VOL. LXII. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, -~ EDITOR DEM. CO. COM, Bellefonte, N. W...cocusommsannnnastc M Bower “ 8. W... Contre Hall Borough..... Howard Borough Milesburg Borot Millheim Borough Philipsburg, Int “ 34 W. Unionville Boro een M I Gardner J Willis Weaser CWH ....John Mechtley wen PBilip Confer wine T F Adams ....H L Barnhart . Daniel Grove Delong John T M'Cormick Samuel Harpster Jr Geo B Crawford ced © Rossman ed A Bowersox vss A Weaver Wm Bailey weneenns C Meyer Franklin Dietz wed ORI Miles weed? W Herrin Harry McDowel ay J Gramisy D L Mee -W F Smith wel F Arney ult LL Goodlioart w...Hugh MeCann nents © Wilcox Patrick Kelly RJ Haynes Jr : rereed N Brooks wanes Win T Hoover Aaron Fabr J H McCauley renee l@VE Reese JINLE, Chairman, Penn.... Potter, } The fellow who nursed massa Washington, should be invited to the New York centenuial, 30 inst. There is a good many of him yet, The prohibition am endment is to be passed to prevent the brewing of beer because beer brews troubles. Then let an amendment be added to prohibit “brewing troubles” in any other mans ner. Already pearly all the Democratic postmasters in our county have received the bounce. Cleveland's administration did not do anything in the line of remov- als until four or five months later. SE It is claimed that there are five settlers in Oklahoma for every homestead and more on the way. The fun will begin when the one drives his stakes and the four drive the one way. The fun will increase when the four undertake to drive each other off Oklahoma is bound to see driving times, Yes, Quay was right, when he said this was to be a model legislature, Last Friday Mr. Wherry offered a resolution in the house making a special order for the consideration and final passage of his anti-discrimination bill on Tuesday aud Wednesday of this week, The vote stood 86 ayes and 76 nays, not the nec essary two thirds, so the motion was lost. There you've got it, At Williamsport the prices for lumber are higher this season than heretofore Good pine is sold from twenty to twenty four cents per foot, the latter being the highest price paic during the last forty years, and higher than during the war. This is caused by the reduction of the output. Hemlock is also five cents high- er than last year, and the prospect for the manufacturers is considered bright This should make this look brighter for Centre county lumbermen, also. EE It's the old story, this time from Wil. kesbarre, Mrs. Catharine Rose, was pre. paring her husband's hreakfast, and poured kerosene on the fire; an explo- sion followed, her clothing ignited, and she ran into the street with her gare ments ablaze. Her husband, in trying to saye her, was badly burned, and both arms will have to be amputated. The deceased was aged 38, and leaves five young children. ———— Free passes are not given to legislators a8 bribes, so tis said, but it may have been noticed the legislators show more willingness to take a free pass ride thao to vote for the enforcement of the consti tution says the Pittsbarg Post, The Ravonrer knows of one legislator who played hypoerit with his pass ; on the local branch, to make helieve he was above riding on a pass, he used the mile book. On the main line he used the pass, T——————— Both the National Guard and our state legislature are invited to attend the Washington Centennial in New York, on 30th, The legislature will go at the state's expense, The N. G. does not know who will foot their bills, Now let our well paid legislature make up its mind to pay its own way and then A Poor Excuse, The ready answer of the political managers in the legislature to the de- mand for just antisdiscrimination and re* form election laws, is that there is now not time to consider and pass them. Pray, why is there not time to consid- er them ? The Legislature did next to nothing for two months after the session began, and now, when spring is upon us, apparently the most vital question with legislators is an early adjournment. There are yet three full weeks for legis- lative work before the day fixed for ad- journment; bat, while declaring in one breath that there is not time to consider important bills, in the next it is declared necessary for the whole Legislature to lose three days attending the New York Centennial at the expense of the State, Is there not singular inconsistency in refusing to eonsider important bills for want of time, and then running away to New York where neither Pennsylvania nor New York really wants them to go? — Philad, Times. “Did it ever occur to you,” said a dry. goods man the other day, “what a great boom John Wanamaker's wholesale bus- iness must be having nowadays ? There are some sixty or seventy thousand post offices in the country, and I suppose that fity thousand of them are in small country stores. Don’t you think that when Jobn Wanamaker's drummer comes around to one of these stores he has a pretty good chance of getting an order ? I'll bet that there are not a hun- dred such Postmaster storekeepers with in a thousand miles of Philadelphia who donot buy all they can at Wanamaker's nowadays, and even in more distant parts of the country the Postmasters will stretch a point whenever they can, to send to Philadelphia for their goods, Suppose a man