THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, - = EDITOR The Philadelphia Regublicon revolt against Quay is now ripening. As Governor of the state Pattison cans not conceal his partisanship. His veto of the apportionment bills was based solely on politieal grounds. Thus the Governor who is always harping about the constitution, cannot permit a Repub- lican legislature to obey that constitu- tion because the reapportionment is not in the interes's of the Democratic mi. nority. Penuosylvania, however, is not likely togive the Pattison party u chance to gerrymander.— Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin, Now does not the good editor of the Gazetle and Bulletin know that it is an undoubted intention of the constitation to prevent a partisan opportionment, and that hence it is an unavoidable duty of the Governor to veto a partisan ap- portionment bill ? Some transactions of the Bohemian as- sociation, which operated so extensively among the farmers several years ago, are cropping out among Berks county farms ers. John Heflley, a farmer, had a som- mons served upon Thowmss Sira.ser, George K. Larop, 8, F. Bushey, and Ezra C. Griesemer, officers of the association, charging them with fraud. Heflley boaght fifteen bushels of Bohemian oats at $10, the association promising to sell for him the following year thirty bushels at $10 a bushel. The association dispos- ed of none of the oate, but as alleged, sold the note which he bad given to a third party, and he bad to pay it, One of the most commendable acts of tha Illinols Legislature at its recent ses sion is the passage of a city election law which requires the election clerks in can- vassing a precinct to make a list of voters who fuiled to register. This list is to be used first in drawing jurors, and until it is exbausted the list made from the poll books of those who register and vote is not to be touched. Under this law those who neglect to vote, in order to shirk jary duty, will be in greater danger of being drawn as jurors than those who go fo the poils. It is in fact, a law in favor of compulsory voting and might with propriety be enacted in other States. ‘The fear of having to perform jary duty would doubtless spur 8a good many in- different citizens into becoming very earnest exercisers of their suffrage rights. ———————— In point of fact the entire surplus and the entire funds belonging to the Treas. ury have been expeade |, and the Treas ury would be literally bankrupt to day bat for the forced loan of some $50,000 000 by transferring a sacred trust fand for the redemption of bank notes, into the general fund. The government held that fund as trustee and its transfer into the Treasary was simply a forced losn and an increased debt to save the gov. ernment from dishonor, In a few months the Treasury will be compelied to confess its inability to meet the ohligstions of the government by refusing payment of the loan maturiog in September. The loan is about equal to the amount of the trust fund for the redemption of bank notes, bat, after scate tering the surplus sad rapniog the Treasury down 80 low that dimes are pressed upon the banks and people to scrape together a few millions, the gov~ ernment must extend its matured bonds snd proclaim its inability to pay its ob ligatiors. it is an interenting guonion whether the Commonwealth will be able to hold the city of Philadelphia responsible for John Bardsley's theft of the State taxes that came into his hands, amounting to about $1,200,000. The attorney general, Mr. Hensel, is doing his duty in making the effort, and the question of liability will be determined by the supreme court, The Philadelphia Herald states the case on behalf of the city: In the collection of certain taxes which the people of this city owed to the State, John Bardsley was appointed State agent aud gave bond to the Commonwealth for the faithful performance of his fane tion, It was the duty of the auditor general and the State treasurer to see that the settlements were made at prop~ er intervals and the payments met promptly and properly. The people of this city bave nothing to do wish the money after it leaves their hands, and to make them pay 80 vast a sum again, be- cause one dishonest snd two neglectfal State officials failed in their daty, would be manifestly unjust. The Herald holds that the proper rem. edy is against the anditor general and State treasurer and h Shoir bondsmen for neglect of duty, snd also against the bofptemen of Bardsley in the amount they went security to the State, CEN TRE Wissowine Legislative Chaff In vetoing the Judicial apportionment and the Flinn traction bills, the Gover- nor has practically completed the work through in the closing hours of the ses. sion. The number of bills disapproved is unprecedented, but ft can be truth fully said that every vetoed measure fully deserved its fate The Judicial apportionment bill was undoubtedly the fairest and much the least partisan of the three apportion ment measures pessed by the ILegisla~ ture. The Governor does notleriticise it for ita partisan character, but because it created too many Judges at an unnecess- ary expense to the tax payers and with a depreciation of the respect in which the courts should be held. While the bill contained many gross irregularities, its chief offense, and a very grievous one, was that it created nearly a hundred Judges to transact the business that two- thirds of that number would not Jnd burdensome. The traction bill seems to have been disapproved becaase