pt = OLD SERIES XI. {NEW SERIES XIX THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED KURTZ, ... Editor. Attorney General Cassidy is expectad to apply for an injunction restraining the Pennsylvania and Reading railroad com- panies from issuing passes to the mem- bers of the Legislature. ep . Of the 17 Massachusetts cities which held their local elections on Tuesday 7, thirteen voted no liquor license, three of the seventeen only voted prohibition amgl one did not vote, last vear the same cities voted thirteen for license and four for prohibition. This looksas ifthe Bay state might be getting in favor ofa little grog. EN There are two streaks of lightning af- ter Andy Dill, of Lewisburg. The one is after knocking him into the marshal- ship of the eastern district of Pennsyl vania and the other is trying to bounce Lim into a territorial governorship. Mr, Dill does not go “rodded,” and we will not be surprised to hear that one of the streaks will find that he lives at Lewis- burg, —c——— — It seems a streak of lightning is trying to find P. Gray Meek, and make him bank-examiner. Hope it may bit him right between the eves. We guess a bank-examiner is one who goes around to see how much cash is lying idle and takes it along to have it circulate, We would like to be bank examiner too, and if such lightning does not know where to hit, our address will be found at the head of this paper. to tn Apr Senator Riddleberger has caused a The Virginian is angry at Ser- geant-at-Arms Cannaday and threatens to vote with the Democrats to reorgan- ize the next Senate and throw Cannaday ut, This would involve reorganization of the committecs as well, and would be a serions matter. The quarrel is caused by Canfaday's promising to appoint a boy named Zirkle, as a page at Riddle- bergers request, when in fact he had al- ready appointed the boy at Mahone's On finding ; this out Riddle- berger became enraged at the deception practiced, scare. request; .--— The Sunday closing movement, com- menced recently in Reading, is extend- ing throngh Berks co. At Bechtelville, a thriviog village, a Law and Order so- ciety has been organized and the three hotel keepers in the place have been re- quested to close on Sundays, as well as 10 stop the sae of liquor to minors. The landlords in the surrounding districts have been notified to the same effect and resolutions adopted by the society have been sent to prominent citizens with an appeal for their aid in the move- ment, steps are now being taken to or ganize similar societies in Boyertown and at other points, - CENT the city alone, a single one which invol- ved a loss to the strikers ofa million] dollars. There may be and there is no doubt are cases in which it is necessary | that workivgmen should strike to ebiuin| their just dues, but where one strike is ordered for such good cause a hundred! are ordered for no justifying cause what “| ever, and the consequences are enormous | losses to the strikers, .— COLORED MEN'S ENTERPRISE, A number of prominent colored peo-| ple in various parts of the South are en-) deavoring to organize a “Colored Peo-| ple’s World Exposition,” to be held in Montgomery or Birmingham. The en-| FIGURES THAT TALK. There are some unobtrusive figures in the President's message that tell the sto- ry of administrative efficiency and econ- omy. Thus last year there was collected $15,- 800,000 more revenue from customs and internal taxes than the preceeding year under Republican rule. But this was done at a cost of coliec- tion less than the preceeding year of $490,000 in the customs and $156,000 in the internal revenue gervice. In other words, $15,800,000 more mon- ey was collected at $640,000 less than it cost to collect the smaller sum the pre- R00diae Year: thi total ordinary expen- terprise has been undertaken entirely : by colored men, and is designed to illus. ses of the Government were less by $17,- trates the OaroaD acd achievements of 788,000 than the preceeding Republican the o i Sale in evere: da y iw De - the colored people in every department Joar, witha Kall Mm jevenve of $15,500. of life, The movement has been formal- (00, or a net gain in receipts and expend- svoroved by the City -Coslieile of itures of $33 500.000. approved by the ity Councils of In the Indian service which the Re- publicans always made the occasion of deficiency bills, instead of deficiency thereis a surplus saving in the year's expenditures less than the appropria- { $322 225, which is covered back into the Treasury by law. The estimates presented for the Indian service during the coming year are $422,386 less than ly Montgomery and Birmingham, by the] General Assambly of Alabama, through a joint memorial to Congress adopted to- day, and by the State Agricultural socie-| The directors of the enterprise pro-| ask Congress for an appropria n and say that they have already been promised the aid and the support of a number of Senators