Ihe Crntrt bellbfonte, pa. Tha Largest, Cheapest wad Boat Paper PUBLISHED IR CENTRE COUHTY. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT is pub lished T*rjr Thursday morning, ■( BolWfunU, tVnlr* . county, Pa. TERMS—Caab in adrnnc*. St BO If not mid In nlnwa. - 8 OO PaymanU ma *3 <*> 3 00 400 8 flu t* On 113 3 Waaka, | I 40 OH; 4 111 6 0O 6 00| 11 001 10 Ul a Waaka, jIUI 3 SOI &00 0 00 T 1)0 13 00 II 00 1 Womb, 'J JO 4 mi 1 400 lOb SOO IS 00| 20 Ml 2 Mouth*. 4 00 ml * ID 10 00 12 > JO Oo| 23 00 3 Monlha,; 5 m * 00.12 00 13 00 IS 00 JJ> 00 34 lai 0 Monlha, 300 12 on 13 <•■ 20 00 22 no 36 no; flu 00 1 Yaar. ||2 00 13 00[24 00.23 On 42 00 fll oo'lifl) 00 Adaartlaiaanta ara calculated by tha Inch la length of column, and any leaa apnea la rated aa a fall Inch. Pi,reign adeerttaementa muat la paid for befoie In aartioa, aacapl on yearly coiitracla, alien half-yearly pa m >nta In advance will lie required. Kurmtl Noricna, li rents per line each Insertion. Nothing Inserted for leaa than 6o rants. Bi alxut Noriega, In the editorial columns. 18 cents par line, each luaartion. let's!. NoTlcaa. In h-cal columns, 10 cenla par Una AacoixcsatSTS ot names of candidates for olPce. $3 each. Aanorvcawrrra or Mtaauans can Drama I inert-.I free . hut all obituary notices will ha charged 8 cants per line. Hp art \L Xoncna 28 per cent, aloes regular rataa. THE Chicago courts have decided that a divorce cannot be granted when the "desertion" is the result of an agreement to live apart. THE people of Philadelphia h*va for years realized that elections in this city are but a farce, plsyed at a high cost to the lax-payer*.— Rtrora. True, and as each year rolls round, the tax-jiayers, notwithstanding this realization, show a remarkable anx iety to sustain the frauds by which they arc cheated, and only growl when they are forced to foot the bills.. THE change in the Commissioners of Armstrong county, last fall, which has secured a majority of Democrats iu the board, has resulted in the dis covery of a very marked crookedness in the management of the affairs of that couuty to the amount of s'>6,- ' 520.85. THE Springfield (Mass.) Ilrjmblican thinks that Mr. Hayes "will win even respect of politicians, if he keeps on." But how can he "keep ou?" Are there any more thieves to provide for? All the rascals yet heard from, from Sherman to the Jenks, except St. Mar tin, have already been rewarded by Mr. Hayes. ____________ IT is said John Taylor, the succes sor of Brighara Young, has had a new " revelation " to the effect that the re cent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States must be disregarded, aud that the Saints are still duplicat ing their wives. Congress will no i doubt make provisions for enforcing the decision of the Court, and the , conflict will then come to decide I whether the laws of the United States or polygamy are to be supreme. PRESIDENT Gowen is again on the track of conspirators, secretly banded, to force a strike in the Schuylkill coal regions, threatening to burn and de stroy breakers, and in a letter publish ed in the Philadelphia Time z, gives them some wholesome advice, byway of caution. He seems to be well in formed and names the parties to the conspiracy. This time it is the Knights of Labor who are desirous of getting themselves into trouble. Mr. Gowen, however, does not seem to be much alarmed and feels that he is master of the situation. "THB function* which we exercita are committed to u* i* a sacred trust. The government which we control aa public officer* U not our own, It belong! to thoae who elected us. The lew* we enact do not •xpreM oar will. The money which we hendla belong* to them and not u*. We can only take it from them for the legiti mate expense of government. More than this i* robbery. Official generosity i* official crime. Every needKes tax cut* some comfort* from a thousand home*. It mean* lew food, la** fuel, and le*t cheer in many familie*." The above sentence, true as it is rare coming from official source, is the utterance of Gov. Robinson, the Demo cratic Governor of the State of New York. It is a lesson which the Gov ernment and Legislature of Pennsyl vania might study with profit, and if followed in its full realization, would tend very much to relieve the people of the heavy burden annually upon them by the extravagant and shameless appropriations of the mon eys committed