of its re~ troactive character, which was a fatal ob jection, There is a disposition in some quarters to find fault with Governor Pattison for vetoing so many bills, The fault should be found with the legisiatare for rush- ing through such a mass of doubtful legislation in ita closing hours. Nearly every one of the vetoed bills could have been considered and prepared for pass- age early enough in the session to have allowed for the elimination of uncon stitutional and objectionable features. Instead the bulk of the completed legisla- tion was passed in the last week of the session, thus leaving all actual delibera- tion upon it to the Governor and ne- cessitating the application of the veto power late to admit of the passage of other legislation on the same subjects that would meet with execative approve al. If the commonwealth has suffered in consequence the blame lies with the Legislature and not with the Goveraor. A New Lion Law, The new lien law just signed by Gov- ernor Pattison provides as follows: “That no contract which shall here after be made for the erection of the whole, or of any part of a new building with the owner of the lot on which the same shall be erected, shall operate to interfere with or to defeat the right of a sub-contractor who shall de work or shull furnish me terials under agreement with the original contractor in aid of such erection, to file a mechanic's lien for the amount which shall be due for the value of such work or material furnished, unless such sub-contractor shall have consented in writing to be bound by the provisions of such contract with the owner in regard to the filing of such liens. Without such written con- sent of the sub~contractor and the owner which shall expressly or all contracts be- tween the original contractor impliedly stipulate that no such lien shall be filed be invalid as against the right of such sub~contractor to file the same. “All persons contracting with the owner of ground for the erection and construction of the whole, or of any part of a new building thereon shall be deem- ed the agent of such owner in ordering work and materials in and about such erection or construction, and any sabs contractor doing such work or farnishe ing such materials sball be entitled to file & mechanic's lien for the value thereof, notwithstanding any stipulations to the contrary in the contract, unless such stipulations shall have been consented to in writing by such sub-contractor. A Man With Honor, Amidst the conglernation and disrap- tion of the Republican party in this State, there ia being brought forward a man who has a right to popular favor, the reputation for igtegrity and probity, but who today is better known in local popularity than in national fame, That man is Congressman John Dalzell, of Pittsburg. He represents that element of the Republican party which compres hends men whose name and honor sre not marketable commodities, but who are sadly in the minority in this) diss graceful day in that party, which a quar- ter of a century ago was championed by men whom progeny delights to honor, bat which to-day is only a name for pro- fligaty and corruption, Mr, Dalzell is no office seeker, but there is a force at work, in a measure anknown to him, which we hope for the sake of an outraged humanity, may prove potent enough to rise, like the Phoenix, from the consuming fires of robbery, corruption and dishonor that encompass it, and place him, or another who is bis equal, in leadership, and through him herald in tones that shall be not delnsive, the institution of reform and the obliteration of existing things that are not only disgraceful but erimis nal. Woodland Coal, Two car loads Woodland coal just re- ceived Kutta 4 Sony mil, HALL. PA. 1891, The Work of Our 8choel Diresters. In lengthening the term of public school our directors have brought upon themselves unstinted praise and clearly evidenced their progressive spirit. Bat there remains a still greater and more beneficial work to be done, aud that is, to formulate the studies here producible into a prescribed curricainm; or in other words, make our grammar school a high school. No real progres. sion can be made without system, nor can the best results be attained where there are no deflaite ends towards which the pupil may direct his endeav- ors. It is lamentable, but true, that there is & vast amount of time lost by the pupils in our schools. We mean no disparagement to the teachers, but the fact is indisputable that pupils linger over work that could be well done in one quarter the time they devote to it were the external influences and direc- tions what they should be. They work the same problems in arithmetic year after year; learn the same rules of or- thography, grammar and reading; com- mit the same passages, time and time again, For this evil there remedy. Let the work of the year be clearly mapped out, divided into distinct terms with the studies of each clearly defined Then at the end of each term by regular examinations let the pupil's eligibility for advancement be determined. Let there be the distinction of classes, junior and senior, and as each year rolls by a class graduated in regular college or high school style. The pupil. as a rule, is too young to see for himself the progression he should be making, He studies that which is laid before him, and not untilhe is old enough to revert to his days spent in the pablic schools is he able to see the error of his ways, but then it is too late, and only as a pilgrim can he return to