VOL. LXII. THE CENTRE. REPORTER. FRED KURTZ, - EDITOR What were ku<klux in the south, white caps in the north. A WSIS IA are Sugar refining by electricity has receiv. ed a terrible shock, which was felt even in England. That stock is cheap now. The mysteries of the 19 century: 1. Who struck Billy Paterson ? Where Who killed the revenue bill ? A SBSH ISO 5 » is Charley Roas ? has not yet et, is because The reason why Harrison baen able to settle on n eabl he cannot find two men of the same mind on the Centre Hall and Bellefonte post office appointments. SRC If the present legislature does not ap point an investigating committee to find who killed the revenue bill passed last session, then there is no use in haying a chaplain to pray for the members. ———————————— Quay says the coming legislature must be a No doubtit will. When Quay had control of the Pardon Board of this State it was a dandy, and why n't his legislature be the same asks the Pittshurg Telegraph. A PS model, 2 should : Bellefonte should get when it takes pot, or dapo. The editor of the ReroRr-~ rer, President Harrison, and other big fish might be invited to lend eclat to the occasion. It that Bellefonte gets a good thing. up a big jubilate someession of its little de~ I 13n't often Pennsylvania's Bupreme Court Judges will hereafter wear gowns as a means of giving them dignity. Perhaps Judge Ba- cher is glad now that he declined the nomination last year, That's why old women wear gowns, they want to be dignified like, Here is a good suggestion from the Philadelphia Ledger: This is a good time for people who have means to begin squaring up thier accounts, so that the smaller tradesmen may have opportuni thing. The nimble dollar will settle accounts representiog a score of dollars if started ont in time and kept moving. The Rerorren says Amen to that —let all try the cash system and curse “tick” instead of “tick” corsing them longer, The baggage master who stole $4,000 from the railroad company and then tried toship himself and the boodle west in a trunk with the aid ofa friend, rea‘ized what a baggage smasher Thumped and dampad,somstimes on his head and sometimes sideways, then around ina circle, made the journey so terribly sick- ening, that he began to yell and the train men opening the trunk, let himout. He said he only wanted to steal aride, being out of money. But the stolen money was also found in the trank and he is now under arrest, ies to do the same is, Let the orphan schools be closed and the children be transferred tc the state normal schools, This would be a saving of a good many thousand dollars to the state treasury and put the state normals to good use for once anyway. The orphan schools only serve as a booanza to the managers, many of whom got rich while an investigation showed that the children of the soldiers were badly cioth- ed, badly fed, and a prey to vermin. The managers of the orphan schools are op posed to the closing of the same and every reading man knows . ¥h. we are wipiiaed that the people of Millheim shou'd have thought it worth while to sign a paper pronouncing the fellow of the Gazette a dirty liar, and are surprised that the Watchman would lend the space to publish the dirty journalis- tic outlaw. We know him to be a dirty, contemptible liar, of the lowest, meanest order, who seems (0 have no decenter way of making a living —he is the fellow, too, whom Jadge Orvis, publicly in the conrt house, branded as a forger, we are told, and said he could prove it, and the Gazette lonse had to take it. Ap article in the recent number of Science illustrates bow diptheria is spread by cats. It is said that domestic animals have often not only been suspected but found guilty of spreading infection. It is easy to imagine cats catching infectious diseases like diptheria, when we remem« ber how often milk and other unused food from the sick room is given to the cat, or by some people thrown out in the back yard for the benefii of their neigh- bors’ cats if they have none of their own, It is a frequent occurrence to see child. ren carrying cats in their arms, and even kissing them. It is obviousthat, if the cas were ill with diptheris, the children, under such circumstauces, would almost inevitably contract the disease. