THE CENTRE REPORTER EDITOR FRED KURTZ, Quay having completed his “model leg- islature,” we suppose he will now take out a patent on it, TSE SR. McKeesport is an old manufacturing town, and must have been named after baby McKee, of which there is so much chatter just now, ———————————————————————— A fellow who failed to get a claim in Oklahoma cut his throat, By dispensing with an “i” and going to a restaurant he might have got something near to it. AINSI Between Gov. Beaver's arbor day for planting trees, and the fiend who anpu- ally sets fire to the mountains fo destroy trees, we think the latter by far gets in the biggest work. Just twenty five minutes after the gas was turned into the pipes of the Dayton Natural Gas Company, at the wells in Mercer county, it reached Dayton, forty eight miles distact. A —————————— Gov. Beaver has signed the bill mak- ing September 1, known as Labor Day, a legal holiday in the State, Another rest for the overworked bank clerks. 3y adding to the legal holidays fast as possible, the rest of mankind will at last get on an equality with the tramp, and have a holiday every day in the year. The Andover iron company in New Jersey discharged many of its old hands the other day and employed a gang of Hungarians who had just arrived at Cas- tle Garden, at 80 cents per day. This firm no doubt shrieked for high tariff and protection to American labor and got its old hands to vote for Harrison. Now cheaper foreign labor takes their place as a reward for their votes. Senator Reyburn, chairman of the sen ate appropriations committee, severely criticises the construction of the new re- formatory at Huntingdon. It cost a mil- lion, but he considers ii dear at half that figure, and says it is faulty in every de= tail. The walls, he says, are a constant invitation to the prisoners, while the ce~ ment floors are crumbling. Senator Als len says the same. In Oklahoma provisions continue scarce. One man sold 30 barrels of bread, Scent loaves selling for 15 cents or two for 25 cents. The supply ran out, and, while people were willing to pay the ex- horbitant price, it could not he had atall. Crackers found a ready sale at $1.50 per pound. A grocerannounced that he had given 850 dollars for the privilege of breaking open the car which contained his stock. He soon made it up, The legislative scheme for the pur chase of the Penn farm bas been regars ded with a good deal of suspicion, and the Philadelphia Inquirer exposes its character by publishing opinions of the value of the land, The State is to pay £200 an acre, or $27,200 for the whole property, and owners of neighboring farms say the price is exorbitant and they would sell for $125 an acre: It is said that the farm was sold to the prea, ent owner for $12,000 The Canadian Parliament has done a praiseworthy act in passing a bill to ex~ tradite the thieves and scoundrels from this side who have been making Canada a place of refuge. Itis an example that Congress might follow with profit, The act is a new departure in Canadian laws makiog, as it practically amounts toa treaty, something which England has not heretofore allowed Canada to enter into, That makes it all the more commendable, The United States is not asked to make any return, but if wé fail to reciprocate as far as possible we shall he censurable, The act does not apply to the thieves al. ready in Canada, but it will stop flight in that direction in the future. "Benjamin Law has spent two years of his twelve year sentence in the Indiana State prison for manslaoghter, By the provisions of his grandfathers will, re« cently probated, young Law comes in for 875,000 in cold cash, not a dollar of which, however, he can enjoy antil the expiration of his sentence, almost ten years hence, No less than three of Law's relatives are his fellow conyicts, all on different charges. His father William Bevjamin Franklin Law, isserv- ing out a sentence of 12 and oune half years for murder. The senior Law was disinherited, it seems, by his father, and will end his sentence a pauper, while bis son emerges in the posession of u comfors table fortane. Mrs Alice Law, the wife of Bepjamin Law, Jr., whom be married at a tender age, her maiden same being Glass, has two brothers now in prison there, The Legislature’ Spree. Our state legislature went to the New York Centennial, and will haye agrand, high old time, at the state's