f OLD SERIES XL | NEW SERIES XX THE CENTRE REPORTR. | FRED KURTZ. . Editor. he trees are leaving——what will we hade this summer? SIRT, lani, of Hawai, and r of Princess L Hawaii, ir servants, arrivedin W opinion seems to think the sen- Reinl of ( too severe. ard rs certainly were looking into the cheering business newspapers thanks Gren d work hundred emigrants » are enroute for Utah to 10d n 18y are ace several mormon elders, who ug with the party as a resuait vting trip. The party is com- dren, with plen- Whea questioned about their views of the polygamous features f the Mormon faith | of women and chi money some of them ex- pressed surprise and ignorance, and there ttle d yubt that many of them have n They speak of Utah as a land flowing with milk and honey. leceived. Ve predict something like an old fash- ioned Democratic major ity in our county Having seen a great number active Democrats. from all sections, within the last three months, we gather this their expressions, There seems to be a settled determination that the old majorities shall be restored and no loophole shall be allowed for dissaris- faction, We have conversed with a ma- jority of those who will be candidates, and every one isanxious for a harmoni- ous campaign, no one for a moment will hesitate to abide by the decision of the county convention, That's the good old Democratic spirit, and it angurs well for the party. A good ticket will be nomin- ated, we predict, under this feeling, and a large number of good Democrats will find some other good Democrat nomin- ated, and afl will join in for a triumph over the old foe, who is crowding us out of a fair congressional and legislative ap- portionment, and trying to gobble up all offices in boro’, township, state and na- tion, next fall. f O i from A CASH SYSTEM. The Rerorter has frequently spoken ding farmers and mechanics, doubt of its beneficial business house, of the establishment of the cash hin sibility 18 months if the business n is needed is the will, the saying that Let the workingman be paid his wages at the end of his day’s work, or at the of the week, in cash or its equiva- him in turn pay the storekeep- whom and every one from let the merchant pay cash or jnivalent for all the produce he pur- hus i n every ordinary busi- do ong and confused settlements with chases ; and t ness transaction. This would Away with tendant misunderstandings and wttend ninable credit system in debt before they are aware of it and away goes their little under the sher- the erty, at a sacrifice, hammer, cash system 3 would not be sO Ire be quent an occur- v not non nos e, ause one would the be boring man out of his not be so great, and all he better off for it, begin- has been made , merchants business. Hall on the Centre r tier asi Dess Cash loing The Re: ted the cash system, has prac- for years yRTER, which has advoca it on its side for the last twenty- » years, There may be in the i1AVEe no not regret the Wee in DORBeSKION at Tussey - cash system and offers cial inducements t Mr. ) CAS purchasers, Barthol seer hg + reaans informs vs that hereafter he will business upon the cash system, and hink after a trial, he will also find the proper way to do business, In conclusion, we will add, the credit system is at the bottom of many failures in Dusiness, A GREAT STRIKE IN CHICAGO, Chicago is have to great strike, thousand hod carriers and orers will be idle, a about three 3 lal They were order- +1 ef] out at a special mass-meeting held by Hod-Carriers’ Union. A strike of men had been threatened, but ac- cording to the reports received at the meeting, 102 of the 135 of the employers have granted the demands of the Union. the y (EK) The hod-carriers are demanding an in« crease of three cents per hour—to 25 cents, The strike of the house laborers will affect fully chanics will laborers, 10,000 men, as the me- not work with non-union --——— BEAVER'S SECOND VETO. Croyernor Beaver sent a second com munication to the senate vetoing the bill authorizing railroad and canal com- panies to aid in the developement of coal, iron, lumber and other material in terests of the commonwealth, The gov- ernor says : “The provisions of the orig- inal bill, passed in 1869, were undoubt- edly proper, viewed from a constitution. al standpoint at the time but under our new constitution every incorporated company doing business as a common carrier is forbidden, directly or indirect~ ly, to prosecute or engage in mining or manufacturing articles for transporte. tion over its works or to engage directly or indirectly in any other business than that of a common carrier, ~(30 to Loehs, if you want to see the finest lot of dry goods in Central Penn's, All the latest and most hand some styles—assortment complete, and Call BUit any taste. A i Hired In haydsome drems pode as - NULLIFICATION. Our good neighbor, the Lewisburg ification organ, hat side, if from Chronicle, an old anti-null we the which it virtu f )i has at last gone over to t read the following aright, Chronicle of the 28th, in lifica ally preaches the doctrine of nullifi tlon. It says: “In Huntingdon county, the ass are inflexible temperance ms that Jud with refer k the | { Judges and while they ddmitted | Furst was governed by law { ence to granting licenses, they too | responsibility to vote him down, ref all licenses and risk the