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VOL {
OLD SERIES, XL
NEW SERIES, XVIII
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED KURTZ, Eprror and Pro's
Malcolm Hay, late Assistant Postmaster
General, is dead.
»
Josh Billings is dead.
tune by bad spelling.
a Sp eit
The action of the pardon board is an
outrage upon justice, an outrage upon de-
cency and an outrage upon a system of
legal administration which is rendered
null by the viciousness of personal pre-
rogatives.—Philadelpbia North American,
Rep.
He made a for
- nt .
As Republicans, we disown these bad
men who have bribed legislators, and
these Governors and Secretaries (Quay)
who have connived at the crime by set-
ting the criminals free in defianee of the
Constitation and laws.—Philadelphia
Press, Rep.
oe A fp
It is a crime to support a dishonest
man of one's own party in preference to
an honest man of the opposition.—Judge
George Barrett,
During the month of September 697
deaths from smallpox were reported in
Montreal. Of the victims 600 were chil-
dren under ten years of age.
en
We mail two sample copies of the
“Weekly World” to each of our subscri-
Every new subscriber will get the
RerorTEa one year and the Worrp six
months, on receipt of our regular sub-
Subscribers in arrears,
who pay up and also one year in ad-
vance, will also get the “World” six
months as a premium. 3t
bers.
scription, $2.00.
-
The Lancaster New Era, a republican
paper, on the 6th day of May, 1880, said
thus:
As for the men who composed the
pardon board it would be an offense to
every citizen of the state if their names
should ever again be mentioned in con-
nection with places of profit and trust.
Quay was a member of the pardon
board, and the leading spirit in the par-
don and release of Kemble and his fel-
low bribers,
tri
ARBOR DAY.
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Lae 8CI
In order that 100ls of the entire
State of Pennsylvania may all have an
opportunity to begin the work of tree-
planting during the current year, Super-
intendent of Public Instruction {Higbee
has named Thursday, the 20th day of
October, as a school arbor day, on which
shade trees, shrubs, vines, &c., shall be
ipon their school
grounds, under the general direction and
encouragement of boards of directors,
superintendents and teachers; on which
also fruit trees, shade trees, &o., shall be
planted about their homes, by the indi-
vidual pupils,—boys and girls—by the
teachers and by all others who may be
gafficiently interested in {his important
work.
planted by schools
tf Mi nes
It is now thought to be highly proba-
ble that the death sentence of Curtin
McClain, convicted of murdering Wm,
Smearman, at the Juniata Valley Camp-
meeting, will be commuted by Governor
Pattison npon the recommendation of
the Board of Pardons, It is known that
Attorney General Cassidy and Lieuten-
ant Governor Black favor the petition
and great stress is being brought to bear
on the two remaining members of the
boaed, either one of whom can now save
MeClain by uniting with the others in a
racommendation to the Governor. Mrs,
McC ain, mother of the condemned man,
obtained in Huntingdon nearly five
hundred additional signatures, including
that of every member of the bar. She
also received in trust a private letter
from Hon. R. M. Speer, who conducted
the prosecution against her son, to Gov-
ernor Pattison asking clemency for Me-
Clain.
a—— I Mp rsm——
A few days ago General Newton and
Lieutenant Derby inspected the work of
the explosion at Flood Rock. A diver
went down on Nigger Head daring slack
water at noon and found the rock full of
fissures and seams. A sounding rod was
dropped into some of them for eight and
ten feet. Into others the diver let him-
self down to the waist and he could
have gone farther if he had dared to risk
it. General Newton says there is no
doubt that the entire island was thor
oughly shattered. There is a crust of
large rocks over the top, hut ‘when that
is removed the stone underneath will be
found fine enough. It was just so after
the explosion at Hallet's Point. Bome
parts of the crust will have to be broken
by surface blasting. At high tide the
water made a clean breach over nearly
all of the island, Lieutenant Derby said
that the island had sunk away six or
eight feet since the explosion. It might
sink still further, until the whole thing
would be below the surface at high tide.
In the event Lieutenant Derby will
CENTRE
THE YOUNG DEMOCRACY—THEIR
OPPORTUNITY.
