OLD SERIES, XT.
NEW NERIES. XIX
CENTRE REPORTER.
L'Z,
FRED KUR Eprror and Prov'r
James G. Blaine is strongly ia favor of
Blaine for President in 1888,
anemia. A ons
Senator Blair's edacation bill, which
passed tie soosate a week ago, and of
which we gave a synopsis in last w eek's
RerorTeR, was killed by the house com-
mittee,
- - - -
Now i+ a good time to cross the conti
A ticket trom
Francisc) can be had for
neut.
dollars
forty dol ars,
. . -——
The President approved
creasing the pensions for widows and
dependent relatives, of deceased se
and sailors. Under thi law wide
§12 per month pension.
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1
Miss Cleveland's letter on low
dresses has the righttone and finds
w.th sensible men and
ly.
nities,
Bose is a girl of so
and might make a
lent.
Presi
-
The nomination of Wm.
-
A.
for governor is agitated again
quarters. Ifit does not happen
Wallace it should be Judge Orvis, whose
in
to
' ; .
logic on the stump would set the state
on fire during the campaign
-
Poor Edmunds, he has got lef
effort to keep Republicans in office.
know of
athise with him are a
only fellows we
symp
Democrats hereabouts who
having Republ
might now go into the
icans in office,
business,
«>
The natural gas wells,
near Pittsburg, are on
the atmosphere of
gas, Pittsburg
turing establishments use this
+
at
fire, and satura-
ting
around with
place of fuel
barning of the wells which has contin
ued a number of days.
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i
COAL AND RAILROAD STRIKES,
About 500 Clearfield miners, employed
by Liveright & Co., Iolt, Chapman
advance.
resumed,
Monday morning at an
before next Monday. All the men in
sert that the Emperor of
t
signed a decree expelling
ized Germans :
without contracts
three days, and those having
Mechanics are
from Pola
mus
within a month.
three months, landlords six mont}
manufacturers
which to leave t
months
nine
he country.
ment is believed despite He
kamer's statement in the |
of the Diet to the contrary.
———-
Hotel men at Harrisbarg
swift revenge against peopie wh
remonstrances against them. The
el. fhe
hotel proprietor, Col, Hunter,
are
) B
ing ig very b tier indee
wit
cantractor 10 wooin hie has
in
1
fifteen years paid over $100,000
a job he was then doi
contractor had signe
against the Lochiel
men have held two
ng 3
i a remonstrance
h tet
vyi nev i py ore
mectings
hotel, The
po
wr Liiree
and decided to boycott prominent dry
monsirances,
in this state is growing very bitter on all
#1 les,
- - ——
There is great distress amon ; the
he
habitants of the small islands along
Western coas: of Ireland, and the
potatoes to avoid starvation. Men
women are living upon moss sand
grase, and a great many of the fishermen
have so d their last articles of clothing for
food, while scores are dying of actual
starvation.
of the seed potatoes means an even
greater disas er at the time of the next
harvest, and an earnest appeal is made
to America to contribute to the wants
of the sufferers. To avoid great mortali-
ty there is necessity for the organization
of relief on a large scale,
Of course the consumption
ga - ———
Judge Gordon, of the Philaielphia
Common Please, promu'gates the doc.
trine that a lawyer of the highest char-
acter for probity who has one mortgage
satisfied on the record when it is anoth-
er one which has been paid, is guilty of
constructive fraud, and the statute of
limitation ean not be peatded in bar to
an action by one who is wronged by
such false entry. It is a wholesome
doctrine that a man is presumed to mean
to do what he doesdo. A mi-take must
be proven, it cannot be taken for grant
od; and, therefore, as the act of this em-
inent lawyer, performed in 1867, operat:
ed to defraud years afterward the inno
cent purchaser of a piece of land which
appeared by the record to be unencume
bered, the Court decides that the heirs
of the lawyer who nade the false entry
mast make restitution to the injured
party. The lawyer referred to is the late
Horace Binney, Jr, who was incapable
of intentional wrongdoing, The dei:
sion restores a poor colored slivemiker’s
hows to Lim.
