THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR Ham Cy We like the Clearfield Republican ex- cept its unwieldy form. Wonld not 8 pages be an improvement, neighbor ? Gov. Beaver can find a fit successor for Dr. Higbee's place, in Prof. D. M, Wolf, of our county. Prof. Wolf is one of the best county superintendents in the state, Famine is prevalent throughout Gal- jeia, owing to short crops and the recent terrifie snow storms. The peasantry are killing their horses for food in order to husband their small stores of grain against a season of greater privation. The Philad, Press ad. appears in anoth- er column. Outside of its politics we think well of the Press, yet we must commend it for its occasional indepen- dent criticism of men and acts in its own ranks. As a paper for state and general news it is complete. Governor Beaver's administration is yery unpopular with many on his side of the house. We attributed this feeling to one of jealousy, but Jack Love, the other day, in Philadelphia, is reported to have said that Gen. Hastings is to blame for the whole of it, Suppose Jack be run for Governor, might it not make things Lovely all around ? Why farming does not pay. Because the farmer ia robbed right and left, If he has a dollar in his pocketbook some- body will steal ha!f of it before be can tarn around. If he has a bushel grain to sell or a steer to market, some body will steal the whole of it before he knows it, and the government permits it. Leg- Jlalators permit it; Congressmen permit it; Cou *t8 permit :t. It would be astonish- ing if fa TIO paid, ander present condi- tions; and commerce and society must be turned up. ide down and ioside out before farming vill pay. Bat there is nobody to do that but farmers them selves Congress and oF State Legisla- tures must be cleaned out 8 You wouid clean a dirty stable, The m.neybags and monopolists of the Uniteu State Senate give way to representatives of Jhe people’s interests, and mind you reader, this is the only read out of your difficul- ties, ED ———————- —— The Knights of Labor are about to open their warfare on the Sugar Trust, and within a moath expect to fire on it Since the decision of the New York. courts against the lagality of the BSugsr Trust certain members of the Executive Board have been perfecting the plaos of what is nothing more nor less than a general boycott on Sogar Trust sugar The plan is first to learn what refineries are in the Trust, what their brands sre, and what wholesalers buy them. Simis lar information as to the non trust refin eries is to be secured. Then Knights, assisted by the Farmers’ Alliance and other organizations, are to notify their retail grocers as to what sugars are trust sugars and what are not, and to assert their determination to cease buying cer- tain brands and kinds. It is expected that in many states quo warranto pro- ceedings will be begun to revoke the charters of the trust on the ground of their illegality and oppression of the masses. If successful in this matter, other trusts in life's necessaries will be attacked. Itis said the Knights hope to popularize themselves very much by this measure. The reward of $150 offered by the Commissioners for the arrest of the vil. lain who foully and brutally murdered Miss Clara Price, again shows the staff these officials are made of. This petty offer is a disgrace to the rich county of Centre, and is the crowning act ofshame and humiliation to which our people have been subjected by the Commiesion- ers in the past 18 months, If the story of this $150 reward is true, as it was related to us, then Hen: derson should follow the example of Ju- das. We are told that a detective, in the section wherp the foul murder was com- mitted, telegraphed to the Commission- ers waoting to know what reward they would give for the finding of the mar derer, and thas Henderson replied $150 ! and the reason for it is given because the detective was a Democrat! Groat God! if this is correct jthen we abandon all hope of finding enough of honor and manhood in the Commissioners office to fill the hollow of the point of a needle. Could bigotry, spite and utter disregard of duty in so grave a matter as this, go farther ? We are told the Republicans disown these officials as much as Democrats despise them. - Experiment Station Report, The publication of the annual report of the Penna. State College Agricultural Experiment Station for 1888 has been unavoidably delayed, and the volume has just appeared, A prominent feature of the report is the record of experiments upon the soils ing system for milch cows, designed to farnish data upon which to base a ras tional estimate of the relative advant~ ages of pasturage and soiling, Comparat- vie trials were made both in the barn and the laboratory, and the results are recorded in fall, The fleld experiments with fertilizers, wh ich have been in progress since 1881, are reported upon. We note, among other points, that these experiments seem to favor the use of the cheaper and less soluble phosphates upon soils similar to that of the Stallion farm. These ex. periments are to be continued through a term of vears, on the same