5 VOL CENTRE { OLD SERIES, XL. 1 NEW SERIES. XIX. THE CENTRE REPORTER. THE CASE SETTLED. ; | The controversy between the Presi- FRED. KURTZ, Enrror and Pror's. [dent and the Senate, says the Morning _. | Patriot, is not afterall without precedent. [It is true that the subject never eame up The Penn’a railroad now has the Read- hefore in exactly the same shape, but ing under its thumb, {the question of the President's right to ———————— {withhold from the Senate a paper, in his The grand jury of Huntingdon county {possession has been determined by judi ast week passed a remonstrance against cial powers, as well as by competent le- the granting of licenses in that county. gal authority. Greenleaf in his treatise on Evidence, The Republicaus of Centre Hall seem Section 250-251, says: “Every Depart- to be sharper than some of the Demo- [ment of the Government has its secrets cra‘s—they duped the latter into giving {of State which is not merely its right but lits duty to withhold.” Pending the trial lof Aaron Burr, the President, Thomas | Jefferson, was called on to produce a pa- per in his possession, which he refused [to surrender. Application was made to : {Chief-Jastice Marshall for compulsory who seeks : process. He refused to issue the pro- cess and said that “the propriety of with- holding it must be decided by himself, | re A essen them the long term offices. teste sles. Wp sions A newspaper clam is a publisher who works for nothing and pays for the privi- lege.— Daily Patriot. And a meaner clam is he an office and expects the newspaper to write him up, print his tickets, etc., and | not want to pay for it. Sh a ih 4 (not by any other for him,” and added {“of the weight of the reasons for produc- ing it he is himself the judge.” : During the riot bribery trial in this prevent him removing Republican of 'gtate an effort was made to compel the fice holders and Democrats pay into Governor to produce before the Grand the hands of Republicans to give them Jury certain docuthents on file in the the local offices, then the Republicans Executive Department. The Supreme would have all. And that's just what o,urt held in an opinion by Judge Gor- some foolish Democrats are trying todo.!, that the Executive Department is a You never catch Republicans acting the a dinate branch of the Government, doughface when it comes to offices. power to judge what should or tdi should not be done within its own de The lumber shipments from W illiams- partment, and what of its own commu- port for the past year amounted to over nications should or should not be kept 200,000 000 feet, the total production for gecret. This cumulation of testimony the year having been over 225,000,000 that Judge Edmund's partisan bigotry The total shipments for the year from made an ass of him may account for his this valley reached about 300,000,000 feet. The stock remaining on hand at the beginntng of the year was over 175, The boro’ of Centre Hall is without a 000,000 feet. The stock to be put in this Democratic organization, and the offices winter will not be quite as large as that were handed over to the Republicans by of last winter, but the outlook for the some dickering Democrats on a silver platter like the head ofJohn the Baptist. The Republicans even were given the long term offices, with the tail end for a sop to duped Democrats, —— _. he Democrats have now a good buried. The funeral took place on Sat- chance, iu fact the points are in their fa~ urday, and inaccordence with the wishés yor of makiog the Senate. Democratic of Mrs. Hancock was divested of any phefore the close of President Cleveland's miitary parade or civic pomp. Theser- yo. if no new states are admitted vice of the Episcopal church was read oun R. pablican Senators. Senator Mil- over the body in Trinity church, New 1... of Califoruis, is now lying fatally ill, York, Satmiday morning, and the re- 5.4 on his desth Governor Stoneman mains arrived at Norristown, via Phila «ill of course appoint a Democrat to the delphia, at 3 in the afternoon. A small vacancy, and the Democracy also hold guard of honor from the garrison at Gov- |, State Legislature. It will thea re ernor's Island accompanied the re- ,ire but three more seats in the United nama, States Seuate to make a tie, and but four {more to give