i
of the Miners’ Federation, has
to go out at Gallitzin,
norators there sav
s
i
the
nt
His
» cents on March 1,
on insists that there tnust be
vance of 10 cents. Berwin, White &
from
ordered coal
steamers are now on
heir
and kan-
o saying they would
‘:
L158
WT:
1¢ settlement
in four states,
final answer and
f settlement from the Missouri
hare the same as
1
whit
cs 1885,
r, be-
and
im were violated and
ac ept. The
men recently
strikers,
and the men,
t the Kni
com-~
lischarge
» places of
i who
F any one
destruction
the
entire
that the
wd to crush
the
n
wee of the final offer of
abor aud wipe out
He gave no opinio
con-
, too, that if
!
of Lal
ADOT
in the next
‘Tl
» grievances of the Knights
as follows say
three
Ang
htson ev-
r and stop evs
imunds wil to
ut the removal of Republicans from
move
alf dozen senators of his own
go back on him.
ot aspect of the Senate's dis-
be
lent
he presi may stated
is felt that a
een made, and the Repab-
y few words, It
take has b
in an un «
&
ymfortable position,
to escape
e without incurring ho-
ym. This is tl
a3 Li
are anxious
as possibl
on underlying canse
re
in
inange committee's action in
The public in-
terests demanded that thess nomina-
ted A i
pr bably ho pursued in
wt of the
nk should be a on, similar
™
rei
pending nomina
1
Qe
in a few days the “great”
h is now “running emptyings.”
end, with
Edmunds
v hurt
1s it that
ious other prominent
yhle
Mr,
sherman, Logan and va-
Repul
at all displeased with the
' &
no-
4)
i
y AN Ign
excent
ican Sen-
«fF § ¥
ie 1 th 4
fair promises to have
4 palit
Doi
:
t which
1 ]
ical fortunes.
THE BRAYE “ARMY OF TWO."
ith Her
a Brith
War-Ship.
te, Mass, March 18, <= Miss
well
Abi-
one of
roines who frightened away
1812 by
here on
Her sis-
companion in the “army of two,”
Rebecca Bates, died December 13, 1881,
aged 83 years. Reuben Bates, father of
the heroines, was keeper of the old
Lighthouse located in Scituate harbor,
which was discontinued after the es.
tablistiment of the Minot's Ledge Light-
house, One day daring the continuance
of the war of 1812 the Bates sisters, Abi-
gail and Rebecca, were left in charge of
the lighthouse, their father, brothers
and other maleinhabitants being absent,
as they were members of the military
company. The girls descried a British
ship approaching the harbor, and divin-
ed that it was the object of those on
board to burn the fishing boats lying in
the harbor, and perhaps to sack the
town,
Rebeeca said to Abigail that if she
conld “fife,” she (Rebecra) whould
“dram,” and perhaps they might lead
the Diritish to think there was a force of
armed men nesr by and thus frighten
them away. Abigail replied she would.
So the two girls went around behind
some sand hills near the lighthouse and
the music of the fife and dram were
soon heard sonnding the lively music of
“Yankee Doodle” ‘The ruse proved
very successful, for it is said that the
British, becoming alarmed by the appa-
rent nearness of the hostile foree, quick-
iy pulled back to their ship in their
small boats without attempting a land.
ing. The men were considerab'y crest
fallen upon their return, at the smart
ness of the girls, and some of them have
been wneallant enough to question the
autbenticiry of the narrative,
Bates, BO known as
» two he
ritish during the war of
died
last. aged Ki
iast, aged 89 years,
sounding fife and drum,
Wednesday
ter aad
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A SUIT OF INTEREST
KEEPERS,
The firat action
TO SALOON
brought in
act ol
under the seventh section of the
1875, in relation to the liquor tralic, was
tried before Judge Stowe, at Pittsharg
W
The section reads
“The husband, wife, parent, child or
guardian or any person who has or may
excess may give notice in writing, signed
by him or her, toany person not to sell or
deliver intoxicating liquor to the person
having such habit : if the person so no-
tified, at any time within 12 months af-
ter such notice, sells or delivers any
uor to the person having such habit, the
person giving the notcie may, in an ac
not
fied any sum not less than $50 nor more
than $500, as may be assessed the
: narried
n in her
$i
i ’y
woman * bring such aeti
and all damages recovered by her shall
go to her “ena In Case d sath
n and right of
section shall sur
or ad
as to dam-
at
al
rate use,
of either p ; y, the acti
action given by t
vive to or against his executors
ministrators without
ages.”
