vor { YLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES. XIX. THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED. KURTZ, Eprror and Pror’r Almost all the principal trade unions of Chicago, have announced for eight hours work for eight hours pay, begin- ning May 1. tio escriia If the temperance folks succeed in preventing the granting of licenses, will slaughter houses be stopped from selling a fellow a horn ? Wtf Ap np Mrs. Grant has received a check for $200,000, royalty, from Charles Webster & Co., the publishers of General Grant's memoirs, as the amount due her on the first volume of the publication. - tet omirmean A big fight will be wade at the April term against the granting of licenses by W. C.T. U. The war seems to be waged fiercely over the state, and with a deter mination that puts the applicants for li- censes into a warmer fight than ever be- fore. . - M. Pasteur has announced to the Acad- emy, in Paris that his system of inocula- tion proved successful in 325 cases of per- sons who had been bitten by mad dogs. In only one case did the treatment result in failure, and in that case there was a hopeless delay in seeking the assistance of M. Pasteur. - -—- Pennsylvania is temporarily without representation in the Senate of the Uni- ted States through the physical inability of its members of that body. Senator Mitchell is in Washington, but is unable by reason of his ill health to attend to his Senatorial duties, Senator Cameron has also been suffering from indisposi- tion and has been absent from his seat in the Senate for several days. dt een To those who remember with what virulence the three Republican Senators who voted nay on the trial of Andrew Johnson were assailed, the remarks of Mr. Blaine in his book on the impeach- ment proceedings will sound strangely. He says: “The sober reflection of later years has persuaded many who favored impeachment that it was not justifiable on the charges made, and would have resulted in greater injury to free institutions than Andrew Johnson in his utmost endeavor was able to in- flict. its success - The Lykens miners are to make a strike for eight hours, A special from there states that a general strike of the miners is contemplated in that region aout May 1, unless they are allowed 8 hours’ work and 10 hours’ pay. The men at the Williamstown Colliery, who went out last week for a restoration of ten per cent. have been offered seven per cent, but they refused and are still out, Suppose the bosses reverse this and demand 10 hours’ work for 8 hours’ pay, what then 7? ——— I. ( ————— The appointment by the President, of Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry, be Major General for the vacancy creat- ed by the death of General Hancock, rather indicates that General Howard will not be gelected when General Pope jsretired under the law in a few weeks, as Howard antedates Terry as a DBriga- dier. Gen, Terry's appointment is an admirable one, and was generally ex- pated. He is not a West Point gradu- ate, and was a practicing lawyer in Con- nscticut when he entered the service as Colonel of a three months’ regiment in April, 1861. wa ty a MY --— The high winds which have prevailed for a week have caused great damage to the wheat fields of Berks and adjoining counties, The snow having disappeared the fields have become un- protected, and have been subjected to alternate freezing and thawing. Re- ports received from 30 districts of that county show that unless there is consid- erable improvement in the spring there will be no more than half a crop of wheat. In this (Centre) county there is also some damage to the wheat crop from the same causes, but not yet to an alarming extent, yet much harm can yet result between this and spring. —— A ———" A proposal to establish State granaries in England as a means of precaution against possible famine in time of war is being seriously discussed and the project will unquestionably awaken the intcrest of the farmers in the Western States of America. One cause of the present flow of gold from America to the Europeon continent is the fact that India is under- selling the American wheat market. It would be well for American cotton plan- ters also to remember that India, al- though selling wheat at prices ruinous to competition, ceases to bny the manu- factured products of the Manchester cot ton mills when the rates of exchange fall below a certain limit, ro" — CENTRE HAL The Tyrone Herald, of 4 inst. says years ago, there was a half-matured