VOL. LX. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR “Military” men and gunbarnatorial tim- ber ase as plenty in Centre county as stones on our roads, ET SE Some wrongs can not be settled by esmpromise without conveying the ad- mission of guilt on the part of the ac cused, SN The Centre county republicans have Edward Humes and Colonel James P. Coburn as delegates to the gtate convention, electe ————————— Recent local elections in Iilinois and Wisconsin have swang around aod gone Democratic and in favor of farmer's in- and tariff-tax reform. A ———— The Republican county convention, on off without aoy favor able mention of Gov, Beaver aad his ad this is the governor's terests Monday, passed ministration, and county. ——————— The depressed interests of the farmer | need the ail of legislation, Lessen his tax burdens and especially the high tar. st parchass | iff tax on a!l the farmer mu There is no class pe-ding relief so ma h as the farmers, Jnay ig the proper man to pat up as the Republican candidate for governor, He will no: dare ran-—he fool The people of the state would snow him Let him ander to the tune of 75,000 end rsament of hi 8 is 10no f try and bid for an wls the polls. at Time . its sstarday’sis.ae, pats a battoa- iquet on RB. H. Thomas’ candidate Every pie-nic groand in the land would putin for an appropriation plend:d nag via Mechanicsburg the state capital spite of Mt, ke —-a good joke, Col. in editorial . f 0 for ganhs=rnor if the were guverneer aad lamsgrove in A goad ) moved to Wi (xretoa. Quel. For Gen. Hastings to take an appoiat- id pro quo for backing out or governor is equivalent to tive with LO Te4ln tas aqu . hia pres the masses of i Le race, nomi- hoid there, defeated, ue retains his masses. Btick a pin the iat eme of the she!f for the it, General, it isa sc Kherifl C yoke assays Lo purchase pops ularity limited tt Decker a re-eiecti W issuing nu passes fo ie ha ging of Andrews, while Jo nay for pre- of the rope with which Hopkins was hung. If over siopping of s electivneering for support n a8 (ommissioner by seating voters with 2 iaeh bits this do ot show an merit, what does 7 Iwo iellows doing their political bank- ing by making a circus of a hangiog and peddling relics of the hangman's tools ! on The story that Quaay would run for governor is mere wind, Quay won't do it. He can be vominated, but he well knows that a defeat by 100,000, of an in dignant people, woud be in store for him. He is boss of the machine, bat at the polis Republicans would show their hands, Now why don't the honest Republicans assert themselves equally at the primaries, end put this boss and fisherman down by electing delegates » hom he can rot carry ip his fish basket 7 I TS ———— honest Of The Altoona Tribune and the Williams port Bulletin, both Repablican organs censure oar sherifl for is«ing hnandreds of passes to the Andrews hanging. [tis indecent to say the least, and no county in the state ever had a sheriff to do the like, Sheriff Cook does not seem to have profited from the ocensare he got for the mockery he played with the Hap kins execution, but he further insults ptiblic opinion by having show No. 2 with the execution of Andrews. Lat him oa!l in his 400 passes, a'l, except those to whom they legitimately helanz. Postmaster General Wanamker re. ceived a letter postmaster New York, March 24, enclosing a $1000 United States go'd note, and one $500 gold note which the sender desires him to place to the credit of the congeienge fund. The sender save years ago ba deranged the government of gnite a large samy of mon. #7. Binee then the matter hag lain very heavily on hig conscience, and as he sas wade a little money he sends it to the government. The $1500, he says, i« 25 per cent over and above the amount taken: He pities any thief, he saye, if he must pass through the anguish of mind that he the sender hae, No name ie sigoed 1g the Iptigr, 812,800 Damages. The verdict of the jury in the Belle fonte and Lewistown Tarnpike case, awards the company $12,800 damages for the vacation of the road from Belle~ fonte to the Seven Mountaine—a dis. tance of about 15 or 16 miles, This falls upon the county, and nato- rally causes a murmer of surprise and discontent. Tue entire cost of the pike to Lewistown, was some 35000, of which the State paid $20,000. For 30 or 40 years it paid large dividends, but in the last