VOL. LXIL THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED KURTZ, - EDITOR Gen. Hastings has our thanks fora copy of “Birds of Pennsylvania.” A —————————— Col. Milliken has put on his specks to see whether Harrison wants him to have a day at Indianapolis too. RET IST If letter postage is not to be reduced to one cent, then why not sell two postal cards for one cent—that would be re- dnetion in postage to be felt by every man, rich and poor. RU — Since the Judges of the Supreme Court have taken to wearing gowns might they not as well go the whole h—g and wear bustles too ? There would be just ag much justice in front of a bustle as in- side a gown. III The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has de~ veloped highly satisfactory speed. Sec retary Whitney has telegraphed his sat- isfaction in these words: “1 congratulate vou upon the result of the trial of the Vesuvio. Considering the size and class of the vessel, you can justly claim to have surpassed all records heretofore made.” It might have besn well enough for Fiedler to seek the post mastership of the lower Honse at Harrisburg, but to ask the post-mastership of Bellefonte is an insult to avery decent woman of that town and especially tothe W.C, T. U, It isn’t always the larg st nose that knocks down the persimmons. The Democrats of the Indiana Senate displayed the right kind of pluck in or« ganizing that body last week. They made the fraudulent Lieut. governor, Robison stand outside the door and told Lim he was not recognised by that body. That kind of spunk in 1876 would have prevented the fraudulent Hayes from occupying the presidency that righttally belonged to Tilden. ESI ER, The actual election of President took placa last Monday, when the electors of each state met at the state capital and east their votes for President. OI course Harrison is the map, under the presen law, But, suppose the law read that the elec. tors shall cast their votes for the man who received the highest vote from the people—the people's choice—then the next President would be Grover Cleve. land. TT —— The Agricaitaral Department crop re- port for the year verifies, but does not change, what was already known. The competition of Russia, India and Austral- ia has kept prices so low that for the first time in nearly twenty years the advance in the price of wheat per bushel has pot made up in value for the loss in the amount of the total crop. The corn crop is the largest on record, but the yield per acre is below past retarns in froitful years, and taken asa whole the report does not show that the year has been a prosperous one in the grain states. The mailing lists of the New York Voice, the organ of the prohibition party were purloined from the office of that pa. per during the late presidentisl canvass and sold to the republican national coms mittee. The thieves were two employes in the office of the Voles and they have confessed their guilt. 1nthbir confession they implicate Messrs. Clarkson and Dudley of the republican national com” mittee as participes criminis. One of them declares that Senator Quay was cognizant of the transaction. The Republican committee used these stolen lists to mail its campaign literas ture to the readers of the Voice, to dam age its work in favor of the prohibition ticket. . Ex-Senator John J. Patterson, former. ly from over in Juniata county, and well known to many of the Rerorrer's Cen tre county readers, was sued the other day for breach of promise, by a bustle wearer ino Philadelphia, Senator Patterson is a prominent fig. ure of the carpet-bagging days of Bouth- ern reconstruction, He isa relative of Senator Cameron's, and went South with the hordes of politicians shortly after the close of the war,and from 1873 to 15879 represented South Carolina in the United States Senate, He is close on to 60 years of age,’and has been an army officer during war times and a legislator and editor in piping times of peace. He is a graduate of Jefferson College, but never became famons as a physician, his early years beiog given to newspaper work. Although living now at Mifflin. town, to which place he returned “bust ed” after his Senatorial term expired in South Carolina, he is said to have again made barrels of money in conjanction with another relative of Senator Cams eron in North Caroline rice planta Hons, THE P \ROHIBITION AMENDMENT. Advices from Harrisburg leave little room for doubt that both branches of the Legislatare will again adopt the Prohi. bition amendment to the Copstitution, and provide for its submission to a vote of the people at a special election to be held in the early part of next summer, In order to submit the Prohibition amendment to