the Democrats a majority. The strike in the coke regions west of Maboue, who has scted with the Hepub- the Allegheunies, is pinching the iron fur-| cans, will be displaced by a Daniels, a aces. The restriction in the production Democrat, in the next Cougress, Upon of coke, the result of the great strike, it the expiration of Senator Harrison's is said is causing furnace men to offer term a Democrat will succeed him. almost any price for that much wanted] A Senator will probably be gained article. The supply has been almost ex- either in New York, New Jersey or hausted, and iron men are willing to pay Counnecticat, or it is possible that all more from the fact that furnaces cannot be banked at the bave a Damocratic Setintor before Presi present time without serious loss. 'dent Cleveland goes out of office. Rid- Some furnaces if banked would be ru- dleberger is very shaky, and is awsitiog ined, and could not be put in blast again an opportunity to'get even with the Re- for ess than four months, and the ex- publicans for their shabby treatment of penses would be considerable. {him recently. He is liable to jump over linto the Democratic fuid at any time. {On the other hand the term of Senator . | Fair, of Nevada, will expire with the fo have goed of, the Reming, Theo a sh prec Congren, und ste meeting, a few days ago, tok action de-| Logialature ofthe State is 2ow Kapus fining the position of the company in ro-} EA: that patty may pe able So gain lation to the organization of the Phil- [from the Democrats in that direction, YY / {and thus offset Tosses on the Atlautic adelphia and HReadiog Railréad Com- | : pany. The views of the company were Slope. In the meantime the Democrats tah d {do not propose to throw away any embodied in the form of a letter ad-| oo , 2 by admitting Dakota. | i If the Repnblican Senate succeeded in ite fight against President Cleveland to iwith recent indisposition. a 4 A lumber trade is regarded as good. - General Hancock's body will rest in his native State and town, in the Norris- town Cemetery, where his kindred are - -—- - —— ‘The Pennsylvania railroad seems at last dressed to Messrs, John L. Welsh and is J. Pierrepons Morgan, and set forth that a while the i Railroad, as a A DEADLY VENDET company. would take no part in the! a transaction of the syndicate, it would | Fou : extend its aid and co-operation to the Shotgun from Ambush and in the furtherance of say plan intended to cre-| Dark. ate more amicable relations among the! Bt, Louis, Mo.,, Feb. 12.—~The recent competing lines of railway, larrest of Tom Rasseell, ia Carbondale, syndicate Jackson county, Lil, has revived interest TA. Families Exterminated with Rifle and The Kecord says: The which i# to effect the reorganization of in thre most bloody vendetta ever fought the Reading Railroad property is also in this country which resulted in the al to take under its protecting care the most complete extermination of four leading anthracite coal companies. The| powerful families. Russel is now held Reading is also to be a partner in the gi- on two indictments for murder in the gantic combination, which is to be form-! first degree, which have been pending ed for the purpose of sustaining prices. ten Years. An attempt is to be made by the same] Among the prominent farmilies of parties to maintain prices for soft coal,| farmers living in the western portion of and to control the shipments from the Williamson county, Il, in 1872, were Clearfield region. The syndicate is rep- the Russels, Bollioers, Henderson, resented as having a capital of $50,000,-| Cranes and Sisneys, There were several 000, and is seeking the business of reor- grown davghters in each family, and ganizing bankrupt railroad properties.