eight or tan vears it was worth nothing, and th: part for which the jury awarded damages iu tue above enormous sum, can not be sold today for $2,000, as there is no travel on it that pays at all On the eight miles from Centre Hall to Bellefonte there has been a dividend of $1 per share of $50. On the part from Centre Hall to the mountains it is utter. ly worthless so far as any income is cons cerned, and does not pay to keep it up. Hence the proper award of the jary should have been the present value of the once profitable road, which in years past has paid itself over and over, The writer of this article some years ago was offered stock free of charge if he would agree to bear a share of ex penses to keep up the pike. It won!d appear that this case was badly handled and neglected by the County Commissioners, who acted on the part of the tax payers. Commissioner Henderson was heard to say, after the rendering of the verdict that he knew nothing about the matter and never gave it any attention, and Mr, Decker who travels the road every week to eit in the Commissioners’ office, of course, like in all other things pertaining to the county, knew nothiag either, con- sequently the conaty is socked $12 800 ! There was crimioal n egligence some where, as no one along this entire pike would give $2,000 for it today, and the present value only is what the jury should have considered. The company is entitled to what ia fair and right in the present value of this road. The verdict is like paying new price for an utterly worn-out wagon, in which there would be neither reason nor cominon sense, Vive la Commissioners ! —— —— The anti-Trust Bill. The trust bill, before congress as it sow stauds provides first, that all ar- rangements, contracts, trusts or combina tions with » view to preventing full sad free competition io the importation trans portation or sale of articles imported into the United Btates, or the growth, prodac- tion or masufactare of any articles io auy slate or territory, or any combina tion that may be organized to advance the cost to the consamer of aay sach arti<le, are against pablic policy, unlaws ful and void, and the cirenit courts of the United States are given jurisdiction over all suits that may arise, the attorney general and the several district atworneys being directed in the name of the Unit ed States to commence and prosecute all cares to final judgment and exsention: but the act is not to be construed to pro- hibit organizations or arrangements be tween laborers made with a view to les se¢ning the camber of houra of lasor, or increasing their wages, or any combina tion amo. g persons engaged in horticul - ture or agriculture with s view of en. hancing the prices of their products, The second section provides that any person injured by such contracts, trusts or combinations, as defined in the firs section, may sue for and recover twice the amount of damages sustained and the cost of the suit, The third section provides that persors engaged in trusts shail be deemed guilty of bigh misdemeanor, and on convictirn there~of be fined not exceeding £10,000 or imprisonment a: bard labor not exe ceeding five years Trusts are described to be a combina- tion of skill, capital or acts by two or more persons, ee ge ren Centre coonty being noted for an abundance of gubernatorial timber, a wag from Mechanicsburg ram a pole into one of our swamps to fish for a candi- date and behold | he palled up a crank, We suppase Col. Thomas wanted to play aolever joke on our county, but why didn't be set in his pole for a presiden- tis} candidate at once, for he would have been sare to pull up the same chub ? Fallows used to fish for sffice in oar county, via Piolett’s quarters up in Brad- ford, now its via old mother Cambers land All, un hove, ssem {0 enjoy the joke anly {he laugh; ¢oas back on the clever Colonel as no one wants the sort of fish dangling fram his pole, mon ie faa Ouor offer means this: Any of our present subscribers paying, or having paid a year in advance, and sending us a new name with $1.50, the old subscriber and the new, each gets the two : ER Pitisbarg im, noRvRs and {he Tn Corn and Tin Plate. Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky has introduced a bill in the house providing for the valuation of exports by the cus- tom house on the demand of the axports, and the delivery to snch exporter of a cercificate setting forth the valne and entitling him to the admission free of duty of the equal amount of “any article or articles of commerce which he may desire to use in the conduct of his bus- iness personally or otherwise.” This bill is descibed as educational, and to show that nations do not carry oa foreign trade and that importers do not carry away our gold, but on the eoutrary that ius ternational trade is carried on by in dividuals, who really exchange goods, and only use gold to balance the account when the exchange is not exactly even It must be for the benefit of Colonel Tom Bayne, wha, in a recent interview, de clared the United States pays England $20,000,000 a year on account of tin pla‘e, & x heTua enpiko Cane NN About one year ago a large number of citizens of the county, living along the route of the Centre and Kishacoquillas Tarnpike, made an application, under the provisions of the Act of June 2, 1887, for viewers to condemn said tarnpike for public use, free from tolls and toll gates, and to assess damages if any to the own- | ers thereof. The Court appointed Sam - The eyes of North Dakota farmers are blazing with unmixed and unmease ured wrath just now. The capitalists of St, Pan! and Minneapolis, seeing that these farmers were in straits and had no 1 coming season, The conditions of the | gift, however, make Shylock blush, The | farmers are to accept this seed at 25 ycents | uel Gramley, Henry C, Campbell, Isaac Beck, Lewis Zimmerman, and Samuel! Decker, who examined the road, heard! the evidence produced by both parties, | and afier doe consideration made a re- port condemning the road and assessing the damages to the owners at 8527. This report and assessment of damesges, was | based upon the evidence of the officers) of the company who admitted that if the road would be kept in even fair con dition for the entire distanca in Centre county the annual income would be en- tirely exhaosted, and the stock of the #0 he proposes to tax onr people $15,000, 000 a year that we may make this tin | plate at home. Last year we sold Eng- | land $362 000,000 of American prodncts | aod only purchased from her $177,000 000 inelading $20,000,000 of tin plate It came over here in part payment of what Eagland bought from us, we sold England corn to the value of $10.- | 347,361, and took from her tia plate to the value of $19,034,821, That was a fair exchange and of benefit to both countries | Our farmers tickle the ground with hoe and it laughs at them with digious crops of corn—over a billion of | bushels last year. In 20 years the gov | ernment has taxed the people a hundred | millions of dollars to induce them to go | into the manufacture of tin plate, but so | far not a pound has been produced Swapping corn for tin plate is not the great national misfortune Colose! Bayne preaches. On the countrary it is a wise bit of trading, -—— In 1888 1 pro The Sanday question bas broken out | in Tennessee in what appears a some- | what aggravated from. Mr. R, M. King, a member of the church of the Seventh | Day Baptists, a religious society that | teaches that Saturdsy is the day that | should be observed as the Sabbath, was tried for plowing on Banday, convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $75. The judge, in overraling a motion for a new trial, said that the law was clear and mast be enforced that Mr, King and his breturea might keep another day if they chose, bat mast obey the laws of the state by the vbservance o' Sunday. Ibe society is numerous in some of the counties of Pennsylvania, aud are some- times harassed by envious neighbors for doing farm work on Sunday. Sey- eral years ago tuey beld a natiosal con- veation at Harrisburg, which was at tended by very able men, theologians and otters from ail parts of the Union, to press on the legislature, then in ses sion, a modification of the Sunday laws, 80 88 to relieve them from pretty perse. cutions, Bat the legisiators refused to heed the petition, aud occasionally in some of our esstern counties an incident such as that reported from takes place lennessee - Benator Quay, Cha rman Andre +8 at Caudidate Delamater came over from Washiogton to Philadelphia. They came primarily to see General Hastings, whom they wish no longer to regard as a candidate for governor, Their induces ment Lo a conquest complete was, in brief, an offer to Geoeral