THE CENTRE REPORTER FfRED.KURTZ, Eprror and Pror's ~TERMS:—~One year, $1.50, when paid in ad nee. Those in arrears subject to previous rms. $2 per year, Advertisements 20 conts per line for 8 inser ns.and 5 ants tor each subsequent insertion. Centre Hann, Pa., Tours, Ark. J. m Sn . ar [here 1s no Store In Bellefonte just like “THE RACKET.” Goods different. Styles different. Way of doing busi- ness different. It has been a lively business from the start. My old customers and kind friends at Woodward and Spring Mills can probably tell you the reason Whee G. R. SPIGELMEYER. LOCAL ITEMS, --Spring, gentle spring, is here—let her spring — Wm. B.Shafer has Mackevvilla to Zion. ee 1 E moved fiom Geistweit, of Coburn, from inmberman has become grain dealer. wm Migs Mame Meyer returned home Satarday, afier a several weeks visit at Bellefonte, -—[g2ac Harpster expects to leave for Montana, ia several days, where he will permanently locate, — Prof. Rothrock, of Boalsbarg, has flitted to our town. We are pleased to add him as one of our citizens, —Pablic Notice—There will not be another icescrop inside the next eight mouths, This is perfectly reliable, Jur clever friend Moore, of Miles burg, still comes over here some moore —gtrong attraction of course. Farther deponent saith not, —Dr. J. R. Gast, the eve specialist, will be at Centre Hall, on Monday ard Toesday, April 7, and 8, and Mills, Wednesday, Sth, Dr. Ward and arrived in Spriog wife, of Bellefonte, place Monday. Mrs, Ward will remain several davs with her mother, Mrs. Stiver, on chnreh street, this - {dar yonng friend Chas, Garis for. merly of this place, recently took unto himself a wife, a Miss Miller, of Pleasant Gap. The couple were in town Moos day ~tarry Swab, formerly of near bas become a citizen of Last week he moved into of Mra, Katie Darat, near the Linden Hall, anr Lown the honse diamond. -—Emory Geitig, a former clerk in Bartholomew's store, will shortly leave for Seattle, Washington. Ill health is what is taking him to that state, his physician suggesting a change of cli mate, 7 We notice the grange commitiee on their new pic-nic ground occasional. ly, planning for its arraogement. The pic-nic will be considerably nearer town than heretofore, one square pack of the main street, ~]n Huntingdon County on Tues- day, a fire destroyed the barn of Robert Commings, in Jackson township, including four horses, eight cows, thirty. one sheep and sixteen hundred bushels of grain. Loss, $4,500, ~The Tusseyville U, 8, 8, met on Sanday, March 30, to reorganize for the coming year. The officers elected are, Sap’t. John H. Rankie; Asst. Bop't. M. F. Rossman; Sect. 8. J. Wagner, Maggie Spangler; Treas Levi Stomp, Lib. Kate Moyer, R, Rockey, /, ~The family of Rev.J.K, Miller. dec’d , wil! leave our town in a few days, and make Johnstown their home, where two of the sons, John and Eagene are in the grocery bugivess,and Fdwin is ens joying a lucrative practice in medicine. We wish the widow and her family a large measnre of snceess, she and the daughters will certainly be missed here. ~The town council having ordained that the street leading to the railroad should be straightened, Mr, Foreman will be the first one to erect a dwelling house on the new line, which brings his building cast on the pike, about 20 feet from the Hoffer line—running aboat one third over on the road. The boro anthorities having taken this step, the tax payers of the towa will expect that in any chaoge of walks, or in new walks directed to be made, the owners of the ground adjoloing will be required to pay for same, putting all citizens npon equal footing, as the law contemplates, and that there will be no favoritism #h own in this regard : Sermon On Lying. A very able sermon on the sin of this character, upon every-day vioes | should be heard oftener from the pul- | pits of all churches. We believe the ef- fect would be wholesome, and if the fire | was kept up against lying, cheating, | tale~bearing and kindred sins, that peo- ple guilty of these would ashamed of them, and these vices would | be less common. Two or three effective | sermons, upon each of these sins, about | once n year from every pulpit, would | become | 5 i lend interest to devine service, aod fi- | nally render lying, cheating, jealousy, | and mischievous goesiping as unpopular | as rum drinking has got to be under the firaof the advocates of sobriety in the last decade. The good effects of that kind of preaching has blotted oat the | saloon, and the habit of dram drinking has become a disgrace, The pulpit can do a vast good by making a special topic of the sins above named once at least in each quarter, Lying and cheating want to be pics guilty ones will feel the stigma attaching to them, instead of thinking they are counted shrewd and smart because of points gained by lying, deceit, and cheat. > New Connsel, Messrs, Wm. Singer and W, 1. Swoope, the two attorneys retained by Fietta Weaver to defend her in the coming trial, have politely withdrawn from the case and Wm. Gray, Esq. takes it in hand, When the habeas corpus hear- husband thought things were not conducted her properly. In such proceed: ings testimony is takea for the court to to implicate the accusad and warrant their being held for trial. The Weaver's imagined that it was; in fact a trial and as Fietta was bound over for next term of court, that her attorneys were against Laboring under this delusion they thought it necessary to retain Mr, Gray. hier, Local Briefs Ask at your store for Calla Lily | flonr—it is No, 1. | Teams wanted to haul lumber, —Jas. L sher; Centre Hall, —Afk your store keeper for Calla Lily flour, and get a No 1 article. weeThat rise property in Greens Vale ley was sold to Mr, Knoflsinger for $600, | ~ An infant of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. P. Grove of Gregg Twp. died last Monday. | f Mrs. Shaffer and Mrs. Zeigler of | il Aaronsburg, are visiting friends in this | ee Orice M'Cormic moved from this place to a farm of W. K. Alexander, | Penn township. ~8imon Loeb's new clothing store opposite the Conrad house, is the place for bargains in men and boys’ suits. ~ (Jur whilom citizen, J. W. Ginger- foh, of Glen Union, Clinton, co, gave us a shake of his hana, Wednesday. Glad to learn he ie doing well over there. - = An oid subscriber to the RRroORTER securing a new name, and each payiog one year in advance, both will get the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph ona year as & preminm, — At 8ix o'clock on Wednesday morn. ing Mr, Noah Masser, who lived up the Buffalo Ruan valley about six miles from Bellefonte died from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, ~The elegant new shoe store, of Mr Gillam, io the Crider Block, Bellefonte should be visited to see his stock and variety of boots and shoes for ages and sexes, all — Will Runkle. of Tusseyville, will build for himself a fiae residence, at the lower end of cur town, west side of road, and becomefone of our citizens, Glad to learn it. NOW i8 your time to get a cheap overcoat, and Lewins bas ‘em cheap good, warm, lasting goods, Give the Phiiad. Branch a call and see for your self and save $5 to boot, — Harbioger of spring—the Centre Hall boys enjoyed a lively game of sock- This was done without the kno viedge of Messrs. Sioger & Swoope learning of the matter, the case. who, upon withdrew from i r The P.M. Drunk. At the fire in Bellefonte on Sanday evening a week ago, Fiedler beastly intoxicated that he had led away, as we are reliably This is Bellefonte’s P.M, ' The drank, as we noaderstand, started in one of his common the night before. This is who sought to build up corrupt Gazette, by never harmed him, tions are spoteess. This debauchee is John Wanamaker's postmaster at Bellefon'e, and is a sample was sO Was carousals, the fellow his paper, the vilifying men who and of how much the Republicans are in vor of temperance, by tolerating such fellow in a responsible position. a Arbor Day. The Governor has appointed Friday, the 11th dav of April, and Friday, the 2d dav of May, to be observed as Arbor Days this year. He says in his procla. mation: “In those portions of the Com- monwealth where the climatic condis tions are favorable, Lhe dav first above ing have been usual, or may be desirable | in our schools and by the public gen erally, In the Ligher altitudes and more northerly latitades of