expense, The Philad, Times gives an idea of it: The estimated cost of the trip has been fixed at $12000, but no appropriation has been made. That part of the pro- gramme will be attended to later on. All the arrangements were completed for a jollification by Representatives Wilham M, Kidd and Edward M. Craig, of Philadelphia, A special train will bring members down from Harrisburg to the Broad Street Station, when it will be boarded by the Philidelphians and the start made for New York. Jersey City will be reached at half past the country is to be their boarding house. skill has been and has staterooms and berths to modate four hundred. Bhe accom- the naval line Wednesday to day. To the Legislature will PA. Capture and Fe A veteran of the volunteers furnishes this: After we had flanked Johnston's army from Dallas, it was, contrary to the nsunl custom, the fortune of the First brigade —Sheridan's old division—to be left be- hind the army a as a guard for an smbulance train One two of our men—ono of them Jack ll, com- missary of our brigade—went to take a bath beyond in sight of our picket line, in a sma which te was observed by some of Ferguson's cav- alry hovering tho who tached two men armed with sabers carbines to bring them in. Being out arms they surprised, ed off en d« in thi the picks is, lared fear of rebel tion apiare, Thirty-sixth Illinois ww davs, gay mo bavou, merity de- and with- vicinity, Were and start- habille, very A068 O { who not fire for injuring ach started with his short di tance Ty exposing his c him ¢ ley, but miss the Johnny, ot y pite, ret ried shot; when’ a grand stand erected on near the hotel of that name, return on Wednesday night. For these three things—the They Muscle, minus nis drinkables—the cost is placed at $12,000, The steamer will cost $1,000, the review- pg stand about the same and the rest will go towards paying the maintenance of the Legislature while on the trip. Probably a few hundred dollars may be expended for matches, toothpicks, pos tage stamps, stationery, shoe blacking, seidlitz powders, acid phosphate and other small things Caterer James Russ, of Harrisburg will bave, in round figares, $9,000 with which to maintain the 254 the State Legislature for three days, or at the rate of about 812 a day for each leg- islator., Ross, from long experience, knows the legislative taste and under- stands each individual palate. He has it dognto & nicely and no lawmaker will want for anything at his hands with $9,000 in the locker, There will be frog legs from the First ward and celery from Kalamazoo, Terrapin from Baltimore will be served, although a little out date, but the height of legislative gastro. nomical bliss is terrapin, and must go. of terrapin a The Amendment and Cider, BY EX CHIEF I Another device TICE DANIEL AGNEW of the opponents of Prohibition is to alarm the farmers on the ground that the Amendment will for- bid the making of cider. This is really absurb, but the statement needs adenial. The words of the Amendment are: the “manufacture, sale or keeping for sale of inforicating liquor to be used as a beverage is hereby prohibited.” To make cider isnot to manafaclure an intoxicating liquor. Cider is the mere juice of the apple and is not an intoxi- cant when first made. As well might the eating of apples be forbidden. It re- quires fermentation to produce aleohol, the intoxicating principle of hard cider It must stand several weeks before it be- comes hard, and the next process is the acetous fermentation which makes it vin- egar, Then look at the absurdity of compels ling the constable to visit all the farmers in his township to find out whether the owners have made cider, Bat if pressing out the juice of apples is manufacturing an intoxicating liquor, the cider mill is as necessary to be returned asa distill ery or a brewery. Such is the abeurdity the opponents of a valuable reform are reduced to in order to defame it and car ry off votes, It is hoped no farmer who has an ap- ple orchard will suffer himself to be im- posed upon by the silly assertion that cis der is within the Amendment until it has nnderwent fermentation and become hard. He can make all the cider he pleases and sell it before it has reached the point when it becomes intoxicating ; or he may keep it until it becomes vioegar and then sell it, Hard cider as a beverage can not be sold. I. MA MI A small pox epidemic