The Post says: In
the above Mrs. Mary Hemp br
against H. A. Marford, a saloon keeper
at Springdale, on the West Penn re
where Mrs, Hemp and her family a'so
reside. Mrs, Hemp testified that
husband was about 40
his
lipid
ont
accordance with
yaghit suit
her
years old, and
employed as a teamster. Mr. Hemp |
addicted to drinking, and when
2,
the influence of ligu
a
under
By
intoxicants,
f liquor was abusive.
in
amber of months to
reason of his indulgence
Hemp failed for an
provide in any adequate manner for his
large. As mos
family, which is
money was spent in Mardorf{'s sa-
yn, Mrs.
written con i
{emp sent the saloon
mmunicati
that he
8 i
usband was ¢
ch was not
f
Mardorf,
the
however,
but
f
{-
oxicants
attention to
y selling
waiting forare asonable time for Mar
notice,
to Hemp, whose wife, a
mply with her request, brought
of As
i whole state,
sembl
In bh
wo swvirsliodd 1: * :
¥ a} plied a ING 10 §
said In a
ne
is charge to the jury
of ti kind there coul
i be no miti-
mstates: that the facts were
1, and
bt but what Mrs. Hemp
per
losl
that under the law
he highest damage
8H)
His Honor said: “J
liguor to a habitual wing
him to be such, and that | neglects
and abuses his family, is worse to tl
ymmunity than a thief,
The)
law or
ury therefore retured
sini t iT Cor £5)
ntill for §
A AI ——
A MAN ACCUSED Ol}
MOTHER, sIsTER,
COUsI oN,
POISONING
WIFE AND
A #l
picion prevails in Juniata coauty that
Joseph McMian, who was arrested afew
days ago for the marder of his wife, pre-
Harrisbarg, Mareh 15. rong sus
a cousin. Their deaths were very simi
jar to that of his wife, who is kuown to
bave died from the effects of chnine
taken by ber for quinine, and purchased
by her husband at a Mifllin drag store
The strychnine is alleged to have been
mailed to Mrs. McMinn, aad when it got
into her possession is said to Lave had
the wrapper labeled “strychnine” and
“poison” removed from it. At first Me
Minn's death was supposed to be suicide,
bat a namberof suspicions circumstances
led to the arrest of the husband soon at
ter he had accompanied the remains of
the deceased to the grave. One of the
damaging things against McMion is that
sry
of the body of his wife, and those of some
of the other relatives, who are now rup-
posed to have died at his hands, The
theory is that the mother and sister
were killed for gain, snd the cousin to
hide another crime. The trial of the
accused is expected to develop a blood:
curling array of facts,
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EMPEROR WILLIAM AND HIS
EIGHTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY.
Berlin, Mareh 16,—Contrary to the or.
ders of his physicians, Emperor William
has resolved to participate in the festiv-
ities on the anniversary of his eighty-
pinth birthday on the 22d inst. The
customary military levee will be held
and a gala dinner will be given at the
palace, A nomber of invitations to the
banquet have been fssned. The city will
be brilliantly illominated and unosoal
scenes of splendor are looked forwerd to,
The Rathstsus is to be illumisaied with
red Bengal fire until midnight,
nH
The railroad strike in the west con.
tinues, and there are fears it will spread
east of the Mississippi river.
Wages have been advanced in may es
tablishments throughout the country
within the last fow days.