and half suppressed movement favoring the formation of a new county from territory embracing part of Blair, Huntingdon, Centre, Cambria, and Clearfield counties but the provisions of the Constitution could not be made available in the ab- sence of legal enactment regulating the organization of new counties; hence, the matter for a number of years, has been permitted to slumber in the peaceful re- pose of inactive quietude. Just now, however, one of the prime movers, John T, Fowler, Esq, bobs up serenely, and to further the new-county movement, offers tofappropriate $15,000 from his own little purse, on conditions and in manner following: If the proposed new county is made to include his property at Fowler, he will | There is a good deal of common sense pay $10,000 toward the erection of pub- in Judge Kreb's decision. Judge White's lic buildings in Tyrone, as the county |nosition has been considered doubtful seat; provided that nine other persons | ————— LICENSES MUST BE GRANTED. We take the Philadelphia Times’ rea- goning below to be sound, and the posi- tion of Judge Krebs equally so. The Times says: Judge Harry White's theory of the liquor law, under which he last year refused to grant any licences at all for the sale of liquor in Indiana county, has received a decided blow at the hands of Judge Krebs, of Clearfield county. The latter decides that the discretionary power vested in the Court of License does not authorize a wholesale refusal, any more than it requires an indiscrim- linate granting of license to all applicants, and that the repeal of the local option law makes it unfair to re-enact it by re- fusing license where the adverse peti tions outnumber those the license-seekers. indorsing {by a great many lawyers who have no will agree each to pay an equal amount | personal interest in view favoring the for the same purpose. . 1 His next offer is to pay, in addition, $5000 toward the erection of a new county poor house; provided, also, that pine other interested parties will pay each a like amount for the same object, making for the former proposition $100, 000 in all, and the other $50,000, aggre- gating a total of $150,000 gratuity for building purposes. The business men residing within the limits of the proposed new county may regard it as worth their while to con- sider Mr. Fowler's proposition. At this stage of the proceedings, it is nunneces- sary to define the boundaries that would inclose the proposed new county. The project is pretty well matured, and has some strong advocates in all the coun- ties above named; but it must take some sort of tangible shape before there can be any necessity foragitating the subject. However, if the people interested there- in desire a new county, we see nothing to prevent them from making their “point.” |liquor-sellers, and as the license law contemplates the granting of licences ander proper restrictions, it seems to lay students of the question that Judges who are supposed to be on the bench to en- force the law rather than to make change it have no right to be prohibitory laws in person. It would be wise, after all, for the real friends of temperance and all who want to restrict the political influence of the liquor interest to recognize Judge Krebs’ position as sound than to make a fight for Judge White's interpretation of the law. It is always worth votes to an in- terest or organization to be able to pose as a persecuted set of martyrs, and the more pernicious its influence is the more is to be gained for its opponents by taking a conservative stand for a rigid enforcement of the of existing law. AsJudge Krebs told the Clearfield county temperance people in his refusal to be a Prohibitionist Court, if they were to hunt up and bring forward all the specific evidence attainable about the fitness of applicants and the actual In New York and Philadelphia fel- lows have been detected following a new trade—that of stealing ym the heads of young girls walking the streets, In Philadelphia John Henderson was on trial charged with and intent Op pn The Champion Reaper works at Springfield, Ohio, have declared war on the Knights of Labor and discharged 300 men from their shops who are mem- bers of the order. The foreman in the East Street Cham- pion Reaper Works went through that establishment asking every man if he] was a Knight of Labor. His answer was| antered opposite to his name. When] the time came for quitting work those who had admitted belonging to the Knights of Labor were either paid off