§ f OLD SERIES XL I NEW SERIES XX THE CENTRE REPORTER, —— FRED KURTZ. .. Editor. —————— A A DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTE! H Y Stitzer, Edward Brown James Schofield A Webe AC Wither A A Frank, DJ Meyers, G Her Heury A J Gra} A J Greist, Thomas Frazier { NW Bellefonte 5 W ££ BH Howard I — Milesburg Boro... Millheim Boro Centre Hall Boro ....... wo Centre mer twp Boggs twp, N P ¥ } WP EP raside twp ge twp rtin twp —_ reuson twp EP do WP rege t Lege do Milligan Walke H 1. Harvey Anson Ix John I W LAmvid Bri Henry Krel Frank Bowersox «Hiram ¢ do } Josiah Rossman Haines twp EP......... William Keer wr { ge M Ke Half Moon twp... Harris twp Le Howard tWp.....con vc cnvne Huston twp Liberty twp Marion twp Mies tWp.ouuens Patton twp Penn twp Potter twp N do Sti Rush twp, 8 P. do do do Snow Shoe W P do EP Spring twp... Taylor twp...... Walker twp Worth twp. D§ Union twp John G Hall, ITZER Af if B . MCL} ia Secretary THE FARMER'S NEEDS Of all legislation, that which liorate the the should be The writer will ame- condition of farmer enacted. hereof lives in an agricultural section all and his interests and investments are ped in the prosperity of ¥rap- the farming community —hence we have an 4 rit nity of observing and feeling the disad- the agricu onl vantages under which tural popul in ire county but all over the country. tion labors, not y in Cent If there ever was a time when be said that farming paid, that wot now, Low prices for all far: ducts, burdensome local taxation rests solely upon real estate, dis tion in freights, and other beggaring our farmers, and leavit 1 i CRS nothing for their toil, ar eavy consequent depreciation in real makes their sum total lo How can this be bettered” ight be mentioned, mi 101 enues from merca 1 rom OEY licenses no lo treasury, but let them go to to help the road, sch r 5 ol and poor This would take off so much fros farmer's tax to keep up these bra: Let a part or all of the fines an feited recognisances remain in the and and the tax u farmers acres will again be ties where they are imposed, ¥ por htens« Why should not these monies go the same direction, the immediate benefit of the people the county from which they are deriv instead of the state treasury which other sources of revenue in abundance? Now the above suggestions, if wonid relieve the tax of the fare materially, and there is no good why it should not be so, a ens: Gov. Beaver has been presented a new Bible. The General has gre miration for the good book and his careful readings of it has found the term “boss” in it, hence not allow any bossing about him. They are having another big sts New York. Business along the wi en in that city and Brooklyn and J. sey city is in a serious condition. Freight is piled up on the piers and the green hauds at work make slow progress. The ocean steamships are greatly delayed by the great strike. There are something like 30,000 coal-handlers, railroad freight handlers and 'longshoremen out, and where the movement will end no one can say. The greatest difficulty was met in mo- ving freight om the docks along the North river, where most of the large ocean steamers are berthed, All steam- ers scheduled to sail on Saturday re delayed for want of coal, and of ne that did get to sea most had an if- cient supply and the strikers say hat their cargoes were also incomplete Ao] NEW LICENSE BILL. in it “In all cities of the first and se- The bill has tion : cond classes-—all houses, rooms, or pla- ces where vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixture there- of, are sold, shall pay a license fee of $600; in all cities third, fourth and 1 3 CLASSES, $ £500: boroughs having a popula- 8300 license cits Orough places Under theaet no shall be granted if a majority of the 1 izens of any war, township or petition the court not to grant any li cense in it. The applicant to receive a license shall not be p ed in any other establishment than the . a h : one for which he 1s asking for nor shall anybody but himself be pecu- niarily interested in the license is asked, The 0 one petition. signers are stricted t The Courts are hie equired to hear remonstrants and peti- ‘ : , { $ 18 and shall refuse + whi tt 3 11CBLSE, x $111 WI La montas, granted to any 1 dred feet of a school bail worship. Liquors mus v Fo v Lg NO sores a3, blinds, tains, partitions, or painted stained glass windows, or any ot} struction which may srfere :s B40 where Bars must sht ai at nigh » nexs uc } they rev © past meeting was atten twenty n i ngressme from the Southern anti-internal revenue ding men inci Or- The bill wipes out the tax on tobacco and weiss beer and also the The ense tax oir dealers in whiskey, ed in the arts sho uld be removed orthe tax on whiskey should be reduced is left The provisions of the Randall duties in The free list the Randall bill has also been aagumea- ted Lumber, goats’-—— The New York World “It easier for a camel to go through the eye | of a needle” than fora man | enter the United States Senate, says: poor > Gov. Beaver's administration is turn- ing out all officials about wer on brisk Democratic Harrisburg, The work is gol { 1y, and sets Cleveland in the shade Some of the deputy Republicans or pre | tended Democrats—who are always in I il no doubt | calioot with the opposite party, even in be in old Centre, will pleased Beaver's action the plank, what a certain class of Democrats been woerats walk 41! as workiog at in our own county, to salary that of Secretary the His portunities to hill is Board of Agriculture, in 1 is op almos Ril rainst the Treasury are imitless, Last year he was paid £4 1 $65 {| for analyzing fertilizers and plearo-pneumonia among cattle and | suppressing the same. In addition { these amounts he received asalary of The which | Secreiary Edge handsaor the efi office bas paid nely Was created thy of a relative while of the our farmers are igh ris Intter was a member We don't think ted a farthing by tl a I: by these operation it is simply a sol &2 for ithe Legis atare. | bennett a fellow who ¢ fei ve i | pockets a nice sum people's taxes - Ex. Governor Curtin tells the story he recovery of his eyesight as follows i *] weat to He the oculist absolutely sceptical. ooked at my eye and said he could I was going to Boston the ne v to attend the merchants dinner, and wight 1 bat x! (dav th would like to go seeing 1 yous ble, when he asked when, suid perform the operation, I sad “Now at ones; might jost as well | done with it.” He deadened my | with cocaine. He took an instrument, He mde one skiliful out with it, He jlled my eye with blood. It in minute. He said, eruor, go home and go to bed, and the morniog vou will see as well a ly.” sure enough, I did. § ¥ He i 3 & i Was here, al A ® And --— ECIAL OFF Je desire to make a very liberal pro we bh Qo rea - in cept the offer, L agenis we pr @ wpefit of tio an any patrons has I pAY, fe r and 1 troubs tu 10 sgarce the gain 10 yOu biain for the ¥ a st. Ifyouno Berorst script 3 cash, we wi mouths free, 10 make ap ti sabscriber, and you hs extra credit and werek afer that for $1.50, If gou get us the names of four anch tris] sabscribors sending cash for hh name, as above, wi Wi 1 send you s Rerogtes one year free, Or, if you ¢ get two such trial pames, ive you six months credit, free, BTER. « §0 ion with 81 0 if 49 ear, 68 a trial $ have {w0 mon ges 3 ong Lin INES if will ¢ an | Raw and will pay you well, most of 1 hese trial names at $050 per erease in circalation, Names can be sent at any tim» as they ara obtained The offer will be open until Aprii 1887, in pres to §1 50, agd six mouths for ery two malnes os us Try it, aud get the Revonrer hall or one whole year free, for very little troob ie. Most any one will take trial trip on abuve proposition, THE CENTRE REPORTER. Centre Hall, Pa ihe remains of Gen. with military honors. Irish parliamentary party and Mr McCarthy vice-chairman. in on Sunday. 1 The cotton planters along cotton seed, TORN BY DYNAMITE. A Dastardly Attempt Dominion York, Feb, 1 sundown last night asthe Old Dominion Line steamer 8 to Sink Nteamer, an Old New Just after Guyandotte was passi way wed a terrific explosion board in It de the entire after part of the oft snd furniture sky wards, occurred on the saloon iy 1 near locks and sending ang KE boats, skylights That dynamite was the attem agent employed in pling to wre the steamer there is no in a closet on the star loon just before the man who jumped board mime TY ONe ones aid the cap gl i ip wouk £4 altér part 3 WAS over and fii D. 4 es Justin ie extent © + i floor VEATLeT mal man to en ugh u a hoe nm thro while deck GiY 8 vest i Was unin Aays late wilth- ] Quinn trict Assembly N fdent M Lrendy, 1 * ‘will be WArGiyY at ¥ Was insti rk of some f this condigon wd that there { this city eagerly a war with Canada, into the Dominion, if to show Lhedr od States. Mr. A. J an of Buffalo, says he bas just liscovered a very pronounced war slement i people here I went into and found i¢ full of 1tal- said Oise, ie me, ‘Here is the us into Canada,’ they amd oan speak our and they picked me up and oar ried mie about in their enthusiasm, gather around 1 bend KNOws who He language,’ man Can said. fs their vader Myr, Olshe stated further that be had heard little or nothing of the move ment, if id day or two, but he ls convinead from what he hears that the men are in earnest. They are loyal and they want to show loyalty. They ciaim that they in the state, Willi Probably Pay Damages. Wasnixarox, Fel, though Secretary this government for joss and damages, understood, The Star save, that this is in ac CUSTOM HOUSE LABORERS GO OUT, | The laborers employed in the weigher's de [partment of the custom house sand detailed {to wharves along the East river and Brook. {lyn have joined the strikers. They say that {they do not get enough pay | veyor Beattie says there is substantial cause {for their grievance, and that he has recom mended at Washington that they be paid $3 ia day ithe representatives of District 490 and the {unions affected by the strike. A representa itive of Italian labor organizations said he {had 5,000 Italian laborers and freight hand. Hers organized. Hs was instructed to call on isteps to prevent Italian padrones from fur inishing laborers to the steamship companies i ACTIVITY AT HOBOKEN At Hoboken the Hamburg and i iremen empioye being a non-union man The arrivals at the North German Lioyds, Hremen jor wharves yesterday were Sremen, als 1,000 tons of freight fo will be handled by with which men poured upon the line's plier A steady stream of water {ruins of the Cromwell ver stfall the tim! A careful auses of the fire resulted in settling the fact that the striking It or pipe yestarday At investigation {as 10 Lhe ¢ longsho no hand in it {from is thought that the set fire Ww a cigar loss will at were not He Many almost unharmed as bales of heavy as cotton was u pposed taken out Many f freight also were removed unharmed by the gang of men at work there yesterday FLEXTY OF DEPUTY SHERIFFS ‘We bave been manufacturing heriffs by the wholesale ” said the of the Berwind Whi South Amboy, deputy SUP ine % te Minin COI 8 reporter yes toy to t t The statement exaggerated, fo ver 600 specials with badges and formidat fs This great force was was no : tered the found scat company DOOSESRIY ihe were Vir i piers of the and 1 wngth ¥ on men, mostly Soa se put at work 3 erday, and al night the entire gang was quartered on a witk bunks men and provisions to last 1 The company offic il keep their army needs be to protect as the § roslan Lars Yer one nue in BVIARTE vp {barge which has been fitted up : 1 ry Yn als declare $ bh of deputies half the new men ey wi n ® ¢ ¥ year i : A PROBABLE CRISIS, iNew Jersey's Capital Expecting a Shak- ! ing Up To Day. Trexrox, Feb, 1 it | Republican « i de of T10 5, to org i Kk that Sewell is { States senator of the Repu : is stated the decided hat at aucas last night it was on a o'che It ¥ at imlly fay w the of held two weeks hence. The oan i Bt this time In compliance dew { the sed of ¥ iw the United States set el iter th the lo Now arises Democrats f r Lellan's rescluts saniate WO wing f king about ve allow the organise tion Is to adjourn the way ang it the members youse meebs at 12 size the senate ai ’ hened by Speaker Baird and opposing a1 How a Joint assembly mee for Abbett. This { meeting at 12 o'clock, and if {| Baird and Throckmorton te with the He ipublicans agaiost adjournment before that | hour leave the at sea {regard to their determination (0 meel each day and vote for United States sen The wganization of the senate at will also to prevent it. Altogether there may be The assembly chamber is thronged at each session with visitors, expectant a repetition of the scenes which took place al the opening of the session Another caucus is to be held by © licans at 1140, to decide finally abx ganization of the senate. Gen. Sewell left for Washington at 11 o'clock last night. Before leaving he said “1 am in this fight to stay and I will not be driven out by any man.” womgibilitly of voile it be held 5 it will Democrats in ator tend sone fan of be Repub- it the or Hevolt of Jersey Convicia Textron, N. J, Feb 1 Some excite ment was occasioned in the state®prison yes terday afternoon by fifteen convicts who refused to go to work in the laundry depart ment under Keeper Moore. The gang was led by Convict Thomas, who is serving a long term for manslaughter and who is regarded ns a desperate character. He told Moore that the men had made up their mitis not to work under him say longer. The men stood threateningly and awaited a sign to attack Moore, who touched the bell for help. In half a minute several deputy Kkeepirs ro sponded to the call and with drawn revolvers quickly cowed the convicts, who were marched to the prison center, where they were put in irons and returned to their cells, They will be thoroughly disciplined and when taken to work again will be placed in different squads, Congresslonnl Doings. W asninaron, Feb. 1.-The sub-committee of the house committee on naval affairs, hav. ing in charge the various hills providing for pew war vessels, has reached an informal Bo {ar it | BRIEF MENTION. | BUMMARY OF THE WEEK'S HAPPEN i INGS IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS, | Accidents and Incidents Personal Men. in All Parts of | tion--Saylugs and Doings of the World the Day, Upon the Questions Adv cen Tron Be Prince B the effect that erin are Wo g the found pope, Wl eX Jc tod the ov he g elections for mend : anh the have $ he y my ner +3 the a he Des their vi lated penaltie Mary residing at the leave } » MARL a XA Van near 4 0 ached 14 mista 3 her with a knife std » As & neler oO club Gladstone has been imittanos i 0a the Hollingsworth, Kn treasurer, has give ndiana fafa inde Selanuiting n justice in three Harvey's killing thers Woman ¥: the old CRE EX PIoQed “18 spent h excite Ha i oaYa x Holey ¥ 1 attempted mi i wmbens 10 be fol men at Jowed by a 13 