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OLD SERIES, XL.
VOL { NEW SERIES. XVIII
CENTRE
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NO. 44.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRE.D KURTZ,
Enrror and Pror'r
In Conneciicut the Democracy made
sweeping gains in the legislature,
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Mahone is wiped out in Virginia. A
special day of thanksgiving might beap-
pointed for that.
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The Keystoue Gazette must bea second
cousin of the skunk tribe—it has stolen
a big Democratic rooster.
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Boss Quay, encouraged by his endorse-
ment at the recent election, intends be-
ing a candidate for U, 8. Senator, to fill
Mitchel at.
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ALL IN.
Philadelphia, Nov. 5.—Complete re-
turns from every county in the State
give Quay 44,127 plurality.
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Tuten’s new paper, the Fountain, is a
large 8 page weekly with local and se-
lect reading. It aims to be a literary
journal, and we hope the Fountain will
clear lots of stamps.
remind oe om——
The most glorious results are those in
New York and Virginia. The mother
of Presidents won't be severed from the
path of virtue, and libertines like Billy
Mahone can not find an abiding place
in ole Virginny.
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Report has it that Union county has
an organized band of thieves, composed
of two members in each townskip, who
robbed smoke houses, stores and dwel-
lings and stored the goods in agarret be-
longing to a man at Lewisburg, and that
one of the party has turned state's ev-
idence.
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The Oil City Derrick’s oil report for
October shows 397 finished wells, 5,573
barrels new production and 40 new
holes: 355 wells drilling, 272 rigs up and
biilding; an increase over September of
77 finished wells, 772 barrels new pro-
du tion, 6 dry holes and 8 wells drilling,
and a decrease of 55 rigs.
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The shoe is getting on the other foot
nyw. Sixty Chinese cigar makers in
San Francisco struck work Friday be-
cause the firm employing them refused
t» discharge their white workmen, It
is learned that the Chinese union order-
el the strike. This dictation by the Chi-
nese that “White men must go” has cre-
ated some sensation.
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On Sunday the steamship Nevada
landed 250 Mormon emigrants, under
the leadership of Elder Bart and 25 re-
turning missionaries. The emigrants
were well dressed, healthy-looking peo-
ple and were well provided with baggage
They came principally from Scandinavia
and Great Britain. A few were mechan-
ies, but the majority of them were farm
laborers gt home. There were a great
many children among them.
Clearfield county has elected its first
Republican sheriff. A very light vote
was polled. The Democratic State tick-
et will have probably eight hundred ma-
jority. Jesse E. Dale, of DuBois, the Re-
publican can 'idate for Sheriff, is elected
by about two hundred. Mr. Dale is the
first Republican ever elected Sheriff in
that county. Wooden, the defeated
Democratic candidate, is a resident of
Houtzdale and has not lived in the
county long.
To balance this the Democrats elected
their sheriff in Armstrong county.
Swift upon the heels of the election of
Rowan and Mouat, in Philadelphia, a
movement has been begun to procure
the pardon of Major Ellis P. Phipps. It
wil! be remembered that Major Phipps
was convicted of forgery, theft and other
crimes as manager of the almshouse,
and sentenced to five years’ imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary. His crimes
are enormous in their character, and
public indignation ran high against him,
but his friends now think that he ought
to be released, and propose to make an
effort to accompiish it.
If Kemble was pardoned why not par
don Phipps. Quay helped his friend
Kemble out, add no doubt will give bro,
Phipps a lift too.
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We think the marriage license law
should be repealed, or so modified as
not to be offensive. We think it is the
height of cruelty that two lovers should
be obliged to journey to the county seat
and get a permit. It is perfectly barbar-
ous. Think of a party from the wilds of
Barnside or the distant nooks of Pine
creek, in Haines, after courting twice,
thrice or oftencr a week for the last
year, not being able to get hitched un-
less they go on a voyage to Bellefonte,
to be stared at by the barbarians around
the court-house, and have the cruel
clerk ask their ages and whether pa or
ma had anything agin the new firm be-
ing organized,
The law should at least be so modified
that the party matrimonial can get its
Iie :nse from a justice of the
BE DUG.
de Lesseps has spent nearly all of th
get,
more than a hundred
aster to the French people.
seps in the Suez Canal. Believing tha
thing through the backbone of
American Continent, they poured ou
in their brilliant countryman.
off another year,
the final collapse does come,
scheme in some form,
any money on a canal that would be en
failure of the latter will leave the Nica
agitation in Congress and out of it in fa
route will probably be renewed.
