( OLD SERIES, XL.
1 NEW SERIES. XIX
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED. KURTZ,
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Eprror and Prop’
The Reading cigar makers are on a
strike,
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\ Wolf threatens to go for a Beaver
and there will be an interesting fight.
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The first wheat of the season was of-
fered on ‘change at Baltimore on 16. It
was grown in the Rappahannock region
of Virginia, and sold for 80 cents per
bushel.
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The Fitz-John Porter bill has passed
the Senate and has gone to the Presi.
dent who will no doubt sign it, and thus
justice at last be done to an injured
man.
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The appointment of Miss Fo
the
under
Isom tol
did
service
he lady proves very civil in her
Mistress of White-house not
come the civil rules,
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It now seems to be the fashion among
murderers to commit suicide after th
perpetration of their crimes. By doing
this much labor and
throughout the country, as it does away
with many expensive trials
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We are pleased to note that leading
Democratic organs throughout the state
are denouncing tricksters and corrupters
in the party, the same as the
is doing, No faithful editor
his duty in this regard.
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the
money is saved
of politics
REPORTER
will shirk
The President has notified several
leaders in the House that he will not
sign a single bill, even in the closing
hours of Congress, without reading it
Hitherto some bad jobs have been rush-
ed through in the last hours of Congress
i
i residents » been unable to give
aud
nroj Any attempt to
d the Pr is in the pres-
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Lon
Wednes-
re
conven
ary i
Leaver for
vs for Lieuten-
fonel Norris for Audi-
iLolouel Stewart for Secre-
Internal Affairs, and
Osborne for Congressman-at-Large.
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At Hagerstown, one day last week,
Gen. Beaver missed confiection with s
railroad train. This is the third con-
nection the General has missed in three
weeks, We fear that when the “limit-
ed” starts in November the General will
be so far behind that he won't even
hear the whistle, Of course, he will
in time to take the boat for Salt river.
sc Deral
3 y
Colonel
tary of
be
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In Mifflin three Democrats
have announced themselves as candi-
dates for congress, namely: Walter H.
Parcels, Andrew Reed and F. M Uttley.
In Union Mr. Baker has announced
himself as a candidate for congress and
in Clinton 8. R. Peale, This leaves Elk
and Clearfield to be heard from vet.
county
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The
cailed by chairman Rynder
Harrisburg, August 16. As the
cratic eonvention meets at the state cap-
ital day, the
have a good chance to hide their crowd.
greenback state convention 18
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to meet at
Demo
the same greenbackers
The entire greenback party of this state
can be reached by a single letter, at an
expense of 2 cents, by addressing P. T.
}ynder, Milesburg, Pa., and one single
he “par-
bed is sufficient to furnish the
ty” a night's lodging.
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Times remarks: “The Prohibition
jssue has assumed golossal proportions
and it is a two edged sword. The lead-
ers don't want a declaration for submis-
gion of a Prohibition amendment to the
Constitution, but a very large proportion
of the Republican voters demand it. If
the Convention shall commit the ticket
to Constitutional Prohibition it will cost
the candidates tens of thousands of votes;
and if it refuses to declare for Prohibi-
tion Wolf will rend the party by his free
Prohibition candidacy. This is the sort
of cyclonic political year that postpones
until after the votes are counted any-
thing like a safe guess as to who may be
elected.
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A COSTLY STRIKE ENDED.
The Pittsburg Post, of 26 says: An ad-
inet ment between the uailers employed
in Pittsbur 14 ont places, and the
mill operat hed vesterday, by
which the mon at substan-
# rales offered them a year
Lis stike has been
record, lasting
vad certainly
atly considoring the
persons employed, There
S00 persona engaged in tho strike,
including 120 nailers who commanded
very high wages. Estimating the wages
of the etrikers at the moderate figure of
two dollars a day, we have $2,275 000 as
the cost of this stike to the workingafen
The convention
will meet in August.
Democratic county
The next general
election in this state will be an impor-
tant one for the Democracy of the nation
and state. To give prestige to the state
nominees they must be able men and of
unsullied character. Back of them must
be the county organizations with strong
tickets for local offices which will enlist
the confidence of Democrats and bring
out the party vote.
One bad name on the ticket will keep
SEVEN MORE VETOES.
