VOL. LXI111.
THE CENTRE REPORTER |
ED KURTZ, EDITOR
as gone for Delamater
for Hastings—in
Dela -
a wide
Snyder county }
and Centre has gone
ns we
greenbacks
gxath for the nomination,
iN
bo h cases jast expected,
mater's are cutting
The senate at Washington is trying to
find out where the newspapers get all
their information about the executive
sessions, and the conaty commissioners
are wondering where the ReroRTER gets
all its pointers about their doings,
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of the Ohio
not & nobler band
Toey
on deck, aud just now are getting
Harrah for the
Democrats ! there
of Spartaus the
always
spunk
i3
n
couu'ry are
the admiration of the worl
Speaker Reed that two can
Same game,
play at
ago Michigan had a
185,000, and a mortgage
To-day Michigan
f 2,200,000, and a mort -
of $500,000, This
an indication of what the Michigan
farmers pay for the Inxury of Protection.
C—O ANITA,
Twenty
population of 1,
debt of $72 000 000
$i
has a population of
years
gage debt 00, affords
The Mayor of Har i as Issued
orders to the police to arrest every per~
son heard using
street.
wealth
aw of the Commons
this, bat
if it
So do
here is a
ch
into disuse, even
which jastilies
fallen ever was
not use
gov cuss words when at Harrisburg.
HO BE RI TH
enforced to any extent,
of the
bashels,
In 1867 the whole cereal crop
United Bates was 1,520.400
the farmers of! the ¢
In
wmishe's,
bringing 0 motry
$1, 284,037, S00. 1887 the crop was
to
his is why
Ani
value
a 30 427.0 bringing the
378 i
farmers
thet
NOTeaSed
t decreased
Phila
meandering
Pr
A gerrvman
he elphia ess priols
lines of
congre-sjonal district i
Bat
the shoestring
n Ohio—its founy
why don't the Press print
and twisted
gerrymanders by it
and winding
party in
The laugh comes in on the Repu
sure,
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The distress among farmers in
distric in Virginia and
kotas, is becoming and appea's
to the sympathies and the pocketbooks
of all humane people,
been
storms and floods, especially in Virginia,
where large numbers had neither food
nor fael to
sLAp
ts, notably
greater,
The suffering has
by
much increased the recert
mitigate the effects of the
cold
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The Czar has received a threatening
letter from a woman who sigos herself
“lekebrikova.” The says that
unlesss he modifies his reactionary policy
he will meet the fate of Peter 111, Paul
I and Alexander 1I. A of the
letter was sent to each of the Ministers
at the same time.
Writer
{ Oopy
Tue police are extra
watchfal, aad are conducting an active
search for the persous suspected of be
ing implicated in sending the letter.
tte
This time it is some Illinois men who
have fallen heirs to a vast estate in Eos
rope, ar d this tim« the
many and is valoed at $51 000 006,
advise the heirs to take a cigar in fall
satisfaction of all their claims, Through
the smoke of a cigar castles in Spain
much finer than any Germau castle may
be seen. But if the heirs insist upon
getting the inheritasce, it will only be
fair to throw off the odd millioa. A
round fifty million is much more come
fortable and cosey.
eteta in in Gers
We
If you club with one pew sabscriber,
each paying 1 year in advance, you get
the Cegsrre Revorter and the Pittsburg
Weekly Unronicle Telegraph one year—
the two papers for only $1 50, price of
the Rerorrer. The Chronicle Telsgraph
is a large, 8 page city weekly, You can
not get a better clabbing chance, in the
{).5, only need get one new name, or
more if yon wish, at $1.50 for the two
papers one year. Bend your orders to
the Reporter office soon,
In the conse of long investigation
Professor Ponfie, of Breslau, has made
the important discovery that a large part
of the liver—even as much as three
fourthe--may be removed without seri.
cas disturbance of the anim foneions,
Sargeons bad before known that the
whole of the liver ia no! absolutely essen
tial to health, but conld hardly snppose
that the sudden destraction af a consids
erable part of it would not be serious,
and now may be enabled to perform
operations hitherto believed to be im-
passible, Professor Ponfic found that
the liver hag a wonderfal power of re
production, in some cases 4 portion equal
tg two thirds heipg replaced by a new
growth within a few weeks,
Presidential Roland for a Con-
gressional oliver.