yiew| opportanities that should have been his, | but which his own inexperienced mind and immatured judgment were unable to define and appreciate. As far as they have gone our directors have done nobly, They are men not hampered by old time conservatism, and the day they shall supplant oar grammar school by a high school will ever be memorable in the history of oar educational institutions, while the re- wards that will redown to themselves will be an undying gratitade and to rising generations an imperishable heritage, Ingersoll on the Farmers Concerning the condition of the fare mers and what they msy expect from the Farmers’ Alliance, Colonel Robert In gersoll recently said: “1 do not blame the farmers for trys ing to better their condition. They have certaimly had a hard time, and they feel that they have beem suppress- ed by the bankers, railroads, merchants and patent medicine makers, to say nothing of ministers and lawyers. Everything seems to be against them. They have to fight frosts and floods and drouths, and all sorts of worms and bugs, and speculators and cyclones, and all the birds of the air. Everybody and every- thing takes toll from the farmers. No wonder they want to do something. I do not think the planks in the Cincin- nati platform can be fastened together and held in place. The farmers ought to know that resolutions passed by pos litical conventions raise neither corn nor wheat, neither can they affect prices, 1 do not believe that a government can make money by law any more than it can make good crops by law. The gow ernment can’t support the people. The people have got to support the govern. ment. The government is a perpetaal pauper. I ask this one question—if the government can make money why should it collect taxes? Why not make what it needs and stop bothering the people? Still I am glad that the far. mers are discussing this question. They will find out what the government can, and cannot do,” is au infallible A I Msi After Quay. Philadelphia Republicans are after Quay. An address to the citizens of Pennsylvania was issued, signed by 150 of] Philadelphia's most influential business and professional men, all of whom write themselves Republicans. They point out the canses of past Republican defeat and present scandals in the State and the necessary steps toward improvement, The movement Is directed against Senator Quay and his followers in gen< eral politics. The citizens threaten to defeat any ticket headed by any adhe rant of his, The address is signed by! many men of means and independence, but by few who have hitherto taken any part in politics. Im————— Senator Pettigrew says that he had positive assurance that Mr. Blaine would accept the presidential nomination in ol if offered to him. The senator predicts A Monster Swing A Meadville, Pa, resident is the only man who has yet come forward with an original suggestion worthy of note for the World’s Fair in Chicago. His device if practicable, will be both pleasuresgivy ing and money-making. He wants a mammonth swing 500 feet high erected to be operated by electricity, It will sup port a handsome car, which will carry fifty persons. According to the desig. ner’s calculations, the car will swing a distance of 1,250 feet, At the extremity of each sweep it will lift the passengers # heghth of 460 feet, affording them a flash view of the exposition, the city, surrounding county and lake. Midway in its flight the car will travel swifter than a bird and faster than a mile a min. ute. It is to be so stupendous and start- ling that it will be doubbed the eighth wonder of the world, onsnsscspf tlfs A A Three Mill Tax A three mill tax will have to be laid this year by the commissioners to ena- ble them to meet all bills and have some money in the treasury at the end of the year. They are at work the past few weeks on the county assessment. Hen derson’s little two mill tax scheme was very short lived and only found an emp. ty treasury and several thousand of are utterly inadequate for the commis sioners to meet all bills and keep the county free of debt and an example was furnished by the last competent{?) board county free of debt once, move a three mill tax will be laid. Wants to Reduos the Srp] us. The Lycoming oounty commissioners want to hire forty tobacco chewers, who will be supplied with free tobacco, and whose daty it will be to climb up into {the trees on the Court House lawn ‘and {spit all over the leayes for the purpose of destroying the insects that are playing havoc with them. We guess we'll send down some of our Lock Haven chewers who erowd the street corners and stand about the church doors evenings. We have noticed some of them who we think would be able to squirt the tobacco jaice clear into the very topmost branches, adds the Clinton Democrat, Will Lengthen theSiding. The railroad company will begin work soon on the siding at the station, on the north side of the track, Part of same bes been occupied by a coal yard and trestied. This will be filled up and the siding extended to the one on the pies nic ground to facilitate in the handling of trains. The small siding on the pics nio ground used for unloading machio- ery will then be removed. It will res quire some work to do this as there is a large fill at the blace. The Nicelys Did Confess, Sheriff Good, of Somerset county, is reported to have said that every word in the Nicely confession was true. He said he was a witness to the confession, and that the condemned men had not made an explicit confession because they would