‘OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES, X VIIL. THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED KURTZ, Epiror and Pror’s. There is a match factory at Curwens- ville, Clearfield county, that makes 8, 000,000 sticks a day. crs AANA The Clinton Democrat, of Lock Haven, has changed hands, Messrs, James W, Clark, Ira M. Harvey and John Noble being the new owners, irl snr Here is the way General Fitz Lee commenced his speech at Winchester, Va. He made his speech on the famous battlefield of Fisher's Hill, This is the opening paragraph : I thank God that white-winged peace now broods over the land. I came here to preach the Pesce and not war ; to car- ry a8 my standard the stars and stripes, and not the bloody shirt. I thank God that the question of secession has been forever settled, and that now at last ev- ery star in our glorious old flag has a meaning. I thank God that no vestige of carpetbagism or scalawag government remains to vex the people, There is no bloody shirt about that! It is rather in different tone from the speeches John Sherman is making in Ohio, attributing to the South a purpose to engage in a new rebellion, A pee A strange case has occurred in Califor- nia, involving the resignation of a Judge, that has a local interest in this locality at this time. Judge Clough, of the Bu- preme Court, become insane, While in an assylum, as it was represented in a lucid condition, he resigned his office, and the Governor appointed Judge Levy in his place. Judge Clough has recover ed his mental health, and claims his place on the bench, declaring he has no knowledge of his resignation and his wife testifies he was insane when he made it. The laws of California declare invalid any conveyance or contract made by an insane man, hence it is claimed the resignation is void, and the Judge entitled to his office. This will be an interesting question for the lawyers, A Asc The Democracy of Clearfield held their county convention on 16. George Wooden, of Houtzedale, was nominated for sheriff by a vote of 51. Simth Wil- son, of Clearfield, was nominated for district attorney, and Samuoel Postieth- wait for jury commissioner. Hiram Woodward, of Huston, was defeated for Sheriff by a few votes, and as he is a war horse of 30 years standing in the demo- cratic party, and was defeated by Wood- en, who has only been in the country seven years, there is a possibility that he will come out independently, in which case the republican candidate will stand a fair chance of election. The Crawford system of representation was defeated and hereafter there will be the old method of nominating by the dele- gate system. a The Bell Telephone Company will QUAY CAN AND MUST BE DE- FEATED. We say so too, along with the Morning Patriot, which adds that the demoraliza- tion of the Republican party in Phila- delphia and the evident purpose of the best citizens of that political faith in all parts of the state to repudiate Quay, present the pending contest for State Treasurer in a light favorable to the prospects of Conrad B, Day. With the extraordinary majority of last year star- ing the Democratic party in the face, and the seeming unanimity with which Col. Quay was nominated the beginning of the contest was anything but hopeful. But a change has already setin, and with a fair measure of vigilance on the part of the Democrats there is excellent prospect of winning a victory. The nomination of W. Elwood Rowan for Sheriff by the Republicans of Phila delphia, was the first step in the im- pending political revolution that prom- ises to wipe out the Republican majority. Mr. Rowan is a member of the political ring composed of William B. Mann, Jas, McManes, David H. Lane, William R. Leeds and others of like stamp. They have robbed the city with merciless hands in the past. Differences growing out of the distribution of the spoils has recently caused breaks in the ranks, but the methods of the men are the same as when united in a common purpose they plundered the people right and left. The nomination of Rowan is an insult to the people not only of the city but of the state. It is noticed that the return of the Republican party to power means the revival of the boss methods of the old Ring. In State politics Col. Quay represents the same interests which Rowan voices in the municipal govern- ment, Those who desire to overthrow these men and mesures must make com- mon cause with