THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR DEM. CO. COM. Bellefonte, N. Won “ 8, W.. W. Worn Contre Hall Borough Howard Borough Milesburg Borough... Jil ihetzm Bono au { nrg, 1st W... - " aw AW... Unionville Borough.. wsnssnds M Bower Patrick Garrety rend OSEph W Gross JW M'Cormick weernsness M1 Gardner Willis Weaaer C W Harter wend I Rutter ed 3. BEY Jackson Gorton censsensasec bs F BIOG John Mechtley Philip Confer TF Adams H L Barnhart Daniel Grove wae T 8 Delong hn T M'Cormick samuel Harpster Jr ....Geo B Crawford ved © ROSSman J A Bowersox wo A Wenver Wm Balley rns © Meyer Franklin Dietz John Q Miles D W Herrin “ “ Haines, E P.. " WE Halfmoon. Harris... Harry McDowell J J Gramley weaned? Le Meek a F Smith wines F_ATDEY 0G L Goodheart Hugh MeCann ® © Wilcox .... Patrick Kelly RJ Haynes Jr rrrened NN Brooks wo. Win T Hoover Aaron Fahr J H McCauley eee dV Reese “WM. C. HEINLE, Chairman, RTI or from 8,000 to 17,000 majority against the prohibition amendment. O, the hubby. Centre county will favor the prohibi- tion amendment anywhere above 1500 majority, notwithstanding we have many fishermen here, The Boston Herald thinks the prohib- itory amendment will be defeated in that state. They must have a great many fishermen in the Bay state. ——— Charleston, 8. C., last week had a large fire. The best business blocks in the city were destroyed. The upsetting of a coal oil lamp was the cause. Bpring..cecoesevees ayler. Union..... Walker... St. Louis gave Harrison some 8,000 majority. On Tuesday the Democrats carried it by 2,000, Chicago gave Cleves land 7,000, and on Tuesday the Demo~ crats carried the city by 12,000, Other post office appointments in this county, are H. A. Snyder, Blanchard; A, J. St. Clair, Fleming; 8, F. Doonan, Zion. This with others reported, leaves very few more left for the guillotine, What's the matter with Harrison any- how that be does not keep business from drooping and shops and milis shut- ting down ? Didn't they tell us that Harrison must be elected to stop just such a bad state of affairs as we have al present ? Congress asks to bave the pay of members doubled, and the state legisla tare proposes to raise the salaries of judges, Now just here we will ask, what are you going to do for the farmers — they are the worst paid in the whole sat, I — ———————————— lock Haven, Northumberland and other towns are wanting knitting factors ies. Our neighbors down at Millheim got wild over the same subject and got a knitting factory which has knit the stockholders so tightly that they are in a mystery over it which they do not know how to unravel—and that is about the only knitting that was done at Mill. heim, The rule of the Methodist Church that prohibita ite clergy from using tobacco is rigidiy enforced by the New York Con. ference now in seesion in that city. Two of the ten candidates for the ministry who stood before the Bishop on Saturday were unwilling to take the anti-tobacco pledge that has been in force since 1880, but finally, after they had been remon- struted with, they gave the desired ans wer to the Bishop's question, and hence- forth, as long as they remain in the pul pit, they can neither smoke, chew, nor take snoff; they must totally refrain from indulgence in these practices, which are enjoyed by many of the clergy of other denominations, A —————— The twine trust is stirring up the wheat producing farmers of the North- west jost as the bagging trust is mad. dening the cotton planters of the South, Both trusts are the legitimate and nat. ural outgrowth of the existing high tar iff. The wheat growers that voted to sustain tariff extortion last fall are got- ting an object lesson that will reach their pockets, and possibly take that route to their brains, The material from which binder twine is made is loaded with a high tariff, while none of it is produced in this conn: Yd the twine monopolists levy Terrible Fires in the West The heaviest wind storm that ever visited Central Dakota sprang up Tues- day forenoon, April 2, when the wind was blowing at the rate of 60 miles an hour, three distinct fires started and swept over nearly the whole east end of Bully county. The fires traveled with the speed of an express train, and noth. ing could be done to check their pros gress. At this date the losses in Bully county, are as follows: Twenty five residences, the occupants of which were forced to flee for their lives, without having time to rescue any furnitare or clothing, Forty-eight barns, the owners report- ing that they were unable to save hay or grain, The seed for sowing all went np in smoke, as well as all the farming ims plements, Twenty~five head of horses, 38 head oy cattle, 31 head of swine, four mules and This is only a portion of the losses, Ove haundred farmers have reported with only one suit of clothes each and no shelter save that furnished by those living beyond the fire line. All who lived in the burned districts are without bomes, farming implements, or seed for sowing. — tr The rejection of Murat Halstead has served to stir up the growing opposition to the