plots, upon a uniform plan. A considerable number of varieties of farm crops have been tested, especial attention baviog been given to corn. The Horticulturist’s report introduces a new feature in the experimental work, and gives an extended account of coms parative trials with different varieties of garden vegetables. An experiment in practical forestry has alio been begun. The report contains a description and cuts of the new Station building, and an address by Prof. I. P. Roberts on the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of the building. A general report on the years’s operations precedes the accoonts of experiments, and a ficancial statement shows the disposition made of the fands received from the United States. An appecdix contains a detailed report of the daily meteorological ob. servations, The report will be sent, free of charge, to any citizen of Pennsylvania, so long as the supply lasts, on application to the Director, «t State College, Centre Co. ipa The Farmers Getting There. The farmers of the West have made several attempt so influence politics and legislation in the direction of their interests by organization, but so far have made little progress. The trust and monopoly tariff combications on 24 hours’ notice can throw a powerfu millionaire lobby into Washington; but the farmers who, in addition to meeting the home demand for their products, send abroad 75 per cent ofour total exw norts—thus literally “saving the conntry”’ on the balance of trade view—have no such abvantage. They are widely scat- tered, and united effort is difficult, The on'y farm lobby we ever hear of at Wash- ington is the biz flockmasters owning thousands of sheep in exas and Color. ado. They dicker with the trusts on the give and take principle. An effort has been making to remedy the lack of unity and effort on the part of the farmers of the country, and it culminated last week at Bt. Louis in the organization of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Indastrial Union,” into which arelmerged several Western and Southern organizations, the Knights of Labor, under Mr. Powderly's leadership, co-operating, Negotiations are also pending looking to a federation ofall the stricty speaking IJabor organizations which have simost been brought to a successful termination, This will give the united army of labor a membership as follows: Knights of Labor...... ——— Other organized labor... verre SNK) sen srenen dill JN) SF Total - 3,100,000 This is a vast army, and the figures may be exaggerated, but who can tell? They oaly 1epressnt one-fourth the voters of the country, Their first move will be to secure a foothold in State leg islatures and then in congress. “One possible result, politically, of the com- bination,” states one who is foremost in promoting it, “is that the first great im- petus which will carry the reform moves ment to success will come from the cons servative, aristocratic Bouth. There is no mora sigoificant fact in connection with the movement than that an organi- zation composed almost entirely of Southern farmers has joined hands with an organization consisting almost ens tirely of Northern mechanics and labor- ers, AMARA SI. HBO A In an interview inthe Washington Pos Sevator Ingalls of Kansas seid: “I want to spe the tariff reduced to a degree that the reyenues of the country will only meet the expenses, 1 wish to see the tax on whisky and tobacco continued, because they are unnecessary luxuries, and because every dollar raised vpon them relieves the tax on necessaries of life to that extent.” If this isnot getting on Grover Cleveland's platform it is certainly getting as far away as possible from the declared policy of the Repuabli- can party, Senator Wilson of Iowa also seems to have heard something drop, and in a recent interview says that tariff reduction is the most ime The State Grange. The State Grange met at Harrisbarg, last week, with a full representation. Thureday morniug was taken routine business, including the hearing of reports. That of Becretary Thomas showed an increase of forty-three new granges during the year and an increase of 81,000 income above that of last year. The total membership of the fraternity in the state about Worthy Lecturer Whitehead, of Washington, D, C., was present and made an address, Bamuel R. Downing, of Chester, who is a member of the recently appointed com- mission to revise the road laws, read able paper on “Roads.” A. E. Tewks- bury, of Columbia, gave the farmers much practical information in his well prepared paper on “That Farm of Mine.” Mrs. Joboson, of Erie county, presented the report of the committee tion. report and Among thiogs declared against compulsory education as opposed to the idea of our free institutions, A genuine sensation was created when the “ommittee on Resolutions reported a resolution endorsing Williams Grove as the place for holding the interstate nic exhibition and expressiog dence in R. H. Thomas, the manager of the exhibition. Colonel H. C. Deming, of Harrisburg, who has been watchiog for the tion, made a long speech against it. up in in 35.000, an on educas It was an interesting