cammsnamlnn : | — $ THE CENTRE REPORTER. RTZ Editor. OLD SERIES XL NEW SERIES XXI FRED KU Milesburg Boro... Millheim Soro Sam’l Weiser, Jr., Centre Hall Bare «4 W MeCormick, Philipsburg 1 | 36 Kho Sarton, Cornelius ‘Haze, Unionville Boro..... Rennes IWP F logs twp 2 do P WP. do EP Burnside twp College twp... {eo Roan, Curtin twp... an David Brickley. Ferguson twp EP £2 W Miller, do FP. Sam’'l Harpster, Jr, Grege Wm Hanna, do Haines twp EP... do WP... Half Moon twp Harris twp... Howard twp Huston twp Liberty twp... Marion twp... Mites twp Patton twp... Penn twp Potter twp NP... do BPs Rush twp, 8 P 400 Ker do NP... L Vail, 4 Frank Tuiberty, J 8 Ewing, Gentzel, Wm T Hoover, +A G¢ Kreamer, Jevi Reese, .Adron Fahr, AARON WILLIAMS, Chairman Wm Lose, J H Orndorf, JLalvin Weaver, J H Griffin, DW Herring, John 5 Hoy, James J Gramley, JP A Sellers, Spring twp. Taylor twp. Walker twp Worth twp. Union twp...covversnee WiLLiax F. Reser, Secretary. New York had athree miliion dollar fire on Broadway, early Monday morn- ing. It was estimated at the treasury de prriment to-day that the decrease in the pubiic debt for January amoants to $15, 000,000, Let Utah abolish her polygamy and Dakota her blizzards, then admit them as states—not before. The Keystone Gazelle goes for the coun- ty surplus with the greed of a hyenas. It beats all the “ring” you ever heard tell of. EE — It is thought this week will settle the great strike in the Lehigh mining region. There is great suffering among the stri- king miners, Republican boss McManes, of Phila- delphia, is in favor of G. W. Childs, of the Ledger, for President. That's bet. ter than Blaine or Sherman So many sheep having been killed by the blizzard io Texas, the tariff movopo- lists are likely to charge it to Cleveland's message on the tariff, which was cold on the wool business Some queer questions come before courts for decision. A Georgia Judge has decided that when a mao is unable to give his sweetheart an engsgement ring, but presents her witha yearling heifer instead, the heifer's descendants are the private property of the lady, even after she marries the giver of the animal, A rich Phi adelphian has $50,000 which he wishes to put tosome charitable pro- ject, and solici's thro’ the Times, sugges- tions from its read«rshow best to donate it. Abuandred different ideas have been advanced concerning a!l sorts of “grod- ness.” We sugeestthat it be divided among one hundred preachers, who, asa rule, don't deliver lon¢winded sermons. Priests may marry. In Paris, a few days ago the High Court of Cassation (Appeal) bas pronounced a judgement which is of the highest importance to the French Catholic clergy. It holds that, in spite ofthe precedents established within its c wn precints, the marriage of a Roman Catholic priestis a perfectly lawful ome, maintaining the judgement of the Amiens Conrt of Appeal. In Reading the high license law, from present indications, will drive a big num ber of saloon and hotsl men out of the business W holesale liquor dealers have also been slow in taking out licenses for this year, and itis likely a number of these will alco quit the business, The principle trouble seems to ba in securing bondsmen on account of the new law being sostrictin its requirments, A large namber of applicants for licenses will likely be unable to farnish the prop. er bondsmen, sand on this account it is believed that the nnmber now in busi: ness will be reduced at least fifty per cent. ——— With the taking of the next census in two years, 1800, Centre county will show up a population of 40,000, and over, and be a seperate judicial district, with the office of associate judge abolished All counties having 40,000 population under the new constitution become sep erate judical districts, without associate judges, the idea being, no doabt, that when a county gels as big as that, it can take care of itself without ass. judges. : doo rn ay oe go 0 y a8 county's % # $50,000. Philadelphia is much wrought up at present over the offer of a gentleman of wealth to place $50,000 where it will do the most good. Itis not so much the fact that a Phi'adelphian has been dis covered benevolent enough to want to give $50,000 to his fellow creatures that causes the excitement, asthe fact that the citizens of that town have been in- vited to make suggesiions as to the dis- position of thé money. Every one knows exactly what he would do in the way of charity if he had sowe other man’s money todo it with, People are never so liberal with their own wealth as with that belonging to others, and itispotto be wondered at hat a general interest has been excited as to the disposition of this particulsr $50,000, or that projects have been put forward which would absorb a hundred times that amount. Among the objects deemed worthy of assistance, and in behalf of which pleas have been made, are the following: A college for girls, such as the Girard College for boys; a co-operative manufuc- turing business; give it to the Zoological Garden, with the understanding that the Sanday admission is to be ten cents all around; relieve a man, wife and three