VOL .LXIV. THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR To all intents and purposes, Quay still has control of Lis party’s machive in this state, Rassell Harrison says his pop is not anxious for a reelection. Then the old man is in perfect accord with the people upon that subject. The Lewisburg News raves iremen- donsly over the new judicial apportions men!, which makes Union and Soyder a district aud ensures the reselection of Judge Buches. The judicial apportionment bill passed the legislatore. lt makes a district of Union and Snyder, adds Mifflin to Hunt ingdon and forms a reparate district of Centre. Ex-Senator Delamater, afier his pri vate affairs are settled up at Meadville, expects to move to the new state of Washington, where he will begin life anew. “Representative Ritter, of Union coun ty, has taken a tumble, He has gotten himself mixed ap io the scandal’ cm the insurance bill. Auotber evidence that mean—statesmen particularly —shouldn’t loaf in‘ bar-room.” So says the Milton Standard. . A bill has passed both houses requir ing retail liquor dealers in cities of the first and second class to pay a license of one thousand dollars a year; in cities of the third class, five hundred doliars a year; those residing m boroughs, one hundred and fifty, and in townships, seventy-five dollars, flag of the Ufiited States will contain forty f ur stars. Wyoming was not ads mitted until after Jaly 4th of lsst year, and the United States law prescribed that the star for a new state shall be ad- ded to the flag the next fourth of July following its admission. The new apportionment bill, if signed by the governor, constitutes Centre coun- ty a judicial district by itself, We wonld then only have a president jadge and no associates. Whether the county can survive the dismissal of its honored associates, can only be solved by the misty fat re, Secretary Blaine having the gout should try 8 powswow doctor, or, as the Pennsylvania German calls it, braucha. The Courier Journal suggests that Mr, Blaine carry a buckeye in his pocket, The snggestion is a good one, He might also tiea red flanoel string around his wrist and rab his j'ints with black snake oil. The farmers aod taxpayers of Arm- et-ong county have made an appeal from the auditor's report of the receipts and expenditures of that county for the year 1800, The petition cootains over 1.000 vames, The amount involved is about $20,000, and is takea from overcharges in the commissioners’ accounta, over payment of Commonweatlh accounts, aud illegal sberifl’s foes, Senator Taggart, granger, at the last moment jumped the granger tax bill as clean as 8 deer woulda two foot fence. Brother Taggartis s leading granger, and was so stiff for the granger bill all along, that it was supposed he would never flinch, but at the list whack he went right over to the Boyer bill, Grane ger Taggart, like a few other leading grangers, is human, and has weaknesses just where backbone shou'd be in abune dance, apd we have a clear proof here that some of the fellows who are bellow ing “farmer,” “farmer” are frands. A Republican paper ia Chicago de~ clares that “abundant showers of McKin- lay rain have fallen throughout several Western states” aad adda: “With so extra crop of wheat and corn sold at the best prices had iu ten years, the g. o. p. will be in pretty good shape again, thank you.” Tbismay be intended as a joke, Bat the idea of connecting Providence with a bill that makes the struggle for a comfortable livelihood harder for the poor is rank blasphemy none the less. The Chicago Herald notices that by one of the various devices worked into the texture of the woolen shedule: “Congress, without knowing it, trans ferred common goat's hair from the free to the dutiable list and subjected it to a tax equal to about 300 per cent,” It would be a droll outcome if the Ameris can goat, grown bloated by his puree. proud station, would turn up his beard derisively at the tinware diet of his lows ly days, to the futare distraction of the infant tin market, 1 CENTRE New Election Law, The new election law changes, the date at wich the assessment should hegin from Angust 1 to Mey 1, provides for the original assessment one month earlier than under the old law instead of two months later, With this exception the law is as stated in The Times and provides a new and original assessment of voters twice in each year, beginning with the first Mondays of May and De- cember. The bill has been signed by the Gover- nor and the Secretary of the Common- wealth hes issued instructions to the County Commissioners that the assess- ment must be made under the new law this year, as it goes into effcet before June 1. This will probably delay the assessment somewhat, as new books will have to be prepared for the use of the Assessors. There will be ampie time, however, to make the assessment under the new law aod exbibit the lists at the polling places before the date at which the Assessor must sit to make final cory rections The distinctive feature of the new law is the new aod original assessment every year. The names are to be entered on the hat in the order in which the houses wre vigited, and tbe gqnalified electors are