|trouble between two of these started the The syndicate is to be enlarged, so that|feand. capitalists who have been unable to find] On election day in 1873 the two fami: as profitable methods for investing their|lies had a pitched battle at Craneville, money can become partners. A promi-|in which two Bulliners and one Russell nent railway official stated that the were wounded. Then the friends of the terms of peace with the Pennsylvania combatants espoused their cause until a would be at a severe cost to the Reading. half dozen families were involved on The latter is to be shorn of everything of each side. In December, 1873, oid man value and made 4 local line, running up |George Bulliner was shot from ambuosh the Schuylkill valley with a tonn.ge of and killed while on his way to Carbote anthracite coal, such as the Penasylva- dsle, He died calling on his boys to nia Co. would agree to give it under, tie sow deal David Bulliner, oie 91 lhe gore ka ne i buzgy, ) kitted and his companion dangerously wounded. The families wera opposed in this wise: The Russells, Sisneys, Detmores aud Hendersons against the Bulliners, Hiaobeliffes and Rudds. The score at A TERRIFIC RISE ATHARRISBURG. The Susquehanna Higher Than For Many i Years—~Great Damage Done. Harrisburg, Feb. 13.—The ice on the fen | Busquehanna broke this mornipg and in May, while Joseph Heuderson was standing on bis own door-step, he was shot and killed, aud a man named Jacob Detmore wounded. Two days later Det- mor was ambushed and killed, thus tie- ing the score. October 24 Dr. Vincent Hinchcliffe was shot from bebind apd killed. One month later Levidus Rudd receiv- ed a load of buckshot in the side, In but recover-d., Augast J he was shot cember 12, 1874, he was at howe sur- rounded by bis eight children and a peighbor named Jumes Hindman, when crash weot the gluss in the wicdow and Sirney fell weeks later John Rossell was killed on opeped with the Buliinera one ahead, idge for aid to stop the vendetin. lies concerned. John Bulliner was rent of the Cooks, Ccyle and Crane families, were sent to Joliet for long terms, A other of the Cranes was hanged. Russell escaped, but returned a short time ago and was arrested, Nearly nl the witnesses against him are dead. The - i At different points | the ice was piled up thirty feet high, and { huge cakes were carried over to the Pennsylvania Railroad track, a few miles | below the city, necessitating thestopping | of all passenger traflic to the East, The passenger trains were taken by way of | York, thence to Columbia and points east, All freight traffic on the Penno'a | eity, has been suspeoded, Ai Steelton the tracks of the Pennsyl- | vania Railroad Co. are torn up, a num- ber of freight trains remaining where the ice impeded them, Bo rapidly were | the mills and iron works filled with wa ter that it was as much as (he workmen { eounid do to escape to high ground At Middletown, where the tracks of the Pennsyivanis Railroad run down to Buck Rock, Falmouth, Colivs Staion, | Bainbridge, Schock’s Mills and Marieua, the water bas reached every baildieg and farm on the low ground, near the bank, i tearing away long lengths of railroad track and canal back and sweeping off with its impetuous rush Inmber pilesand | other loose property. This is the great. est rise of water io the Bosquehanoa Riv- { er for many years 8od the damage will | foot np very heavy. “ . STEs OF DREARY WA WATER. as the result of the fend. - HORATIO SEYMOUR DEAD, The Sage of Deerfield Passes Away After a Brief Hines. Utica, N. Y., Feb. 12. Gov. Seymour died this evening at ©55 o'clock. passed away quietly withdut the slight- est trace of pain. bers of the family were snmmoned to the bedside. his sister, Mra. Roscoe Conkling, at whose house he died, wes Dr. Ford bis nephew and physicians, The doctor was impressed this morning with the fact alarming. ishment, only occasional sips of milk, and his digestion had completely failad His mind, though generally strong and clear, was at times clouded with d am. Late this afternoon his temperature and pulse went up with alarming rapidi- ty. He failed to recogoize any one at the bedside, All consciousness was gone, The doctor says he suffered no pain, At 8:30 the pulce was very high. Save for the ashen color of his face the Gov- ernor looked as if asleep. At 9:30 there was en iafasion of blood in the brain, which Dr. Ford said was the process of death in old age. When the bands on the clock stood at 9:55 the Govergor breathed his last, Mrs, Seymour was so prostrated that the room, Those who stood aronud the death bed were Mra. Coukling, Mrs, Nel. son, the Governor's wiie’s sister, of New Braosswick, N. J ; Joon F,SBeymoar, his brother; Mra. Linckiean, his sister; Judge Bulger; Horatio Seymour, jr., aud Harry 8. Milier, ueptiews of the Guy- eruor; Rev. Coaries H. Gardoer, rector