vol. LXII. THE CENTRE REPORTER. | FRED KURTZ, -~- EDITOR Some follows have flag on the brain and others have flagging braius, I SAREE STA OT. Murphy is opposed to the prohibition amendment and thinks high license the better thing. i a —-———— Itis reported from Washington that senator Allison has declined the secres taryship of the treasary. A TRL 3/7 Wanamaker was in [vdianapolisthe other day. Guess he weat out to take Harrison's measure for an inauguration sait, mr ——— We think Centre county will vote in tavor of the amendments, but not with a large majority. The state we believe &o be doubtful. SO RAI, After the Germans drank sll the beer they want Samoa. Uncle Sam, maybe, “ell “get ‘em up”, and give ‘em enough in one round, ——————————————— The Altoona Tribuae has entered its fourteenth year. It is oneof the best inland dailies in the state, full of vim and newsy. a ———————————] At Wilkesbarre the Sheldon Axle Works, the largest plant in the country, has suspended Twelve hundred men are thrown out of work. temporarily I RTT SS The triumph of Genera! Boulsuger hay thrown the French plete state of terror. Carnot has not accepted the resiguation of the ministry matters have not been mended much as the present cabinet is admittedly an incompetent aggregation. ——————————————————— ministry ioto a com Although President The Samoan affair was introduced into the house yesterday when Representa tive Morrow presented a joint resolution requesting the president to act inthe matter. Thirteen thousand citizens of Utah protested in a memorial against the admission of that territory as a state, A ST AOI The new revenue bill being proposed by the financial officers of the state will not contain the proviso in the act of 1855 exempting manufacturing corporations fromthe payment of a tax on their capi- tal stodk. The exceptionol this class of corpordions from the operations of the proposed legislation taxing capital stock would contribate about $400,000 a year to the publictreasury. TT ——— The most practical and sersible way to relieve the farmer of some of the burden of taxation wou'd be to exempt his live stock from taxation, No interests—cor porate or other—wonld oppose such a propogitios. The state could standit, and the agncultarist wonld feel its dis rect benefit, by a system that would pot antagonise corporate or other interests, Exempt the farmer's live stock. I S—— Last year was undoubtedly ove of sub- stantial prosperity, and the indications for the present year are still more en- couraging. According to tho data of Dun’s Commercial Agepey it can be stated with a reasonable degree of cers tainty that the present year will be even more prosperous than its predecessor, Of course contingencies are pot taken to the calculation. Business everywhere appears to beon a sure footing. There are fewer embarrassments than uvsoal. There is an abundance of money for all legitimate purposes. The speculative power is subsiding. Railroad affairs are being brought under the control of law. The fight against trusts and combines is making that species of monopoly odious. New enterprises are starting np and old ones reviving in all parts of the country, Several important manufacturing con- cerns in the east that had been idle for years are in full operation, The hogs do not all walk on four legs. Reuben Cam, of Derby, Conn. wants to be known as the champion tripe-eater of the country, and he is justly entitied to the belt. He was bantered about his love for tripe and he said that he could eat twelve pounds at a sitting, aod he would not ask to have it stewed, either. A wager was made, the raw tripe was place ed before him, and in a trifle over an hour he had eaten the last cunce and did not seem any the worse for it. Derby can boast of big eaters. There is a colored man who can swallow two quaris of molasses with as mach ease as an ordinary man would drink aschooner of beer and in about the same time. Then there is another who has eaten a bushel of small round clams at a sitting, and yet another who ate five dozen raw eggs at one time and wanted more, This Connecticut hog would doubtless undertake to eat a pair of woodes hams DOUBLE PINCHER BEEF BILL. The bill before the legislature relative to shipping dressed beef into our state, is what might be termed a double pincher, enabling fellows lobbying for or against it to pinch money out of the Philadel ghia cattle yards for its passage, or out of the dressed beel shippers of the west for its defeat—some may be in the pay of both sides, The fellows pinching in favor of the bill, try to hide their tracks by alleging they are working in the interest of the farmers. This is too thin, Home beef all over the state is higher now than it was before western dressed beef came in, No onecan deny that, If western dressed beef did not ¢ me in then the live cattle would be shipped instead, as heretofore—and that leaves it long as broad for our farmers. Then the dressed beef only goes to Philadelphia aud the larger cities and poue to the county districts, hence the farming districts don't eat any of theal. teged diseased meat, Then how often do we learn that from he rural districts unfit veal calves and diseased meat is put to market in our state, which is just as cryiog asin as when committed Ly our western beef raisers. Farmers should