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. The Pittsburg Post sums up Governor | Beaver's message thus: Governor Beavs | er's message is a very lengthy document { of upwards of 40 pages, pamphlet form, { and covers a great variety of topics. It is much longer than President Cleve- {land's last message. There is a great deal of talk about lengthy messages, but the fair presentation of the varied ins terests of this great Commonwealth no light undertaking, and exacts a great deal of space. The ns, is very timid is governor while profuse in sag- the way of emphatic recommendation or the elab. decided policy. He puts most of his suggestions in an interroga- tive form, ' he says, “has been used to enforce statement,” The governor ad vises speedy action on the prohibition amendment, so that it may go to the people in May or Jane. He is non-committal as to its adoption. The bill of the commission codifying the revenue laws is transmitted without further than that it may contain some good things and others not so good. There are sug- gestions for the more thorough collection of taxes on personal property so that the barthen may not fall so largely upon real estate, the rate on which in the State i8 from 60 to 12 mills on the dollar. The debt, less treasury assets, is $7,078,235, ard the reduction in 1887 was $1,922 126, and in 1858, $1,118,550, The ind orses gost in oration of a “No argument,’ positive recommendation public governor the reco mendations of the commission for indi. vidual manoal training, which he iscare- fal to distinguish from trades schools. Farther State aid is advised for normal schools, The Soldiers’ Orphan schools are reported in good condition, and the governor submits to the legislature the consideration of the extension of the system some years or its incorpo- ration with the normal schools, but makes no positive recommendation. In addition to the present exemption of $300, the governor asks if it would not be well to passe a $600 homestead ex - emption law. Much attention js given to the State institutions —reformatory, penal and otherwise—and the question is put whether it would not be well to erect a ire proof building to cost a million for the farther aad betler accommodation of the executive department, the library and art treasures, leaving the legislati ve building intact as a “splendid specimen of colonial architecture” for its present uses, The governor thinks the money derived from the direct tax bill, now pending in congress, shoald be applied to this purpose; and it ehould not be un- dertaken until this moaey is secured, The message as a whole, is weak and non-commit:sl to the point of timidity. it is a very different document in vigor and character from the square, manly and hard-hitting message of his predes cessor, i- for le The Renova Record renews the sug gestion that the children remaining in the soldiers’ orphan schools at the time fixed for their abandonment be sent to the normal schools at the expense of the State until they shall become sixieen years old. This would be better than a renewal of State aid to the orphan schools under specnlative management, But this management has secured the aid of the Grand Army to keep the schools open until June, 1895, when the soldiers’ orphans born the day of Appot mattox will be a trifle over thirty years of age. The purpose is to make these State boarding schools a prominen® part of our edaeationa’' system for the benefit of a favored class. The orphan school syndicate has 4 good thing and wants to hold on to it. A ——-— Farmers who are selling produce in the Pittsburgh market, that home market provided by protection, are complaining bitterly of the low prices for potatoes, cabbage, turnips, apples, cider and other products. They hardly realize enough from the wagon loads of stuff they bring in to pay the expenses of the trip. If they ship by rail, freight charges, enhan- ced by tariff taxed stes! rails, eat np the whole price of the stuff. Yet many of these farmers were deluded into voting the war tex ticket last fall by the prom. ise of a good market if the tariff was sav ed, Bosays tne Pittabarg Post, and we may add that our Centre county farmers similarly deladed, in voting, feel quite painfully the lowness of prices, Definite details from the Congo, re- #pecting the whereabouts and movements of Btanley, are expected from day to day. Meanwhile the membersof the British Fast African company, who ars also the financial backers of the Stanley ex« pedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, are convinced that Stanley was safe and in good health on about the latter part of September Inst, the last news received September. They also express their firm belief that he has been exposed to 0 danger Sines Shim, PA., THE PROBIBITION AMENDMENT There seems to be little doubt quarter bat the prohibition amendment | will pass the present legislature, and in that event, according to the constitation, must “be submitted to the qualified elec. tors of the State, in such manner and ay guch time, at least three mond #3 agreed to by the t general assembly shall prescribe.” Th will probably tion, and, light vote, amendment in the legislature be voted on at the town and city el tions the third Tuesday of Febru a full vote but this able. In his message, s after being wo houses, as the ig