STRUCK BY LIGUINING.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, March 10,-A heavy
thunder storm visited this section this
afternoon. George 1. Pringld, an old
and respected resident, of Kingston,
while ou b 8 way home from New
nmbis, was siruck by lightniog and io
y killed, :
A HOLLOW MOCKERY.
on's Pres
tended Conte at for Pring iple 's Salk
| On Friday of lust week, 1n the United
States Seaate, in continuing the debate
on the President's refusal to send papers
bearing on certain remova s and confir.
mations, Senator Kenna remarked
The Senator from Ohio (Shermanjin a
speech on this subject a few days ago
said :
mation of any kind whatever in any de-
partment of he Government, whether it
Io-!
deed, but for that we con'd not legislate;
but for that we could
executive session.”
think there is the sightest doubt.
not act wisely in
“Tue idea of a distinction between pa
pers public avd private ia the public rec.
ords never occured until during the press
ent administration and to meet an exis)
gt n
The Senator from Verwont, alluding lo
the esse of Arthur snd Cornell end tothe
iment to which I desire to cull
He said
“In that «
lyour attention—I seem to bave wmuislaid|
he paper:—'0 the proceedings that took
place ia this body on the removal of Mr,
Arthur and Mr, Cornell as collector and |
naval officer at New York and the ap-
pointment of their successors ” i
I do not want to read the whole ex«
tract, but simply a sufficient part to give |
lapplication to what 1 propose to say: }
“I think I am safe in saying that
neither the President of the United
Treasury
sitention,
sunection 1 ought to easll
States nor the Secretary of the
nor any other of his advisers ever enter-
tained the thonght for a moment that it
was not the rigut of the Seaste of the
United States 10 go to the bottom of the
whole affair and bave every fact and ev!
ery reason that it desired to have or
thought woud be of any use to in acting
intelligently upon the subject.”
For the first time in the history of this
Government avd to meet au emergency,
says the Sesator from Ohio, this distine-
ton between a public and private paper
is submitted. Neithef President Hayes
nor his Secretary of the Treasury ever
dreamed of it, And, says the Senator
from Vermont, the Senate has a right to!
go ihe bottom of the whole affair, With |
the permission of the Secale we will go
to the bottom of the whole affair, end 1
wili ask the Fecretary to read a letter
{which 1 send to the desk.
“Treasury Dep't, Nov, 17, 1877.
in =X our letter dated the 15th inst
was received only this ssorning, and 1}
sake the eariest momen? to reply to it,
loauswer io an official way the ques |
tion put to me, wonid not ouly cowpel
me to violate that trast and coudence re- |
posed in me by the President necessary |
for the transaction of the business of this)
wo
voufidential character filed in the depart-|
| ment and require me to enter into the)
discussion of questions totally hinmateri-|
al 10 the nomoations submitted to the
iNenate. 1 do not think 31t within the
just himits of the intercoar=e of the Sen-|
late with execulive officers to answer iu!
{writing or even verbally, sil the gnes |
[tions submitted by you, nor have I ever)
| known such an instance, i
| The President has power (0 nominate!
{to the Senate a proper person for Collec |
{tor vi the port of New York, whether!
{that office be already vacaut or not, and
{it is within the power of the Seoate 0
leither coufirm or reject,
| Tuere are independent powers, No
liaw requires the President to give tbe
{reasons for bis nominations, and it does
jnot appear that in this case the Senate
{even nas directed this inquiry. The ten-
{ure of office act required of the President
{the reasons of a suspension made duriog
{the recess of the Beonate, but this provi.
{gion after a very briel period, was res
|pealed. To answer your questions would
{eom pel me to state to a committee of the
{Senate the reasons of an appointment by
{the President, disclose confidential com-
{munications between the President and
Secretary, and to enter into an arraign
{meat and accusarion of the officers su-
iperceeded. In the free exercise of in-
dependent powers it is the common prac:
tice, as we both know, for members of
the Renate to have full conference with
the heads of Executive Departments on
ali matters in which the concurrent ac
tion of the President and the Senate is
required, and therefore it will give me
pleasure tq confer with the committes,
orany mediber of it, on the subject of the
fitness of the appointment of Mr. Roose-
veit to the office of Collector of the Port
of New York.
