PE ER PR NBSP — Ei 5 OLD SERIES XL NEW SERIES XXI FRED KURTZ ~ =~ Editor. In the next national campaign a big effort will be made to pull wool over people's eves. Politics began when Joseph was sold out by his brethern.— Hebrew Standard. The Reporter finds it earlier. Politics began when Cain killed Able because he had the inside track. In Bellefoate they are awarding prizes to the longest noses, and may want to run the next legislative campaign on such an issne—on the principle that the longest nose gets there first. On Tuesday the bills reported from the senate commitiee on pensions in- creasing to $72 per month pensions for total helplessness, and to $50 per month for total deafness, and proportionately for partial loss of hearing. Farm ing is the least remunerative oc cupation now going, yet it is impossible for the husbandmen to strike. Legisla- tion should have for its main object the aileviation of the agriealiurist, where it can be legitimstely done through that channel, Mr. Lamar’s nomination as one of the justices of the Snpreme court was confir- med by the senate on Monday. The vote on Lamar's confirmation was 32 to 28. Riddleberger, Stewart and Stanford vo" ted or were paired ou party lines. We rather guess the counrty will be safe, The Reading railroad asks for the pro- tection of the law in the strike now in progress on its road and col properties. That is ail right; yet this corporation de~ fies the coustitotion of the State in re. fusing to comply with certain specfiic commands set forth in the rei‘road arti. cle of that instrament. It should set an example of obedience to the laws, A movemen: against the Knights of Labor, headed by capitalists of the pro- vince of Quebec, has been organized. It has been decided to introduce a bill at the coming meeting of the Legi-lature of and all combinations having for their object the compnlsory and arbitrary step- page of industrial and mercantile estah- lishments. The contest for Speaker Carlisle's seat proved an absurd fizzle, It is well that the master has been fally considered by s commitiee, £0 a8 to make apparent the insignificance of Thobe's claim. The “testimony” on his behalf consisted of mere gossip, and there was vot a single titla of evidence that would bave been admissible in aconrt of law, It Las been discovered thata Ken tucky regiment, the “gallant Forty first,” mainly recruited at Covington, after serving gallantly throngh the civil war, is still legally in the service, Itis 28 vears since the last gun was fired, and many of the regiment are nambered among the dead. Some were killed in battie, others have died since, but not a mother’s son of them was ever mustered | out of service, and no one has any paper to indicate thot he was discharged. The frugal survivers, therefore, have a claim, and it is for $3,588 for every high private for back pay, dating from the close of the war The Republicans of our county have already organized for next summer's campaign, What will the Democrats do? Democrats must abandon the idea of fighting their own ticket and fight the Republicans. That will win, Democrats must nominate true and de- serviog men in the ranks. Going out side of the party and p'acing on the tick- ¢ men who all their 1 ves had been the bitterest enemy of Democracy has well nigh wrecked the party in the dissatis- faction produced by so unwise a step, Democrats profit by the lessons of the past and make an effort to bring about unity, and victory will be assured nest fal’, S————— Speaker Carlisle was suddenly taken ill, while at dinner, the other day. Cigar makers in New York have gone on a strike, against reduction of wages from $1.50 to $1 per thousand. The Ashland Steel Works, about twenty miles north of Baltimore, blew out list night, The cause of the stop page is raid to result from the Reading strike, causing a scarcity of coal, The Cleveland spd Pittsburg conduo- tors will not go on a strike, Nataral gas has been discovered near Ottawa, Canadas, in inexhaustible quane tities. The latest from tite frost bitten west CENTRE mo ——————— ——————— HALE BADLY SAT UPON. THE SENATOR FROM NAINE ON CIVIL BER- VICE METHODS, Washington, Jan. 11.