ly ]—
dates for Judge in the
Fifth Ward, of Philadelphia, formsa con
that should receive public consideration
vate character is unassailable. Theon
he employed objectionable means to se
cure his nomination. In the Clarion
County District the defeated candidate
which he was accused.
cratic districts. But the party had man
Patriot, and we say amen,
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seem to workin
Lewistown Sentinel,
Pretty near the truth.
here as well as outsiders see it.
erage Democratic voter,
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Pittshurg, down for three wit
curiosity in relig
manency restoration
Koa nestion by a visi
Ling : Sar ae
had been w
gan
to
township or boro! in which
The other day we heard one of the
citizens of Centre Hall, who has done
much to improve our town, by erecting
buildings, say he felt like pulling up
stakes and going to some other town,
and stop his present enterprises here.
This citizen felt despondent on ac-
count of the opposition and hindrances
he had to encounter in his operations.
These came from persons who always
stand in the way of any one who en-
deavors to make improvements and
help on a place, simply because they
fear he will make a few dollars which is
an eye-sore to them. Some people seem
to think no one should prosper
themselves and as soon as they see a
neighbor embark in a thing that is like-
ly to be profitable these fellows become
jealous and by misrepresentation and iu
various other ways try to
and defeat him in his purposes, although
he is doing something that will give em-
ployment to thejmechanic and the labor-
ing man.
This class of folks we have observed in
this place as well as the citizen whom
we have in our eye above. They are
the fellows that kiil the town. They do
nothing that makes employment for the
laboring class, They will cry down and
misrepresent their neighbor if they find
him a public spirited man.
Every town, we dare say, has its little
e
but
discourage
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t
and we would be surprised if Centre
Hall were exempt of this affliction
though gratified if there were nohe.
Jesides the discouragements this citi-
zen has experienced, we can add that
others have felt and seen these doings
ofthe “opposition.” We know thatifthey
had their way Centre Hall would not
boast of its fine water works, but be tied
t» its ancient rotten log system with no
water half the time. We know that our
schools would be set back 40 years. We
know there would not be a first-class
newspaper printed here We
there would even be no railroad.
aim of these men
strife and bickerings, by cunningly plac-
ing in a false light whatever is under
taken for the general good. They are
afraid some one wil: get a little credit,
and they will do nothing to deserve it
1t is not thaege fellows that give the
mechanic and laborer work—they
the worst enemy they have, for if their
know
The
to Create
has been
are
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opposition were successful precious lit-
tle would there been around Centre Hall
for them to earn in the
months, whereas we have had
of improvement manifested
has made out town grow, and gave em
{ployment to every mechanic, laborer
and teamster, not only in this neighbor-
hood. but for those of adistance, When
things were dull at other points our
town furnished an abundance of l«bor
The number of those characters in a lo
ality is always small, but they are pro-
lific of mischeif, and as in the case above
referred to often cause nseful citizens to
leave and thus kill a town.
The Christmas “Harper's Magazine”
will be strong in stories. Besides in-
stalments of Miss Woolson's “East An-
gels” and of Mr. Howells’ “Indian Sum-
mer,” and the latter's farce, “The Gar-
roters.” illustrated by Reinhart, there
will be a Christmas story, “Way Down
in Lonesome Cove,” by “Charles Egbert
Craddock” (Miss Murfee,) illustrated by
Dielman: another, “The Madonna of the
Tabs,” by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, said
to be the strongest story she has written,
illustrated by Smedley; a third tale, “Ea
ther Feverel,” by Brander Matthews, il-
lustrated by Pyle; and a “ghost story” —
“Wyvern Moat"- by George H. Bough-
ton, illustrated by the artist himself,
on ail o_— >
A FIRE EXTINGUISHING GUN
THAT THROWS HAND GREN-
ADES A BLOCK.
Washington, Nov. 6.—~An exhibition
of the operation of a compressed air gun
for throwing fire grenades and fire es
cape lines, was given by Captain Bartlett,
the inventor, last evening. The com-
pressed air is stored in one of Mox.ey's
calcinm-light flasks—enough to fire
about forty shots being stored in a steel
flask of sixty pounds weight. The pro-
je-tiles were glass bottles, holding one-
third of a gallon of fire extinguishing
fluid, or wooden dummies of the same
weight about four pounds. The pro-
jee fled were Shows Shh extituie noc.
racy, through a target in imitation of a
small window, at a heightof fifty feet,
ona pole at a distance of eighty feet
from the gun. Either sash of the win-
dow was hit as desired,
A halfinch lime attached to the pro-
jo tile was thrown twenty or hint) feet
above the top of the pole, and the inven-
tor asserted the possibility of throwing
such a line over the dome of the eapitol.