i necessitate a all speci as experience proves, it might secured, 8 ne advocates submission, election be held as early as May or June, 80 that the vote apon without any admixture tics or | ba t it may 1 ocal interest to perplex the vol of rok The opponents legislature will the making provis this idea was and is not likely time. Its make the necessitate ils passage elected modify proposed ion for voted de would A Dew by ore it ion amendment adopt He ed d be Pry in ted to a vote of the people. There is a good deal of to the fate popuiar vole, 1800 bef Coul of the amendment wr interest time disposes to make light diction of its approval HOw teaciderr hr question ly, and is ~optehemive it majority. It will probably make mined fight have the sin war in abundance, as the various f many i ions of thousan also have a money iote ion, as Pennsyl than any state and abe at one { Union. distillers, about 5 ars, The liqu more seri MAY secure a , and will ens tvailio 4 TRL in this $b w in this Slate rep FINS invested Ti r capital 8 of em; Noyes, ie farmer est in TAISER more 000 bus vania nearly 4,000, ifth of the ; idl rod ae alm ‘hie is wt entirely barley p goes to the brew wh.ie th YOO 000 bushels - ee” The national convention of cently in Mi what is practically a flour production to want cheaper and dearer flour was their molto, cutting the one end of the line and at the other. No trust pockets of the people asa flour trust. A copper trust affects the manufacturers Sugar is a luxury, and a trast in it defeatsd to the people must have 80 PpOOr nor without it. Therefore, when deliberate unnatural, combined make bread dearer it becomes of universal concern. Every the country is interested, With the beginning of the the effects of the combine or trust become apparent. A clear jority the larger mills, representing a daily put of near 80,000 barrels of flour, have shut down entirely, or are muning at half capacity, These mills are scattered sll over the winter wheat belt and are 300 in number, Al Minneapolis, the cen- ter of gpring wheat milling, although the millers resent any talk of a trust, it is a fact the production of flour has been cut down to nearly one third-—{rom barrels a day to 15,000 ee» A very good suggestion bas been made that doctors be examined by a compe tent State committee. The present practice is to license any physician having a medical college diploma, and to deny the privilege of practice to all who have not. The system probably does not bar out any competent doctors, as diplos mas can be procured by sach without any more expense or tronble than any one may overcome. Bat it is not so cers tain that diplomas are not isened too easily to persons who are not competent, A great deal of learning will not make doctors of some people, while others are filed by nature and disposition for such work. A competent State examining board ought to do good. This would operate a liltie against quacks who get their diplomas from third-rate medical colleges, A SMP Ms A PROBLEM OF THE DA X. (Philadelphia Record.) There are 25,000 colored voters in Ins diana, and only » Harrison plurality of 2300. The number of colored voters in New York is also largely in excess of the Republican plurality, A party that is dependent upon colored pluralitics should introduce a little color into the cabinet. This is the African problem of immed iate interest in this country, And the Reronres would add here that a party with 108000 majority against it, has no Yiclony to boast of. ma millers re session at wankee , form trast, iim advanced prices We wheat the bread eaters will so affect the can be by declining eat it. Dat None are that they can do 80 strong there is a effort to a enbject family in new year ms Ou 41 i Wi Harrison's adintnistration is likely to bo nidknamod the felcle administration COLN'STRIPTCG WASHINGTON. g of the contest than it The speedy coming ren more manifest by the inde av een before circumstasces of ield to Washington to enter President way.of Harrisburg, upon the discharge of his duties, j eoln journeyed by nr iriving thers on Friday, that st him for the first time. | the State Legislature {and it was then Governor He in the | me ad aft reception, &rn and later held a pub lie ter the reception,” says Governor Car a private conference was held of the hh hh PPLOg. the President parlor otel at whi ential were ato parity resent beside were | 1 Judd, Ward H. Lam idee Davi who were tr it id Wold ry he second io. E il information bad been received } 32 i: the resident assassinate passage through danger 1% President sho Philadeiphia ght Wil mingion turowing 1 to go Ce vy § 9s MAG SAEED gover 8 nment rain, ihe ional ire his safely. dinner was given the Presi. al its clogs | , and nvited him members of } 2 driven vatekiris train, consisting of PRASEDZET