administration on the part of the leading Republicans. There has been an unexpressed feeling all along that there were too many people getting of- fices because they had had a previous acquaintance with the president or mem bers of his family. Beginning with the cabinet, down through the line of diplo- matic appointments and the heads of bureaus, there was an excess of applis cants who owed their recognition to causes either personal or sentimental. The northwestern territorial sppoint- ments have, in many instances, been at- tended to by Crown Prince Russel, who never before had been a political factor. The matter finally reached such a stage that a district attorney was appointed in Indiana, because the appointee is a friend of the family of Mrs. Russell Harv rison. This has been excessively distressing to the practical politicians, especially the sentiment feature of it. Colonel Fred Grant was appointed to the Aus trian mission without either of the sena- tors from New York desiring it. Robert Lincoln's nomination was made after so little consultation with the Illinois sena- tors that they are both ill-huomored over it. This had something to do with the violence of the opposition to Morsat Halstead on the part of Senator Cul lum. - There is a new sensation in the Sa. moan controversy. The Germesn minis ter received a telegram in cipher, from Prince Bismarck, instructing him to ea- ble at the earliest moment the names of the vessels ordered by the secretary of the navy to proceed to Samoa and take the place of those wrecked by the harris cane there of March 15; also the number of mer: and officers carried by each ship, its tonnage and horse power, the puom- ber, size and kind of guns, whether the vessels are equipped with torpedoes, and whether the sending of reinforcements to Samos will weaken the American navy in any other part of the world to any considerable extent, The minister was also instructed to re- port to the German foreign office with- ont loss of time, the condition of the new vessels in process of construction, The genuineness of the dispatch may be denied by the German authorities, but the correspondent is able to vouch for its absclute accuracy, It will be remem. bered that several German naval and military experts have visited this couns try since the appearance of the Samoan war cloud, for the purpose of reporting to the German war office upon the con- dition of our naval and military armas ments, From the instructions received by the German minister yesterday, how- ever, it would appear thst Prince Bis mark wishes to provide himself with la~ ter and more accurate information. The increase in the number of failures for the opening quarter of the year isan unfavorable indication as to the general state of trade, and will justify prodeot men in looking ahead, In the last ten years bountiful harvests bave tided the business community over rather danger, ous reefs, and if the crops of the current year come up to or approach the average, the long dispensation of commercial prosperity may contione. The figures show that in January, February and March, 1888, the failures in the United States numbered 3,058, with liabilities amounting to $34,108,000. For the same months of the current year the reported failures were 3,578, and the liabilities reached a total of $41,861,000. The fail ures, it will be seen, numbered 523 more A Profitable Business, That those who are engaged in the brewing business feel like continuing it and can contribute liberally for its de. fense, is not strange when we fake into Froma re cost of a bar« account the immense profits. liable source we have the rel of beer aa follows: 234 bushels of malt or {ts equivalent, 1 ha. of hops, Labor, including d elivery, Revenue stag Discounts on collections... $5108 1 m Thus we rel of $5124. £8.00 have the entire Frage incind yr nossible 1 a eer, 1ncinding possible IRROR, to ig a clear profit to the saloons is The selling price Thus thera of | profits on | every | Bat is the one manufactarer of $2.87} on every barrel wer. This would make the the 425,000 barrels manufactured year in this county $1221 875.00 the retailer, the saloon man, who receives the large fie profit, 88.00 for a barre! of beer. and ab He gives out nine | ty per cent. of the saloon men sell it $26.00, th Woe KX on every one. The profits to the sa | for about 18. | us making a gain of § i00n men on the 425,000 barrels mann factared in this county each year amonnt | to over $7,000,000 most © b [it fiom those needing it badly for themselves or their! families. — Presbyterian Bans 5 GD A——— Judge a decision in rendered a bigamy case | i Ermentrout, of Berks county, | which was tried before him one day last | week, which has a general interest for | the people of Pennsylvania. It seems a | man, & resident of with this state, becoming | left her and] state of Wisconsin, where, | dissatisfied his wife, went after a year's residence, he succeeded in| to the getting a divorce, No sooner was this| done than he returned to this state and | married again Ler. this time his wife's sis