Projectiles without line attachments
were repeatody thrown to a height of
more than feet, demonstrating the
possibility of reaching a fire in the tall-
est building. The was a bril ant
SUCCHSS,
The shit of the Ne a oe fire do
partment has requ that his gun be
sent to that city. The Bartlett Fire Ex-
Hinguishing Gampany will build large
gans—to throw a gallon of the fluid or
an inch line—~before placing the device
on market,
iast twelve
a spirit
here that
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AX OIL STREAM So FEET HIGH,
Clevel 0, Nov, 8-One of the
wells hid drilled at Findl , Ohio,
for natural gas, was “Words sed” to-day
a strea of oil shot eighty feet into
¢ at the
CURRAN CONFESBES,
The Self-Accused Murderer Imagines that
His Victim Glares at Him From Every
Corner of His Cell.
Williamsport, Nov, 5 —Patrick Curran
has been io jail for setting fire to the
wouds in Gamble twp, Curren was
tricken with paralysis and sioce then at
times he has been out of his mind, Dur-
ing his fits of raving he would cry, “Tuke
him away. Why did I kill him? That
is my secret, I will tell yon all some day.”
Sueriff Sprague visited Carran yesterday
morping and told him if he had anything
to confess he bad vetter do it, because he
only bad a short time to live. Corran
said that be wanted 10 make his state
went to a barrister. The Sheriff wold him
that there was no need of a lawyer, and
would be sll right. Curran commenced
o talk to Shenfl Sprague, but before he
had spoken five minutes bis ogoe be-
came swollen snd it was impossible for
dai to proceed The Bherifl left the
eel], but belore he went away he told
Carran that if he felt better in his ab-
ence he shoud make his statement to
oue of bis attendants, Late Inst night
nd said: “1 feel better now and I will
now make my confession,”
procured paper nd ink and after he baa
propped Carrio up io the bed proceeded
o write the confession, which 18 susan.
tially as follows :
“] was born in 8 small hamlet near the
city of Cork 81 years ago. In my youth
[ received a fair education, my parents
veing eugaged io the industry of cotton
vieachivg. Upon my father’s death I
spent what iitile mobey Was left me in
gambling and drinking, and got into any
umber of scrapes, Dut was not arrested,
[ juined the Fenians and was the leader
of s number of men during the insur-
rection which was started by William
swith O'Brien My boun companion was
4 young msn by the name of Pat Martin
«nd my acqueintavsceship with him was
wy rulostivn. Marun and 1 got into a
~crape, and that together with our con-
nection withthe Young Ireland party
compelled ve to flee the country, We
eft Cork io disguise and came to Amer
10a. After kpnockiug avout New York for
some time we came to Penusylvavia and
procured employ ment in the coal mines
We joined the Mudie Magoires and were
jeaders io ad their concleves, Tiring in
tus as there Was DOL INGDeY enoUgn Ind
fur ue, we leit the coul regions and theo
ramped to Howard, in Ceulre county,
where we beard there war a baud of
eonuterfeiters,. We bad learned the an
i cunuterteiting in the old country and
determined Ww Join this band snd grow
weanituy At Howard & colaness sprang
tp between Maran and me on account vl
« girl whom we were both payiog atten
tion 10. We had baried our money in an
¢:d barn on the outskirts of the town aud
vue night in the early part of 1863 we
went there to divide the spoils. Manin
was very ugly snd we quarreled. He hit
me avd then we cawe to blows He
threateued to blow on me and lor my
ows protec jou 1 drew my knife from wy
pocket and killed bi, Feviiug that my
crite: aid be discovered, 1 dug ah le
iw the corner of the barn and LUried the
body. 1 covered the spot with a bundle
of rye siraw and set it on fire, As soon
as thie bara wes a blaze 1 wade my es-
cape aud ceme 10 Wiliamsport aud have
uever seen tue pace where I commuted
the criwe sivce, | his is the secret 1 Lave
kept for the tant 22 years, and I fell as if
1 cau’t die auth I confess.”
Woen Curran hau finished this ghastly
counfo-sion he was greatly exbausted
Wen visited by the Sheriff chis morning
he said that if he feit stroug enough this
afteruoon Le would tell them avout his
otlier crises 1b this county, sud he men-
tioued the names of a now ber of people
who ave been implicated with him.