wants to be reappointed, don’t you think he will imagine that it will bo a good thing for him to be able to refer Postmaster General Wanamaker to Wholesale Merchant Wanamaker for information as to his credit and business standing. Of course the postmasters in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred will be wrong in it, but they have the idea all the same that Wanamaker will know the name and all about every man who buys goods of him, and they will act ac cordingly. It wili be Wanamaker's own fault if he hasn't the largest wholesale business in the country within the next four years.” —N, ¥. Sun. The State senate has passed a new road law; the bill provides that three township commissioners elected by the people estimate the cost, levy the tax sub-district the township, appoint subor- dinates tosee that the work is done acs cording to their orders, and allow the far. mers and other citizens, who may wish soto do, to apply for the privilege of working out the amount of tax assessed upon them, subject, however, to the cons dition that this work shall be done un- der the personal direction of the road master, and that it must be satisfactory to him under penalty of discharge, This bill also provides that one fourth of the tax collected shall be applied to the ma cadamiging and permanent improvement of the roads and to the purchsse of road working machinery which adds to its effectiveness. np The Oklahoma settlers, five hundred in number, who will leave Chicago to make their homes in the territory as soon as it is opened, will carry a ready made town with them, and at the pre« sent time one of the leading lnmber firms in Chicago is engaged in the construc. tion of five hundred business houses and small residences. When these arrive they will be set up and the spectacle will be presented of a town springing up inafew hours. The houses will range in value from $100 to $1,500. The hun dred dollar houses will have one room each, 10 by 16 feet, and can be put up io three quarters of an hour. The fifteen hundred dollar stroctures, intended for business purposes, are to be two stories, 24 hy 00 feet, and can be put in position in three hours. SA ——— a pis, - For the year ending last week, the government purchased $135,786,050 Uni. ted States bonds with the treasury sur plus, but the parchase involved the ad. ditional expense of $22,546,301 as prem. ioms to bondholders. Itis for this the people are taxed a hundred millions a year or thereabouts more than is nee essary to oarry on the government. If Mr. John Sherman in his funding bills had reserved the right of redemption this money would have been saved, but honest John was legislating in the in. tezest of the bondholders, HA A ME “ From Virginia news has been received of a terrible forest fire in Patrick county, which swept everything before it. One ire many are left in a i ' . § Pittsburg Post, There is an interesting contribution to the corrant literature of the centennial of the foundation of the United States government in the Century for April, by John Bach McMaster, It 1bviews the changes made or proposed in the constis tution since it left the hands of the cons vention of 1787-88, One fact made promicent is the extent to which the doctrine of State rights w as espoused in its most extreme form by the different Btates as their local interests prompted. The secession attempted in 1861 does!not appear so extraordinary or so criminal #8 we recall previous attempts North wd Bonth, East and West to dispute the suthority of the Federal government, It seems to have been a growth from roots that found all tions, lodgment in BOC The contest began against the excise tax of 1790 on whiskey, the staple of Western Pennsylvania. It was denounc- ed as partial legislation and the rose in open rebellion against it. The resolutions of 1798 and 1790, adopted by the Virginia and Kentucky legislatures, maintained the constitution was a coms pact between the States, and each party had an equal right to jadge for itself as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress. Here was the nest egg of nullification and secession. Vir ginia and Kentucky declared the alien and sedition laws void and of no force. In 1811 Pennsy Ivania affirmed the Vir ginia and Kentacky doctrine, In New England, in 1809, the Federalists with one voice proclaimed the embargo and force laws oppressive, unconstitutional, pulland void, and the Massa hosetts legislature bad before it a nullification bill when Jeflerson gave way and the em- bargo was lifted. In 1512, when the president issued a call in the States for militia, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island flatly refused, very uch as Kentucky and other border States did in 1861, Their courts and legislatures declared the call unconstitutional, Then came the Hartford convention with a purpose to bind the New’England States in a league against the Paderal govern- ment. Ohio, in 1820, asserted the right to tax United States branch banks, and affirmed her belief in State rights and nullification. New York, in 1821, oppos- ed the claim of the Federal government to license and tax canal boats almost to the verge of nullification. The same year, North and South Carolina, Virgin. ia, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi protested against the tariff act as uncon stitional but lawyers paid no attention. In 1830 Massachusetts, and in 1831 and 1832 Maine adopted the doctrine of nul- lification on questions relating to the northeastern boundary. 