—Mr. Eugene fiale of Maive, as a champion of Civil Service reform and lecturer on pure po- litical methods, afforded the Senate some amusement for nearly two hours to-day, He does not often speak, and for that rea- son and because he stands in near rela- tion to Mr, Biaive he had close attention. The idea was that he was outlining one feature of Mr Biaine's new presidestial campsign, and the interest manifested atiached to that and not to auything that Mr. Hale himself was individually re- sponsible for, There was nothing new in the lective except Mr. Hale's citations designed to show that Mr, Cleveland is not sincerain his professions of loyaity to Civil Bervice reform. Mr. Hale proceeded by predicting tha the whole machivery of the Governmen would be used thie year and contribu tions forced from all offic-hiolders anc employes to help keep the Democraii party in power. He bad no sooner sat down tha= Mr Butler of Routh Carolina sent to th clerk’s desk ¥nd hd re«d a circular is sned by the Republican National Con gressional Committee in 1878. of whic Mr. Hale was Chairman, levying assess ments on Government clerksand other employes inthe familisr highwayman style of that day, Mr. Hale for a moment was complete ly done for. rl ee WAR CLOUDS IN EUROPE, Berlin, Jan. 15 —The Warsaw police have issued orders that all Austriane who have not permits to residein Poland must quit Rossian territory to-day. All Polish officers are being removed from the frontier regiments and sent to take commands in the interior, On the German and Aastrian sides the movements sre kept a profound secret; but it is impossible to conceal the fac: that there is an active passage of troops from Posen to the Silesian frontier. The first clear exposition of the sitoation of affairs is hoped from Herr Tisza, Hun garian Prime Minister, in his reply to the interpellation of Herr Belffy The temper of a majority of the members of the Hougarian Parliement 1s ard ntly warhike. Unless Premier Tisza’s expla- nation shows that the forces on the fron- tier of Ga'ici+ are ample to repel any io vasion Deputy Preczel thr. atens to move a vote of censure, Vienna, Jan. 15.—Russia bas a force of coe hundred thousand cavalry on the frontier, so organized ss to act indepen dently of the infantay, which is ready to penetrate into Galicia at a moment's notice to impede the mobilization of Aus. trian troops. This statement echoes what the War Department at Berlin has been pressing upon the attention of the Austrian Department with good effect. The Austrian War Office is now eonfl dent that there are sufficient forces in Central Lemberg and in Przemysi and Czernowitz to arrest a Roesian advance. CARLISLE IS VICTORIOUS, By a vote of twelve in the affirmative three members not voting, the House Committee on Elections decided not to re-open the Thobe Carlisle case, but to confirm Mr. Carlisle's title to his seat, The proceedings of the committee were marked by the introduction of some ra ther sensational evidence, which laid bare the plan upon which counsel for Thobe proposed to conduct the contest and effectually shat ered bis last hope of success, The members of the commities were all present when the session began. The recent cold snap has caus-d many deaths by freezing throughout the north- weat, The Reading Railroad strike has as- sumed 8 new phase, For several days there has been under consideration by leading mean in the or- der of the Knights of Labor the adviss- bility of bringing soit by the Common- wealth through the Attorney General against the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron Company to compel them to do certain things which, it is alleged, they are obliged todo ander their charter and the various privileges granted by the Sate, One charge is that the conpanivs, by refosing to settie with the men, are “cor. nering” coal and other neces aries for the purpose of enhavecing their values and extorting exorbitant prices from the community. Another charge relates to the respo: si bility of the companies as common car: riers, it being alivged that on account of the companies’ action men are employed who do not give the best of service and whose efforts result in delay and loss 10 the community. There are other char- be Tn some institor A MENNONITE SENSATION. Christian Bomberger, who lives teo| miles north of Lancaster city, has been | for a full generation one of the most ven-| erated and esteemed citizens, not only | among his fellow-members in the old] Mennonite Chureb, but by all who knew | him. y In June, 1860, he wis ordained a Bish-| op for the Hammer Creek district, His father and grandfather before him Lad] been Mennoite ministers aod bishops. | Since bis accession to the bishopric he nas traveled and preached in many! places, His fame spread through all the Pennsylvania covoties where the good peopie of bis devomination lived. To all appearances be was an earnest Christain worker, and had