OLD SERIES, XL. NEW SERIES XXL THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR. Jacob Sharp, the big New York briber, ont of prison on bail for a new trial, is dead. Hastings as a delegate «0 Chicago, of conrss wil have the narsing of the Bea- ver boomlet for President Mra. Mary D. Lowman ted Mayor of Oskaloosa, Ks. lv elected conneil are also women, Relative to a dejogate convention the Centre cans did some Hastv iii county wes, 14st Satarday. last week. co that the Republicans will carry caster county next fall. Lan- The City of Broth: rly Love is bour d to be sweet, gar refinery. A plum like that would make Centre Hall boom and bloom with sweetness. candidate for Presi- Id not bloom With Cameron a dent nor thrive in Pennsylvania clined to think the other fellows have an idea that Beaver had better be rolled Cameron a Beaver boom won up in tissue paper and laid aside. rules the ranch. If the Millstariff reform bill passes congress, which seems to be a foregone conclusion, a new will have to be built to Philad. Press, as there is no institution of gh to hold ei insanity and madness of the insane asylum take charge of the the kind, just now, large enou all the Men the iblic of real merit are always in pt eve and they do not need to both. er newspapers print reso'utions telling of friends with continually having their greatness. Whenever you notice anything of the kind yon invariably find a little demagogue at the bottom trying to at'ract attention, fel David N Whi and said tot ¢, »x-editor ofthe Pitte- burg Gazette, of the Republican party, died at his hom r Pittsburg, He was born in 1805. in Sewickley, pe ay morning. AWAY WITH THE WAR TARIFF, [New York Commercial Advertiser Rep.] There is no public necessity whatever for continuing the burdensome and in- equitable war tariff. It enriches the few a’ the expense of the many, and not on- ly does the government not need the rev- eune which it produces, but that revenue is a positive inconvenience and danger to the government and the country. The | i i i i { | ! i i i i i gaid he might have lived a decede Ion. ger, a tronhled conscience undoubtedly shortened hisdaye I SI ER WT It is a cause of complaint Repnt that one wing of their be among some icans over here, party srun, or attempted to ran, by a scaly Democrat, over which humiliated. Better he run party, or a wig of it, than the Democratic par'y which will not be ron Are any of the rads 4 they feel their by anv such trash. hard up for some cre to ran "em | TT — The Republicans of our county bad a lively time over the choice of a delegate to the Chicago convention, Thre contest was between Adj. Gen Hastings, of Bellefonte jard Mr, Wigton, of Philips burg. The county was closely canvas<ed and the faithfal of the g o. p., were bat. t'n holed in every nook and corner, Hastings won the day by considerable odds HS ——————. The Senate in secret session removed the injanction of secrecy from the re. port of the commitiee on Foreign Hee lations on the British extradition treaty. The report embodies the propos d treaty, The treaty incindes in extraditable crimes manslaaghter, burglary, embezzl sman?, or larceny of the valus of £50, and mali- cions injuries to persons or property by the nse of explosives or cbstrnetions to railways whereby (ife is endangered. A A TI SO R— In the western part of the State the mining sitaation in the mountain regions is in an unsettled condition, and the in- dications point to a total suspension of operations before a great while. Theop erators, 1t i: said, have decided upon a ten per cent. reduction all around. This move is regarded as pecessary, for the reason that for the past three weeks they have been selling coal on the tipple at » redaction of twenty cents per ton over former prices. The 2 000 miners threat. en to strike if any reduction is attempt- ed. In Pitsburg, on Saturday Judge Ewing banded down the list of licenses granted or refused Pittsburg seloonists and wholesale dealers, and a three weeks’ agony is over. Although the sa loonists had anxiously awaited the news, it sounded in their ears like a death knell when itcseme, The number of saloons in the city before the Brooks law was passed was between 1,400 and 1,500, This number has been reduced to 228, with the possibility of a few more being granted. The number of applications 720, of which 223 were granted, 446 re- fused, 36 he'd over for further consid eration, 8 have yet to be heard, and 7 were withdrawn, than $100,000,000, which