The young Democracy of Pennsylvania
never had, in the whole history of our
politics, a more glorious opportunity to
display their usefulness than the issue
presented by this canvass offers them.
They can strike a blow in favor of the
honest custody of the finances of the
state and against dishonesty and cor-
ruption in office which will be felt for
many a long day. They can wring from
the keeping of rogues the sinking fund
that has so long played the nefarious
part of buying legislation, and carrying
on legislative jobs in the interest of men
who use the people's money to debauch
the people's servants, A sinking fund
which has for its keeper a Kemble at
one end of the state and a Magee at the
other—whose joint trusteeship has for
years amounted to something like a mil-
lion dollars—is surely not in proper
hands. To think of more than a half a
million of the people's money given over
as a borus to a convicted felon—who
tempted the representatives of the peo-
ple to rob the state, whose bounty he
enjoyed, of four millions of money, to
jeopardize forever «heir citizenship,
(“making them forever disqualified from
holding any office of trust or profit with-
in this commonwealth" )—is 8 monstrous
reflection beyond expression. The dis
ciple of “addition, dvision and silence,”
whom the candidate of the Republican
party voted to set at liberty forty hours
after conviction had placed him where
he belonged, is it not a proper agency at
the hands of his benefactor to continue
atrustee of the people’s money. This cor-
ruption fund handled by men like Kem-
ble and Magee, and controlled by a man
like Quay is the burning disgrace of the
manhood of this commonwealth. It has
been for years the handmaid of oppres-
sion. Its use in times past stimulated the
assembling of the constitutional conven-
tion of 1873 and the institution of the
iron-clad oath whose humiliation every
member of assembly must undergo—an
oath that will remain a standing re-
proach to representative government
while civilization lasts,
The young Democracy, untainted by
the art of corruption which followed in
the wake of war, comes fresh from a no-
bler heritage than that begotted by that
long crusade of greed. On them the re-
demption of the commonwealth devolves.
An active, earnest, working effort will
put to flight the demoralized cohorts of
rascality and plunder. The instinct of
common honesty is no weaker in Penn-
sylvania than in her sister states, and
that powerful champion fights by their
side and leads the fight. Fresh hearts
and hopes are those which must the
longest live ; and upon the vigor, courage
and intelligence of young and sturdy
manhood the future must depend. The
decline of public virtue is the greatest
curse of social life. Indifference and
supineness cultivate a callous heart;
nothing can save from future ruin a
country indifferent to reform. When
the country gave Mr. Tilden a popular
majority of more than a million of its
white vote, it said in thunder tones its
The future of peace is on the side of
public honesty, and the future of con-
tentment and of progress. The future of
youth and childhood is all with pullic
honesty, the fatare of every develop
ment guaranteed by a free citizenship is
there.
The issue of honesty in office was nev-
er more sharply presented to the popu-
lar will than it isto-day. The election of]
Quay would be one of the darkest hours
the commonwealth has ever seen; it
would show the public are indifferent to
the character of their servants, and put a
premium upon dishonesty in high places,
from whose effects perpetuated the state
in the end could not recover. It would
be a premium upon bad faith and show
that the people have forgotten their own
efforts at redemption. It would ignore
the organic Jaw and all the wise reforms
their patient representatives engrafted
upon that instrument for the protection
of the people against the tyranny of cor-
porate greed, the plunder of corporate
control, the lawlessness of this majestic
evil that goes striding through the land,
regardless of the obligations society
holds sacred.
It rests with the young Democracy of
this mighty commonwealth, which that
puré patriot and useful public servant,
ex - Senator Buckalew, affectionately
termed “the mother of us all”—in the
course of constitutional debates—it rests
with the active energies of this flower of
our honest citizenship to begin the area
of reform in earnest in Pennsylvania.
No labor could be worthier of human
it would bring, everything men hold
dear would be affected. No fireside
would fail to feel its influence; no life
but would rejoice in its ultimate effects.
We trust that seizing the opportunity be-
fore it, the young Democracy may strike
a blow for honesty in office and
‘nant of the supreme law,
beginning of a better day in this tortured
and plunder - ridden commonwealth.
