£l)c Centre fflnn curat. SHUGKRT A FORSTER, Editor*. VOL. I. She Centre Term* tI.AO per Annum, In Advance. S. T. BHUQERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor.. Thursday Morning, Angust 28, 1879. Democratic State Ticket. STATIC TKKAHI'RKR. DANIEL O. It Alt K. Allegheny county. WHEN the Rev. Theodore Cuyler, of Brooklyn, speaks of Mr. Hayes as a "God-fearing President," we take it for granted he means that CJod abhors u fraud, aud that Rutherford does vwll to fear aud tremble. SECRETARY SHERMAN is economis ing the compaigu fund of his party, by circulating his campaign speeches under the official stamp of the Treasu ry Department. It does not matter to John that this is in violation of law, which limits the use of these stamps to the official business of the depart ment. READ the charge, of Judge Pear son to the grand jury of Duuphiu county. It is an able exposition of the law agaiust the crime of official bribery, and if the jury does its duty under the law as laid down by the court, some of the rogues who tried to debauch the Legislature last winter may yet come to justice. F IT appears that the health of the Hon. Warren J. Woodward, of the Supreme Court, is still precarious, and at our last reports very little hoje was entertained of his recovery. The death of this accomplished jurist would be a serious h* to the |>eopleof Penn sylvania, and we hope the unfavorable reports may he exaggerated. PERHAPS Mr. Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court of the United .States aud one of the infamous eight of the eight to seven electoral commission, may think that "an honest confession is good for the soul," at least he has lately admitted that the vote of Loui ana belonged to Mr. Tilden, by a ma jority of from eight to ten thou-aml votes. Mr. Justice Miller should have thought of this when he voted to over ride the will of the people as express ed at the election in 187*>, and place a man in the Presidential chair who was defeated at th^polls. THE Democratic County Conven tion of Clinton county met last week and placed in nomination the follow ing excellent ticket: Prothonotary,G. W. Batcbeler ; Register and Record er, James W. Clark ; Coroner, Dr. Mader; Jury Commissioner, A. C. Chatham. Messrs. Bateheler and Clark at present hold the offices for which they are nominated. Both arc excellent officials, and well deserved the compliment of a re-nomination. Of their election there can lie no doubt. Col. William A. Himpson was made chairman of the County Committee. Col. Himpson has the ability, experi ence and energy to make a moat effi- , cicnt chairman. . Under his manage ment the Democracy of Clinton will not fail to make a good record. "Dots any sane man think this ad ministration capable of sending the sol dier to the ballot box to overawe the freedom of the elector T"— .John Sherman tn hit SteubenvilU tptfeh. If this Administration is incapable of "sending the soldier to the ballot box to overawe the elector," why in sist upon the power to do no? Why veto an appropriation hill for the sole reason that it contained a clause re pealing the power of "this administra tion" to so use the soldier? When-; ever and wherever the soldien appears at the ballot box his presence is an in sult and a menace to the freedom of the elector, and Oily Gammon Hherman's innocent (?) platitudes about what "this Administration" is capable or incapable of doing are en tirely "too thin" to be accepted as an answer to the Democratic position upon this issue. " Kyr AI, AND KX ACT JISTICS TO ALL ME.N, OF WIIATEVKH HTAT KOH FKRMUAHION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. HKLLKFONTK, PA., TItUKSDAV, AIK H ST 28, 1870. To such of our contemporaries, says the Record, as find in the Yazoo (Mis. sissippi) affuir further reason for Fed eral interference with elections we would point out that when the purity of elec tions must depend upon the efficiency of the central authority at Washing ton as n regulating force, representative institutions in this country will he far on the road to decay. Whatever of good character as an index of the peo ple's will elections have thus far sus tained has been solely due to the force and strength of the local institutions. When these shall have lost their vi tality there will be nothing left for the strong government to rest upon, unless a foundation of bayonets lie erected as a sustaining force. Much has been written of the strength of the General Government as evinced by the su|>- pression of the rebellion, hut while dwelling upon the restraining influ | enee of Seward's little bell we should , not forget that the force which most I contributed to the victory for the Un | ion was the influence of the Northern ! States at State *. It is safe to say that under the circumstances which existed in 18rn citizens arc required by a constitutional pro vision to posses* a certain amount of real estate In-fore they can exercise the elective franchise, and "the evi dence taken by the Wallace