the Democrats in the support of Conrad B. Day, in order that the ring may be uprooted and eradi- cated. se i A Ap ——— A SHORT ROUTE The shortest route of all, between Now York and Chicago, is mentioned of in a Chicago paper the other day, and it strikes Centre county. Possibly it is the route thro’ the Brush Valley narrows, of which we mentioned in the Rerorree a year ago. The Chicago paper says the Baltimore and Ohio is now maturing 8 project which will give it the shortest line between Chicago and New York, and which, if consummated, will briog on another conflict between thé trunk lines as serious as that which followed the construction of the West Shore. It is asserted that negotistions are now in progress to build an entirely new line io New York direct, using the main lice for Washington, Baltimore and Philadel- phia business only, The proposed pro- pew extension from the main line to Centreton, Ohio, in a direct air-line to New York City, passing through Medina, soon be brought into the United States Court at Memphis, where its right to the, valuable patent under which it operates will be tried. Suit is brought by the, U. B. District Attorney, the court being ask- ed to vacate the patent, alleging it to have been obtained by fraudulent repre- sentations ; that Philip Reis was the re- al inventor of the telephone, Bell having obtained the valuable secret from an of ficial of the Patent Office in violation of the law ; that the invention was known to the scientific world before Bell secured his patent ; aad that it 1s and of right ought to be the company property of the public. The affidavit of Z. F. Wilber, the examiner of the Patent Office, is said to be the most important evidence in sup- port of the petition. This is the gentle- man, it is alleged, who gave Mr. Bell the valuable information which enabled the latter to forestall Reis in securing the patent, which, by every right, should have been awarded to the latter, An upset of the telephone monopoly Hevenna and Warren, Ohio, and thro’ Mereer, Brookville, Clearfield, Delle- fonte, Sunbury and Munch Chunk, Pa. and Belvidere, Morristown and Newark, N.J. This line will be only 750 miles long from Chicago to New York, and trains may be safely run from Chicago to New York in from fifteen to sixteen hours, ———— i PI There is » touch of sarcasm in this paragraph from that witty philosoplaer, Mr, Robert Burdette, of Burlington, Ia, which is not unsavory. But beside the sarcasto it has good sense enough in it to deserve 8 ‘place here, that it may be seen and res d of all men, and especially A GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST QUAY. HOW JU The sentiments expressed by Mr. Geo. | ; E. Mapes as to the fitness of Matthew 8. f e Quay for the office to which he aspires, | will donbtless be shared by a very consid | Ba erable number of Republicans through- semiing, Palins, jad oi de 11g : wen. |BbOUt the killing o ubo on Taesday out the state. 3x. Mapes fo} s Sane ‘evening bad not been published. After] less talker on political topics, but he 18 & the ghow in 8t, Thomas, Out, that even-| conscientious citizen, a strong Republi- ing, ‘ can and a. careful if not a profound with Jumbo and the Baby e ephant, Tom |! , adding mov. thumb, to where the thinker. He was one of the leading moy freight train was standing. ers in the Wolfe revolt of 1881, a Strong great many tracks at that point used in factor in the Stewart movement a year the switching of cars on the Grand later, and has always preserved his self- "Trunk air le, Which Here joins the { 1nd > tant | MBIN stem of the road. Vn Lhe one side Fespect by mainiaining a consistent) oho track was the train aud the other course in political matters. | was a steep embankment. The history which Mr. Mapes gives of came around the curve the kesper tried J the Kemble conspiracy to debauch the to induce Jumbo to go down tie embank- Legislature, the trial and conviction of ment, but he would not, for what reason agisiavurey (28 1AM i (was not at first apparent. Tbe baby the conspirators and the subsequent par-| glephant was in the rear, and as the train | don, is sufficient reason for any copscien-| approached Jumbo began to bellow and tious Republican to vole agi ainst Colonel swing his trunk. The littie elephant seem- Quay, who, to borrow the language « + ed dazed, but did not get out of the way. © U3 Ag the engine was almost upon them Mr. Mapes, “was the