consequences Judge Furst is also a man, but is compelled by law, bad as it is, and pleased with the spunk shown by While the President . l the s Now, stronger y Lhe 1 i ue se strong temperance } governed he associates, license law were enas unty disapprove sy necessary, woul Mo been in men who have no nparatively i sis fF inrge few t+ Ars Many 3 en by corres; Bn business art prominent others of generally joalilications these men and industries, les are writt Newspapers note ’ iCR8er are seldom men t wrongfully pie MIXINDeRS as g thi pot the with Wei du at wher made large fir anes by own basiness talent aod indostry chose with ity and f $ such businesses as would lead when handled with busineas No man bas been brought before ie public as an example of success. both in wealth and magnitode of his business {outside of stock and railroad more prominent than Dr. (1. G. Green of Woodbury, N. J. He is at the head of many large business industries. and yet comparatively a young man When the fact that Angust Flower, for dvs pepsia and liverjeomplaint and Bosches's German Syrup, for coughs and long troubles, has grown to a wonderful sale in all parts of the world, it proves that it was uot an accident or spontanecus sirike at wealth, His medicines are recognized as valuable and established remedies and the business has grown radoally and permanently during the ast eighteen years on account not alone of Dr. Green's ab.lities as a business man or his “good lock,” but on the actual merits of the two preparations, — Copied from the N. Y. Weekly Sun, of Dec 2, 1886, § 1a Of accident b Carp those we have met 1 hat mel 1 e 1 1 HAN ther they rethooght LO BOCCesR udgement, saga + t nen » a dr ——-—- There once was a people who prayed that they might have a king. They got a king. There was a people who sighed for an Inter-State Commerce act. They got an Inter-State Commerce act ENJOY LIFE. What a truly beantifal world we live in! Nature gives us grandeur of moun- tains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means of enjoyment. We can desire no better when in perfect health; but how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discourag. ed aod worn out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily «btain satis factory proof, that Green's August Flower, will make them free from disease, as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Com plaint are t e direct causes of seventy. five per cent, of such maladies as Bilious ness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizgi- ness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove ite wonderful Sample bo 10 cents. Tryit. | GREAT FLOODS IN MAINE, Heavy Hains Rivers Higher Than in 18 Years ~Dunmage Done, WaTeERvVILLE, Me, May! falling for i Kennet 1 has been 86 hours n the greater YOArs mills Two million logs a we Bomerset r past to ne river rising The valer n rise rap morni TO CONCENTRATE THEIR VOTE. 1 allied A National { of Their Vote In onvention red Men IRHN. Freight Tralas in Col Making Trade Lively 1s, May Ww H an g 0 be a nephew of Armour, of Chicago, pgaged here grocers’ sup. country, and with let. a small 87. Lot & young m the millionaire Phil am mman has for sever heen orders 2 plies from commer ters asi KLOTE rox where he put in groceries and flour. One of the agencies reports that no bank in Nt uld pay for the goods Armour has His transactions have created a sensation commercial circles. al weeks eo r and flooded He has 1.220 High street, of at No A Smal $Y slook Louis o« ordered Only 8100,000 May 2 Short. James N. Tag 2 teller of the Union Trust com- An examination © PHiLAD gart, payi pany, has absconded the book of the company shows a deficit o something less than $100,000. Taggart was last at the office on Friday, April 15. When be disappeared his accounts were fo be incorrect. Fast life is supposed to have ruined Taggart. He was an amatur boxer and a backer of professional pugilists. LPIA, i Nineteen RBulldings Burned. | Kasxxaxzs, lL, May 2-An incendiary | fire was discovered in this city yesterday. Under a stiff breeze it swept through a por. | tion of the city filled with frame business | houses and residences, quickly leveling to | the ground nineteen buildings, including German Lutheran and French Presbyterian churches. The losses will aggregate $60,000, Notes Prom the Labor Field, Three hundred cornice makers in New York, struck for higher wages. About 250 inside roofers struck in New York for an advance from §2.95 to 88.00 a day, Four hundred stone cutters struck in Newark vecause the master stone cutters refused to grant an advance of two cents an hour. Most of the restaurant keepers of Chi cago have acoodod to the demand of their waiters for higher wages A few large restaurants are holding out, and thelr men will strike A Central Labor Union committee will ask Bpeakdr Husted to give Assemblyman Uraham a chance to take on bis bill * lating convict labor. To-night an agite! meting is to be held le Cooper Union, | THE FENIAN RAID. Amusing Reminiscences of the Invasion of the Dominion in 1866. “I see by the 'said Captain W. F. Atkinson to a reporter for the Detroft Tribune, as he took an easy attitude at his office desk, ‘“that in case England and the United Blates go to war some great things are to be performed across the river. It was only the day some journal