OLD SERIES XX
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I NEW SERIES XL
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THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED KURTZ - =~ Editor.
CHRISTMAS,
Right ahead of us there, is Christmas
~just within sight, not farther off than
next Sunday. All the Christian world
isin honest glee over the coming annis
versary of the birth of Christ—the great
est of all bolidays.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year, is the Reporter's greeting and wish
to all itereaders. May the most genial
su shine cheer their paths in the future,
and the mantel of mellow moonlight be
deck them atevein calm and serene
slumbers, with undisturbed consciences
in the New Year, leaving no hidiog place
for a speck of grief or cause for a tear of
SCITOW,
All mankind has reason to rejoice and
be glad—no event, no battle, no achieve
ment, no conquest, nothing has been
go full of blessings for the human Trace,
as the birth of the Saviour. Nations bow
before Him. Millions seek bim, for so.
lace and acknowledge Him as the great
deliverer and offer peans of praise in
hovor of his coming, his sufferings for us,
and of his matchless love.
Christmas shonld inspire a thought of
greatful praize, fringed in purest glee, and
forgetfol of all sadness, Bow, not as
slaves, but in reverence as freed from
the law, by the King of Kings, who
3 5 only love and kindness, and by
whose will 25 (esiament a rich inberi
tance is set apart for all who will acrent
it.
A Merry Christmas, thes, to aii fol
lowed by the happiest of New Years
Peace on earth and good will to men, is
the proclamation from on high; rejoice
and be glad.
ALL THE BELLS,
“11 the bells on earth shall ring
Oa Christmas day, on Christmas day,
And all the souls on earth shall sing
Oa Christmas day in the morning.”
Another back clerk bas gone Wrong
bot did not have achance to go to Can-
ads. On 15 Joseph Knight, the book-
keeper of the Manufacturers’ National
bank was taken before United States
Commissioner Edwards cba ged with
stealing from the funds of the hank be.
tween sixty and seventy thousand dol-
lars. The officers of the bank discovered
Knight's delinquencies several weeks
go and placed the case in the hands of
the Pinkerton agency, and Koight was
arrested a few days ago. It is said that
Knight had been appropriating to his
own use the bank's money for nearly
twenty-five vears. He has been in the
employ of the bank for nearly thirty-five
years and has always been considered
trustworthy.
Among the prumineot manufactarers
~ho have indorsed the president's tariff
views is Mr. A. B. Farquhar, of York,
shis State. Mr. Farquhar isa. life-long
Republican, but he pelieves the time
has come when the oppressive and un-
necessary war duties levied inthe tariff
should be reduced so that industry may
be disburdened of the incubus they have
Jaid npon it. There are many manuface
turers who share the sentiments of Mr
Farquhar,
F.L Harper, the president of the Fi-
delity Bank of Cincinnati, was found
guilty yesterday of embezz'ing its funds
and sent tothe penitentiary for ten
years. There was gn affecting scene in
court when his sentence was anounced,
his wife being completely prostrated by
the blow; but when the namber of inno-
cent depositors and stockholders that he
ruined is remembered, there is little
gympathy for his misfortunes.
The gueen of the Gypsies was crown-
ed 8 aw nights ago at Fort George, on
the Sionx Reservation, The queen ig
Mrs. Douglass Carfin, the intelligent
Indian Princess receotly married to a
white man. The ooicnation was wit-
nesssd by a number of whites and hun.
dreds of Indians, The queer was loaded
dow. with presents and looked very
piatiy,
EPRAT———
The new President of the French Re
publiclis nerr-sighted, It requires g man
in that position to be farsighted if he
would accomplish anything, says sn ex.
change. Inthe Reporte”s opinion if he
can only see 18 far as Germany. is all
Franca cares for.
The soow of last Saturday night meas
ured from 18 to 2% inches in depth in
the eastern counties of ouretate. In this
gection it was only about three inches
deep.
There fis not a syllable in President
Cieveland’s message in favor of free trade,
but he wants the revenues and taxation
peduced, and shows how to do it.
The tari gnestion gat inte the state
mesting, lest week, aod thar
were advocates for and against Cleve
jand’s policy.
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WHO HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY ?