The President Disapproves of Many I
ne
Washinglon, June 23.—The President
to~day sent to the Senate seven messa-
ges, vetoing a like number of private
pension bills which originated in the
Senate bill 1,192 granting a pen-
the
of
re-
Senate,
gion to Alfred Denny, is
ground that there is not
merit in the claim, and no facts are p
sented which entitle it to charit
sideration,
vetoed on
1 1
a paricie
\bhie cone-
scores of voters from the polls, and every |
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name on the ticket, be it of ever so goo
and capable a man, losses a vote, This
is a plain truth which all know who
orl
have gi
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loaves.
ven polities the least attention.
little bad yeast will spoil all the
In Cen're county it is especially im-}
portant that we put the best and stron
est men upon the ticket not only to save]
but to
the party
the party from defeat recover
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from the backset which re-
ceived two years ago. Now there
winking at this,—all know
naked truth, and that voters are not go-
ing to be trifled with. You
have your eye set on offices in the
hat the
county
it is the
Democrats
who
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itt
future, must work and see
arty is not overthrown and the
riven over to the Republicans by a weak
A defeat
ei
vou all out in the cold for years to come.
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ticket now ! now may leave
take care of t
The little mar
in this county is the result of reckless,
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Wiki 4
he present.
fs
win of ; 1aiority le us
gin of a majority left wus
rash and restless fellows who
any thing, stoop to any thing, say any
thing and promise any thing to gain a
point and ther hey
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i
10n
1 prove untrue to all
say and pledge. Men are go lost to
or and integrity, that they will
igh, noble and
and do
tute all that is h
et an office,
Let truth and honor continue to 1
Democratic finger boards and those be
“cleverest fellow” is most always]
by
promises, trades|
and every species of vile trickery known |
All know thia.|
themselves!
seeks to accomplish his purpose
I
honey-fuggling, false
to the knave in politics,
NOW,
against it
The Democratic
Will
how many
ds would givel
we
of good men
strength to the ticket.
th all our professions f
with
such an important campaign as the pen
inoee
‘an afford |
sr honesty, in
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ing one, to put men upon the ticket who|
will be proven guilty by the opposition |
of falsehood, trading,
der, greed,
bargaining, vile!
slar
off and sell out the local organization to!
the Republicans, and whose evry action
devoid
Vida
of honor? No,|
rd to do it—we|
rither banter the in-|
lependant voter and those Democrats!
ghiows they are
lemocrats, we can't afl
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an not afford to fu
and w ill]
Beware, then.
Democrats, that you put none upon the
ticket but men of clear record, and who
are not lost to honor.
The Republicans are anxiously hop-|
we will pt
and mean it
only vote for honesty,
who talk honesty
t
iv ut
up a vulnerable
Don’t blunder and open the way
for them to the offices,
The day has gone by when men will
vote for any “thing” that the party puts
in nomination. There is a healthy feel-
ing to use the ballot to enforce purity in
nominations, The Rerorrer has ever
advocated honest politics. We know we
have made enemies by it, but we have
gained warm friends too—but whether
we gain friends or enemies, be in the
majority or minority, we shall advocate
and practice honest politics, regardless
of boycotts and threats. We always
found enough of honest men in the
Democratic party to stand by its faithfol
organs, but even if we found not one’
we should continue on all the same to
plead for the integrity of the party
and honesty in politica,
Honest men are hated by all dema-
gogues who will use every species of
falsehood and slander to destroy their in-
fluence, This was as true anciently as now
in the days of Bocrates and Aristides as
well as in our day. Aristides rebuked
the demagogues of Athens by telling
them, “When I discharged my office
well and faithfully, I was insulted and
abused ; but now that I have allowed
the public thieves in a variety of mal-
practices, I am considered an admirable
patriot. I am more ashamed, therefore,
of this present hour than of the former
sentence ; and I commisserate your con-
dition with whom it is more praise.
worthy to oblige ill men than to con-
serve tho publis,”
ing that
ticket.