He was sued lor bigamy, and Judge Ermentrout’s ruling was called out Ly the { He ruled that no married man or woman ' i case, which was brought into his cour can leave this state and go to another for the sole purpose of securing and, having procured one, marry some oll er woman a divoree, return and Such an act is invalid onder the laws of Pennsylvania, r I by the Sapreme Court of this state, an This point has already been passed upon d Jundee E vente t'a dew y ig 11 word JOOg SIMERLrONL 8 decision 18 10 accord therewith same thing 8 There is a good deal of t} ge n conti: * or 3 oh st wally, but it Xt wa il was ing is allowed to pass unquestioned important, therefore, that the law as laid | down should receive the widest possible publicity, . -. The law has many times been called a noble profession, and its character and aims have been mach exalted, chiefly by lawyers, Bat it it has been used 80 much to promote ignoble ends that it can hard- ly claim to stand higher in these than other pursuits of sinful be ¥ ae days man, A in knows to be bad or eriminal that he is sure is guilty, for exact justice is not to be attained by a one si ‘ed trial, scrupulous lawyer may frsat st Bar jas ified defending a case that An accased person is entitled to the protection of all his rights and to the best defense his case admits of. Butifa lawyer resorts to tricks and crafty devices to secure for his client more than his rights he ceases to be scrupulous; but that has almost ceased to be a matter of ethical criticism. In these latter times, however, the legal profes sion has received some of i's beet rewards {fur consenting to promote absolute vio lations of law and serious infractions of private and public right. Ofthe ethical character of that kind of practice there can be no doubt, and it is a deplorable fact that the standard of judgment has been so demoralized that it is not at once stamped by the profession as dis honorable. These remarks we clip with endorse. ment from the Altoona Tribune, and its a pity they are only too true, - -——— When the farmers had disposed of most of their wheat last year prices were pushed up to very high figures, and the consumers have been dancing to pretty expensive music. Now as the time for the farmer to have a new crop for sale approaches, prices are sliding down the scale as tho greesed. Prodocer and cons sumer suffer alike. The profits go to the speculators, i AI Post office lightning struck Centre county this week, in three or four places, and the distant sheet lightning out on the horizon prognosticates that the re maining post offices will be found by the finid as it leaves the storage battery at Washington Democratic post masters may as well begin to pack their satchels, for Benjamin is after them, AP Mi The venerable historian, Baneroft, is reported as being at death’s door. The Illinois senators are becoming dis. pleased with the new administration, Congressman Atkinson of the Juniata than in the first quarter of 1888, and district, says, “I want all the Democratic post masters in my district bounced at At the centennial ceremonies, April 80, two hundred yachts will appear in the procession in New York bay. It is the largest number of yachts ever assembled together, It takes thirteen cabinet officers, with an aggregate annual pay of $100,000, to carry on the government of Canada, with eight cabinet officers, who cost About 200,000 tons of copper are used but under the artificial stimulus of the copper syndicate 280,000 tons were mined. There ware about 150,000 tons unsold in the syndicate's hands, April 22 Massachusetts votes ou the prohibitory amendment to her constitu- tion. The legislature has made that day a legal holiday, so that the workingmen of the state will have opportunity to record thelr decision of this question. Here is a question of etiquette that is When a young man out in a rain storm with an umbrella overtakes a young lady whom he does not know going the same under the shelter of his? The Fiftieth congress suthorized the building of twelve additional war ves- sols of the cruiser pattern, con- struction of these vessels was the legacy Secretary of the Navy Whitney left to his successor. Contracts will be let July 1 for eight of them. One will bo a great ironclad of 7,000 toms, There will be three 2,000 ton cruisers. Two of the vessels are 5,000 ton cruisers that will be required to make twenty knots an hour, That would be slightly more than twenty-three land miles, It will be an extraordinary speed. Another vessel is to be a *““protected cruiser” of 5,800 tons. Still another will be a cruising monitor, The A A Water Pageant. April B80 New York bay will present a scene of magnificence that has not been equaled since the French ship brought the statue of Liberty to our shores in 1888. Those who witnessed the spectacle boomed from the forts as the up the channel. Strains of music on the various steamers echoed from shore to shore. French marine bands played French national airs and American mu- siclans answered back with ‘Yankee Doodle™ and “Hall Columbia.” The