Even a horse would laugh, if it could,
over the clumsy efforts of the Tribune,
and the Republican leaders generally, to
criticise as novel President Cleveland's
insistence on an immediate obliteration
of all surplus taxes, This is what each
national convention said in 1884;
DEMOCRATIC, REPUBLICAN,
™That change The Democratic party
sary is proved by an ex-jhas failed completely to
isting lieve tha people of the
surplus of more(rel
than $100,000000, whichiburden of unnecessary
yy 6 wise reduc
has yearly been collected taxation t
trom a suffering people. {tion of the surplus. The
Unnecessary taxation is| Republican party pled-
unjust taxation, * * Siges itself to correct the
The Democratic party lsjirregularities of the tar
edged *o revise the tar- {i and to reduce the sur
{rina spirit of fairnessiplus,
to all interests, :
Then the Republicanscondemned, and
very justly condemned, the Democratic
party (so far as concerned the House of
lepresentatives), because it bad not com-
pletely relieved the people of the burden
of unnecessary taxes,
Many newspaper editors have short
memories, During the last twenty years
each Democratic House, each Democratic
Speaker and esch Democratic ways and
means committee bas endeavored, or pro-
fessed to endeavor, to reduce taxes on
the lines laid down by the President on
Tuesday last. If those editors will turn
to President Cleveland's inaugnral ad-
dress, and to hit annua! message of 1886
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they will find the same ideas on taxation
reduction as are in the message of last
fuesday. The only difference is in more
elaboration in the last message, butnot
more than Mr. Manning presented in
194% and 1886, as the advice to Congress
of the administration. President
and Mr. Manning were, in 1886, quite as
drastic fortariff reform as is the Presi.
dent in 1887. Not & proposition of sound
political economy can be found in the
President's latest message that cannot be
in the Democratic national plat-
of 1876, 1880 and Governor
Tilden was chosen to in
1876 on the very tariff ideas which were
elaborated by President Cleveland on
Tuesday last.
The
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forms 1584,
be President
Ap an
One of the earliest suggested uses for
aleciriz lights and electric motors was
in coal and other mines, where want of
resh air and sometimes the presence of
dangerous gases limit the use f other
lights and motors, Thus far, however,
very little has been done the way of
moroving mine equipments by the use
The Eleciric World de~
scribes an electrical railway recently in
troduced in the Lykens Valley collieries
Pennsylvaniz) as the first in America
and the largest in the world. It was pat
in operation Jaly last, isa little more
than a mile long, in use
ever since, hauling with ease trains of
rom 10 rock or
coal. weighiog from 50 to 100 tons, The
dehiesinger system and machines are
ased. Inthe mine the conductor of elec-
tricity is an iron rail, supported on props
slongside the track and from two to six
feot above it. The current returns to the
dynamo by the rails on which the cars
ran. The electric railway is said to be
more economical than steam or mnle
power, but its greatest advantage is that
it consumes no oxygen and does not
give forth smoke or other noxions gases.
The trains are run at the rate of six miles
sn hour, and are under perfect control.
The electricity is farnished from a dyna-
mo set up cutside of the mine,
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and has been
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cars loaded with
Mr. J. G. McSparren, overseer of the
state grange, Patrons of Husbandry, ia
bis report madeto that body opposed the
repeal of the internal revenue and favor-
ed tariff reform. He said that in order
to protect the wool industry amounting
$45 000,000, the people pay as consumers
an eccessive tax of $146.000,000, He also
stated that from 1850 to 1560, under a
low tariff, the valuation of farms increas.
ed 100 per cent. while from 1870 0 1880,
uvder a high tariff, it increased but 9 per
cent,
Overseer McSparren has evidently
given some study to the effect of the tar
iff upon industry. He ls not bitten by
the tarantula of protectionism, nor is he
frightened by the bugaboo of “free trade.”
His ideas are hased upon stubborn facts,
demovnstrabla figures, He! does not deal
in ghttering generalities or use mislead.
ing toerune, bot goes straight to the heart
of hissobject with an incisiveness of
manner that is simply irresistible, Mr,
McBparrea has the logic of truth on his
aide and therefore his argaments are ir
refatable.
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WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY IN LAND-
NG.