Other bills were disapproved as fol
Ws
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to Harriet
widow of Syreannous Welch,
That granting a pensian
wl
WO
was killed by falling from a train, digap~
proved upon the ground that the claim
was reiected by the Pension Burean, be
k ng his death was |
that |
Hol ze
1e accident caus
not the result of military service
to
because the President believes that the
EE Alar
ivooers
in
Pension Bureau rightly denied the
sion asked ; that granting a pensic
Marrilla Parsons, whose stepson, Daniel |
P. ] and died of
Mm 10}
*arsons, enlisted in 15861
iconsnmption in 1864, for the reason
in:
was
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Bappori
Callse i
service ;
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disapproy ea
{there are no facts stated
‘the claim that sickness
| exposure incident to the
igranting a pension to Mary
| widow of Thomas Nottage,
lon the same groonds
{pension to Wm. H. Beck because ©
{*jar on the head from heavy fi p
approved for the reason that si |
{after the “jar” he re-enlisted upon a |
imedical certificate of soundness; tha
granting a dension to Jas, Butler, on the
{ground that the claimant was inj
{ed in the line of duty. Whi
lough he fell into 8 cellar and |
which is now shorter tl
that
i
Nottage, |
thal granting a |
¥
not
i¢ on
other,
When the veloe
ate, Mr. Logan
known of such a
soldier on furion in
duty. Mr. Blai i
seemed to find it a congenial du
nthesS
in hes
“Ver
{ true On as
before |
that
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Le
resid
gh
r
gress. He said that #
dent's siatements werd
th
t aver i}
over Ll
4 z :
i when Le
the §* te Convent
nee
rived
ported and
on
conservative «
hibition
AiiNING
p rt Der
ces if the proper
The coli
'
up corresponde
fiald.
O11
the s
in their b
sion of th
tion
terially
A very |
lored men are
em aurants
saloons as waiters’
pealed to to vote against
i
their employers, wii
appeal is seconded in many
od
g for
8 107
to} e.
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year is estimated at, 19.750
the State Board
fact not generally appreciated that]
1@ wheat crop of
of Agricalture, It
sylvania raises nearly enough whea
“bread” her people,
the state at
5,000,008; it was 4,
The populatio
this time is a little
26.2000 in 1880,
per capita consumpt ion of wheat is esti-
mated at 4) bushels o that we come
within 3,000,000 In
our own wheat supp ly.
1880 the wheat yield of the census Year
was put at 18462000, We rank the
tenth wheat producing State,
leading with 51,000,000 bushels
we lead all other states, in buck -
N
4 § Tire
shels of producing
By the census of
as
[Hii wis
In
y VE
and
8 one of the |
that ever |
ated, This |
areat transaction embraces the sale ofall |
the
of the Messrs, Valentine.
ing party is the Lel
company and others who are interested |
Of ¢
Megsrs, Valentine will retain a large in-
al
largest business transactions
took place is being consun
vast iron furnaces and ore interests |
The purchas- |
Valley railroad |
igh
in a new company. TRE the
Included in
of new |
investment of |
new |
terest in the new firm.
the terms for the formation a
be the
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in ine ered
y will
S200) (HK)
’
tion of a
oke furnace and further developments |
be
property is stated to |
1
re mines, The sum to paid to |
we who own the
000, he furnace in con- |
who were bui
fry $1
ore furnaces for the
11
ip
the inexhausta-
will be
Hl Are, whic)
new ine.
located
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3 ’ Eo 3
uh There is |
arrangments to
ore
Ki
Miles-
fair
near
kes every opportuni
hat the Republicans rec
he Royalists are
with the
view, and
ig, | Organizer
of Labor, who is on trial «
of conspiracy and makiog
1 connection with boycotts, Judge Sloan
ractically held that boycotting isa crime
ble under the statutes. He ruled
hilling threatened to put the
vast machinery of the Knights of Labor
n operation to prevent the public from
atronizing the firm boycotted he injur-
’
s firms In
come, which was as much
sriy as machinery or buildings, and
Oo atiome
hom to employ or discharge
All organizations
seeking to interfere with the
§
ae
t to dictate to them against
s a parallel offense,
he kin i
winrers or others are
not in Said the
Judge; “laborers or capitalists may or-
ganize for their own protection, but have
no right to take the aggressive. In our
social and industrial life and our govern-
ment the Socialist, the Anarchist and
boyeott have no place,
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business of manu
accordance with law,
The Harrisburg Patriot make an allu-
sion which fits here as well as in other
localities :
If all that is reported from certain po-
litical quarters in this city be true, it is
quite plain that a plutocracy is attempt-
wheat we ranked after New York. In
oats we were the fourth state and in corn
the tenth.
The probable acreage in the State this
year is estimated by the Board of Agri-
culture at 1,100,000, sweres each in corn
and oats, and a hay yield of 3,000,000
tons,
Our county, Centra, seems to stand
alone, among all tlie counties of the
state, with a poor w heat crop. Some of
our farmers will get less than they sow-
ed, Occasionally nu field is seen that has
a fair showing, but the aggregate will
not show a third crop.
