me ———_————————s THE CENTRE REPORTER FREDRURIY, Editor TERMS. One yéar, $1.50, when paid in advance. Those in arrears subject to previous terms, $2.00 per year, ADVERTISEMENTS, —20 cents per line for three insertions, and 5 cen per line for cach subse quent insertion, Oiber rates made made known on application. CENTRE HALL, PA., THURS. Feb, 4 “Fifty-three cent dollars’ are all the go, with gold nowhere, and all glad to take 'em. Bryan still lives and that's what worries the gold bugs. i ——— It does not yet look as tho Mark Hanna were marked for U. 8. Senator. Shearman’s seat. A A ——— Tue fight between the sugar and the coffee. The Milton stores are advertis- ing Arbuckle’s and Lyon coffee at 15 cents per pound. ———————— ——————— Tae Pittsburg Post gives accounts of great suffering among the poor of that city, all the worse for the very cold weather we have had. Some are destitute of food and fuel. The Post is | raising a fund to help the destitute. imr—————— ON to Canton was the amiable and | diplomatic Dr. Atherton, of State Col- lege, to see President McKinley and | urge Gov. Hastings for a cabinet posi- | tion. Dr. Atherton has some weight | at Canton but is mum as to the Gov- ernor’s chances. mmo ins — Tue Pennsylvania legislature has been in one month and has done nothing but one faction of the | Republicans trying to “lick” the oth- er—Quay against Wanamaker. But, we almost forgot, there was a bill pre- sented to create more new offices with fat salaries attached. mented Delaware has three claimants for the vacancy in the Senate : Col. Dupont, who was chosen by a Republican fac- tion about a year ago, but the Senate last winter rejected his credentials, yet he is still holding on. The Demo- crats of the present legislature two weeks ago elected Mr. Kenny, and a| few days later another Republican fac- tion elected Mr. Addies. The seating of Kenny seems to be a certainty. ————————— session a ies— A member has presented a bill in the Legislature empowering the Principal of public schools in a town or other district to seleet sub-ordinate teachers, taking this duty out of the hands of the school board. Such a law would act viciously. It would open the door to bribery —Principals might buy their positions in order to obtain boodle from teachers ‘whom they might thus be “persuaded” to appoint over schools under him. There is enough of that kind of corruption keep the schools pure. orable teachers who would not stoop to this but the dishonorable ones would politician, fn ————— AFTER the news of the burning of the capitol had spread over our town Tuésday, the following were some of the interrogatory expressions picked up: Who set it on fire, maker ? Were any high salaries burned ? Were the barn and live stock saved ? Was Gov. Hastings burned ? Will Hastings have to move back to Centre county now ? Won't a mew capitol cost at least twenty thousand dollars? Ans, : IV cost about 6 millions. Well then its not so bad after all ? Quay or Wana- a TREASURY INVESTIGATION. Tue Quay and anti-Quay factions in the legislature are tugging at each oth- er over a resolution to investigate the books of the state treasury, covering a period of twenty years. The one fac- tion desires it to be a white-washing committee ; the other faction wants a committee that will take the lid off the pots and show up how the state funds have been used to enrich Repub- lican bosses amounting to an outright robbery. Some eighteen years ago the late Judge Orvis, in a speech in the lower House, proved from the records that over a million dollars were pilfered who ran the machine. The charge was never disproved. This speech of Judge Orvis would be a good starting point for an investigating committee that meant to investigate. Since that several millions more have gone in the same direction and none of the thieves have gone to the penitentiary except Bardsley, and he was pardoned last fall because he threatened to tell on the other treasury thieves if he was not pardoned. A “FRIENDLY” INVFSTIGATION. tative Stewart and other members of the Legislature who are trying to reform the State Treasury are met with efforts to postpone ac- tion by an investigation made in the terest of the State Treasurer and of balances in bank upon which the State gets no interest, The movement made to get back to the House the Senate resolution for an investigation was evidently concerted, for, before anything had been said about it, Sena- tors in teuch with the administration and officers from the Treasury and oth- er executive departments were on the floor of the House using their influence to persuade members to vote for the return of the resolution and for con- currence therein. They were partials ly successful, the resolution having been brought back by a majority vote, but one which fell short of the 103 votes required to pass a bill, es and wrongs of the are well known. present As a matter investigation is proposed by the friends of the Administration, and its sole { the efforts at reform by ing report. When the Senate tion first came