i) : Chicago's ooRine experi menter, has been committed to an asylum for the insane A sensation was produced in a will contest at Louisville, Ky,, by a lady, the contestant, pleading Lier own case. She won applause, but lost the suit, a by two bY thre Broa Gen. Simon Cameron and party salled for Bermuda After five months’ consideration the Cana- dian customs authorities have imposed the moderate fine of $25 on the American vessel Howard Holbook for violating the customs laws in landing a man without first report. ing and getting permission, h vigorous attitude of congress on the fisheries question is believed to have produced an effect upon Canada in more ways than one, Chicago tobacco manufacturers have or- ganized to protest against the proposed re- duction in the internal revente fax on tobacoo and cigars. There are six large fac tories and thirteen small ones in Chicago. a - GOOD ADVICE, Dr. Hale, one of the most successful ma. agers of farms in Centre county, ad vises that the best thing for the owner, as well as teonants, isto have from three to five acres in rye or corn and reen food for cattle; remove the middle ots and keep in the stock and not re them: much better for the stock and the land he mmintaios, and use all the bay and fodder on the place. Feed and lend, 100 moch impoverished, for farming to pay, Baroyard fertilizers are better than imported phosphate, s0 says agreement upon part of the work has been pro that there shall be two 4,000 ton cruisers of the Newark pattern: four gunboats, like gunboat No. 1 now in course of construction, and three boats. It is believed a bill can be laid before the full general It has been shown that the vessels were catching seal outside of the three mile limit, and were therefore well within their rights, according to the construction this government has always insisted upon. A ————S—— Coal Blockade at Port Richmond. PmuaveLrnta, Feb L-There are about 100,000 tons of coal accumulated at Port Richmond. The Read company's own vessals are Lhe only ones that can be for shipping coal, and they have only 15,000 Joe Furey in the Lock Haven Democrat. A Ss MD AIS A 8, RENEWS HER YOUTH. , Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay a Rely et remarkable sory, the tush of which is vouched for by residents of the town: “I am 73 yam old, have been troubled with questions likely to lead to controversy. The committee appointed at the last meeting will confer with Speaker Car lisle a8 to the oest mode of proceda re, Since ladies wear hats, wouldn't po- liteness require that they tip them on meeting young gents, even after having passed them the length of a fence rail? - WEEDING OUT THE DEMOCRATS, At Harrisburg the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth are being gradually weeded out and Republicans put in their places, Thus far three of Governor Pattison’s clerks Lave been succeeded by members of the opposite party. The remaining Dem. acratie clerks will have to go as soon ae kill the betrayer of a woman is proposed in Iilinols, and is suported even by clergymen, A bill introduced in the New York assem: bly proposes to make combinations to corner articles of food, fuel and other of life legal offenses and punishableag wich. John L. Sullivan, champion pugilist of the world, fainted ina doctor's chair while he was having his injured arm rebroken. After it was properly set the great spgger felt sick, but talked fight. Dr. Schooler, dean of the Town of | tons total daily capacity. The company's Physicians and Surgeons, at Das bas | officials say that the Caocoura, which lately been indicted for grave robbery. | applied at Port Richmond for a eargo, will Mr. Tisard, so ntendent of not be loaded. works at Cape ¥ nceidentally Lorillard's Strike Ended, killed his assistant, Mr. Roach, ah edn Serine u J. A. McHale is suing for nw Yong, strike at Lorie ho lard's tobacco in Jersey City is Arbor, Mich., but js unable 10 factory if wi : ended, the smployes returning uncondition. identify his wife, aly 0 that their rant. a melon given upon the promise grievances a Ta as a ho tri : sonaiered und satitfec 1) 4 arm the doctor suddes rill at a It seems quite strange to us, a fisherman, that Uncle Sam and J lin Bull should fall out about fishing. We have followed fishing for the last twon. ty summers and never fell out with ny one. We fell in the water sometim id ti ——————— ol The son of millionaire Senator | air, in a Washington saloon, asked congress man Page to take a drink, which the congressman declined. Young Fair then drew a pistol, which Page was quick enough to take from the [young snob, and led the senatorial chip ogt of the saloon. What business has i gressman to say, no, when a sofi-§f Senatdr wants to set "em up, question, - cat A i lend soreness, and am wble to do sil wy the sum of $95 i, 3 A Doctor's Sudden Death. Brxouamrox, N. YV., Feb, L-Dr, A. Thayer, ex-mayor of this city, all minsnis ation A fioe new dwelling house on Main is for 1} of wages by the mivers at Wick