and Representatives. > General Cassidy to the front Wednesday, in the Dauphin courts with two bills in equity te enforce the Railroad articie of the Constitution, against nearly all the important railroads! doing business in the State, The bill is aimed at the pool system, which the At-| torney General mainaing is practically | a consolidation of parallel and competing railroad lines, and therefore in violation of the Constitution. The other bill ir certain railroads, including the ompanies, for the violation of that ty. pose to $i il allons o those of last year, which ia turn were $1,297,790 less those of the previous year. In the War Department service the sum §1,208,000was saved from the appro- priation for the last fiscal year and cov-| ered back into the Treasury. The Navy Department has been prolific in deficiency bills, but See- retary Whitney has shaped his garment according to his cloth, and reports a sur- came Attorney always plus saved of $308,000 less than the ap- propriations, with great progress in ad- ding to the efficiency of against the service, : During the year, 2,750,000 of the public | article of the Constitution which forbids | i ands, illegaily possessed by alien cattle | em from engaging in mining or mana- | corporations and others, have been re. ring, or directly or indirectly en- stored to the mass of the public domain, | raging in any other husiness than that! or aging and;2.370,000 acres are now under inves~ | of common carriers, or iros holding or ugation and will be reclaimed. The from fees received, and during the year or 0 acquiring lands, except such as shall be » + a 4 F fk : - ’ Patent Office pays its own way necessary for carryiug on their business) as common carriers; and declares that] turned into the Treasury a surplus over t f§l Office we hey Lave combined to limit and regu- i % sé» 3 * k 3 all expenditares o 64,000, ate the production and price of 0 is directe $i The Atior-1 ney Ueueral asks that the compauies be Pension have the Ihis of amount of T Is } in the the necessaries of ule, same story effi i est in any lency and economy. | at the anthracite coal pool. rye larg organization he work dune was the year since the required to make full discovery of their if tha TPE & i % “ uf the bureau, and it bas been done at agreements and in the meantime enjuin- «€88 cost than duariug the previous year | ed from carrying out such Arrangements in every divis.on. There was a saving | The court fixed the 21st of December as nthe expense fthe office arin by ‘ ...1 in tae expenses ol the oifice during the | the time for hearing the application for vear of 8315 553 which bh son JEAr of foi0000, which has been «¢ ers preliminary injunction, } -—— «d back into the Treasury, The principal amendment made by the - - [HE STATE AFTER $150,000 TAXES 4 B Electoral Count Mi ‘lear- iield, were in Harrisburg to consult with House of Representatives to the Senate bill provides that or one been received shall be rejected.” is proposed because where there is but one return from a state the two houses should not have the power to reject the F I x no f Clearfel ty, and Attorney McEnally, aiso « Register Ferguson, o vole but e.ectorat i if ( . from which lawful return has Auditor General Niies as to the prosecu- tion of the suit against the estate of the ‘ate Juhn DuBois, the Clearfield million- aire {o recover the culateral inheritance LATE NEWS, DR. M'GLYNN SUSPENDED miles above Baton Rouge, and about 60 | : - Yives were lost. | Following George Gets a Distinguishod Adam Weaver, farmer, 12 miles north | Clergyman in Trouble of Canton, O., was gored to death by a| N¥W York, Dec. 13.—Dr. McGlynn has, . | by order of Archbishop Corrigan, been sus The striking miners at Shamokin re. | Pended from saying mass or exercising any stimed work on Tuesday. | of the functions of a priest. Dr. McGlynn A big blizzard raged in the northwest | D4 been under suspension for about twe nday and reached here W#Inesday, | "¢k* Is still under suspension, and nobody Coal operators have advanced chestnut | Sxeept She archbishop, probably not even Dr. MeGlynn himgelf, can tell when the suspension The state grange met at Harrisburg 14. i il Saralnatl. ia al probabliity gh wii sof} Near Baltimore on Tuesday, 75 head | iy Tan afore hia Tap a for Home, and . We $.. res 1.1 1 AL case ths decision o He supremes pont of cattle were burned in a barn, Tucsd'y. will determines whether he WIT Del Ie No | ed with priestly powers, As Archbishop Cor- | rigan Is still gut of town and his secretafy, { the Rev ChalPles E. MeDounell, not un- | dertake for } $s exceedingly | ge- | formation miormation | on the subject; but it is sald that he was first suspended the of Novem for consent BCrVe AS of the « mmittes Land i that ¢« sent was cons by the archbishop as dis command given to him some - i not to part in vi dg 3 v1 6 Pe tate Gakirer (Unav an ‘ 3 ator Caz 1eron, Salk I'r A8Urer Yuay