is the same as stolen a constant temptation to extravagance in the shape of Blair educational bilis, aud public buiding bili, snd river and hare TRUSTS AND Une -— WORKINGMEN. example will show how a When the the Michigan Liired in West Vir the galt trust paid the owners of these works fixed They had found employment in these works a cent. The workmen were turned out neck and heels Bat the spitalist owoers of the works were paid audsomely, That is how a trust affects workingmen and protects capitalists, trast injures workingmen, salt was very high and salt monopolies ginia to stand idle. That is to say, a sun per year to make no sait. did not pay the men who to shift for themselves, - There are three Victorias of three suc- cessive generations thus named troubling Europe just now, is Victoria, Queen of Eogland and Empress of India, who is about to enter on the seventieth year of her age. There is her daughter Victoria, the Empress of Germany, who is forty-eight years old There is this last named Victoria's youthful danghter, Princess Victoria, whos: mother is an Empress, and whose two grandmothers are an Empress and These their There an ex-Empress, have made p the Princess Vicioria shall Prince of Battenberg They determined to break down every barrier that can be raised against The Czar of Russia may dis- Victorias minds that wed three u the are the match ¢ 0 e it, the mighty Bismark it, and the powerful disapprove classes of Ger it; but the three orias are not to be outwitted or con. pose is is possessed of a many stand Vic troll at against ed io the matter. Their pur fixed, and each of then Questions of State policy may be thrust aside io the nations may be imperilled for the sake of a hap- py match, onrt of love, and the peace of It was evident from the first that the three Victorias woud carry the day. the her The Prince of Battenberg has won support of the eldest of them and daughter, both Empresses, snd he won the heart of the youngest of a combination, thus in bound, what or who can re. has them. Sach harmony sist 7 --———— Here tariff: The man who would neighbor must is a common sense view of the say that his patronize any especial clothing or dry goods store or grocery in this city would be called a fool. The man who would undertake to compel the employment of any particular person would be called an idiot. Yet this is precisely what the prohibitive tariff con- templates. In operation it does this very thing. In consequence those whom it ¢:mpels 10 patronize become dispro- portionately wealthy. This creates mo~ nopoly, and makes fair play 8 mockery. The big tarifl is only an application of methods pointed out above to which prople would not submitin private trans actions, Neithershou!d they submit to the discrim vating laws of the Govern ment. They should make resistance with their ballots in such manner as to force a change, aright about in the in- terest of fair play and hooesty, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the great iron manufacturer, of Pittsburg, has proposed a new plan of settlement to some of his striking workingmen. He suggests that the workmen and the firm employing them shall sgree npon a plan whereby wages shall be regulated by the price of products. Each side shall sele-t an ac countant toexamine the sales and ses what the selling price of the firm hes been for the past month. Ifit is found that the price has increased, wages are to be advanced correspondingly, and vice versa, in accordance with the oper ation of the scale as ‘agreed upon. The accountants are to» make sworn slate ments, and the scale is to be adopted ‘rom year to year, This plan will doubt less work well enough as long as busi- ness is good and wages are maintained on the same basis, but the difficulty will come when trade is depressed and the rate of wages goes below a living stand. ard. Workingmen can easily stand the gains of business, but how will it be when it comes to the losses ? When the presidential campaign bas closed, next full, the’ Republicans will find themselves hurt snd say: They dido't kaow it was loaded, MINERS TALKING STRIKE AGAIN. News comes from Hazleton that @ strike on a new basis is talked of among the miners who recently returned tc work. It is now proposed tostrike at one colliery at a time Itis ed to order out the men at only one cols liery; then, when the company is defea ted, colliery, opera'cr wonld be would have nothing pro pos- order the men to strike at another In this way loser, while the men tO lo8e, as they each individua conld find work at some other colliery or be supported by the large army of their brothers at work. - PE NNSYLVANIA'S FARM WEALTH The statistician of the agricultural de- 18806d 0 the partment at Washington | as 18 itive consumption toll crop Hi hasl sue figures of interest rel of distribution and and wheat, which show the Wing a of the ck 01 to Penngvlvania: The corn wis 44 95 0 pela: at 14 318.650 bushels COLBGme! 