to be grouped by houses, streets, alleys and courts, That is to say, all the voters in one house must appear in a group by themselves and the houses must be grouped by streets, alleys and courts, so that it will be possible to find the num- ber and names of voters in any given house or streeis in a precinct without going through an alphabetical list to pick them out. This will wipe off at once from the Assessors’ lists the dead and removed voters that have been carried from year to year in some of our city precincts. It is probable that the list of voters in Philadelphia will shrink several thoas, and, The new act will farther simplify the work of hunting up fictitions pumes ifany are placed on the lista by dis honest Assessors. A large measure of electoral reform should resalt from this law if the people take interest enough in honest elections to see it carefally ens forced. BE ll pn Quay vs. Harrison, The New York Wofld prints the fol. lowing dispatch from Pittsburg: Oa being told of Quay’s Heniai Senator Rutan at once furnished the following: “I am entirely responsible for what | said at Harrisburg—muoch more than the Senator in nine-tenths of his interviews. What I stated in my interview was told me by Senator (Quay in his own house three weeks ago last Tuesday evening It was not sought by me, and no seal of confidence was placed upon my lips. He said just what I gaid be did and in addi. tion, said that Harrison even made clerks ont of his Cabiget officers, and they were simply there to register his decree—a fact well known in Waghington, Mr, Quay eaid he desired to secure a re. nomination delegation from sang ivan ia for Blaine, and, if necessary, alljourn the Nationa! Convention before Blaine would be heard from to decline. In the event of his failing he was for Alger, . “Senator Quay said that Harrison had more political brains and less political sense than apy political man he knew of in the country. I have known Mr, Qaa for more than thirty-three years, a portion of the time intimately, and I can only account for his departure from the truth in this matter by the fact that heis growing old and his memory is failing him, He and I were brought up in the Presbyterian faith and taught that truth and honesty were the greatest of virtues, and hence my great surprise at his denial of my statements.” It Governor Pattison approves the judical apportionment bill it will throw Rufus C. Elder out of the contest for Judge in the Union District. Mr. Elder lives in Mifflin County, and bad practic. ally secured the Republican nomipation having carried Union County and being assured of his own. Bat Mifflin Connty is wet off by the new apportionment, evidently for the parposs of getting Mr, Elder out of Judge Bucher's way. The Republicans of the Ualon-Sayder Dis triot are now turning to another candi” date. . There is such strong opposition to the renomiostion of Judge Rockefeller among the Republicans of Northumber- land Couaty that there is a great deal of doubt at this time whether he will be a candidate or not, If he should conclude to run he will probably have a hard pre. liminary fight to make. Several pro. minent Republican members of the Northumberland bar are spoken of as probable candidates, among them being W.H, M, Oram, W, H. Hackenburg, and ex-Congressman Bound, The nomina. tion will not be made until September. wmDg you waht 10 secure genuine bargaios in clothing and gent's furnish ing goods? Lewins, at the Philad, Branch, Bellefonte, can save you consids PA. Poor Italy. The London Times correspondent at Rome reviews both the financial and the political situation of the Italian kingdom, He comes toc the conclusion that cons stitationalism in Italy is becoming grad~ uaily reduced to a degraded state, and that the Italian provinces and communes are preying apon the state and slowly driving it into bankruptcy. The sentis ments of patriotic covstancy and devo- tion which from 1820 to 1870 won the admiration of liberal Europe is, says the correspondent, giving way to the im- pulses of miserable personal ambition and to indifference to the national vital- ity. The government, he eoctinues, has lost all control of the chamber of de- puties and its members support or do not support the government's measure, as fancy takes them. The deputies inter pellate the government without regard to the position of the ministry, which has been unable for some time past to gather a goorum together even on a question possibly involving the fate of the ministry. It a crisis was to result in dissolution of the chamber, with the party of the right in power, the Boman Catholic vote would most probably be relieved of the nonsexpedit, or virtual probibition from voting for members of the chamber, and this would increase the strength of the! ministry. What this unknown element in Italian politics may be is a problem of the highest importance to Italy. Its ex- ercise of the franchise, it is thouzht will imply certain concessions to the vatican. The correspondent also says that Italian editoral comments on education, law and order, Italian enterprise, the main wants of Italy, the intersational complications growing ont of the NeW Orleans affair, the