commit tee discloses how persistently and how successfully the Republican party has resisted every effort to re|nal this illib eral and anti-Democratic feature of the State constitution. It gives instauccs of how men of foreign birth are deprived of the right to vote though they have served in the armies of the United States and shed their blood to defend and protect the gov ernment of their adoption. One ven erable man, seventy-five years old, a manufacturing jeweler by trade, testi fies that he has liven a naturalized cit izen for twenty-five years, and that in his rlavs of prosperity he had been a member of both branches of the State Legislature, and in 1H53-4 a member of Congress. Failing in business he was obliged to turn his projierty over to an assignee, and with it went his right to the elective franchise. These instances might be multiplied, but repetition is unnecessary. The facts are patent. The evidence also discloses the fact that intimidation of employes is an other feature of Rhode Island politics now fastened down by proof that can not be doubted or controverted. At every election the large mauufaetur- j ing mono|)o]ic* of the State arc the controlling power, and employes are obliged to vote according to order* at the risk of loss of employment if they refuse to do so. Bribery is also com mon, and it is by mewns like these— disfranchisement of foreigners, intimi datiou of workmen and open hribery —that the Ktatc is kept secure in its ■ place in the Republican household. Senator Wallace, and the majority of his committee, deserve the thanks of the country for the thoroughness) of their work. They have heretofore shown j the character of the deputy-marshals ami the base uses to which they have ! been put in Philadelphia ami New York, and in other cities of the coun try, and now that they have exposed the manner in which elections arc car ried " down Kant," where a higher state of civilization is supposed to pre vail than elsewhere in the world, it will lie necessary for our Republican friends to extend the scope of their vision. Localities other than the " bull-dozed Houth" will demand their attention. Henator Wade 11 ami-ton has ex pressed a preference for Senator Bay ard, of Delaware, as the Democratic candidate for President. It is a credi table choice. With such incn as Bay ard, Hendricks, Thurman, Hancock, and Tilden from whom to make choice, tho Democracy cannot err much In selecting a worthy champion to lead them to victory in 1880. AFTER TIIE KOOKTEKH. JUDGE I'B ARSONS* INSTRUCTIONS TO TIIK GRAND Jt'RV. A Tnif llill Rtquirttl in the Case of Every J'erton Shown to Have Corruptly Solicited or Received a UriLc in the Riot hoists Matter. llarkikiii ru, J'a. August, 2.5.—As the trial of Kenible, Salter, l.cisimring, Crawford and others, accused of attemp ted bribery in connection with the bill to reimburse persons who lost property by the Pittsburg riots, approaches the intercut incrorue*. Tlhto wa a large crowd in the Court House to 'lay to bear Judge Pearson's charge on the riot brib j ery subject. The Judge appeared very t earnest, and convinced all within boar- I j ing of bis voice that be was in hearty sympathy with the movement to punish | bribery in the Legislature. I'he Judge said that bribery was high | ly injurious to society and dangerous to ; i public morals and to the general admin ; | nitration of the Government of tin- j ; country. "I speak of it, gentlemen," j said he, "as a crime which strikes a!- j | most at the foundations of society, la-- j ' cause if, instead of having fair, honest, j I proper legislation, according to the best discretion and judgment of the legisla tors, we are to have them laiught over to vote for measures or vote against measures which the public requires, or which are injurious to the public, either j the one or the other, then 1 say it is dangerous to society at Urge, ami w<- j should most carefully guard against anything of that kind. It is not mere ly a person soliciting, but the pernor agreeing to receive or actually receiving, that ought to be held up to public scorn and contempt by le-ing indicted in the • 'rinunal Court.'' The Judge then quoted the Constitu tional provisions against bribery and the law in pursuance thereof, and Said : "Any open address, persuasion or coax ing would not come within the act, but tbe moment any office, moneys article of value, or promise of advantages, is of fered it brings the act witbin the tat ute. Ir. order to make the offence charged here you have only to inquire was there an offer or endeavor to in fluence any member of the Legislature by offering or promising them money, promising them anything of value, ; promising them any advantages of any office, any advantage of any kind ? Was that done? If so, it would be an at tempt to solicit them to do what is il legal, mid is an attempt to btitie and unlawful solicitation. All that is nec essary to be proved is that the accused solicited members of the legislature to vote in