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,
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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.
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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