at once or told to call same day and get their money. The action came like a bomb-shell to the men and the greatest excitement prevailed. Three thousand Knights work in the varions shops of Springfield. The workmen claim that the number discharged will reach six or seven hundred. The six lodges of Kights of Labor held meetings same night, but took no definite action. Mr. Whitley, the proprietor of the works, said that the shop would be run- ning with full number of hands by Mon- day at least. “We were compelled to take this course in theinterest of human liberty, and so far as we are posted on the course of the organization in other cities it has been one of terror, intimida- tion and tyranny and they were con- stantly influencing others to join the or- der who did not know anything about it. We prefer to have all our men free from all organizations and I believe it is for the good of the community to take such a course.” hair fr tting the hair from the heads of young girls on the streets and was found guilty an one of the charges, but as a motion for new tri- al was made sentence was not pronounc- ed. cu Many complaints of young girls having lost their tresses while in crowd: ed streets or in stores have been made to the police recently, and Henderson, some two weeks ago, was caught in the act of clipping a girl's hair on English street, These hair thieves watch for girls hav- ing long hair then follow them, and hus tling up sgainst them with a clip of the scissors get possession of their heir, necessity for license in each particular case they could restrict the sate of liquor to an extent little dreamed by those who want to take a short and easy path to illegal prohibition. rta—————— SHOCKING INHUMANITY DISCLOS- ED INTHE ORPHANS’ HOME INVESTIGATION. . Harrisburg, March 6.—Gov. Pattison, Attorney-General Cassidy and a com- mittee from Post 58, G. A. BR, of this ci- ty, continued the investigation to-day at the Soldiers’ Orphan Bchool. The Gov- ernor is simply shocked at the manner in which the children have been treated and lacks words to express his feelings. It was developed to-day that the av. bl erage cost of board per day for each As regards the issue with the Presi-lscholor was about 13 cents. Several boys dent, Mr. M’Clure writes, that the ques-| were called to testify concerning their President and the Senate over removals| with running sores, bathes in the same bad worn their underwear since Jan. 1, in saying that none of the important ap- also brought out in the testimony that Senate. The Senate will indulge Ed- half, and that the water had been chang: Senate and to make a show of rehabili- eral others who were . The of yes or no on confirming Cleveland's ap- 8 Q. MINGLE'S SUIT. would satisfy intelligent and honest citi- Swindled Mr, Mingle. will be the logical result of unfitness or |S, Q. Mingle's arrest does that gentle- no such objections obtain in the promi-{ago Mr, Mingle eaused the arrest of two te —————— tion, Al Mr. Mingle was arrested bya ge the case is not a Birty, who wel 470 pounds, was |Btryker invested in some West Virginia by 12 persons. case tion that most concerns the politicians| treatment. Frank Hicks, a 14 year old is the onteome of the issue between the|lad, of Bedford county, who is afflicted from office. Without afluming to speak tubs and uses the same towels as the oth- for any Republicans Senators, I feel safe grbom. Other bojs setify. that, they It is alleged that the worst of the evi pointments made in Philadelphia or in [dence bus not been produced. It was Pennsylvania will be rejected by thejqy boys had bathed in three tubs, which were made by outting molasses barreisin munds in a certain degree of partisan fireworks to help his re-election to the|ed but three times. Among the number was one who had a Tuning gore and sev- tating him as a Presidential candidate,|game towels were also used by all the but when it comes down to the question boys. Ao ————- A I TTS HO pointments the Senate will confirm, un- ——— less there are reasons against it which | Inatigated by New York Sharpers Who zens of any party. There will be some| The news item which was published rejections, as there should be; but they |ia the New York World relating to Mr, special circumstances to justify the ac-|/man an injustice and does not give the tion of the Senate. It is admitted that|inside facts of the case. Several months nent Philadelphia appointments and|New York sharpers and they are the they will be confirmed when reached. |ones who have instigated the prosecu- BURIAL OF A GIANT. criminal one, The suit is a civil one Mowat Carmel, March 9.