other pies confi. Colonel resoiu- He declared that the number of grangers in the Williams Grove had decreased until there are now very few to be found. The grange that Colonel Thomas belongs to is not in good standing. The exhibition is not an advantage to any member of any grange. It is under bad influences carried on by one man who has a monopoly and pers sons who oppose it bear the crack of the monopoly lash. Exhibitors and pay big sums of money into one pockets and the State Grange | sented as emnctioniog it as, he charged, makes at clear and he gave facts and figures prove it. The State Grange is asked to endorse this, while farmers are now sul fering a8 they never suffered before. Grossly immoral exhibitions are held on the grounds every year, such a8 no de- cent man would countenance, Liquor is both sold and and the mansgement not only bat encourage it. counties surrounding & repre- least $15 0 distributed, Kt "nn Ba was drogged and robbed on the grounds this year and there was gambling bacchanalian revelry which the is asked to investigate. Colonel Deming concluded by advocating Mount Gretna as the place for holding the grangerw’ picnic, the affair to be onder the mans agement of the State Grange, which would reap the profits, His speech caused quite a flatter, which was increased when Mr. McSpars rer, of Lancaster, insisted that the reso. lation endorsing Williams Grove was not within the province of the grange and should never have been introduced, A number of speeches defending the picnie and its management made and the State Grange then passed the resolution of endorsement by an overs whelming majority, there being but a few votes in the negative. and ¥ grange were is A ca At Batte, Montana, a prize fight very properly resulted in the death of the two fighters, A dispute between John Gallagher and G. H. Ward over a trifling debt due the former by Ward resuited in the arranging by soms of the friends of both parties of a prize fight to settle the matter. It took place Sanday. The fight was one of the most stubborn and brutal that has ever been witnessed. Gallagher was so badly hurt that he died of his injaries Monday evening. It took 105 rounds to settle which was the better man, during which Gallagher was knocked down ninety-eight times, In the forty-eighth round hie arm was broken by a blow, but he insisted on fighting and showed an amount of piack and grit rarely seen in the ring. Not. withstanding his injury he fought with undiminished ferocity. Ward got in a terrific right hander under Gallagher's chin in the ninety- eighth round, which sent him stunned to the ground, but he partly recovered and in a half dazed etate fought seven more rounds. In the 105th and last roand he received his quietns. Ward strock him a terrible blow in this round and he went down like a log, and with the exception of a hardly perceptible respiration showed no signs of life. It took some time to restore him, and he was at once removed to his home, He never fully rallied, however, and his death occured as noted above. The sneeze is still all the go in Europe and now some are known to sneeze in New York. We actually saw a fellow sneeze ie he passed the Ruvomren of floe. What's in the wind ? Here we go, too, Ka-cher-cheese-chew. NEXT. Milliken Fwdly clipped and handed the # fo ua, to which we add * next”) (Gen: Jas Jollowing 1f tongues were all attached to brains, "Yow thankful we should be | If “hogs” were barred from railway trains, How thankful we should be ! If fade and foibles were tabood, Rum wore not by ladies chewed, f death would kindly steal the dude, How thankful we should be 7 ~{Chicago Herald. If cats would only sleep at night, How thankful we should be ! Hf money would not get so tight, How thankful we should be ! f women would pot talk, forsooth, If ladies’ hats were less uncouth, 1f weather clerks would tell the truth, How thankful we should be! ~{ Yonkers Statesman If fishermen would stick to facts, How thankful we should be ! if men would sit between the acts, How thankful we should be ! irle in front their hats would doff, Vike would stop at home, who cough, empty guns would not go off, How thankful we should be ! {Boston Courier Ife It it If women would not stop in aisles, How thankful we should be ! If gossip wernt bred of hale, but smiles, How than weshould ! If lawyers wou not charge big foes, If doctors knew when vids conse, 1f editors could all readers please, How thankful we should be! {Centre Reporter. fu It is a fact strange aslit may be seem, that there are rascals in the Democratic party as well as in the Republican, and Silcott the defaulting cashier of Bergeant at. Arms Leedom jis one of them. Mr. Lee- dom was just preparing to turn his of- fice over to Mr. Holmes, his Republican successor, with everthing in gocd shape, when this miserable scoundrel decamped with about $75,000 of other people's money. Who will have to bear the loss has not yet been determined, but Mr. Leedom bas the sympathy of all parties in 1 yriune that overtaken was about to close up an official term. Siloott had been his cashier for about six years and bad handled in that time over £30,000, he misf has him jost as he bile 00, and great confidence was reposed in; s' °} Bat wine and women fetched him | : " : ai} end when be could no longer conceal his criminality, knowing himself to bs a res-| { cal he did not wait, to be "furned out” turned himself out as rapidly as pos-| And so we repeat that, curious as it seems, there | are rascals in the Democratic as well as) in the Republican party. .