VOL. LXII. CENTRE THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR . Dan Hastings may be up so high that some of those who may wish to pull him down may find their arms too short to reachhim. ROR CR The negro anthorities of Hayti refuse to recognize Fred Douglass, whom Har- rison appointed as micister, because he is a black man like themselves. Really, the blacks have their “race prejudices” as well as the whites. We have been in receipt of the Wil- liamsport Daily Sun and Banner for the past two weeks, and we find 1t one of the best inland dailies in the state—so0 pleas. ed are we with its visits that we will be glad to have them continue, ETA. All through the South there is mourn- ing over the death of their chief, Jefler- son Davis. Bells were tolled, flags at half mast, and business closed on day of the foneral, Wednesday. He was 8l years of age. That was a terapting reward that our County Commissioners offered for the murderer of the innocent and pretty Clara Price—$150 | If these fellows de- sire to do a big thing to please all, let them offer their resignation a! once. Dr. Higbee, scperintendent of public instroction, was stricken with paralysis Tuesday afternoon while in attendance at the teachers’ institute at Mifflintown, Juniata county. He was brought to Harrisburg in an unconscious cons dition and then taken to his home in Lancaster. I ST It seems to be the determination of the state administration to dump Hasts ings into the soup. Governor Beaver, according to a dispatch from Washington, has beclared himsel! against the cans A Significant Movement. The now sssmed federation between Alliance is one of the most significant of modern politcal movements, mote the interests of industry, but for the first time theses industrial organize selves felt at the polls. 2,500,000 voters according to the most embrace over 300,000, These are the organized associations payers of the !and ; and th ey are forced into alliance chiefly because of oppressive cessaries of life and of business in the interest of monopoly. This federation demands with em- revision in the interest of indastry, and in the interest of monopoly and laxary, and it is simply an echo of the reve olutionary voting at the late November electi>os in the Western States, With an average tariff tax of 47 per cent, o the necessaries of lifa, it is not sur- prising that there is federation among industrial people and revolution in the air. Even Pennsylvania will be a debatable State when ever the industrial labor instead of taxing themselves for monopoly masters. Don’t misinterpret this alliance ; it means business, and means business at the polls, —Phila- deiphia Times A lp pi In New York a shop has been found using horsemeat for bolognas instead of dog. Bologna sausages, big an little, have been turned out in quantities from a factory in Johnson avenue, near Maid en lane, Newtown. It has always been a mystery to the people round about. Wagon loads of sausages were sent away daily, but no one remembered ever hay ing seen any meat or cattie brought to the place. The rattle of the steam Stone first, Delamater second, but not at all for Hastings . The Republican machine, under Quay, seems to be bedging towards Delameter for Governor, with a cold shoulder for Hastings. Hastings bas far more ability than Quay, and that's what does not suit the loafing fisherman—he has always beeu jealous of men of werit and ability, because their promotion would set him in the shade. Senator Quay’s only recreation lies in novel reading. He is very food of Fieldiog, Dickens, Bulwer and Thacker ay, says an exchange. We might add, that the rest of his time is spent loafiog at seaside resorts in fishing and low wire pulling, and is the “representative,” on paper, of the great state of Pennsyl- vanis in the United States Senate. We challenge any one to make a different showing. A London dispatch intimates the po:- sibility of electing Cardinal Gibbons to succeed Pins IX. Shounld this possibili- ty become an actuality, Dr. McGlynn will have his wish of “a Pope who thinks in English.” Very little reliance, how. ever, can be placed upon such news, The College of Cardinals possesses such a preponderance of Italian members a8 to render the choice of an English speak- ing Pope in the highest degree improb- able. This year will be known in history as the year of great floods and terrible fires: It deserves to be so distinguished. Not only has this continent suffered from these devastating agents but nearly every country on the globe has experienced a pories of disasters alike destructive to life and property. The superstitions will doubtless attribute these prevaeat cal. amities to the influence of malefic stars; the ultrareligious to the visitation of divine Providence, while the scientists may endeavor to conpect them with atmospheric snd meteorological con ditions asyet obscure and not fully The important labor ofganizations in session at Bt, Louis, representing the Knights of Labor and the Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union-~the latter very stronp in the West—have consolidated their forces for certain purposes, politieal and otherwise. They have indo:sed the Australian