Secretary Fairchild took official notice
to day of the report that 2,030 Belgian
miners are to be imported to take the
place of the Lehigh region nowon a
strike. He sent telegrams to the collec
tors of customs at New York, Philadel
phia, Boston sud Baltimore, calling
their attention to the rep ort and instruct
ing them to be vizilant in preventing any
violation of the alien coutract labor law,
RI As sis
The Pennsylvania Republicans think
of cffering Don Cameron for president.
Well, let it ba don.
MILLIONS OF [CHINESE HOME|
LESS, |
The steamer City of Sydney srriv
from Hong Kong and Yokohama. The!
Chinese give details of a disaster occa- |
sioped by the Yellow river overflowing
its banks in the province of Honau and
describe it as one of the most appalling
occurrences in the loss of life and prop-
erty recorded in recent times, The riv-
er broke its banks on the morning of
September 28, southwest of the city of |
Chingchow, and not only completely in-|
undated that city, but also ten other
populous cities, The whole area is now
a raging sea, ten to thirty feet deep,
where it was onoe densely populated and
a rich plane. The former bed of the Yel-|
low river is now dry and the present]
lake was the bed of the river centuries)
#go. The loss of life is incalculable, and |
a statement is made by the missionaries |
that millions of Chinese are homeless
and starving.
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UNCLE GUNTHER'S MILL.
In Whiting, Washington county,
Maine, lives an old fellow pamed Gun
ther, who has acquired tbe title of
“Champion Crank of Maine.” He re-
cently completed, after months of hard
work and at considerable expense, a saw
grist-mill upon the summit of a lofty
On the side of the building isa
big over-shoot wheel, while just under
the roofis an immense tank. Uncle
Gunther, who is a religions fapatic of
the first order, says tbat he built the
mill to convince people that all prayers
will be answered when accompanied by
a sufficient degree of faith. He declares
that God will send rain enough to koep
the mill-wheel going whenever he prays
for it.
One of his neighbors asked hin, “What
is the watter with building the mill
down on the stream?’ He seplied that
it wasn't a mill he was after, buta method
of reclaiming sinners,
he mill hasn't started, but Uncle
Gunther says he hasn't asked for any
rain yet. He thinks the neighbors will
all be converted in time, and meanwhile
the mill on the hill will serve as a Jand-
mark.
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The resolutions and speeches in the
State granges of Pennsylvania and Dei.
aware, approving the principles of Pres.
ident Cleveland's message, are significant
indications of the sentiment of Ameri.
aan farmers on the subject of tax reduc
tion. It will soon become evident that
not only agriculturists and merchants,
but financiers and a large majority of
manufacturers will unite in bringing to
the support of the Democratic policy of
1888 such a combination of patriotic influ-
ence as has never been known before,
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The 16 000,000 laborers who are not
protected by a tariff should be regarded
folly as much as the 2.000000 who are
protected, especially as these 2,000,000
are also forced to pay back as consumers
the bonos they exact as producers.
ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
After the marriage of Albertand Vie
toria, Christmas gifts came into vogue
in England, and the pretty German cus-
tom has grown well-n igh universal now.
faint Nicholas does New York in lien of
a patron saint, and Knecht Rapert—but
let us hope there are no bad boys now,
and that the servants’ rod is never nesd-
ed on Christmas day at least.
“Yule's come and Yule'sgone,
And we hae feasted weel,
Sae Jock maun to his flail again
And Jenny to her wheel.”
Now one of the best things about this
little ditty is that it isn’t trae. Christ
mas is a fine thing in iteelf—we like it
because it is Christmas, becaose it staods
out in the winter a bright glow in the
cold, becanse the shopsare shut aad
mammon for ony day suspended; but,
alter all, it is an exceedingly point
aboot Christmas that New Year comes
after it. Coristmas ushers in a set of
holidays, and one needn't settle down
into the commonplace immediately after
it.
ly sip
TROUBLE AT THE STERLING
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Tyrone, Pa., Dec. 17.~Yesterday should
have been pay day at the Sterling mines,
in the Clearfield region, but the opera
tors failed to pay off, All the miners re
feed to go to work until their
which is overdue for some time,
Le forthcoming.
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ITEMS FROM TUBSEYVILLE.
