VOL. LXII. THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR DEM. CO. COM, —— Bellefonte, N. Wo. cumemmecnss “ BW “ W.W..n Contre Hall Borough... Howard Borough........ Milesburg Borough.. Millheim Borough... Philipsburg, hd " AW... Unionville Borough. cesnssennendc M Bower Patrick Garrety waoseph W Gross wd W M'Cormick wenn: M1 Gardner Willis Weaaser C W Harter «4 D Ritter ..d H Riley Jackson Gorton sessipatusss L.J Bing John Mechtley Philip Confer ves T FF Adams we... H L Barnhart ....Daniel Grove wasnt B Delon John T M’Cormic Samuel Harpster Jr Geo B Crawford wd C Rossman wd A Bowersox Wm Bailey ann CO Meyer Franklin Dieta wdohn Q Miles wesenel) W Herrin, wud J Gramley weed LL Meek W F Smith «8 F Arney G L Goodbeart Hugh MeCann C Wilcox Patrick Kelly eR J Haynes Jr cue] N BROOKS ves Win T Hoover ..ARTON Fahr J H McCauley erennnl¥1 Heese >. HEINLE, Chairman. alia Union county gave a handsome major- ity for Harrison. We trust the Republii- cans down there will induce Ben to come up and start the Lewisburg nail works again, President Harrison sleeps on the sec ond floor of the White House, and when he retires must pall the stairs up after him to prevent the office seekers from getting there at night and rapping at his door, The present legislature is expected to relieve the farming interests of the state from ita burdens of taxation. If our law makers at Harrisburg do not heed this they m«y find it worse than fooling with the buzz saw. In Iowa a religious enthosiast at Bridge. water, Adair county, has been preaching and fasting for forty days and nights, aud closed his term of fasting Tuesday night with a big supper. He Las creat. ed much interest and excitement at the place named. A movement is on foot to construct & railroad between Harrisburg and Boston. The project ia about to be placed in the hands of eastern capitalists, The pre~ sent manager, Dr. McDaniel, of Phila delphia, says there is no doubt as to its construction. A story comes from Plymouth to the effect that before dying, George Reese foreman of the squib factory which re- cently exploded, confessed that the ex- plosion was cansed by s spark from his pipe and wae not the result of careless pess on the part of Katie Jones. This confession not only vindicates an inno- cent girl, but it shows that a deplorable state of mismansgement exists in the factory. A strict enforced rule prohibit- ing smoking would have saved the lives of several people. The state legislature can’t make up its mind when to adjourn, In the house the soldiers’ orphan com- mission bill was reported, with an amendment giving the senate and the house three representatives on it instead of one and two respectively. The bill authorizing the renewal and extension of charters of banks, trust companies and savings institutions was favorably repor- ted, but the bills appropriating $40,000 to purchase lots adjoining the Western Penitentiary and repealing the cleomar- garire law, were negatively reported. A resolution was adopted fixing Thursday afternoon next for the consideration and final passage of the grangers’ bill pros viding taxation for local purposes. The dressed beef bill has been declar~ ed unconstitutional in New Mexico. In a lengthy opinion given to the meat inspector of Banta Fe county, re- lative to the new law regulating the sale of meats, and providing for the inspec tion of cattle and hogs prior toslanghter- ing, which practically prohibits the bringing into New Mexico of dressed beef and pork, the acting solicitor gener: al of the territory says that the act is un. sonstitutional and void as far ss its ef fects on shipments into the Territory for purposes of sale and public ase are con. cerned. The articles of the inler State commerce cover, he holds, dressed beef and pork are commodities of this chars acter and he maintains that the law is an attempt, under cover of the police Six Opinions. Pittsburg Post: Poor, dear corporas tions, They do not want more than the earth, though they want that untaxed. Favoriog corporations above individuals may bring prosperity to a state, but it is apt to rob the mass of the people of its benefits, Philadelphia Record: By subjecting some manufactaring and trading corpor~ tion bat abandons the only ground of policy upon which ita action is based. But when any body of men, legis'ative or other, are bent upon doirg an inigui« tous thing it requires very little argu- ment or any reason to justify their action. Philadeiphia Times: The manufactur- ing industries of Pennsylvania ask for no special exemption from taxation, but they ask to be put upon equal footing with their active competitors in other states, - The house, after some tion, gas wisely decided to sustain them on a justand equitable basis, and there is now little doubt that against it, Philadelphia Ledger: The bill has already gone further than it should have gone towards enactment, but, if the representatives at Harrisburg will give it real consideration daring the week, applying to it the touchstone of sound principles of taxation, or treating it as it should be treated, as a new piece of patchwork, sure to give rise to eva- siong, disputes and litigation, they will see the wisdom of defeating it on third reading. Pittsburg Dispateh: The exemption of | corporations from special taxes, with the! exception of those enjoying the right of revenue eminent domain and brewing, distilling and manufacturing companies, is in line with the position which the Dispatch has urged, and is certainly an improvement | on the original measure, Bat itis diffi. cult to see how the legislatures can har-| monize that exception with the consti tutional requirement that all taxation subjects. Altoona Tribune: We wonder ifsome’ of the people who are eternally howling | ahout railroad corporations and insisting! that they do not bear their doe propor! tion of taxation while the farmer ground down by-unjoet and oppressive taxation ever stop to inquire who the people are who have their money inves. ted in the stocks of these corporations.’ The Penvsylvania railroad company, for instance, is not the property of the offi. cers or a few rich men, but of a large pumber of persons, some of them wid ows and orphans whose chief or only in-| come is the dividends which they receive on the stock left them by husbands or father now deceased. These people have as much right to protection as any | of their neighbors. We also wonder if these chronic gramblers who can never! see beyond the narrow spot of earth on which they vegetate have any idea of the! immense increase in value added to real estate by the enterprise of the railroads ?| Probably not. People who believe them- | selves unduly taxed will be more likely to receive justice by a business-like state- | ment of the grievances under which | they suffer than by wanton and ill con-| sidered attacks on other important ine! terests. We do not think that any man’ who examines the tax lawsof Pennsy!-! vania can justly accuse them of undue partiality for corporations. Their pure pose rather seems to be to drive corpora- tious ont of the state, - o-oo. The bitterness of the French Radicale, at the attitude of the Government against the Patriotic League has been in-' tensified by the rescinding of the order of banishment by which the Duc d’Aa- male was exiled from French Territory. Those who bear ill will toward the Re- public base their hopes of monarchic res- toration upon the disappointed ambitivn of many and the intense personal vanity of all Freachmen. The dager of jesting with the National ardor for titular dis~ tinction may be illastrated by the fact that a cynical deputy bas three duels on his hands for having proposed in a jocu- lar moment & measure creating every Frenchman a Dake and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Notwithstanding the extenuating cir cumstance in the Dake’s favor, his prince~ ly gift of Chantilly to the nation and his genuine services ss a soldier, it is not likely that he would have been recalled except as an earnest] expression of the Ministry's disliky to Boulanger, who, when Minister of War, caused the era sure cf the Duke's name from the roster of the staff, The United States senate bas divided itself into special committees of five, seven and nine for summer junketing purposes. Ten or twelve of these special committees have been autborigzed to in- vestigate almost everything under the canopy. Their 18 THE CLAYTON MURDER, A Few Bensible Words for Howlers to Heed, The comments of the Republican or- gans of the north on the assassination of John M. Clayton recall, in their mis directed bitterness, the period when every event that happened in the south —tho cowardly whipping of a negro, the accidental shooting of man, a murder or a lynching—waa twisted into political significance. We are now told, with all the various contortions of English that the cultured Republican editors can command, that the murder of John M. Clayton was po- litical in its character. Thus an old issue jis revamped. We are brought face to | face with the Republican idea that for crime to be really criminal must be political. Nor is this all. A political i crime is sometimes committed in the { north. One man kills another in a po- | litical dispute, and negroes are mobbed {in Ohio, because, under the law of that Republican Lite aw it to send their | to the common schools; but al for nothing There is n criminal about a political « I this ROes thin reall rime 1 hen takes the shape of treason and felony this material that the Republican parti- John M, Clayton with a take no pains to conceal. tion has never inquired whe der of Clayton is political cal—whether it mathematical, philologics i8 social assassination, of a crime, and to say that it is non-political fur, the shadow of an excuse It is one of the most horrible and das- tardly assassinations on record, and the ishes not to vindicate justice by hu gin down and hanging hin i is aa dastardly in all its aspects brutal murder of the wife and cl of Dick Hawes, of Birmi the criminal should be made full Yyengeance of the A murder ia ne there may be political mot The assassin who shot John Clayton just as dastardly a murderer as Dick awes is, if he murdered, as his wife and children, and he should hung with as short shrift and as u certainty. Indeed, if there is it is in favor of the man wh commite the cri | Mw, | vy ovr CSR 8 TauUraer is charged, 08 ttey a differencs in pass n me, rather than him wl Ml caleulation Hl down his victim in cold bi Wekn that we express the seutiment of the so when we write these wordsa who assassinates a political 8 murderer just as much as the thug who murders for money, the ruffian who murders in rage, or#he villain who mur ders in lust. And he should be led to the lows even if other murderers We understand the of blican partisans, ho sever. Ivy crying out that the assassination of Clayton is a ollitica) trie they hope to place the Jernocratio party of Arkansas on the de- fensive, and, in an indirect way, bull dose the Democrats of the south into ex cusing, if not defending, an and indefensible crime. was a time when, through the force of circum- stances, the Republican politicians were shrewd enough to place the whole south on the defensive for a crime for which the south, as a political body, had noth- ing more to do than the north had to do with the political murders committed by the Whyo gang of New York city. But that time is past. We are no Jonger troubled by Republican opinion at the north. We know now that “Jim” Blaine and “Bill” Chandler represent Re- bli on partisanship, and this is all that necessary to know. Atlanta Constitu- . kd 1 ie Gein Pye Han ©8CR pe. tactics « the Re inexcusable There America cannot resist the temptation to increase the power and consequence of its executive. The addition of a depart- ment of agriculture to the cabinet is the the first widening of the kind since 1850, when the department of the interior made its appearance iu our government, There are at least seventeen members of the cabinet which sits at London. We shall not rest with only seven at Wash- ington. The same industrious souls who have pushed the Leducs, Colmans and other monomaniacs to the foreground of statesmanship will soon suggest other ministries. The secretary of lture will doubtless take & seat at Harrison's table. His department will be no greater than the present bureau. Many branches of the arable arts will still dwell in the huge interior hodge podge. Most would welcome the aboli- —————————————————" gers and bootblacks 3% paid ontat the o . ” A Defeat for Prohibition. The voters of New Hampshire have overwhelmingly rejected the proposition to amend the Constitution of that state #0 as to prohibit the manufactare and gale of intoxicants, As it needed a two- thirds vote to carry the amendment its simple defeat wonld not have been sur~ prising, but it is actually in a minority of SUOK0, The issne of the election will undonbt. edly have a depressing effect npon the advocates of Prohibition and the canse for the result will be anxiously sought. One of the most potent reasons is the evident failure to enforce the Prohibi the statute books of New Hampshire for 33 years. 1f it was impossible to stop drinkiog by a law the people probably reasoned that it would be useless to try and reach the same end through an amendment to the Constitution tory law which has been on Another reason for the result may pres- been established in the the state. As the Prohibitory proposis was radical in its terms, would, if adopted, have destroyed thie pre owners npaturally rallied i the In this course they had the perty has been increasing of late years in the manufacturing centres of New Hamp - - The most interesting class of office. seekers are the colored Republicans from th the Sou They are in Washington in They can almost nothing, as they are not hotel bills. When they run out of money they will go be. hind ao oyster bar, drive a hack, or white wash & fence to get a ive On bothered with any stake to bang out lodging only costs 15 cents, and they ean pick this up almost soywhere, vel these same fellows expect such revenue lectorships and postoffices, paying $1,000 and more per year, A night's positions as inlernal col. They will vot get President Harrison to the white Republicans 1 the South that them, it is true, as has indicated the negro will receive positions which tendered to TINS, just that class of are him by private -—— Prof. Hastiogs of the Sheffield Sien- tific School has at last made a discovery which will be of great service to actrono~ mers and in all observations requiring the tse of a telescope. Prof Hastings experimenting for some lime and has at last succeeded in effecting a combination of glasses in such a way that the chromatic observations of the common telescope is lessened about 20 per cent, In all observations of the past great inconvenience has been experienc- ed because of this chromatic aberration, due to the different refrangibilities ofthe colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus, thus making the image less definite. By tuis new discovery there is a great gain in definition as well as in bright ness, This great gain, wich will result from Prof. Hastings'’s discovery, will no doubt reveal new wonders in the heavy ens, as well as disclose more clearly some of the mysteries of the heavenly bodies of which we already know some- thing. By means of this telescope also photo graphs can be taken without the aid of a special eyepiece, this being the first tele. scope by means of which this feat could be accomplished. Prof. Hastiogs has constructed an instrument which will undoubtedly be taken as a model in the future, has been Monopoly's Grip. [New York Commercial Advertiser.) There are mote than 30,000 miners ont of work in the anthracite coal regions. and their families are on the verge of starvation, These men are anxious to work, and are not particular about the scale of wages, but the companies refase to em ploy them because they have already got ont more coal than they bave bsen able to sell and have a larger accumulation than at any time for many years. Under the operation of the natural laws of trade this state of things would result at once in a redaction in the price of coal, which would stimulate consump- tion, set the minersat work and put bread into the mouths of their children. Bat there is a couspiracy on the part of a few rich men to veto the national laws of trade in this matter, so that they may enrich themselves still more enors mously by starving the miners and their families and levying a heavy tax upon the consumers of coal. The conspirators 1889, A NATIONAL HUMILIATION. Presbyterian Banner. Regret and humiliation are felt thronghont the nation because of the nts ter disregard shown by Congress and in the city of Washington to the Lord’s day, March 3. Both Houses of Congress wer in session. Political disenssions abonne ded. There was nothing in the proceed. ings to indicate that the representatives of a great Christian people thought of the outrage they were coms mitting upon the feelings of the mass of their constituents or of the evil example they were giving had any Jy attention to busi ness, keeping free from useless adjourn debates for the most part destitute of anything pers taining directly to legislation, the entire business could haye been Baturday evening, or even sooner. disregard for the Lord's day Congress at the close of its yea 8 should be rebuked by in a way to be felt, Indeed the city of Washington itself had scarcely the semblance of a capital o 8 Christian nation, This was due partly to the immense crowds of strangers and the unseemly way in which they con- ducted themselves, but it is said that the authorities by common consent agreed that for that the Sabbath Ia should be held in abeyance, Marching! clobs aod playing bands filed the streets, the cigar stands and not a few of ments and the avoidance of completed by shown by sessions for the people da ¥ WE the stores were open as usual, and saloons were running in full blast, only stopped when the barkeepers become exhausted. ed by a newspaper correspondent “wae | like a great holiday or a political con- vention with thrown in.” the and had The day as describ- | half a-dozen di The Christian people and the churches of this land bave a right to demand that | there shall not be a repetition scenes witnessed in Congress and the city of Washington last of the bi} Sabbal! Week. Good order, civil law and the law of God alike demand this. A Christian cannot permit these repeated tions of the Lord's day and manifesta tions of contempt for the convictions and usages of the best part of its people. a» There are men in this state who think it passing strange that many persons known to be hard drinkers are in prohibition. If the; bad ever been in bondage to drink habit they would have more charity and be better able tojunderstand that there are some in every community who know full well that the saloon is their est enemy and yet are unable to pass its open door. And it does seem to us that it ought to be a pleasure for those who are strangers to the fierce appetite of the drunkard to aid these unfortunates in closing the bar-rooms, - The question of increasing the coms pensation of Congressmen has been re- ceiving the earnest attention of senators especially of late, and there is an over- whelming sentiment among them in fa- vor of making the salary of congressmen $10,000 a year instead of $5000, as itis at present. Members of the House of Rep resentatives, while thoroughly in sym- pathy with the senators on this point, are not yet ready to go to the full length desired by them, fearing a repetition of the outbreak of censure visited upon the Congress of 1873 for its action oa the sal ary question, na ion desecras favor of constitutional ey thi Lhe dead li- sadn To us it does not seem that the prohis bition amendment is gaining strength. The prohibitionistsa do not seem to be able to get up the right kind of enthusi- asm, and besides it looks very much as if the Quay’s lactics were tostab the amend; ment, in order to appease the liquor in- terest and get it on his side for partizan purposes, after catering to the prohibi- tion element by passing the amendment thro his legislature. ame —— rl —— The highest price ever paid for a piece of Chicago real estate was that given by M.H.H. Kohlsaat for the northwest corner of Dearborn and Madison streets, The dimensions of the property are twenty by forty feet, and the price paid was $150,000, which is equivalent to $7 600 per front foot, $187.50 per square foot, $.30 per square inch, or about $8. 000,000 per acre. This corner is consid. ered one of the finest in the city, and Mr. Kohlsaat did not make the purchase for the purpose of throwing any money AWAY. Sti nnn Mi SI MP ——— The legislature has wisely refused to impose a three mill tax on manufactur ing The manufactures of vania have alread burdens enough to bear and the industrial growth of the south is going to make their suos W NO. 12, cs A new System of Steam Heat ing adopted on the Pennsyl- vania Eailroand, After two years of trials and experi- ments the Pennsylvania Railroad Come pany has adopted a system for heating the passenger cars by steam, whieh ex- perts declare to be the best, safest and surest mode of heating yet devised, The Philadelphia Times of March 14th thus describes it :— "lhe system is what is known zs the condensation system, Two straight iron pipes, two inches in diameter, are placed under the floor of the car and are cons nected by cross pipes in the centre, A small pump is fastened to one corner the tender and connected The 5 eam the pump, enters one of | with the boiler passes through pip and pugres through it to the centre of the car. Here it goes up throagh a branches These pipes exw i across the width of te car and ined to two long wrought-iron ruaning lengthwise of these pre ject a short spur p seat. The steam pipes, passes up through t each end of the car and down through a cast iron pipe back to the centre of the cer, where it passes through a valve and enters the return pipe. “The DY & pipe are tubes From pe under each hrot the car goes t igh these Le radiators in is then drawn ittle pump on the tender is con- work and creates a yacupm draws back to the pump the con- densed water. In addition this the extiaust from the pump and thefair-brake are both directed into the tank. The valve in centre of the car is 80 ar- ranged that when perature i igh esough, by turning a under the centre seat the sug hut off from that 3 the i ah a $ oi thie the Gi Beam CAr it rushes pipe to the next in CAF can D8 without anv ide the thermometer ; ihe ninelies one One mbes up 1 ihe f the car «an be heated to a higher temperature than the other, if necessary. When the steam reaches the centre of the last car it goes gh the vaive, enters the heating # and radiators and then is canght the vacuum and drawn back to its r place. : Wa ib Lhe Ors ¢ ¥ . OD 3 HN NO steam escapes in any place the pipes ar of Car Dave no steam in them, while iteeif 18 well warmed hy the pipes on the inside. By this means no drip ping occurs and the vacuum is so strong that the steam pipes sre entirely free from water and in the event of a wreck and the pipes were broken the vacuum is so powerful that it would sack the air in instead of allowing the steam to escape. In making a train 07 carsthe big pipes under the car fi connected grin and about a foot ose. Underneath each two inches wide bored through the floor of the car in such a manner that when the cold air rushes in it strikes the hot iron pipes on the in- side and becomes heated. “This arrangement keeps a constant current of warm, fresh air in the cars at all Uimes, and the vacuum in the pipes draws what little water fhere 12 in the pipes, so that when the cars are uocoup- ed there is not a drop of water to fall on the road bed or station floor. It requires but little steam to ran the pump, and on yesterday's run from Philadelphia to New York, with s train of twelve cars, but five pounds of steam pressure was used. This was sufficient to creste a vacuum in the return pipe aver ging four- teen inches. In the supply sieam pipe it averaged six inchee, and onthe engine nineteen inches or nine and one~half . pounds, The average temperature durs ing the ron was seventy-five degrees, EXPERIMENTS WITH THE TEMPERATURE. and ¥ fpr 4 BSE irom s centre of He Te the last the car up oor are v ‘Several experiments were made to find oat how high the temperature could be raised. In some of the cars the mer- ury registered ninety degrees and in others when the steam was shot off it dropped twenty acd thinly degrees, As the train went rushing along the wind came through the saperiures in the floor and purified what would otherwise have been a close atmosphere. The iron pipes are covered with thin wooden sheathings and the passenger who is troubled with cold feet can warm bis toes as well as if he bad them wrapped up in hot-water bottles. The new system works to pers fection, and not a hitch or break has occurred to mar the perfect success of the system.” By this method of heating every de. sirabie point is gained, A sufficient amount of heat can always be secured, and it can be regulated to any desired temperature. There is no hot water in the pipes to scald or burn in case of acciy dent, and an ample supply of pure fresh air is supplied through the apertures for ventilation. On the introduction of this perfect system of heating, the car stove with all its terrible ibilities will be forever discarded. e oil lamp has alread given way fo the electric light, and wi the abandonment of the stove, the last objectionable feature in railway travel will be happily gotten rid of. No event in the history of milroading will serve 0 i I at all of th tis ex that of the passenger cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad will be fitted with this appliance before an- other winter. Connecticut is detormined to suppress the use of tobacco among boys, and with that end in view has enacted a law which not only makes it punishable by fine and imprisonment for any dealer to dispose of tobacco to minors, but also provides for the punishment of minors found with tobacco in their possession. There is a good deal of evenly-balanced justice in that sct. If the sale of tobacco is to be punished at all it is only fair to punish both seller and buyer, ; S1 familie all over the valy
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