Mala Vita trials, the flood of Italian emigration setting towards North and South America from lands scqntily peopled, although among the most fertile on the globe, the scasti ness of the woods, the ravages of the floods, the malaria and the paltry politi. cal intrigues by which the cabinets are made and unmade, sll testify to the blots which exist on the national stands ard aud which require speedy effaces ment. a What Is In It? The Pellefonte News, Republican, and the Gazelle, whose politica is the same, bat anything for gain, are having a tilt pow, aud the News charges that the Ga. setie labored to defeat one of the Repubn lican candidates for commissioner. If | there was such a coalition, who were par. ties to it? The News should speak out plainly, even Democrats are interested in getting information upon the subject aad so are some Republicans, Will the News tell whether the bargain was to give Jim Strohm a big say in the office and allow him the “casting” vote? Let us have the facts, Mr, News. Was the abusive Gasbte to be taken in a4 a pet, under a Democratic board” was that a part of the bargain? Tell it all—was there an express or im plied bargain that the Gaseelr was to have some pap? Of course Mr. Strohm is not to blame for any el- bow room that is allowed him, in this matter. Under the late Republican board of commissioners every possible cent was denied the Democratic papers, hence jt is getting to seem queer to ma- ny Democrats why the paper that favors ed such a policy should receive so much consideration. acim fn A sss The exposure of the rottenness among the bank officials of Philadelphia is start~ ling, and is a sad commentary on the honesty of the present generation of fi- nanciers. Its effect will be to engender distrust of the national banking system, which should have the safeguard of gov. ernmental supervision to protect the peo- ple from robbery, but which appears to be almost as recklessly conducted in Philadelphia as the old ‘‘wild cat” banks were. Bardsley, Marsh, Kennedy and the host of Philadelphia financiers who have looted the funds entrusted to them have possibly followed the example set by the late congress, which, in a spirit of recklessness, bankrupted the national treasury and laid the foundation of a debt that cannot be wiped out in a quar. ter of a century, The moral of this whole business is that the politicians of the state and na- tion have about to the end of their string, and the ple—the tax-payers whose money bas been so recklessly squandered by the tools who are set up in power by the bosses~must soon take Again, the Treasury Ring It is not improbable that the State will lose a million of dollars by the thisy ing operations of the late Republican {treasurer of Philadelphia. At all events it wiil be involved in costly and pro- tracted litigation with the city of Philad« elphia to determine responsibility for the missing money—and whether the loss falls on the cily or the Comiwson wealth, Nor is this all. The thieving treasurer is not alone to blame, as it ap« pears he was allowed to retain this large sum of State money at his disposition, on which he was getting interest at the rate of four per cent, which be insisted should be paid him monthly, through the negligence of the auditor general of the State, who paid no attention to the planiest provisions of law, repeated warnings and the actual presence of dan- ger. The Philadelphia Record states the situation : It is clear that, through disregard and disobedience of the law by Aunditor Gen- eral McCamant, the control of the Com- moowealth over $1,000,000 in the hands of County Treasurer Bardsley bas bees lost, and State and city have been placed in a position so autagonistic that costly and protracted litigation must follow Auditor General McCamant is not so blind that he conld not see that a county treasurer holding $1,000,000 of State money was more than derelict who fail- ed to make returns us required by law, Ibe opportunity to pay taxes of 1880 with mooey collected in 1800, and to pay taxes for 1800 with money obtained in 1891, grew out of defanit at Harrisburg tantamount to deliberate arrangement, fs A oat ——— Footprint of the World's History. s Be Ben Franklin once made the state- ment, "Schools teach us the rudiments of language, but books teach us how to think; therefore are, no man is truly ed ucated unless he isa reader of books.” Ben was right, but he lived in an age when books were so scarce, comparatively speak ing, that but little of the pernicious in literature was tolerated But in these days it is different. Your boys thirst for a knowledge of the world, and if yon don’t give them some wholesome read. ing to slake that thirst, they will get bold of cheap, sensational stories that will poison their minds and do them terrible injury. There is such a vast amount of this trashy stuff being poured into the market at the present time, that it is a relief to pick up 8 new book that is at once thrilling, romatic wholesome, pure and true. History,” the latest and great est work of the two celebrated historians John Clark Ridpath and Wm. 8. Bryan, These distinguished gentlemen, having won their laurels by independent writ: ings, have