into the yard an’ grabbed. a. red flannin icut off'n the line sn" waved it for quite a spell to show her joy. J waved back a meal bag I'd had feed’inyes I started up the cattle an" passed ‘or out of sight. Yes Mikle, I alius was ventursome, as thee can see for thyself.” —— i Mp THE DOLLAR DIDN'T GET AWAY. It seemed to be the general opinion that, tho'Bonthern negro was naturally lightfingered, shut all at once a drummer for a Philadelphia saddlery house threw away hiscigar stuband said * Gentlemen, here is a silver dollar. I'IEbet it'can be left on the table in my roomuup stairs for twenty-four hours and-noonewill remove it.” A gentleman from Macon said he would“liketo wager $5 on that, and the terms were soon settled. It was agreed that thadrammer should go to his room and lay the dollar on the table, and if it was there at the same honr next day the wagerwas his. Several marked the ooin and recorded the date, and the drommer wastrastod to leave it as agroed. Next day, at tho-eame hour, & com- mite of throe visited the room. Several colored people bad been in and out fn their vocations, but the dollar was there, “Gentlemen, is the negro honest or ho not?" queried the drummer, as pointed to the coin. We advanced to make sure it +
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