scene will be repeated with even more gorgeous socompaniments April 80, the day that the president of the United States comes to repeat the cere- meny of taking the oath on the spot where Washington took it 100 years ago. But the water pageant will be the most imposing part of the spectacle, Divorce Figures. In twenty years in the United States divorces have increased 157 per oent They have grown in number more than twice as rapidly as the population. In twenty years there have been 888,718 divorces granted. The cause of the in- crease ia largely to be found in the fact that tho laws have been changed in the direction of easy divorce. Married people are not so much more wicked than they were, but the laws allow them to get rid of each other more easily. There are far fower divorces in the south than in the north, but even there the rate is steadily increasing. In South Carclina there were only 168 divorces in the twenty years from 1868 to 1886, In Delaware in 1870 there was ono divorce to 28,627 married couples. In 1880 © was one to 5,641. In the same ten years the divorce rate increased in Louisiana from one to 4,070 to one to 1,620, New York is the only state in which the figures are Inverted. Divoroes in 1870 were one to 1,183, and in 1890 one to 1,151. This is because divorce in New York is allowed for one cause only. Une happy New York couples go to other states to reside temporarily until they are freed from bonds. Many choose Rhode Island or New Jersey, where the laws are more lax. The showing of Rhode Island for twenty years is one di- voroe to twelve marriages In New Hampshire for the last five yoars there has been one divorce to every ten mar riages. It shows that divorce laws are no more loose in the west than in some of the New England states. In Nebraska divorces have increased 1,000 per cent, in five years, Diversity of divorce laws at present is 80 great that in one state a man may be a respectable married citizen while in another he is a bigamist, A New York woman eight years ago was divorced from hex frst husband in New Jersey, marrying a second. Lately the first husband's affection for! his for to Jersey, the second Strength of the Mormons. At the closing session of the Mormon statistics of the church, as follows ; Twelve Apostles, 70 Patriarchs, 3,719 high priests, 11,805 elders, 2.000 priests, | 2,202 teachers, 11,610 dencons, 81 900 fam. | ilies, 215015 officers and members, and 40,302 children under 8 years of total Mormon population of 15! age—al 11. The! number of marriages for the gix months endicg April 6, 1880, was 3.9 H30 ; births, : 754 ; new members, 458: ¢ tions, 113, Cannon said thet were leavivg the xX communica v many young men Territory to take uj land elsewhere, The RINE been called together £3 build up Zion and this scattering must be stopped, Unlordly Lords, A blow has been dealt at the hereditary privileges of the quarter where it would least have been British peerage in a! A Narrowmindedness. Our republican county officials do not seem to be chacacterized by the same fairness towards the Democratic papers and tax payers of the county, as shown by former Democratic officials towards the Republicans, in or giving their papers recognizing the right of Republican tax. payers to know what is going on, in as it, ow a Democratic paper to have any ad The Republican officials will not al 4 no doubt, tha nave no rights Democratic ta XPAyers which a Republican of- iteelf. lord Carnarvon has introduced a bill to prevent disreputable peers from sitting in the house of lords. As the peers are about to reorganive their charo- ber they will have a large field to weed out if they accept lord Carmmarvon's proposition. » who serves in the company directly, from the § water } train, and these men ta a 2 od trate ri ale a grand total of 75 in the American senate or house who would do on a single cocasion what sev- eral peers of the British have been doing | habitually for years. Yet these scandal- ous lordlings have a birthright life seat in the highest legislative chamber of Great Britain, There is Lord Mandeville, who has just taken refuge in the bankruptcy court His excesses piled up debts to the amount of $000,000, and he pleaded guilty to ob- taining money on false pretenses besides. | There, too, is that lovely specimen of British nobility, Lord Allesbury. He is a debauches, a swindler and a cheater at cards. His wile was a music hall singer. Bhe and her biues blooded husband fill their nights with drinking orgies before which the revelries of old Rome pale There are others not very much more dainty in their morals than these. Yet all can still vote on national questions in| the house of lords. i It is a national disgrace that Ameri. oan cheese and lard are adulterated to such an extent that they are discrim- inated against when exported. ada the government is considering the advisability of excluding altogether! Aunerican Jard on acoount of these adul- | terations. An English paper, recounting | the foreign substances that chemical an-| alysis shows in this product, concludes: | “These