THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
That wasu't a very big Quay-ke in
Lancaster county,
TI REN
Newspapers say New York is quiet
again. Then it must belike Centre Hall,
which is quiet too.
A RTT"
Assemblyman Shiras of Pittsburg
wants to have judge White of that city
impeached for cutting down the lignor
licenses in Allegheny.
RT SR
Quay’s “model legislature” has adjour-
ned, but it will bardly pay him to gel
the model patente] as the thing will not
take with the people.
IASI ET
The repeal of the fence law of 1700:
means that cattle have no right to be at
large. There is little law for an estray
hog, and the repeal puts cattle about on
a level with hogs.
HSS
Ia the Senate Appropriation Commit-
tee, Senator Allen will offer an amend-
ment to the General Appropriation bill,
to appropriate $75,000 for new uniforms
for the National Guard.
AR
Since the supreme court has decided
that the Bohemian oats notes need not
be paid, the Reporter would advise such
farmers as were scared into paying paper
obtained under the swindle, to ascertain
whether the money so paid can not be
recovered.
STATI
Parties on Bohemian oats notes
can now afford to have a ball, and have
a rejoicing hop because the supreme
court has decided such notes need not
be paid.
Now go for the swindlers.
TER
The report of the recent test of the big
guns of the new cruiser Chicago, is pers
fectly satisfactory. No structura’ weak-
ness was detected and the explosions did
no damage aboard. Those of the eight
inch guns were fired atonce. They use
125 pounds of American brown prismatic
powder and the weight of the shell is
250 pounds. The maximum range during
the test was 4} miles.
A ——
A portion of the gaog of desperadoes
who have been robbing and committing
murderous assanlts upon farmers in the
vicinity of McCleilandtown, Fayette co,
bave been captured at last. Twelve of
them were brought to Somerset by ex-
Sheriff Kyle and a posse of forty men,
and placed in jail,
Their rendezvous was surrounded.
They are a desperate class, and the of-
ficers have been on their trail for the
past two months.
The Philadelphia Record is keeping up
its fire on Colonel R H. Thomas, the big
Granger man of Camberland county. It
charges Mr. Thomas with haviog obe
structed anti-discrimination legislation
at Harrisburg, The charges are evident-
ly the result of a disagreement that has
sprung up between Senator Gerard C.
Brown,of York, and Colonel Thomas
both of whom are members of the Gaz.
ger's Legislative Committee.—Williams-
port Sun & Banner,
Just as the RzrorTer hinted hereto.
fore, that some of the “big” grangers are
playing hypocrit—we have ‘em up this
way—black sheep among the white,
The Benate finance committee has had
the bill of the Grangers to equalize fax~
ation so long in its hands without taking
action that Senator Brown, of York, who
is State Treasurer of the Grange, on 3,
almost succeeded in haying the measure
placed on the calender on a motion for
the discharge of the commitiee from its
farther consideration. The Senator from
York told the Senate that many thous
sands of people who feel that great in:
justice is being done by them by the il
legal tax burdens levied had asked for
the passage ofthe proposed legislation
and that the bill whether it was passed
or not, was entitled to a ¢hance in the
Senate,
Judge Wickham, of Beaver county, bas
put a stop to the indexing business and
filed an opinion revoking his recent or-
der appointing indexers of the records in
the Register's and Prothonotary’s offices.
He takes the ground that the statute nn
der which he made the order is uncon.
stitutional snd upon farther examina
tion, says: “Iam satisfied that it con.
flicts with Article 3, Sec 7, clauses 2 and
16 of the Constitution, which forbids the
passage of Ibeal or special laws regula
ting the affairs of counties and prescris
bing the powers and duties of county of
ficers. The proviso exempting from the
operation of the act counties having over
400,000 inhabitants is fatal to its validi-
ty.”
In Centre county several thousand
dollars have been expended for index.
ing.
The Roman Catholics are not all fol-
lowing Bishop Ryan in his position about
Prohibition, There is conse @atious
manliness among the laity which is ex-
pressing itself in a determination to vote
to put down the rum curse in the church
and ont of it and to protect the helpless
and the young from that legalized ty
ranny which has destroyed more lives
and blasted more hopes, beggared more
children than all the political curses by
which human beings have been enslaved
and human liberty abolished, The L C.