system of voting, and their tariff resolution, althoogh not as explicit a6 it might be, still leads in the right direction. “We favor,” they declare, “guch revision and redaction of the tariff that the taxes may rest as lightly as possible upon productive labor, and that its burdens may be imposed upon the laxuries and removed from the necesss- ries of life, and in a manner which will prevent continued accumulations of the United States treasury surplus.” It was resolved to support no candidate for of- be heard night and day. The odors of the place had more than a local repata- tion. Henry Myer, the propristor, and three other men were employed in making the sausages and the smells. Thursday the people living in the vi. Health that the refuse from the place was contaminating the water of a pond pear by, aod rendering it unfit for water. ing stock or other purposes. Health Officer Whickham made an investi- gation, He found that the complaint was warranted by the condition of the water and decided to inspect the factory itself. Fortified against the smells with a pipe of tobacco and a bottles of harts- horn, he entered the building, Sas pended in different parts of the place were pieces of dressed meat. The doctor were horse flesh, When questioned on the subject the proprietor did not deny that he used horse flesh in manufacturing his sans sages, There is no law to prevent it. A of Health has been called to consider the matter. Dr Wickham thinks nothing can be done, provided the meat used in the factory is not diseased. sess mmisnsA U At the annual meet ing of the State Board of Agriculture, to be held at Harris- burg, Janvary 22 and 28d, 1590, the sub. ation. Numerous essays from prastical ernor Beaver will address the meeting on the subject of the Roads and Road Laws of Penvsylvania; it is expected that the Commission recently appointed by the Governor and Legisiature will be present and assist in the discussions, and other organizations interested will send delegates empowered to present their views ; arrangements will be made by which such delegates, and all atten- ding the meeting, will receive the same rates of deduction in railroad fare and board as are accorded to members of the Board of Agriculture. All present will For further particulars address Thos. J, Edge Secretary Harrisburg Pepoa., corn badly in Earope. The epidemic of in fluenza in Rosia and other parts of the Continent has caosed a fear in England disease, which is no respector of persons, influenza bas appeared in London, cases of the disease being under his ment. In Germany they are Viana hus too sustas, an fa E PA. Tue question that is bothering the manufacturers of Pittsburg is: How iopg shall we have natural gas? They recognize the fact that they are soon to lose the many advantages growing out of the use of this natural fuel, with which a few years ago Pittsburg seemed to be so well provided. Every day the sit nation becomes more serious. Some manufacturers are moving their plants nearer to the gas fields in the hope that they may put off the evil day, while others are tearing out the appliances necessary to the use of the fuel which was once Pittsburg’s proandest boast, The coal men are happy, seeing in the diminishing supply of gas return to their old-time prosperity. From the opinion of experts as Professor J, I geologist of Pennsylvania; Professor Orton, State geologist of the Baperin tendent of the Pittsburg Natural Gas Company; Harvard University; Joseph D. Weeks, now employed by tl Government to report on the aupply of nataral gas and many others of prominence, it would has broaght such scientific Lesley, Btate Ohio, Professor Shaler, o! 19 seem that the genie which 80 many wonders here will soon vanish , Scientists who have looked into the matter of a diminishing supply of this natural fuel are almost unanimous in the statement that the gas will last but from two to six years longer. The gas companies burg are evidently adelphia, the largest kind in the country perhaps, make contracts for limited periods only, They are using every apg to the saving of their prod # supplying Pitta uneasy’ The Phila~ company of the will now diance looking The members of the Econom ite Bociety are seriously considering the feasil of returning to the institote of marriage, There are now but about thirty members of the organization the little town of Economy, and they are well advanced in years, For a long time the rale forbidding the marriage of members has been strictly enforced, and time has so reduced their numbers that _the question of the many property which organization b accumulated and perpetaatiog th society itself, ia becoming daily important, At the opening of the coming dozen new members will the society, Several ried’ About the same time the pro- position to raise the ban so long placed upon the marriage rite will be considered, It is learned that a majority of t ent members favor the idea, and it likely the change will be made. The society lives in the town of Econ- omy on the banks of the Obio, and has become celebrated for the frugality of its members its enormous wealth, quaint homes and good citizens. Jacob Hen. ryie, its leading spirit, is a