not permit the wool to be drawn over their honest eyes, by pets ty demagogues on the beef business. It will not add one farthing to the farmer's hard earned pennies, but may bring some filthy lacre to the pockets of the lobbyists who have gotten up this double pincher, The bill, besides, is as clearly unconsti- tutional as the one that asked an appro priation of $5000 for the Cumberland Valley railroad company’s picaie ground. It is not all who are hollering against corporations and blathering for the far mers that mean what they say. Office and the lobbyist's fees 1s at the bottom, and honest farmers should not allow themselves be deceived. The severest penalties should attach equally to partiesat home or abroad, who wi'] put diseased meat on the market, and both municipal and state laws provide peaaltiss for such an offense. Itis reported fcom Harrisburg thata rawmor prevails that the anti-dressed meat bill will be killed in the Committee on Judiciary General, it being the im- pression, from arguments made forthe bill, that only personally selfish ends are to be met by its passage, Just what we express above. The bill is neither of benefit to the beef raiser or beef ester, and is gotten up for corrupt purposes by a set who have a hankering to loaf about Harrisburg and try to hide their pinching game behind the cry of “Farmer | Farmer | Beef ! Beef I” 10 THE BEEF TRUST. The editor of the Philadelphia Record thus alludes to a bill now before the Pennsylvania Legislature regulating the fresh beef question. Like every other important question that comes before the public there are two sides to this question, The beef raiser and seller is on one gide of the fence, and the beef consamer 1s on the other side. Reader on which gide are you growing? The editor in question remarka: “The fourth section of the bill to make it a crime to import dressed meats into Pennsylvania proposed an exception in favor of all cured aod salted meats, Why 80? The beef and pork cured in Chicago are as liable to be diseased as the fresh meats which it is proposed to put under a prohibitory ban. Pennsylvania farm. ers are quite as much subject to coms petitions from the meats dressed for market in that city. Why, then, should not this bill to prohibit interstate trade in meat be consistent ia its meanness and absuridty? Isit because the pro: moters; of the job to make meat dear to the millions feared to draw too heavily upon public patience? Or is it for the reazon that the cattle-yard owners have no particalar interest in suppressing the trade in cured meats? The exception in the bill reveals its true character in the most glaring light.” - simian The legal holiday fools are not all dead yet—there is one in the state senate. Senator Lines has read a bill in place in the Benate making the ’ ret day in September a legal holiday, to be known as “Labor Day.” Legal holidays are multiplying, but labor has no time to observe them, We don’t see why in shoel such fellows want “legal holidays.” If any one wishes a holiday, he can take it as often as he please. Home take 365 days of the year for holidays the loafers, Hn ——— A MPA] AT France is excited over Boulanger's land are excited over the Samoan afiair, Pennsylvania is aboar getting excited over the prohibition amendment, New York is excited over its strike, There spiced with wooden nutmegs, prodactato a cool? AN INFAMOUSSLANDER, Col, James P, Coburn, who was on the floor of the Senate this morning, was one of Centre county's stalwart Union men during the war. The Copperheads of Penn's Valley threatened his life and burned his barns as a punishment for his devotion to his country, but they did not frighten him, and he has lived to enjoy the fruits of the magnificent victory of the Republican cause to the utter discom- fiture of the men who a quarter of a cens tury ago were loudest in their hue and cry against the Union and Union men, — Harrisburg Telegraph, What should induce the Harrisburg Telegraph to print so base a slander against the good people of Penn's Valley, is a mystery. Penn's Valley Democrats sent as many men to thearmy as any section according to the population and every cemetery in isdotted with mounds, the last resting place of Democrats who lost heir lives in the cise of their country this valley The article of the Telegraph is a vile slan- der upon the dead the living. Whole coinpanies went from our valley to the front, while authors of falsehoods like the above remained at home to hols ler copperhead. Bah ! Col. Coburn owes it to his neighbors that he write to the Telegraph contradic. ting the lie, and o-oo A serious state of affairs exists in Sa- moa. The Germans have opposed King Mataafs, who declares that be is battling for the liberty of his people. Recently the Germans landed at Apia, where their gailors committed atrocities against which the American Consul protested. The Germans finally forced Mataafa to fight on December 15th, and would have lost all the mariners who had landed from the German war vessels, if it had not been for the natives forbearance. [tis stated that concurrent testimony of the action of the Germans shows that the Ger- mans brought apon themselves the fate that overtook them, as it was not antil two of Mataala's chiefs were killed that he ordered his men to fire on the Ger mans, The