CAT, WAN ie the street tender and anding nding. I stood « crossing ntil I saw theme went home, The wires bel ron and og between the i iladelp hia bad al: ¢ Any news ot} his movements getting abroad, and with { Lamon as his only companion the journey to Wash the next morning we ed word that the trip had been made eafety and that President L Washington.” Soan aller i il prevent ones he started on BE inn 7 son. : Ary inocoin geoin’s inauguration Gove} 8 message the President to visit Washington wilhs ut delay, as h confer with He yapanied by Col McCiare, chairman of tl committee of the State Senate, and found the President desirous that some of the loyal Slates should take action recogniz- ing that civil war existed. With his igment of men, he had chos cine of the Governors best fitted to make the declar-| ation, and the prompt and resolute cour-| age with which the latter accepted the tremendous responsibility showed the President that he had jodged aright Governor Curtin returned to the Slate capital on a Monday morning determin: ed to pend a message to the Legisiature that day. Bome of his friends, however, strenvously urged him to postpone ace tion for the time being, and he faally yielded to their advice, Tuesday morning brought to Harris. burg a messenger from thé President with this note: “I see you did nothing yesterday. 1 think if your action is to have any value that you ought to come out without delay.” Upon receipt of this message, the Governor acted forth. with. Before noon he seat to the Legis: lature a message which, considering the time and the occasion, must go on record us one of the greatest of state papers. In the stroogest terms possible he placed before the people the doctrine that the urtin received ¢ wished to did so, act nel ie splendid jad en Governor Carlin as the thing to be considered and that to se- cure it, too great sacrifices could vot be made, “The government,” he declared “is based upon a compact to which all the people of the United States are par- tion, It isthe res iol ar taal concess sions, which were made fur the purpose of securing reciprocal benefits. It acts direotly upon the people and they owe it a personal allegiance. No part of the States can voluntarily secede from the Valen hut abtalvg themed das trom thele obligations, To permit a to draw at pleasure from the Union without the consent of the rest is to confess that our government is a failure,” ter timed and its efiect npon falter ing ones throughout the North was ime in the Pennsylvania Legislature instantly introduced a bill Governor raise and equip troops wdiate and incalculable, lower house of the (Gideon J. Ball vesting the with power to and appropriating ~P 3 £500,000 for the purpose, hilad, Times’ cor. ——— of how GO won one of his The story mriin add vernor ( first law cases has pass into 8 tradition In Centre county. A school teacher, arrested fur stealio finte or & g a was brought before a Jneti i Governor iin a1 peared & lence ¢ Ing ar ar Honor,” r client oo: the fin tandahl ianagabie ORE, pury well knows, he is young; be Wok this Hinte order still in the minds of his § the 5 f x ’ 3 5 5 iPie8 OI usc, Adi pllauing oguent and glowing terms pring i 1d gi e paints @ culprit i he Justice, was lowe ft viriue ne oO licial, hed by ure of A 4d Fa RF he Stat attont i BED Ww ald call for to Kill Hen para tare centaries men, and q oe in the absence law passed, w take the ut and tie | thunder gust 1 GVer, oases out of twenty yo EXD |qure has here provi tod a most 1 Saple °| paratus us” upon which : - oH him to a tree unt the nex Er and nineteen find the a Will 4 i Bae svt vw Na criminal ited t giecin ity JAA “ap. there is no patent - One of the greats a rail wad across South America, {connecting he me seaport of ‘Brazil on th also, ¢ the nesres! to fraverse ings of the lu mes ie Ml easiern oi # ils + - wey Wid ¥ tlantic o harbor on pro Paraguay and the Ars wel a 3 alpe i a. i . : v fil tha iii, wae 1 EP cific coast Australia. The jroad will gentine Republic es #8 Brazil and Chili, ts estimated cost in $150 has been fo obtain land : from the interesied. In addition to the commercial results of Al road which would traverse the Bouth- ern continent and open new and fertile regions to trade, there is another aspec lof the question which is of peculiar im- | portance to the people of the United Sta- ites. When the railroad has fairly {trated these countries and made their |cheap, rich lands available for remunera- itive cultivation a large smigration would {be attracted from Europe. The mighty ®! siroam of immigration that now pours on {these shores would be largely diverted to South America. 1000 A Kis med in R grants of countries tand a syndicate | Janei ro Ioney 2 sad 0 BiG penes THE INAUGURATION DANCE. 