now threatens Guthrie and other towns in the new Ter- ritory of Oklahoma, The excitement caused by the knowls edge of the brackish, poisonous waters of the river is not a circumstance to the fear that has seized upon the minds of people in regard to this fell destroyer. A simoon swept the desert on 23, and Guthrie is buried in red dust, The wind rose at dawn, swooping down from the cloudless sky, and the red sand of the plain was driven before itall day in stinging, stifling masses, Tents collapsed, roofs were raised, and everything light and loose was blown away. Every rose has its thorn, Deo Liguors Produce Fat? the practice to unwieldy bul thin to a remar the Cham €n, on tities of terly beer, ar to ston and beer, az In Ha three cl the the most numer the most gt JOT who have ed blood in them and the intell n of the They the they aro the or i Com duct the gover rm those white men who merchants, Many of colored girls, and then, come more thoroughly the best interests of the government. The Pe ople generally s partic ularly the colored portion, have a curious mixture of traits The negroes as a race are impressionable and excitable. They have these quali tics, and in addition the mercurial tem- perament of the French, for nearly all aro sent to Paris to complete their educa tion. This combination makes them dif- ficult to govern, for there is a natural jealousy between the blacks and the col ored, and so affairs are generally more or less Susuttied. Washington Star, o divided into rod and i form inhatatants, ority, but gent 2 portin are largely in mis ily ela to Con - are down there as marry the of CONTrse, bene identified with npetent ent The whites gO those Don't Mention the Briers. It is not only a wise and happy thing to make the best of life, and always look on the bright side, for one’s own sake, but it is u blessing to others. Fancy a man forever telling his family how much they cost him! A little sermon on this subject was unconsciously preached by a child one day last fall: A man met a little fellow on the road carrying a basket of blackberries, and saidfto him: “Sammy, where did you get such nice berries? “Over there, sir, in the briors.” “Won's your mother bo glad to see you come home with a basketful of such nice, ripe fruit?” “Yea, sir,” said Sammy, “she always seams wwighty glad when I hold up the berries, and I don't tell hor anything about the briers in my feet.” The man rode on, resolving that hence forth he would hold up the berries and say nothing about the briers Atlanta Comstitution, Disenss Revealed by the Camera. The photographic camera promises to be of even greater service in medicine than was imagined. It seems to have literally a superhbuinsn ® Sucuity of diag- ¢ } health, wit xion good 1 a clear skin and good compl ¢ When rative examined, however, the picture the face be covered with Vithin a week the child was covered with the eruption of measles, Another y is recorded when a child's portrait ywed fortnight before it was laid up with smallpox end before any trace of the dis had appeared. It would seem that the sensitive plate of the CALETA Perceive 1 photographed the eruption before it was visible to the naked I'he Hospital, the neg wis showed blotches, to gh EDOLE A wd and QV A, ~~ f Polsonous Nuatmegs, It will doubtless surprise many tol in nutmegs wo generally belie cotic order, recently tha ved to be of the It is only comparatively t chin s of PH sisoning by it ve been recorded in this country, prob bly for the 1 that, bein 8 ersally considered harmless, when dan- tal } the cause has been over- antity of nutmeg which ary to take to produce serious n estimated. and a half nut in a woman excitement, with ason 80 uni rous quences have fol- owed looked. The qu 18 neces In y case, however, « it nid, followed Ha pose is © caused by vas advised by her nutmegs for the relief to constipation. One five of dium size. want symptoms followed until o 6r ten hours afterward. Then wicame rick to her stomach, giddy, wd had a ci ipanied by vomit r, headat #8 of the me siral eyes. ier sight § 4 she og peared n Te 10 eat spepsia due she ale ill, /oCou uth and in affected, ¥ 1 a8, Grn wt, and a sore, ned sensation became maplained that everything ap- Whe n the sd wwe nlsty. chill passed ating 1 iio FW d, Under this woman recovered, n her case no narcotic symptoms appear- ed, but that does not prove that nutmegs nos