marines were only saved from extermination by the prompt arrival of their gunboats. Afier their defeat the Germans bombarded the villiage of Ma- tafagatele, aitho warned by the Amerl- can Consul, Mr. Blacklock, that three houses ia the place belonged to an Ameri. ean citizen, Over these houses an Ameri. can flag floated. The flag was torn down and partially borned by the German sailors who had landed to complete the destruction of the place. Mataafa has threatened that, if the ( ermans again attack his men, he will destroy all the German property oo the islands, School directors of Mifllin county have level heads, They passed the following resolution the other day: Resolved: That our representatives at Harrisburg be and are hereby requested to vote against bill No. 16, now before the house of representatives, commonly known as the flag bill, To put the flag on every school house, would cost the State 150,000, pe —————— A telegram from Rome says that Pope Leo has had a prolonged fainting fit and that the cardinals are “preparicg for eventualitiea” For some time past ro. mors concerning the failing health of the pope have come from Rome and iti probable that his time on earth is short. We believe that the three greatest living statesman are Leo XIII, Prince Bismark and William E,. Gladstone, and if they are to be judged by what they have ace complished, more than one observer of events will be disposed to say that Pope Leo is the greatest of the three. He has no armies to enforce his decrees, he is no longer a temporal sovereign, but he brought Bismark to terms, and his states” manship has made its impress wpon every Earopean court, His administra. tion hes been uniform'ly successful, and his sacoessor will find the papacy much more respected and much more powerfal than it was a dozen years ufo. Pope Leo a man of great purity of life and sweet ness of disposition, so that all who come in contact with him, even though not of his faith, are charmed by his manners, None of his predecessors have more worthily sostained the digaity of his of fice than this fra! old man. The Roman church will be exceedingly fortunate it when it comes to select his successor if chooses one of equal purity aad ability, a re wean] The Prohibition amendment, omitting the preliminary formalities, isto be des. ignated article XIX of the constitution and in these words: The manufacture, sale or keeping for sale of intoxicating liquor 10 be used sea beverage is hereby prohibited. and any violation of this prohibition shall be » misdemeanor pun ger beel bill, Philadelphia butchers, and Leonard grange. because, they allege, it is Faller Brothers’ stock yard, delphia. day with eased beef, terest of farmers.” - work at his boarding house, them committed the assault, Bradiey mothers of the girls would not fendant guilty on both by all parents. Bradley is now 43, - HERE'S A NEW ONE. uw {889, EXACTLY 80 It is pot right that citizens of peigh~ boraocods and towns off from the county seat should be compelled to refer to the newspapers of tue county seat for notices of sheriff sales and other matters of specs ial local interest that are advertised by connty officials, Columbia is a town of 10,000 inhabitants, having three weekly and one daily newspaper and yet when any property in the town is put up for sale by the sheriff our citizens are noti- fied of the fact through a weekly paper published at the county seat. The thing is unjust to all concerned. Unjust to the man whose property is seized, because he needs to have those informed of the sal who are most likely to pay a fair price for his property unjust to the citizens {which they are published; also unjust to that is of local interest to them, law that compels county officia’s 10 use the papers of the county seal should be amended to include one paper published at the county seat and one published near~ est to the property concerned. SAY THE CHICAGO BEEF IS HEALTHFUL. Chicago, January 24.—The Board of Directors of the Board of Trade to day passed a series of resolutions protesting against the introdoction in the Legisla- tures of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas aud Colorado of bills to exclude dressed beef, pork and mutton from ale in those Sta~ tes. The resolutions declare that these meats are healthful and that the legisla tive action will injure the reputation of American meats at home and abroad and will damage the cattle raising industry of the country. The business failures occurring through- out the country during the las! seven days, as reported to Dunn & Co., numbe for the United States 310 and for Canada 35, as against a total of 387 last week and 317 for the corresponding week of last year. = - ew Several erroneous statements have re- cently appeared in the papers about Queen Victoria's will. The truth is that Her Majesty's will was made in 1876 It is a document of portentions length, be- ing engrossed on vellum of quarto size, is bound together in a buge volume, which is secured bya Jock, and at the end are several blank pages for eo dicils, of which, up tthe present, the Queen legislature at Albany, a bill providing that every candidate for public office shall, within ten days after his election, file with the secretary of state an item. ized statement of all moneys contributed or spent by him and all