1a 1832 Bouth Carolina by a State convention declared the tariff no longer binding on her peo ple. This was the first move toward an overt act, although Virgiaia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Ala* bama, Georgia, Massachusetts and Maine had each made threats of nullification and resistance. Bat in the face of South Carolina nullification, proclaimed by State convention, most of these States made haste to take the back track, and declare the supreme court the sole arbit- er of the constitationality of jaws. The issue was avoided by Clay's compromise tariff. Bays Mr. McMaster: “Each par- ty held to its principles, but gave up its particular acts. The ordinance of nalli- fication was repealed, but the right to nullify or secede was not disavowed. Theo was the time to have secured such a disavowal. The States had committe d themselves against the dootrine and could not have refused 8 constitutional amendment forbidding it; but no such amendment was'offered.” We hear not any more of nullification until after the fugitive slave law of 1850, when several, in fact most of the Northern States, pass. ed laws to nullify that act within their limite, to & greater or less extent. Prac. tically it was nullified not as South Caro- lina attempted to oullify the tariff in 1832 by the ordinance of a State convention, but by the hostility of the people to its enforcement. Then came up in 1860 for final settlement two queltions discussed in vague or general language from the ontset : May a State secede ? May the Federal government coerce ? The day for compromise has gone. The execu tive, legislative and judicial departments of the Federal and State governments bad tried their hands at the problem from, 1790. It was to be settled by war, and war has eliminated nalliiaction and secession from the possibilities of the fue ture. It took four years of bloody con- flict to do it in, and the abolition of slav- erycame in as incident. Revolutions and civil wars we may have in the diss tant fatnre, but not because of attempted nullification or secession. They are ob- solete as remedies for real or imaginary peopl @ A telegram from Topeka, Kan, gives the following account of the way in which the settlers propose to invade Oklahoma, when the territory is opened to them on April 22d: “The members of the Btate Board of Railroad Assessors, just returned from a trip through Oklahoma, report army of- ficers as saying that thousands of boom- ers are still concealed in the brush, and that if the whole United States Army was there, it could not drive them out, Names are taken, but nine out of ten are fictitious. Captain Woodson and Lien- tenant Carson are in receipt of telegrams daily to hire horses, have them saddled and bridled, and in waiting on the arris val of trains at Oklahoma City, April 22d, at noon, The object is to mount at once and by fleet steeds distance rival boomers on foot, and capture choice claims. A party of four Hoosiers with a baloon are camped near Antelope Hills. They will make an ascent inthe morning, drift in mid air till noon, and then des scend hours in advance of and speedy horses, The State officials an- ticipate trouble, and ray the conntry will be an Eldorado for good Land lawyers. The excitement is ipercasing daily, and #1] southern Kansas is ablaze. The assessors think that Oklahoma is not what it has been painted. The soil is red and the land is good chiefly for hay and cotton. Oklahoma was surveyed some years ago, but the corners are near- Iy all obliterated now. Settlers taking claims will find itdifficult to describe the same when theygo to the Land Of fice to make a filling, and this will give rise t0 innumerable contests. More will grow out of the filings by boomers, who stayed in the country against the Presi. dent's orders and will come out of the timber April 22d sod file any way. Con- tests settled at first by Winchesters will afterward have to be settled sgain in the courts.” teams Office A Lutheran Sentiment. A few mornings ago the Altoona Tribe une published a telegram from Philadel- phia stating that, the Lutheran Pastors! union, of that city had declared against prohibition. In justice to the great mass of Evangelical Lutherans of Pennsylva- iia, it is proper to say that the Philadel phia Pastoral union is composed of reps resentatives of the general council, and that their views are not shared by the pasiors and people of the general synod. The following paper, adopted by the faculty and students of the Gettysburg Theological seminary sets forth the opin- ion of the general synod: At a meeting of the faculty and stud ents to consider the subject of the prohi- bition amendment it was Resolved: 1st. That the pending ques- tion of prohibition is ove calling for the free expression of all the friends of the measure, Resolved. 