to them as ft " sacred trust" for the legitimate expenses of the government and cannot be squand ered without "official crime." Death of Henry Lloyd, Nr. A large number of our readers were no doubt acquainted with the geutle man whose name forms the subject of this article. After a short illness, he passed away from this earth on Wed nesday afternoon, the 12th. He was largely identified with the interests of the First National Bank of Altoona. He died at his residence in Pittsburgh. The following sketch taken from the Pittsburgh Commercial may be of in terest: "The deceased had been seriously ill for several days with typhoid pneunio nia, and his death was not unexpected, yet the announcement of his demise created a profound sensation in the large circle of his warm personal friends. Mr. Lloyd was born in Huntingdon county on the 25th of December, 1817, and was at tho time of his death in his sixty-second year. His father was one of the most prominent citizens of Hunt ingdon county. He was elected to the office of Sheriff* there, and held other posts of honor in the gilt of his fellow citizens. He had fivesons, viz., William, Henry, John, Alexander and Thomas. Henry, when quite young, evinced a strong inclination to engage in a busi ness which would afford him an opor- ' lunity to rise in the world, and he was fortunate enough to secure a clerkship in the office at Hollidayaburg of I>. Leech h Co., the then well known for warding commission merchants on the old Pennsylvania carnal. His fellow clerks there were Thomas A. Scott, the famous railroad king, H. F. Jones the no less famous iron manufacturer, Geo. black, and several others who afterward made their mark in the business world. During his residence in Hollidsysburg Mr. Lloyd became a member of the Presbyterian church there, of which I Rev. Dr. McKinney was then pastor, i and subsequently married a daughter , of Dr. McKinney. In 1848, the firm of i D. Leech St Co., opened an office in this city, and Henry Lloyd and George black were placed in charge of it. Af ter serving several years in the capacity of clerk, Mr. Lloyd found an opportu- I nity of embarking in business for him- | ' self. The Kensington iron works was sold out, and Mr. Lloyd and others 1 bought the concern, the name of the ' firm being Miller, Lloyd iChurch. After- I ward the name of the firm was changed to Miller, Lloyd A black, Mr. Lloyd's ; old fellow clerk, George black, pur- j chasing an interest in the concern, and i filially, ir. 1857, tho deceased and Mr. i black bought out the other partners, | the firm then becoming f.loyd A black, i | The firm existed until 187-1, when it was dissolved by the death of Mr. black, i It was during the career of the Reusing- ' ton Mills under tho direction of Lloyd k black that the deceased amassed the I bulk of hislarge fortune, which is esti mated at a million dollars. After the death of Mr. black the deceased bought his late partner's interest in the busi- i ness and formed a partnership with his ! sons and Mr. Henry Ralken. the style |of the firm being Lloyd, .Sons St tlo. The works are now carried on by this ffrro. Of late years Mr. Lloyd turned his attention to other pursuits, entrust ing the management of the iron works to his partners. Some years ago he fodhded the Pittsburgh Insurance com- i pany, of which be was president. He was also president of the People's Kav- ; ings bank, a director of the M. k M. - bank, and one of the founders and for a long time president of the Safe De posit Company. In all the relations of life Mr. Lloyd seemed to come up to a noble standard, and of him it seems as if it could rs- 1 pecially be said, ''none knew him but ' to love him," and certainly, "none named him but to praise." Was not such a life a radiant success; and now that he is gone is it too much to say, in view of his benefactions and his per sonal character, that "eyes full of heart break will gaze wistfully adown the path he has vanished, and for the long after time hearts that he helped to make happy will recall his memory with grati tude and tears?" Ilia paa tor, Mr. Hol land, said: "In his last hours he show ed the most childlike Christian faith. He was a man of sterling integrity and pure heart, and his end was peaoe. To his pastor and physician, as well as to his family about him, he gave the clear est proof of the firmest Cbriatain faith. Almost