We presume that ander a loose and
congress has the right to supersede the
new apportionment law of Ohio by the
congressional re enactment of the Res
publican gerrymander says the Pittsburg
ost, It is also undoubtedly true that
the Obio legislature can enact a home
rule Roland for this congressional Oliver,
by passing the bill introducted in the
senate of that State on Monday last by
Senator Buchanan providing for the
election of presidential electors by cons
gressional districts, as such districts are
now deprived by law, the two senatorial
electors being chosen by the State at
large. This, under the apportionment
law a3 it now stands wonld in all pro-
bability give the Democrats 15 of the 23
electors; or if happen to
carry the electors at large, of the 23
likely it woul the re-
they should
17
Very 1 determine
There is no question such a law would
be valid and binding, if not forbidden
by the constitution of Ohio, and an ex
aminat:on of that instrument does not
show any such prohibition, The cons
“each State shall appoint, in such
as the legislature thereof may
lirect, a number of electors equal to the
whole number of senators and repre
entitled in the congress,” The grant of
While the Federal constitution pres
{in copgress) shall be
and that “the congress
regulations,” yet the provision
shall appoint (presidential
ch manner as the legislature
State
Solors) in am
thereof is absolute and with-
it § wt!
nay direct,
Th is that in the earlier presiden-
elections most of the Blates chose
the presidential electors by their legis-
not by popular vote, Even
1824 six Siates thus voted,
wh Carolina contioned to
choose presidential electors by her leg-
islatare until 1868. In 1579 the frauds
in Louisiana snd Florida and their sanc-
the electoral commission would
not have made Hayes president but for
the fact the newly-admitted State of Col-
orado chose three Republican presiden-
tial electors by her Hepublican legiala-
tare. Bat for this, even on the fraud.
ulent count of electoral commissioners
Mr. Tilden would have had 184 electoral
to 152 votes for
So here we have one in-
a presidential election being
determined by electors chosen by a State
re fact
latures, and
ate as
ile South
votes and been elected,
Mr. Hayes,
staace of
[an 1868 the Republican carpet-
baggers havieg controi of the Florida
legislature, provided by law for the
choice of electors by the legislatare of
the State, and they were so elected
Republicans of course,
While we are inclined to regard the
proposed Ouic law a8 a matter of retali-
ation, intended to block the passage by
congress of a ‘aw continuiog the exists
ing congressional! gerrymander is Ohio,
yet by it will be accepted a8 a move in
the right direction, irrespective of
pressnt political results. If made gener
el in all the States, and such a policy has
been favored by eminent statesmen of
all parties, it would greatly improve the
methods of our presidential elections, by
giving the minority in most, if not all
the States, representation in the elec
toral college, giving better effect to the
will of the peopie, and doing away with
the pivotal State idea, with its sttendent
corruption and violeot politics,
tg
That there is considerable destitution
in several cities in the aothracite regivn
of this state bas been made plain by the
local newspapers, For some time aid
has been extended to suffering families
in and about Scranton, sad aa appeal
for organization for similar + ork in Wile
kesbarre is now made, The condition of
the oul trade has been such for many
months that there has been comparas
tively little work for miners, and nobody
is able to predict when there will be any
material improvernent, Nothing is to
be gained by withholding the facts. If
the reports, priotel ian both Beraanton
and Wilkesbarre, are true—and thore ig
no reason to doubt them—there ig not
anly destitution and suffering, but actaal
starvation. There is no suggestion, how
ever, that the extent of it is beyond the
jocal means of reef, but if outside assist.
ance were need d doubtle.s it would be
unhesitatiogly given,
i
The Pennsylvania Railroad will this
year make ita own ice,
The company uses over 45,000 tons an-
nually, and the officials have degided to
put in five ice mavufscturing plants at
different points along the road. The ea.
pacity of each plant will be 25 tons esch
day. One of the plants is now at Mifflin,
and ready to be pat up.
The farmers of Linn county, Kansas,
have passed resolutions denouncing the
State Immigration Society, and protest.
ing against bringing more people into
Kansas, In view of the blizzards, the
grasshoppers, the prohibition whiskey,
and the inhospitable attitude of Linn
county, it is possible that thousands of
American citizens are not inclined to sell
the coats off their backs for the sake of
emigrating to Kansas. The Sunflower
State means well, and is all right, doubts
less; but it isn’t exactly the earthly para-
dise as yet,
Editor Halstead of Cincinnati wants to
solve the race problem by creating a ne-~
gro state out of Oklahoma the In-
dian Territory. “If this done,”
says, “all the discontented
the SBoutLern States can
new state and practically
selves,
of the South
and
he
in
is
negroes
govern thew
will object, The plan in
Atlantie City, and the Penn
sylvania RB. KR. Facilities
for Reaching It
Atlantic City occupies a un'gne posi
tion in the seaside resoris of
From a distinctively summer
which not
cursion ists
resort!
Many years ago
were the predominati
da i ly ex
ng pa-
side city, whose gates are open through
out the year, and whose hotels entertain
the winter seeker after qu and
aff
ite reat
with as much comfort as they rd the
bosts of sammer on pleasare bent,
Ni othiog |
has contriboted so much
this development us the magnifices
which the city
hberslity and
transportation facilities
possesses through the
the
President Harrison,
pointments in the
doubtless select none but
truly wonderful scheme;
the whites who have sett!
say !
have already adopted
measures against
Why not send the “discontented negroes
to New Engiand, to occupy
farms of that section ? New Hampshire
and Vermont have now immigr
agents on the lookout for Swedes, These
States, always radical in politics, are cer-
tainly entitled to some of the benefits of
the exodus of “disconted ' from
the South, They are occasionally im
ted to Pennsylvania in case
strike,
terially assist
Republican
in bis
party.
black State, would
negroes,’
but what
some pretty severe
pegro immigration
the deserted
J
ation
negroes’
por-
of a labor
a
faraished ead ing
sensstion of Central Peansvivania,
week, when the two associate
stole a march on President Jadge Bar
oelt, and disposed of the liceuseapplicat
tions io his absence. Judge Barnet! was
called away to preside for Judge Bucher,
at Middleburg, and left the associates to
decide the licenses, bat requested where
remonstraoces were filled that those
applica ions should be held over uatil
the |
Perry county the
last
jabges
Sth, when it would suit him to read
the objections and assist in disposing of
the cases, The associates, however,
took the whole matter in charge and
granted all the applications, pot even
ecoepting the four against whom remon-
strances were filed,
The fanny part of the bosiness lay in
the fact that one of the applicants was
none other than Samuel Woods, of Blair,
one of the associates on the bench
against whom a remouostrance had been
flied by his neigubors, alieging that he
#0id to minors, men of intemperate hab
its etc. Rinesmith, the other assisted
Judge Woods in ignoring the remons
strances agaiost tne applications, and
when the case of the leiter came up
Judge left the bench, and Rhinsmith
granted his application aloog with the
other three,
sists AIIM IAAI 5
Beasior John A. Buchanan, of New
Philadelphia, on the 10th, introduced a
bill ia the Senate to elect presidential
electors by Congressional Districts.
should it pass and not be declare) un
constitutional, tbe Democrats of Ohio
would surely elect fifteen of the twenty.
three Presidential electors of 1802,
Senator Bachanan says his bil is cone-
stitutional, and calls attention to clanses
two and four of that instrument, which
say: “Each State shall appoint in such
manner a8 the Leg.slatore thereof may
direct a number of electors
Here are the main parts of the bill ;
Section 1--Be it enacted, etc, that
electors for president and Vice-President
of the United Sates in and for the Suate
of Ohio be chosen agreeable to clauses
Two and Four of the First section of the
Second article of the United States, as
follows,
“There shall be two electors for Pres
ident and Vice-President chosen at large
by the votes of the State of Ohio and the
two persons who are candidates for said
offices haviog the highest number of
votes, shall be declared elected. There
shall be one elector for president and
vice-president, chosen by the voters in
each Congressional district of Ohio,
defined by law and the person wha is a
candidate for said office, receiving the
highest of votes, ghali be declared elect.
ed.
A
At Pomeroy, 0,C.P. Criswell, A mem
ber of a theatrical troupe, entered W, A.
Archer's jewelry stoge, threw down a ten
dollay Confederate note and airily asked
for “two fives.” An obliging clerk swept
the X intoa drawer and handed over
the change.
When the discovery was made that
the bill was a Op. federate note Criswell
wai arvestod, bot charges of passing a
§
counterfeit and of false pretences succes -
sively failed. The prohlem of findings
punishment to fit the erime is still un.
solved,
The new postage stamp is a flimsy, red
enterprise of the Pennsylvania Railroad
r . . " .
Not content with line in the
City,
a single
At
Pennsyivavia Railroad,
Jersey road antic
Jersey road nti
th th
Wi
Lo
wi
i
foresight which 18 a marked
acteristic of its munagement, som
ago secured coutrol of the
Atlantic |
, BO that
doublet
ine
iy operates a
between Philadelpia
. : 2b y
side suburb. Both of these
The
ils and
eplendid condition.
y
ia dd with
b OCH
ny
8! ae
ff trains
tween the rails '¥
ppages for water.
f 8;
mans
ate ( weed con
good cement
YOar by year tl
duced With the
betlermenta
spring, a fart
for the apppros
The
ceplionally
equipment
clhisery passenger coa :
ald boxes of the {
1iit parlor cars affo
Ease OF XUN
Standard hard
of the paliern =
evivania Railroad
wice fa ie. Bre
and every detail
ft i868 ac
on these lines a8 on
me of the Pennsyly
ania syslen
Possessing sach abuaadant resoar
th ots |
at Atiaal
and renovated
ithe
mproved
e
station
ity, And greal sxcarsion
portion of
a Railroad
house, located on the choices!
the beach, thie éenapsyivan ®
facilities for soccesalally
me of its
Enormous voi
are
applies
the advaniageous |
in Puuadelphia makes it spply equally
as strougly to the residents of olher sec-|
tious as to the people of Philadelphia
a -
superior in
every
{0 every class of passengers, and
wation uf flat i
FEE
It would
Mme. Patti ist
that all the principa FLEE
cert company in Uluoago were Gow with
the grip except herself Age pas
by, by,
even the grip passes her. Lucky woman!
wes hor
misfortune passes her and now
Murat, the
France where
clouded princeling
prinoes are no good, | has
come down from his lofty pinnaci
will take Miss (
wild give
now says he ald wi 1 §
him,
anything she
Miss Caldwell
American woman she will re
wpectiully
decline the honor on any terms.