2d. That we declare oursel- ves as unanimously and strongly in favor of it, as right in itself and called for by the best interests and wellfare of the state, ye Miliheim had a tilt in its post office appointment last week, which leaves the laugh on a good Republican, SBam’l Mue- ser, who was bounced to make way for another good Repub, dentist Sam’l Gus telius, by which a little shrewd wire work ing; was sat down on, The Millheim post office was shuffled back and forth between “me and you" under the last few administrations by one resigning in favor of "tother before the outgoing ad- ministration expired and thos got ahead of other applicants who intended to wait until the incoming administration got fairly seated. In this way onr good Republican friend Sam'l Masser got the appointment about two weeks before Mr. Cleveland went ont of office, to the horror of other Res pablican applicants who intended to wait until the new regime got seated, Bat there came a slip between the enp and the lip—last week came the boun- cing of Musser and the appointment of Gutelius Now the laugh comes in for four years on the latter's face, and the old game is ausgespielt, The absurdity of the law of Missouri which relates to persons charged with murder and pleading insanity is again illostrated. A few days ago Henry Ams mel was tried for the brutal murder of his mother-in-law, He wae acquitted on the testimony of “experts,” which con. vinced the jury that he was insane. Un der the law he wes ordered to be sent to the insane asylum. Bat while awaiting transfor to that ipstitation he was exam« ined by itasuperintendant, Dr. Atwood, and pronounced perfectly sane, Under the circumstances there was nothing to do but turn him loose and tis was done, Xn wing an applicit for 4 fonstivel te offige, weigh anything Cs be a Sunday school Or will W Letter from Nebraska. Boxbutte County —The Two Year Old Wonder of Central and Western Nebraska, To Tug Eprror or Tue Reportes It is now a little over one year since | left old Centre as perhaps many of your readers are aware. After epending sev- eral weeks in northern Illinois, I eame to Johnson county, Iowa, and then trav- eled over the eastern part of this state for ten weeks, and then to where Alli ance, Neb. is now located. At that time there was no town here but was the ters NO NO. 16 The 700 passengers of the steamer Danmark heard from, missing have not yet been a The Conshohocken Worsted Mills bave failed in spite of the advance in the tariff on worsted goods, - oll The legislature conld not find time to pass Wherry's anti-discrimination bill, but can find time to goon a spree to New York. Quay’s model, — rl n———— Before the court martial at Washing- minus ofthe B. & M. RR , fice, then called Reed. On Feb, 25, 18588 ted the town now called when the town site was drafted, gave the | Lincoln Land Co. entire eontrol of the sale of lots. At the present writing there] are 250 buildings of various descriptions, | incuding 4 banks and 4 printing offic (3 newspapers), § hotels, and the usuva | per centage of various kinds of business| houses, including a wholesale grocery! and two agricultural implement houses ;| alsn u depot equal to that of the same ¢ in Onaba, and a stalled round ho and over 5 wiles of track in the yard the prescotl writing there Isp ospect the road passing on to the norih west t Wyoming where thers will be locate auother town, which we a to &8 a second Denver ; it reached the coal, timber ar that second Peunsylvania. This will bel a branch road from the mau li e there is no question as 10 its be ail, as there have been shipp: d from here, within the last 10 days, over 1000 head! of horses and mules to be put to work | from 30 to 45 miles from this young town | and will spend most of the winter in| what is called Pineridge, or the timbered | country of north Nebraska, from whence | wood supplies are banled by the prairie farmers at the cost of hauling; this will be stopped, however, in the course of a few years as it is being taken by settlers] very rapidly. There are sawmills in these hills, and native boarde {the best are sold for 1 cent per foot i Bat I wish to write more perticularly| of Boxbutte county, 36 miles east of the eastern boundary of Wyoming and 30 miles south of the southern boundary line of Dakota lies the famous Boxbutte county ; i's area is 1080 square miles, or 691,200 of the richest farming and most magnificent grazing lands east of the Rocky mountains. It is a han isome, rol-| ling prairie and not excelled by the prai-| ries either of Iowa or Illinois i Tux Boin.—The soil is from 18 inches to 11 feet deep, and is of a dark col sandy loam, very nice and mellow when backset or plowed a third time. Scien tists who have spalyized it report that it contains all the properties necessary for plant growth, in great profusion; this) evidence is corroborated by the proofs] which no one can deny: the crops them- | selves, which took the second prize for| general exhibit at the State Fair at Lin. coin, and took the first prize on potatoes, | pumpkins, squashes and turnips. These] facts should be evidence enough that the soil is good and productive, considering! that it was only organized as a county, March 10, 1887, the first settler, C. J. Co-| is | look forward] wl : 1 £1 1 Lu 30008 LE red an, settled near Boxbutte, Feb. "84, where | now the village of Boxbutte stands, with | 2 general stores, land office, post office, | livery, hotel, dwellings, &c. The chemi-| cal constituents of the soil are such that] all kinds of crops germinate aod develop] very quickly, it is estimated that ail] crops mature here in one fifth less time than they doin Iowa or Illinois; the subsoil is a mixture of clay and decom posed magnesia limestone; beneath it are alternating beds of clay, sand and gravel, Rarxrarr.