white-haired patriarchal man past 50 years, tire JIIILY left in quaint of disposing A & of millions dollars of the of an o more Year s be ado sitted to of thess are mar- he press in - ol A Big Reward. The Lock Haven Democrat says: The Commissioners of Centre county offered only one hundred and fifty dollars re ward for the apprehension of the murs derer of the lamented and beautiful Miss Clara Price. The names of the said Commissioners are J, OC, Henderson and John D. Decker, and they certainly each ought to be presented with a leather medal. Of course the voters of tha county will re-elect them—in a horn, The vast amount offered for the arrest of this human devil shows the liberality (7) of those officials and their regard for the preservation of human Jife and fe- male virtne. Call a meeting, somebody, and let the leather medals suggested be appropriately engraved.” This shows the calibre of the Centre county Commissioners, who have been guilty of other little acts. The Reron- TER can assure all outsiders that the peos ple of our county, of all parties, are very mi i nM co The Philadelphia Press has had re. ports written from all the iron manufac. turing districts of the state, to show that the iron interest is booming. Well, the farmer has no boom, the mechanic has no boom and the working man has no boom. The Pairiot alludes to the Press article thus: The same tariff for protection is in force now that prevailed when the iron mills were closed or run on half time. Since the tariff for protection, ac cording to the Telegraph, is now doing so much for the iron industry, how comes it that it failed to keep it going? Again, how comes it that the high tariff on woolen goods fails to prevent woolen manufacturers from going into bank ruptey and woolen mills from closing? How comes it, too, that in free trade » Beaver on Hasting A If Governor Beaver hes been correctly reported in a Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he doesn’t want General Hastings to receive the re- publican nomination for governor any more than he wants himeelf to be trans- formed into some hideous monster, He is quoted as saying: “l was very much suprised at the developments of the past few days in regard to the position of General Hast. ings, My understanding with him was that he did not propose to antagonize any plans ‘which the dominant leaders in the state might have with respects to the selection of a nominee for the head of the republican ticket next vear. In the conversation, General Hastiog said to me that he only intended to secure a few delegates here and there throughout the state in order to put himself in line as a candidate in event of the nomination of Ben tor Delamater not being carried out. He then thought that he would come forward ag hig political residoary His movements of late, and what we hear of his alliance with per sons who are regarded as a disturbing element in he republican party of the state, show that he has gone behind h is original purpose, and has entered the contest a8 a fall fledged candidate,” The governor added: “lI was very much surprised at General Hastings joining the Tanil clob, at Pittsburg, as that under the circumstances, at once estab- lished his position. A — many lawyers? This question is asked by John J. Wickham in the current issue of the Pittsburg Legal Ledger, The writer is president judge of the court of Beaver county, and epeakiog from his own observation and knowledge he declares that there are 100 many lawyers and that the result of this excessive supply is the impoverishing of fession, taking it altogether, and the multiplication of shysters whose base instinets and impulses are inlepsified by the increasing difficulty of makiog an honest living at the bar. This prompts them to create business themselves by promoting and prolongiog litigation and resorting to every despicable form of professional knavery. David Dudley Field, addressing a wid- er forum, takes substantially the same Ia his address before the Ameri can Bar Association he gives the number of lawyers in the United States as 70,000, 4 of the population, while France has only one lawyer to 4702 of its population and Germany one to 6428. The business of turning out lawyers bas clearly been overdone. legates, Are there too the pr for View or one to every A Moment. Of your time, reader, may perhaps be profitably devoted to the following: — Those who take an agency for a reliss ble enterprising house, learn their busi ness and strick to it, “get on” in the world, Peoples ho have any idea of engaging in any canvassing business will do well to write George Stinson & Co, Portland, Maine—the great art and gen- eral publishers, They offer the most exceptional advantages to those who are suffeiently enterprising to be willing to make a push in order to better their condition. It costs nothing to try. Women make successful canvassers, as well as men. Full particalars will be sent to those who address the firm ; their full address is given above. aires il iti oss——— In Crawford ‘County Court Thursday Wiliamina Beatty secured a judgment against the estate of the late Dr. William Gibson, of Jamestown, Pa., for $8,364 30, This is the famous Dr. Gibson