the Commons wealth, the day last named can be obs gperved. - o-oo. Church Barned. On Friday night last the Chestout Grove church, near Snow Shoe intersecs tion was completely destroyed by fire, For some time there has been a dispute in regards the charch property as to the owners, between the German Re formed and Methodist congregations, both claiming it. It is thought the fire was the work of an incendiary. The loss is about 81200, No surance, in- —t—— Missionary Anniversary. Sanday evening last the Woman's Mis- sionary Society of the Reformed church, of this pide, celebrated their anniver. sary, by interesting recitations, essays, etc. The church was crowded and good entertainment was had. Among the renditions was an essay or description of the travels to Japan. by Mra. Isen berg, the author of which was a sister of M/s. Isenberg, a Missionary to that country, and was very interesting. Easter Service. A special Easter service has been gp- pointed for next Sabbath evening, in the Lath. church, by the pastor, Rev. Fischer. A sermon appropriate to this festival and mosic, with perhaps other exercises, and a floral decoration, will be features of the occasion, isi A Hand Cut Of. On Wednesday afternoon last, while William Boyer, working for Beoj. Gens z0l, near Zion, was engaged in cntting stove wood with a circular saw, when by some accident bis sleeve caught in it and bis band was cut off right st the wrist, wweLowios canleelllyou a late style suit or take your measure and make it to order on short notice, snd at a saving youof from $310 $8 Try him on this, { ball on the street a few evenings ago, | Bluebirds and robbins will now find it safe to come along. —ff you wish to have a good over { coat, $4 to $8 less than can be bought | elgewhere, then go to Samoel Lewins | he bas them and warrants them. He | sell nothing that has cheat about it, —The old grist mill at Linden Hall. owned by George Mover, is now being | changed to a roller mill, which leaves no | burr mill in existence in this section, ali | baving deen changed tothe roller pro- | cess, or gone op ia smoke; this mill is one of the oldest in our county, ! Mingle's shoe store in the Brock- erhoff house block has every idea in the | line of boots and shoes, w hetber of rab. ber, leather or cloth, and he sells at bot. | tom prices, 80 that none pay more thao the goods are worth, He warrants all e sells, ! April 1st and Zod did finely. They | brought us bright skies and genial suo | shine. Nobody was April fooled, except | by the weather itself which fooled all, even Old Prob, by swingiog aroused trom ugly to fine. Now lets have it thos right along—al! will be pleased, and grumbling will be stopped. Hurrah for spriog! Lewing now has his counters | stocked with the best lot of ready-made | clothing yet brought to Centre county and at the most astonishing low prices. Lewios always leads —~he never follows. You never heard a customer complain of any article of clothing purchased of hon ost Sam Lewins, —- The Rerorren and the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph one year free toa new subscriber, clnbing with a present snbecriber, The two papers for $1.50 a year in advaace to each. The Chronicle Telegraph is a large 8 page weekly contains all the telegraphic news, fail market reports and other choice reading Two papers for the price of one, Sead in your name early and make sure of this spiendid offer. wee Jacob Frank, the next oldest citi. zen in Bugar Valley, died at his home in Greene township, Saturday evening, and was buried io the Dankard cemetery at Eastville on Toesday. Deceased was born June 6, 1800, and died March 22, conse quently he was aged 80 years, 6 months and 9 days. Father Frank was baptized in his infancy by Rev, ligen and confir- med when a young man by the same as a member of the Lutheran church at Re- bersburg. Facets for all, In spite of all competition the Philad. Branch clothing store, remains headquar- ters for actaal bargains in ready made clothing, for men and boys. lewins in troduced cheap clothing in Cent: e county, and has kept it at that all the time; he kept benest goods, no trash, and, as a rale, always sold from 25 to 30 per cent