VOL. LXII.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, -~ EDITOR
DEM. CO. COM,
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Contre Hall Borough.....
Howard Borough
Milesburg Borot
Millheim Borough
Philipsburg, Int
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Unionville Boro
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J Willis Weaser
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wen PBilip Confer
wine T F Adams
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. 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
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wel F Arney
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nents © Wilcox
Patrick Kelly
RJ Haynes Jr
: rereed N Brooks
wanes Win T Hoover
Aaron Fabr
J H McCauley
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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.
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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,
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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