B. U. (which means Irish Catholic Be-
nevolent Union) Journal of Philadelphia
is strong and restless in its advocacy of
the constitutional amendment. In
leader under the caption of “Dare you do
it” it says:
“By the very babes God would speak
to men's minds urging them not to vote
for the saloon let results be
may,
sels,
a
what they
God would protect his own coun
Doubters, cast aside newspaper ar-
guments and go ask your wives and bab-
es how you shall vote.
advice. Youdare hem, and yet
you doubt results when you dare not
seek guidance from those you love best.
Which of your boys will vou give to the
saloon ? Make choice, It must live if
you say so. Look at your boys to night
and name the one you will give the sa~
loon, And your baby girls, which do
you want to be a druokard’s wife?
There must be such if you vote the sas
loon shall live, If you have none to feed
to it how dare you let it live upon the
lives and souls of the boys and girls of
others 7 Bet aside your own if you want
it to live by voting that it shall be. O! if
God's Retributive justice should come
upon your boys and girls in a fow years
for your vote on June 18th, would you
notgive the world for the morn of that
day so you could curse the hand that
would offer you the saloon ballot? If
thesaloon must be let your hand be
guiltiess of the lives and souls of its vies
tims. Why should you, the pledged ene-
my of the saloon, be its saviour in the
hour it fights for its life. If you cannot
help ita destroyers, stand back and not
hurl shot into their ranks, They fight to
save your home and your children from
the saloon, and you cannot help them
because the damnable thing will strive to
live after
in
Scorn
not ask
not the
the State follows
lenouncing
the Church
fouiness. You call
yourself a practical Catholic, and vet the
hideous thing yourCharch has branded
as disgraceful and counselled Catholics to
“abandon,” you want them to get into
and to live upon the lives and souls of
others. But you don't want to give your
own boys to it.
Ha
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The Thomas Iron Company, one of the
largest and oldest makers of pig iron
this state, on Monday announced a
doction of §1 in the price of No. 1 and
No. 2 pig iron. The prices heretofore
have been $18 for No.1, $17 for No, 2,
and $15 for No.3. The new prices are
$:7 for No. 1, $16 for No. 2, and $15 for
No. 3. These are the lowest official pri-
ces made for pig iron on the Atlantic
coast since 1879. The reduction has
been brought about by a variety of cans-
es, the chief of which is the competition
of Southern and Western iron men in
Eastern markets. The fatare, of course,
now largely depends on the southern
iron masters, If they can makeand de.
liverit at Northern points below the
Thomas prices, taking the reputation of
the maker into consideration, they will
again disturb the market. In any event
they will have an opportunity to show
what they can do in the way of real com-
petition in the territory of Norther
makers,
ese —————
As to the “happy family’, Washington
information say the reconciliation be-
tween Quay and Senator Sherman isnot
#80 perfect as it appears to be, and it is
evident thet Senator Quay has no good
will to waste on the presiden’. Cham-
berlin’s is becoming a recognized anti<
administration headquarters. The fel-
lows who are doing the tall kicking man-
age to show up at least once in 24 hours
and there swap curses,
The rising tide of Harrison's unpopu-
larity in his own party is beginning to
be more apparent, Congressman E. N,
Morrill, of Kansas, is the last to come to
the front with bitterness in his heart to-
ward Harrison,
———— I MP PA A:
The suffering of the baffled boomers
finds most prominent evidence aiong the
northern border. A few days ago 1,000
wagons on the march down and 800 wags
ons on the way back were counted, The
groves in the Arkansas and Waloat Riv-
er valleys that offered camps for the
boomers before the desceat are filling
again with the returning unfortunates.
There are bundreda, of families among
them who have sold everything to make
the trip and now have nothing left. The
sight of men, women, and children Who
are thus unprovided for and desolate,
with the mers frames of horses survive
ing to drag them along, is pitifal,
nm———— MAI MP
Iron is lower in price now thao it bas
beeo for many years. What a howl of
denunciation would go up if the admins
in
res
istration were Democratic,
Deceiving the Grangers,
MR. THOMAS ANDTHE LEGIRLATIVE COM
MITTEENEED INVESTIGATION,
tigation. The manner in which some of
the members of the committee juggled
with anti-diserimination and succeeded
in keeping back the expression
Order in favor of the bills
Constituteon has become notorious in
circles,
drown, one of the
legislative Senator Gerard
members of the com
mites, is known to have favored ener-
getiec and emphatic work for constitution-
against a majority of the committee, Sec
retary Thomas, of Mechanicsburg, and
Representative Taggart were anxious to
keep back
tions, and
the anti-diseri
been instrumental
have
keeping the blanks for
thea v 3
L210 DRA
ns |
until their distribation no use,
In consequence no such
been presented, and the Granger has no
been properly or, indeed,
Mr.
manager and sole benefi
iary point of
nual
to the Legislature. The
ATS
view, of the
Willi He
the contracts with the railroad
companies, and is supposed
picnics at ams Grove.
makes a'l
to derive a
profit thereon.