are some of the abominations to be found in American pig'stallow, which | the Yankees call lard.” The Empire, a conservative paper of Canada, in imita- tion of the true superior British style, resnarks: “We do not want to import the | morals of our neighbors, any more than | their lardine and butterine.” In Can- England sides with the United States rather than with Germany in the Samoan affair. After the various social and semiofficial enubs Germany has been so freely bestowing on Great Britain in the past two years, this is not] surprising. But now Germany herself seems to be waking up to the conse quences of this line of conduct. She sends Count Herbert Bismarck vo London with instructions to use all means to settle in a friendly way matters betwoen the two nations. Germany hopes be- sides to conclude an Anglo-Germaan allisnoce. It is possible she is just a little too late. “Ouida” has taken up the feminine British fight against the American girl in ber last novel, “Guildercy.” Butit is possible the American girl canstand even that, The sweet sap of the maple flows more freely this spring than it has done in many a year. It is a good year for maple sugar and tafly. “Call me a gold gardener,” said Claudi, the French miser. “Contimes are my seed, thay grow into francs and Napo- leons, and then into hundreds and thou- sands. 1sow and gather my seed.” This is the age of germs and spores, A Swiss doctor thinks he has discovered the cause of baldness to be a microscopic fungus, Young men should now submit thelr scalps to microscopic examination. “he death of Justice Stanley Matthews leaves Ohio without a representative in the United States supreme court for the first time in sixty years, . A movement has been begun to hold & congress of American art clubs in New York city. Certain editors are of the opinion that disgusting and painful spectacle Ie No dit as applicants for public office. AS % Are listribne unevenly ted over the company’s vast system. Ups on the 1817 miles of road from Pitts burgh to New York 45.272; em men fing 1G ployment, Their work is confiz United railroads of New Jersey and the f ry irr linn Corin Hails ri bid Foex main line from Philadelphia to Pittsburg with its branches. The three vice presi. dents, the general officers, the thousand clerks in the main office, and the busy workm n in the Altoona shops form a part of thas array of 45.000 men. i oritatively stated Itis auth at the De- day that concerned in partment of State to the three Samoan af- the Uni- ted Sates—have reached an understands ing, by the termsof which they wiil each fairs — England, Germany and keep but one war vessel at Samoa pend- ing the termination of the Berlin Con. ference, > Th Susquehanna iron company’s mills umbia shut down on Monday. the men refusing {0 accept the reduction ans nounced a few days ago, Cclumbia iron company's The prospects are for The employes of the Uver 150 men are idie, Ti ie mill is also idle a long suspension Columbia re junction. ling mill accepted the re - - Montana Democratic. The new election on State of Montana held her Tuesday, and This 5. senators, - Dispatches from India say that persons were rendered homeless } To vailing distress, cholera has broken in the town, went largely secures two Demos 3 4 {2000 | Democratic. cratic U. -— 15.000 y the dd to the pre~ out a great fire atl Sorat. a Id some parts of the state on Friday night--at Pittsburg and the south wests ern counties there were from 10 to 15 inches of snow. Ia our section there was not quite two inches. -— Near one half of the Democratic post. masters of this county have been remov- ed already, aud Harrison not been President much over a month - lil Half dozen lives were lost in a railroad smash up near Joliet, Ill, Tuesday. nit uit hae MRE stn AI A I wc ~~ Monday was a fine day and far mers made good use of it for plowing. wweThe loss of the Centre Hall roller mill is lamented as far as its trade exs tended, and its benefits are now anly bes ing realized at home. The mill was of more real actusl benefit to the farmers than all the idiotic babblers rehashed before farmers for the purpose of getting an office, we Simon Loeb has opened his new clothing sand gentlemen's furnishing store, in the Brockerhoff house block, late Montgomery's room, with an entirely new stock of men and boy's clothing, un - | derwear, hats, caps, cuffs, collars, in fact anything to dress you from heal to footin fine style, and at low prices, ¥Mr, Loeb hasbeen in business in Belles fonte for many vears, in the firm of 8. & A. Loeb, and knows what is needed in the particalar line, in which he now has opsned for himself. Hie well known ins tegrity is a guarantee for fair dealing in his new place of busi Mr, Herman oD Bipot, ioe Miller, both of Woodward. At Centre Hall April 6th 1889 by Jas, C. Boal J. P., Mr. Joseph Kuhn Miss Blanche Beit all of Harris Twp. Centre county. ——» When Baby was slek, wo gave hor Onstorta, When she was a Child, abe aried for Castoria, When she beoume Mins, she clung to Cuatorts,
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