attained the age of three score years and ien laboring for the pro- motion of his church and the welfure of his people—bat be fell, At the meeting of the authorities of the church at the recert Indiantown meeting house, in City towpship, this aged worker was solemnly deposed from the office of bishop avd excommunicated from the faith that he and his fathers had followed since the first exodas of the disciples of Menno from the o'd to the new world. When charged with the crime of immorality the old mas con- fessed The Mennonite fathers did not wish to deal harshly with the bishop who had gone astray. They remember ed his long service in the church and thought of the houored name he bore, but the welfare of their people and the discipline of the church they maintained must be upheld and so the venerable father was deposed. - The first circles of Jewish society in Cincinnati were thrown into a furor of excitement when it was announced, last week, that a well-knownJewess had been edded to a Gentile, The bride wes = eadivg member in Jewish society. The room had been paying ecvurt to the young lady for several weeks, and when 1¢ broached the matter of marriage to he girl's parents, they seriously objected, nd thereafter he was refused admission lo the house. The young lady, however, was true to her affections, aad forawhile hey held clandestine meetings. This you came to the ears of the parents, sand hey decided to send her away to a board. ngechool, When the daughter was ap prised of their determination she at once vmmunicated the news to her lover, and &i immediate marriage was planned he girl iosisted that the ceremony sould conform to the rites of 1he Jewish fith, and accordingly notice was sent to ole or 1wo rabbis, bat they refused to mirry them, as it is contrary to the law oiMoses that a Jew should be united to a Gentile The couple were desirous t!4t the ceremony should take placess quickly as possible, before the girl's pa- refs should be apprised of what was golig on. Mes.eéngers were dispatched to Averal clergymen about town, but it was not until nine o'clock that any ove coull be found totie the knot The coupe at once took supper, and they bad hwdly reached their room when the irate ther of the young iady, acoom- pasiedby his ster, cailed at the hote and debanded to see his daughter. He sent upseveral notes to her, but she posi- tively nfused to see him, and fivally her aunt sent to the door of her room and beggedier to come out. The bride turn ed a def ear to her p'eadings, and her father, after remaining about the hotel for overaa hour, took bis departure. He waa gredly shocked when he was told at the hotl that bis daoghter had been married, and the girl's aunt burst into tears, Let the free list be enlarged—our fars’ mers ani laboriog men want cheaper shoes, In 1883 he duty on raw hides was en- tirely takm off and since that was done the leathe: industry and shoe and boot manufactes have prospered as they never propered before The duty on manufactons of leather is but 18 per cent whic js simply a reveane daty, mannfacturs of leather it is a large ex. porter of that commodity. Upto 1883 our exports if leather and manufactures | of leather wee of no conseqaence. . - The Harrisburg Patriot gives at length its reason why Mr. Daline Bandersshould not be re electhd Chairman of the Demo. edly forcible otes, and are given in ans. wer to the Doyestown Democrat's ples for Mr. Banders'retention. In brief, the sum and substaieo of the Patriots re- marks are thet he is utterly unfit for the position, becauseof his iintancs with the politios f the State outside Philadelphia, so says the Lock Ha- ven Democrat, md it was just oor opinion of Sanders vhen he was elected chairman, Y= Lh | Kisnor was electel Chairman of the YESTERDAY'S CONVENTION OF THE RAILROAD MEN. The Miners Say They Will Never Return te Work Unless All Differences Are Ar- bitrated Promised Ald, Reapixo, Penn., Jan. 16.