small children at 618 Cherry street; form a8 musical association to give free con- certs on holidays; apply it to pay the li- censes of saloonkeepers who can’t raise the $500; a chair of forestry in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania; give it to poor blind people; establish a public art gal. lery; endow a restaurant to furnish two- cent dinners; establish a free Sanday supper-room for non-church goers; start free milk houses for children and inva lids; establish a wooden leg factory to place artificial limbs within the reach of all, thus patting people on their feet again; buy Southern land and distribute swall farms to poor, worthy men; estab- lish a traveler's rest; give it to the Penn. sylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty; give it to the Society for Preven. tion of Cruelty to Animals, one half to be applied to the pay of a reporter to search for infringements of the law; erect a building like the Cooper Institute; pay off the debt on a certain Methodist Church;apply it tothe higher education of indigent young ladies; devote it to mission work in Camden; give it to the Fraoklin Institute; share it among sol- dier's widows; buy coal with it and sell at half price to the poor; erect cheap houses for poor families; giveitto the Allentown Female College, for the edu- cation of poor girls; establish a home for poor artists; build a hospital for consamp tives in the pine woods; spend part of it in haviog the Third Commandment pria- ted on slips and cards to be hung up in public places, give it to the striking coal miners; help young business men with it; give it to the Tract and Mission Society; bresk up mononpolies with it; establish a college at “historic Gettysbarg.” et on BECAUSE THEY FEAR HIM. The Republican newspaper organs are doing what they can to create a diver. sion against the renomination of Presi dent Cleveland. Wherever and whenev- er they find the smallest opportunity to foment discussion smong the friends of the President they make the most of it. They shower falsome praise upon Mr, Randall, they pat Gov, Hill encoursgiog ly upon the back, and magnify every contest in democratic committees and conventions into a flerce struggle between the national administration and its alleg- ed opponents. And thus ihey hope to create sufficient opposition to the presi. dent within the ranks of the democracy to render his renomination impossible, The anxiety of the Republican jour nalist to prevent the candidacy of Presi dent Cleveland for re-slection is born of their fears. They know full well that if renominated, he cannot be defeated at the election. They thoroughly under stand that if he is sginin a candidate for president he will receiyp more Republi «an votes than were cast for him in 1884, Hence their persistent and frantic efforts to prevent his renomination. Hence their solicitude for the political standing of Mr. Randall and other prominent men in the democratic party who are sappos- ed to have been stung by the presiden- tial tarantula. . But the nervous republican journalists will fuil in theirporpose, They must ex. pect their fears to be realized. The dem- ocratic people are with the president and they will demand his renomination. The wisest politicians of the democratic party are with the president and clearly understand that his renomination means who think they bave personal reasons for preferring some other candidate con. cede the popular strength of the presi. dent and feel that it would be better to SEGA bia 7S=Sigetivs tik to imperil the success of their party by nga new SWEEPING THE STATE LIKE A FIERCE POLAR BLIZZARD, TRAINS BURIED IN DRIFTS, Reading, January 28, —~Thesnow block- ade exceeds anything of the kind in thirty-five years in this sectich of the State. There was a blockade to-day on nearly all the railroad branches entering this city, and country roads were render ed almost impassable by the tremendous snow drifts, Allentown, Jannary 28.—The roads have not been so badly drifted for scores of years. Many are filled with snow as tigh as the fences. At many poiots far mers turn out in bands and open roads The nop-arrival of Willonghby Rahmer, the Strausstown mail carrier, bas created some alarm among his friends, Rahmer left Lenhartsville, Berks county, on fursday morning and was due here at six o'clock the same evening. not been heard from and it is feared that he is lost. His route is through an isola- TO KILL THE CZAR. A dispatch from Bt. Petersburg says that an army officer, who had been shot in the region of the heart was taken to a hospital, where the doctor declared the wound mortal, The officer thereupon admitted that he bad shot himself in or der to avoid the neces-ity of shooting the Czar. He said he was a member of & secret society which had ballotted to decide who should undertake to assassi. nate the Czar, and the choice had fallen upon him, Beveral persons in the hospital who overheard the confession were immedi ately arrested, - a. The labor committee which demands | proceedings agains! the Reading company | for violation of its charter does nat meet {with much love at the siate capitol. It is very evident that Governor Bea {are reluctant to move against the power- { fal corporations of the State which open- O'NEILL'S CONVICT LABOR BILL. 1% Will Prohibit the Government from Par chasing Supplies Made by Them, Wasmixoron, Jan. 20.