Mr. Thomas
tions to the Republican leaders,
a State
is nnd peculiar obliga-
He was
to the New Or-
leans Exposition, but the Legislature of
1885 declined to pay a bill
sented for his expenses,
Commissioner
At the last ses.
gion of the
for 85000 for |
leans.
Legislature there was a bill
expenses at
New Urs
passed
Mr.
Uni
less the Re
This bill was and
Thomas got his money,
leaders
1 R&R
publican
here in
who
{
RB
goed affairs
made statements to
y@ Hoose, this bill was
passed as a consideration for the work
Mr. Thomas the
Girapgers, as far as in line for
Beaver the Republican ticket in
1886. This was the plea made to Repub-
their friends in tl
done by in keeping
he could,
and
:
lican members for
bill
their voles for the
aod it was upon those pleas that
the measure got through.
Reprasentative Taggart ecoks to relieve
Mr. Thomas of some, if not all, cf the
. § }
re
v £5 i
iis Leen Ln
g back of £1
that this was d
hi request, and that the re
ed tl i
Grangers wanted their tax bil
4]
t this should be d
fore they began to agitate the question of
Mr. Taggart could
have brought
f
fact
anti-discrimination.
not, however, about this
delay but for the thata majority of
the committee agreed with him and op-
posed the efforts of
The bill
ready for
Senator Brown.
House was
tion on March 2, but
its presentation was delayed, at Mr, Tag-
gart's request, until March a period
The
Legislative
presented in the
introdug
20,
of three legislative weeks elasping
members of the Graogers
are: Leonard Rhone. the
Master of the Order, Secretary Thomas,
Representatives Taggart and John Mes
Sparren, and Senator
—Philad, Record.
ommiilee
Gerard C, Brown.
- -
The Altoona Tribune gets
says
“Hon. Michael Barneit Lemon, mems
ber of the Legislature from Allegheny
connty and agent for a wholesale whisky
firm, is in the dumps over Judge White's
wholesale slaughter of license applicants
in Allegheny county, and gloomily pre-
dicts that the result will be disastrous to
the republican party in Alleghen y and
other counties, We can inform Hon.
Michael Barnett Lemon that the repabli-
can party in Pennsylvania is strong
enough {0 do without the assistance of
the liquor dealers, and the sooner they
all move into the democratic party,
where they natarally belong, the better
it will be andthe more comfortakle all
around.”
We admire the spunk of the Tribune,
but it is in danger of being spanked by
boss Quay for turning up its nose against
his friends, the liquor men.
ssm——] 7 ] —7 nh Ws 2
In the case of the electric light com-
panies, Judge Simouton decides they are
not manufacturing corporations, and
therefors are not exempt from taxation.
He holds that the term “manufacturing”
cannot properly be applied to any cor
poration which does not produce mater.
jal substance, neither is the electric light
a material substance. In this opinion
Judge Simonton declares that the act of
1879, imposing a tax upon capital stock,
is constitutional. This is an important
finding.
saucy, and
Ey | tau ona ga
The Philadelphia Record, the enemy
of monopolies and high taxes, and advos
cate of the people's interests, has been
exposing the ways of some of the head
grangers who, among the farmers, talk
against monopoly and taxes, yet at Har-
risburg secretly work lo favor of what
they denounce wt home. Just so-we
expucted nothing else from certain idiotio
biatherskites, The interests of the hon
ost farmer are being betrayed by these
chape.
| JAPANESE
THE
JUNKS CAST AWAY
PACIFIC OCEAN.
IN
| Hardships Endured by Oriental Sallors Un.
i der the Old Methods
“Two Thousand
Forty
| Miles Out Withont Mast or Radder
i
{ Beans to Each Man Per Day.
yor
iz of the 9th of January,
1877, the City of Peking, on her outward
ip, sighted what at first appeared to
wdoned vessel adrift at sea. The
vuner bore away for ber, when it was
| seen that
{ one
On the morniy
s110
mast gone. An officer
| was partly loaded with rice and saki
| (Japanese whisky), and besides the skip-
per of five
men. On the 1st of December preceding
and supercargo had a crew
the junk, which, by the way, rejoiced in
the name of the Hisavoshimam, had been
{ driven out to sea, and things having got
| badly mixed up in an unusually terrific
last it was found to be the easiest way
| a’ snils to chop the mast down
sen carried away the rud-
the bulwarks, after
the drifted and sloshed
around in t id and unoriginal way of
| “at the mercy of the winds and waves.”