biggest boss of Lhe jumbo raised on his bind lege as though lot.” Indeed if the statement connecting to protect the baby, and then quick as Mr. Quay with the transaction be cor {thought dropped down and grabbed him i will ’ at p) in bis trank and hurled him with great rect, it will be the duty of that class of force over all the tracks snd against a citizens to vote against him. The crime freight car twenty yards away, where he) was one that “struck at the very founda-| dropped doyn Whisulag like a puppy ‘ nh 2 vernment” and with a sore fool. Jumbo, in Saving Lhe tions of society and government” and [life of his little protege, had entirely neg- The Lost His Own Life in Trying to Save that of the Baby Elephant, t supporting Quay is not only condoning re lected his own chance to escape. but commanding i. {locomotive struck him with fall force in - . gp —- - HOW VOORHEES SAW VILAS. [giding nearest him, and fairly equeezing| w ie? i ne {the life out of him. When they came to] Oh, but it's hard being messenger | 15 end of the switch the engine left the here now,” said one of the sable door-} TR ics) ice nt! track, aod with it five freight cars that keepers at the Post Office Departmen on the siding. the other day, “So many men complain | SOO on account of the rules, Some of them, when refused admission to Mr. Vilas, swear at the managers and rail like mad- | men. One day Benator Voorhees came here to see the Postmaster-General. The) messeager had been instructed to inform mangled beast roared with pain, and the jittle elephant roared as losd ns he could | in sympathy. The crush was too heavy | to leave any cnance of recovery, and the| . ul yra could only wait for Jumbo's| callers that the Postmaster-General bystanders con : would see no one. It appears that the death, It was not long delayed. In three Senator was in a hurry or bad an en-| minutes he turned over on his back) gagement with Mr, Vilas, and when toid | dead. 3 yas oun bat the baby Se mitted he became] Phant Lad SERSLIE ) : Ls 3! hecould aot be adie as there was no help for him, orders very angry. He caught the messenger by yd Po : pies the throat, or coat-collar, and threw him] Were given that he be put out of misery, across the room. Then he walked in.| which order was carried into effect yes. He said he was tired of this flammery, | eTuay afternoon. . snd he proposed to go in whenever he) Woworppgrm ee cPontn | wanted to and no red tape could keep THE TRIAL OF JOHN LAPORTE. Huntiogdon, Pa., Bept, 16,—The noted | him out, or messenger either.” ! “What was done about the assault on homicide case of John Laporte, son of {Judge Laporte, an associate justice of the messenger 7’ was asked. “The Postmaster-General sent for the this county, charged with killing James] messenger and no one will tell what was| Irwin, an intimate friend of his, on May | sajd. The affair was dropped. But you 28 was taken up for trial here this morn- may be sure that Senator Voorhees isn't'ing Young Laporte was seen wilh bis “stood-0ff” any more when he wants 10 friend near Warriors Mark on the even-| gee the i’vostmaster-General.” ling of the murder, and within an hour] mena otet——— from the time they were seen together) TH PURITAN WINS {the dead body of Irvin was discovered near the village and laporie was no-| where to be found, Irwin's face was Hrightinlly mutilated and his head almost isevered from his body. Laporte turned 3 : : . 5. ., |op near his father’s house near Franklio- The English Culter Outsailed and Fairly) clits the next day, but his father refused | Beaten by the Boston Boal, to barbor him, and bringing bim hereon ’ : . {the first train delivered him to the aus New York, Sept, 16.--"The Cop siaysighorities. Judge Laporte cannot sit in| in America!” These words were spoken |i, oement at the trial of his son, but] by ef-Commodore James D. Smith as 3, ,00ghout to-day's session he sal within the Puritan's main boom passed the £i0~] 4 her with his son's counsel. The trie) ish line of Scotland Lightship to-day, af! 4) is expected to cover a week aud the) ter the closest contest ever sailed OVeriqy;jence so far has been of the most har a oy forty-mile course. The Genesta was ,oui.0 nature, bowten one minute sad thirty-eight sec ou da corrected time, and two minules; PIGHT WITH A GRIZZLY. ano’ mine seconds actual time. The ; . > : cou: '#¢ was twenty miles to leeward and| Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 17.