—Representative O'Neill, chairman of the Labor Commities, says be would lke to introduce a bill to which he has given considerable thought the working classes at large, but he is afraid that the scheme Is uncogstitutional, His ides is to have all the goods made by convicts plainly marked with the words, “eonvict made.” He knows that this would be a good thing, but he does not #06 how it cin be done, as the msjority of convicts who are employed in the menu- {facture of goods are not in United States penitentiaries but in State institutions. Another bill relating to the same subject i that Mr. O'Neill is now formulating is to {gbsolutely prohibit the Government from ‘purchasing any supplies, ete, with or without competition, made by convicts or {prison labor. He sald that last summer iwhen the Indian contracts were being {two-thirds of the articles submitted in com- potion were the product of prison labor. {He holds that it is entirely within the got stuck in drifts and could neither move forward nor backward, and but for death. Lancaster, Janoary 28.—-The trouble train from Reading in the lsst twenty four hours, The train which left that city last evening reached Lancaster this jccmmittee of Philadelphia any encoun {ragement when it presented a memorial { Reading Railway Company to justice for | violating their chartered rights, and as {committee by the attorney. i Mr. Kirkpatrick's decision didn't evi- {dently please the committee, They | keeping convicts at work thelr labor should | mot be used to the detriment of honest men. i MRS. HENDRICK'S OPINION, | She Thinks She Is Entitled te Governgnent i Ald If Mra. Logan Is ATI, Jan. 80. Mrs. Thomas A. ident, has arrived here from California {en route for Indianapolis. She sald in an interview: “I seein the newspapers that i Mrs. John A Logan and Mrs. Blair have three different points Finally at Peiers- burg the engine was thrown from the track. The passengers, who had been on the train all night, walked to this city, a the thermometer at zero, Carlisle, January 28 —The snow storm here is the worst that the valley hms known for years. All the country roads are blocked with snow, and the railroad find it difficult to keep the tracks clear for more than an hour or a two at a time. The wind is rising and the prospect is that all communication will be closed by morning. Bethlehem, January 2% —The snow on drifted to a height level with the fence. posts, and such a general blcekading of roads has not been experienced before within the recollection of the oldest far- mers. For two days no mall has reach. ed here from the slate regions and the Bath Railroad is abandoned. The Thurs day night passenger train, which got stuck in a ten-foot drift near bere, is still snowed in. The engines sent to its relief strangers suow-bound and anable to get to their homes ——— A SARIS |red tape. They are of the opinion that, jas citizens of the commonwealth, the cal- {ling of the State's attorney's attention to {lated should huve prompted him t {make inquiry and summon the {their charter should not be forfeited. | The men, however, are determined {to test the matter and will appear bere iat the designated time with sufficient {proof that the Reading Railway Com- pany has purchased coal lands subse. (quent to 1874 and are now operating |them, -——- i {Twelfth Indians digi ict promises to be {far more exciting than the recent Thobe Carlisle case, In the latter the Repubii cans had nothing at stake except what {capital they could make out of assumis g ito be the defenders of the labor element {In the event that W is unseated an ia Democrat is returned from the Twelft) { district, which is naturally Democrats, ithe political complexion of the Indians hite {delegation wil be reversed. The impor {tance of this point lies in the fact, shou d {it #0 resulr, the Republicans would not bave the consti utional majority of States { Fortunately I am in such circumstances that I do not absolutely require assistanocs right that similar recognition of the ser vices of my husband should be shown. be only tender | have had of this nature was the salury of Mr. Hendricks for one year. The Democratic party is solely to blame for the slight my husband’s memory has thus received. It was in the majority {and could, without difficulty, have shown respect to one of its fallen leaders in some such way. Mr. Hendricks was elected for four years, and had freely poured out his strength for the good of the party. Cer- tainly it would seem that if I am entitled to any of his salary, it would be for the whole term for which he bad enlisted as Vice President. Intellect, it would certainly ap- | pear, is nol appreciated by the Democratic party.” The Ives Liguor Bill Valid. Br. Pavi, Minn, Jan 28 —The Buprems Court, it is learned on excellent authority, has affirmed the validity of the