before the House hostile measure. a friendly one, they have now vot- ed to recall it from the Senate with the | purpose of passing it. The { real reform should oppose it to the end. ye the resolution is joint and requires | the signature of the Governor, it | held on good authority that it can { passed only by a majority vote of | the members, and this majority | be i The are | investigation shall be expressed. i | mere fact that executive officers | force an investigation is sufficient to demonstrate that it is to be a **friend- | ly’ : investigation intended to eover up rather than Philadelphia Ledger. ¢Xx pose. pt — LINDEN HALL boring Town. Miss Sallie Barr, a former Centre Co. teacher, was visiting and acquaintances week, William Haflley and sister, of ronsburg, are at present visiting gister, Miss Nora, their Misses Lillie and Sallie Bohn. Harry Bratters, of Pine assisting Mr. Bible in hauling I Centre Hall, This they want and a little better. Hale which for week or two, has again started up on Monday. The protracted place is still in progress, ng days amo a few An- cousins, and (srove, |} to | i i i i «or IR snow more is just would be at F down Ross’ saw mill air had been closed a this | many [ souls are turning to Christ. Many | thanks is due Mr. and Mrs. McClellen | for so kindly their to | their congreg they were { debarred from worshiping elsewhers On Tuesday house the of town, at and meeting opening doors ation, when new I and afternoon the if at wharf, about one hall caught fire The | occupied by Adam Blazer and family; nothing was saved from the story. A trunk i mile west burned to the ground. 10USe Was second containing valuable the flames. The cave adjoining the house and containing potatoes, apples, lard and canned fruit all perished. The community deeply sympathize with the unfoptunate family. The fire was caused by the pipe which went up through the second floor, which without a pipe conductor, and pipe becoming too hot and ingnited the floor, was Wp _ Potters Mills. Samuel McCoy left on morning for Williamsport, where will be married today, Thursday. Rev. and Mrs. Potts, of the wedding of her brother Samuel, Miss Lizzle Faust, of Centre Hall, is at home for a short time, Miss Badie Goodhart expects to leave for the west soon. Miss Ida Long is in this place in charge of her brother's store for ashort time. f The Potters Mills band has purch- ased a clarionet and have elected J. H. Btrong as a member; he takes the new instrument. The Allison dam at this place has supplied more ice for the size than any other in the vicinity; about 200 loads have been taken away. Tuesday was ground hog day; as he did not see his shadow the winter is i almost over. The fox hunters of this place have a new way of getting their game; they shoot them so full of lead they get tired carrying the load and hole up and then they dig them out. AM I have given Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a fair test and consider it one of the very best remedies for croup that I have ever found. One dose has always been sufficient, although I use it freely. Any cold my children con- tract yields very readily to this medi- cine. conscientiously recom- and colds in chil (ied, olfe, Clerk of the Circuit Court, ina, Fla. Sold by 8. M. Swarts, | Tusseyville, J. H. Ross, Lind Hall, Wm, Pealer, Spring Is E. Bartholomew, Centre Hall, THE STATE CAPITOL BURNED. From First Page, which detached but still blazing fell e¢rashing on them. A number of reck- less persons went into the ruined build- ing before the fire was extinguished to look for souvenirs and some had close calls with their lives. Thousands of spectators were kept close behind the ropes and out of harm's way and very few except firemen or capitol attaches got inside. Two or three times young men became disorderly and abusive when ordered outside and there were numerous attempts to break past the line, but they were unsuccessful. It was a thrilling yet almost pathet- ic scene when the flag that had floated proudly over the dome waving through the smoke burned, The dense Was { sank, as if being lowered by hand, in- to the tongues of flame that were burst- ing from the woodwork of the and covering it with fire, The crowd fire and one man who stood the State street steps reverently hat until consumed. The the | estimated unofficially near burned building at about $500,000 The he school department Nothing but a few books saved and the be The fire took with it these separ- e things: The fices of the clerk ¢ IRL loss On is | with an insurance of $200,000, loss of records in t | great. were loss can never made or good. senate chamber, of- and senate librarian, “61 commitiee rooms, forestry com lieutenant office of the | public instruction, the house chamber, | mission, governor's apart- superintendent of ments, | committee rooms, speaker's office, resi- dent and chief clerk’s apartments and spaper The prineipal new rooms, records of the hou and senate were saved, but a vast quantity of documents were lost which can never be rep laced. Some