Pennsylvania is not only the greatest
manufacturing, coal and iron state, to
ing to purchase its way into the control
of Democratic politics in this city and
county. The Primary Election laws
w.liich exhibit in a vivid light a view of
the Penitentiary for those who attempt
to corrupt delegates or the electors who
choose them, can no longer be set at de-
fiance wi th impunity. We give this no-
tice in time, so that if prosecutions
should fol ow, there will be no ground of
complaint that the culprits were taken
unawares.”
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ACCORDING.
“1 have lost a wallet containing $700,
he observed as he puffed excitedly at Lis
cigar, “and { was wondering how much
reward I had better offer for its return.”
say nothing of petroleuin and natural
gas, in the Union, but rar ks high in its
agricnltural resources an 1 products, Un:
der tho census of 1380 of aly Ohio, New
Thus did the great Athenian stop the
alone. Eh
a0ft-s0ap him with honeyed words.
York and Illinois led thi » Keystone sta! o
and the lead was not ve jry great,
“That's according,” said the other.
“ According to what F"
“To where you lost it.”
“Oh, in Chicago."
“Well, then, you'd belfer make (he
AT
.
A Doston man
examining the original
il
M ARSALC
rocky islet calle
Boston H
dary, and was never cl
It was, th
of the United
be deemed
from
never been cut off
0 arbor, lies o
5 amas
chusetls colony
s part
1
FW
Iritain, which
The Roman dwelling-house wi
earliest ages identical with
ria, and, indeed® of all
Although related to Hellenic
the peculiarly Italian
columnar supports for
mained in use even after the general
introduction of the
At Pompeii a combination of these two
varieties of court is met with, the fron
space being a simple atrium, and tha
further within a peristyle. Each inclo-
sure was surrounded with chambers,
There is talk in
tion to tax bachelors, and the absurdity
of the proposition affords much amuse-
ment. But the matter is not so outrage-
ously novel. It has been done before, |
Who does not know that such a tax was |
resorted to in old Rome and Greece?
Bachelors were heavily taxed, widows
were compelled to marry after one year
of mourning—some of them may have
thought eleven months too long-— and
at one time a legatee, if unmarried, |
oould not obtain a bequest unless within |
the space of one hundred days he found |
some woman to join him in holy wed-|
lock. But we need not go so far back. |
Greck peristyle.
*ngland of an inten. |
ahd fs
i
order to carry on his war with France.
Spain. In the post-office they have a
dark chamber, where experts inquire
into things, and these have long sinoe
given up the use of steam for opening
gummed communications. Even red hot
platinum wire fot letters sealed with
wax is out of date, The favorite means
is with a knife sharper than a razor,
which is run along the bottom of the
envelope. The letter having Leen ex.
tracted amd then replaced after the
officials of tho post-office have learned
what is going on, a fine line of liquid
cement is drawn slong the opening, the
slightest pressure conceivable is applied,
and the Lotter is na whole as over. Tho
aystom ouly fails when too many letiers
x reward at least $8001"
* are open sl at a time and put hurriedly
into the wrong &ivelopas.
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One
Nichola
in Mt
marrie 1
thirty miles and so
On the tos
the
™
Des
gelves,
date of 1780, is
drew up and sien
presence
witnesses, to love,
ish,” ol
of God,
si] ad -
ana ones
ns
and to “love,
him.” as husband and
God should continne their live
so long
b 5
vears B. OC. the Etrue.
Five hundred | I
oan ladies fastened their coils and braids
with spearshaped pins, as beautiful as
Some of thom were
made of ivory and some of bronze and
They were ornamented in vari.
ing figures. Venus rising ont of the
sea and stroking back her wet hair was
& favorite design.
A custom of the Jays gone Ly still
obtains in the District af Columbia
courts. According to an old Maryland
law, the foreman of each jury is pros
sented with a pound of tobasco on ren.
doring tho verdict in cach case, Ax
this is far in exocss of the demand for
the weed, the cash equivalent of
$1 is substituted. The tobacco fund
amounts to a considerable sum during a
term of court, and is nsnally devoted to
the purchase of a eano for the foreman,
bougueds for the judge, and minor eomk-
forts for the jurors.
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