1 vhere grown, 39.965 450 bushels, 89 per cent,; shipped out of the country where grown, 4 956 560 bushels, or bat 11 per cent The proportion and va and total value of merchantable and un merchantable corn was as { Jdlows Merchantable, 38 618 300 pushels valoe $21,626248; unmerchaotable, bushels, value, §1 886,010. For wheat the following are the fig. 6.9280 700 ures Crop of 1887, 13,785,000 bushels; stock consumed in country where grown, 5. ont of country where grown, 5,514,000 bushels, or 5 per cent. . cerned in regard to the Berlin crisis, er, Qaeen Victoria, will extend British nation, resaliing in the destruc tion of the cordial relations now existing | between the two empires. It is stated that Lord Salisbury has | begeed the Qaeen to desist from interfer. ing in the controversy over the marriage of Prince Alexander and Princess Victo ria. The Times hears that the difficalty between the Em | 3 correspondent at Berlin peror and Prince Bismarck, arisitg from | the proposed marriage of Prines Alexan-| der of Batienberg and Princess Victoria, ! has been smoothed over, and the pros. | pect is that the question of the marriage] i will be shelved. - - - 3 James Bailey, of Shamokin, has fa'len | heir to $1.600000, left to him by : death of his oocle, William Constein | Munsun, of Newport, Eng the! Bailey has au wife and seven children to take care of | For the past fror months he has missed | many = meal to «ppease the hunger of) the little ones. He went on strike with | the rest of the Philadelphia and Read- | ing miners in Jannary, and, through a misunderstanding, did not secure his! piace when thestrike was declared off Failing to obtain work atthe collieries] he was compelled to seek aid from the poor district. Baturday morning be re- ceived a letter from an attorney in Eng land informing him of his lucky winds fall ai At Bt. Peter the Minnesots river broke over ita banks on Bunday and is flooding the bottom lands eust of the city, Every thing for miles has been submerged, No serions damage has been done thus far except to the long bridge leading to the Omaha depot. The river is nearly over the Omaha tracks, and is within a couple of feet of the high water mark reached in 1881. The ice has moved out and is reported gorged a few miles down the river, A dispatch from Albert Lea, Mion. says: The rain storms the last three days, together with the great thaw. have caused the greatest floods in Fountain and Albert Lea inkes and the Shell Rock river, known since the country was set~ tied, -——— Fighting has occurred between the Spanish garrison at Booloo and the na- tives of the Booloo Islands, in which the Spaniards lost ten killed and seventy wounded and the natives 200 killed Among the Spanish killed and wounded were several officers, RS Dr. Chopin, the man who has nine wives living, was brought to the peniten- tiary at Columbus. He attempted to commit suicide in jail at Fiodlay by cut ting his throat with a dull case knife, He lacerated his throat badly, but he will recover. a - It is stated to-day that Prince Blamarok has abandoned his opposition to the mar. riage of Prince Alexander of Battenberg and Princess Victoria, having gain ed cor tain other concessions, and that ali the differences between the Emperor and —- FREE WOOL. In the cold elimate of the Northern States woolen clothing, blsnkets, bedding and carpets will cost the family of the average workingman or farmer at least $60 per annum for each member-an ex pense that could be met with $40 each if wool were on the free list and duties on woolens were redaced one-third, as they great advantage both to | manufacturers and consumers, might he with The pol- {icy of free wool is a distinct and great { benifit for the Northern | woolen goods constitute a prime neces- States, where 8 ty. With free wool and the daties re [wear, blankets and carpets, and [ter goods for their money, : > Republican Mr. Nelson, a iff refora. od 51 other day in favor of tar I who favored tari wi not hoaest, Les {1 ! 