THEY STUCK TO THE SAKL
Captain and crew had become so com-
pletely the waste of
ily on a waste of
i by the officer of
| the steamer they didn't know the day of
the week or the month, bardly knew
| where they had come from, and certain)
| didn't know where they were going 10.4
der and stove In
junk
$
HO
disheartened on
waters, or so unduly j
il
saki, that when i
boardex
di
i» : 3
i They were informed that they were
| something like 2,000 miles distant from
1. but despite g int 11i-
} this
, only four of the crew
wan
w
junk-—the captain, supercargo and
he fifth man declaring their int
{ sticking to the junk so long as the
rice and saki held out.
Coos Bay published at
d, Ore., in its issue of July 17,
78, had the following report from the
captain of the schooner Parallel, which
arrived at that port July 15 from Ban
Franc :
“The schooner Parallel on
latitude 80
News,
RCE
the 7
in 42 min.
150 deg. 20 min, at 4a. m
Japanese junk adrift.
th inst.
longitude
, sighted
A boat was }
Are
der.
oa
"
=
ered vi wee]
JR
Jug
and the strang
en on terrible s
*
Ay
3 3 x
wl the boarder
»N
Vi
ad been shackled together,
crazed for want
{of food or water and fastened up by
| © of these bound
g amidships with their
}
i
i been
| their
bodies
i
LTA LWO
ware ivi
knees bound together with cords upon
their their were drawn
over their beads and securely tied and
cord around their necks;
in short, they were completely inclosed
a petting formed by the lacing and
interlacing of cords. The sunken eyes
and shriveled condition of the bodies
were frightful to look at. The other
corpse was found forward, stripped to
he waist, and gave indications of the
terrible sufferings that the man must
have endured previous to his death
From the numerous fireplaces and mats
found between decks it was evident that
the vessel had been manned by a large
crew. Upon examination considerable
water was found in the hold, but no evi-
dence of her having had a cargo on
board could be discovered. The only
article of food that was found was a
portion of a chest of tea, covered with
mold. In the cabin were several hand-
some pieces of furniture.
“The two bound bodies were well
dressed, and a lot of fine silk ladies’
wearing apparel was brought off the
wreck by the sailors. The stench of de-
caying bodies was such as to prevent a
thorough inspection. The hull of the
junk was in good condition, and when
last sen was drifting to the south and
east and bearing with it, perhaps, a
mystery of the Oriental soas.”
PROBABLY THE LATEST CASE.
When the steamship City of Peking ar-
rived at San Francisco from Japan, June
12, 1881, one of the passengers related the
following story to a Chronicle reporter:
The tenth day out from Yokohama the
steamer camo across 8 dismantled, help-
Jess Japanese junk, which had been
driven off from the entrance to the bay
of Yeddo during a typhoon that had oo-
curred on the 9th of December, or ten
months previous to their rescue. They
had lost their masts and rudder and had
been drifting at the mercy of the winds
they knew not where. After their own
provisions were exhausted they had sub-
sisted on their cargo, mostly beans and
dried fish, and on such rain water as they
could catch. They had burned most of
the small woodwork, doors, berths, win-
dows, ete,, of their junk for fuel, and
were on short food rations, forty beans
per day for each man being the allow
ance. Their fire, when put out from time
to time, they had rekindled by rubbing
two pieces of wood tog One of
breasts, Arias
s were bound
aid
when they sighted the City of Peking.
They were taken on board steamer,
n concert was given in their aid,
Sionazt ip of tae City of
wore taken Lo own country.
80 little by little the long record of dis
abridged, if not
(
9, I88
rescued junk men from her
‘hough they had the plague; now
wards the rescuers Fran
vhronicie
a0
Made Rich by Molasses Cakes,
Maria Bivins, 3 well known colored
woman residing near this town, i
She was 56 years old, a
thirty years ghe ha
making and
which sho ac urnulate
littie fortune, Bothshea
were born in slavery,
their
Hing molas
Sa
children,
winter.
every
ol
Was eng
timated
of cakes
woman,
who kn«
w hor, —
Deaths at Sea.
lot of the men before the mast, since first
I went to sca as a cabin 1
éver a i
again
fairly
FF rn olficer nust say it
investigat
today on the hi
vestigats 1 because ne
Eve ry day one
this port w it
started
port
This is not
land. You haw
mnvest
they n
Pr POT CA
their officers
ate
i
:
iw OOK
wards would
do so, who v
and lod
able fully to prove.”