have been obliged to implicate one near them, and this they refused to do. He said, also the truth of their con- fession had been contested for a purpose by their friends, and that other parties implicated in the tragedy would now never be known. A A I A ONS The Last Log Sawed. The big steam saw mill of Hopkins & Weymouth, at Snow Shoe, was shut down for all the time, Saturday afters noon the last log having been sawed at 4 o'clock. The mill was erected there to saw the lumber on tract of 5,000 acres, from which the lumber has been cleans ed entirely, The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Res formed church, of this place, will hold a Lawn Sociable &t the residence of Dr. Alexander, Saturday evening, July 18th, Ice cream, cake, fruit and other delica~ cies will be served, A cordial invitation in extended to all. Gold Plating Coin Must be stepped, The secret service officers have notis fied jewelers that they will be prosecuts ed for counterfeiting in case they are caught gold-plating silver or nickel coins for use as bangles, It has been discover. od that some of these coins have been passed for gold coin. Btill Smashing, The stone crusher has been removed from near the station to Mr, John Ar ney's field, back of Hoffer street, where it is engaged at present in chawing up stones for the pike company, it’s owner, ARC, fe gu, ARCANE A Train Back. A special train bas been secured by the committee of Bellefonte’s Fourth of that if Mr. Blaine is alive in *92 he will be the Ropublins cndidue. to Coburn, leaving at 10 Valuable Information Regarding Times In Pennsylvania, Hon, John B, Linn, the able historian, of Bellefonte, delivered an address bes fore the alumni association of Franklin and Marshall college, at Lancaster, which treats on the early history of our state, particularly as it relates to rail- Farly Ing is the address: “Whatever may have been written in depreca. tion of the enterprise of our Commonwealth, “The Bleeping Giant,” as Dr. Nevin was wont to call our State, it is certain that Pennsylvania took the initiative of all sister States in public fms provements. The documents are extant to prove that the United States Is indebled to Pennsyls vania for the fiest introduction of turnpikes and canals to the public attention. In 1791 actual commencement was made in Penosylvanis of projects which have resulted in the connection by tumpikes, canals and railroads of every im- portant part of our vast country, and great liberal ity bas always maried the career of Penmsyls vaula tn public improvement, A career, to speak accurately, not commenced but resumed u nder the Constitution of 1790, with the act of April 13, 1791, making large approprias tions for the improvement of rivers snd rosds. Then came the resolution of September 27 1791, which insugurated the turnpike from Philadel. phia to Lancaster, followed by the act of Beptem- ber 20 1791, authorizing the incorporation of = company 10 open a casual from the Schuylkill tw the Busquehanna. The turnpike was commenc- ed in 1792 and finwbed in 1794, sixty-two miles in length, at & cost of $405,000; and under the act of April 19, 1792, authorizing the opening of & canal between the Schuylkill and the Delaware, the spade was set on the river bank at Norristown to excavate the first public canal in the United Blatles, In 1807 there were three completed turnpikes from Philadelphia to Harrisbulg, one of them by way of Downingtown. It is no slur upon the enterprise of the director who went to Philadeis phis 10 have the mile sones in wesdiness that “To BH.” was engraved upon them. “He always spelied Downingtown Towniugtown,” and evi dently perferred following his own iangusge to complying with the idiom of the Scotch-Irish, thus unconsciously sttesting on tables of stone, which have endured for nearly a century, that at the lowest estimate, one Pennsylvania German was ai that early day in the forefront of public improvement, What would that director exclaim now were he to awake from his long sleep and hear the clanking wheels and see the smoking torches of hundreds of trains, trains that now speed their way over the Alleghenions and stretch ofl down the Ohio 0 the sunset side of the father of floods, thenoe over the Rockies to the Pacific! Prior to 17% transportation of fron and mer. chandise was made on pack horses and in 1794 the cost of transportation from Philadelphia to Erie was 824% per ton. The crank for the first saw mill built in Ohio was carried by packs horws over the mountains in 1789. The first wagon load of merchandise taken over the Al legheny Mountains was hauled from Hagerstown Md, wo Brownsville, Pa, in 1780, by John Hayden the discoverer of iron ore in Fayette county, dis tance 140 miles, cost three dollars per hundred and the time consumed in the trip one month. When Geners! Beuner established his fron works in Nittany Valley, now Centre county, in 1798, be transported his fron on horseback © Pitsbnrg at a cost of $75 per ton. The pack horses onrried the bam of iron crooked over and around thelr bodies and barrels and xegs were bung on esol side of the animal, As Isle ss 1517 It cost $100 1 move a ton of freight from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, distance 355 miles. The Pemnsylvania Railroad Company now carries s ton between the same points for from $2.30 100 to $308 100. In 1817 Lt cost 87 10 transport one hundred pounds of dry goods from Philadelphia to Pittsburg; now the lowest price is thirteen cents, the highest thirty nine cents. On the 16th of April, 