There is no duty more pressing, no busi
ness more important—no work worthier
of our common manhood than such a
work would be,
Wf Ap ———
ONLY GOOD LUCK SAVED HIM.
Quay by good luck escaped prosecu-
tion, but if he had been indicted there is
little question he would have been found
guilty or confessed his guilt as Kemble
did. He evidently appreciated the
damning character of the evidence gath-
ered by the investigating committee ; for
the Delaware County Record states—we
have no doubt on the authority of Hon.
Charles 8. Wolfe—that Colonel Quay en-
deavored to have the testimony showing
his association with Kemble in the “cor
rupt solicitation” of legislators stricken
from the report of the committee. Mr.
Wolfe would not consen®.
Bat, unfortunately for him, Col.Qu
record does not end here. As a member
of the board of pardons he was chiefly
instrumental in securing the pardon of
his late associate, If Colonel
Quay had not been a member of tl
board, there is hardly any question |
Kemble would have had to serve out his
wl b
No public act in the hist
ay &
ay
Kemble.
that
jut
term of imprisonment. gto
his “pal.”
of Pennsylvania created such
storm of indignation as the pardon of
Kemble. It a gross
manhood and integrity of the Slate,
trampled constitution, laws an
ciary under foot.
Pearson, of Dauphin county, wl
Kemble's case, in stating there was no
Quay y
a
was insult to
The venerable
use in trying the minor offenders when
the judgment of the law against the
chief sinner was annuled by Quay & Co,
also declared that the pardon was deter
mined on and fixed up before sentence
had been passed. The fierceness of the
public anger at Kemble's pardon drove
Quay for a He
emerges now as a candidate for State
Treasurer, because the Republican bosses
arrograntly declare Blain's 81,000 nn
ity is a guarantee they
worst jobber on their muster r nl.
remains to be seen.
into retirement.
ime
or
can
A BIG
A ———— ut
CRASH IN THE FOG.
Many Persons Killed in A Ww
.3
Jersey City, October 18.—~The Weslern
express train on the Pennsylvania Hail-
road ran into an immigrant train Bear
the Hackensack river bridge to-night. It
is impossible to obtain a full hist of the
killed and wounded, or even to approx
imate the extent of the disaster, which is
one of the most frightful that has occur-
red on the road for many years. A num-
ber of dead bodies are known tobe lyiog
under the wrecked cars and a large force
of men are at work digging away the ru-
ins and bringing ont the dead and dyiog.
What had happened was this: The
emigrant train which left Jersey City at
7:45 had dropped its last car at this puint,
the conpling having broken. It may
have been that this accident was not
noticed in the fog. The West bound ex
press, which left Jersey City at 8:15,
came on in the fog and struck the de-
tached car, driving it off the track to the
jeft, so that it lay partly on the up track.
The Lehigh Valley came up at that mo-
meant and struck the splintered wreck
in. The blow forced the up-bound
locomotive into the ditch, jammed the
milk car against the wreck and forced
the wreck again against the locomotive
of the express. The unlucky car was
fairly ground to spiinters. It was said
that there were ten or twelve emigrants
aboard it. Train hands and passengers
moving about with lanterns in the fog set
to work to extricate them. It was slow
work, because the wreck was hard to get
at, with a car on one side of it and a
reared-up locomotive on the other. A
woman with & baby in her arms was the
fret to be lifted out.
A cry was raised that the first Poliman
car was afiras. In a few moments it was
burning briskly, but everybody had been
out of it long before. Some of the pas
sengers bound for New York set out to
walk to Five Corners.
Jersey City, N.J., Oct. 19.—~Thomas P.
Pratt. the telegraph operator at Marion,
was arrested this morning, charged with
baving been the cause of the accident on
the Meadows last night. Pratt, who is 26
ears old, is an experienced operator.
He admits that he did hot give the right
signal. He says he was advised by his
friends to desert, but he refused to do so.
He is held to await action of the Coro-
per's jury.
Nine persons were killed.
SI MP A
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.
————
Contents of November Number.
Progress of Democracy in Earope.—By
Senor Emilio Castelar.
Recollections and Letters of Grant.