the people this year, it will be necessary for both branches of the Legislature to again pass the pro- posed amendment without any change whatever, and to declare by law when it shall be submitted to the people. The text of the amendment must be adver- tised in fall in every county of the State for three months prior to the election; and it may be submitted to the people either at a special election May or Juve, or say in September or October after harvest time, or at the regular November election, as the Legislature shall decide. The special friends of the Prohibition amendment are importunate in the de- mand for a special election to decide the isgue, and their wishes are likely to pre- vail. They argue that even at an unims portant general election there would be more or less political entanglements, and they want an election at which the peo~ ple will have no other question to cons sider or act upon than that of Probibi~ tion. A majority of the votes cast at sach election will adopt or reject the proposed Prohibition amendment, If adopted, an extra session of the Legislas ture would be a necessity to enact laws for the enforcement of the new Conslitus tional provimon. If rejected, no new Prohibition amendment, or any other amendment, could be proposed for five years. The proposed amendment is a radical prohibitory measure. It absolutely pro~ hibita the manufacture or sale of all in- toxicating liquors as a beverage, which includes beer and wines of all grades, and directs the Legislature to provide by law for the punishment of those who shall disregard its mandate. If adopted by the people, all manufacture and sale or traffic of any kind in liquors, beer or wines as a beverage, would summarily cease upon the official declaration of the popular approval of the measure, and there would be no restitution to owners of property that may be made valueless by the change. Licenses granted for a period beyond the date of the operation of the prohibitory amendment would terminate at once, as the amendment, as adopted by the last Legislature, would go into immediate effect upon its approv- al by the people. as ———— A AI P35 BSS FROM AFRICA. Advices have been received from the interior thatin October inst Mwangs, King of Uagands, plotted to destroy bis entire body guard, his inteations being to abandon them on an island in Lake Nyanza, where they would s‘arve to death, The guards, who had been forewarned of the King's intentions, refused to enter the canoes which were to convey them to the island, but returned to the capital and made attack on Mwanga's palace, The King fled to escape the fury of the guards, and his brother, Kiwewa, was enthroned in his stead. Kiwews, ap- pointed Christians to the principal of. fices. This enraged the Arabs, who murdered many of the Christian officials and replaced them with Mahomedans. The Arabs burned the English and French mission stations and killed many of the converts to Christianity. The mission boat, Eleanor, in which some of th - persons who had been converted by the French missionaries were fleeing, was struck by a hippopotamus and sank, five of the converts being drowned, Many letters from Emin Bey and Hen. ry M. Stanley were destroyed by the burning of the missionary stations. The missionaries have reached Usambyio in safety. The Msalala depot is safe. Mwaoga is a prisoner at Magu, He has appealed to the English missionaries for assistance, The Arabs have written {0 Missionary McKay exalting in their triumph, and prophesying the extinetion of all the mission stations in Central Africa in revenge for England's anti-slavery polis cy. The have proclaimed Uganda a Mabomadan ki ngdom, a MSI AGI A BINS The tramer of the high license bill, Mr, Brooks, of Philadelphia, has introduced the amendments be deems desirable. Transfers of license are permitted, and a license is held tobe tangible property and oan be inherited. Females and minors are forbidden to be employed at bars. Hours are fixed for closing bars from 10 P. M.to6 A. M., but in cities councils may, by ordinance, permit bars to keep open from 6 A. M. to midnight. Liquor retailed must be drank on the premises, and cannot be taken away, The ligaor interest is very desirous to have the law changed so as to place the issue of licenses in the bands of excise boards, but this polat will not be PA. CLEVELAND AND INGALLS President Cleveland simply respected the dignity of his high office by refusing to invite President pro tem, the Senate to the first State dinner of the season. Under all ordinary circumstans ces, the President of the Bet a prominent guest on sach but social as well as that one who diegraces distinetic be excluded where honors ed, President