—Advices from | retus'n from Scotland Lightabip. The| British Columbia state that a short time | wind being west northwest the yachts ago, while two telegraph repairers were | were Bent awsy On an east southeast|carrying on their work io the Selkirk] coarse, dead before the wind. In this] Mountains, one of them named Johuston run the cutter beat the sloop one minute] was attacked by a grizsly bear, which and two seconds. From there to the fin-| caught bim by she caif of the leg while ish they made but one short tack of a be was drinking from a stream. lhe bear mile, and two long legs of nine and ten endeavored to draw him into his cave, AFTER THE OREBATEST CONTEST THE WORLD HAB EVER WITNESSED o————— A —— ch canted to north northwest] trees and yelled for his companion, who Wiad, gh! the “outer mark” was turned, came close to the bear sod emptied seven In this work the Puritan gained three Winchester balis into him. As these did minutes and thirty seconds from point to! not make the bear relinquish his bold, ot [the friend got his companioa’s rifle from PI ceimiatiimntiom— under the bear pod poured seven bullets " CE JRA'S AWFUL VAGES, |into the bear's . When be fired the CHOLERA B AWIYI : BA : jast shot the bear rolled over, The troub- London, Sept. 20.~Dispatches from! |e then was to get the jawe open to res Spain indicate that, although the cholera! jagge Johnston's leg. ‘T'nis was done by is vanishing from the infected districts, inserting the barrel of one of the rifles the distress in the provinces is fearful. and prying it open. Johusion’s leg was Destitution follows death, and the path| horribly jacerated, and it will be neces the croakers: Yes, my son, I know. I know thatthe church as ‘in the United States cost many poor. 1 know, my son, that ven grandeur, an from the simple ways of the fa- * would be a good thing—it is the greedi- est leech now fastened upon the people. BUYING ANOTHER RAILROAD. Harrisburg, Sept, 21.—Political gpd; railroad circles have again been ag’ tate | by rumors that the Pennsylvania, Rail - road has purchased the control of th e Philadelphia and Reading roa, throng h this. You are not alone in your sorrow. You are not the first man, my son, that lifted up his voice and wailed, “Why was not this ointment sold for three hun- dred pence and given to the poor 7’ Come, my son, let us reform things. let a all the churches and give all the money to the poor, Let us bury our dead in unmarked ditches by the roadside and send the cost of a Christian to the heathen. Let us paint our let our hair grow long, and go nak of the pestilence is marked by a broad gry to nave the Limb amputated, swath of poverty. A dispatch from Jean a ecm em em says that the situation is so horrible that A TERRIBLE PRAIRIE FIRE IN DA- winless God takes pity on the wretched KOTA. pe pulation they will entirely disappear y | Steele, Dak., Sept. 18,—A terrible prai- BY en a es he. irie fire raged west and north of here all day yesterday. Reports from Sterling, eighteen miles west, are that farmers in that region lost everything. Passeogers on last night's eastbound tralia report seeing numberlesss stacks of wheat on fire at the some time pear here. The losses in grain range from 1,000 to 3,000 bushels to each farmer, Mra, W, L. Bed- ford, living seven miles from here, ins haled the flames while fighting fire, and is in a critical condition. The fire is still ragiog. At Buffalo, Dakota, the fire destroyed 200 stacks of wheat on Wm. Howden's farm, 150 acres belonging to Wylie, three harvesters nd binders of Mr Aldros, eft for days in filthy huts unless they are able to pay tribute or foot the dis tance necessary to take them beyond the line of these stringent measures. The Bishop of Coloharra, after hoing nearly dead with cholera, has returned to the city, and is now working in its slums, like a saintly slave, to alleviate the suf ferings of the people. i pp WA —— A TERRIGLE ACCIDENT IN TEN- NESSEE, Nashville, Tenn., 23, 1885, So 1A PI SA A SA 8 bab [American Angler.) Mr. Murray, in a letter from Den ver {o he shade of some willows sxirting a Fvery few nstant, with the tip of the Lend ex pos- A mosquito would at once al ight the or which inserting its proboscis, “he progecutur would gices from the trout’s body. When this stream, The observer witnessed th: murder of twenty trout under the willows in the course of half an hour by thers Western mosquitoes, each victim being sucked dry 1o his lifeless shell. ——— po FIRE AT ALTOCXNA. Altoona, Pa, Sept, 20.