bills in the desk of | the chairman of committees all the for the { the press by a recent rule { Ti were un- doubtedly lost, but duplicate bills placed on file members were sav ese are certified copies, loss on the build- The estimates of the | ing and contents vary. Delaney says it will reach $1,500,000 Other state officials believe {| $600,000 is enough. The that there on the SH) (KK) oF treasury department officials are about $200 0K insurance iit The ascertained as ig. exact amount the a Philadelphia bail cannot be matter {is in the hands of i agent, iments is heav The loss in dot y. | is especially so in the department {i education. There is no vault in the | fice and the | uf royed, papers are nearly de- The most important are { school appropriation books, lost, This will counts tangled for a time, also a great many valuable these ac- There records They { bust of Higbee | been leave were the department destroyed. an- The | 1 the schools o not be replace d. pt ’ a it irchased by Ww years ago was destroyed. e journals since 1800 were bar The senate jodrual for the session In the house time was given to | save all the records, In Lieutenant Walter | Lyon's room there was a very valuable library of and books. They were all destroyed. In the committee rooms there libraries. They contained the In the basement of the | were stored about of The senat destroyed hey cannot { sav ed, (fovernor archives law laws, HY) tons {| They had just come from the printer and were ready to send out. | corner stone of the capitol at noon | Monday, May 31 i nies following , 1819, formal ceremo- bears out- | wardly no distinguishing marks and { while it is not positively known where it is located it is generally agreed agreement based upon the recollection of old inhabitabts—that it is at the southwestern corner This stone his mallet, which was considered by the assemblage omen.” occupied the building on January 1822, was built later. 12) The entire sum set was $135,000, “For of brown stone and to cover the roof of the dome’ $15,000 were apropriated, The main building of the capitol, de- stroyed yesterday, was 180 feet front, eighty feet deep and two stories high. The lower story contained vestibule and stair case, the chambers of the sen- ate and house of representatives and several small apartments for the ac- commodation of the members and offi- cers of the legislature, The second story contained rooms for the state li- brary, canal commissioners, supreme court, school department and commit- tees. The main entrance was by a circular portico the whole height of the building, sustained by six Tonie columns of red sand stone, painted white, four feet in diameter and thirty six feet high, the portico receding thirty-seven feet to a circular wall. The floor of the portico, upon which the columns rested, was about six feet from the ground, reached by steps of sand stone and paved with massive i { flags of the same material, From the BRUSH VALLEY floor to the top of the cornice the dis- tance was forty-six feet and the whole height ofthe front was fifty-six and one-half feet, From the top of the cornice to the top of the dome it was fifty-seven and one half feet, making the whole height 130 feet, The rotunda above the roof was com- posed of sixteen columns twenty-two inches in diameter and seventeen feeq high, and was forty-eight feet in diam- tion Next Week for Ferguson township o morning. Thomas Auman, who i# te day. Calvin Zeigler, who school near Unionville, to school at Rebersburg,. Miss Lydia Gutelius, was sewing for Mrs, last week at Rebersburg. Our Brush valley young the wa is There was the col- wall. The diameter of the inside was thirty-four feet, feet The dome was forty in diameter.] It con- taking advantage of Four of the latter were partly faces of the clocks de- One of the Rebersburg Bamuel Waite, will have week or so and will contin out. and the remainder were originally - . HAPPINESS FOR THOUSANDS, bersburg, were over to Bunday to attend the Lamy. Ed. Nerhood, Wm. per th Everybody, Old and Young. “The Philadelphia Press,” in accord- i Hall, who Wolf at Centre times, de- which abreast of the parture announces fo reason a attract of its to bring to It isthe establishment of a premium department through which and is certain : evening. and thousands. novelty happiness were at the be long and hapj Rebersburg, M ose ws (30 Orge, and May life | men women, boys girls, clubs and societies the things they have been wanting for years, but have to The range of The Philadelphia Press’ proposes to give free to those who will that it embraces almost everything useful and schools, churches, can get, free of Cont, able to see his shadow on according to the old mainder of the more or less, and not conti Neott Kerstetter, ing lumber for Mr. % ingdon county for the last back to Brush val he savi been unable buy, . . winter gifts which * who | make a little effort is 50 great ‘enrie which anybody can wish the ex- orname nial, for. The payment by ** penses of ley last includes of the college of project The A Course even Pre in good; will begin to {.008e, The Reformed and of Madisonburg next r Monds SR York, any or Lutl amoi- | hold women. I'he » Phila- which university for any number will and or ~ tious yonng men convention whole plan is described in “The phia Pres List, can be obtained any ‘The Press to any person who will send two two- The Press’ Premium Philadelphia. hall, beginning Enos, of New convention; attend during the week, ly the Friday evenings. ' Premium will from agent ' or will be sent by mail ¢ of all ir aii concerts stamps to Department, Wc ly tl op To Florida via Peunsylvania BK The The winter ith wu i Guilty of Second Degree Pa. Johnston, New Bloomfield, Thomas 1. killed Dr. ( begun. | dangers of but to midwinter exodus has discomforts and wet whit Rre the worge 8 Henry sky, upon a blooming wenther here, ; y y wu ward, from a cloudless Was y¢ beams a beautiful sun nurder in sec Johua fon and then called called land The ne Mrs. accused them of intams xt mnsylivania Railroad | Jacksonville, allowing two | will leave New York | diately shot both Henry, a Feb, 0 {two hours, but Mrs led. The plea of sanity. ir Lo 'y weeks in Flori and Philadelphi kets, including railway the defer Pu and Excursion tis tion, accommoda- route | ransporis Himan § { | U berth, meals en both dire Ons one —- few months sgo Mr. istock, Mich., th wil tions while traveling on] A be sold at | of Woon New York, $50.00; flicted Philadelphia $48.00; Canandaigua, $52,- | leg $54 Pittsburg, $3 and fat ir him great suffering ¥ ed tot the Was rheumat { following rates, * ism. was swollen the fail Wh (x), 85: Erie, I ry Chamberlain's bo Je Lh it hie iped ond points F formation Agent or to (seo, | One and « I etagenis roadway, or { ther in- Tour New Assistant 3 iLineraries, app al CK Lind Mills, Hall Joyd, Broad Street febd-2 Himsa, spring Station, Philadelphia. Centre PENNSYLVANI Philadelphia & Erie R. &. Divisio and Northern Central Rallway, Time Table, 10 effect Nov, 15, 1806 | TRAINS LEAVE MONTANDON, EASTWARD 951 8. mm ~Tmin 14. (Dally except Bunday For sunbury , Willkerbarre, Hazleton, Potlsvilie Harrisburg and intermediate stations, arriving at Philadelphin at 300 p. m., New York, 555 p m., Baltimore, 8.10 p m, Washington 4.10 P. m connecting st Philadelphia for all are points, hrough pane nger coaches fille delphis sud Baltimore Parlor cars wo Philadel pha, yp. m~Traln {Dally except Bund For Bunbury, Harrisburg and Intermediate tons, arriving at VV hiladel phi a até Sp wm York. 9.25 p, m., Baltimore, 600 p.m , Wael oust 7.15 p.m. Parlor car Rl 0 i pha, aud pascouger coaches Ww Philadel pt altimore, 504 p. m ~Train {Dally For Wilkesbarre, Hazleton, Potlsvil) for Harrisburg and intermediate po at Phils delphia 11.156 p m., New Yor Baltimore 1040 p, m Faseetiger Wilkesbharre and Philadelphia ip m.~Train 6. (Dally For sunbury, Harrisburg and stations, arriying at Phil New Yorkst 755 » m. FP from Harrisburg wPhile Philadelphia passengers ( of Bao undisturbed valley 120 . m VRLIECY | Harrisburg an of Mr. | Pulladelphin at 6 | Week days {m, Washing for | BR . n Monday aching the teachiug B. 38y.) “la s+ New leaded in and 12 except ids and Gul srr people are 4 J extra good LK 0. LE te BE Gui ih Cal Lior merchants, exe fai ie until sold Wis among | t Saturday Charles | both of | Rev. | § hom WY Tuesday, » the be ng nus ally been say Hunt CANE | 4 in year, yp | interim ie for C. IETAD Pe © CO mdoot invited to €F PX 18-1 i Maturday | Murder 3 al {opr rd deg yd his « 1 fision, at | He imme- | ing within 1 recover- INE Was Ev badly His ery, Figas CRU aq ie Pain Bal: Was But how low can we make the 101 We SRK Ourselves when marking onr goods for quest $ zh the purse in many homes, only others by seiative money savers, Our Winter 8 appre Clothing and Underwear have been marked way down. Y ou some, | Shoes in profusion. A pair of 3 O00 Warm Mittens will keep out the cold. We have just tl see them. We can save you big money on every purchase. 3 may need ol | (rioves Or YORK Via Tamequa NEW YORK Via Phila) £8 p.m a m Arr Ive. la. m.p. m. In strength, lightness, grace, and elegance o finish and equipment Model 41 Colum- bia is unapproached by any other make, saddles are recommended by riders TO ALL ALIKE. *100 $100 » Columbia costs.” Er from us for twh scent stamp. a *lmily. Week Days Bw P 210 10 5. m. Sanday. Philadelphia Sleeping Care sttached 0 Fast bound train from or illismajioft at 1130p m. and West-bound from Philadelphia at 11.80 p. m _ 4. W,. GEPHART, General Superintendent. wm, Sunday, ELLEFONTE CENTRAL RAILROAD. To take effect May 25, 1888, EASTWARD. WESTWARD HORE TTR Bellefonte... Calevilie 283 = Ruyes = z saa8tas : IERERNABE REE Lothdhihadd, FazYER2E and DEER RUNS ES BG Rea ee fr jE mma Ens n gr £ i Ea aarmaasEn ony Lock Haven a Tone onnect 7 for oats hg AR — be from Man Train No. 1 Yor State Oollege. Bate Oolioge Commer wih horEe: RR Toaiye from FH. THOMAS, Supt. Morping trains from Montandon, wat Liam Batic fonte, {Dally except Sunday.
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