— i Ti { thejBepublican machine] are leaning away from Gen. Hastings, | ust now, and endeavoring to keep Dela! | amater warm, and prepare him for the! chair. Quay is boss and] keep the millionaires | Delamater is wealthy, and besides is a | son-in-law of the grest Standard Oil | which has wrozg millions | from the masses as a monopoly and froz-| | en out the smaller oil prodacers. The) { Standard leans to Quay, so that it may! have his influence in legislation, and| Quay leans to Delamater,—s0 here you | have the links that bind the Standard to (Quay, and the loafing senatorial fishers aan to Delamater, the son-in-law of the Standard. It is a contest of the bosses and a de- vouring monopoly against the people— monopoly will win so far as the two Res pablican contestants for gubernatorial honors is concerned, But the Democras cy willgtep in as a breakwater, and at the polls will give bossism, monopoly and the son-in-law of the monopoly an effectual rebuke, Toe Standard Oil company may be able to ow a, regulate, manipulate, and assimilate, the loafing absentee Senator Quay, and dictate the nominee for Gove ernor, but as sure as the sun shines in the heavens, so sure will the people knock out the unholy thing at the polis sisi PAP Reward -8150! The $150 reward, offered by the Com- missioners for the arrest of the murder er of the pure and innocent Clara Price is a little over one cent for every taxable in the county—and from it we are 10 conclude that our population is made up of men who will not give more than a cent to prevent a pure, innocent young girl from being foully murdered in broad daylight! Reader, don’t you feel ashamed for our county as well as of the diegrace cast upon yourself by these Commissioners? We suppose in this case, these worth. ies will plead economy, for our rich county. Economy, eh,and trotting to Bellefonte every day almost, to grab $3 per day, doing nothing and with noths ing to do, as an ex-Republican Commis- sioner remarked to ns, but what could be done by taking half a day once jn each month. sible and fled 10 a safer region. ie bosses Oo { Governors wanis in with The new rapid firing four inch gun distance of a thousand yards, This small, easily adjustable gun is best adapted to coast defenses. In case of war with Eng- land or Canada such guns could be quick- ly placed on board of ordinary passe ger steamers, and used for defense. The only objection to them-~there has as yet been found no way to obviate it in rapid firing guns—is that they becoms so hot in a short time that they must be cooled off, and thus some of the time gained in one way is lost in another, 1889, Actors and Religion. Bome newspaper person who must have been a little hard put to it to fill his space has been interviewing leading actresses and actors on their religion. Although the question is certainly none of the public's business, yet several of the ladies and gentlemen have given po- lite answers. Some are evidently made up, like an actor's face, to catch the pub- lic eve, and you can read plainly be- tween the lines, “Best seats, $2.” Others plainly come from an honest heart, The most deeply religious of the lot, appa- rently, is t hat pious soul, Lily Langtry, She accepts in full the Christian faith as defined in the apostles’ creed, and she has a great horror of the woman She unfeminine for the world who has no religion would not be so When she ir not right sure she is Lily prays the Lord to help her in what she undertaken going 10 succeed, goes down upon her knees and has She nave she is a Church of England woman, with strong lesnings towards the Homan Catholics, Florence is a Roman Catholic, though be does not sav He says “to love God and be merry” is the player's reli gion aud his, which is not a bad all round faith, Several of the actors go church whenever they have time to; but they are nearly always on the road in the Mm. D P Bowers is a strict Episcopalian. Salvini is a Roman Catholic, and believes actors seadgon on Sundays are a religious lot by nature, WwW. H million people laugh Crane, who must have made a in his Lime, does not tell us whether he himself is pious or not, though he says actors are more religious as a class than members of the learned professions. But as to church going, Mr. Crane remarks of the actor: He I» accustomed, naturally, to places correct location above virtaes which other men hold in higher eaten and the time he spends Ww 0 a servios read In Lhe sing soc hal fanbsion which, ] fear, Is the rule rather than the exception, is a period of actual mental torture in ® inten Crane's former partner, Stuart Rolwon, declares his belief that, if the ords of re church and theatres were scarched, the church would show more instances of faithlessness to duty, cruelty and sensuality than the theatre, jess, the theatre refrains from abusing the church in public, while the church hurls at ita “sister institution” all the nal Neverthe. mire it can collect, Fanny Davenport has still, led and we are that it is still as good as an i to infer brand new spiscopal prayer book that father and her Fanny is ap- when she was 8 vears old. her mother gave avs: 1 believe that charity bb & religion in Heelf, and that God is the best Judge of our inmost mind and heart. 