Mohammedan politeness is peculiar.
Only for it our Na
enriched by tl
wae
tional museum would}
i costly
orations the sultan of Turkey presented!
to 8. 8B. Cox. Mrs intanded to
give the decorations to the
Jut in Turkey, expensive
els are presented, it the custom)
on the death of the recipient to
turn them to the donor,
Iy Mr. Cox's curiously interesting
rations must go to Turkey,
where they given to some one
else, i
be rare an dex
Cox
musenm
when Jjow
18
re
Consequent-|
deco!
now back
can be
It will be a good stroke for our govern.
ment to have it understood that she willl
with Portugal. Our four new crmisers,
“the squadron of evolution,” are now atl
Lisbon in company with a number of |
vessels of the English navy. The unity |
of interests of all the English speaking
peoples of the globe is an ideal whose
practicability cannot be too much in-|
gisted on. The Pall Mall Gazette says of |
the proposed agreement of the United |
States to stand by Great Britain in the,
Portuguese matter: “Everything which
reminds the world that the republic and
the empire regard the English speaking
race as one entity, with common inter
este and common objects, is good.” The
entity of the English speaking race is, in,
fact, the most splendid dream of modern
times,
When Baby was slek, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, abe cried for Castoris,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she Mad Children, sbie gave them Castorin,
H 20,
In speaking of the col
ust now § Afro- Amer
| be well to put
i of
nse on the ma
t to
the
outh wes
off the track.
3 “i
A writer laments tl
& 1% '
Lins
JAH
vi
"
on ncoonunt of
common people
“ye
ry yeu iis |
i
ad to thin
lgarized by bein tied
nm people
of
students, i
the
red voter,
you
rapid-
recommended
iil and express
blow the train
indeed sad.
itself must
up w ith com
dormitories
palatial in its
el
wit million
No other
ch
istinction
Lubered
It was t}
nn
The law was passed
earnest efforts, when |
ites senator from Obi
nl p—
H. KREAMER, TREAS
March 106, 18%
cast h from Auditors
Col
hotel license
1 800
By waoere John Beiter, Oy
5
By cash pa
Overpaid in
JOHN REITER
March 10
10 cash from Treasurer
1 NG
h 10, 18%
Ri}
Jacob Harps or
Jacob Ripka
D. J. Meyor
Harper & Kreamer
H. Homan cu.
4, Miller
H. Homan
Gi. Nearbhood.
John Reiter
Jolin Martz ‘
Harper & Rivamat.
3. Miller...
J. Mek ienatien
Dr. Alexander
Dr. Jacobs
Semin soni
© civil service
his
through
ye was United
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to HL. Kroaroer, troas
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To baiamce dt - Overseer
March 10, 1400
By relief paid for Elisa Pening
21 paid wk B
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, cash paid Wo Aud .
HEIVIOES AS Overseer
JAMES A. KELLER, TAX
Oct, 7.18
To amt of School Dupli
1888 or
To & per cent « on $542
To amt of Poor In ipl Sente.
To 5 per cent on $114 1
Oct. 7, 1589 BCHOOL TAX,
By § per. mt abatement
$1750 A
By Tr
7 16h 2
By 5 per cent
By § r cent
1871 05 covonnns
8h 13
By am of exonerstion
vouchers
March 10, 185
By am t of vouchers,
Cash 0 Adil
Oct. 7, 1880, POOR TAX.
By 5 P. ¢. abatementon $05 M
2 $e
- 5 a - S640 M4
- $l 8
By am’ t of exonerstions
vouchers. weasmasssnons JE4R 4
By cash 0 A canteens 38 5785008 66
ninemsn:
W. W. SPANGLER, TREASURER OF AUDIT,
June 2, 18%. To balance... § #8 9
To amt from W, © Parner,
Treas. School Soard....... 13 5
Oot. 7 2 To AH Thom 2. A. Riles
TR a8 5
March 28, 1868
By Am tpaid J. A. Sweetwood.. § 30 00
June 3,
By amt pala J J. 3 Arner, suditor
Kerr, ;
MJ W Spangler,
R, D. Foreman, ¢i'k
COLLECTOR.
cate for
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§ ET
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abatement on
abatement on
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June 29.
By ant paid 3.7. Potter
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