ean OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES XVIII A ‘OL | VOL THE GENTRE REPORTER, Eptror and Pror'r Mrs has The an- Grant CONEress, mension is $5,000, - > i V. Daniel, Democrat, has been TI. 8, Sepator in place of v Mahone rt ATI super- } } # Ly ¥ v TR 1 sil a short time ago gave it the R ceded was a new conscience. The n that what epublican would advi im to order ctory. his gubernatorial dam cted and Grow grows into . 8. Senate, and the party gets - head Cooper into the shop, the yublicans may lay a little claim to bav- for lite- me respect i cold ) icebergs to- fF BiX elieve it is the intention lealers of tl to lay he “water fast asleep” 1n iat town not warin brethern, proclama- of the per cent., bment ring had § 4 will Am yn his name 18 LeIrs hest man 11 en menti jual the fortune latter now becomes a prominent Wall Brigade : natural result ness and con- nd always ould no men raphy vad 1 n ill be cnamed the Legislature on grass- Huron, n was adopted t Tue The House adjourned at sday noon to int session I'he Senate met in their hall and i th of off fromdJdu ie onl Of OF GE Lieutenant-Governor Frank too FE ¢e Lamp chair, and J. H. Drake was elected A chairman, was appointed to draft rules ¥ W111 1 rt CONTE retary. Ha. f Pittsburg, has y process for making steel ut of old rails, which will cheapen t duct at least 810 a ton as com- p methods of pro duction. Mr, Lauth disposed of his pat- eat toa syndicate of five Eastern firms, one of them being the Bellefonte Nail Company. In consideration of allowing tien the sole right to use the aforesaid patent, Mr. Lauth will receive $150 per day for one year, and $300 per day for tue remaining 16 years of the life of the patent. His total receipts from it will gmount to nearly $2,000 000, ne pr wired with the present Bogus eges is anew Yankee igvention, and will classify with Connecticut's wooden hams aud wooded nutmegs, The story of the bogus eggs is given thus: A number of dealers in eggs and produce in Patterson were called on the other day by a man representing himsell as Garrett Onderdonk, of Rockland county, N.Y. He sold each of the dealers a lot of “fresh country eggs” at a remarkably low figure. later Onderdonk called for his money, but was arrested under an act prohibiting the sale of adulterated food Ile pleaded guilty, whereupon he wos fined $50 and costs He admitted thut the eggs were artificial, and were manafactured by a firm in Newark. The ghells were of a clear, transparent com- position, and the shape was perfestly inodeled. The portion surrounding the yolk was made of albamen, sid yolk it- aelf of ground carrot sand saffron, The eggs were tested and found to scramle well, but when boiled they are easily de tected, as the yolk and surrounding white portion do not harden separately as in real ogge. Some startling events came to light in the U., 8, Senate, on 156th, regarding whiskey in the committee rooms. We clip the following from the discussion: Mr. Cockrell offered an amendment that any Senator or member of Congress violating the rule should be liable to ex- pulsion. Itlooked very small, he said, for Senators to be passing rules for the purpose of inflicting punishment on ‘committee clerks for “conniving” at the use of whiskey in the Capitol when it was notorious that distinguished Sena- . who voted to keep this rule in, keep intoxicating liquors in their committee rooms. Mr. Ingalls said that by insisting on keeping in 13 the BSenate “straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.” He sent to the desk a copy of the bill of fare of the Sen- Mr. Ingslls had seen it stated that the keeper of this cafe was the only man in the country who could conduct a restaurant on a strictly temperance basis. Mr. Vest inquired whether the Senator had heard from what state the restaurant keeper came. Mr. Ingalls had tors wi rule Laughter. ate cale, Senate been informed that he came from Maine, Laughter.) The Clerk, at Mr. Ingalls request, read pith the prices of the different brands, much to the amuse- Under the head wines he found “Black- the reading of which was greeted with shouts of laughter and some one was heard to say, soto vooe, When another brand was announced “bottled expressly for United States Senate Cafe,” the laughter was renewed, and on the con- Butler ex- ressed his surprise that the Clerk had ot found “cold tea” on the list, Mr. Saulsbury thooght it a disgrace States Senate should such an invitation to dissipation as was exhibited by such a bill of fare, and a disgrace that the Capitol should aloud the wine list, ment of the Sevators, of “Maderia” burn's reserve,” the tolerate } mnerned in 5 hr ¢ turned 1nto a grog shop. Mr, Cockrell said he ess everywhere, but disliked drunk- he had seen Senators than of the Senate. whiskey in their rooms If t to stop that it was He had 3) be adjourned be- of ox [ it among the 3 y the employees the Senate was not &i for self-government. known the Senate t ¢ ¢ $1 . «s] ide \ conaition of cause of the game its knew, Nr iis point was welltaken, Mr. Frye said he had been told by ex- Senator Simon Cameron and ex-Senator Hamlin that twenty or thirty years ago had 