Svery one on tip-toe for Christmas and
oy Christmas Gift,” on every lip.
Harry Decker was fortunate to kill “a
deer recently, Cora, daughter of Wm,
Love, is recovering from her fever.
George Miess isputtinga new store bail.
ding on the burned site. Mr. James
Glasgow died bere of dropay, aged
a
DEATH'S BRIDGE.
From a bridge.
Barnvrsr, N. B., Dec. 15.--A
accident occurred Baturday afters
Caraquette Btation, on the ne
sion of the Intercolonial railroad
the train which left Caraquette at i
for Gloucester Junction, in charg
Conductor Daniel Kearney 3
Michac! {anigan, was near
ove Bridge, six miles west ¢
the train men noticed heavy dy
on the wast side of the bridge. The tr
consisted of one passenger car, an er
and a spow plow. Eight
aboard for the purpose assisting
clearing the road of the snow
in Friday's storm
The passenger car was le
side of the bridge. The section men,
conductor, Brakeman London, a young
named Frank Miller, Driver Lanigan i
Fireman Boucher, thirteen persons iu al
were on the engine
They then started, but when
the bridge the plow and engine le
trace and fell into the river
Only five men could be found
eight in number, were pinned
the engine, which was ly bo
the river. The train
at the time, ss they had plent
when they got over the bridge to ¢
st the bridge.
rihery
section men werd
of
fs
ng
Was ruanr
Mr. Litechman Schooled to Patience.
PRILADELPHIA, Dec
the report that criminal pr
probably be the outcome (
meeting of the general exe
the Knights 01 Labor in this ci
to the expenditures as reporied i
Secretary Charles H. Liu
said to-day: “I have been
errcoeous amount of misund
vindictive attack since my «
the Knights of Labo:
schooled to patience. Th
to bring me into disrepute with the
and without outside
successful If the
fitting to demand an
I can assure you that my
be complete. I have not the s
but what my acts will bear the lig
strongest criticam.” It was stated 1
secretary's printing bill alc ¢
was M80.
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friends
explanation
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Will They¥ Indiet the Mayor?
Crxcrsxari, Dec. 18. —Rumors
rent Saturday that an tempt will bem
to indict Mayor Smith, together with §
late clerk of the police board, Dick Johnsgn
Mayor Smith seat Johnson Yo Kebtucky®o
buy horses, and on Jobmson's rely
mayor approved the bills, which were
wards declared frauduiinut Johnson
discharged and the matter drog
last night, when Prosecutor Pugh askeddor
the papers in the Johnson investigation,
thus starting the report of Mayor Smith's
intended indictment. Johnson's o on 48
the samo as that for which Charley Doll is
pow under sdntence to the penitentiary for
WO years
were
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Exonerating a Pastor.
Provipexce, RB. 1. Pec
to the recent scandal about the Rev. (x
KH. Tilton of Rehoboth, which has stireed uf
the town aud which consisted of certain
statements made by Mrs, Lillle Carpe
and her husband to the effect that the mile
ister had made insinuating remarks 10 hel
sod connecting his name with g
woman, friends of Lhe pastor have now eogil
forward with affidavits to rellievethopastor
of the reflections. The report 0
tigating committee exonerates the Rev
Tilton of all charges, i affidar
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band withdraw all their past utterances.
fives in & Red Hot ¥Vire.
Astherton of Lyons drew » pail of
from a well yesterday morning sho saw §
bright red reptile, resembling a lizard, 94
inches long, in the pall
reptile into the stove, where there was §
hot coal fire. One hour later she was suds
prised to find the reptile skipping merrily
about on the red hot coals. Bhe called i
Dr. Freyand, who says itis a y
mander and a fine specimen, He put it
a fire of 475 degrees Fahrenhel}, as high
his erucible would allow, and ¥ Mho repfil
showed no signs of discomfiture.
Damages Awarded un Author.
Wargnrows, N. Y., Dea. 10.—In the oir
cuit court here Abi Jackman suod Mrs.
Hannah Perkins for §1,50 claimed for writ
ing the latter's life in the form of a romance
so that the lady could not walk by bet
“erith her head up.” The best lawyers of
the county were engaged on both sides and
the interest in the case was widespread,
The jury rendered a verdict after six hougs'
deliberation for the piaintiff for $16855 5
Judgment and levy ‘vere ordered.