of the Trinity church of which he wes a commauuicant, and Dr. Ford and wife, It is greatiy feared that Mrs, Seymour wiil nut survive the terrible shock Guvernor Seymour was born at the village of Pompey, Ooondaga county, N, Y., May 31, 1810, 80 be wus jus: com- pieting hus 67tu year. Having a strong rugged constitution Mr, Seymour was abe to endure great puysical and mental strain that won d vave broken dowa oth- er wen. lo the course of Liz losg and eventlful life be ofiea had his powers of endurance tested to their utmost capaci- ¥. For nearly thirty years Horatio Sey- moar occupied a central position in the Democratic party, Surong, self reliant aod having ail the aggressiveness and courage of & leader, he commanded the respect aud adwiration of his bitterest form. No mau ia the history of Ameri: can politics retired to private life after a long aud uonorable public career more uviversally respected and beloved by the people at large than Horatio Beye mour, liek ers FLOODS IN THE WEST. Alton, lil, Feb, 13,—A d sastrous flood is imminent slong the Mississippi. The river is now almost at flood height, but is still frozen solid with the ice gorged in many places clear to the bottom. The Missouri and many similar streams emp- tying inte it are reported breaking up and the same report comes from the northern part of the state—in respect to the streams tributary to the Mississippi and the Illinois. Unless these northern floods are checked by eold weather until the present high water in the Mississippi rans oot, a great flood seems imminent, The river here rose nine inches last night and is still rising.” JUDGE WHITE HONORABLY AC. QUITIED, Indiana, Feb. 12. BLASPHEMER'S TERRI BLE DEATH. The Leader in a Mock Religious Service Died a Raving Maniac. Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 7.—News of a strange and mysterious occurrance at Millersburg, Dauphin conuty, has been received here, On Thursday morning there was a jovial crowd in a hotel at that place and while they were imbibing Samuel Motter entered. Motter was well known throughoat the country as a patent medicine peddler and was about b5 years of age. His wife died in the almshouse some time ago, and since then he has been living near this place. Shortly after Motter entered a discus- sion on religions subjects arose. The sacraments of the Lord's Supper was talked about. Motter became very earnest in his talk, and finally dared the men to induige in an imitation of the Lord's Supper. They agreed to have it with beer and bread, and accordingly a glass was fil ed with that beverage. They then kpelt in mocking humility, and with the beer in one hand and the bread in the other Motter went around dis tributing a bite and a sup to each. Suddenly, when he was about half through, a strange noise was heard, and looking up the men saw a sight that “made their blood run esld and froze the marrow in their bones.” As near as the scared men ceuld describe it, they de- Saved it bas on neo, in rte: und oul beast with great cloven feet, nt. ed horns and eyes that flashed fire. With wild yells the men rushed out into the open air and scattered in every direc on. Finally all of them reached their homes except Motter, who was away for a long time, and at last he arrived, a rav- ing maniac. He was pu and 18 Bh EH TSO Sf ro: sits 86, NO, 7 iscovery of Penn's Valley. SURVEYS OF 1776—-MANNOR OF NOTTINGHAM --SURVEYS, 1760. Among the Potter papers I found, Oc- tober 3, 1882, a paper in the handwiiting of William H. Patterson, without date, Chiel Justi 0 | Tilgham, must have been written rior | to 1826, which gives the then tradition of the first entry of the white men into Penn's Valley. W. H. Patterson was one of Judge Potter's first clerks at Pot- ter's Mills, Alluding to a notice which Mr. Justice Tal hman, as president 1 » but from its reference to ¥ Chief of i the ry Akt Y, icultural Society, takes of the valley, i and prefacing the rcinark by a narrative of the event 8 which led to the discovery of Penn's valley would | says, | be interesting ho Captain James Potier wa man i Tr i i at na, ain of strong and penetrating mi to whom early habits rendered a life « peril, toil and enterprise fi ture had given him lotic frame of might well give me. vii the frontier, he cor *a that, incl whicl nh must be a fine country. dered to Fort Augusta, his | country t i to him. Havi i vy 0 be discovered again i obtained ad Th nmamer of 17 | § Freon 5 Dranch, he reac! Eagle Creek, Then passing up » Peale where Spring Creek ents tance of thirty miles, they Lo mountains, and, having reached the of Nittany Mountain, Capt. Potts the prairies and noble him, cried st ty b a Flaw £7 iS 8 ens, Thompson, I have * 3 i" 1 3 ‘ y +1 ¥ 4 empirg Immediately descend the i } i place which ain they came 10 a was in ¥ distinction, now known by tion of ‘Old } ters grandoon “Here the adventurers es out of pr avs and as many night ‘ d from adned OnLy BubD«sisnee, ing them in ‘he termined on strik A happened i the yet! ywhned we Visi i i Fle { Cant FALK ing th rough gusta, and DY an a creek, A name of John little drea: it was entered the » of Que, known as Pe ig the stream, tune Creek, ¥ Puarsais tho be } Creek, Drove 5 i Ns x ompanion communicated their discovery, and it so happened that an Indian Job Chillows y, was at the fort on their arrival. Learuing i and ing that if it must be lost to the Indians boat that goes to Col. Hunter and selis the right of discovery. to Philadelphia and »e¢lis his right to Reuben Haines, In the mean time Capt Potter hurries to Philadelphia application to procure warrants.” On this we remark that it is true that Captain Potter was on the 2d day of Oec- tober, 1764, in command of three panies on the nortiaefn frontiers (Pa Arcuives, 2d series, volume ii. page 615,) and The nal, page 17, post. pson alluded w in Fithian's Jour But we are satisfied chase of 1760, when Potter was at ford (Ibid , page 858,) and had been just promoted captain of Wm. Thompson's company (Capt. Thompson having re signed,) an that Caplain Thompson was his companion. The tradition is that Haines and Potter compromised, Haines taking the eastern end of Penn's valley up. Certain it is thet one of Potter's first warrants, of Angust 1, 1766, was laid on the farm of the late Ceneral Goourg Buchannan's just south of Penn Hall, That discovery was made in 1759, or at least before 1764, is decided by the the manor of Not ingham, west of the fort, is dated December 16, 1763, and ie accurately described as near the Ind path from the head of Penn's Crock old Frankston. SURVEYS OF 1766. All of Penn's valley was within the purchase of 1758, but it was not until af ter Col. Henry Bouquet had dictated his own terms of pea de to the subdued Dela- wares and Shawanese, on the banks of Muskingum, on the 14th of November and Licatenant-Governor John Penn's proclamation thereof, Dec. 5, 1764. thai the settlements and improvements were resumed west of the Susquehanna. Qu the 5th of Aagust, 1765, the land offi ‘e was opesed for settled lauds only on the west side of the river, and on the firth of August, 1766, it was opened for lands ou the west side on the same terms a8 those on the east side. No morethan 800 acres conld be applied for by any one withont a special order, but 14s ro striction was evaded by applications in the names of friends or employees, wl by deed-p dl subsequently conveyed: their right to the poreun puyicg the pur. chase-money, Bayton, Wharton and M rris, for instance, need the names of their sailors, stevedores and clerks, Their instroctions required the depoty surveyors to survey for the use of the houorable the proprietaries one-tenth of all the land surveyed, or B00 out of ev A — {valley was the “Manor of Bacecoth” {made under the direction of Wm, Ma- {clay, deputy sorveyor, oa 220d day of {Beptemuber, 1766, described as on the {bens of Peon’s Creek, above the great spring aud northwest thereof, MAXOR OF SUCCOTH. | Thissurvey calls for su elm which stoud north 37° wast 60 west from the mouth of Binking Creck (branch of Penn's’; theoce north 70 east ¢7 perches tc W. O; thence north 62 east 360 per- ches tou B. U; thence souih 503 west 672 perches Lo a poplar; thence sonth 48 east 230 perches to a W._0.; thenee north 53 casi 168 perches to a walou!; thence south 37 east 92 perches to a W. O; thence north 53 eust 115 perches to gn elm: aud contained 820 acres and allow- avce. The Penus (of whom John lived until Feb 9, 1705, when he died at the county seal of Andrew Allen, in Berks hed the manor until in Janua- J1, when they bad it divided