1 found time and out a quorum because more than a quorum was drunk; that the y had shed Senator after Senator in his place, but failed because of drunkenness, Mr. Fry him- gelf remembered when the night ses isions of the House were broken up by bers. Things had very much improved since then, a ge k mombers. Senat i rs * r that } +11 added, wen wit ry gual drunken mem | The bill which passed the Senate, on 117, providing for the exe:cise of the i President al functions in the event of {the death of both President and “ice President is substantially the same { bill that failed in the last Congress only {for the lack of time. It changes the ex- |isting statute in one very important par- Under the law of 1792 the Pres f the Senate, or, if there were { none, the Speaker of the House of Rep | resentatives, would act as President until {the disabiiity were removed or a Presi |dent elected. By the Hoar bill this in- {troduction of legislative officers into the ( Presidential succession is avoided and with it the possibility of a political change not authorized by public opinion. The succession is to the Secretary of State, then the Secretary of War and other Cabinet officers in order, who have been duly appointed with the adviceand consent of the Senate and are eligible to the Presidency by the Constitation. The officer so succeeding shall act as Presi- dent for the remainder of the term, if that be not more than twelve months; otherwise he shall notify the states of an election to fill the vacancy, as provided in the present law. This provision has the merit of simplicity and directness in carrying out the purpose of the Consti- tution that “the Congress may, by law, provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability both of the Pres- ident and Vice President, declaring what officers shall then act as President.” Mr. Randall proposes a Constitutional amendment reguiating the Presidential succession by extending the term of Presidential electors four years and an’ thorizing them to fill vacancies in the office of President or Vice President. SI TELEGRAM TO THE GOVERNOR. Governor Pattison received a telegram last evening from Mine Inspector Geo T. Morgan, s'ating that a connection had meen mide through the sand 10 the dis trict in which the men are imprisoned, and that they will have twenty out of twenty-four alive by morning. The die {patch was dated Nanticoke. — Putrict, 22. the jticular, ident « | i i ¥ SOME POINTS IN THE MESSAGE. The Philadelphia Times says it is in- teresting to observe with what quiet sat- isfaction the country has received the President's practical reversal of the for the neutrality of the isthmus canal and the impropriety of the United States en- tering into entangling alliances abroad is doctrine against the blustering enterprise of Mr. Blaine., The treaties with Spain an with the disavowal of tion, is equal withdrawal o d Santo Domingo, he Congo conven- ly a decided thoug ) ous rebuke of the so-called conu fy iuction of the the one distinctive pro thur administration. There are references, as to the Santos case and closing of the Columbia ports, the Presideat to be acutely the national dignity. Keiley case, he is sensative to that it will probably tain. large national t Indeed, a to be hard But in all questions of in meern is President has a definite policy—which is simply policy of national this is presented so simply ¢ that even those who applanded takes which are thus quietly have nothing but praise The truth is th iat broad and comj hensive principles have been so little garded in politics of late t ple do not recognize them when ti them. in the general approbation of the partisan” Mr. Cle inaugural address, which This wasconspicuonsiy character of id ter of fact, such oughbred Democrat « Was aper { have written It was essential and en Demos in purpose ant tinctly so as ) in pi . Garfi Federalist, sense that tolerant, but not in any sense secures broad questi It be present message thi ne of | ciple, wil directness and clea grounde« and functions of ment, which are, the real points of issue t W bad Ri ited SU in the 1 mw That the ti grea own party, in Representatives is of these princi] them, only make OTE &1 aig tude ignif served that his vie example, and ny are based primarily tional Ii gress, a limitation which wa the Demo wandered into the green! o ii1tat x ¢ . { mitalion i forgotten by ye #y » ter the Republicans I fig ras to recoil from their own free tion of the C nificant also that no allusion except an unfavorable onet interpreta- $itsxt i mae he si spatitation. It may be sig the President makes the improvement of the states. It is not generally recognized, but it is nevertheless a fact, that most of the m takes of government come from the a sence of any definite We are all ready to declaim against par 1 » iiding principle ty bigotry, and with reason; but | latitudinarianism may be equal gerous, since it leads to illconsidered ex- periments and blunders and leaves those charged with the administration of af fairs without chart or compass to direct their course. One main reason of the unpartisan and business-like character which the