and i (ieorge movement, It is also said that hav- | Field Marshall ( ; ] the archbishor wit he Evervihing about the Cabinet bull on Tuesday, M - Gov. Beaver was in Philadelphia last week, and of it the Times says will “The boys" verely tried their patience on with Governor : 3 to speak cooled their heels and difficult t« got any authoritative Baturday | : CG about riddle to utive «¢ wernor- | ber to {| member bt { the he switched off to the private house of a | ’ ¥ 4 . whl i relative on Spruce street, and only Sen. | obediency andience The ding to appointment, waiting for elect B the city ace eaver, came a} Xa of Labor party, as i ~ m- | of the i woeks before take any the | i oper got to | ing mislaid ter ii clions as usual the archlishop's that some over iyun's part had irred w, and as be had alrea {0 lake ps det { reading it Dr. } | Cise his priestly did not xiynn contin f i 10 exer-| fun ; This fact ntion, in t the red Marshall | s pew 1 on | He a { wpefal Field a8 much a AS ever, Only headed and Cooper retired sald sight 1 his visit to tl in the or ling faith in his ly cognizance of Dr he took no requested the McGlynn's L further steps in the premises wealth. {| But shortly after the publication of the arc) ) v8 pastoral letter Dr. McGlynn low & newspaper icised y in Governor wi iy ior CHa 5 | i | onl struck a mnine-foot | with reporter, i vein at a depth of 367 feet in Belle town. | © ship, Jefferson county. The quality is | by the archbisho good, the coal resembling anthracite, prospect ire the positions t that documer ano! Dr FU D pending to oasis that irty-five that ht that bh A Michigan women | she | amin has worn one bonnet tl} years, | This is the sort of news 1sDands | wil in for delight in showing their wives . i etors of urran McGlynn, § iby seminary | réer} female da general « shall 6n The cond a in Brookivn have issne No. 1 that hereafter no worn, The gi swear that they’ Anticipating the Big Billlard Match. | Howard ™ Harry 3 3 an backers of expected here to-day They | i +¥ be ORSON An They | bangs rebel | be everlastingly baopg- | Wii bo a je t uch 8 wonsirous or- d any gt B Are in ied ralile LARD bangs— | They will star restriction it BU never | ‘ i wi send Fend two new names IRPORTER and wi ETER t enter largely | will x } ow / Mve the ¢ ’ ree. i wh ittlis » ¥ 3 of five has never 1 » i 0Oi3€ I average | vet been pde in public at | { this game, vet bets are beir ack it will | be reached in the coming match Year AYEra - - ARS PLAY - COAL ( HAN Kline Beats the Record. | Dernorr, { liam Kline committed larceny i an, i He was arrested our years' imp Dec, ] Three weeks 2 he | TT : dedaie, Dee, 13.1 Hai Wav, in a bi a few } : ow 5 fihe Jefferson nns interior towns, Quai lived and senteno rods | and ng an employe of the Erie with his family from the {rack « Branch | o of the Line, near Carbondale, The track a heavy grace on that }. A day ur two ag { cars broke in two fon oar wind # bead and one log cut off. | i university | n to the ion jumped out of und wi was sent to J Te while 1 g tak ry fn 3 was f {| His br Arbor Kline's is | First the theft, portion wly “I ¥ is mid a record emply coa Dg ap the grade, aod the de HLENOL, SSCA, and pow hi stodents—all . kil rapad suocess the cars| body is ut up by med @“, tion rau back down the nchin % of smved when igh rae track dashed ad the tiouse and directly toward Mrs, Quinn was at work in th i Dynamiting & King's Residence. iand her three children were playing in al CHAREST, Ix 13.—A {room on the floor above, The runaway | 200 pounds of dynamite was by cars laid low Quian's fropt fence snd a [Summer house in their course, and, with | Ch tepeed In little diminished, struck | its {Quinn's residence near the. centre aod | { went right through it, passing by Mrs. | {Quinn so closely as to almost touch her, | « | and bringiog the house in ruiss about | fow identity « near * ear 4 hoax £ iow HONG J veyed to the summer residence of King } at Cobrocene, Saturday night and | contents exploded against the side of the The structure was badly shattered window glass in buildin The mangled corpse of a man was id near the scene of the explosion but his | ald not be ascertained. The police ad it silding i every the bed, or » - Ny — —— Viettms of am Explosion. Bowron, Dec. 13, —Two deaths have resulted from the mysterious explosion at the estab lishment of the Power Bupply compan Feast Cambridge, The Pd ny oe Silvia found his mangled body buried beneath a pile of bricks. He was bruised almost be- yond recognition. Barafea Da Bolva, who was badly burned, died at the Masse chusetts General hospital. Both men were employes, and were in the engine room a the tims of the accident, The cause of the explosion is still « mystery, To Join the Kuights FPrrresvro, Dec, 18, call has boen bs rusd for a general eonvention of spring and axie workers of the United States, to be held n this city on Jan. 4 The object of the com vention Is