3 rTeGuoii to call men y fp rat 1 iree traders tari reduction were not the only friends of | I'he men who upposel all forms of i American Labor, nor were they the only | " _ 1 trade was | : ved in the problem con- | question of protection or free inot fairly invol The great body | of taxation, | next question presented was, i whether that redaction shoud be applied (to the tariff or internal revenue taxes. letter received by Lim from Charles A, tepublican, warmly ing his course in © ngress upon the tanfl question, and declares that 90 per vent of the Democrats and 75 per vent, of the Hépublicans of Miunesota with him in | the letter Democratic side. agreed isviews. The read. was app anded on the | the | extracts from dinnescla newspapers and private letters The He also sent to ierk’s desk and had read wring tariff revision, Mr ext quoted Western Re- | Nelson n } iblican platforms deciaring in favor of ion the tariff at ao early day, atid added, amidst the Dem the jaughter id ap | “And now my | friends, is the appointed time.” Crals, Continu- | he said that even as stiff a protection- | ing, ! : i5t as Benator Sherman had been furced, | ing of the House Market Club | at Boston, to admit the necessity of tariff | al a meet revision and to declare in favor of the f duty of such raw mate- rial acd articles as did not compete with | domestic prodacts, In the face platform pledges and these admissions, | in the face of the great and growing | surplus taken from the people and used | admission free o of these | therefore it made him sick at beart to think that there were leading men on his side of the chamber who at this juncture conld not think of any other field for tax reduction than on whisky and topacco. Surely these were not the things on which the poor laboring man kept his family. Would it not be better to give them cheaper clothes and food and shelte:? He would put free sugar, free salt and free lomber against free whisky and tobacco, and so would the great mass of American people. - --. The Vermont Republicans last week declared in favor of Baine for President. If some one don’t laya big rock on Blaine he will get into the presidential race in spite of his letter of declination, - ——— Old Bismark is interfering with royal love affairs in Germany acd has his Datch vp very muchly because Alexan- der wants to marry Victoria. —— tt aim The Republicans of Wisconsin are for Gresham, for President. Gresham isa tarifl reformer, o-W-A-L-L-:0:-P-A-P-E-R-0 “ams (omen |] sm mm WM. WOLF & SON have received a new stock of Wall Paper, some beau tiful patterns, and at prices about fifty per cent. less than heretofore, Seo their styles before you buy. Re- member they are only half the price of last year, 9 2. 1888S, % WASHINGTON LETTER Sonar An Interesting Story fn Which Dawes Is su Leading Character Time Friend Who on His Bounty, {Bpecial Correspondence, Benator Dawes is one of men in Congress years of age, and his burden made him slightly iidered gray-haired. He is one of the most ous, painstaking and thorough comn workers in the Benate item of legislation coming before him care fully, and always knows how nu the reason for it, after in the Benate calls that particular Although he has al poor man he is ge Probably no man ate has lve closely up tc his salary as Mr, Da he has always endeavored and some egal practice to e} tha stoop-s hot when item into wavs becn a last dollar, erous to 1 the Ber to make both ends moet every vear four or five tin Ww entire amount of bi ures. This winter for is own personal exper the first Lime M1 been una as Co when his strength duties that call he mus i carefu upon Lim Knowledge in regard wo Bar his habits of gener the doorbell of street rang d sity hiis boas late one t dimself responded. On the lean, shivering old threadbare broadcloth calculated to shicld him Rna srk gh, "WHO wil wt ith a sud EX “Why, John, is adneq that y jeft of In a moment th by the bl hearth, and rubbed | y knuckies on 1 chair and shiv i ders as the out of his mar : changed their me.’ the 3 ES the en ex Leal drove two had friends, chums. Bot® had poor all their lives; but one was successful ia pub lic honors and the other was a failure in every thing John had been a scidier, but somehow Jacked the stamina te rise from the ranks, and bad come out of the war minus an arm and compictely broken down in health by a ten months’ sojourn in Southern prisons The twenty odd years sinoe the close of the great struggle had been spent in a dos