of the Narcotic « rder. — Fu Herald, ght fever ax ith intense, throbbing headache. Tr treatinent are win The Nickel's Leverage if the Tho field « ms to be 3 aioe Iam nickel and practi al : informed that a Bt. Louis inventor is now at work ne which will give u o clean shave and a picture of your wife, while the band plays your Another ma 3 ! and polish and administer a dose of pills r a nickel; while another will pick the of the next day's races and ly you with the morning paper. kel slot machine fills a long nd has a long career of useful ¢ it, and the public is saving its "the next de Sparture with deep A Ina on a machi BeTa up The felt Photographing the Aurora Berealis in obtaining ora borealis from mint Rigi in Switzerland. interesting fact, it having hitherto been regarded as impossible to photograph the aurora for want of a plate sufficiently sensitive to be impressed by its rays. Gunther, in his well known physi to be utterly impossible to photograph the aurora, the most carefully prepared plate remaining neutral when exposed to the aurom's rays. Dr. Kayser resorted to special precautions and employed a colored dry plate—the azalin trocken-platte, —Neow Orleans Picayune. Dr. Kayser has succeeded a photograph of the a the summit of Mc This is an cal geography, declares it Two a Strings to His Bow. “No, William,” she said coldly, with a side long glance to note the effect of her words, “1 cannot be your wife. You smoke and you sometimes drink. Ihave registered a vow not to marry a man who has either of these vices.” “All right, Maria,” was the humble reply. “And now will you please ask your younger sister Lulu to come down stairs a moment? She said, when she kissed me good-by last night, that she would gladly have me if you refused.” Philadelphia Inquirer. Fapeusive Repairs The famous cathedral at Cologne has peen under repair for a long time and a large amount of money has been expend- ed thereon. Thus far the government has contributed 6,845,252 marks toward the repairs. while enough has been raised by lotteries and otherwise to bring the total expended between 1542 and 1880 up to the enormous amount of 18,400,000 marks, San Francisco Chronicle. A Heavy Family, A family which claims the honor of being the heaviest in Kennebec county is that of William Merrill, of Gardiner Mr. Merrill himself weighs 808, Mrs Merrill, 204; the eldest daughter, 300; a younger daughter, 260, and the only sen, 215—~a total fortune of 1,842 pounds-<to say nothing of shillings and ce. Lucky Merrilll—Leowiston (Me,) Journal. The method of the electric cars on the English road w the series system is used is not done by the ordi- nary brake, but by momentarily short circuiting she motat aud immedi ely 1o versing tho current through the magnets. A Patriotic Day. Bpriggine— Dreadful day, this. Three Linde of weather in as many hours, Wiggins—The most patriotic day of the season. A red sunrise, snow until noon, then blue skies until dusk brings out the 2, Mr. Bushrod Was Washington family prolific on record children, For favor of Prov hingion gays Li hat t one of { : and yet George him idence sliowed Zin should be the Father of But the number in ig 3 loft de. ther of those who are from bis father Augustin Washington and Mary Ball, from Martha Castis or from olde eral branches, is seended and mo r 00! extremely large; too indis ity of the Entertainment C The scendants have large to allow the riminate hospi- ta ommitiee of the these collater Centennial, way il de up from every By quarter be surprise, the marriage of ave distr Washington blood in scores of ilies, Of those that bea rod C. Washington, one of the ioners from West Virginia most disting ruished. while the family which inherited non and sold it to the Mount Ladies’ is in tue Vernon Association, mind most close ¥ counet tad with memory. Judge Bus iat Washington, and |} to his son, itto h A.. Associ kept as a national memcrial A. Washington was « eral Robert E, Lee, war, His children are L ington, of ington, Mre. Col R. P. Chew E. 8, Washington, of Charlestown Va, Mra. N. H, Willis W. Va, Mrs. Beverly Tucker o Va, and Mre. E, L. Va. It hington inherited the Mo Vernon property from General who left # 80ND who sold it to the yn the stall and fe ] AWrence Ww Marshall, Va, : mit Point, f Norfolk Howard, of Warsaw, will be notice } old Virginia family neighborhocd of yond It Ome having m« old state, of