debts incurred in aid of bis election; and whenever such expenditures or debts are made or incur. red through an agent, a similar statement of the agent's transactions shall be filed. In case of failure to file such statement or statements, the candidate is liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000, and is forbid. der to enter upon the doties of his office or to receive any salary or emolument, The bill is exceedingly crude and doubts unconstitational, sp — > SBT Zanzibar, January ers is eagerly discussed here. A API P.R. R. STATEMENT. loss compared with the same period 1888 of $1, 439,010. now to be fixed: Blaine, Secretary of State. ‘Wanamaker, secretary of the nayy. license the traffic is untaxed and profits able and the vice of intemperance in no way diminished. A till to place a tax of 25 cents per day upon the pates of all foreign-born un- naturalized people employed in this State, is the rather broad gauged scheme which bas bad its origin with Represeo- tative George W. Campbell, of Fayette county. The tax to be paid by the persons em~ ploying the laborer. The fools are not all dead yet. Pen them up with the ones who want to legisiate dressed beef. A AGI MY In granting the liquor licenses of Clin prietors of hotels in the county should understand that from now on no females should be admitted to their bar-rooms, whether alone or with a male escort, and that all bar<rooms in the county must be closed at 12 o'clock every night in the week. Any violation of this will be at~ tended by the revocation of the licenses by the court of its own motion. nai sont lp So The population in the four islands of 200 Americans, Englishmen and Ger- mans. The couple of hundred of whites should feel highly elated at being the made haifa dozen pages out of it and Etc ie cp Wednesday in congress an amendment relating to the Samoan islends was dis- cussed in the senate yesterday. The houses went into eommittee of the whole on the Oklohame bill. Benator Berry re- elected. The president lays before con- gress, correspondence Bamoun matter, concerning the > The Park Place, Centralia and all the Lehigh and in the Shenandosh region have shut down, ow ing to their markets being overstocked with coal. About 4000 mipers are idle. Yet Harrison 18 elected. individoal colleries ———— The prohibition amendment has pass ed both houses, and goes to the govern. or, who will gign it. >—— The New York street car strike is still ou, and all have to walk, Both sides are defiant, .— The boro and township elections will be held on Feb. 19. It is just as neces. gary to elect honest and competent men as it is forstate and natioual offices. ——————————— West Virginia has not elected a senator yet. On Wedsesday the ballot stood: Kenna 42, Goff 42, scatering 6. James H. Berry, democrat, was re-elected United States senator on 30th, from Ar- kansas, TUSSEY VILLE. ell ast week was others have in their saw logs as {ast as possibile, 1 g James Runkle it week while lum te convention, s always the case If ¥ Baeaters i had been sick for of one of our Mrs. Esther er, afer suffering Death claimed its victim, and called her from suffering 10 receive the reward, of such that sock and fr blood # saving interest in the Rest, posceful wd her home 10 rest. of our Redes rest, May thai God whe fort and console th Oo. peseaved; may they one day meet her The wher par fF will be i} was aged about 5b yoars DO more, deoean a Thursday was bright. —Jack Spangler was in town Wed- nesday. ~The man who advertises his busi. ness Prospers. A. L. Katherman and family were in Miffiinburg over Sunday. wee Dr. Jacobs bas recovered sufficient ly to assume his patients again, after his recent iliness, ~The White Caps have made their appearance in this section, and several wayward youths have received polices to mend their ways, at once. —e Mr. Nickel and lady of Boalsburg, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Condo of Penn Hall, Mr. and Mrs, John Emerick and Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Arney of Centre Hall, partook of a turkey dinner at Dr, Emericks, on Thursday. Miller the photographer, will re- main in this place only a short time, and will remove his car, All wishing to have first clase work done should avail themselves of the opportunity before he leaves, —Rev, 8. G. Shannon, formerly of Centre Hall, for several years pastor of the Lutheran church at Milroy, now lo- cated at Banbury, has received a call from the Memorial Lutheran charch of Philadelphia, which be has accepted, having resigned his present charge, to take effect April 14. DIED. At Potters Mills, on Jan. 20, Simon Long, aged 59 years, 2 months and 12 days, In Georges Valley, on Jan. 22, Daniel Ladwig, aged 66 years, 11 months and 12 days. . Near Tosseyville, on Jan. 26, Mrs, George Reiber, aged 55 years, and 6 days MARKETS, The prices in the valley are as follows. Wheat 95, Oorn 40, Oats 28, Butter 20, eggs 14, lard 8. Beef 6 by the side, Pork 6. THE STERLING COAL COMPANY, A charter was granted at the state de partment yesterday to the Sterling coal company, of Harrisburg, with a capital of 000, Thedirectors are: J. L. jer, Wilbur F.Reeder,D. H. H ; es P. Hewes, of Bellefonte; Henry Keller, of Harrisburg; Edward . of Huston, kd Robart B Baan , of Ph
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