The Oklahoma Boomers.
Wichita, Kan, Dec. 18 Col. B. C., Colo,
one of the acknowledged leaders of thé
Oklahoma boom in the past, has just re-
turned from that country, accompanied by
noarly four woeks, was mado in the interest
of the present movement, He is very red
feent about giving information concerning
the “New Crusade,” as it is called, but ad
mitted that before longanother great effort
will be made to occupy the coveted
gountry.
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For Robbing a District-Atterney.
New Beororp, Mass, Doc. 10.—Thomas
on Thursday, charged with breaking and
entering the house of Distriet-Attorooy
Knowlton, in this oity, and larceny of
twenty-three silver spoons, was before the
years. The savsage making season
not over yet. Who is the chap that wes
pot allowed 0 “go in” with his gal, hes
vip was abont ? that follow might
get & deer in the mounisins.
Having added to our stock of material
we are y to do poster work, ai low
rates; Sale bills, large § sheet $1.25; and §
sheot, $1.00. All work in same
be on. Envelopes st 21 756 per 1000
ill heads and statemonts $1.76 per 1000,
Cash to accompany order,
Som
A wi
wih Sellers
oh iE
0.
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pound over in the sin of 8,000 40 the
superior court. Beynolda
Poughkeepsie and cians to belong in
a
Oystor Dealers Nwindled,
Somarton, Dec. 19 Dale & Cox, who
opened an office hore about a month ago for
the of oysters nt wholesale, have dis
many places in the south as woll as in Phil
belief that they were Dale & Coy the widely
known commission werchaute
examine
eres
wear
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raoMeny & (
lames Block.
ires that the
he election of tax
declared unoos
Court aay
The text of the decison,
{tise been reversed, discloses that ti
is perfectly itutional, but is
tira in those d e's having loca
{am BE Therefore all thos
tricts not controlied by local leg
sili elo tax collectors next
TLArY.
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Beanch, ie busy
on customer
ing, and
they ask fi
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has pot i
by the
orted.
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5 re
hich
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per-
awe
die
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Feb.
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11 point,
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poly
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a swings, of the
day and evening
They are
ro wiil get just
the lowes! |
§ stablishment is
ast employing a large force to ked
withthe orders. if he can’t gait
rede made goods, his tailor is rea
iit you with a first class suit. Gis
estabashment a call if in need ol
ithing in the line of clothing.
{| waThe foners] of Calvin Fischer
whose desth by an sceidental die
ala d
vail
oth
what
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know th
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week
hareh,
fore
3 Rev,
oificiated upon the solemn ou
tock place at Salem Heformed «
inesr Peng Hall, on last Saturdsy
inson, and was largely attended.
i Yearick
caREion,
We have received a few minute
tienlars of the accident, When the =n.
fortunate young mai's gun Was w.sohar
ged, about 2 1, i, one of his companions
was abontt 50 yards aovey and thinking
that the galet that followed we: to avoid
alerming gatee, he did nob make an in-
vestigation and procesde] on his huni
md when Orivin did not appear at noon,
the first fears wers entertained and
search was jostiteded in the direction
found at 2 p m. dead es given in on
ast week's acount. Heo was four miles
rom the railroad station and this dis
tance the corpse was carved by the
hunters. J.C. Harper, A. A. Dale, and
one or two others, constituted soother
hunting party on the same ground © and
sssicted in conveying the corpse tothe
home of Ma] Fischer. The ballet onter:
ed the bail of his right band passed up
and out through the apper part ehiakier.
ing every bone, then entered under hic
chinand went iy his brain,
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CANDIES --
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PEANUTS,
PEANULS,~
ining for voung and
a fresh stock of
~ORANGES,
ORANGES,
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ALMONDS
Etc, Ete. A fine line of Toys, Chios
Ware, etc. in stock.
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Will have his Headquarters
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Harper: Kreamer’s
STORE,
An Immense Sock of Can-
dies, Fruits, Raisins, Confec-
tionery, Figs, Nuts, Toys, Nov-
elties, and a Thousand other
articles suitable for ivoliday
Presents, at
HARPER & KREAMER'S,
Centre Hail,