whose tomb is marked by an $85,000 monument. The prosecutor entered the Gibson mansion a8 a housekeeper in 1856, and remained the greater portion of the time until 1888, Bhe claims to have never re- ceivd compensation, and brought suit to recover $35,000, Fire proof buildings ‘melt away like wax when the fire is hot enough, as it was at the Boston fire. There is noth ing fire proof where there is fire enough. Well, we had better, probably , except the three Hebrew children and the stom. nche that stand strichnine whisky. ———— A California Judge hasfshinned up the ladder of Fame by getting drunk and fining himself $50 therefor. This is high old Roman virtue, but it is liable to cons tempt of court. The stern magistrate has however, promised to resign if his thirst “ever again ecrowds his judicial dignity off the bench, and his struggle not to be hauled np before himself again will be watched with anxiety by philan. thropiste, - Lo Ma A A man in New York State committed suicide and a company refused to pay his| widow any insurance, on the ground that he had committed a crime, which by the policy would invalidate the claim. an attempt at suicide is a crime, suicide iiigh Art Decorations, Have one corner of your house, with hickory # make-believe wood fireplace in to bum. brass topped shovel and logs in it that are never meant Have a tall, tongs, tied up with blue ribbon bows, Stick little dabs and ble ribbon at every sotnew here not far off, of yellow, red corner of every picture frune. Continue the Jabs weave it in between the of ribbon over each chair, canes, and guirl rockers till jife tabs und ends it around the a plain man to and would be afraid of his wit down Haug of things all over look like Have aps 2, in it, fringes your walls, till they nu rag bag struck by lightning. nu portiere to each square foot of If you have not room enough to show your portieres properly, put two or three upon one door, and thea loop one over the other. Decorate your windows in the same way, Have about six hang ings and a bolt or two more of ribbou to each Cover the floor with rags, two or three deep. Have them nice and handy where the caller will trip upon them and fall and disfigure himself. A rug that is fiot it trip and throw somebody has missed its mission, Stick tissue-paper roses wherever there is any placed where will place for them All these hangings and drapings are in the true line of high art. By no possi bility can the room properly fitted with labor. The rags and tabs and bits of cloth and ribbon filled are warranted to catch and hold all dis- typhoid, con. and If there is to get rid of, fit his sleeping room with high then be dusted. That will save with which your room is ease gerins, small pox, sumption diphtheria anybody you particularly wish art decorations and scarfs and things. of that decoration for a Some the rooms is the persons are opinion most appropriate free, dancing, gk shine and air that the Almighty gave us, Don't mind such hk purple, they are cranks. What did the Almighty know of high art? A high art room was never meant to breathe in. If people want to breathe, let them Then, miss or madam, when all about you is properly bedraped, sit down and make the follow ing final triumph of artistic skill: HIOUSs Sn go out doors TINSUR SHAVING BALLA seventy five 1o one hundred circles of tise, vliher pink or yellow, that shall be the shoe of 8 coffer sgucer. Take such clicie by the center and crimp slightly tetween the flagers circles by the cenler on « foe wire, i loop turned up at the end to pre ping off. Is threadiog thems ar range them »o they will form an evenly shaped tall, When perfectly round turn the other wire end in a loop, through which s narrow satis ribhon fa drawn and ted In a bow to hang Rt p by (sat from vor : them Stanley's Latest Discovery. On every expedition into Africa Stan- ley has made some important geograph- ical discovery. He has changed the map of one of the continents, and filled in the blank spaces on it with lakes, rivers and mountains, His latest and fourth expedition is one of his most brilliant and successful. On the first one he found Dr. Livingston and himself changed in eighteen months from a young man to one white haired and middie aged in appearance. On this inst trip he rescued Emin, and found that the great body of water called the Vie- toria Nyanza was larger by 1,900 square miles than it was supposed. The lake covers nearly 27,000 square miles, This will make it the largest body of fresh water in the world, axoept our own Lake Superior, which is 82,000 square miles in extent. The wing, #0 to speak, of the Victoria Nyanga, which Stanley has discovered, extends toward the southwest. The Nyanga is upon a tableland 4,100 feet above the sea level. The tableland is some 200 miles in extent, and is a water- shed. From its eastern side pour the | i". waters that form the Nile. Down fa | 1s writ western slope glide the streams consti tuting the head waters of the Congo. EE ——— a ——— It looks now as though one question on which the fate of the world hangs will never be decided; that is, whether the Australian negro Jackson or our own John 1. 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