Hastings of the as sistant secretaryship of war just provid ed for by congress, and just promised only tois very day to Quay and Wana maker, if they could wiih it bay off Hast- ings, aud get a clear track toward a gov- ernorship. When seen after their conference at could be induced to deny these state ments, but the general said he must have a little time to think over an offer of such significance. Delamater haves ing bought all the delegates he has, will next attempt to buy off Hastings, imitate . Ex-Sheriff Flack, of New York, was sentenced to two months in the county juil and a fine of $500, for conspiracy in having bis wife divoreed from him. His son for aiding him was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and $500, fine. Sheriff Flack was obliged to resign bis office. Serves bim right, aitho' a Democrat, Now how about Republican Sheriff Cook, of our county, we have the follows ing gross sing to charge against him: 1. The attempt upon Miss Kune, ss per her affidavit, 2. Taking illegal fees, as proven by the ReroRTER and other county papers. 3. Making a farce and circus out of the hangings, to the disgust of all decevt people of our county and state, Hl So MR The Centre county Republicans, on Monday ingtructed for Hugtings. That's «in view of the Cambriai zing meth- ode of Delamater and Quay, AAAI A III. Buabscribe for the Rurostsn, Notwithstanding this admission by its officers, the company appealed from this report to the Court of Common Pleas he original viewers, to assess their dam- ages for the taking of a road that had a own showing. As soon as the report was filed, parties hich in official circles. asserted thet the road was not to he tak- en from this company for any such sum as that awarded by the viewers, and at once a scheme was set on foot to delay early consideration of ‘he case, 80 as to snable the owners to reach out and ins fluence parties who could be of service to aid in securing heavy damages. By the time the case on the appeal was reached on the trial list, many of those who have signed the original petition, were active in securiag the snd who condemna- rig rm, or bad actually gone over to the to those who are unacquainted with the present condition of affairs, but when it entine, Judge Rhoads, Wm. M. Allison, Ouocils of the Republican party, are the owners of this road, it is not at all strange that such o i fed imige Las taken place, before the J ust case was called asserted for by parties if they were speaking, that this road would not be allowed Ww be condemned uuiess the company would receive what they considered am- ple compensation for their road. With these declarations staring them in the face, and no assistance whatever from trial it was boidly RLO Knew where the Republican board of Commissioners, the attorneys for the defense had glowing prospects indeed, of getting of fair hearing of the case. Judge Rhoads seemed to be moved to take his seat o tue Bench, and Judge Furst seemed to bavean exalted idea of the serions in- Jaries sustained by this coterie of Re- publican ringsters who owa the road. Ail through the trial his ruling was one sided, and made with a view of ses cliriog a verdict that would be saluefactory {0 hae much wjured friends, The Company was ailowed to show the must exborbitant damages by parties » have never traveled over the entire road, ani who knew nothing whatever gbout it, and when the evidence of the defendant was offered the Court refused 10 aliow such men as Heury P, Sankey, Joun Wolf aud Samuel Slack, who trav eled this road all their lives, to testify as to the value of the road, or the extent of the injuries sustained by the Company. Ail the evidence offered by the County to show the real conditions, and trae value of the road was rejected, and the trial became a mere farce, Justice in her blind condition, was waatonly outraged, through those who should have sustain. ed her by having the scales that should measure equally and exactly to all ed with favoritism and partiality , The verdict o1 $12,800 was a surprise to everybody, even Jadge Furst himself was scared at the enormity of the outrage perpetrated upon the people o the county, The scheme was pushed al little too far, and the thing overdone. This is what causes the fear on the part of those who were responsible for the result. These parties are not sorry that a corporation, the stock of