Ives liquor bill which was passed by the last Legisls- ture, The matter came up on an appeal from Heasepin County, where thers are about forty cases which have been walling this decision of the Bupreme Court The Ives bill provides for the imprisonment and fine of liquor dealers who sell to minors and on Bundays. It is a very stringent law, pro- viding that there shall be imprisonment in each case, the fine not being exchangeable for the Imprisonment. In the cases that have been tried so far under this law the penalties imposed have usually been a fine of about #5, with imprisonment of {rom 30 60 days in the county jail | Calumut and Heclin Copper. | DErmoiry, Mich, Jan 28 --President ber of farmers droye into that place after fuel, and, there being none, tore down the railroad company’s snow fences and hauled away several loads, Henry Stonebraker, who has arrived nere from Beardsley, tells a harrowing tale of the sufferings of his neighbors He says: “Since Christmes we have not seen a railroad train, bat that fs a minor consideration when I tell yon that for a week before I left there was not a stick of wood or a pound of coal in the whole region, and not a drop of oil. By uniting several families in one and keeping a single fire going by the use of twisted hay and straw we have just managed to eke oat a precarious existence. There have been three deaths from freesing, At Brown's Valley the situation is worse, There the people have been short of pro- visions for some time, as well as without any lights, bat by goiog out in the In- dian reservation some green fuel can be obtained. It is almost impossible to stir abroad. The snow is several feet deep and in many places the drifts sre fully eighteer feet in height. I have seen some preity tough eights there within the past few weeks. At one place there was a woman with a babe but a day old and not a sign of a fire in the house.” UNEQUAL TAXATION. One of the glaring inequalities of the present tariff laws is that selt used for the seasoning of meats is subject to duty while salt nse in pickling codfish is free of duty. This isa discrimination in fa vor of the New England fishermen and against the farmers, butchers and pork who represent the codfisheries were sharp to pick up a little free trade for the benefit of their local industry. Bat what justice is there in {the Republicans would not have this number, The grounds of contest against White, rep., are that he isnot a naturalized citi zen, and was not eligible. A Pottsville merchant a few days ago said: The small retail store-keepers in little mining settlements are in a quandary. They do not dare to refuse credit to the strikers and yeti they fear ruin if they do, for they remember the rain that was canned to hundreds by the miners’ strike of 1875, To escape from this dilemma these store-keepers exhibit empty shelves to their credit customers, declaring that they bave nostock and no cash to buy with and thatthe wholesalers have noti- fled them that all credit is suspended while the strike lasts, Some of these re- tailers do keepa very small stock of goods, which they sell to cash customers under pledge of secrecy, the goods being delivered at night, oo The sogar t ust is a big thing. Since its organization eight weeks ago it has advanced the price about 14 cents per pound. The averige consumption per Mine, who bas boen visiting the mine dur. ing the past woek, suddenly left for New York Saturday. His departure was unex. pected by the mine officials. P. C. F. West, the chief civil engineer of the mine also left for Boston yesterday morning, sad i iwill not be reopened before Spring, at least the brief visitand Inspection of the President and his speedy return to the East carry with them only this inference. Cox Bentenced to Hard Labor, Dosrix, Jan. 20. The trial yesterday of Mr. Joseph R. Cox, charged with addross- ing proclaimed branches of the National League, resulted in a verdict of guilty. Mr. Cox was sentenced four months’ imprison. ment at hard labor. He took an appeal and was admitted to bail, but on leaving the court house he was again arrested. The now charge brought against him is that he was guilty of a breach of the crimes act in addressing the tenants st Kildysart. An Od Farmer's Cold Water Bath, Caxaripon, Mass, Jan. 27. Robert Por. ter, aged 65, a farmer of Stoughton, Mass, bathed in a spring on his lands last week, notwithstanding the thermometer at the time registered 15 degrees below zero. It appears to be nothing unusual for Pbrter, who represents that he has taken a bath dally in this spring for the bast quarter of a century. Weavers May Join the Knights capita is 52 pounds a year, which add: to the profits of the sugar pool $46,800 000 Further, it says, “it is ex'reme! probable that the advance on sugar wil’ be 4 cts. per pound, Moreover, the Supar Trust magnates are scheming to secure control of the raw sugar cropof the world. They aim to cut fat dividends at will probably Por assembly. We advance granted them at the recent A meeting has been called for of the matter. Arvest of an Embersier. SNOW BOUND RAILROADS, Cattle Starved in Stalled Trains and Theis Frozen Hoofs Drop OF Bostox, Jan. %.