The Head of the Army.
1. Schofield’s salary
@1¢
I'Y 8 ©i0
Ong
he is the
though he is right!
reason of his sors
career has not
name over fan
His military lif
duties faithfully
events
bas he been
Gen, Schofield was born
September, 1831. Ie
the United States Military
1853, in the same
McPherson and Hood.
acaqaenmy
Class with ©
of natural science in a university,
the army asa volunteer,
mission was tendered to him at once ¢
of brigadier general. He served al
of war in Grant's first cabinet,
after details.
partment building which is principally
of his service,
rier-Journal.
The Cottonwood Tree.
for the purposes of lumber.
prized for interior decorations.
iv for
Deinoorat.
Frosta have done Some harm
and fruit ia Hlinois, and a drouth is
ding to the harm done,
fFribut
&
¢ of Respect,
Lg X Conzistory of the
ted 10
ail competition Lewins
: ead lo ready made
1
AAR
i more
z 4
y G3
—The Lewisburg
larmers who r
{ a § {
OF groceries
fay 1 i
Or 3 CLABOE, AT¢
iICKiog Ul igus at
slupidity. Sis leiz in Uni
1 ,
all LOW
their
kouns
Jn
and shoes
ident
n Gregy
Fat-
Union
Jami-
Jamison and
horse and
When with-
the
The
N gir thrown
ith the wagon on top. The
were taken to their
amination showed th
and H
' i § thi }
Cin he o
ocurred
township,
sia Oakes, Beller
adaline Oakes,
“a&ilie ]
rel
BSE }
| started wit
go to Allenwood
of their destination
righ and ran AWAY.
i i the
wagon *
in two mil
iDorse took {
| WRZOD Was 1
ow
out, | RB
mes god an ex-
at Henrietta Oakes
vigon’s heads were crush -
rains protroding in a horrible
rg
er Jat
wee Bi5 bye rt
oe in Be
vebrat
McFariane's
{
f
ie
ed 1
hardware
headquarters for
Fence Wire, Hav
3d 1 the recent
is able to sell at very
wire has stbod the
in our county and
] respecte. It
pu. up and
rod than anv
inte 18
ink
= { ure
DE
VeaArs
Th
fates, i
several
of
i en first « in al
{18 80 easy i and
{tie lees to the
Write for prices.
{ On Monds
in sonof Hen
township, Hu
8 horrible de
ork at the saw mi
¥ Mark, of Juniata
itingdon county, met with
i ile engaged at his
i i foot in
ithe carriage and be was thrown cn the
revolving ¢.w, which through his
left shoulder iagonally through his
body to the tl , completely severing
him in twain. At the time of the saccis
dent Mr. Shues, the proprietor, was ens
gaged in oiline the machinery, and Mr.
Jrown, the wyer, so that peither of
them knew cof the terrible calamity until
their attantion wes arr ted by the pes
culiar noiee in the machinery, and upon
ooking towards the saw they were hors
rified to see the mutilated body of Mr,
Mark prossed tightly Jagainst it by the
movement of the carriace. Mr. M. was
a single man, aged about 23 years
i
wv
i
¥
:
caught
cut
i Married.
At Centre Hall, on May 5, by Rev. W,
E. Fischer, J. L. Faust and lL-dia Ann
Royer, both of near Potters Mills, this
county.
iin ein
A few days ago one hnndred and eigh-
ty new doctors were turned out by the
University of Pennsylvania; a good crop
and folks must keep getting sick so the
new pill lingers can live,
a -
The old Bowne mansion in Westches.
ter county, N, Y., was destroyed by fire,
Tuesday morning, and the mother of Mr,
Bown, two of his children and two sis.
ters, servant girls, were burned to death
ie —
An oil well was struck near Washing«
ton, Pa., which is flowing 75 barrels per
hour,
Tho model legislature passed the bill
increasing the judges salaries, by a vote
of 116 to 73. Our members, Holt and Als
lison, voted in favor of the bill,
dati —
Few Divorces in Ireland.
Whatever may bo said for or against
he Trib which they fo the
t ma,
admiration of the a Salles in
matrimonial fidelity. In the recently is-
of divorces our own country leads in
ving granted nearly half a miltion di-
vorces during the twenty years past, but
there have been eloven divorces
out the length and breadth of Erin dur
fhuihgiod