which is owned by political favorites, has received excessive damages, hul because they fear the ontraged taxpayers who are expec: ted to assist in keeping them in positions where they ean farther like schemes in the future. The pill was to have been sugarcoated, 80 as not 10 appear nausea ting, but the coating was put on so thick that it fell off and exposed the inside in ail its bitterness. xX. The manufactures of agricultural im. plements and machinery had better waloh the corners closely, or, like Othello, they will find their occupation to establish big agricultural works ut Iron Gate, Allegheny Couaty, Va. to employ 500 haods, the products to be distribuiod among the 4,000,000 gem! vl a bushel more than it is worth, to pay | 12 per cent for its use, and to give a lien on their crops for the prompt payment of the money loaned. No wonder the Dakota farmers are mad. Their admiras tiop of the Louisiana lottery people is not to ne wondered at, - Commissioners Henderson and Deck- er put in an hour usefully in the Com- missioners’ office, the other day, discuss sing educational matters, Henderson allowed it was not necessary for a man to have high learning to get up in the world, citing his own case in proof. Decker denies the assertion that great i advances have been made in education- | al science, and proves it by the assertion | that the maltiplicatioa table is just the | same now as when he went to school, 40 years ago. Johany is keyrect, there, - Rebershbarg. Flittings are all the go here now. Mr. Heury Bholl and family moved to Renovo on Tuesday. They will keep a bowrding house at that place. The exhibition given by the Gramley school 2 miles east of Wwn was a grand success. Mr. Thadeus Stover ia Rong our sick folks at present, A Union Sunday School, which = 0 meet in the Kreamervilie hall every Babbath aflernoon was orgunised last Sunday evening. The follows ing are the officers elected: Pres. H. A. Detwiler. Supt. P. D. Bierly; Ast. James Miller; Bec. Geo Winters; As't W. A. Bair: Lib. Miss Mame Blover; Asv't Balle Bmall; Tress. Mis Sallie Bierly, Choir ister, W. O. Housman; Organists, Miss Carrie Stover and Balile Bierly, Kev. Rearick the Lutheran minister of this place returned last Wednesday from a visit to bride, The calithumpian band turned out is full foros on Taureday evening to give We happy apie & serenade, but evidently they did not apn ape - Farmers Mills, Charles Weaver, of Rock Springs, Pa. paid a Visit 10 his aged father and former home here last work. Rev. C.V. B. Aurand, the new Evangelical uguster, preached bis initistory sermon hese Harry Weaver, who spent the winter up worth David Homan, of Blair co, is here spending a Jobn Auman, our former miller and P.M. a Fenn Township. Rain, mud and spow is a Pood socom paniment 10 the moving season, Mr. Pierce Emerick of Nittany Valley wes the Last week G, W. Harter of Smithlown was up 0 Bellefonte to serve as juror, but Wok sick and Was obliged to return nome. He is some better, J. H. Frank, Esq, of Smithtown moved to Mill beim, and Henry Breon took charge of the for. men farm. AK of GE lodge was iostituted in Milibeim inst Thursday evening with some 30 members, The sale soasoa is over and the farmers are gets ting down to solid work; some are plowing for com, Mrs Susan Bierly and a niece of Nadisonburg, are visiting with the formers daughter Mrs. Duck Ap in Sprucetown, Flittings are in season just now. Quite & num ber of people have changed residences in this vicinity. Tuesday, while quite a numberof others have left this vicinity for Tyrone, Altoona and other enterprising places; Charles Black, Irwin Burris, Kimer Royer and Henry Faust, being some who eft, r. J. R. Bible moved to Spring Milis on Mon day where be intends 10 engage with his brother D. EK Bible tn the mercantile business. Mr. Epley hes moved his headquarters to the Fort with his prop teams, A Big Prize. If you will pay the Rxroxrun one year in advance, and send us the name ofa new subscriber with $1.50, we will send you and the new name the Pittsburg Weekly Chronicle Telegraph, one year free. The Chronicle Telegraph is a large 8 page weekly paper, contains news from all over the world besides other valuable reading matter, If you wish to have the benefits of this offer, act at once, and gut a large paper free, asa premiam, ss MY w= Among our callers this week were Daniel Bobn, of Linden