cooperated on this work, and produced a gem “of the purest ray serene.” It is not & dry, uninteresting statement of the plain facts, but rather each of the most important events of history has been taken up and described by a master of language, who holds the reader entrance as he wends his way along the path of history, following cares fully in the footprints of progress, We are delighted with this superb volume, Perfect in thought, superb in style, snd magnificent in execution. The bindings are sumptuous, ss are ales the many illustrations and colored plates. The Publishers have rightly concluded that such a gem should have a rich setts fog. It is & valuable addition to literature. itis a book for the old as well as the young; the married as well as the single; the gay as weil as the grave, Every- body will read it with equal eagerness and profit. It is sold only through agents and the Pablishers’ advertisement aps pears in another columau, From the Christic ord, Beading Pa. Iv Clesrfield county there is going to be an interesting trial in the case of the sheriff and Mr. Mersh of Lock Haven, providing a compromise is not reached before the case gets into court. One day last week, while there were forest fires in this vicinity, Sheriff McClosky sold some Jumber in the eastern part of the county, which was bid in by Mr, Marsh for $11,000. Within twelve hours of the sale every foot of the lumber was de stroyed by fire. Mr. Marsh claims that no property was delivered to him: the sheriff claims Marsh bought it; while the creditors for whose benefit the lumber no matter who pays the bill, wee Contrary lo the general rum, we are busy, why ? Good goods al very low prices, a hand in taking care of the Bardsley's dishonesty which have come to money which they pay into the state tressury, light in the state, in which the men who Shatactur of the sen whom they ssieei: The Delaware peach crop is reported Challis, 5,6, and 8 cents, Lace curtaing 95 cents up. More styles than ever, Ginghams from © cents up, their 10 cent dress styles are beautiful. We are in the race to please and we doing it, Owr for your inopection at the Worse and More of it. The evidence against the Kennedys in the Spring Carden National Bank at Philadelphia, is of the most damning character, They seem to have resorted to the most anblashing methods to rob the ins stitution falsifying the books themselves and causing false entries to be made by the employes. They “borrowed” money without se. curity, and loaded the bank np with paper they knew to be worthless, As to the directors, they seem to have been a set of wooden-~heads who accepts ed the statements of the President and Cashier without question, and gave them every opportanity to rob the insitation. No punishemt provided by law is severe enough for such crimes us the Kennedys committed, -—— There seems to be a mystery connect ed with the great lakes. Lake Erie is 60 feet deep, while Ontario is almost 600, being 230 feet below the tide wave of the ocean. The discharge through the Des troit river, after allowing for evaporation does not seem to be equal to the guantis ty received into the upper lakes. What becomes of the water? It has been con- jectured that a subterranean river may run from Lake Superior by way of the Haron to Ootario. This conjecture is pot impossible, and accounts for the sin- gular fact that salmon and herring are caught in all the lakes communicating with the St, Lawrence river, but in mo other, — Thirty freebooters wrecked a train on Bunday, between Constantinople and Adrianople, terrorized and robbed most of the passengers, and marched four of the wealthiest off to the mountains. These captives were Germans, and the bandits demanded $40,000 as the price of their ransom. As the easiest way out of the difficulty, the German Chancellor telegraphed to the German Minister at Constantinople to pay the money. The Ambassador knows the Turkish Govern ment will reimburse the ransom, as it no doudt should. A government which does not sup- press such bands of robbers ought to pay for the luxury of their possession, - - The Bupreme Court, decided against the Delamaters’ application for a con. tinuance, and announced that the case would be heard in its order. The Com- monwealth’s counsel deny the truth of the allegations of undue prejudice in Crawford County, “The fair and impare tial trial the Delamaters wast.” Com- monwealth counsel say, is “one where they can be assured in advance of an ac quittal. Indeed, it is more than suspect- ed that they do not want a trial at all, of any kind, anywhere, It is believed they desire to avail themeelves of they removal of their cases, for the reasons given by Judge Black in his record for 50 years, in which not one resulted in conviction and nine out of ten have not been tried.” Speaking of the Keystone bank wreck and the enormous defaication of the city treasurer, the Philadelphia Ledger says: “Throughout the whole of it, ia the practic of both city and State, the de” minatiog principle seetns to have been that the city and State funds sbould be 80 placed—should be so held as to do the most good—not to the tax-payers— not to the State as & corporation —not to