VOL. LXIV. FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR Is Harold McClure a presidential pos- sibility ? Judge Krebs, of Clearfield, bas decid-~ ed that the office of assistant assessor has no legal existence. Ohio is now agitated over the senato- rial question. John Sherman thinks he thouid be re-elected and gabby Foreaker thinks he should have it, 0 Don’t feel uneasy about the wood and coal running out, and putting a stop to warm meals. Electricity is going to take the place of these in proper time, with greater comfort and economy. ——————————— Senator Quay says he feels vindicated by the result of the election in this state, It is also a vindication of Livsey, Marsh and the rest, and they can now return from their flight to foreign lands. Judge Bucher was defeated by 464 in a district that gave the Republicans 1506 majority. There is nothing in this that the Judge need feel ashamed of —al ho’ the district should be ashamed for not re-electing Judge Bucher, No other issue should come up in the battle of 1892 bat the tariff. That ques tion is paramoant and should be settled. Let the people have the opportunity to study it alone and uoderstand it thor. oughly and vote their coovictions in Nov. *92, A ————————————————————— A base ball catcher has become a coun- ty Judge in Pennsylvania, He must have been a good judge of balls in his earliest profession. The above item is from the New York Press, a Republican organ. It is true and has reference to Harold McClare, elected over Judge Basher, The last spike has just been driven on a road—the Seattle & Montana—which gives the Puget sound country connecs tion with the east by way of the Cana~ dian Pacific railway. It is not very long since the completion of the Northern Pacific railroad into the unbroken wild- erness where the flourishing cities of Paget sound to~day stand, was heralded with acelamations along the North Pas cific coast, and this will prove itself a formidable rival. At the late election in Dauphin county on the demand of the 1500 negro votes that make that county Republican, the party nominated Dr. Jones, a thoroughly reputable and ususaally intelligent man, for the office of coroner. It was assum- ed on all sides that he would be elected bat when the returos came in it was dis. covered that while the Republican party had nearly 2,500 mejority in the county Dr. Jones was beaten in a equare fight by Frank Hoy, Damocrat. The Republi. cans deliberately defeated the doctor be cause he is a negro and of coarse the oolored brethrea at Harrisburg are mad. If there is anything one shoald guard against, it is to be a breeder of strife in a community, tbat banefal curse to the peace and happiness of society, Saying spiteful things, by indirection slanders ing another, misinterpreting motives vat of a disposition to do another injury ~how often is it seen that these vices, bred of jealousy, do the work of the evi! ohe in destroying love and esteem and planting strife where peace and harmos by would naturally dwell, Often it is known that those who would figure as leaders in society, instead of being mod- els for good in their actions and conver- sation, are the very curse of the society and community which they might adorn. Reader, guard against these vices, A novel issue was introduced in a Kan« sas judicial election last week which ree suited in the righteous defeat of Judge Nicholson, the Alliance candidate for district jodge. Four years ago this judge railroaded a couple of strolling boys to the penitentiary for 13 years each on a charge of stealing clothing. The boys had & good defense—were innocent as it tarned out -but were hurried to trial without counsel and no chance to coms municate with their friends, In despera- tion they entered a plea of guilty, In violation of the usual course, they were immediately sentenced. After address ing the boys in most bitter language Judge Nicholson sentenced them to be confined in the penitentiary at hard labor for the term of thirteen years. They reached the penitentiary April 10 1887. After baving served over foor years the prisoners convinced the sheriff that they had no connection with the barglary, and, in fact, bad not heard of it until arrested for the crime. Their pardon is to follow, The facts coming out caused the defeat of the brutal judge for re~election, CE Enormous Sums for Roads. The Pittsburg Dispateh, which bas given a great deal of attention to the subject, makes the statement that some- thing over $5,000,000 has been spent in Pennsylvania this year in the repair of roads. This is an incresse of $1,000,000 over the amount expended last year, and there is really not hing to show for it. It would be difficult to accept these enormous figures were it not for the fact that our contemporary gives the figures by counties in more than one-half the State, and these fully sustain its general calculation. This amount is not all paid in cash, but the tax is assessed in difter- ent sums in the several townships of a county, and only what is not worked out by the property owner is paid in mor ey. The work is generally done very careless- ly, without adequate supervision, and the roads are