Caran kilied Martin by cutting his
turoat. He is decrepit with old age, hus
hair is gray and his face is covered will
4 suraggy beard. His body is swolieu
with paralysis avd be can bardly move.
He chews tobacco constantly and cries
fur rum. His yells aud cathe are borri-
fying, especiaily when tue delirium
comes on and he imagines that bis vice
tim, Martin, is glariog at him from every
corner of his ool, Tbe puysicians Bay
tuat Currau is liable to die at any mo-
went.
stent th fs rem
BILL NYE ON VESUVIUS
One thousand eight hundred and
eighty-four years ago, the Roman geog-
rapher and weather-crank, Strabo, spoke
of Vesuvius as a burnt mountain ; but it
had not at that time turned itself wrong
side out. Quite a forest grew where the
crater now stands. For fifty years Ve-
suvina had bilions spells, but kept on
drawing its salary without loss of time,
but in A. D., it thrned itself loose and
tore up the ground a good deal. Real
estate went to an astonishing height,
but became depressed at once. The
south half of the mountain was jerked
loose, as Pliny has it, and knocked gally
west. This was followed by a shower of
hot, wet ashes which completely obliter-
ated Pompeii and Herculanenm. Those
two towns have been exhumed lately,
but, owing to the delay of the authori
ties in doing so, no lives were saved
These cities are not covered with lava,
Scientists say that the rains were found
under a deep layer of voleanio tufa. I
do not know what tafa is, but presume
the term is perfectly proper and safe to
uso in good society. Ihave heard of the
tufa cigar, which is sold tafa five cents,
bat am comparatively ignorant of the
general appearance of voleanio tala.
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Commonplace people are content to
walk for life in the rut made by their
predocossors, long after it has become so
deep that they oaunot see to the right or
This keep them in ignorance and
CHINESE OUTLAWS
o—
of their own where false testimony is
prepared and whose edicts are death for
the Chinaman to disobey, is no longer s
matter of conjecture. They are not only
erned by secret tribunals unrecognized
and unauthorized by law. The records
of these tribunals have been discovered
and are found to be antagonistic to our
legnl system. These tribunalsare formed
by the several Chinese companies or
guilds and are recognized as legitimate
They levy taxes, command masses of
men, intimidate interpreters and wit
nesses, enforce perjury, regulate trade,
punish the refractory, remove witnesses
beyond the reach of our courts, control
liberty of action, and prevent the return
of Chinese to their home in China with.
out their consent.
the population of the Btate of Califor.
This system is inherent, and part
of the filre of the Chinese mind, and
exists because the Chinese are thor-
oughly and permanently alien to us in
of a number of persons was taken to |
Chipamen. Charles T. Jones, the Dis- |
trict-Attorney of Sacremento, testified
that an interpreter in a certain case told |
him that the Chinese wonld kill him if |
the defendants in a certain robbery case |
were convicted. We went out of the |
court-room, said Mr, Jones, and he told |
me he was afraid to go on I street. 1 |
told him not to go there, but I did not |
think they would trouble him. Half an |
hour afterward he was brought back |
shot in the back, and a hatchet having
been used on him, mutilating him ter- |
ribly. This was in broad daylight, |
Third and I streets, one of the most |
prominent places in the city of Sacra |
mento, There were hundreds of Chin- |
ese there at the time, but it was difficult |
in the prosecution of the case to get any |
Chinese testimony at all. It happened |
that there were a few white men passing |
at the time, and we were enabled to |
identify two men, and they were con- |
vieted and sent to the penitentiary for |
life after three trials. They attempled
to prove an alibi, and after swearing a
large lot of Chinamen, they said they
had twenty more. The Chinese use the
oonris to get of women.
Sometimes it happens that where a man
is married to a woman they get outa
possession
rrest, and before he can
got bail they have stolen the woman and
curied her off to some distant place
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HOUSEHOLD I'ERILS
There are two or three volatile liquids
used in families which are particularly
dangerous, and must be employed, if at
all, with special-care.
Benzine, ether and strong ammonia
eonstitute this class of agents. The
two first-named liquids are employed in
cleaning gloves and other wearing ap-
parel, and in removing oil stains from
carpets, curtains, ete. The liquids are
highly volatile, and flash into wapor as
soon us the cork of the phial containing
them is removed. Their vapors are
very combustible, and will inflame af
long distances from ignited candles or
gas flames. and oonsequently they should
never be used in the evening, when the
house is lighted.