3all or no ball at Harrison's inaugura- tion is causing a lively time among Methodist and other ministers, who ins sist that Harrison shall put his foot down on the inauguration dance because he professes to be a good Presbyierian. The matter is quite hot among the Indianap- oiis clergymen, The union meeting of the city ministers on Monday failed to develop anything in comnection with the ioangural ball, was generally expected, for the reason that the Methodists saw that they would be out-numbered, and they preferred to present the subject at the meeting of their own society next week. All of them are against the ball and hint darkly of changiog their politics unless “this abomination of the devil,” as they call it, be cancelled forthwith, Saveral of them have written to the President-elect and influential members of their congregations to do the same. To mone of their communications has Glen. Harrison replied with more than a letter of acknowledgement through hie secretary, The Presbyterians seem to think that they have gained a point by providing for a committee to report an address ex. pressing the cordial Christian regard of the members for the President-elect, the. rations and mad to consist of one mem: | her from wash of the aye oy tions represented in the meeting, Al the same time a few leading Presbys- terians have gone over to the Methodists, and frive phi are loud in ibelr denunciation of ty and go Hessdess' at the White House - - ed toons special An A says thatthe Penns gyivania Railroad ( robbie snpany has been | of brass from cars to 100 000 tha amount The ly organized between They gold gents, whi to Moses Bilverman, of Cl of § during the past year, ” is # 2 ¥i & WOrx was aoe t by a regul jr of boys a ong the line eland and Philadelphia, their plunder to incsl a intern Boia it Wh Ti ad and the ying evel were made alc At Al iesales arrests mg FINA 8 ig te and other 0 anolier ie Compu 28 (han sixty persons strict and V Swany JULTIZOL BQ iV iDigr- T gown a arge wealber, store at DBelle- —The ne JW Ww Creamery Rebers. ander roof, near ' 0 wn han Harter, of Mi week. wn Luis ee Dr. Frank, of iff ~result be 1 4 h § taken poss wn of the Car north of fierce stor: day afternoon, n set on Wednes- night and in © runt sed all solder wealher, ble's line for eady made clo h- yiete in every par icular, and eat by any dealer in the ee], the Becker a few days ago, ric, he booght D. Murray gave washing machine a trial and pleased with its w one. No machinelike it. Novels by Scott, Goldsmith, Verne, Haggard, Duchess, Dora Thorne, Hugh Conway etc, on sale at Morrays Drug Flore. —welfiller's photograph caris in town, and ‘expects to locate only for a short time. Persons wishing fine work shot il 3 call between the hours of 10 J. The fines! work done when snow ~d3oorge Nearhood his house it was a terrible tug, But now be is snug. wmThe reputat of the Philadel- phia Branch for cheap clothing is an es tablished fact and cant be touched by any one in the county. —~]f you wish to be well dressed, get your clothing made Ly Fleming, the fashionable tailor, Bellefonte, who has a complete line of latest goods, and at cheapest prices, — Jacob F ted citizen of morning, December 20, aged S0 years and 4 days His funeral took place New Years day at 11 o'clock at the Lutheran church. Mr. Finkle years ago was a citi- zen of Pena twp., this county, and a well known miller in that section. ~[f you desire your boy to have a Christmas gift that will lest him to the end of the vear, get one of those hand some suits for him, for which there is such a great rush at Lewins, Philad. Branch. The stock of clothing, for men and boys, is astonishing, and every piece honest goods, and lower in price b 3 per cent. than elsewhere. Lewins leads and keeps up his old reputation for honest goods, lowes! prices and latest styles. ~-For cheapest family groceries ge to Sechlers old and reliable stand in the Bush house block, For the holiday season every family is desirous to have the best of everything on the table, and at Sechlers is the place to find it. They kesp the best canned and dried fruits, syrups, teas, coffees, meats, and all the fine grades of candies, raisins, oranges, lemons and other good things. ARMERE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPARY, OF CENTRE QD, PA The annual meeting of the members and the elootion pany forthe com the sifairs of the oom- any fof the ensaiag ng year, will be held ai the ey TR 12 ten at Centre Hall, on Monang, Boome 4, 188 hours of 1 and 8p. m. ofsaid bers are requested to attend, D, F. Lose, a. RE aient. Centre Hall Deo, 20, 1888, EXECUTORS N NOTICE. “LETTRS A rh oy ron Bap Nip od 10 the undersigned rake, Tames 1 a aone nd ing now occupies on inkle, an Bellville, on old and respec- died Sonday ert in is
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