—Shortly after 3 o'clock this morning the largo plaining lof 8B, J. Fries was found to be in fire depart ment CO mms five mill was and the men out of are $40,000, a barned. The flisaster will throw many The losses EARTHQUAKED AND THEN BURN. ED OUT. Madrid, Sept. 19. ~The huts occupied loss George Campbell, Hopkineville, Ky, sayt : Bardock Blood Bitters is the best preparation for the blood and stomach ever manufactured, A oP A ns ams - - THRASHING-FLOOGES It was in Brel fal i § é1 4 » porth of China that we nashing-flooy of the East { the Bible, When we were travel. some out-stations in Mantchuria, unded on both sides by end. lesa fields of gigantic milled, tizre would come » farmes’s honse and farm-yard, of a small hamlet, and on the skirt of it, the trodden spot of ground hard and smooth as stones. But it was not till some weeks later, a8 we were journeye L w the t was now gathered, and we saw it in use The was laid on the floor, and a pair of oxen were driven leisurely over 1 > weirs 713 the cars, {reading out the cori. re TE £05 Rana r form of thrashing was the roller, which was drawn over the ears by oxen or mules; and there was anoiior still, a flat board fur- nished with rome projections, was drawn ia the same way, the driver or children, perhaps, « additional grain was piled up in a a K_O0T, BAOTIE where Sometimes the laurg» heap in unsifted, and then men with the winnowing shovel grain into nir, or else into a flat basket, from which the man who led it flang up the corn, and the wind carrying the chaff filled the air with dast. One Bible phrase after another was recalled to us It was easy to see how the lintines could rob the thrashing. floors at Keilah, those open spaces in the fill on which ths absence of any dread of rain induced the farmers to pileup ther wealth of gtain ; or how the open floor, onen to this sky and smooth, be- came the natural place to test the dew upon Gideon's fisece while all the rest of the ground wes dry; or bow, when the two kinks, Albab, of Isrsel, and Jehoshaphat, of Judah, summoned the propliet, the place to set the royal thrones was on the smooth and empty thrashingfloor just before the gate of Samaria; or how no better place than this could be found on which to build the altar that David raised when he bad purchased the site of the temple from Araunah, the Jebusite, and found in the thrashing instraments-the wooden fans and boards snd oxen poles «the wood for tho sacrifice. It would be easy for the oxen to stop in the midst of the abundance they were treading out and eat: and the merciful Jewish Iaw provided that they shon!d eat if hey would ; thero should be no mus. gling of them ; “thou shalt nol muzzle the ox when be treadeth on the corn.” weight. 4 9 {hie centre of the the SWOT ¥ all CCEAN-WAVES, — CURR ETT —— A writer in the Troy Times deseribing the unfortunate tragedian’s easly life, says: “Mr. MeCUullcogh enme to this eotutry al a poor friendlews Trish boy when be was seventeen years old, He landed in Phizdsiphis, and while wandering abot the foots in search of employment, was surprised io see the name of John MeCullough on the sign over a door. He went in, fornd the proprietor, and discovered iu him the uneie after whom he was nemed, and of whose wheresbonts he had pot krown before. From his uncle, Me. Cullough obtained shelter, prolection and employment, being apprenticed to His inborn passion for the stugemanifesied (ne JEIE0, eves ii oF Yoaug his unele’s trade as a wood-worker. iteeif in his devotion to dramatio liters. ture, to the study of which nearly all his leisure time was devoled, and lisin forthe higher class of dramatic represen. tations, wilich he atiended 68 Lis very | “Ho finally Forrest, who som ani and from that time {he poor Ir wag under the e pred trage dian, who per eduoation fo: Whea onls sbout twenty years oid, MoCallongh fell in love, and with the petuosity of his race a te married s pretty yoong Iris was illiterate, with the voung actor's rapid intellectual growth, so that the usion did not prove sn entirely congenial one, though Me. Oullongh always retained &n affectionate #nd chivalrous regard for her, provided handsomely for Lor support, and visited her at not inferquent intervals at the pleasant home which he furnished her in Philadelphia, and where I presume she is living now. No childrea were born to