a particular way, under prom ise of procuring money for thetn or of fering to givo them money, telling them where money could te ; rocun-U, or that they could have money by doing so and so. Bribery has long been prohibited in Penn*> Irania, and yet, to the scan dal of ©ur Slate—l hope it is false, 1 hope it is only scAiidal—it has been urged, and said hundreds and hundred* of times, that such and such a bill was procured by bribery. It demean* our State, it brings ur into contempt with our sister States, causes u* to be belit- i tied abroad, to bo belittled at home : injure* tho legislative body with the \ community. The very suspicion that j they take brihoa is an injury an injury to society in genei they are led to distrust the such a legislature passes and to disre Sard them entirely. Therefore it is a igh offence against society, and one that should be most carefully guarded against by Courts and juries, punished inflexibly and without any hesitation." i Judge Pearson also instructed the ! Grand Jury to proceed against mein- I l>er* in whose cases no indictments haTo leen frames!, but whom the evi dence submitted to the Jury implicates in corrupt solicitation of the member* of the Legislature or of accepting or agreeing to accept a bribe. "In thif way," he said, "neither the persons charged in the indictments nor the , members of the legislature themselves oan escape punishment. You cannot , act upon newspaper reports. You have no right to act upon resolutions of the Legislature. You act upon the evidence produced before you, and that alone ; and if that makea out a caae of either ' btibery or receiving a bribe against the person who*ed to have reference to the approaching bribery trials at liar risburg, i-peciaily as lawyer Irwin, of Harrisburg, is also there. At Tuscola, 111., George Clark was fa tally shot by bis step-son, Hugh Mc- Guire, who told him that he had come all the way from Kansas to kill him for de-erling ins MrGmre's) rnedfler. Mc- Guire gave himself up to the authorities. I'at. Collin*, of lloutzdale, Clearfield county, attacked John Loonelly on Wednesday night of fast week with an iron peg remover, inflicting wounda which will probably prove fatal. Collini who is a well known Mollie Maguire. es caped. At Tioga last Saturday Freddy Hughes, a ten year old loy, while playing with a younger brother, snap|>ed a rusty army musket at him, when the weapon was exploded, the charge passing into bis little brother's ln-ad, killing bun almost instantly. At a in ass meeting of weavers, two thirds of whom were women, at Fall Kiver, Mass.. on JGqdav lmU. it was resci 1 ges of 15 per^M^|^H|BHH^B^BH weavers will Inanyanti4.su -JPor rit T. Rl-i fig destroyed twenty four buimingssnd burned out twenty two The main business part of the city • in ruins. Tbe fire is believ ed to be incendiary. Total loss about SIOO,OOO. The will of Harvey I>. Talmer, of the firm of Jarret A Palmer, was filed for probate last Thursday. After the be quests of S2OO in cash and SSOO a year for life to bis mother ami S2OO a year to his aunt he leaves the rest of his real and personal estate to bis wife, who is appointed sole executrix. A private despatch received in New Bedford, Mass., on Saturday evening, announced the loss in Hudson Bay of - the whaling brig A.Boas. The vessel sailed from New Bedford on May 15, 1878. It was owned there and valued at $20,000. The insurance is light. The c ptain and crew were saved. Geo. 11. Eddy, treasurer of the Flint Mill at Fall ltiver. Mass., has stepped i down and out. He has been specula ting in cotton futures, resulting in a loss to the mill of $15,000. No criminal intent is imputed to him. Ilia conduct was disapproved and he resigned. Mr. John W. Forney, having accept ed the invitation of tbe original settlers of Kansas, at Lawrenoe, in that state, has been formally invited to deliver the adilress commemorative of the early settlement of Kansas, on the 15th of September, 1879. The United States Indian Agent at i the Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency, Indian Territory, under date of August 1.5, reports that about the Bth inst., two white horse thieves rounded up and ran off with forty-nine head of Cheyenne nonies. All but two were recovered, nut the thieves escaped. Evangelist Uwight L. Moody has been largely instrumental in establishing a school for girls at NortMield, Mas*. The corner stone was laid on Thursday, Evangelists Moody, Pentecost. Hankey and Kimball being present. "First and foremost, the school must be a Christian institution,'' said Mr. Moody, in the course of his remarks. At*Middletown, Pa., on Friday night, an attempt was made to rob Jacob Hteel, Collector of the Pennsylvania Ganal Company. After striking him several blows about the bead with a blunt instrument, the thieves became alarmed and left without accomplishing their otyect. TKRMN: %\JA) jmt Annum, In Advance. NO. The Krnanus furnace, on the Kant I Pennsylvania lUilru.ui, i* to he Marled i up within a few