VOL. LXIV.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
“RED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
Cleveland and Boies woud take with
the boys.
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From all parts of the county comes io~
telligence of numerous cases of lagrippe.
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Chief clerk Kerr has about thirtyefive
holes to fill end about 1000 pegs willing
to be fillers,
Judge Finleiter, of Philadelphia, says
every voter must pay his own taxes, and
nobody can pay them for him. Here is
what he says: “The right to vote is not
a gift, Itisa right earned by the voter
by age, by citizenship, by residence for a
fixed period, and by having paid a Stute
or county tax daly assessed, Eich and
all of thesa things must te done by the
voter, and cannot bs done by anyone
else. No one has the power to make a
qualified voter—the voter mnst qualify
himself.”
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The Mexican government fears that
the villages adjacent to the volcano of
Calima will shares the fate of Pompeii
and has therefore ordered the vil agers
to abandon their homes and
places of safety, The volcano is now
vomiting great volumes of lava, sshes
andjsmoke, and the conatry for miles
around is illaominated by the grand dis
play. Strong winds carry the ashes a
distance of 400 miles. A large party of
scientists from various paris of Mexico
have gone to visit the grand phenomenon.
move lo
There is nothing in history more pas
thetic than the desire of Dom Pedro, the
deposed Emperor of Brazil, to bavea hag
of Brazilian earth, which he had carried
with him in his wanderings in exile
over the earth deposited with him iv his
coffin in the old family vault in Lisbon
It betokened a feeling of genuine senti.
ment which the brutal mob and lawless
horde which drove him from his chosen
land could scarcely be expected to ap-
preciate. We have so many disrepat~
able monarchs, inferior to the people
which they rule, that this example of
one who was superior should be noted.
The Baupreme Court of New York State
has decided that property purchased
“entirely with pension money is ex-mpt
from taxation.” The case io question
was brought by a collector in Broome
county against “Blind Heary” Wright.
About a year ago Wright was living in
Susquebanna and was granted a pension
of 872 a month and arrearages amount
ing to nearly 812,000. The larger por-
tion of this he invested in real estate in
Broome county, N. Y, He refused to
pay taxes when the collector called, and
the suit was brought with the above ree
sult. Itisa decision that will interest
many veterans.
In Ohio the Senatorial fight is becom-
fog hotter every day, and the lines are
now closely enough drawn to make
possible a fair estimate of what the situa.
tion really is. Just after the election the
Sherman men brooght to the front their
entire force and made the greatest dis
play possible, evidently with the hope
of driving their oppouentia ont of the
field without a fair conlest of strength.
The Foraker men understood that this
‘would be a part of the plan of the cam-
paign, and without vamiog or claiming
any members, except those who were
willing to come forward and make states
ments of their preferences, quietly went
on with the work and the fight, The
Sherman boom has now for more than a
week spent its entire strength, and the
Sherman men are at the present wiitiog
very badly frightened as to the sitnation.
There can be no mistake that ex Gover
now Foraker has decidedly the best of
fight, and if be can keep his strength he
will be nomipated by the Republican
Senatorial caurus with a very handsome
majority.
If the public may believe stories that
come from Dwignt, Ill, which is the joca.
tion of Dr. Keeley’s institute for the
treatment of drankards and their cure
by the bischloride of gold process, this
gold method is turning gold into Dr,
Keeley's pocket at a very rapid rate.
There is said to be an average of 600 to
700 patients at Dwight, each one of whom
pays $25 per week for treatment.
Estimated on a basis of only 500 patients
this would mean an income of $750 000 a
year. In addition to this income vast
number of patients are treated by mail,
Patients who have been at Dwight estim
ate Dr, Kooley's income at anywhere
between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000 per
sanum. He employs a great corps of
men. including ten physicians, to assist
him in his work, but his expenses must
be very light, compared with his income
and his bi~chloride of gold remedy pro-
mises to make him as rich as patent
medicines have made a large number of
Crisp’s Tariff Ideas,
The following extract from a speech of
Mr. Crisp on the McKinley bill, shows
what kind of tariff reform Speaker Crisp
favors: I can suggest a plan of relief
for the farmer in five minutes. Modify
the existing tariff laws; reduce taxation;
permit some reasopable competition in
the market; destroy trasts; accord equal
rights fo all and special privileges to
none. Do these thiogs, and you will
help him. Give the farmer free salt
That would helpa little, You give it to
the fisherman on the coast of Maine and
on the coast of Massachusetts; why not
give it to the farmer? Give him free
bagging, in which the farmer of the West
sicks his corn, and with which the far-
mer in the Sonth wraps his cotton.