his last words were, 'lt's all right if I live. If I die that will be glory. I know that my Redeemer liveth.'" THE Philadelphia Time* of Hatur day, says : "The President's choice for the Directorship of the Mint has fall en upon Mr. Burchard, of Illinois, who resembles the firrl choice, Mr. Snowden, only in that he knows a trade dollar from a greenback dollar. He has some claims to recognition from the administration, however, for his valiant defense of tho cause of Mr. Hayes before the Dudley Field in vestigation committee, in the winter of '76-77, and by being one of the few straight-out Hayes men on the Repub lican side of the House of Repsenta lives. When he stood up for Madison Wells in the stormy days of the Elect oral Commission he cast his bread upon the waters, and it has returned to him after many days. The pressing necessity for providing far Mr. Burch ard grows out of the fact that, like Banks and Townsend, who are already nominated for good offices, his con stituents had no further use for bis services and declined to return him to Congress. There will be many more appointments on this account between now and tfee fourth of March. A MAM from Meadville has found It $70,000 lead mine in Colorado The Curtln-Yocum Contest. Till SMART TRICK OP A CURT IK lIKTKC TIVK—IX POST PACTO IIHIIIKRT. IpHil ObiTM|iutii]nc> vf 111* I'm*. HOWARD, Fob. 11.—Tho Curtln-Yocum contest has developed • new system of po litics! crookedness, which, if successful, will deprive the people of this district of their honestly end legally elected Repre sentative. Some twenty day* after the November election, a "Curlin detective," in tlie disguise of a (ireenbacker, appeared in this place, and made the acquaintance of Charles Htrunk, a member of the Green back Club of this district. After tbey had both looked upon the "wine when it was red," the detective asked Htrunk "if he had been paid for voting for Yocum." Htrunk replied that he "had not, and was not aware that any person was entitled to pay for his vote." Htrunk was then informed by the detective that every jterson in How ard who voted for Yocum was to have re ceived $lO, and as Yocum's agent had missed him (Htrunk), he would givehim the slonow, as he (tho detective) could get it hack from Yocum; after which the detec tive got Htrunk to acknowledge before a witness that he had received $lO for voting for Yocum, although the money was re ceived nearly one month after the election, and paid by one of Curtin's agents. Htrunk's business called him out of the district, consequently lie did not receive the summons to testify in the matter, hut the |ier*on who heard Htrunk admit that ho had received $lO for voting for Yocum was summoned, and testitied to that fact, and the "detective" testitied that he gave Htruuk $lO for voting for Yocum, and hence Strunk's vote is thrown out,and one vole made for Curtin. it it supposed that this kind of a "set up" lias been "put up" all over the district. i We clip the foregoing from the Philadelphia /Ye** of Thursday the 13th in*t. iu order that our readers may sec to what means the friends of Mr. Yocum are willing to resort in order to manufacture public sentiment in his favor. We do not accuse the ! publishers of the /Ve** with printing this communication, knowing it to be fulse in all particulars, because we sup|x>se they received it as they re ceive hundreds of other communica tions, and had no means at hand to ascertain whether the state-incuts con tained in it wrerc true or false. The | story, however, is false in all its details, and in its entirety. No"Curlin de j tcetive " was ever in Howard or had any interview with Charhw Htrunk; j no one in behalf of Curtin ever gave him ten dollars or any other sum. As I far as we kuow, Htrunk never admitted iu the presence of any one that he was paid for voting for Yocum, al though it may l>c true that he was ; no witueMS was examined to prove any such admission; no "detective" nor any other person was called as a wit ness to prove that he paid Htrunk ten dollars, or any other sum for voting for Yocum ; Htrunk himself was ex amined as a witness and denied having been paid or promised anything for j his vote. He was called and exam ined because of the rumor afloat in Howard that he had been paid for his vote, and not from anything any de tective learned or rv|*rtcd. We say i we do not blame the. publishers of the Pre#* for publishing falsehoods, but we do blame Mr. Yocum and his friends for sending them. It must be a bad cause indeed, when its supporters are driven to .