below any other clothing store in this part of the state, A AM SI 5 SNAG. Restorative Wine, If you are weak and suffering from general debility, you should use Speer's Port Grape Wine; it will parify your bloed, restore digestion and make you feel like a younger person, in fact it makes you sew blood, Speers vine yards are planted on brown stone shale rock soll contain’ng iron. There is over twe miles of cn: riage drives under grape arbors in bf. vineyards. For sale by Minor Locals. It is possible tha‘ Bismark. since his | resignation, will attend the next pic-nic | at Centre Hall, If Bis comes a brewery will be started, to keep him supplied with his favorite beverage and make his | stay among us pleasant Mrs, Harrison may pnt in a few days trout fishing with some ofthe Res porter experts, in oar streams, sometime after the season opens, Whatever Republican ge's the ap~ | pointment for taking the censas of Cen- tre Hall, will have a fat place. If Queen Victoria makes a tour of the United States next summer, it is not uns some three weeks for a rest—prices | should not be raised on real estite until | this is certain, Quay has got back from his six weeks | fishing up in Florida, but no one heres | abouts has woticed any let-up of rain | on that account, { The sea is encroaching upon the land, | scientists tell us—there is prospect that | Centre Hall will yet be a seaside sum- | mer resort. With onr fine elevation, | healthy atmosphere and pure water, a | boom is on the carpet for our town in the near-bydistant fature. Erection of bath uouses need no: procesd yet-—lets gt the piesnic in trim first. We have no diamonds hereabouts but | the swine mentioned in connection sometimes crop out, and there is no tell- ing what the future has in her lap for vs. | Subscribe for the Reromieg and gat the Pittsburg Weekly Telegraph one year free as a premium, a8 per our an- nouncement in another column—has all the news, markets, and several pages of other useful reading. Friend Decker was in town the other day looking up his chances for tion. He has putoat all the Hopkins rope in 2 inch pleces, and will have a new supply after Andrews is exec uted. re~saiecs ss pp Railroad Prosecuted., The ranning of freight trains on San- day evidently is a violation of the laws of this state, Last week there was aa Robert Patton made information before Justice of the Peace, A. W. Reese, of that place, against the whole of a crew of freightmen who run a train on the previous Sunday over the Bald Eagle Valley railroad. Mr. Blanchard, Esq, the railroad’s attorney, appeared at the hearing but despite all efforts each men- ber of the crew was fined four dollars apiece and costes, There were nine of them which made it quite s sum. Supe. Blair, of Tyrone, gave bonds for the pay- ment of the fines and costs. This is a bit of news for most people who are not aware that the railroaisare liable to prsecution for running trains on Banday ~Centre Democrat, - Hastings Delegates Elected. The republican county convention met on Monday afternoon in the court house which meets in Jane to nominates a can didate for governor. A large represen district but two remote ones being re. presented. Colonel James A. Coburn, of | efonte, were electe | delegates to the state | D. H. Hastings. Short addresses were | made to the convention by Colonel Cob- urn, E. C. Humes, W. F. Reeder, D. 8, | Keller, Professor John Hamilton and W. | I. Bwope, after which the crnvention | adjourned with cheers for Hastings. ~The matter of arresting railroaders | for ranning trains through Port Matilda | on Sunday promises to be a history of | weekly instalments, each one opening | and closing with the advent and depart | ure of every Sabbath. It was on Sun | day, the 16th day March, when the first | information was made, at the instance of | ons R. A, Patton, against all raiiroaders, nine in number, who ran trains on that | day. Toe hearing was held before | Bquire Reese, The fine, as imposed by | law, for working cn the Sabbath, is $4 | for each and every instance, and in | defanit of the payment thereof stand | committed to the county jail for the | period of six days. The nine men could | not pay their