Give bim free iron ties, with which in
the South he binds his cotton bales and
with which in the West he bales his
hay.
Give him some reduction on his hats,
on his woolen clothes, and on his cotion
goods. In that way, and in that way
only, can you benefit the great mass of
the farmers of the South and West,
You cannot increase the price of their
products by protective tariff duties, but
you can decrease to them the cost of pro-
doction and of living, by reducing the
tariff on those articles used
their eropa and on those articles of ge-
cessity which all families must use,
These ideas should meet the views of
every farm r.
to make
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, Wallace is a Standing Example,
From the Hazleton Sentinel.
If William A, Wallace's idea wonld
only take root, that is the idea of send-
ing good men to the Legislature, would
be the best monument to him.
The smallness of the average legislator
is exasperating to the taxpayers. They
have little idea of what they are sent
there for. They come home to act the
demagogue. They produce a batch of
“labor” bills whica they exhibit as their
reco.d, when the bills are of no earthly
use to the laborer, or to anyone else un-
less it be the blatant individua! who
makes votes out of their titles as
“labor bills,”
The coal regions have sent men to the
Legislature who were manifestly unfitted
for anything that required average com»
mon sense, Harder things might be
said against them with trath. We shall,
prebaps, keep on sending worthless men
to Harrisburg unless men like Mr. Wal
lace set the fashion, and then, perbape,
we may get a good Legisiatare that will
give us sound laws of benefi to all sorts
and conditions.
A EEA,
Governor Pattison a few days ago is-
sued his procismation announcing that
the State debt had been reduced daring
the year $2538352. The Philadelphia
Times says: “He did not state that if
the auditor geveral and state treasurer
had enforced the law they were sworn
to obey another million of the Btate
debt might bave been paid out of the
money doe the "State and collected for
the State by Johu Bardeley. He could
truthfally have done so, and all honest
Pennsylvanians would have held him
justified in calling sttention to these
facts,” It is a fact, however, that the
Siate senate voled it had “no jurisdic
tion,”” even to the extent of removing
the faithless officials from office.
The Delinquents Must Pay Up,
The County Commissioners have sent
out n 3 to the tax collectors through-
out the county thal they must settle up
their 1860 daplicates within the next
few days. There is a good bit of 1880
tax unpaid to the collectors and it now
bas become a compulsory maiter with
the various collectors to pay the said tax,
otherwise the coilector will be obliged
to collect the same through process of
law.
Under the present law, passed at the
recent session of the State Legislature,
collectors are given three months after
the expiration of their year in which to
wake all their collections and settle up
their duplicate, If not done by that
time the county commissioners are em-
powered to euforce ths payment of the
smount of balance due on the duplicate,
whether collected or mot. Thus it will
be seen that when the tax collecior ine
sista on being paid any tax you may owe
him he does it becanss he is compelled
to do so by the powers higher than him.
self. Therefore it will save tronble for
yourself, as well as the tax collector, if
you still owe taxes for 1890 that you pay
the same at once.
Of the Alliance senators it is said,
on the authority of members of the Des
mocratic caucus, that in the assignments
Benators Kyle aad Irby will be consider-
ed as Democrats and treated ss such,
while Senator Peffer will be left with
the places given him by the Republi
cans.
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ww Lf 10 need of Fall and Winter un-
derwear, don’t forget the fact that the
Philad, Braoch bas received a full and
elegant line. Call and examive quality
Americans in the last quarter of a cenls
and price and you will be convinced
A Granger's Advice,
In his annual address the Worthy
Master of the Michigan State Grang:
gave the grangers {o understand that the
greatest blessing would result from firm
grappling of the great abuses and draws
backs of the average farmer and an effort
to correct them than from independent
political action, and advised them to
¢teer clear of politics ontlined by any
political party.
He further said that the calamity wail
in which ,ome of them have been ins
dalging was not in keeping with this
year’s bountiful harvest and urged that
they be abandoned and attention given
to broader fielda of education, Boards
of Trade were denounced as gambling
institutions, trusts and combinations
scored and the necessity for more strins
gent legis'ation in the interests of the
people dwelt upon at large
From this we conclude that the Mas-
ter of the Michigan State Crange is not
an office seeking crank.