By Admiral Ammen,
Slang in Ameriea.—By Walt Whitman,
Statecraft and Priesteraft.—By Rev,
Pullip Schaff, D. D.
Style and the Monument. —*“No Name
Essays,” No. 11
Abraham Linooln in Illinois.—~By ex-
Minister Elihu B, Wasliburne.
United Bulgaria.—By Eugene Schuyl-
er.
Race Prejudice. By Gail Hamilton,
A letter to the People of the United
States on their Character as Employers.
-B J Ames n.
be Demonelized 7-By ex-
Silver
Senator E. P. Hill, of Colorado; Hop, Al
3 n
liam N.
Fits Hugh Lee's Triumphant Campaign -—
Ladies Join the
Greet Him.
[ Wytheville Letter to New York Sun. ]
Cavaleades to
The reporter was then ridiog over the
monntains to witness some of the scenes
in this trinmphant progress of Geoeral
ee. When Burk's Garden was reached
night was falling and the reporter turn-~
ed back and waited at Bharon Bprings
for the General to come there for the
night's rest. The hotel there is atypical
Virginian tavern, long, low and ramb-
ling in design, white as snow, and clean
as any bousesin Holland, resting on a
plateau of turf, through which sparkled
the headwaters of the Tennessee river,
go small that a man’s hand could cover it
from bank to bank. Good Mrs, Barniiz
hed spread a sopper of hot bread, ome-
Jette, coffee, milk, fried ham and chick.
en, and log fires snapped and blazed in
the parlor, dining room an 1 half a dozen
bed rooms. Nigtit had fallen when Gen
Lee and a few of his devoled followers
on horseback, gallopped into the door
yard aod dismounting warmed them-
gelves by a crackling tire. Toe Genera
ghook Lands w ali who were walling
for him and then sat down to the table,
rather to enliven ihe company with
cheering stories of his singular campaign
experiences than to eat of the meal befor
him. Although each day has been a
repstition of the one before it during full
five weeks of campaigning, he has not yet
recovered from his surprise and pleasure
at the novel and pieturesque method his
fellow countrymen have adopted in ens
tertaining him. He tell: about the com-
panies of cavaliers who meet him every
where, about the flags and bands, the
bugle calls, the wonderons display of
horseflesh, the active participation of the
ladies and of the overflowing measure of
esteem poured out on all sides, with the
zest and relish of a tourist who finds
himself amid new sceces and among peo-
ple more hearty, more kind and more
hospitable than he ever know the world
contained. He says notniog about it ©
anyone, but he occasionally sees the
slender and not always orderly meetings
of the Republicans in his path and hears
how differently the people behave to
ward his opponent and this has its effect
in stimulatiog him
Imagine a 1an, of mediom
height, wearing the soft black felt hat,
creased in the top like a cavalry chap
lain, with & black broadcloth overcoat
over 8 business soit of speckled tweed
Imagine under the hat a handsome, soi-
dierly face, half bid by a great brown
mustache and a long brown beard reach-
bine eyes and
thick brown hair complete the outline of
the pictu For the d most
imagine a man with pr ud and confident
carriage, with manner of 8 born
leader, and yet with eyes wh varying
lights are expressive of the vimos gen
tienes and good humor, as well as earn-
estoess and firmness, He looks every
inch a soldier, and he was one from boy
hood until fall manhood, but since the
war he was a farmer. It was the farmer
who that night at Sharon spriogs said to
the reporter: “Well, sir, if you wil] par-
don me, we will resume our conversation
in the morning. Nine o'clock, my bed
time has arrived.” Next morning early,
when the dewdrops in the grass were
turned to diamonds by the new risen
stn, it was the soldier who spoke: “Come
on, boys I" he shouted, and, pulling the
toe of ashoe into the stirrop of a great
mwettlesome black borse, be vaunited light-
ly to the saddle and led the way to what
the Virginian's call “the speaking.”
Not in Washington's time, nor during
the war time did that valley in the blue
Alleghenies witness such a scene as the
General's eyes rested on as be torned to
mount his horse. He had ridden from
Sharon in a buggy wagon at the bead of
a queer battalion of admirers. Nearly
all were mounted. Ahead rode David
O. Wright, with a beautiful floral design
raised high in the air upon a poleresting
on his horse's saddle. There was a
wreath and loops of dablias and wild
flowers, with five little flags, one for each
candidate on the ticket, and with a Dem-
ocratio ballot for the centrepiece of the
whole design. There were mounted men
ridiog two by two on blooded horees, on
mules, on plow horses and livery hacks.
These were mainly farmers and laborers,
Some wore pibbons in their buttonholes
and some wore sashes of silk, Some car-
ried flags and some bad waving plumes
above their beads Also riding in
pouples, scattered among the men, were
the youog danghters of the valley and
the mountains, with roses in theircheeks
that paled the flows r= that they wore and
with eyes snapping with pleasure and
excitement,
a ————— a lf oso
THE SERVIANS ON THE MARCH.
Constantinople, Oct, 18. The Servians
have crossed the Balgarian frontier near
Charkoir, They sre advancing toward
Sofia, and are now near Dragoman Pass,
King Malin is in command. A panic
prevails in Sofia. Four batalions of in-
fantry have gone to defend Dragoman
Pass, They have with them only two
batteries of small field guns, There is
no Bulgarian heavy artillery nearer to
the scene of disturbance than that at Sis-
tova and Rastohnk. It is expected that
Sofia will be captured by a coup de main,
Austria has warned King Malin that
watever may be the issue of the present
trouble, it will be useless for him to ex
pect support from Acstria, The railway
companies have been notified to prepare
for the transportation of troeps and am-
unitions of war. Delega
sed
iid
tou n {
re, etnils one
the
tes from the
Servian Red Cross Society have arrived
at Pesth and Vienna. They are commis
gioued bo pureh ate hospital wagons, It
is repo! that a Servian war declara-
tion bas been printed.
A ————
45 WRECKED CARS IN A CREEK.
Easton, Oct. 10.~A Lehigh Valley coal
train collided with the rear of a freight
train this morning at the head of a 94
foot Jrade between and
eatherly.
was thrown into the creek
with broken cars. Thirty coal and
21]
ley
1855,
THE MIFFLIN-HURNTINGDON LINE
It is said that the suits of T, H. Crem-
er, Esq., and Col, Wm, Dorris vs. David
J. Zook, tried in the Huntingdon court
the other week, and decided in favor of
the plaintiffs, determined the true line
between Mifflin and Huntingdon coun-
ty. A correspondent of the Patriot gives
these particulars:
The suits were actions of
brought to recover the value of timber
tracts embrace 800 acres and ace located
vies, A part of the defence was that the
and was in Mifflin coanty and that
therefore, the plaintiffs conld not main-
tain their actions in Huontingdon county,
«nd it became necessary to produce evi-
dence to settle this point.
portant deficiency. Mifllin county
rected September 19, 1780. Her western
at the place in dispute is deserioed in the
wet of September 30,1779, designating the
houndary line between the counties of
Camberiand, Bedford
land, By an act of April 4, 18
sample, of Hantingdon county; David
Hough, of Mifflin county, and Joseph
pointed Commissioners to view and mark
this line, and were to file their report in
the Prothonotary’s offices of both Hunt-
wngdon and Mifflin counties, This re-
port, when search was made for it for the
st either place, and it seemed for a time
that evidence of the true line could not
be obtained. During his examination
ern boundary of Menno township, which
forms all the western boundary of the
lesignated by theactof 1779
dary was marked on a map of
of the town-
the county line was, The line is a straight
one, 3 miles and 132 perches in jength,
of done mountain,
covery as (oo the
township, it was for that Ho imp
son Africa, Secretary of Iuternal Affairs,
tad a copy of the report of the Commis.
sioners who ran the line, In 1851 he was
sarveyor to snother board to lay out a
state road pear the county line, and at
13d
ING nD =
which was then on fi
tary’s office in Mif
that its has
was admitted in
ie in the Prothono-
howin
showing
This
county
410
1088 sinee oocurred,
copy evi
court.