—The rainfall wae abondant this year, last year not so plentiful. No official record of the rainfall has ever been kept in this country that 1 can find, but from private cheervations the total amount of lest year is known to be| 30 inches, and that § of this fell during the growing season ; no drouth has been knowa here to the earliest settlers, The Nebraska river flows through and along the northern boundary; Spake creek flows through the southern part and Boxbutte creek rises in the eastern part of the county. A good well of wa- ter may be had at a reasonable depth. There are, however, some localities where water is not reached but with dif- fienity, on account of the denth ; this is on'von the highlands, * * Building’ material, as I said before, native boards! can be had for §10 per M, esgiorn mate. vial from 825 to $45 per M; brick of an excellent quality are made at Allianes, at resgoomble prices, and we have the §. nest jriivie sod for cheap and comfirta bie dwellings, Cuxar Lass Speculative ro'inguish- ments can be Li«d from sstt'ers very low but are not as plenty er as’ 8; ring; deed. ed lands bring #4 to $10 por ‘ane, with fair improvements, Crimare.~Elevation of Boxbutte co. is about 8500 above the sea, or 2700 above the Missouri river at Omaha; air js jure and bracing, nearly always free from fogs and miasma, the sky is seldom clou- dy ; blizzards are unknown ; the canse of our mild winters is found in the unex- nable known as the chi ton to try Caplain Armes for pulling adjourned Levi Stauffer died near Lancaster yes terday. When ten years old he eontrae- until to-morrow. ted rhenmatisia and for 53 years be lay His body and mind died he ten years, on his bed helpless. and when he was no larger than he was at or Anti-discrimination ceased growing, legislation to en- force the constitution fares badly in the “model” legislature, but the bill to enable own the stock of is an evazion passed bouse roid winch f the constitution, the esterday by a good majority. RISE, The present legislature of Pennsylvan- known if remem bered at all, as the legislature that pro~ posed to amend ina amendment was need- in history, the constitution quarter where no ed, and at the same time willfully and corruptly refused to pass laws to enforce existing provisions of the constitution, — Philad, Record. -—a— The rabbis of all the principal Jewish have Wine ceremonies of congregations in Philadelphia, taken a stand against prohil 8 used at the tion. feasts and the Hebrew faith, They take the view that the proposed measure for soppress- ing the liquor traffic absolutely will be ineffective if undertaken, and that. even if it did become effective, if would sim- ply amount to a tyrannical confiscation of property aggregating a value of §250.- 000,000. It is to be noted in thisconnecs tion that a Hebrew addicted to alechol excesses is very rare. A leading Jewish rabbi of Philadelphia states the case in a nutshell, when he says “the abominable clandestine traffic in spirits and bever- ages that would result from prohibitory legislation would make it more a curse than a blessing.” -— ~-Mr. Henry Shadow, of Tusseyville called on Tuesday, ~ Weather isspring like, mers are doing their plowing. —Mrs Farasler, an aged near Miliheim, died. —=J@ rry Hoy of Madisonburg, lost a valuable mare by death, last week. — Easter sociable in Luth. church, Aaronsburg, by the ladies Mite Society, on Monday evening. oe Bon i, Beck, of Miles, is seriously Jerome Moyer, is recovering from his illness, Mrs. J. Wolf and children, in com- pany with Marion Fischer, are visiting at Mercersburg. ~~ Rev. Fischer preached for the Bun- bury Lutheran congregation last Sabbath, morning and evening, There seems to be a great deal of sickness about Pleasant Gap, as we are informed by Dr. Jacchs, —Lewing beats the state for large assortment of men and boy’s ciothing— and he beats the world and all clothing stores in it for low prices. There's where you save from §3 to $8 on & suit of clothes. ~Please do not forget to respond to our request for dues on Rxronren Thanks to those who gave us a lift, wee A birthday rty was given the venerable Samnel Hess, on 11 inst, at his howe near Pine Groye Mills. It was his 90th birthday, and was made happy by a gathering of many of his relatives, — What the Philad. Branch does not have in the line of ready-made clothing, is not worth having. The spring stock now on the counters is immense goes ahead of anything you ever saw. Lewins is King for low prices. ~The smallest screws in the world are those used in the Jrodudion of watches. The fourth jewe wheel screw is the next thing to being invisible, and to the naked eye it looks like dust, With a glass, however, it is seen to be a small (screw, with 260 threads to the inch, and with a very fine glass the threads may be seen quite clearly. An ordinary la. dy’s thimble would hold 100,000 of these and far- lady of ill advance in "The lnk
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