“Ten Por Cont, Discount”
Harrisburg Patriot
In discossing “the modern miunig'er,” a
few nights ago at the annual dinner of
the Drew theological seminary alomni
one of the ablest of the clergymen pres-
ent said. “The minister of this day
must be 8 man among men. The less
there is of the preacher about Lim the
better.” The explanation of this was
not the preacher should seek low as
seciates or be ashamed of or seek to con-
ceal his calling, but that he should be
manly, prudent, livicg in the world and
working in it,
Probably the most practical illustra
tion of the real meaning of his language
was given by the clergyman himself
when he said: ‘I get every year from
John Wanamaker a circular offering me
clerical-cut cloth at ten per cent, discount
but I have no use for Wanamaker's
clerical cuts and ten per cent. disconnts.”
Here is the whole it it, Why shoald a
clergyman any more than a schoo! teach-
er, or an editor, or a lawyer or a stenog-
rapher, or a clerk, or a day laborer get
bis clothes or any thing else at a ten per
cent reduction? Why, indeed, should
a clergyman ever permit himself to be
put in the light of a suppliant for favors
when his calling ought to make him one
of the most seil-depesdent of men ?
The minister hoids an exalted place in
the community and among bis fellows,
That position can be best used for the
greatest good by the preacher rising
above all narrowness and selfishness, and
standing the equal of any man in power
and influence secured by his own man-
liness and personality, Whenever he
rises above “ten per cent, discounts” he
will ind himself more than ten percent.
higher in public estimation.
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Badly Sealded.
Jeweler Musser, of Main street, met
with a painful accident on last Monday,
which will disable him for work for
some time. He was in the act of carry-
ing a kettle full of hot water from the back
kitchen into the yard when he stumbled
and fell, spilling the steaming contents
of the kettle over his arms. He was
badly scalded, the flesh being drawn in
blisters, When falling he was near a
window through which he broke with
his head the glass, cutting his face in
several places, He is able to be about
and feels glad that his injuries are not
worse, as they easily might have been. —
Milibeim Journal.
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School Children Happy,
When the run was made on the Phils
ipsburg Bank and it was compelled to
suspend payment, §1 425 was on deposit
in that institution by the school children
of that borough, Last week Mr. O. P.
Jones made arrangements by which
each of the 385 young depositors could
obtain their money, This is a very com.
mendable act on the part of Mr. Jones,
who assures all the full swmount, The
children will not soon forget Mr. Jones
for this effort in their behalf,
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Christmas and New Year Excursions on
the P. BR. R,
In pursuance of the custom long since
established, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will sell excursion tickets be-
tween all stations on ita lines for the
Christmas and New Year holidays at a
rate of two cents per mile. These tickets
will be sold December 23d, 1891, to Jann~
ary lst, 1892, inclusive, valid for return
vatil January 4th, 1802, inclusive.
Hazleton a City
Governor Pattison, Friday last, orders
ed that letters patent should be issued
to Hazleton as a city of the third class.
This is a victory for the newspaper men
and enterprising citizens of that place,
against the liquor element who were ope
posed to the formation of a city, on aos
count of the increase of the liquor lis
conse to $500,
, sands of Families
bless the day when they learned the use
of Humphreys’ Specifics Nos. One and
Invented a Patent Gate, :
Spear Borrell, a son of Sumuel Barrell, |
of Bpring Mille, has invented a railroad
gate, upon which he has received latters
patent from the department at Wash-
ington. The gate is intended to do away
with the present cattle guards which do
not fully do the service for which they
are intended. The gate patented by Mr,
Barrell promises (o revolutionize the
present system and will provide an ef-
fective debarrment of stock, ete., from
intrading on lands through which a rail-
road passes. The gate is automatic in
operstion and is opened on the apyrosch
of a train by a series of levers upon the
track and immediately after the train
passes through it closes again,
We understand Mr. Burrell has been
offered several thousand dollars for his
patent, but cannot give it as authentic,
We hope however he will realize band-
somely from his inveative genius,
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Verdiel for Defendant.
The case of James Sommerville and
the Bird Coal & Iron Company, of Centre
County, vs. Berwind-White Coal Mining
Company, of Philadelphia, Clearfield
and New York, which had been on trial
at Bellefonte, for several days before
Judges Furst, Roads, and Albright and
a jury has been closed with a victory for
the defendant.
This was a claim for royalty on many
thousand tons of con! taken from the
lands of the Bird Coal & Iron Company
by Sommerville, and sold to to Berwind
White Coal Mining Company on a slids
ing scale price based on the royalty,
which defendant, it was alleged, agreed
to pay.