~The strike of Reading railroaders and miners is still on, and thore are no indications that the lines employes are wavering. The Reading Ballway employes’ convention, which met here two weeks ago last Thurs. day, reconvened here festerday afternoon, and reiterated its faith in the justice of the The only difference between this convention snd the last was that the mine ers did not have deiegates present as offi. cial representatives of the local assemblies Their strike has now under control of the National Min. ers’ Assembly, of which William L. Lewis of Shawnee, Ohio, is the head. Nevertho. less, the miners had a number of represen. tatives present. The rallroaders were fully represented by about 160 delegates. They from Philadelphia, Ellmbethport, Morristown, Pottstown, Reading, Palo Als to. Pottsvilie, Mahanoy City, Bhenandoah, Bhamokin, Bt. Clair, Williamsport, and many other places, The convention was called to order at 10 o'clock. Bernard J. Sharkey of Port Rich. nd, presided and Charles Benseman of Carbon, the Becretary. Chalr- mun John IL. Les delivered a speech In whizh he imod that the strike had pled the Reading Railroad in many of ita departments, At Port Richmond, he said, everything looked dead; hardly any coal was coming in: the company’s steam colliers were lying idle at the wharves, Coni traflic on the raliresd was at a stand. still, The miners were idle. Freight and passenger traffic alone continued The men believed in the justice of their cause and would remain out until an arrogant corporation, behind which were millions of capital, was brought to terms, The miners, said Chairman Lee, would never return Ww work uni! they were granted a continuance of the § per coat. ad- vance, and the rallroaders who have been discharged were taken back. The position of the men vas stated as this: They were willing tha. the discharge of the four or five crews at Port Richmond should stand, but they demanded that every other gues- tion, either relative to the discharge of the men employed on the railroad or the wages of the miners should be submitted to arbitration After the spooch reports were received as to the condition of affairs along the line. The coal regions submitted the most favor. able reports, showing that the railroaders tn that section were solid Nat Master Workman Lewis took the floor and delivered a speech in which be advised the to by cautious. Hi them not 10 be misled by false re Work, and words, should be their in He detailed his inability to obtain a conference with President Cor his belief that Mr. Corbin with the miners, afd CRIne was FOnRG men h¢ 4 angi pores fiot HORDE bin, expressed was trying to play urged the men to remain firm The ronvention ordered the same com mitiee which had been soliciting subserip tions for the Lehigh men to continue receiving money for the Bohuyikill County strikers Delegates from Shamokin say that the girikers there are as firm as a rock and that the miners have resolved to stand by the raliroaders to the last, The Reading Company still has a large farce of special policemen on duly at Pale Alto, but the sirikers say there is no neces sity for then. while the reports to the convention were decidedly rosy private advices from the coal regions sald last night that & break in the miners’ ranks is inositable, and that a few individual collieries will surely start up soon to be followed by some company colliories. The vote of the men at William Penn Colliery on the question of resuming is looked upon as an indication of how the miners feel. It was 112 against resuming and 106 in favor, Grea! interest is mani fested by the public in the results of Wo day. After the convention had adjourned a meeting of the new Reading Railroad Em- ployes' District Assembly, No. 24, which is ultimately to be composed of all the company’s 50,000 employes, was held. The temporary President, Penrose W. Hawman of this city, presided. A number of new locals were received, and it was decided to continue the temporary organization for the present. A Big Divide for Thelr Employes. Sr. loos, Jan 14 ~The experiments adopted two years ago by the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company of sharing all vested with the employes has proven a suo- Friday as the employes’ share. According 10 the aysten;, after the 7 per cent. profits are deducted, ten per cent. of the balance in set aside for a guarantees fund to cover lossen in bad years, 10 per cent. to form a mick benefit fund, and the rest is divided between the stockholders and em in oportion to the capital stock and total for the year. Most of the two hundred employes are also stockholders and share in both. Huwxrixorox, L. L, Jan, trouble among the residents of this town as to the ownership of the land water inthe bay. There are Haat acres plotted out is intended to decide the Three Young Girl Burglar. Town, Md., aan 30 Tires go, Low fae: Madge, and Blin, das DEADLY BLIZEARD IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST, A dispatch from St, Paul, Minn., dated Jan. 14, says: The blizzard of the last two days has been altended with terribly fatal effect and intense suffering. Reports sre con- stantly coming in of deaths and instances of individual privation. The snow. storm raged for three days. Drifts are piled up in the country to the tops of houses. People in some localities can- pot leave their homes, and to the dis- vation, lone bouse to another, Cattle cannot be |adequately cared for, and they are suffer |ingterribly. 