Explosions of a very dangerous nature
will occur if the vapor of these liquids
is permitted to escape into the room is
considerable quantity. In view of the
great hazard in handling these liquids,
scutions housekeepers will not allow
them to be brought into their dwellings,
and this course is commendable,
As regards ammonia, or waler of
immonia, it is a very powerful agent,
aspecially the stronger kinds sold by
draggists. An socident in its use ha
recently come under our notioe, in whicl
a young lady lost her life by taking »
few drops through mistake.
Oreathing the gas, under certain oir.
sumstanoces, causes serious harm to the
lungs and membranes of the mouth and
nose. It is an agent mach used at this
time for cleansing purposes, and it is
unobjectionable if proper care is used
in its employment. The phials holding
it should be kept apart from others eon.
taining medicines, ete, and rubber
stoppers to the phial should be used.
Oxalic acid is considerably employed
in families for cloansing brass and cop
wr utensils. This substance is highly
poisonous and must be kept and nsed
with great eantion. In erystalline struo-
ture it closely resembles sulphate of
magnesia or Epsom salts, and, therefore,
frequent mistakes are made and lives
ties among inexperienced persons, should
pe kept in a safe place, labelled prop
LETTER FROM BELLEFONTE.
SRLLEPONTE, Nov. 7.
result of the election did not
| murh enthusiasm among the
{bloody shirters—there is not enough on
'the balance sheet for November to re-
(move the poor prospects a
The
i breed
In head. New
| York and Virginia were to be the finger
\boards but they de not point to Repub-
{lican hopes for the future, Gen. Beaver
|may be the next governor—if—if the
{party is united. t his rantings in
{Philadelphia and endorsing of thie worst
{elements of corrupt machine
ithere, may cause the
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4
politics
Independents to
{put their foot on him again. The Re-
|porter suggested Judge Orvis as the
Democratic nominee for governor against
Gen, Beaver,
We bear many Democrats
favor the
idea. He could stamp the
glate againstany man the Republicans
could trot out, and has a character that
is unassailable,
Who will be the Representative can.
didates~ are onedermers to
termers? For district attorney
mention of such names as Aaron
Hams, C. F. Meyer, ex-proth’y Harper
Heinle. The object” of Demo-
crats must be a good ticket next year
Republica«s are hoping for a blunder in
our nominations, by putting weak men
onthe ticket, and thus elect a ticket of
their own. The result last year, and the
reduced majority this fall, makes them
think and boast of defeating us in the
county next year. This hope can be
shattered by a Democratic ticket that
will have the confidence of the rank
and file, and the old majority of 1100
will follow. fret
The nail works are doing a good busi-
ness and clear several hundred dollars a
day. The pails made here are sent to
all parts of the United States and to
south America.
). Gi. Bush talks of adding to the im-
provements he has already made. What
would Bellefonte do without D. G. Bush,
and yet he never gets the recognition he
deserves. Every mechanic in the coun-
ty has earned money thro’ Col. Bush's
extensive buildiog operations here, and
in store
be one-
I hear
Wil-
ww
¥
he may have another harvest
for the laboring class,
Fravivs Josernus,
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I'HE OFFICIAL FIGURES,
Quay gets Fourty-Four Thousand.
: All the figures given in the table be-
for Philadelphia and Alle
gheny, are official, They show a major
The figures are
not sufficiently complete to indicate the
fize of the Greenback or Prohibition
vole,
QUAY MAJORITIES
Allegheny
Armstrong
Hever... .
Bedford
Blalr
Bradford
Bucks...
Butier
Cameron
Chester
Crawford
Dauphin
Delaware...
Erie
Forest
Frankia .....
Huntingdon
Indiana
Jefferson .
lacks waning .........
Lancaster........
Lawrence. .
LADRBON ...coonene
MoeKonn
Mercer ..
Mifflin
Montgomery —
PEITY .ouosicnsove
Philadelphia
Potter ....... ———
BOYAET ..ooonmevivssrims
somerset oe
Rusquebanas
TORR .....onns
Union | —————
Venango ......... .
Warten. cocccrsorns
Washington ......e
Westmoreland...
Wyoming. ‘
Total
DAY MAJORITIES
BRLLLAGRIDE .....coonnnsennass B55
44% Berks 3506
1849 Cambria ........ 628
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FIGS CRUE cme suman
2901 Clinton
42 Clarion
7Ciearfield
ZF Columbia
191 Cumberland
25% KiK oon
1491 Fayelle
1758 Fulton
1885 Greene .. ———
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