administration of President Cleveland has already impressed upon many branches of the public service is that he and his advisers are party men —not in the modern sense that identi files party with the office-holding ma- chine, but in the truer sense that regards party as only flie means to an end, that end being the patriotic administration of public affairs upon the basis of broad po- litical principles. It is under this broad- er view that politics can be anything more than a scramble for spoils or that the people can enforce their views upon national policy~whether they be Re- publican or Democratic, Free Trade or Protection, or whatever the issue may be ~with the assurance that the public business will go on systematically and Hotemly despite a change of party con- trol. all 3 Harper's Magazine for 7 January, in richness of illustration and liferary at- tractions, seems like another Christmas number, It bus. 0 deed, several artitien vapecially appropriate to the season, Nu the least remarkable of theses is a Christ: ~pntitied " Une’ Edinburg’'s Drowndin,” old plantation life as in its reproduction of the negro dialect, and is strikingly hu morons aod pathetic, story of a Christmas holiday spent with during the Frenco-German war. skeiches made on the tiwe by Mr, Biduey Pn soot and = 1 AILROADS RESISTING THE NEW i TAX. | A special from Harrisburg, 17, says, i |the principal railroad companies have {filed reports with the Auditor General lof their business the past fiscal year, ith protests claiming that the new tax of the railroad companies have paid into the wi is unconstitutional, None { Treasury the tax deducted from the in bondholders under this act. gh Valley and Pennsylvania | { ated their in- The Auditor (ieneral has not vet made claims upon ies have both indi tention to resist the law ! retained Attor- 1 4 a : invnlvad b ney General the questions involved be. the companies for the money by them, but has referred to the fore claiming tax for this year from June ; when the new law was passed. the once make | wy he decide in favor of state iditor General will at 4 ounts and if the companies do not ie courts will be | upon to enforce the state claims, - th ver the meney - . 1 evening of 17 the house reached a amended rules as reported 1 ii 1 an d the tac- his friends, ymmitiee, and despiie ir. Randall and the overwhelm- It was more of n expected, and urprise was doe to the cleverness of epublicans, who made ashow of di- g on the question and then almost pan voted against the conservative represented by Randall, Holman, Curtin wa- Democrat in te Pennsylvania delegation who voted against Mr. Ran- report was adopted by ing mejority of 69 to 227, a majority than Morris the & the K ridin Ww ing, the only ig a viclory « f Morris over rats voted for the it motives other than pposi- jo doubt this is the attitude MIO | =many | |A FARMER'S DESPERATE FIGHT. Near 14~While farmer Kendrew was driving from nto his farm house in Moscow on urday night, had sold u load dace, three highwaymen sprang of a thicket near where the road pitches down a steep bill. Ooge of them a second aud un ® Wagon, Ihe alter he “ grabbed the farmer by the arm iertook to pall him out of 1h while a third hit him on the head. did not stan him, Lowever, and s hen he had pulled off his overcoat and d his imprisoned arm, he found that robber who hod struck him bad got the wagon. Kendrew then seized and struck the horses with all aud the robber at their heads head over heels into the . wrees ran down the bili as ble gait, fullowed for a short dis- y thie Sex highwayman, Who the one in the wagon | devil to death, or crack DIOW whip fis might, oad al “Uhioke Lue oid a skull” Meanwhile a stroggle had begun be. ween Kevdrew and the desperado in ne wagon. Lue robber tried to knock wagon, bat the {farmer grabbed his arms snd foreed him own on bis kuees, By tuis time horses ud reached the bottom of the hill and | were ransing as fast us ever. When the | desperado reatized bis position he drew | his slangshot and attempted to bit Ken {dr-w on the head. {him oun the shoulder instead, and then { he farmer got behind the highwayman, {¢rabbed his armas with a viee-like grip, irasted him to the hind end of the wagon and pitched him out, The horses rere still ronniog Kendrew was but {atignily hort, He gathered up bis reine land drove home, and says it was a migh- ity lucky escape. : .-—— HE FELL 1200 FEET. | Denver, Col, Dee. 19.—While seven | men were being hoisted to the surface in ithe Soifering mine near Nevadavitle, las evening, a rok [ll from above and struck Archaleias Warren on the bead, lknocking him out of the bucket. The men tried to catoh him, but fuiled. The bucket was about 450 feet from the sar ace at the ime. An exploring party {found a piece of his jaw-boue at the 1,200 {toot level, a piece of skull at the 1.300 {foot level, where his coat was also found. flis body fell about 1,200 feet in all and is now in the water at the bottom of the shaft. -o-——— STUDENTS CHANGE GION. Lancaster, Dec. 21.