1t will also give me pleasure to farnish
to you, or t> the Committee on Com-
merce, or to any member of the commits
tee, in the usoal way, the several reports
of the commission on the New York
Custom House, upon which mainly the
action of the President was taken. As
the investigation progressed these re
ports made it of the highest public im-
portance that a change should be made
in the leading officers of that service, It
was because abuses were thus developed
that the President was conyinoed that it
was incompatible with the publioservice
to retain iu their present positions the
Collector and Naval Officers, .
The other cases mentioned by you wn:
der the same envelope will be governed
by what is here stated, and with these
limits [ will be happy to confer with you
or the sommities ut Jou ovnvenience,
Very respe ¥.
y Jou Suenmax, Secret. ry,
Hox. Rosoor CORKLL
Chairman Commitee, on Commerce, U.
8. Sanate."”
1 very respectfully submit now that
the Senator from Oblo (Mr, Sherman)
will find one reflection that “this emer.
genoy” is not the first time when he hes
heard of the distinction beiug msde io
the papers (i the departments of this
Government as between a private and
’ "
{from the day of its inceptior
{this moment in the light of every
jand detail it has developed, the
{ment shall be aliowed in fulfilment
of
tually interested ina m:
in bringing him and h
into disrepute,
administralic
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HORSE FAIR IN IRELAND.
A TOLERABLY FAIR SAMPLE OF PAN-
DEMONIUM LET LOOSE.
of Men and
Horses Present—Two Men Shake Hands
What It Means
Every Coneceivable Class
England and Ireland
To a novice an Irish fair appears
femonium let The mai:
showground and ride, and a «
with a stone wall or two, serves
t
SON pi
of the “manege
mg!
kept Jooking ani
with Pat riding bas
bgt
halter for a bridle
Buch a whooping ar
Droves of wild young colts
8 rusiin
kad as
“bit «
with nothing f f
Every
of anbmal is he
The
fetch in England a
hy
srw, both biped
»
which { vr
: 3, ip
hanger
Cupe oF
wide
STW
pen gutocrat of
may he seen in close OO
¢ bo $1 4404
VOOR IK Gy
» A a
jangle Hons
din mae
and tobacco, 10
bad language
But what
wall! A
from your positi
the
say no
sroall
ron
4 4
30 en whoo
f
of
posite a true son oO
anda
snail mag BnIng
anda voring shake b
3 5
which?
ently the break
yoi
hands
Wow
at al
a little ns
«3 bare backed |
or the
&K Sins
form. Then the «
ures stand opposite
Eppa
wall is the
stead yin mount, takes
wil cdo
SRC |
ESGLAN
“Well
“It's just the foinest
A
whats 1h
and I'll not
and that's dirt
this day
£120
aciding out his hand
making a dive at 1
k. bos
England can
time wil ax
a that
would be proud 10 be seen
barney 1m nr
have it for £700 pounds
fons,” and « the hand sagan
time England springs a tenner, and the sams
pantomime is gone through, w the
tion that England
stretched memnber time, and raises
ugh and “Mind your eye, Pat,” from Us
crowd, After every bid this goes o i
sixtv five England catches lrelan
hand and shakes it heartily, thereby
ing that it is a deal. The crowd «
the two go off together 10 «
gain with a “dhrop of the cratur ”
This is the way most of the deals are carried
on, and it is an unwritte: law that if )
happen to be quick enough to cats h hold of
the hand of your offer, the horse becomes
your property for the amount of your bid.—
Beottish Agricultural Gazette
ne paw
au ever, and snatches i
i
grasp
gi
baste like
that you
a
nit goes 4D
1a
ith EX OOP.
catches the out
i n
nears
ths
and
Lar
einen
uv
Goats, Classics and Manual Labor,
The will of the late Rev
Burlington, N. J., recently probated, pro
vides for the establishment of a Bible tem
porance school for the thorough classical edu.
cation of young people of both sexes, at
which the pupils may, by manual labor, pay
such part of the school expenses as may Ie
considered advisable. The executor di
rected to devote as large parts of the grounds
of the school as may be found advisable te
the pasturing and propagation of goats, in
order to encourage the use of their flesh as
fod in the place of that of swine —Chicage
Herald,
David Abel, of
ns
Telegraphing from Moving Trains.