to establish uniform wags throughout the country, taking the Highest paid as a standard, and te compiste ArTANgS- organi. zation prior to going Mato the Kaights of Labor in a body. i i A Persian Ballroad. Panis, Dex A French engineer has obtained a concession from the Persian gov- tx uct a rallway from Teheran istance of the mn which is de » be ente ra.iway The capital with rail built s 4 why i Ve wWKy hieflv is chiefly Russ Valuable Books Burned. Loxpox, Dec fire Queens ox urred in iy which $5944 stitu- llece wo of the ve ie libraries of that in Hon were the volumes burned « rot r A 3 Ol te replaced. The roperty troved us ne SIRT des Strikers Ordered to Leave Town. Parzstivg, Tex yardmen from Deni urged the Internati yarcmen to sty marshal to leave to men bere say they Dec. 18 Five striking 1, who came here and {ireat sel N > and Northern ike. e ordered by the city The Failure. A Heavy » Babilitie the firm be a trifle under £1,000,.000 si of negr Waod- resident of sons by r. and death threw ving assure himself after them the bottom. NEA ly sank to » have been A Million Houbles Short. Viexsa, De ’ { The famous of wl firm fail A 00 viteh M thuania, has dinsk, 1At are of the he unk: LN The liabilities 308 | mEmets use "ou wn Sand Drifta on the Baltie Share. the south altic the sins of reclions for g dng cruelly visited upon their descendan Two hundred years wets of Prossdia were defonded by a bt ark of magnifiecnt if h forests, that Om f the B {author iw ix raed woodlands Thill Now ork of deva " 1h i Sone 3 unti $C had been turned § Thills, nature Is getting hb Year after year the rains and strong floods have washed & vegetable fm of those hills, mt sand and gravel, which 1 d In towering dunes, san revenge out the remaind leavifg noth gradually Intod n ar The liquor men of Pennsylvania have been conferring together as to what and at last invaded the landward settiaments with a perfect avalanche of drift sand. Seen from the vill vote of the state, The House also holds { ber. Her three children tumuied dow | bave as yet been unable to find a clue to the that where there is morethan one re-|from the upper story 10 the ground floor mother | porpetrators tax alleged to be dueto the State A changes should be made in the license system of the commonwealth, and unde: the circumstances, their demands are very reasonable. A bill is to be prepar- ed embodying their views for presenta. tion to tue Legislature and it will coutain at least one feature which we can hear tily commend, namely a provision for high license. It is proposed to some- what restrict and more carefully define the powers of judges entrusted with the duty of passing upon applications for license and provide that no license shall be arbitrarily revoked until the license sha!l have had a fair and impartiai trial before a jury. The liquor sellers show their wisdom in desiring to meet the de- mands of public sentiment for a more efficient administration of the liquor laws, - rp —— In Clinton co. there was a disturbance in the Democraric party, caused by one or two candidates failing to get the nom- inations this year, aod did all in their power to defeat the regular nominees at the last election. The Clinton Democrat hauls these fellows over the coals in the following style: “It is to be hoped that we have seen the last of such contempti- ble meanness and lack of principle om the part of Democrats in Clinton county. Hereafter the people should not listen to the talk of Democrats so-call who oppose one or more of the nominees. Men who oppose regular nominations, after they have been fairly made by a convention, are not Democrats, but dis organizers, and had better go over to the enemy at once. It wonld be more man ly than sneaking around under the cloak of Democracy and basely stabbing with the political stilletto the unsuspecting and even confiding victim in the back Away with all such treachery and treason. The man guilty of it ought to be ashamed to look an honest Democrat in the face, Let it now be ended, let there be no more of it, The past is a lesson that all true Democrats should heed. Jt may be forgiven and in time forgotten, but in the future let all Democrats turn their backy upon polit ical traifdre and sore hats,” yer 5 few days previous to John Dubois’ death he conveyed to his nephew, John Du- Jr, all «of his real and personal property for one dollar, Auditor Gener- ul Niles, after an examination of the conveyance, and learning that the neph- ew was possessed of the property as long as he lived, became sausfied that the estate was liable to the five per cent colateral inheritance tax for the reason that the deed was a testamentary devise instead of an absolute conveyance of property. Mr, Niles employed the law firm of McEnally and McCurdy, as spec- ial counsel, to represent the Common- wealth, The real estate and personal property of John Dubois has been appraised and an inventory returned amounting to $3. 