< ,ii mendacity to keep it afloat. While neither Mr. Yocum nor any of his counsel, Mr. Furst, Mr. Love or Mr. Hastings, probably, wrote the above, yet they cannot escape responsibility for it unless they publicly disavow it. We would like to know whether A. O. Kurt, Esq., who has heretofore been recognized as an honorable member of the legal profession, and who is an elder in the church, approves of such device as this, to bolster up a falling cause. If not, he should either restrain it, or re fuse to act with those who resort to it It would lie idle perhaps to ask the same question of his associates. Be fore answering, they would probably consult Kress and Arnold. IN relation to appointments in the New York custom house Mr. Hayes writes to Collector Merritt as follows : "Neither my recommendation nor that of Secretary Sherman, or of any mem ber of Congress or other influential person, must be especially regarded." Ho far as Mr. Hayes himself is con cerned, it does not seem to have occur red to him when he wrote these lines, that it would probably save the per sons to whom his recommendations are addressed a deal of embarrassment and at the same time secure a stricter compliance with his desires if he gave no recommendations. THK New York World explains that it never alludes to the Tribune as civilly as it does to its other contem poraries for the reason that a line of distinction must be drawn somewhere; and that a good place to draw it is at deliberate and open lying persevered in in order to float deliberate calumny. A Discussion on Kfirro Citizenship. ID the North American Review for the month of March a number of prominent and dUtiuguinhed public character* appear a* disputant* upon the Htill mooted subject of negro citi zenship. The question* submitted to them gentlemen for discuiwion are whether the negro ought to have l>cen enfranchised and whether he ought now to la; disfranchised. On the one side are ranged Mr. Blaine, Wendell l'hilli|M and Mr. Oarfield; on the other Mr. Inuuar, Mr. Ktephen* and General Hampton, while Montgomery Blair is brought in a* a sort of inter medial figure. All of them huve con siderable to say, but the New York World thinks that Mr. pro duction will alone bear being judged by high literary standards. That journal ulso thinks that the only rial discussion of the questions is between Mr. Blaine and Mr. Immar, and re marks that "Mr. Blaine's object in writing seems to huvc been to vin dicate or at least to excuse his own resolutions introduced curly in the session. It is un up-hill piece of work for an aggressive man to explain what the leaders and the body of his own party have made him feel was a tre mendous political blunder. There is nothing volcanic in the appointment of Teller committee. The gist of the original speech out of which ran that ridiculous mouse was that the black vote of the South is a mere duplica tion of the white vote of the South, which is thus, to the extent of the black vote, counted twice. Senator cleverly and judiciously de votes the greater part of his reply to this implied proposition, anl nllliougli do extract cao do his argument justice, wc make an extract which will indi cate its purport: "I will indulge in neither invective nor d'-nunciation. I will simply take the late government of Sooth Carolina or ol I/ouis iana, or of other Stat/-* under similar rule, and deocrilx- it in language that Mr. Itlaine may himself select. When he has odd it* history I will ask him whether he would willingly, as a patriotic American, desire to see hit own State, or any other of the free Slates, reduced to such a level T lam i.ot afraid of hi* answer, or that of any man who hat l>ern bred under the tra-Ji lions of a virtuous civilisation. Then I will say to bim ; This, it it true, is a pain ful result ; but when you put tho ballot in tha hand* of an ignorant negro majority as a meant of education and progress you must be patient while they learn their lew ton. We of the South have borne all this because we knew that the reaction mutt come. It has come. The results which you tee to txj to bed the negro hat teen also, lie ha* come hack to us with the same blind impulse with which a few years •go he lied from ut. He may be as ignor ant a Democrat at he was an ignorant Republican, hut vear# must yet pat* before the ballot will have educated him fully Into self-reliant, temperate citizenship; and what we of the South have borne our friendt of the North must I—r with us until the negro has become w hat we both want U> make bim. Thi* is iart of hit education. • • • Hut all thii while the ballot ha* been educating the negro. He ha* learned that he we* a power between liepublican end Democrat lie it now learning rapidly that at the South he it a power between Democrat and Democrat, and in the late election he made that power felt in the result. 