the city as a Commonwealth—not to the people at large, but the most good to some chosen officer or to the friends, or the particular political and personal clique of some chosen officer, That soch has been dominant idea and the prevails ing practice has been well understood for years and years as the way to the city hall or the State capitol.” In one brief word the whole situation is summed up: It is the ripened fruit of Quayism. ————— The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott preached at Plymouth church on “The Two Thes ologies.” He characterized the old as the belief that God was outside of man, the new as the belief that He was in man He denied that Bible was either inerrant or infallible. It was a mixture of the human and divine, and its glory was, that it showed God and man to be of the same essential nature. He found no fault with the old theology and was sor. ry that some others did. It was a sep to the temple. Btill, while he honored the steps and was glad to have traversed them, he was unhesitatiog in his a that be would not turn back. 2 ee Ex-Senator Wallace negotiated a lease to the Berwind- White company, of Phila- delphis, of a large body of ooal lands, the royalty from which will go very far to- also been successtal in getting the Penns sylvania railroad company to construct A SO Additional Locals. ~—Bubrcribe for the Berorren, ~—A heavy rain storm passed closely by us last evening. ~—Mr, William Kurtz, of Berlin, Pa : is visiting his parents, in this place, ~Mrs, John Mullen aod children, of Benova, are vikiting friends ia town, Plasterers are engaged at work on Will Runkle's new house at the station, ~~ Cabinet photos $1.50 per doz at Bhaeffer's gallery, Bellefonte, ~~ From the present outlook the crop of wheat will be very good in the valley. —A bag piper with bis mnsical in stroment made his appearance in town this week, we Wanted —Help in the house on a farm. Men assist in milking. First class wages. Box 900, Centre Hall, Pa. ~Communion services will be held at Centre Hill on Sanday, June Tth, at 10.30 a. m, Preparatory service Saturday morning. ~ Robert Dippery,a railroad brakes man on the Bunbury road, swallowed a lizzard while taking a drink from a water plug one evening last week §He prompt ly disorged it by putting his fioger down his throat. ~No shell worn stock is thrast upon customers at A. C. Mingle’s shoe store, Bellefonte. His large trade enables him to constantly keep new goods, and ale ways of the latest styles and at very moderate prices, as all customers admit. ~The Presbyterian lawn fete on Saturday evening was quite s success financially. It was held on the lawn of the parsonage, which was handsomely adorned with Chinese lanterns. The proceeds are towards the completion of their church, J, B, Mayes & Co., of the Housers ville marble works are pushing their busine:s right along. Persons wanting Marble or Granite work shou d write to them for particulars. They handle the very best material at prices that will as- tonish you, 7jun4t A Williamsport woman whose huss band neglected to support his family went to his employer and procured a dollar, When the fellow learned this he attacked his wife with the butcher knife and threatened to kill her unless she retu rned the money. She gave it to him sand then very properly had him landed in jail, where he should be kept all summer, ~~=Mr. J. N, Burkholder, of Casstown, Miami Couaty, O., arrived here on Mons day morning. Mr, Burkbolder is a na tive of this section and lef: these parts for the west about twenty-five years ago and has met with very good success, He was accompanied by Mrs, Burkholder and will remain in this section for some time. They are cn a tour through the east and have been down in Maryland, - =A recent census of Johnstown, which www w clodes the various boroughs which were sw. the flood, shows that there bas bo. uu au oo increase of 1,258 souls, notwithstenu.uyg the loss of 1880. Moreover, the town has been subs stantially rebuilt, seven new churches indicating the growth of the place in buildings of all kinds. One of the cons spicuous new features of the city is the bospital built as a memorial out of the surplus of fands contributed for the re. lief of the inhabitants, ~j cablegram was received by Mr Duncan, from Brazil, on the 23rd inst., sunouncing the desih, by yellow fever, of James D, Wilson, son of Rev. James D. Wilson, dec'd.’ so well snd favorably known in this vicinity. It seems that young Mr. Wilson had gone to Brazil to engage in the electric business, and had been there but sleven days when the fa. tal disease claimed him as ils victim, Mr. Wilson was only about twenty years of age, and a youth of nnusaal brightness and activity. — An exchange pertinentiy remarks: A country editor is one who reads news- papers, writes on any subject, sticks type, folds papers, makes up mails, runs errands, saws wood, works in the garden is blamed for a thousand things he nev er thought of, works bard all day, is sub. The P. & R. company has ordered 100 locomotives of warious sizes and classes from Baldwin's, to delivered next fall, The order, it is said, was given on
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