'at no time been unprecedentedly cold, {the thermometer ranging between 15 and [25 deg. below zero, the storm has brought {more misery than any blizzard for a Hoog time, Trains fromthe West are from twenty to sixty hours late, and as {they come in they bring reports of fear- {ful experiences on the road. Blockaded for hours at a time, and when moving atall, only at a snail's pace, the passen- gers suffered fearfaily from the cold, No stove could counteract the piercing wind, The passengers crow ded around them huddling together, but only these who were fortunate enough to get positions right alongside the fires were really warm. As soon asa group pext the stoves had thawed themselves out they changed places with the others Great banks of snow on either side kept the daylight out, and the cars were in a state of semi darknes constantly, The snow plows were put to work imme diately, but their progress was slow, the snow banking before them obstinately, .1he only Eastern train in yesterday was on the Wisconsin Central, but most of the Chicago trains will be in to-night. I'wo Northern Pacific traios came in this morning, fifty and eighty hours late. [his road, however, by means of its ro- tary snow plows, bas in the past sixteen hours cleamed over 200 miles of track in Dakota, where the snow averaged fifteen feet indepth. Thisis an unparalleled achievement. The weather is modera- ting rapidiy now and the worst is over. Omaha, Jasoary 13. —The effects of the present storm in Omaha has been disss trous, Fred Eiler, a cigar maker, was tound early this morning frozen to death within a block of his boarding house Two school children, Wexell Beck and George Allen, started for their homes sbout 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and have not been heard of since. At Raymond, Dak., demage to live stock will be great, while reports of suf fering sud death are constantly coming in. Twosons of William Driver were frozen to death within a few feet of their barn. Chal Heath is missing, J. H. Clapp bas been discovered badly frozen, he ‘having been out all night wandering upon the prairie, lives sacrificed to the awiul fury of tue uligzard. Next to this the worst blizzard the North-west ever experienced occurred Janoary 7, 8 and 9 1873, In that seventy people were frozen to death and fhou- sands of dollars’ worth of property de~ stroyed. The presentsicrm promises to be even more terrible in ils results. 1% came without warning. At runrise last Wednesdry Dakota never had more love- ly winter weather, The air was clear as crystal, and every point about the hori- gon was distinctly visible The wind (was from the south, warm and balmy, ‘and before the sun was high in the sky, a decided thaw had set in. Farmers took advantage of the beautiful weather to go to town to draw wood, hay, ete. { About noon, a clond was seen along ‘the northwestern horizon, lying close to [the ground, but stretching from the west to the north in a dark semicircle, Little attention was paid to it, but an hour lat~ ter the clond had swept over the coun: {try, the sun was obscure, the snow was falling fast and a gale was sweeping from the Northwest with terrible fary. THE BLIZZARD HAD BEGUN, The mercury fell rapidly and by 5 o'clock it was 15 degrees below zero, and the next morning it registered 30 degrees below. All the while the wind increas ed in jury—the snow fell thicker, and i i teat sould not be seen. A man's voice the roaring of the wind and the dark- ness caused by so much snow in the air, i THE NEWS CONDENSED. Doctors think the small pox epidemic in Ban Francisco is under control The Anarchist's relief committee of Chleago has divided 86,000 among the fami lies of the dead and imprisoned At Hallock, Minn. during the last few cold days the mercury touched the botton of the register 54 deg. below zero Professor Maria Mitchell resigned the chair of astronomy which she bas held ix Vassar College for twenty-five years, The House Friday passed the Henate bil fixing the salary of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries at £,000 per annum. The Conshoocken, (¥a.) Tube works em ploying two hundred men have suspended operations on account of inability to obtain coal Ex-Register