1 would have preferred a much lot# cotly tuition : but. such at it it, it ha* been paid for, and if Mr. Htaine will patiently trust hit own theory be will find the ballot in tho hands of the negro the heat defenae and the Iwat educator. Hut, at the South ha* been juitient, to mutt he be patient. At the South hat chafed ineffectually when that vole was all against her white people, so will he chafe ineffectually when it it now largely for them. • • a When Mr. Hlaine admit* that disfranchisement it impossible and that the ballot has been, in tplte of all drawback*, a benefit to the negro, he really prove* that there it no organic question affecting great national intermit, but simply the subordinate ques tion, How rapidly Is the ballot fitting the negro for the full enjoyment of hit citiien thin, and what influence does hie vote ex ercise upon the supremacy of one party or the other in netionel politic* T This flitter may be an interesting question, but not one which *hould disturb either a sound national sentiment or great national inter est*. Ido not propose to discus* it. lam of opinion that to make the negro a free citizen It wat n see wary first to take bim from hi* master. Then it became necessa ry to take him from the perty which claim ed hit labor. The next step will he to take him as a rlass from either party, and allow him to differ and divide jutl at white men do." It may bo inferred that Mr. Blaine dion*e to the ap peal of the citizens there. She sailed Tuesday. Peter Cooper was eighty-nine years old on Wednesday of last week, and the event was celebrated that evening by a reception at the New York residence of his son-in-law, Congrenainan Hewitt, at which many prominent citizens were present. Wade Hampton will leave Columbia in a few day* lor the low country. Hi* resignation as Governor hiss not been sent in yet, but Governor Simpson has moved into tae executive mansion. Tho state bouse lawn in Columbia has l greeted with the vice royal salute of nineteen gun*. Itoih Governor General and I'rincc** occupied *eat* on the throne. "The Chinese inu.t go." And if they go in disgrace. it i certain that they will never ootne hack. At leant, that ia the conclusion aruved at by the faculty of a Massachusetts educational institu tion. One o! their pupils, a Chinaman, i* being educated at the cost of the • 'lnnate government, and being sonic what backward in hi* tudie, hi* case was duly reported to the authorities at I'ekin. In due time there arrived an ; imperial mandate which read ; "Send him home and we will cut off hi* head." Saturday night a* the steamboat train *" leaving here for Stonington the la*t car w* thrown from the track by the breaking of a brace and was flashed against the locomotive of the I'ascoag train, which was standing on a tiding. The passenger* in fhe car were consid erably shaken and one man from New York had an ankle didncaled, and Mr*. Henjatnin Col ton. of Bri*toi, wa* sen ouly injured. Mr*. Col ion was con veyed to the retidenoe of a friend. The disabled car was taken olf and the train proceeded. An important railroad decision was rendered by Judge Hlodgett, in the Federal Court of Cincinnati, last week in the long }>ending and important suit of John J. Hlatr, of New York, and some other* who held the bonds of the Chicago and I'acific railroad, to fore close a mortgage given by the defend ant company. The mortgage w*s given to the New York loan and Trust Com pany to secure payment for 2,000 bonds of tha denomination of |t2.0110 each. Judge Hlodgett decided that injustice to ail parties interested the mortgage should be foreclosed, a* asked by the plaintiff. Mr. Stephen R. Forbes, one of the first settlers of Chicago, died on Wed nesday last at the residence of his