Sommerville settled with defendant
monthly aod clamed the price be receive
ed from the company did not include all
royalty due, and with his eo-plaintiff
alleged notice to the late Charles F. Ber.
wind, president of the defendant com.
pany, of these facts and averred that the
latter promised to pay the royalty not
received,
The officers of the Bird Coal & Iron
Company testified in corroboration of
these allegations, but the jjary, sfier a
hotly contested trial, found a verdict for
the defendant, Berwind- White Coal Min-
ing Company,
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Look Out for Them,
We would warn our readers to be on
the lookout for certain unpriocipled
parties who are traveling through the
couuty selling spectacles. They pretend
to understand ail about eyes and ail of-
fer you a pair of glasses that will benefit
your eyes to a wonderful extent, They
will ask you five dollars a pair, bat if
vou refuce to pay, they will drop grados
ally to one dollar or even less, It is
needless 10 add that the glasses are
worthiess affsirs and would be dear at 25
cents a dozen. Of course there are some
honest spectacle peddiers on the road,
but they are easily distinguished from
the frands.
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A New Point In Law,
A Johnstown constable had his eyes
opened on a new point of law a few days
ago. He went to Homer City, Indiana
counly, to arresi a man whom he found
at work in the mines, When the conita-
ble attempted to make the arrest the
miner laughed him to scorn, saying that
according to a certain new law, arrests
could not be made under the ground.
The constable went ont to look up this
point and (ben the miner made good his
escape,
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Suitable Christmas Presents.
If you want to purchase a nice Christ~
mas gift for your friends do not fail to
visit the Ladies’ Bazaar this Satarday
afternoon and night. Bazaar rooms are
over the bank, and a variety of articles
will be found there to satisfy the tastes
of all, Come and eee us, Bazan,
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Pastor of One Church Twenty Years.
The twentieth anviversary of Rev, L.
Kryder Evans, pastor of the Trinity Rex
formed church, st Pottstown, was cele.
brated on Banday with special service,
Duriog the time he hss been pastor
Trinity's congregation has increassd
from 350 to 700 members. Rev, Evdos ie
a son of James Evans, of Gregg township,
this county.
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Musical Convention.
Rebershurg will have a muosical con
vention in the Reformed chareh at that
place beginning on Monday evening,
December 28th and close on Saturday
evening, Jan, 2nd. Prof. P. H. Meyer
of Linden Ha'l, will conduct the same
assisted at iy by Miss Laura John-
son, of Jacksonville,
~Bgave 20 per cst. baying Boots
and shoes at C, P. Long, Spring Mills,
meme Mr. Harry Bibighaus, the wells
known bardware salesman, js in town
this week. Mr. Bibighaus while here
presented the Reronres office with two
fine pair of the indispensible scissors
for which we are very grateful.
se [{ i0 mood of anything in the boot
The Difficulty that was Experienced in
Burying Mr. Johoston.
James Johnston, the man whose back
was broken last summer by being thrown
from a hsandscar on the Beech Creek
railroad, says the Philipsburg Ledger,
died on Saturday at his home near
Kyler's Mill When he was hurt he was
brought to the Philipsburg hospital
There wes no hope of his recovery, and
as it was sopposed that he could only
live a short time, he was kept at the
hospital and made as comfortable as pos
sible, To the surprise of everyone the
man did not die, and after several weeks
wus taken to his home, where he linger
ed until Saturday, when death mercifully
came to his relief. He leaves a wife
and several children. They are very
poor and Johvston was buried by the
towpship overseers of the poor, The cir-
comstances attending tue barial sre
note~worthy on account of the difficulties
attending it. Updertaker Richard
Haworth had great difficulty in finding
the locality of Johnston’s Lome, which
way down ou Moshannon creek, below
Kylertown. The house is on the right
bank of the stream, iu a wild, lonely spot
remote from other houses and almost in-
accessible. The approach to it is by a
narrow, rickely foot bridge which spans
the creek, which on Sunday was swollen
by the recent rains to a raging torrent.
The coffin had to be carried across the
bridge and the task, af er several attempts
wes accomplished by making a barnes
of straps fastened to each end of the
coffin and buckled around the shoulders
of two men who, by clinging to the single
hand rail, succeeded in getting across,
sithough the trail bridge swayed and
sank with their weight until the swift
current splashed over it. After the body
was placed in the coffin the men started
back. They found that with the addi-
tional weight of the corpse the bridge
would not bear them, and after several
ineffectual attemps to carry it over, they
finally got it over by riggirg a barpess
to the stoutest man who then dragged it
over, with much difficulty and peril
There was no minister present, no
monrners and no funeral services were
held over the poor fellow’s body.
Mr. Haworth says that altogether it
was the most troublesome and painfa
piece of business he ever took part io,
aud almost sickened him of undertaking.
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Sudden Death
Mr. David Henny, an old residenter of
Potters Mills, died a few days ago very
suddenly of heart disease, His age was
about 80 years. He was a member of
the Evangelical church.
~~ Weather has been very changes
ble this week.
~ Weather prophet Hicks missed it
sightly in his predictions for December.
~—Mr. and Mrs: Aaron Harter spent
Sunday in Hartleton with relatives,
Thursday morning showed a little
snow on the ground-—weather cold and
windy.
~ Large stock of clothing for men,
boys and children —C. P, Long, Spring
Mills.
wl). R.Musser, of Spring Mills
gave us a call, and reports farmers busy
plowing in Gregg.
we Bhe couldn’t marry three,” gosh,
said a feller who saw it on the bills, I
could marry half a dozen.
«Mr. John P;: Runkel, of Tusseys
ville, is suffering from a very sore foot,
caused by the tramp of a horse.
~~={300rge Swab keeps up the Harris
township end by killing two porkers
that dressed some 840 pounds,
weed. DD. Murray opens the heavy
porker seasons, by slaughtering two that
dressed 800 Ibs, Next.
wei }ar hunters had their bear hung
up in the window of Runkle’s meat mar.
ket, and it attracted no little attention.
weweThe State Grange of Pennsylvania
has recommeded free text books in the
public schools of the commonwealth,
~The reason we lead the shoe trade
# becanse we best satisfy the people for
& genuine bargzain.~Mingle Bellefonte
wee Bd, Wolf, stadent at Gettysburg
Theological Seminary, arrived home on
Monday evening for his holiday vaca*
tion.
weeeThe biz musical convention at
Boalsburg will open on Mondey eve,
Jan. 11th, closing on Friday evening.
Leading instrumentalists and vocalists
have been engaged,
wee Attention! If you are in arrears
on the Rerontes a number of years, we
expect your remittance before Jan, Ist
next. We certainly have shown all rea.
sooable patience in this matter,
wef pumber of sidewalks in town
need repairing and should be attended to
at once. It is poor policy to put off the
#0 unfortunate sa to break a limb,
or shoe line don’t forget that Miagle,
Bellefonte, has the finest line in
state from which to
Every sell dressed ge
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The year 1892 will te an exciting one
aud Tur Post will reflect everything
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They Were Tied
Thedifficulties of the Penvsylvanis law
concerning marriage licenses sometime
throw around couples why aspire to
matrimonial honors sre numeroos, and
itis not every such instance that sees
the problem 80 happily solved as was
the case of a couple at Meadville recent-
ly. The prospective bride and groom,
bappy in the anticipation of a blissful
consummation of their conjugal aspira-
tions, smiliogly greeted the Clerk of
Courts and asked for a license, The bride
looked to be of age, but the question
necessary to a proper filling out of the
license discovered that she was not. It
also transpired that she was an orphan,
and that no guardian had yet been ap-
pointed for her. Here was a dilemma.
The law expressly requires that minors,
in order to secure a marriage license,
must have the consent of parents or
guardian. Observing the disappoint:
ment of the conple, the Clerk remarked
that as court was then in session he
might be able to secure the proper action
and have a guardian, and libitum, ap-
pointed so that matters could proceed.
This was agreed to anda few minutes
Inter the Judge was acquainted with the
facts and, without materially disturbing
the progress of the court business, the
application was promptly granted and sn
obliging attorney, who happened to be
right there, was appointed as the yoang
indy 's guardian, Five minotes b ter. the
newiy appointed onardian was introdne-
ed to bis ward ao! he wotive hus
band, snd in a traly juierosl manner
gave his consent to the union, and the
law being satisfied, the waiting minister
did the rest.
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Invitations Issued.
Invitations were issued om the 10th
inst;, for the wedding of R. Porter
Odenkirk, son of Mr. John Odenkirk, of
Old Fort hotel, and Miss Kate Sankey,
at the home of the bride-elect’s mother,
Mra. John Bankey, about two miles west
of Centre Hall, on Tuesday, December
22nd,
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Marriage at Spring Mills,
On Sunday evening at the home of the
bride at Spring Mills, Mr, Scott McMuat<
trie and Miss Emaline Gramley, both
residents of Spring Mills, were united in
marriage hy Mr. M. L. Rishell, J. P.
A Barn and Its Contents Destroyed by Fire
A barn on the dairy farm of Jacob
Ricker, in Nittanny Valley, was burned
on Bunday night with its contents, in-