1 believe that God does not always punish the wicked nor reward the good, but that we our salves do this within our own hearts and minds Cotton and Woolen Goods Massachusetts has at present over half a million more cotton spindies at work than she had in 1887. Maine has fallen off in both cotton and woolen manufac- tures. Vermont and Connecticut are making less cotton and more woolen cloth than they did in 1887, and so hold their own. Rhode Island, on the other hand, makes up less woolen and more cotton. Next to Massachusetts, the state that has made the greatest gain in the textile industry is South Carolina. In 1880 she operates 118,348 more spindles than she did in 1887. Her cotton and woolen weav. ing has grown 50 per cent. in two years, It bas increased 18 per cent. in Missis gippi and Tennessee in the same period, The gain of Massachusetts is 10.8 per cent., while that of the whole country is 7.7 per cent. For the textile industry to increase 7.7 per cent. throughout the Union in two years, and one of those years at least not an exceptionally pros. perous one, indicates a heavy growth in business and population. American tex. tile fabrics are also gaining rapidly in artistic beauty and durability. ny A locomotive engine is soon 10 be tried that is built on the principle of a bicy- cle. It is ‘called the bicycle engine, from an immense driving wheel, nine feet in diameter fixed in the center, just forward of the boiler, Instead of ordinary axles, the truck wheels have bicycle spindles, The large driving wheel of the engine hour, it is claimed. On a solid roadbed, built above or below the stroets, this en. gine would be the proper one for rapid transit in cities. To keep the train from jumping the track an overhead rail is constructed. Wheels attached to the roof of the cars run in a groove in this overhead rail, and the train is thus k to study the story of the American revo lution. The seeds of American liberty were carried from England in the begin ning. Now in return England reaps ad- vantages from the American vindication of the principles of liberty. Meantime it would not bo half a bad plan for American workingmen to study the his tory of their own country aad find out the true principles of the foundation of THE WEEKLY PRESS, PHILADELPHIA One Yearfor One Dollar. The Weekly Press For 1590 will be as much better than The Week iy Press for 1580 ax we can make it. With every issue during the new year it will be An Eighty Column Paper Each of the fifty two numbers will contadn ten pages, or eighty columns, with a total f 2%.e year of 620 pages, or 4100 columns. Thus, it will be “as Lig as 8 book,” as the saying A Paper of Quality, Not only will it be as bigas a book, bub it will be a paper of quality as well as of quantity, It will contain the pick of everything good. A Paper of Variety. The idea is thet The Weekly Pros shall be both clean and wide awake, It will discuss sll subjects of public interest and importance, he wrilers on i list include: Julies Ward Howe, E. Lynn Linton. 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Bundsay, per pe Daily - Daily and Sunday. per month, Weekly Bun, one RATS HAH Apes sae —— Address THE SUN, New York. I A ————— BPHANE COURT BALE PURSUANT TO an order of the Orphan's Court of Centre Coun-y, there will be exposed at pubiic sale on the , how occupied by Hofer and Dale, in Hall Borough, on Owens SATURDAY, DEC. 25th, 1888 Owen 81 2 o'clock, the following Oey) REAL ESTATE Owed of Emanuel Smith, dec'd, bounded and described as follows: On the north Jacob Richard, on the West by an atiey, on the § by Wm. Binith, and on the East by Turnpike, containing 40 PER- CHES, Thereon erected & FINE Owed TWOMTORY DWELLING HOUSE 0-0 Good summer house, wood shed, and cistern, all under roof, also a good large sable, room for four cows and two horses, wagon shed attached, good bs pen. chicken house, and all necessary oul TERMS OF SALE Ope third on confirmation of sie. One third in one year, and the balance in two yours, all with interest from date of con firmation of sale. The deferred ts to be secured by bond and mortgage on premisos IBAAC SMITH, Administrator of Detonsed, b 1 CORPHANS COURT SALE -~PURSUART T0 an order of the han's Court of Centre county, there will be at Public Sale, Ihe presales of John Peters dec'd sitasted 3 mile of Potters Mills, in Potter township, Centre county on Oem) SATURDAY JAX, 11th 1580 0 med at 2 o'clock the following Own) REAL ESTATE 0mm of John Peters, dot’ soribed as follows: ‘ the North by lands of jonathan sel Stiver, on the Hast by lands of on the our government. : A —
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