day*. The Reading | /tirpatch *ay* that it will not he long b | fore every furnace in the Schuylkill and I Lehigh Valley* will he in operation. , ; Work i* going steadily on at the Kutx town furnace*, with a view to slatting ihetn in a few week*. The Secretary of War ha* ordered that the harrack* at Carlisle be turned over to the Interior Department, to he u*ed a* a school for the education of Indian youth*. The institution which i* modelled after the Hampton (Va.) Nor mal Institute, and will be under the charge of Captain It. I'ratt. who ha* had considerable experience a* a trainer of Indian* at St. Augustine and Hampton. At Weissport. eighteen mile* above Allcntown, on Wednesday afternoon, a | little daughter of Alfred Wbittenhard m-r, aged five or six years, Cell into the Lehigh canal while picking 1 ernes, and a young lady named Kllen Matten, aged sixteen year*, jumped in to save her. ' Moth were drowned. The bodies were found ahout two hour* after. The fath er of the little girl wa* the former Reg iater and Recorder of Carbon county. ' A remarkable case of resuscitation from drowning occurred at I'ittston last week. Kddy Joyce, a small boy, fell into the • canal and his companion, after he had sunk twice, finding that he oould not save him, called for help, when the i ; father came, and, after the body had sunk the last time and been at the bot . tout at least eight minutes, brought it , up. The body wa* rolled on a barrel I eight minute* and fully resuscitated. ! A tory i* told at the expense of a Ja maica l'lain* (Mass) sexton, who buys i the communion wine lor hi* church. W hen he made hi* last purchase be also bought some whiskey for himself. The two demijohn* got mixed, and on tho following Sunday the communicant* re ceived whiskey instead of wine, and some of the ladies were badly choked , by the strong liquid. , i Rev. Mr. Harden, who ha* been in , jail in Connecticut for a year, charged with the murder of Mary stannard, r will probably he tried in (>ctofer. It m re|>orted that under microscopical in vestigation of the body of the dead girL some important testimony ha* been de veloped. In the flesh of the neck where she was slabbed a fine point of steel has been found, which fit* into a i nick in the edge of the pastor's bloody ( knife. A shsrp shock of earthquake wa* felt 1 . at St. Catherine's, OnU, on last Friday morning at 2.5K o'clock, and at Niagara ' at 3. At I'ort Italhouaie, <>nt., and Lockport, N. Y., the shock wa* violent, i and accompanied by a loud clap, simi lar to a discharge of cannon, which shook solid brick building* The shock and renort also starthnl the people at Thorold. Welland, Allanshurg. ville, Tort Robinson and other tin- JtM The New York tral committee met at N ami ador^^^Hjj^^H^H^^H the Flushing, who Ix>ng Island, celebrated her one hun- ~ j dresi and tenth birthday on Friday of i last week receiving the congratulations |of a large number of visitor*. Nhe was born in the County of Roscommon, Ire | land, on the l.'ith day of August. 17G9, | and has lived in Flushing for over 25 years. In reading she does not need glasses, as she ha* had her second sight for a number of year*. Nhe spends a considerable portion of her time in knitting, Martha Rogers, who died a few days ago at Middlctown, Conn., for fifty years ' possessed a fortune : hut she i|pa con stantly dreading poverty, and regularly spent a part of her time sathering rags and other discarded things in the streeta. A room in her house was filled with such rubbish. Yet the gave money i liberally for charitable and religious purpose* while she lived, and by her will left 125,000 to various institutions. A new vein has been discovered in the lehigh Zinc Company's mine, near Friedensville. The company is taking out a very peculiar kind of ore, which is capable of being used when worked up into braes for purposes foi which ordi nary sines are not available—among others, that of making metallic car fridges. The mine, a* state*!, is now j being actively worked, and the ore is ] furnished in large quantities to the j spelter works. The sine rolling mill also, | after being stopped for a long while, is now again at work with a full force. The Sunday question continues to agitate Raltimore The latest develop ment is a proposition to enforce the law in the case of the newspapers, and their proprietors have been notified that hereafter their employes will not be permitted to labor on Sunday after noon and night in the preparation of their Monday morning issues. The Gazrtt* accepts the situation and an nounces that it will hereafter keep its offices closed from Saturday night at 12 o'clock until the same hour on Sun day night. It expects, by doing some extra work on Saturday evening and putting a strong force at work as soon as Sunday has expired, to be able to pro dune as good a paper as usual on Monday morning. The other morning papers will have to follow suit, but tne mm day P*pts will suffer a good deal if the law is impartially enforced,