perate battle from day to day to keep body and soul together Finally, like a wreck on the sea, he had drifted to the door of his old friend and col lege mato, “Henry,” said the onearmed veteran at length, his voice trembling, * can you give me a place to sleep to-night! If you dom't J shall have to go to the station.” “Of course, Jahn,” said the Senator, and in a few minutes Mrs. Dawes had been sum. moned and a bright fire was burning in a spare room ready for the old man’s ooou- paney. From that night on for over three months Jolin was an inmate of the Senstor's family; every thing was done for him that could be done; his rooth was warmed at night, his post-prandial cigar was furnished him; Mrs Dawes tied his necktie, brushed up the dihgy old coat, and Miss Annas knit him new socks and sewed on his shirt but tons. The poor old fellow never had somuch attention shown him in all his days; but, like old men of his stamp who have drifted up and down the world without the self- reliance or resolution to better their condi tion, he was essentially a pauper. He had lost all ambition, all sense of manly independence, and his only desire was to toast his toes at the grate, enjoy his ciger, get a cushioned seat in the gallery of the Senate, have a pleasant after-dinner chat with the Senator snd at night lie down in A soft and warm bed. In time it gradually began to dawn on the Massachusetts Sena. tor's mind that however worthy his old comrade might be, and however willing he himaself was to support him, there must some time come an end to his act of charity, both in justice to himself and family and to the object of his kindness as well, so one day when he and John were alone he gently broached the subject of a change of quarters, “1 will do all 1 can for you, John, up to the limit of my means, which, as you know, are pot vory great. 1 will gladly give you the money to pay your board at some modest boarding-house until spring opens, then, if gonaikie, 1 mill try and get you employment. ou know it is not so easy for me now to get a tjovernment position as it onoe was. doubt if you can get a place under the Gov. ernment any way. We will try something A look passed over John's Joc; but ho sald nothing, excopt to bow his b in mssont. A fow days lator a young Lieu tenant in the army, a friend of the Senator, was 6t the house and without any appear ance of virg modest little Doen DOArd Hill Lieutenant him. The un Yyoery street, pretty inhabited by poor bu all sorts. The hous pared, of course, Dawes boards of yromuptly CAME BI new boarding exoeient old well ou f reset €y Brien ining Mrs O'Brien many reasons why I am at the Benator's. Hea and you know I am rather one hand, and Mrs. | are very om earth wi The object tenant and strain JAWER sow 0 O'Br vi4 § Mrs the ICE-YACHTING. The Monarch of Winter Sports—A Little Spiced with Danger, but Still a Delight- ful Recreation. s the monarch of winter x Hudso: on walter THE “Ja MIIOK ICR-BOAT. Bedowin, relates how onoe ina race be at- tempted a crack almost as broad as iL was long. plumped into the water, went come pletely under, but struck a ower stratum of ice, rebounded to the surface, and gained the opposite side of the fissure in safety Being speedily frozen suff, however, his ardor was temporarily chilled, and he lost the race. Very funny for the spectators, too, though a serious matter for the owner and for the people on the ice, is a runaway. When the wind is high, a yacht will oo pasionally throw out its navigator, and start off wildly on its own hook. Then there is a general scattering in all directions, though it is usually safer to stand still, for nobody can tell what ecoentric curve the unpiloted machine will take in its mad course. Val uable boats have been wrecked in this man. ner, though we have never heard of any loss of life. Leslie's. x TRO Story of a Dackslider, “Corkins,” said McStab, “what has bo- come of Lickladder, who used to practios law down in Babyion?® I haven't heard of him for years.” “He went out to Los Angeles, Cal, re formed, go to be the superintendent df a mission Bunday-school, and quit the law business. He said he couldn't conscien. tiously run a law olfice and a Sunday school, ton," replied Corkins, “What is be doing now” “Last timo 1 heard from Lickladder he was managing u Los Angelos real-vstate office " " Cl bo tila reformed and conscientious tan" : “OM Yosnid Corkins, with disgust, aie Th Yay wv Chigt
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