Ingalls was not content with bitter partisan assanits upon Pres Cleveland. Had he been ever so agures- sive in polities’ denunciation of the cy or public acts of the first officer of tl government, he should and would ha been the guest of honor at the Preside State dioner; but Ingalls’ pablic eri of Cleveland in speech, iv say and in authorized view for public journals, ile would be an ocoeasion other mn shal] | Are recogaiz : t n ens tinisy magazin aud revised i was simp! tal in conception and beastly gion. He thos pale of Presidential recog: had Cleve wige he would dishonored his office No man since the days of Washingt has been cleaner in his great office in public and private acts, than Preside: Cleveland. and no man has shamelessly traduced. vites heroic opposition criticism in politics, and worm of besstly sssaulis uo life comes to the front, it that honesty aod truth are assalling such a man. ded himsel! and his hi weapons of the fish monger, land bas honored the « trust by guest at the Presidential table, -—— THE LYCOMING JUDGESHIP TEST. The contest over the office of president judge in Lycoming county is daily coming more exciting, and the | of the people is on the ascendeney. Court, consisting of Judges Mayer, Rock- afelier and Bucher, were in ion Saturday, and James 1, Meredit Frank I’. Cammings were appoint aminers to proceed with the takin testimony. The examiners wi ed by order of the Court to proces all possible dispatch, fot boxes from every the county, the boxes to be placed | safekeeping in bank vaults or other fire and burglar proof depositories, As there are over fifty districts in the county and the boxes from two to three feet in length by a foot wideand six or eight inches high, it will require a very large vault io bold them. I: the emphatic decision of the Court, however, that the boxes must ba so Sep sited, and if one vault could not be enough, then they must be among other banks. That means they must be placed beyond the reach of possible spoliation or by fire. put himself tleman, and have aba He is one who and when the maw pon private impotent in gh trust and Cle jigt ty « f his l declining to have the inde CON {yore t nleres The 809 R and co voting d Wan found large dis! ribated by all destruction TROUBL E FOR BEAV E R. The revenue hill which was lost, stray. od or stolen last session, after .is final passage, aod before it received the gov- ernor’s signature, is the most frightful skeleton in the Repablican closet down there just now, It is hinted that the bill was destroyed while in Governor Beav- ers office. On this account and with a view to lifting suspicion from the legis lative messengers, an effort will be made to have a committes appointed to fix positively the responsibility for the fail- ure of the important bill, “We mast have some revenue legisla- tion this session,” said Representative Wherry. “We will either repass the bill smoggled away last session, or we may have even a stronger bill. However, we should know what became of last ses- sion’s bill before we attempt any further legislation in that direction. It seems to me that we owe an explanation of that revenus bill mystery to the State,” ———— i — Hon.John J. Metzger has been de clared by the proper election officers to be the lawfully elected common pleas judge of Lycoming county, aud be has nocordingly taken the oath of office. Bat Governor Beaver, pending a contest, has chosen to withhold from Judge Metz ger his commission, Jadge Metzger went right on and held court without Beaver's sheepskin, The people of Lycoming, sccording to the official and properly certificd returns, elected Mr, Metzger Jud go, and the Gov. ernor has no constitutional warrant to refuse him a commission, i lM SI M35 MILL AGAIN CLOSED. to stop work. The Milton Rolling Mill has shut down owing to a lack of orders, says the Milton COURSE i i i i | The Cy : | i 1 OF THEC lone that portion eonayTewnia and New York on Wed nesday began business as a moderate lit YCLOXNE swept over of i It traversed the Mississippi valley north ward, Attended { first, but gained Tuesday night was [111., by winds very light a central over and spread over a vast area. At Chi on Wednesday morning the storm, grown to very Cag respectable to wihiiriing along wen { | now i i 8, was deflected eastward, and i | { an hour across southern Michigan and Erie, ely extended that all the Dak ota to New York and betweet nd the British Provinces R ic {over Lake [the ( wt ow aritral SOT Was censral in the reached No such storm alternoon it lake a in ya the ¢} 14 & § te BUG 80uUl regi Years, afteranoc tered Al was Pariy in ithe or gale encoun Least. > § " : i breeze th blowing over There was asharp 2 the greater impetns o 17. 