aon in law, Nathan S. I'eck, of a|iop!exy, aged 81- Mr. Forbes came to Fort lerborn from Vermont in 1830, and wa* aecond sheriff of the county in 1032. There were only three families there when he arrived. He led an active life, and hi* health failing some years ago, he removed to Memphis, then to Obio, but about a year ago returned to Chicago, lfi* wife, a hearty old Ohio lady of 71, survive* him, and he leave* also two daughter* and a son. The salaries of the Maine official* have been reduced, a* may be seen by the following li*t of figure*: "Govern or. 91.500; Judge* of the Hupreme Judi cial • needed to quell actual disturbance or if a supervisor lie in actual need of protection or if fraud he attempted. The evidence not being of a character to auaUin such a charge the district attorney entered nolle pro*- t'/ui and the prisoner was discharged. • A fire broke out Sunday night on the fourth floor of the five-story brick-build ing No. 638 und 640 I'earl street. New York, known as "the Pyser building." It spread rapidly to the top floor and at one time a great conflagration seemed imminent, * the street is narrow and the surrounding buildings are very tall and valuable. The firemen got the flame* under control within a half hour. The total loaa i* estimated at $20,000, of which $6,000 is to the building, 'hie fire originated in the premises of Henry Wilson, maker of steam label cutting machinery. The remainder cf the four h floor is occupied by Wemple A Kron beim, lithographers and color printers, who also occupy the third floor. Their loss is shout $B,OOO. The top floor was occupied by the I'ortnan Manufacturing Company, who lose some $6,000. All parties are said to be insures!. Fire was discovered in a stable in Samuel W. lless' coal yard. Tenth and Iterks sts., Philadelphia, Sunday night i shortly after nine o'clock. The'family occupying the dwelling (.onion of the 1 stable were absent at church at the time, and the origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. Ilea* is inclined to believe thai it was the work of n incendiary. The stable, a brick building with Urge wood en sheds, was completely burned out, and a valuable carriage horse perished. Four working h"rse were rescued. | riie fire also t.adfy damage.l four ooai | car., the property of the Heading R.ib road Company, and injured the sheds of liockius' coil yard adjoining at the rear. The trains of the Oermantown branch of the Heading railroad were del .led -on.'* tune by me br.se crossing she tra< k. Mr. lies* said his km would feat leal #lo,l**l.and Mr. Bockiu*fixed | bis at $6(10. lb-sides this, the family who occupied Hess' stable lose all their ! furniture, and the surrounding dwell ings on l'ercy street were scorched and the furniture of the occupants damaged. At 7 o'clock Sunday morning fire was discovered in the basement of the ad ministration building of the .Soldiers' Orphans' Home near Xenia, and owing to poor facilities for the extinguishment of fire and the distance of the building from the town the flame* were under full headway before engine* arrived. Six hundred children at the home had just finished breakfast in the main building and returned to their cottages when the fife made its appearance in the first story. Owing to dense smoke which quickly filled the rootn the wild est contusion prevailed. Senator Rich ard* and hi* wife escaped by dropping from a second story widow into blanket* held by men below. Senator Sabio and hi* wife. Representative Ikiddsand Mrs. Ford, wife of the steward, saved them selves by leaping from second-story window* to a porch below, from which they drop|>d to the ground uninjured. In two hours the entire building and its contents were destroved, including the personal effects of the teachers and officials. No lives were lost and no nous accidents are reported. The loss to the State by the fire will reach about $.6,00>, ujain which there is no insur anoe. The origin of the fire is unknown. JtiMP .Mi rrfisrairaf*. "LUSTRA \ . —Come to the residence . f *" tr * ®S.|..•• Ortokar I last. * RK!> It 111 I a. mpi-nam t, t„ ( lok B'. Mil. Tie MM It ts naas | leirt |.. pefrrf.T. ,mj , l,M t ,. o, it ||| dla4 U hr4| to u. itnnrt rrtn*. 11ARNESS MANUFACTORY 1 1 ts Osrsus's Now Mark. MUJVWHh pa. _J7 SECHLER4CO. GROCERS, FRUITERS and CONFECTIONERS, Holiday Goods. 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