—8ome excitement has been occasioned among the faculty and students of the Franklin and Mar shalt Coliege and the Reformed Theolog- ical Semivary by the action of two sta dents, Felix Baum, a junior in the Sem- inary, and Frank sSchoedler, a junior in the College, who made a pablic profes sion of the Catholic faith yesterday aad joined 8t. Anthony's Church. Patriot. A A o-oo RUN THRO' A PAIR OF ROLLERS, Hazletor, Dec. 17.— While John Mishk was feeding a pair of rollers at the Der ringer Coal Breaker to-day he lost his balance and fail between the rollers, and before they could be stopped his whole body was drawn through them and crushed to a jelly. - a AN UNIDENTIFIED GHOST. [ Louisville Courier-Journal ] It in reported that there is a ghost in New Jersey that kisses the girls. As (Gen, Sherman is pot dead the report is given little credence. ni MI I Ho SAAN From Kansas comes the terrible tale that a fall of snow completes the THEIR RELI insufficient grazing over the burn prairies, and that thousands of animals ‘hat escaped from the fires are : ing about, sioged sod biled. 2 THE SUNBURY MURDER CABE 1h Jury Find {0a Manslaughter, It ( iLL Sunbury, Dec 14. ple from this aod adjoining counties listened to the Cox murder trial The line of defense has been fairly is asugurated and consists of three branches Five haondred peo- to-day. -~ ~gell-defense, good character and the quarrelsoms disposition of Jump. Upon the first the defense called James Bright, the bartender of the Palmer House when the shooting necurred, He testified that Jump had turned apon Cox after be wis pushed out of the room and wae in the sct of reaching for him when he Upon the second branch 59 were examined, inclading al and they gave a most excelient character for pence. The character of Milo Jump has not yet been assailed, except { his making threats to kill Cox. } teen Witnesses testify Lo a8 many Vocations, AR flor to the defendant, would pot leave Northao ber! little grassy mound n covered nd until Cox's i ne would stab hin, eat muke it hot for him, ete, tended put Cox in great bis heart This, it fear, ont, 8 CO made his act justifiable, THE CLOSING DAY Banbury, Dec. 17.—The last day of 1} Cox trial has come to an end. af:er the openirg of morning His Honor Jadge low commenced his charge to the the court thi The charge was long and conspicuous for the wav the viewed and the law define impartial manner. At fen minutes of which a human lire houg in the bal every eye was turned upon them diet, which when rendered, would cas either misery or happiness. er at the bar carefully watched then sod who can imagine his feelings as saw them leave the room, more until his fate was the afternoon had the jury been watched by eager eves, every moment to see it open, Ail surts of conjectare« were made the cause of their delay The jury, after a del hours, rendered a verdict to-night o'clock of volnntary manslaught punishment for which, he to retu decide in ihe mom, is twelve years’ imprisonmen $500 five, - el A MINE FLOODED, B od Wilkesbarre, Pa, Dec. 20 at the office of the prehanua Company say that the disaster was cipitated by a collapse of tl way of the tanpel to the extent of This cansed a depression wh brought down into the tannel a 20- vein of lake quiiksand. The vac created by this bresk caused a soc aud through a heavy fissure in the a mass of culm, estimated at 5000 tons, witty the contents of a pond of wa er overhead containing over 20.000000 gallons, poured in, fl odiog slopes Nos. 1 erg wn the Nonlaeore Thec Min Pa IM Ry: ed ta SSG 1® passage five feet, Ld 4d and 2, choking ap the tunoei and Carr) - ing with 1t fifiy-two mibers Who were af work there. Twenty-lour were thought to be sutombed, To~day was the gloomiest Sanday ever witnessed at Nanticoke, Thousands of seople poured ints town in vehicles, on orsetack snd afoot. Handreds of them gathered in groups around the various workings where they d'scussed the sito. ation of the men imprisoned in the flooded mine, oy MOTHER AND BURNED Detroit, Mich., Dec 16,—Frank Knoch, his wife and little chi'd were burned to death in their home last night. The fire is believed to have originated from a coal vil move. FATHER, CHILD - 4,400 BUILDINGS DESTROYED BY A TYPHOON. San Francis-o, Dec, 10. Advices by the steamer Oceanies, from Yokohama and Hong Kong, which arr ved to-day, slate that a typhoon swept over the Phi‘ippine Island on Nov. 9, destroying over 4,4000 buildings, incloding 18 churches and 10 convents. Eighteen lives were lost and 500 head of cattle perished. This repor. only includes a little more than one hal the districts, - o-- HUNDREDS KILLED BY DYNA MITE. St. Petersburg, Dec. 19.=Piapaliches just received here state that a terrible dy- n-mite explosion has occurred io the Pleljochin mine, in Siberia. The ac counts are conflicting as regards the number of persons killed, some placivg the number at 400, while others place it as high as 1000, rine lms KILLED AT MIDDLEBURG. Selinsgrove, Pa, Dec. 17.—At Middle burg George Musser and his wife were avout to cross the track of the Sunbury and Lewistown road at the depot, at six o'clock this evening. An extra freignt train was a ing, and Mre. Musser stepped back, requesting her husband to do the same. Not heeding her caution for some reason, Mr, Mas