000,000, upon which the State expects to assess five per cent, Buit will be brought and proceedings instituted against the estate in the courts of Clearfield county. Solicitor General Jenks will represent the estate in the suit, O18, f { —— — DO STRIKES PAY? If apy body thinks that the indiscrim- inate, unconsidered strikes are profita- ble investments they are referred to vol, Twenty of the Tenth census, or especial- ly to that one on trade organizations. (t is true that the statistics are six years old now, but they are none the Jess sug- gestive despite their age, as in this mat- ler one year is much like another. In i880 702 strikes occured or were docu- mented; nearly three fourths of them were for increased wages, The result of less than one half of them or 354, are given in the census report, from which it appears that thirty-four per cent were successful and forty-four per cent. unsuc- cessful. The others were compromised. The loss to the sivijin which was as- certained in only 220 strikes, was in wa ges alone $3,711,007. At that mate the loss to them from the total num'ser of 762 strikes would aggregate more than 113,000,000, which it must be confesse 1, isa great deal of money. During this year there were thousands of str there being 1,500 in New York State { with the debris, and with their {were held fast in the ruins Tuis strange- y imprizoned fatnily was soon extnica The ! {runaway cars kept oo their course for a | Wa | Hou { hundred yards or so, demolisting three | uly those voters shall be counted which | Which a cow and a hurse were crushed {to death; a hen house, in which a dozen | or more chickens were killed, and many | Tie purpose of the|rods of fence. The cars then brought up | agaiust & bigh baok and piled up on ove another in a most complete wreck of rol- as little to Con-}.0 gook. . le INTOSPACE. . a Colonel Hastings the choice of Gov-| i is| that there! The Boiler of a Locomotive Barste at Jer- bre BLOWN acy Shore, Williamsport, Dec, #.—An awtal acei- dent happened on the line of the Beech Creek Railroad at Jersey Shore station, 14 wiles above bere, by which four men instantly lost their lives, The accident was caused by engine No. 4 of the Beech Creek Railroad blowing up. It was an old freight engine and tad been in the Beech Creek stops, at Jersey Shore sta- tion, where the Fail Brook roads join, for repairs, This afternoon it was taken, out fur a trial trip and was being rma up and down the road between the shops and the Pine Creek station, at Jersey Shore, a distance of three fourths of a mile. On the engine were four men, P. H. Kaoight, engineer, and Allen Ramsey, fireman, who were running the engioe, and es Wearne, a fireman, and J. C Field, a stiop hand. The engine had stopped in the track headed down mid. way between the juoction an! Jersey Khore station, when suddenly the boiler bursted and the engine was blown to atoms. The men guing with it. Ram. sey, Wearne and Field were blown 100 feet into the air over into a hill to the left of the track, and fragments of their bodies were found 700 feet away. Knight was blown 1,600 feet to the right of sthe track into a fied, aud a part of his body was found sgainst a tree, while the othe er part was found in a Sugmp near by, There was not enough left of the engine totell what it was Knight, Wearne and Ramsey have families, aud all the men reside in Jersey Bogre, It is not known what caused the accident, as no one is left to tell the tale, and there is not encugh left of the engine to disoov- or the ongio, lirectly are at the disposal of the Gov-| When Pattison was elected to ts festa GEN, BEAVER 1}ACKS DOWN. Governor-elect Beaver has at last ically against Cooper: “I will newer speak eith: » to Beaver or Cooper a: min, if they com mit this of- fence agair st the Constitu tion which they will be sth take oath to s apport.” Judges H owe and Ewing of the Pit's- burg court and others expressed the Mgr. Capel's Alleged Defamers. Fraxcieco, Dec 13. Mgr says that he has discovered who started the slanderous storfes against him, and will at once begin sults for libel aguinst all” con. cerned in the publication of the charges. The Bax paper noted for its bitterness against the Catholic hierarchy, and they were spread by the efforts of a Bacramento lawyer who is eounsel in the divorce suit against the lady whose name was used. Mgr. Capel promis es to reveal a startling conspiracy A State House Fire, Srarxermend, Ils, Dec. 13 — Saturday night fire broke out in one of the rooms on the first floor of the state house which oon tained a large quantity of oil and other in- flammable material. The fine stone carving on two windows and all the decorations in the lower hall were ruined, and it is feared that as soom as an investigation can be made it will be found that the interior decorations throughout the building have suffered ma- terially. A Diamond Thief Caught. New York, Dec. 13