1889, | HARRISON AND MORTON ELECTED. The FElectoral Colleges of thirty-eight (States met in their respective State cap =litals on Monday and voted for President and Vice President. Three copies of the «iyote of each Btate were made, one of tiwhich was sent bygspecial messenger to 8 at Washiog- toa, one to the United {States District | diction of which 5 the Judge of Court within the Jaris- the State capital is loca the third was mailed to of the Senate. The result of was to elect Benjamin Harris P. Morton Vice from ng the t| Pres ident £ 1 on as President and Lev! lent for the March 4 next, 3! hie cloctoral vole of eact term of four years | Mas i { o i embrace the Iw away and destruction in thel y mark the fury of their stroggle 1 by local tor- Meh olners tia ts went tearing the leaving death ti Their advance was attended | nadoes as well 8 a harricane wind. | tornado at Pittaburgh about 1 P. M. pro over Sanbury and Will | iamspor tan i was at its height at Head i ‘clock. iP. MM It York =. ceoded eastward By 7 i New - in the the court has been done the sugar trust, having the cl ing Company forfeited. Such manifestly Their s industries are Animical U 1 certain to enhanc the profits of handling the interested, roduction and sale, raw material wept low prices and oo naumars of the pay hig No corpo-| tered f yr ouch A pt pode. iation, only of th the rary to the spirit averal Bt $s sired Jab oy or ¥ regulating ng the producers of FE | product io not i 3 0 YArous dently wi a right to do, no assoc corporations or of their leading rile has % i of holders have a right yr the tacticsare vio fo are granted f public “trost’ agreement between State and tion. Oa eonrt has decided in favor of the precedent established ought lead to the pre mecntion and people and the stic combination inth modeled after of every mwonopo country whether the sugar frust was, or not. oad test case, - —— THESE BE OUR BENATORS, the senate for weeks, and the debate wil some sort of an understanding for a vote, Inthis debate the iron, coal, and many cussion on lively at times, cover that our Benators, Cameron and from inability, disability or an excess o uot appear, Senator Cameron rarely in his place. the defense of our protected Todiana, lace left the Senate the great state floor who could defend her interests, Wo for three years. Heaator Brown, bill for the prow J $id rire Harrison's 1 . While the electoral vole was cast on Monday it will not be counted and the result declared until Wednesday, Febra- ary 13, at 1 o'glock, when the two houses of the House of Representatives at Wash. ington for that purpose. The President of the Benate will preside over the joint body. Two tellers will be appointed on the part of each house, who will make a of the voles as they are opened and announced by the President of the Sen ale, of Congress will assemble in the hall 4 {list if there are no contests the tellers will report to the President of the Sens i 5 Wid |ate the result o e voting as shown by , the list which they have kept, and he {will announce the state of the vote and | deo! are who has been elected Presideot and Vice President. As there are no ol contests in any of the States and the imajority for Harsison and Morton is clear and unmistakable the process of counting the vote announcing the result will be merely formal will consume but little ti For all prac tical purposes {he lalloting of the thirty eight Electoral Colleges on Mon- day was decisive of the result. and and me, - a» The Republican members of congres, are divided on the expediency of an exe | tra session of congress, althouo; majority, inclioding all the cane ei gpeaker, are anxious for gh = large didates for It is rea. General Harrison will not favor an extra session unless the nee. easily is clear from a political standpoint, t would bring to Washington the organs lized appetite of the Republican party, not a pleasant prospect for the incoming president. Since the foundation of the government congress has met only nine times in the frst few months of a new administration; only eight of these have been extra sessions, properly speaking and only seven of them farnish a real comparison, It is a curious fact that the closest analogy, ia political conditions is furnished by the session of 1541, which was called by General Harrison's grand father, though congress did not assemble until after his death. General Garfield ) seriously considered the necessity of an extra session 10 pass a funding bill, but it was finally avoided, SA PI one, i Race prejudice runs higher and hotter at the North among all classes than it ever did or could at the South. —Atlanta Constitution, To which the New York