Hall; Benjamin Btover and son, of Farmers Mills, wee Vanes MeCormic removed from The Chicago Inter-Ocean recalls a pro- phecy printed by tte Bavarian AU gemeine Zeitung in August, 1857, from a hermit, who said that Germany would have three Emperors in one year, which as verified to the letter, He said that the twentieth century opened Manhattan Island and the whole of York City would be submerged, Cnba will break in two, and the west half find A watery resting place, New - > Highly county: ~The Judgeship Commission Jjourned nntil next Mond iy. important from Lycoming Bo i has ac Married, HARTMAN-OBRWIG. At of the brides parents, in Mimo t on the i bh March Ly Bey. W. XN face, Mr Schuyler LIL. Hast. wan, of Centreville, az Miss Ilda M, Orwig, of Milmout, A Ma A", Died. frm L Years, 5 HESS On the 234 Hess, aged 8 BCHNURE.- Christian Bohinure ih days, Woodward Michas! 3. and © days, In Hartley 10 March agod xi p.,on Years, bh months and In Limestone t the 254 March man, aged 70 year —— ~—— Send your name in for the Errors TERA campagn rates on trial, Or send, us two new names and the cash year snd we give you a Copy one free, thus enabling any one, by very itle effort to get a paper one year free, for a year tig aA” ~~ Musicai College.—A school of sic beginning Monday, April circular address F, C. Moyer, Pa. mu- For re - When Baby was sick we gave her Oar torts, When she was 8 Child she eried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung tw Castors, When abe bad Children, she gave them Castoris, - Words of Advice To those who require a at x WO whom we could Wink there are Lisi iver Age the place 0 wi £0. He wells six Gibwou or Uverh full quarts for §. and Cota pete calal po? DGISTER'S NOTICE ~THE 3 CLLOWIRG sotounts have been examined pasmed snd fled of record in the Register 's office for ib . speclion of beim and legaiees, creditors, and ad others in auywise interested, and will be presens ted to the Orphan's Court of Centre oo ity, on Wednesday, the 30th day of April, A D., 188, for sliowsnoe abd confirmation, 1. The first and partial scoount of John A. Em erick, one of the administrators of, dc. of Daniel Emerick, iste of Walker township, The first and fined scoount of H. H. Leyman executor of dc, of Nancy Leyman, late of the Borough of Milesburg, deceased 3 Toe final soooum of Isaec Gates, guardian of James C. Harpster, s minor child of Wm. Harps ter, ate of Ferguson townsh ip, deceased 4 The first unio final pocounnt of W. MC. Chan mond, surviving execute of &c.. of John Brett, inte of Ferguson township, deceased, 5. The socount of M. L. Rishel, administrator of &o., of John N. Dunkie, late of Gregg wwiship, Goconmed 6. The first and final scoount of P, ¥. Bottorf, executor of dc, of K G. Brett, Iste of Beilefonde Borough, doovased 7. be moro Gd Israel &e., of Joho Roush, sie of conned 8 The acount of J, 1, Meyer executor of de. of Jaoub Meyer, late of Harris township, decessed. 8, The fmt So of Blair A. Gaies, executor of ac, of Martin Gates, late of Ferguson tow uship, 10. The scoount of Klis Hoy, administrator of &e., of Elisabeth Hoy, laste of Spring, township, decensed as fled by Michael Grove, surety, &c. 11. The account of W. J Belr administrator of &c., of Catherine Bair, lateof Miles township, deceased 12. Theacoount of] BH. and. C C. Meyer, ade ministrators of &o., of Henry Meyer, Sr. late of Harms Sonabips decensed, as filled by J. H. Mey er, survivi indetraior, i8, The and fing] sccount of John B. Linn, trustee appointed by the "Court of Centre county, (vee John Irvin, Jr, who declined to serve) of the fuidds bequeathed in the lsst will and testament of Mrs, Jane F. Mann, deceased, of which Miss Locy W. Burnside and Mrs, Francis A. Boal, were ceatui gue trusients during their lives and the life of the survivor of them. i4. Thefirst and final sccount of John XN. Keichline, executor of dc, of Michael Morrison | iste of Bel te hh. 15. The first account of Mrs. Rebeoos Robison , one of the executors of &¢., of John Robison, iste of township, 18, he aocount of Jeremiah Winklebloch and Kerstettor, executors of de. of Adam , inte of Haines townsh and final scoountof D, 2. of &o, of Marthe Sam Vouada, cxorutors of Lice Wwuslip, des s & > 8 Kline, ad. ministrator inte of Bellefonte this place to Montandon, where he is employed in a planing mill.
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