this marriage, so far 25 Iam aware. That Mr. McCallongh was mar ried, as I have stated admile of no question, and there may bave been children ; 1 only know that to his in- timate friends, who were wcll me quaintad with his history, he as not kuown to speak of children, nor yet of brothers or cisters. That he has two eons, one thirly and the other ihirty. four years of age, as Las been slued, is I think, undoubledly not trae “The facts shove Iniefly stoted are from Mr. MeCallough's own lips to one of his most intimate friends” as frequently 24 nited wans would admi ation of 3 ila a attracted the alle are of mally eodnele {Le stage * eLATaClerI Ie In. nt, She ‘ " and did not keep peace HOW ¥YLYIXG FislH FLY. A correrpondent writes to Nature: “An excellent opportunity of observing the serial 1.ans of propulsion in the flying fish was afforded me danng o six days’ calin lately when crossing the Bay of Bengal I watched day by day some hundreds rise under the bows of the dhip. The water surface was a glassy enlm. As each fish rose it spread ils wings at once, spparentiy beating the surface with them two or three strokes before they steadied out. I say appar. ently, for it was not s definite best so much as a struggled to rise. The tail, which, of course, under water was in rapid motion, to escape from the ship, now gave tem or a dozen rapid beats, which could be counted by the ripples on the still surface, sud the fish was off in serial flight As each fish lost the impetus of the firet rise, which gener- ally happened at sbout forty yards the binoculars showed us the ans! fins which had till ngw been fully extonded, drooping to fecl the water. As soon as the surface was felt Hie lail was quickly introdunoecd, and five or sit smart strokes, also indicated by ripples, brought the impetus up again and carried the fish about another thirty yards, when anobbiee droop seni il on again, and so forth, some of the older fish traveling in this way 400 to 500 yarde. The younger fish frequently fell awkevwrdly in this at. tempt to regain impetus. Where waves are running it requires a clever fish to gain impetus by a few judicious strokes on the crest of a wave, and many a fish tumbles over in the attempt. “I once sav a fish ride close to the ship's quarter, and it flew parallel with the ship, pursued below Ly » dolphin of bonita. The latter followed every sway E the acquiescence of the Vand erbilts, Mr. Vanderbilt is known to hae for sor ae time held the balance of powers betwe en the Gowen and opposition fa tions w ith his 90,000 shares. At the lo 4 two ar ;nu- al meetings he has voted ¢ ,, the Go wen side. The opposition w! ;.1, Gower: has that we may send the money We now waste in fashionable adornment to the perishing milions of Indy Let us 4° all this, Then, you #®e, the poor heath en will have everything and ‘we wil have nothing; they will wear clothes and live in houses, and w » will w The results of a series of observations carried out by the Hydrographioal Bureau at Washington, in order to de termine the length, depth and duration of ocean-waves, have been published The largest wave observed is said to have liad a length of hall a mile, and to and did great damage elsewhere, Bad drainag .. cannes much sickness, Bad blood po roper action of the ost | liver and kidneys is bad drainage to the buman ya, which Burdock Blood Bitters will remedy. - made to the consumme of the South Pennsylvania deal ’ _. ( consed both Vanderbilt and the pep peylyania m ana- ear th civilized Christian m @n and women ani A AAI ASA WAI EE HUNDRED MINERS EN- THREE TOMBED. have spent itself in twenty-three seconds. During storms in the North Atlantio waves sometimes extend to a length of tempt oF Cristian you gers, and they, © 4 of yovenge, heve|oin made a deal in Poo 4ing that will knock the Gowen pa ty completely out. It is understood © a4 the matter has gone © far that \he 4 ¢tomoey General has begun 8 MONO unt to prevent the consumma- oY a0 scheme, charging thatit came ~ Wmpeting roads. ion ‘op Hu ’ ELEPHANT JUMBO five hundrod and six hundred foot, and DEAD, last from ten to eloven seconds The ; 18.—~Jurabo, by, The f the rolliery has Ti 8900/00 of Oh: kilied ob theib most careful measurements of th heights runk Air Lino track, haif a wile] Efforts of waves give from forty-four to forty. His kevper was eight foot as an extreme limit, the aver track, when ae beige of great waves is abot thirty min.