very soon iu about as bad con- dition as if nothing had been done with them, Larger sums are paid or worked ont in road taxes in many of the counties than are raised for the support of the publie schools. It is plain, however, that no | matter how large the expenditare, it will accomplish no permanent good until there is a very radical change in the present system. Five millions of dollars is not a large sum to spead ina year on roads of a large State like Penusylvania, but it is an enormous sum to be wasted, as it generally is now. It is not pretend- ed that the roads of the State in general show any imprevement over a year ago, in spite of what has been done. It is useless to go in this way. The present want of foundation for most of the country roads makes expensive and frequent repairing necessary, Once made right they would require less attention, and would be kept in exellent repair at comparatively small cost. Experience has shown that this is not to be done successfully by the present irresponsible township system and the method of working ou! the tax. It would richly res pay the farmer to pay his road tax in cash, and let the money be used under competent direction. He would then realize something for it, which he rarely does now, This is a problem which cannot Ye too soor solved, and some general system adopted which will prove to the advan- tage of all. There are few things likely to benefit the farmer more than good roads. It would be a measure of econos my to him to pay liberally in this respect if the money be spent wisely, but the present system is altogether extravagant and unprofitable. The farmer really gets nothiog for his money and his work. A ———————————— Better Look About Them. From the New York Herald, Now the contending factions in the Presbyterian Charch should get together shake hands, forget the animosities of the late anti-heresy campaign and charge all together at the bosts of Satan. Evidently the body of the Church hereabouts is opposed to continuing these debates, which tend to make worldliogs laugh and sceptics sneer. It's a sheer wate of good talent, One sentence in the address which that remarkable young man, Dr. Van Dyke, delivered on Wednesday can be particularly commended to Preabyterians and all other church people who fall by the ears sbout words and doctrines. “This great city,” said Dr. Van Dyke, “wants the bread of life. Don't let ns give it the stones of controversy instead.” Tbe Indians Supreme Court affirmed the decision in the celebrated United Brethren case, which gave the property of the denomination, valued at $2,000 000 or $3,000,000, to the faction known as the Radicals. The dispute arose over the revised confession of faith, the church dividing into two parties, the Liberals and the Radicals, The Liberals, though in the minority, demanded the church properly, including the $250,000 book plant at Dayton, Ohio. The decision of the Supreme Court is that the matter was properly adjudicatéd in the ecclesis astical courts of the church, and that there is no need for the intervention of the civil Courts, The inability to secure enough mas chines and men to operate them to thresh out the wheat of the Dakotas and Minnesota is the most decisive proof of the enormons crops that region has pro daced this year, The farmers are beg ging fer machines and for help, the ex. tra hands usually employed at this seas son baviog proved utterly inadequate, An organization has been formed in St, Paul and Mioneapolis, and a loud call has been made on the unemployed threshers of Minnesota, lowa and Wiss consin to go to the help of the overtaxed farmers. Tbe railroads have offered to help, and machines, with crews to man them, will be sent at reduced rates and wherever there is a demand for them, It is not often that the farmers of the Northwest are so overwhelmed with good fortune as they are this year and bave to eall upon the outside world to help them realize it. HALL. ME, HENSEL'S ADDRESS The Attorney General Addresses the Senate on the Investigation, Attorney General Hensel said in open- ing of the Senate at Harrisbarg on Fri- day that he would not permit the learns ed counsel at the other table to gc be. yond him in emphasizing the import ance and dignity of this oocasion. He said again that he was there not in the exercise of any right that attached to his office, but simply as the assistant of the senate, and he bad tried, he said, to keep in view that it was no part of his task to justify the course of the execu- tive in thus convoking the senate in ex- traordinary session. He was not here to place a construction upon the fourth section of the constitution regarding the rights of the senate and the executive, and he contended that he had the right to reserve his opinion on that question for the executive, if he should desire it. He then briefly referred to the opening of the senate and the adoption of the rales of procedure, quoting the remarks of General Gobin and others respecting & thorough and impartial investigation in support of his assertion that the sens ate itself had practically decided the matter of jurisdiction at the very outset by agreeing to proceed. Only when the facts had presented themselves in all their fullness, he said, had the sepate decided to hear and consider the quess tion of jurisdiction, He here cited the case of Sherif Rowan, of Philadelphia to show that the senate had once pros ceeded to an investigation looking to re moval by address without thinking of its jurisdiction in the premises. He also referred to the case of Alderman Gil. bride, of Scranton, whose case had been considered by the senate after serious charges had been preferred against that official. No questions of jurisdiction, he said had ever been raised in these particular instances, He continued farther, that io the case of Judge Kirkpatrick, of Pittsburg by the adoption of the report therein, the senate had unquestionably assumed jurisdiction and reqosted the governor by address to remove the judge. He submitted from these precedents that it would be as work of supererogation on his part to advise the senate that it had not followed beaten paths in the cases above mentioned; but he would discoss certain phases of the question of jurisdic. tion, Stripped of all redundancy, he said the argument for the respondents was that the senate had no right to be here, and if here it had no right to prosecute an inquiry, and having made the inquiry it bad no right'to reach s conclusion. Mr. Hensel proceeded to analyze and break down their construction and ine terpretation of the constitution and law. His remarks were those of a prosecuting attorney, and he made out the strongest case possible, every bit of testimony that could be pictured to the disadvant- age of the accused officials being portray- ed, He declared that the evidence ads duced had clearly proved gross negli. gence and inefficiency in the adminis tration of the two departments in ques. tion. He also took occasion to disclaim for the governor partisanship in the con vening of the senate at this particular time, and tried to show that it would have been a foolish thing from a partisan standpoint for the governor to call to. gether a senate denominated by bis political opponents and the political friends of the accused officials with party advantages in view, He took up the argument of counsel regarding the calling of the senate in a proceeding of this kind and maintained at some length that the “removal by ad dress” was clearly executive business, He contended that the senate had power to adddress the governor for removal by address for reasonable cause, Upon reassembling Mr. Hensel ree minded the senate, that whatever action it might take, its decision could not fail to be of great importance and lasting in flaence in the commonwealth, and they shonld not permit themselves to be deluded or terrified by the protentous prophecies of the effects of establishing arbitrary executive power, for all no ofs ficial could be actually removed except by the law of the land, Whatever the senate may transmit to the governor or whatever action he might take the ace cused official, although technically re+ moved by the governor, might sit safely in his office and exercise all its franchises and privileges without bolt or barricade until the court of Dauphin county and the supreme court of Pennsylvania had finally said that he had deen legally and properly removed, The attorney general had the largest audience that has listened to any speak. er during the extraordinary session. His speech was very clever in many re- spects, and his witty sallies drew forth several rounds of applacse, Lawyer Shapley, against whom most of the satire was directed, did not like it, and his face crimsoned many times in his effort to retain his self-control, ~==Bubseribe for the Rerorrea. Finance and Trade. Daliness characterized all operations this week, owing, no doubt, to farmers being busy husking corn, An up-town boy lost & penny yester. day, which caused a panic in the money market; two other boys spent three hours in trying to find the lost coin, but failed, and have since made an assignment in favor of their wives. Trade has been remarkably quiet for this time of the year, The only trans action of any considerable importance was between a boy from the station offering to swap an apple to a boy from the lower end of town for ten peanuts the deal was finally brought about by the boy haviog the apple agreeing to take nine peanuts for the fruit, In real estate there was scarce any movement. There was only one tranes action of note during this week which was an actual transfer; one of the school teachers sent a Church street lad home to have the dirt washed from his face, In the grain and produce market there has been a feeling of uneasiness, A fall out within the last twenty-four hours between two gossipiog females has led many to believe that war would result, hence grain and produce are held up for higher prices; the present activity in Uacle Bam's navy yards is supposed to have been caused by the female une pleasantness—if there is an outbresk it willbea naval battle with hot-water kettles. We have reliable data that things abead are hopeful and trade and money matters will brighten up by the holi- days, for a caller at this office yesterday, assured us that in two weeks he was promised his cash for 1{ days busking corn, when he would then subscribe for the Cexrae Rxrortiz and pay three months in advance, These funds will be immediately applied towards paying our outstanding “williams” and sid ma- terially in relieving the stringency of the money market, If otheas will come and subscribe for the Reroxrss, paying in advance, good times are bouad to follow. - ————— The Result. Iowa elects a Democratic Governor, Boies, by 9000, and the balance of the Democratic ticket by 3000, New York went Democratic by 48,000, Penn's went Republican by 58,000, In Massachusetts, Rossel, Democra t, is re-elected by 12000, Ohio elected McKinley Governor by 12000. Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia, all went largely Democratic, Kavses and Illinois show beavy Deme ocratic gains. , yo The Bosses’ Ticket for ‘94. Quay the boss of the state of Penney. vania and Magee, the boss of the state of Allegheny, have come together and fixed the slate for ‘04, thus: Governor—E, A. Montooth, Allegheny, Lieutenant Governor—Thomss V, Cooper, Delaware, Secretary of the Commonwealth Frank J. Reeder, Northampton, Adjutant Geoeral—Danlel H., Has tings, Centre. For United States Senator in 1898—M, 8. Quay, Beaver, This would leave our Dan where we always contended the bosses wanted bim-out iu the cold, And now Secretary Rush, of the agricultural department, comes to the res cue of the McKinley bill by stating, in his report, that the decrease in agrical- tural importations is due to the new law. Every school boy knows that the United States, with its millions of bushels of grain in excess of its needs, does not re~ quire any foreign agricultural products. To import these products would be “to carry coal to Newcastle” Rush is a partisan, however, and like all partisans his ideas of trath and honesty are obscured by demagoguery. -o-—— graphs his paper asfollows: Winter be gan in Rossia on Tharsday with the first sharp frost. Living men cannot remem. ber any other year in which this simple announcement meant what it does now. There are literally millions of humans be. ings, at the farthest within a six day's journey of London, to whom this frost comes as a sentence of death by starva- tion. Although the censors have fore bidden the Russian papers to discuss the famine, the Novosti ventures the declas ration that 20,000,000 creatures are als ready without food, and that a sum four times greater than the recent loan ex. tracted from France is needed to keep them alive. dM ——r- It is ramored that a grand son of Dom Pedro ison his way from Portugal to Rio Janeiro, to become Emperor of Bra« til. The late Emperor, Dom Pedro, is quite feeble in his exile, There is no great danger yet of a war between the United States and Chili. epor TRIAL LIST. Second Woek---Commeneing Monday, Nov, 30th. 1891, Exr's. of Mary Royer fdec'd. ve, Henry Royer, et all. Wm Scholl ve, M. M. Musser. Hiram E. Johnston vs. Jennie Johns ston. John Ligget ve. Lehigh Valley Cos’ Co. Cunningham & Co. vs. N. M. Leathers. Bird Coal & Iron Oo. vs. Birwind White Coal Mining Co, D. W- Herring vs. A. M. Hoover and wife, et al. Frank P, Blair vs. Qarneigie Bros, & o., James McNitt vs, James Lingle’s Admr’s, John L. McNitt vs. James Lingle's Admr’s, J. and J, MoNitt ve, James Lingle's Admr's. George Rinestone ve, Millheim Turn pike Co. Grenoble Store Co. ve. Continental Ins, Co, Amos Garbrick vs, Bellefont Psrnace Co.et al. Agnes Shoemaker School District. Assignee of RB. H. Powell & Co, vs. assignee of W, J, Jackson et al, Ex’r. ot M. Woodring dec’d. ws. J. L. Bpangler and H, Montgomery, William Auman vs, J. D. Decker. E. J. Walker vs, James SBhiker. W. F. Reynobls vs. Grenoble Stores Co. W. M. Cronister vs. D. J. Meyer, Isabella Lohr vs. Boro of Philipsburg. Mattie E. Holt va, Robert Cook, Jr, J. H, Pierce, et ux vs. Adam Moyer Jr. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. vs. Patrick Ward, Sr, ot al, John Li, Kreamer vs, Ellen Bowersox. Leslie Markle Admr's va. Joseph Mark. le. C.C.Lance & Co, vs. Wm. R. Miller estate. George Watson vs. Henry Spanogle. Lyda Keller vs. Jacob K. Rankle Admr’s. ve. Philipsburg -t o al Merit Wins, We desire to say to our citizens, that for years we have been selling Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Dr. King's New Life Pills. Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as well or that have given such universal sstisfao- tion, We do not hestitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refand the purchase price, if satisfactory results do not follow their nse. These remedies have won their great popular ity purely on their merits J, D. Murray's Druggist. ll Grange Meeting. Centre County Pomono Grange will meet in the hall of Progress Grange at Centre Hallon Friday, Nov. 27th 1891, at 10a. m. sharp. Election of officers for 92 and ‘93 will be beld. Report of Picnic committees and other important business will be transacted. Jas, C, Grirrraxo, Secretary. Hunting Rules. When you go hunting throw your gua carelessly over a fence. Put your foot on the hammer while you blow in ihe barrel. Use your gun as a cane~barrel towards the head