—Giant Jacob | brought to reeover $2,500, which a Mrs. buried here ay. The coffin conld not|lands owned by Mr. Mingle snd Mr. be placed in a hearse, and was 0, of Jersey Shore. ton aves: RS tomonio JM fon it in ghows) that the su a bron monies Halfen~ [to force Mr. Mingle settle Nels, a relative, fell Sad on the coffin, Syd. Deston 854 Smith who were the heart disease. feeling among as land» the spectators was intense, PR waport Banner, "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, { : they are preserved to be considered offi- | {cial documents and subject to the in-| gpection of the Bepate? If not, who is {to determine which belongs to this class? | {Are the motives and purposes of the] |Benate, as they are day by day develop. | De- ed, such as would be eatisfled with my | selection? Am I to submit to theirs at] the risk of being charged with making (suspensions from office upon which was not even considered 7? A SPECIAL MESBAGE, PRESIDENT CLEVELAND ADDRESSES THE BENATE He Takes the Ground that the Papers manded are Not Official =A Remarka- ble Strong Document. Washington, March 1.—At 2 p. m. on the | ments to aid his official judgment nd | : : {discretion. 1 am quite prepared to] Senate a lengthy message from the Pres- re tans rn or} { ver Bea, ngt y message irom he LTE avow that the cases are not few in which | ident bearing on the right of the Benale| suspensions from office have depended | or Senators to have access to papers, &o,, more upon oral representations made to ; : hy citizen ¢ in the Executive Department relating to| ™® by citizens of good imembers of the House of : tives, and Senators of the U takes the ground that the papers are nol {than upon any leiters and not presented for my examin not felt jnstified 10 susps ity, integrity and patriot tors or ignoring their sage had been read Mr. Edmunds said it because they were not in reminded him of } King Charles I, to Parliament, He also ana 0a suspen . . % . . BDDTOYAIL O gaid that the President, uvinient ly ot no doubt, h question between himself and the Ben Mr. Harris remarkeg that for were re-opened the Chair laid before suspensions from office, in which he official, and consequently he does feel justified in sending copies of them Lo the Senate. When the President's mes- of tion with rity of thi communications #1 the has entirely misstated fore I am hit of the Benate to the pa ents described, so me, is based upon ere constrained to} ate, Tea . y . far ss sons to which he might not refer bere he bad no desire to discuss the matler involved, and moved that the message be |SUb; vial, I am also + 1s 4 re caliv 3 dispnt the ioht printed and lie on the table. The usua ally to dis ute the right by the aid of any documents . Or in auy way i! ugh tween Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Harris as pre ] Senal couree, he said, after a little sparring he- he cess of trial to the disposition of the message, the VIEW Or reverse the s : 7 3 Pal SEO lin the suspension d motion of Mr, Edmunds was agreed t the Senate of Pu To the end that the referring it to the Judi Commiites ved, the Benate is and ordering it to be printed. The President in his message says inary mpro i {fer itiny iN r pt y 3 tutional power of that body 1 on~{ consent to their app ither House continue, a8 I have thus far dor th nich the re ey of persons do not suppose that the 1 ablic « Mees of ( in the United States are regulated or « trolled in their relations to e of Congress by the fact that were ; : uereated by laws enacted by themselves.” the Lalor mati : It must be that these instrumentalities| for their acti were created for the benefit of the ! ple and to answer the general purposes of the Government under the Constitu-| 4 : nntment. yigast sd Oe io peo i sis f suspended 1 to confirm I w 4 { {0 ask reason 1 RCE fr tion and laws, and that they ar 3 Hy ’ e¢ unin-igte nor ered by aoy lien ia favor of either uml braach of Congress growing oul { annot think pili their| quired to secure the worthy in public offios than the fA % ay p sd Liv ane construction and unembarrasse i by any, pendent obligation to the Senate as the price he their creation. The complaint of ¢smmittee that access to the « ficial pers in public offices Sspate is met with the state is denied, ment tl no lime has it been the disposition or ia tention of the President or any « fthe de-| for § dg en, 3 Jere 08 | s 1 Kre partments, executive branch of the Gov-| : Rrouna 1 that the fea ernment to withho d it from the BSenale| profess official of the public offices, while it documents or papers filed ia apy submit to the den ia by have not constantly is Wy 30 of } aficials, at v 4 that tha aT @ L yal i ar means conceded that the BSeoate Las al. orn right to review tLe act of Executive, in| ; : cuspension of a public offi-} d ¥ pe wil fully broken faith with the people for] the rake of being false tothem. Neither! removing or Ht ) : : \ g ; | discontent of party frien n cer upon official documeuls or olherw se, a ~ pas a of the we P8-| grmations of appointees conditioned u pers of that nature should, because tLeylon the avowal that are official, be freely transmitted to ti e been made by party fri Senate upon ils demand, 1rostiog the gre the threat proposec ia resolu of the same for proper aud legitimate | now bel re the Senate that no confirma purposes and to the good faith of that ton =iil be made noless demas of that body, and though no such paper or docu-| body be complied will ! ment has been specifically demanded jn | discourage or deter me from lollowingin | any of the numerous requests and de-lthe way which I am convinced ; leads to | manda made upon the depariment, yet | better government 101 the | ; ak often, as they were found in pablic offi<| Mr, Bromm, of Pennsylvania, asked | ces, they have been in answer to such ap-| UNANIMOUS consent in the Hoaose to have | lirations. ! nted in the record a memorial signed i The letter of the Aliorney-General in} . Brigham and others asking for | response to the resolution of the Senate {the impeachment Daniel | in the particular case mentioned in the | Secretary of the Treasury, for high crimes | committee's report was written at my {snd misdemean re in the execution of | suggestion and by my direction. There the eilver law. Mr. Beach objected. ! had been no official papers or documents | On motion of Mr, Brown, of Pennsyl- filed in his department relatiog to the|vania, the rules were sngpended and the case within the period specified in the|biil was passed increasing from $135,000 resolution. The letter was intended by | to $225,000 the limit of the cost of public its description of papers end documents buildings at Williamsport, Ia, and the remaining in the custody of the depart-| appropriating of a farther sum of §50.- ment, to convey the idea that they were 000 for the purchase of additional not official, and it was not assumed that ground. the resolution called for information, GUILTY . 7 NT RDER papers and documents of the same char- 3 . : it acter as were required by requests and Pa. Mar. 7.~The jory in demands which preceded it. wrilien o the Sharpless murder case came into avery of the Senate from the| court yesterday after remzing out twen- beginning pointed to all Jetters and pa-|ty-iwo hours, with a verdict of murder in pers of a private aod usoflicial nature as Johnson, the prisoner, phjects of sourch if they wersis bs found remained perfectly calm while the jury js this dapnrene Pv A being polled, nati] the last man fn presen to the Executive|™" , with a view to their consideration upon said guilty, when an apparent shudder the question of suspension of office. crept over him. The defendant's coun- Against the transmission of such pa-i.. immediately made a motion for a pers and documents | have jnterposd new trial. which will be argued the first my advice and direction. Tos Bob) zfonday in April. Jobnson was re- been Gone 8 is suggested in the commit: | 0p ded to jail. He seemed to realize tee's report, upon the angamplion on my | more fully his danger after the verdict BE Ee ot iy oo pollen was rendered and showed great uneasi- f the President, and is to give or with: nees. It is generally thought he will be Si Nt docaments in his office ac. |5F¥*D another chance for his life. cordin Pe the will of the Executive and S———— a pik not o erwise,” but because 1 regard pa- SAM JONES AND THE LAWYERS, Sometimes I've asked everybody that pever told a lie to stand up. Every fel. pers and documents addressed to me or n low was looking around to see if anybody tended for my use and action, is pure ly unofficial and private, not unfrequent. was goin’ to get up. II anybody had a-got up I'd agiven him the floor and Iy confidential, and having reference to the performance of a doy exclusively n gat down. If you'd all stop lying you'd starve the lawyers to death, I like a mine. I consider them no proper seaee as upon the files of the department, grand lawyer who defends the good man fron: the sssanits of the wicked, Bat but as deposited there for my conve nience, remaining still completely under these mean little $5 lawyers! They do some mean thing, and then say: “I did © my control. 1suppose if I desired to take them into my custody I might do that as a lawyer, not as a man.” When they drop down in hell T suppose they'll #0, with entire ety, and if 1 saw fit to destroy them no one could complain, go about saying: “I'm Lere as a law- yer." the it is considered that documents and hat BUSPETISIONS Des a one Bre ent to pe Manning, | Chester, the first degree. of letters, and representa- to the Executive or ine Lk AR a en a MY HPN MINE EXPLOSION Connelaville, Pa, March 8.—~A serious explosion took place in the Uniondale mine at Dunbar to day, by which two men were killed, and 12 others received injuries wich will prove fatai in at least four ceo. The cause of the "was Ab wiv - - JACKBON AT MANASSAS JUNCTION, Capture of un Vederal Yarchionse Tull of Stores Distribution of Wenlth, All this time we had the vaguest notions as to our objective; at first we bad expected to strike the flank, but as the march rolonged taelf, a theory vidtsined that we But we threaded © gap, heading eatws and in ing of the third day (Aug truck orth and south-—Pope's ication and supply.” Ma ern y's ng to the val LIANE WARE Ours! on What a prin uses full of new clotbin wus! Here were long Cars ware : wilh boxes n route to Gen. Pope, but the ke loaded of destined to adorn backs of bis enemies” , sutlers’ shops" i1 i’ Of good it was no botild eal should we to or LE mand luctusting esti- OrGers odds in or Aa { a pair of half. exchanged change of ustard 1 rs Suv Vary soe in his dark, having to bonfire Fo ReeRINg escape of our Bg , and wk » Proper Way to Lick a Stamp. r of the human fam. clerk st the post- small. Why, there is who gumption jetter., 1 the wt a thousand know has won All the y putting the , closing thelr like a man trying wving the stamps until per saliva. They then lay of their envelopes and lenched fists down on them like r. Then comes the profanity clerk,’ they say, ‘this stamp is no please put a little muscilags on it! So strange that they can't put enough mucilage on the stamps to make swallow round in their n they are wily saturated wit them on $ ti 1g thelr « he oorher a Won't vou “Now, the trouble is that these people lick chow all the gum off the stamp be- if the gum were would meet with the same The way to put a staunp on is 10 moisten an inch thick, it of the forefinger by § hee he salivasndgionm are mixed 1 have been licking #armpfs for forty yearssbut I have « never yet fi" with ope which would not Journal Retail Merchants and Their Bad Debts. The retai] merchmnteof west New York are getting rendyito try new plan of digposing of tad dette. Thew will: co-opersite 10 have a highest bifler. There are a good many peo- ple whoado not pay their debts who wollld pay bilities were to bscome public property in the event of non-payment, and a firm enforce ment of the western New York method would probably very soon render an actual auction unnecessary. There ought to be a presump- tion in favor of publicity in every oase of willful attempt to deprive a creditor of that which is justly due him, and nobody will ob- ject to the plan who pays or honestly intends to pay his debts. So it may even be adopted sutside of westorn New York — Philadelphia Times, A Keene Peculiar to Alaska. A soene peculiar to Alaska was an incident of one of the mornings of last week. Three spacious canoes filled with natives formed a line of tugs towing a raft of timber across the harbor fronting the town. The canoe next to the raft had a motive power of sixteen “injines,” the next one in line had twelve Jand the leading one had eight, besides an Ameri- can ensign flying from a staff erected in the bow, While the entire force were paddling for koeps their paddies kept stroke with a Joud chant, wild and weird, which seemed to te & compound of “0id Hundred,” “Jobn Brown's Body,” and Jane.” A select portion of Sitka's population witnessed the show, while the raft was being moved along at a rate of fully three miles an hour, Sitka Alaskans. Enemies as Valuable Friends. 1 consider that my enemies are equally as valuable to me as my friends, since they aid as much in making a man of me. - It is my enemies who keep me on my guard; itis my guani.
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