stated that 104 es enlisted plong the f Michi. gan; that they wr be equiped and or- ganized at Windsor, and then cross over and take possession of Detroit, “Now, a young man like yourself can not ponceive disaster of such a contin. gency. Itis difficult to grasp the signifi pance of suck on the part of our neighbors practical experience comes to the They are bold, bad fighters over 1 know. for I fought r IX iueh, papers other men would b shores opposite 4 aia he if a fatality. nian stru They wo them to insu hat was pf ‘04.7 Captain fortably the civil was Arge class « were aggre ggls settled himself eom- and reminiscent “When action, They seemed sy in warfare f Canad the Jue the 1 cannon est excitament or river. We sat on and enjoyed it f this ight and discharged diately there was the the su side of the Port arned and ver that 1 Imm the Huron docks se It was in a very droll manner that Csp- tain Atkinson related these “fortunes of war,” and he con Another time 1 remember three our got up a great signal scheme They procured some skyrockets and two of them crossed to Sarnia, while the third drove a little way south of Port Hurom on the river The men Canada took nt positions; stationed himself opposite Gratiot and the other went in back Sarnia Right came, when fiz! went a rocket balow Fort Huron. It was answered by another away in the woods behind Barnia, and this by a third across from Fort Gratiot. The En- glishmen could not make itoutat all. We could, for we paid for the rockets. “Things were growing a little tedious night, inte bediam. and the tinued of f fellows frot in differen 3 one Fort of Drums beat and fifes sounded, There were a lot of piles off the mouth of Black river in those days. They had for. merly formed a part of an old wharf. The staging had burned, Joaviag the tall, black piles standing alone and friendless in the river It seemed that ome of the Queen's sentinels had mistaken those piles for boats. The inference at once was that the Fenians were repeating the performance of ‘Washington crossing the Delaware.’ The whole country about Sarnia was so thoroughly agitated that the people seemed fairly insane, “Wa never crossed to Sarnis,” conclud- od the captain. “I took all the men I could muster to Northeastern New York to oo operate with O'Neil. He was the leader of the Fenian movement and was arrested by a United States officer before my com mand reached him. The Enghsh Govern. ment offered $500 for my arrest, but no one was the wealthier for it. The Fenian war consisted of ove engagement, the bate tie of Ridgway. The Queen's Own’ were not victorious. They had a sort of go-as- you-please pedestrian match after the first Suslaughn to see who would reach Toronto rat.” The ship Patrician reports i thir teen icebergs from 50 Jo w0 Post hed off Nova Scotla. She also brought in the crew of the schooner L. B. Young, of Nova Bodin, which SPTURE 8 leuk ut son and ind | ! NO. 18 NEWS OF THE WEEK. Queen r Londot There wer A SAVAGE ——————— PRIZE FIGHT. The Belfast Spider Defeats Philadelphia's Featherweight May Champion, New You Weir lar and W «OT “wil ¥e atherws Kx § Hpider we ww h : MW Ig weighed Tw * Twenty 3} Was so fered u nc w him 8 2 would 1 ise the words “id t to lead, landing wking him down. In led again, landing oa splitting the skin and draw- nd fourth ing blood. The second, Founds were all in the it jooked like & walk boy Clark picked up in the fifth r had decidedly the best of that r did not last, however that on he was outfought at every point and punished perribly. ' His second threw up the spooge twenty-first round, as Clark was u boo. He was covered with to MW and from in the nable to bicod, and wok all the fight : Alexander Mitchell's Estate. Muwavkes, May 1.—The will of Alexan- der Mitchell, the millionaire banker, has been made public. No approximation of the value of the estate is made and the will prevent the filling of an inventory, so that the exact wealth Jeft by Mr itchell will never be known. It is believed to be from §15000,000 to 825, 000,000. The entire property, real and per- sonal, is left to his only son, Joha Ka Mitchell, after deducting the following Jegacies: Mrs. Martha Mitchell, widow, $200,000 and homestead valued at §500,000, and $50,000 annually ; Mra. Isabella Mackie, of Milwaukoe niece, $25,000; seven bequests to public charities aggregating 50,000; Jessie Mitchel, of Aberdeen, Bootland, his sister, $500 a year. The property known ance company's bank is divided equally be- tween John IL. Mitchell, John Johnston, his nephew, and David Ferguson, his most intimate friend. i Mr. O'Brien on the Sea, Quesxsrows, May 2.—Mr. Wm. O'Brien, sditor of United frecand, and Mr. Kilbride, one of the tenants evioted from the Lans downe estates, sailed hence for New York on the steamer Umbria. The mayor and the municipal council of Queenstown and various other bodies presented Mr. O'Brien with addresses. A crowd of several thou. sand persons gathered to bid him farewell, and he was called upon for a speech. In the course of his remarks Mr. O'Hrien saad that he carried with him the full approval of the Irish people. He fell that when the liberty-loving Canadians heard a true so count of Lord Lansdowne's cruelty to his tenants they would got consent to be gov erned by such & man.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers