VOL. LXII.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
DEM. CO. COM,
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Contre Hall Borough...
Howard Borough........
Milesburg Borough..
Millheim Borough...
Philipsburg, hd
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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
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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-
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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