Millis Pfeiffer, of Allentown Pa, whose accounts are $8,000 short, has returned home and the shortage is to x paid. Mrs, Garfield, mother of the late Presi dent Garfield, is seriously ill in Mentor Ohic. She is continually asking for her sor Jimmy. = The Chicago Baseball Club has a surpiut of £15,000 in its treasury, and President Bpaulding proposes to buy the grounds now occupied by the club The president has sent to the Benate the following nominations: Joseph Black, of Cleveland, Ohio, to be consul at Buda, Pes ton. George Osgood Prince, 10 be consu at Moscow, ’ The motion of Gen. B. Butler, in the U. 8. Court at Boston, Thursday for arres: of the judgment of $17,000 gained agains! him by the National home for Disablec Boldiers was overruled. The exhibition at Atlanta, Ga. of the National Poultry and Bench Association i+ now in progress. The entries are numerous aud the show of fowls and dogs the bes’ ever seen in the Bouth Tommy Burns of New York and Jimmie Flanagan, light champion of Florida wil fight soon at Jacksonville, Fla, for $1,000 and gate receipts. Fernes Ww knock Flana gan out in eight rounds. Leading democrats of Indiana met at In- dianapolis last Wednesday to talk over the coming campaign. They jorsed Cleve land and want Gov. Gras have the seo ond place on the National ticket, Professor Vaughan, of the Michigay Board of Health, reports the successful production in a cat of a disease similar ig typhoid fever by the use of germs found ir water used by victims of that scourge There is a strong effort being made %0 obtain a pardon for Julius Feuer, the son. viet who was captured in Willlapiburg several days ago and returned to Slag Sing to complete three years of his fouryear sentence William H. Brown, of Nev Haves, {a miliarly known by Yale meu as “Billy,” # prominent Mason, Odd Frilow and Grand Army man, while indulging in a heartily laugh dropped dead ‘rom heart disease Wednesday U.8 Marshall Pranks, of the Northern District of California sailed Thursday fron New York en route to Denmark, to arrest A.J. Bensov, who is under indictment iz San Francisco for fraudulent surveys of public land The Kentucky legislature, Wednesday Be k for a third successive term in the United States Senate. Should he live and serve out his next term his con tinuous service in the Senate will have ex tended through a period of eight years The residence of United States Senator Ingalls at Atchison, Kansas, was burned te the ground Thursday the 12th. The entire library, valued at many thousand dollars which included a private collection of pub lic documents and lotiers, was entirely destroyed. A telegraph from Ban Remo reports the discovery of a plot against the life of the German Crown Prince. It is said that one of the plotters, a socialist, has turned in former. The police have forbidden acoest to the promenades in the vicinity of the Vilia Zrio, where the C on Prince resides. A shock of earthquake was felt at most places in North Carolina eerly Thursday morning. It was very decided at Haleigh, ran oul of some houses ® alarm. It was the severest shock since October, 1586 Telegrams from Charlotte and Bhelby say its viclence at those points was aboul as groat as here, The big cast of the new steel gun has boen made by the Pittsburg Steel Casting Com. pany. The complete gun will be 2068 inches long and will weigh nine tons. Its largest diameter will be 338 inches and smallest ten inches, The pressure at the chamber will be 15 tons to the inch and the muzzle will be 2.000 fect to the second. The worst blizzard of the season pre- vailed all over the Nortewest Friday and Baturday last, its area extending from the Rockies to Lake Michigan. Snow felltos reat depth in many places and the tempers fare was extremely low, Grand Forks, D. T., reporting 5% degrees below zero at one time. Railroad trafic was suspended west of Minneapolis, and even snow plows were stalled at various points. In many places public schools were closed, people having ail they could do to keep from freezing to death, the wind in many sections reach. ing a velocity f ortr miles an hour. Several deaths have boen reported and it is feared that much sufferingh as resulted, as several people are still missing. At Omaha one man froze to death within a bioek of his home and a sleighing party consisting of three young ladies and one gentleman met with a mishap, the sleigh upsetting and the horses s » gentleman and two of the ladies reached shelter but the third Indy is still missing. At 81 Joseph, Mo, 8 man and wife were frozen to death.