-There is an immense quantity of ice in the harbor, and sailing vessels cannot move without the aid of tugs, From Boston light to the bridges there is no clear water (0 be seen, excepts they just manage to make their trips, Haytlan Republic, out ward bound, had the greatest difficulty in making a passage through the ice fleid. If the wind should shift to the eastward navi- gation, even by steam, will be all but impossible. Newrony, Jan. 80. Yesterday morning was the coldest of the winter, the ther. mometer registering 6 degrees below zero. The harbor is frozen clear across again, and the Governmen! lsunches which ply between the city and Fort Adams, the tor- pedo station and training station are obliged to land at the upper end of the city New York steamers report seventy-five miles of ice in the Bound, with th prospect of closing unless the weather m tes soon. Eisina, Jan. 8), ~The raliroads converg- ing here are still having a rough time owiog tothe continued gales and drifting snow. All trains from the East are about twelve hours late. Conductor McMartin and a crew, wio had been frozen in a snow drift at Etna, on the Elmira, Cortlandt snd Northern Railroad on Friday, were dug out and rescued yesterday. thus clearing the road. A stock:train was brought here which had lain in a drift at Btanley, on the Northern Central, since Thursday. The cattle had not eaten a mouthful all that time, and their frozen hoofs were dropping off. The animals had suffered terribly Eisrox, Pa., Jun 8).—The Belviders road is clear of snow drifts. The Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad had a foros on dig: ging out their lost passenger train yoster. day and expect io run today. The Bangor and Portland Railroad was opened yester. day from Portland, Pa, 0 Pen argyl. The Namareth branch, closad sinoe Tuesday, will be opened to-day. The ssowed-up railroad trains ar rived at Bangor yesterday afternoon sixty hours late. Over in New Jersey the New York, Busquehauns and Western road is trying 10 get its snow-filled cuis open 80 as 10 run trains today. This road has not moved a train at this end for two days Ruapixo, Jun. 3). ~The Reading Hilroad Company yesterday had several h red nen out on its branch roads shovelling sway snow drifts, and with the assisl ance of pondarcus snow ploughs, the Lebanon Valley, East Penn and Read. ing and Columbia Railroads were reopened to passenger and freight iraffic The Bohuylkill and Lehigh Railroad is still thoroughly blockaded. In the coal regions pome efforts have been made at resumption, but it will be several days before the rail roads will be in full operation. Scraxrox, Jan 30. The blockade on the southern division of the Delaware, Lacks. wanna and Western Raliroad was raised yesteriny. Trains from New York, due here Saturday night, did not reach the colty until noon yesterday. Both tracks are now clear and trains of all descriptions are be ing sent out. SHE DON'TWANTKYRLE BELLEW The Cincinnati Heiress Would Not Have Him ar Any Rate. New Youx, Jan 80.—-Miss Harriet E. Coffin, the Cincinnati heiress, who was said to have a liking for Kyrie Bellew, the gctor, passed a quiet day yesterday st Tay- lor's Hotel in Jersey City She didn't jzave her room and she received no callers. Her first concern in the morning was to sce wil the daily papers, and when she read the pocounts of herself and her doings, she said to the clerk: “The idea that I should be in love with Bellew and want to marry him! It's just the other way, if anything; but I wouldn't marry him if he should get down on his knoes and entreatl me.’ Bhe intimated that she woud return Cincinnati in a short time, where she could escape the dangers of being kidnapped on the gwound of insanity. Failed te Keep Wis Promises. Parzusox, Jan, 30. —Operstions at the Morning Call office came suddenlyto a stand. still Baturday afternoon. When time came for business and work, neither reporters sor compositors sppearad. When the edi. tor and proprietor, E B. Haines, arrived be found the place silen: and deserted. The strikers claim that promises of moreased pay have not boen kept. Mr. Haines says that there is no strike, but that he dis. ‘his som overheard them concocting scheme. She Loses Both Legs. Omana, Neb, Jan. 8 Miss Ettic Bhat. tuck, the young school teacher who was so severely frozen in Holt county in the late blizzard, has had both her logs ampu- tated at Beaward and will live. On the might of the storm Miss Shattuck took refuge in a haystack, but was unable to burrow deep enough to prevent her limbs from freezing. After staying in the stadk seventy-elght hours she was discovered and rescued. More Natural Gus in Indians. Prasgesvitee, Ind, Jan 20 Gas was ok on the farm of H E Buckisn day ore yesterday. Saturday the well was sunk deeper, and the flow has more shan doubled. The gas is now pouring forth in & tremendous volume The psople of this neighborhood are greatly elated, AM 0 HRB Thap- Want Money, = Avoxa, L T. Jag 96.-The Choctaw Indinns
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