CENTRE REPORTER. Editor THE FRED KURTZ. I pay fthe present The entire increase wn for the last five vears coming pataral ‘nerease of personal rity, and amounted to but With this and in addition to the ordi nary expenses of the county they bave expended on Repairs to jail “Steam fixtures for mil Repairs to Court House Steam Heat for Court House, Indexing, by order of Court For bridges a . JES Making a total of extraordinary expen ses of $34.523 81, or $10,000 more than the increased taxation amounted to. This with the payment of $83116 00 of indebtedness, and a balance over in favor of the county amounting to $24,142.13 is what the Democratic esnnty commissioners have to point to, and which the Gazette says amounts to nothing compared with the alleged #3. 000 saved by the Republican council of Bellefonte. congress for transmorgified Well, th Fenton ning v f Penn been not rong mad and be proud of sylvania who eastern and great the same |} balance thie The an of iin that never be made. i thn in Lhe opinion an ET be th the court shonld it necessary, for sidered as a whole mfirmation is reversed.” TC SC A Wr, FREE TRADE, The re taking off of revenue stamps fronn Proprietary Medicines, no doubt has argely benefitted the consumers, as weil relieving the burden of home mann factures, F«pecially is this the case with August Flower and Bosched's Syrup, as the reduction of six cents per dozen, has bevn add- i to increase the size of the bottles can- these remedies; thereby giving th more medicine in the 76 cent he August Flower for Dyspepsia and Liver Complaiot, andthe German Syrup tor Cough and Lang tronbles, have erhiaps, the largest sale of any med- ivines in the world, Tue adVantage of nereased size of the bottles will he greatly appreciated by the sick and af flicted, in every town and village in civilized eountries, Sample botiles for 10 cents remain the same size, 14 nan taining 3 i one fi - -_— - Boring styles in summer goods fo- anita have been opened at 8, U, Thomp son's Bellefonte, - A VERY NARROW ESCAPE, “Yeu, I had a very narrow escape,” sald a prom. inent oitizen to a friend. “I was confined to my bed for a year and my friends gave mg up for a consumptive’s grave, antl I began using Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Langs, and here 1 am, sound and hearts.” You will find it for sale by J. D. Mormy., Price 50c and $1. Sample Bottle Free. 1 HA LL. PA. PLUKGE. ble here this eral Hatlrog ABSENT-MINDED WOMEN. of Mental the Cases Preocoupation in Gentier Sex, BAW tows dreased mats in a Bouth black silk re by a very domesth Hor riding own Her elegant ted in front ceable look Car 1 prote BOTY he w gingham ag fn. vor which she had It was evident had p i ¥ visit to her her HHO Woeoks sinee well down mecious that stit her sea that she ttahen wraps immediately belior donning Again, | before the cold attired lady Bate street, she was destitute any head covering She had been paving mil liners and had forgotten her head gear, A Indy once told me that after trying on some hats at a fashionable store and mak- ing a selection for an order to be filled, the trimmer remarked: “I can take the size of the frame from the bonnet you have on, or 1s that your own!" “Most cor tainly,” said the customer, stifiy. The proprietor, who was an old friend of the customer, smiled and queried suggestive ly: “Of that you are sure!” The cus tomer put up her hand, turned to the glass and beheld herself arrayed in ono of the store's patiorn hats. “It actually made my blood run cold” said she, “to reflect that I might have been as absent. minded in a store where 1 was not known, and might have started for the door. Im sgine iB" weather came-—-a walking pe riectly f 0 f serenely unt a visit to the FIRING HOTELS IN Horrible Seenvs at the Burning of Richmond Hotel, Its Safety Doubted Mar Rome Thue, Mcia considers shiown thr pdent A Ginmunicalion INMIssion dge Hesioners wrote this If it load wiher it ture of bridge is an oddity has never the comm wonld not be wise and ft now and ntervals hereafter Interyals or longer, a Year or more, accord he behavior of the bridge under the the test to consist in putting on a load somewhat heavier than the bridge is ever called upon to bear in the course of your business, noting the load put on, the deflection taken by the bridge under that foad, and the amount of recovery after that | A series of such records been tested riven iasioners 0 test | perhaps load is removed would show conclusively whether or not the bridge tested was maintaining its strength and safety." Denth of Mother Eanphemin, Barrivonr March 18 Mothor Euphemin, mother superior of the Bistors of Charity of the United Slates, and superior of Mount Ht Joseph's Academy. died at the mother house, near Emmittaburg, this state, The of death was inflammation of the stomach She had been confined wo her room for some months, but her illness was not consi lyre 1 serious until about a woek ago. Last Wadneaday she grew rapidly worse and continued Wo sak until midnight when the chaplain of the academy administs ered the holy sacrament. AL Re a 1887 A LAVA DESERT. Bome of the Hesults the Western of Voleanie Action in Wonderiand, A writer ' Wh rancisco Bays: mountains wi s head of the great Here, beyond the granite axis of the main range, we en. the ( Vi 14 nditions Chrondels Rocky waters Passing the counter First, as gradually they forn the streams | BCE ference to the map twill b ¢ hat iis bend begins a AY 3 nd ne iS « parche hrives the 3 rainy buffalo peri 5 4 “ee ETass spr m h, here find a In fact, then aradise myvenient and one oan Pp the thar Overy game ugh clearing tly browsing and sight such n eir- cuitous lanes « At on the succul seldfm of the ETass start hunters bers are slain and for their hides alone of deer appare of has not returni for this outfiow the crater with It is agreed, however, that, while the different flows have oo curred at different periods, the Boake river lava flelds are comparatively recent, over. laying chiefly the Champlain Terrace epochs. Other sections show, however, that the successive strata from the middle tertiary or miocene epoch have received their lava coating. From the past, there. fore, it seems that our own age must at some time see a similar convulsion, al though the time will always be a matter of conjecture To account A Brutal Fight, Honsxztisvitng, N. Y., March 17.-A brutal fight occurred here between a notorious rufflan named Marvin and a le digh brakemah named Daniel Ryan. Ryan may die He had several ribs broken, one par torn from his head and his skull erushad in In Talmage's Faipit. Brookrys, March? The pulpit of the Tabernacle was filled at both the morning and avening services by Rev. John MoClel- ian Holmes who seemed to satisfy the flock in the absence of Dr. Talmage. Peter J. Inglis, arrested in New York and suspected as the possible murderer of Ly. man 8. Weeks, has accounted for his move. ments on the night of the tragedy. Edward Williams, a miner, aged twenty- four years, employed in the Black Diamond Colliery, Wilkesbarre, was instaatly killed by a mass of rock and coal falling on him. By a collision between two trains on the Pennsylvania tracks at Toledo the orews of both engines and a boy was injured The boy had his back broken and 1 die. The coal operators of the Phashiarg jad Hocking Valley districts fixed the di erence in the price of coal delivered on . bound veussia at lain ports at 20 cents per UR MEN fies His Re BERS four Secret Organization of Colored Men A np of degrees wore char Greenville there are now ff clubs, with MO colored mem be hu coeodings cently ii 8 mass n wept Georg believed th Cumulative Sentences llegal, Darrort, March 2. Ten sent to the house of correction from Idaho on cumulative sents were by Judge Neverens in the United States circuit court, with the distru escenoe, under the supreme court's ruling that cumulstive sentences gre not jegal The names of the liberated men are Rasmus Nelson, Hans Rasmussen, Christo. pher Gardiner, Nels Jansen Joryensen, Nels Graham, John Jolly, William Handy, Thomas Wide, Andrew Jacobson and John J. Williams Mormons noes, released t attorney's acquis Ralsing a Crop of Codflah, WasmixoroN, March 21. «During the past winter, which was an unusually severe one at sea, the fish commission sucoeaded in hatching thirty-five million cod opgs, bringing the young up by the hand, so to speak, to the stage of self fooding adole- scence and turning thea loose into Lhe cova. This “crop” will be ripe four or five years hence. Reashup on the Grand Trank, Isoenrsont, Ont, March 21.--The Bt Louis express on the Grand Truok railway ran Into the engine of & special freight train at this station wracking both engines and baggage cars and badly dunaging two coaches. No owe was injured. The cause was a defective air brake.