fiae of four dollars apiece | aod Squire Reese wrote ont commitments | for the entire number. They were saved | from going to jai! however, by Lawyer Blanchard and Assistant Supe: intendent | Dasiel Woods becoming personally re- sponsible for the amount of the fine. The nine men were then discharged and inside of twenty hours after the case was appealed from the justices decision and will now be tried in the courts. On Sunday, the 23rd instant, information was made against eleven men and war rants placed in the hands of the constas ble for their arrest. Being unable to locate them at once, Bupt, Blair gave a bond in the sam of five hundred dollars for their appearance before Justice of the Pence, A i in A I A : «= Whatt be Philad. Branch does hot have in the line of ready-made clothing is not worthhaving. The spring stock now on the connters is immense and goes ahead of anything you ever maw {owins ts King for low prices. Mp «= In spite of all competition Lewin continues to take the lead in ready made clothing, low prices as well as quality of goods. He getaahiead ofall, sells more Shan oil Piases all, and fits and suits iss FA RMD SW 0 WALL PAPER, Cheap as Landreth’s Garden Seeds, are now sold by us. We have place. Every year the surplus Come and see our the valley. Big bargains in al the most reliable in the world the exclusive agency for this stock 1s burned thereby insur- Most | departments. complete in Solid Walnut, 3 5. Q eces, S33. pi Ward Robes, a large line, Solid Oak Suits, 8 pieces, $35, Solid Cherry, 8 Chairs and Bedsteads, Boards, ing very low. I am sell vinced that for the same qualit be y of goods 1 cannot be under con- In all its branches. i i A word to all--Jump ! The whole country se transition from one hundred p as the level headed old timer! of ledger tyranny and snuffs th dolla .4 New Store, New Goods, Low . 1. >t 4: * 1 ems elastic and lithe in the er cent. down to twenty-five i. 3: 3 " 3 1 yursts the credit coils and bonds e free fresh air of the almighty Lr "my Walled ing time brings to mind many { Mary § law! | Eps ment in a house—Sash Cur tain goods in Dotted, Tamboured Lace Serim, number of patterns, and Imita- tion China Silks, Rod, Sca foot. Our 30c¢ Curtain Pole, Ebonized, Brass Trim- med, beats the makers. A Lace Curtain at $1.00 Sash the price. $1.35 and $1.50 is price, 100 cents,’ We need do no bragging Stainless Hose, they beat the We have a Glove in ack of the same make, 6 and 8c Challi everyone is pleased with them. A little more talk on Black Goods, if you have occasion to want any thing in the black line, Gloves, Hair Pins, Bonnet Pins, Veil Pins, Ear Rings, Breast Pin, Veil Black India Linen, a Black Shawl, or the best Black Dress Goods®in the world for the price, drop us a card and you will hear from us by re- turn mail. New dress goods every day. Saturday brought us some lovely styles in Serge, in Hel- iotrope, Old Rose, Tried Blues, and this week brings a dozen or more stripes for combina= tions and cloaks, all wool, at Sce, Send us your mail orders. GARMANS. Black world. bl Bellefonte. i Gy ® t them duly suthenticated for RISHEL Farmers Mills, Bellefonte { Special attention given iv country trade. aprd + St ELMO HOTEL Nc 817 & 319 Arch Street, Philadelphia Reduced rates to $200 per day. The traveling public will still 8nd a1 this ho- tel the same iiberal provision for their comfort. Itis located in the immediate centres of business and plnces of sm use ment and different rafiroad 4 pots as we ft Hy. 5 asi: 5 novesibe by “treet Osrs constantly passing thn doors It ore sp evinl indicem 0 those visilingibeci iy ie» ft uginew plessure Your patronage respoctiuly sos JOS M. FRURR. Props se All pails 3 ‘ited Evy ' Notice. Lee aod Arney wish 10 inform the public that they are now ready to con- tract for all kinds of Painting, Graining, Paper Hanging, Oil Fiashiog, etc. Prices reasonable, and satisfaction guar anteed. Lee & Anxzy, Centre Hall, SPRING TERM. Prof. H. C. R sthrock, principal of the Centre Hall schools, «ill open a select schoo! at this place, commencing on Monday, April 14, and osntinue ten weeks, Special classes will be formed for those pregarirg to teach. Rates reatonable. DRUNKENNESS