Herald re- sponds with frozen trath: “Yes, and the reason is the Negrois closely related to your general progress, while in the North he is simply the plaything of a campaign. We—the Republican ‘we’ are excruciatingly io love with Lim just before election, but after that we invaris ably spell his name with two g's. Every This spasm of virtue lasts about three months. During the next three years and nine months he can ‘go hang’ for avght we care.” It is social economy at {the South; it is politics at the North, A Quay didn’t steal the mail list of the Voice, the Prohibition organ; he only hired another fellow to stesl it. Nor did he steal a list of the labor organizations; he only hired another fellow to steal ite And why not Lave anylhing stolen that - p——— IT YAN reportof the imports of wheat and flour into Great Britain for the 11 months ending November 30 show a great falling off in the receipts from the United States. For the corresponding period in I1B87 the imports of wheat from this country amounted to 28,700,000 bushels. During the past year they ags gregated only 14,100,000—a decresse of half. The Rossian imports of wheat in Great Britain in the same pers iode were 3877,000 bushels in 1287 and 19,600,000 bushels in 1888, These coms parisons show two the blighting effect our foreign trade is looking to otter and more friendly markets for her wheat supply. It a mistake that Great Britain must buy from Amer ca. India, Auostraliaand Russia, if pot to it, would supply ber deficit in wheat, and our laws are The official over one things —~ of wheat corners on , and that Great Britain is all gpeculators and her to it, tarifl 4% £ itting he sundry ar app! last of the in ite chyrge, $22,800,000 ag department pprop year. 1354 appropriates HN O00 in the « ainst $29." estimates and $02 600.000 a present fisca The saving x of nears 1¥ seven million doliarson the depart- ment estimates is accomplished by cute ting down the proposed appropriation for the new congressional from §1.000000 to for new public buildings by about library building $500,000, that $1,000 - 000, for pot indispensable work on new lighthouses, beacons and signals by about 5200000, and for lic printing about 0,000, The are the main items of roduc tion, about pub se a» weir. Emerick had horse, having too much buy another practice for one y wish to be well dressed in styles, go to Fleming, Bellefonte, — James Pierpointand wife, of Belle fonte have gone to England. ~e Miller's ph fo WO Py atest tograph caris in town, and expects to 'ocate only for a short time. Persons wishing fine work done shonld call between the hours of 10 and 8. The finest work done when snowing Jue day last week 2 miles east of Spriog Mills Uriah Aoman and his sis- ter Mrs. Blosser, were thrown froma bogey by a ranaway horse, and the lady being caught in the lines dragged some 00 feet, and was severely bruised. een Ni 18, J oseph Jordan, who died at Asronsburg, last week, was formerly from near Tusseyville. The family mov- ed to Aaronsburg over 25 years ago. Her maiden name was Bair. Her age was 82 years, 3 months and 15 days. ~The Philad. Branch has opened up its fall stock of clothing. An immense stock of fall and winter overcoats can be be found there for your inspection. They have overcoats in all styles, price and quality. Remember the Philad. Branch when in need of clothing. - i - MARRIED, by Rev. D. 8. eff On Janoary 7, Monroe, D.D.,Jobn EN of Milesburg, and Sadie E. Deitzel, of Bellefonte, On Jsusary 8, by Rev. D. 8. Monroe, D. D, Philips D. Kelley and Mary A, Wellers, both of Fillmore, this county. On January 8, at the residence of J. 8, Housman Esq, Moist M, Summer and Ida F. Little, both of Potters Mills, Pa. Oo Javuary 10, at the residence of Amos Bettleyon, by J. 8. Housman Arthur A, Bettleyon, of Tusseyville, Pa. and Mary 8, Confer, of Spring Mills, Pa. On the 13th inst, at Peter Breon’s resi- dence, by Rev. W. E. Fischer, H. G. Strohmeier and Celesta Breon. On the same date, by the same St. Lukes Evang. Luth. Church of Cen Hall, William F. Flory and r ondre Breon. 25th ult, at Spring Mills, Pa., Shaffer in jus On the by Bev. J, Shambach, Mr. C.J. and Miss Ida H. Barris, both of Potters Mills, Pa te On the 3d inst, in Millheim, Rosie, daughter of D. C. Gingerich, aged 7 months and 29 days. On the 4th inst..in Woodward, Maria Anna Geary, aged 71 yearsand 2 months On the 26th uit, near Miliheim, Miss. Laciana Stroh, aged 66 years, 6 months and 24 days, On the 28th ult, in Millheim, Mrs, Sarah A. Sankey, aged 68 vears, 4 months and 27 days, A I SP AM ~eweMr, Nicholas Graden of Spring Mills was in town on Wednesday. ween The RerorTan's pu
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