The defendant, Fook, offered to show
that for more than forty years people liv
ng contig to the line in both ©
ties had recognized and
one laid down in Mr
ience by
Ja
Africa's copy asthe
and much more in the same locality, into |
Mifllin county, This evidence was re-|
jected by Judge Furst and the verdict of
the jury was in favor of Colonel Dorris
and Mr. Cremer,
The fac f
that citizens of Huntingdon
and trying their Jawsuits in Mifflin con
ty is new to the people of both.
votes cast there and counted asin Mifflin
county are of course illegal and if a crime
were committed there it would he a good
and legal defense in the courts of Mifflin
county for the defendant to show that it
was committed in Hantingdon county,
t is important to the people of both
counties to have the difficulty adjosted
and the evidence as to the correct line!
perpetuated, which cio be done only by
proceadings in equity. The question of]
the liability of Mifflin county to Hant-|
ingdon for the taxes received by the)
.
i
formor estimated at from $80,000 to $100,-|
000, can probably be settled only by the)
courts
Ohio has gone Republican by
15,000 plurality. The temperance vote
on the Democratic side drew off and
helped defeat Hoadley. The Legislature
publicans also. It will be very close, and
the latest reports say that there are
d to
the re-election of John Sherman fo the
U. 8. Senate to defeat that great dema-
gogue, and that would be a greater tri-
amph than the election of Hoadly would
have been,
enough Republican members oppose
i MAR
A MODERN JONAH,
A Little Black Boy Swallowed by a Catfish
in the Alabama River.
An Atlanta paper gives publicity to
the following singular piece of news:
“About ten days ago asmall negro boy,
whose mother lives on the Alabama riv-
er, about two miles from this place, was
missing. The child was in the habit of
playing near the river bank, and it was
supposed fell into the river and drowned;
and as the mother seemed indifferent
abont the boy very little search was
made for the body. This morning at an
early hour some negroes di d a
very large catfish playing in the river
near the landing at this place, and secur
ing some small boats and a seine the
monster fish was soon landed on the
bank, where it was quis
f astonished
to wei
©
the fish the
hat and what
markable find, some one »
the fish had
—_— — —
HOW TORNADOES VOEM,
THE MYSTERIES OF THE DEEAD CLOUD.
Facts Brought Out by an Investigation of
Ewht Years—A Rotary Motion of Two
Thousand Miles an Hour Fury
in the Funnel,
4.~ Lieutenant
the Signal Corps, has
phenomena of
Washington, October
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been studying t
does for the tL years.
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west, down over the dry plains of Mani-
toba and Dakota, carrying something of
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flow over the Grea
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up from the Gulf the war of the elements
begins at the point of contact. The storm
always has its birth in the upper air, its
first visible manifestation being the
ominous funnelshaped cloud, whose
of an elephant. Within it the furies are
‘confined, and when and where its point
touches the earth the path of destruction
begine. When the isotherm of the
{morning signal map shows the sdvanc.
ing columns of aig, with their wide ocon-
{trasts of temperature, in proximity ;
when the general storm centre is in that
irelative position which seems necessary
to the exercise of its mysterious influ.
lence : when the pressure is low toward
ithe east, disclosing a vacuum into which
the defected currents may advance with-
{out obstruction—when all these condi-
‘tions combine it should become a simple
problem for the experts to determine
with reasonable probability from .the
wind velocities whither the threatening
line of contact will have advanced to or
beyond the tornado’s accustomed haunts
by the time of day when the powers of
mischief shall be loosed.
THE UNKNOWN QUANTITIES,
The chief remaining unknown guanti-
ties in the problem consist of data of
time and place, a great store of which is
already in hand and only awaits diges-
tion and tabulation, while 1,500 special
observers are gathering additional facts
respecting current storms and from all
available sources the stories of long past
tornadoes, known to the earlier settlers
as windfalls. Thus while a host of in-
scientific questions
the origin of tornadoes, the laws which
govern them and their relationship to
other meteorological phenomena, remain
to be answered, the more ical ques:
tions as to when and where they are
likely to appear seem to be ad
mpidly toward solution. .
he interests which are subject to die-
aster from tornadoes are live to the im-
portance of the In
work In progress. -
a for aT y 0 lhe
the liability of theie selected locality to
disaster, such are sent the records
of the past as far as are known,
Whenever Licatenant travels