The very latest invention that seems to
have commercial value is by Thomas A. Edi
son, and consists of a device for telegraphing
to and from moving train. It is not by in
duction from a wire running near the cars,
but the message is made to jump from the tin
roof of the oars to one of the ordinary wires
strung on poles twenty-five to sixty foot
away, whence it goes to its destination, and
the message and the answer jump back across
the chasm in the same marvelous way. [I
has been put on a Staten island train, and i
said to work with entire success. Frank Les
lie's THustrated.
m—
Pecultarity of Japanese Advertising.
A story is related of
company
Believed 10 be without « jx
punt, which was tooruited on the town Wf
wich, bad no Jom than twelve pairs of
brothers in its ranks. There wom, ined.
in which father and
TOBACCO 14 THE SCHOOL-ROOM.
Observations of ua State
School
nperintendent of
Mental and Moral Results,
Al a repent meeting
¢
association of
Slate Teachers
the asbilsst and
rintendents of
on “The
ol work,”
may
ij fr
in man
ing sam
IArked
ginerid
noel Invars ions of
yak bass Lait “Hae {a jos of a
oy under the influen RESID
bes in at
are apt
roverned aft
ome
ents and
sults enti
currents y
tolaocs
eft I
¢ ers
The Finger Used as an Eraser.
People who are fastidious sbout the
tun i ther CE Beds
th 8 rubber eraser,
with a shoe
a0 ly scratch
fF rao in
sword w inscribe un wrong syviiable
men who wrile a
& and even
, and then write
Wi upon
Wt LN
1 have nots
great deal
lines, while ti
over the pls iret wr
“1 never u eraser of any
cabinet officer + w days ago, speaking of
this habit bong. If 1 don't
want to cros rds, I rub it
or them out wi is quick and
effactive, and notices the blotch
t is an Eoglish
will find few blotters or
desks of old officers in the
in congress
the finger is good enough for me”
Washington Cor. Baltimore American,
in af
wd bumareds ol
rub out whole
i
ind.” said a
Sams O00
wt the word or wi
Ts
finger. Mo
One searoey
1 be
1 venture you
a fag
afterward lieve the babi
as about Lhe
departinents, or
w,
old statestoen
A Short Lesson in Language.
Upon the authority of a Boston expert The
Journal of that maintains that every
person who desires (0 speak correctly will
say “all the woods were tingad with purple,
not the woods were all tinged; he gave his
views whether they were nsked for or not, not
be gave them whether asked for or not ; in that
state to which the movement has fallen, not
that state it has fallen into; we all can go, not
wo can all go; dhe ‘we uns’ of the South
sooms to have a more sure foundation than
one might bave supposad). Say the progres
which has been ghown in A career comumand-
ing respect, not which has been shown ina
carver which commands respect ; between him
and me, not between him for be) and 1." —Ex-
change
Yorming Another United States.
Another United States seoms to be in slow
process of formation down in southern anti
jos. The Amstralian colonies of Victoria,
Vestern Anstralin, Tasmania, Fiji and
Queensland, have formed a federation, and
the federal legislature is in session in New
South Wales. New Zealand and South Aus
tralia declined to unite their fortunes with
this second British conflvderation. —Chicago
Harald.
One Volume Better Than Three.
An English novelist, In protesting against
that peouliarly British institution, the three
volume novel, cites the case of that most pop
ular book, “Lorna Doone” It was a dead
weight in the thres-volume form, and it was
at what soorned a great risk that it was at
length brought out in one volume ~te buoome
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A Class of West Point Graduntes.