nto Lures purpar's. No 1, the western pur- part, they sold to Ge re Riddles (Gen, Poiter's sou in-iaw) aud George Woods, It contained No, 2, ad- iniug N tuey sold May 18, 1791, to n Harper. No, 3 was sold by the uk 10 Archibald Allison, and embra- by “his de- MI LLY y 377¢ PFs Lis J acres of al 5 21s. 4 if grendants MANOR OF NOTTIN ved under Mr. Maclay's aus, Bept. £2 and 24, 1766, for the iaturien He began at 8 white ocak wich g.00d on the west live of what is now Bawuvel Vautries’ farm, 1881 {near ie Potter and Harriz township line,) i1 esst 254 perches to a and Ginger rib 40 east 851 per- 0 a white ouk (about 200 perches of Od Fort tiotel, 1881); thence port 41 west 158; theucs south 553 west the beginning. This »y acres, and was held 174, wien they dis into three parts, marked a white and odd (next Van- 4, 1784, to (1 HAM This was " Vaile £ YaLuiries t arws); thence no vy mapor contained 100 the Penns uti it v bry vided for the northwest corner No. 1, on the west rise and Gingriob’s ary } ACTes Jane 24, a 'acob Bia and 6) perches; No 2, Feb. 7, 1794, to Michael, Jack and oy, 344 ecres and 148 perches; {ext Odenkirk’s, 1881), April 16, 1794, to Gerardeos Wyocoop. In 1794 the Sanbury road to Huntingdon ram: alouy the southeru boundary of the manor. The manor in 1766 is described : “wear the ludian path leading Penu'sUreek to Frauks- this wanor is whoily within wusbip, cori peéncing near the Lo west of the Fort Hotel, ¥ Wm. You No. o 19 1 o 4 m ihe head ¥ Jp to Bostsiurg, aod embraces Dr. W. L Wiison's second farm, Msi. Wm. Peyos oids, snd all the farms theoce up to sod The southwest white | standing, last survey wade under the pur afirmed in 17568, was the and I. Keller's, valk ix st rhe chase of 1704, « ty Samuel Mach § =Car Lid, Ay, patented March 9 tw Henry Fails and Fergus Potter, and ntre ( Leech’s, eto, Harris towaship.— n Huet, Ce - " A FIEND, WORK OI in Resisting His Assouii, i, =A terrible tale arson comes 15 miles John Hoar, a wealthy morning to be absent during the day, leaving the house in charge of his two daughters Mary, aged 22, and Minnie, aged 17. Soon afterward the hired man Charles Jencik, an evil-looking fellow of 22, ap- | parently of very low intelligence, enter. ed the house and advanced to the youn per girl and asked her for a kiss. He was spurned indignantly and told to keep his distance, or he would be report ed on Mr. Hoar's return. He sneeringly (replied: “You wouldn't tell on me —now ‘would you?” at the same time advanc- ing and attempted to take hold of her. oth sisters then joined in resisting the | young brute, divining his evil intentions ‘and for a time a desperate struggle was carried on, in which the clothing of the ng woman was torn to shreds. Joncik, seeing the brave girls were {getting the better of him, seized a piece {of iron pipe lying by and dealt both sis ors several blows on their heads and faces, leaving them scuseless and their wounds streaming with blood, the skull of the younger being fractured. With. { attespting farther outrage he ran to {the barn and set it on fire. It contained ‘at the time 272 cows, 15 hogs, 1 horse, a 1 et of farming ea and in the entire crop of oats, corn and wh gathered from his extensive farm. Al these were consumed with the building, no! a dollar's worth being saved. The toss 18 fally $156,000. Jencik ended his work by romni a Jus ice of the Peace, saying he murdered two people, and giving himself up. People from the nearest houses ran to the Hoar homestead, where the two iris were found stretched upon the oor, apparently dead. Later in the af tornoon thiy recovered consciousness. Mary, it is thought may recover, but Minnie’s skull is fractured and she is ex- pected to die at any momet. Jencik seems nnconcerned over his awfnl work and simply says he does not know why hewset the barn on fire, He will be lodged in jail there. LL LY WSDL ASAIN CUT IN TWAIN BY A BUZZSAW. : Fast 8t, Louis, 1, Feb, 10.~~Henry i huelan, a farmer Liviog at Caseyville, i 5, Sorrible dou shut, - ' ne m down on ur COU: covering = buts saw, which was not running at the time. ea, SY hi r : r n m uty slierwards the : ro Kisters Join Akron, Ohio, Feb. 1 of murderous assault and ir thie hamlet of Northfield, oi noria of this city | farmer, left home yesterday ¥ ly 4 % to prietety