love if would prepare the family. It is, j expect that we shall vain labor expended, to recover the lish origin of the this not quite hopeless For the pious labor, we can th more desirable e than to fix the lineage of those who the Srst Virginia Washington. name; but even We Wio such ink of none and cor lescen from of George fed n ancestors a Brother Halstead, who negative vote from Senald fitness for the ( up gallantly on the Sherman side of the Sherman-Quay “The of Mr. Quay in Pennsyivania field marshal’s ( not such as in a on nis Te01008 wr (Qua: ert Nan InissIon, Comes vendetia record gays the ommercial Gagetle, "is in ng idedly to any one norable warrants him apeaki very loudly or very de of bot matters of patronage, It adds the Ohi “that have aiways been with his methods does not become him to against anybody on the continent on the ground of unfair political dealing. When he strikes at Senator Sherman he is aime ing so fan above hig own level as to re call the storiesof Liliput,” mercial Gazette has number of the Phi said of Quay in 1885 that his nomination for state treasurer of “would take the lid from off nry, and uncover secreis before which Republicans woald stand dumb.” Uns fortunately it did not; the secrels are still under cover, and Don said to hold the key, bence there wi dealings in kn his dea on the subj ject is wel wn,” 0 Organ, lings men, and man, It ring those of a riog a guarantee for the good behavior of the| junior senator, a» ing. - the conrt martial at Washington, referred | to Adjutant General Hastings, of Penn«| sylvania, as “a liar and a That's easily said; but we would just like | to see Armes try to pull the General’ ul nose, and watoh the effect of Hastings’ gix.feet-one and big in proportion going! for the Major. —J ohnstown Tribune, Conductors in White Clothes: The Peansylvania Railroad company have a plan of fitting out their employees e pecially those on the vestibule trains in a pew uniform on May 1. Itis pro.| each. posed to uniform the crews of the vesti- bule trains firet with white duck coats and trousers, the coats to have polished brass buttons. The caps will be the same as worn in the summer heretofore, except that the conductor will have a gold cord around his to distinguish his rank. i MM {New York Herald] There are so many divorce oases in come to be a pretty perilous step. It poems aa though all creation had broken down and needed to be repaired. [New York Herald.) James G. Blaine has tackled t many enemies in his day, but the ta them all is the onehe Weg with nowt shbu. Wm » National of { riaan H, Baronm, ont, Democra- , is dead, ao The man most § okenof this week was Gi, Quay wing » wing, irely out, ry ie — ow £50 per visit last week : Are ready if axe, Org was entitled to the all honest men the matier, ™. } a liiR is a spe fh op 3 ticed criminal ofs Prd scme fence besides, A simi fiale Mr exaction VOATrs ters i the lev; of just bi actions OnER, -— When We Were Boys never in his “KF en pic ks the § game™ «1 “chineys cannot using © see his shod, arbles was a great ging, OSPOC ially wh Sh played “for keeps,” == wv {erald oe of the fired and a few yoars ago was a perfect garden spot. In 1578 the island, i a peaty formation, caught fire and burned for months, The smoko was #0 dense that vessels found difficulty in navigating both the Sacra sherman Island was on islands reclaimed which of out in some places to a depth of fifteen and twenty feet, and the island today is | entirely submerged. No one lives upon it at all except a few fishermen, whose | floating houses are tied upon what was | once a levees. The town of Emmatown is no more. The residences are aban doned, the wharf and warehouses dilapi- | dated and unused, while the water stands | up to the windows in the school house. 1t is a scone of desolation. ~—Sacramento Record-Union. Neat ilitle bracolets are formed of Soguttier, With a pearl in the center of Si a a AI MI a Lewis beats the state for large assostment of men and boy's clothing and he beats the world wd all cloth stores in it for low prices. There where you save from §3 to §8 on a suit of clothes, he L. BAMILL, Attorney-at-Law, Office with D. 8, Keller, Esq, North side of High street. When Baby waa Sisk; we gave her Osstoria ‘When she was 8 Child, abe cried for Castoria, When she becuse Mian, hie shun. hatin
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