1834, the main lise be tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg, consisting of canal, Portage Railroad and Columbia Raliroad (the latter being the last link) was finished. After that freight occupied eight days in transit and cost one dollor per hundred, The passenger time between these cities was three days and nipeteen hours, and the ticket alone cost $15. As late as 1837 an English traveler remarks it took him 46 hours 0 travel from Pitsburg to Erde. Now freight is transferred from Philadelphia 10 Pittsburgh in tweniyvour hours, passengers in nine hours and ten minutes; fare nine dollars. The first act passed by any Legislature in Am- erica for the construction of a railroad for pulie vse was passed by the Legisiature of Pennsyl vania and signed by Governor Helster on the Sist of March, 1828. This sot anthoriced the building of a railroad from Philadelphia to Columbia. Ten years afterwards the first successtul locomos tive made in Philadelphia, and the best one that had been made in the United States, was placed on the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norris town Rallrond by M. W, Baldwin, of Philadel phis. It ran a mile in less than a minute, The first locomotive with a train of csrs attach. ed that came into Harrisburg was run from Mids distown in September, 1538, Il tok thirteen years to stretch the railroad to Lewistown, sixty miles west of Harrisburg, Four years after it reached the Portage road, one mile east of Hollis daysburg, and on the 15th of February, 1854, ‘com munication was established by the Pennsylvania Railroad with Pittsburg, a distance of 257 miles, To crown the achievements of Pennsylvania ens terprise, in June, 1876, the Pennsylvania Railroad Have Gono West, The Delamater family have dropped out of Meadville. George Wallace Del. amater, late Republican candidate for Governor, is now at Puget Sound. Wash. Business Failures, The business failorers for the first six months of the present year are reported by R. G. Dun’& Co, to number 5,074 as against 5,385 during the same period in 180C. The increase is unusually large. The extent of the liabilities is also ex cessive, The amount owing by the pare ties who have failed in 1891 footing up $02,000,000, while for the same period in 1890 it was only $65,000,000, Notwithstanding the extreme extent of these casualties and other adverse cirs cumstances, the reports from all portions of the connty, furnished for the semi- annual business outlook, indicated = fairly healthy condition of trade and ex. cellent prospects in view of the large in- crease of wealth from growing crops and pative industrial enterprises. The Pipe Laid, The new water main being laid by the water company from the Reporter of- fice to the woods, was connected on Fri- day morning snd the citizens again sup- plied with water, though some of the privaie connections were not mede un- til a day or so later. For a year or more much complaint was heard on account of no water at that end of town, but now it has ceased and all sre happy once more, though a few will siways kick, just for the sake of doing mo, it being chronic with them. sf attain —-— Fourth ot July Sssursions on the P. BR, In pursuance of the usual custom the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets for the Fourth of July holiday between all stations on its system east of Pittsburg and Erie, at a rate of two cents per mile, The tickets will be sold on July 3d and 4th, aad will be valid for re! .ran July 7th 1801, inclusive. m—— si tn Mp Death of John Tate, Mr. Jobn Tate, of Pleasant Gap, died at his home near that place on Thurs. day night, about 12 o'clock, his death being cansed by paralysis. Mr. Tate was aged 74 years. The faneral took place Saturday | afternoon at 3 o'clock. ss I —————— A Big Time. A big time will be had at George Meiss’ store, across the valely, on the evening of the 4th of July. Fireworks, and other attractions. All sre invited to come, sti Af IM So The Prohibitionists. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists will meet at Harrisburg, August 26, to nomin- ate a State ticket. il ——— Lengthened the Term. The board of echool directors have lengthened the term of public schools from six months to eight. Additional Locals. ~ Where are you going to celebrate ? ~]t looks as though we would have a wet Fourth, —wJohn Krombine has had the exy terior of his hove repeinte, —Mrs, J. D. Marray sojourned in Bellefonte several days this week. ~Mr, Thomas Yearick and wife, of Asrocsburg, are visitors in town among relatives, ~—Wednesdsy morning began a rain which has continued to this moraing, with no sigos of a clear up. Wagner Geiss has been employed by & nursery company to sell their goods through this section, ~Maay farmers through this section have begun cutting their hay and will have a better crop than expected. Miss Flora Love, a Rurorrar typo, will spend the 4th st Mechanics. burg. as guest of Rev. Wm. Foster. wePeter Hoffer, the farm implement agent, last week received a car load of binders for which he bad taken orders. —New clothing, new hats, new for nishing goods, everything new for the coming season is now opened and ready for your inspection at the Philad, Branch, Bellefonte. ~The masons are engaged at work is completed and is no small one either, Do you want to secure genuine bargains in clothing and gent's fornishs tendent of the Meadville and Louisville Railroad, is at the home of his sister-ins law at Chicago. Victor M.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers