sl)f Centre itifa. ilrmorral. BHUGKRT \ FORSTER, Editors. VOI,. I. fhe (Crntrc JSUraectat. Terms SI.AO per Annum, in Advance. a. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor.. Thursday Morning, September 11, 1879. Democratic State Ticket. STATS THKASL'RER, DANIKL i>. BAKU, Allegheny county. OHIO and lowa will BO the next States to vote. SENATOR TURKMAN liegan his cam paign work in favor of Tom Ewing, at Columbus, on last Saturday evening. His speech was one of great force and will not fail to exert a powerful in fluence upon the voters of Ohio. Two friends of Mr. Rlaine were dis charged from the Treasury Depart ment a few days ago —C'apt. Howard, a gallant, one-legged soldier from Con necticut, and Col. Davidson, formerly an editor of the Washington Republi can. They arc said to be efficient offi cers, but could not prefer Sherman against the Maine aspirant for Presi dential honors. TrtK Democratic State Convention of New York met at Syracuse, yester day, to nominate candidates for a num ber of State offices, including that of . Governor. At our hour of going to press we have no news from the Conven tion. It is generally conceded, however, that Governor Robinson will lie re nominated by a large vote, notwith standing the violent op|>ositiou that lie has received from the Tammany Dem ocrats of New York City. FIGURES will not lie, says the Ilnr risburg Patriot. In 1876 the Repub licans of Maine cast 7G.SfiT votes and the op|>sition in a total vote of 136,823. At .the last election on Monday the Republicans cast only about 69,000 and the opposition nbout 71,000 in a total poll of 140,000, the largest ever given in the State. The Republicans, therefore, have lost nearly 7,000 votes since 1876, while the combined opposition have gained 10,000 since then. This proves not only that the changes have been against the Republican party but also that the new voters have enrolled themselves with their opponents. AT the Republican State Conven tion, of New York, which met last week, Senator Conkling, fresh from his brilliant exploit at Narragansctt Pier, proved himself to be still "the mnster of the situation." The Conven tion bowed in humble submission to his dictation, and nominated a ticket headed by his favorite political hench man, Cornell, for Governor. Curtis, Wheeler, Fenton and the other repre sentatives of Hayes and Sherman play ed second fiddle to the imperious Sen ator, and from now until the election may lie expected to eat their boiled crow as meekly and submissively as tlicy always do when Conkling chooses to sit down on them. AND now Mr. Wheeler has fallen under the ban of Administration dis pleasure. It may he remembered that Mr. Wheeler is from the State of New York,and is sometimes ironically called the Vice President of the Unit ed States. This gentleman was a del egate to Senator Omkling's recent con vention and was made its permanent chairman. Things didn't pan out very well for what little there is left of the administration, and now an omi nous growl is heard from Washington, and we are informed that Mr. Hayes thinks a proper regard on the part of Mr. Wheeler for the policy of the ad ministration, and above all, respect for the administration's notion of civil service reform should have suggested to him the propriety of attaining from any active part in the State con vention. Well, that's richness. If any living human being knows what the de J'ado President's "notion" of civil service reform is, he has carefully kept it from the public. "Eqt'AL AND KX ACT JVHTICE TO ALL MKN, or WIIATKV Kll HTATK OK I'EBJfI'AMION, KKLKIIOUM OK 1-OLITICAL. "-JvUnvn, Tho MasHiichuaotts Plan. Wo print on t'ac third page of tbia week's DEMOCRAT, supplemental to the report of tho Hhode Island in vestigation lttiil before our readers two weeks Ago, n comprehensive and compact summary of the evidence taken before the Wallace Investiga ting Committee in Massachusetts. Mr. Wallace encountered the jibes and sneers of the entire Ktqiuhlicuti press of the country a* he ami his committee wended their way to the Ray State to look into its election machinery. It had been specifically charged that in timidation ami coercion had becu used by the great manufacturing corpora tions toward their employes with u view to directly controlling their votes; and that the various Federal offices were used solely to further the success of Republican candidates, to the detriment of the public service. With great unanimity the subsidized party organs have endeavored to be little the investigation, and to convey the impression that the evidence as adduced before the committee did not justify the charges previously made. In order that our readers may read and judge for themselves we have taken the salient features of the evi dence and lay it la-fore them this week. They will observe that in Man chang employers used the most dan gerous and disreputable means to "influence" the votes of their employes. They threatened them with dismissul if they voted against their wishes, and actually did dis charge large numbers of the poor laborers who dared to vote as they pleased. They refused the use of the town hall to a Democratic candidate for Congress who came there to speak upon the issues of the day. And not coutent with dismissing men from their employ who refused to IKW in submission to the dictation of these Yankee bulldozers, they afterwards tried to drive them from the town before the election. In Chelsea and Gardner the same disgraceful state of affairs existed. In Gardner the agent of a national bauk operated openly and boldly, offering money in large sums for the votes of the poor opera tives. In Plymouth a nAtive-horn citizen was compelled to take out papers of naturalization before he was allowed to exercise the right of suffrage. The evidence also shows that a Republican collector of cus toms dismissed a large number of effi cient officers, among whom were many ex-Union soldiers, with no other appa rent cause than that they were not in political sympathy with the collector. Altogether the evidence as taken by Senator Wallace discloses a most dis heartening picture to every lover of pure, fair, untrammcled elections, and that such things arc to be found in the puritanical State of Massachusetts, which we have always been taught to look u|Kin as the seat of morals and the home of political purity, is not calculated to imprem any one with complacency. If such thiugs had oc curred in any of the States of the South a hurst of indignation from the radical press would have informed all maukind that such a thing AS a free election was unknown there, and that deputy marshals and the soldiers of the government were essential to the purity of the ballot-box. One thing is certain that whatever intimidation, if any, is used in the South, it is done openly and in the glare of day and not iu the insidious, underground way adopted by the White I>eaguer* of MaosochusetU and Rhode Island. Refore the Republican organs get tuned up to fresh Southern outrages let them explain, if they can, this damaging indictment as it cornea from Senator Wallace's Com mi ttee. VOTK for that able and incorrujiti ble Democrat, Daniel O. liarr, for State Treasurer. Elect him, voters of Pennsylvania, you will effectu ally bar tlfe doors of the Treasury against the return of the old ring. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 187'.1. ManaclOß. Tho Raltitnore Sun remarks that "Senator Conkling, in his speech in the New York Republican State Conven tion, ou Wednesday, in enumerating the various sins of the Democratic party said that ' the army was mana cled, not only on all days, but on thut very day when it should he most ready to act in support of national liberty.' It was assigned as one of the reasons, iu the Declaration of Inde pendence, for dissolving the political bonds which connected the colonies with the mother country, that King George had ' kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our Legislatures.' It was also alleged, as a substantial griev ance, that 'he has affected to render the military independent of and supe rior to the civil power.' In George Washington's farewell address he de clares the constitution and Union to be 'of inestimable value' to the country, la-cause the people of the country derived from these the means to 'avoid the necessity of those over grown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to lw regnrded as particularly hostile to republican lilx-rty.' Why, then, if it u allowable to interrogate such a personage as Mr. Conkling, should not the army la- manacled? In this country we have free sjatch abd a free ballot, and we propose to main tain our liberties by the unobstructed exercise of these unrivaled privileges, without the interposition of the bay onet. In order to do this effectually it will be the business of the Congress of the United States to continue to 'mnnncle the army,' and to strengthen the fetters just in proportion as Mr. Conkling and those who think with hint show that they have forgotten the constitution and art! ignorant- of the underlying principles of our gov ernment. The army had la-tter lie manacled than that the people should la- manacled by the army. In this way only can the military remain sub ordinate to the civil power." The Late Elections. California elected State officers and members of Congress on Wednesday of last work. In this State the old political parties have been badly shak en up and disorganized by the lalair party, which in itself was also divid ed. The result of the election shows that the Republican party, with the corporate wealth of the State ln-hind it, has been able to maintain a strong er organization and a firmer hold upon its supporters than the Democratic party, and therefore the Republicans come out of the contest with substan tial fruits of victory, electing their candidate for Governor, and all four of the mcmliers of Congress. The Su preme Court of the State will be divid ed between the parties—some of the Democratic candidates who were upon all the tickets in opposition to the Re publicans receiving a majority over the candidates of that party. The labor victory is principally confined to tho city of San Francisco, where Kalloch, the Kearney candidate, has been elected Mayor. In Maine, which voted on Monday, there has been no election of (tovcrnor by the people. As near as can bo ascertained at this writing Davis, the Republican candidate, has received about 68,000 votes, while the com bined Democratic and Greenback vote is about 71,000. By this esti mate Davis lacks 3,000 of a majority, and the election of Governor will therefore go to the legislature. A "RWBBPIMU VICTORY" in Maine was predicted and confidently expected hy the Republicans. To find them selves in a minority of 3,000 on the largest vote ever polled in the State, with a falling off of 7,000 on their vote of 1876, is not exactly the kind of a sweeping victory to jubilate much over. At any time in a quarter of a century pant it required but little ef fort on the part of the Republicans of the Pino Tree State to give from 10,- 000 to 18,000 majority a* circum stances might demand. DANIEL O. HARK, Esq., the Demo cratic caudidutc for State Treasurer, in his letter of congratulation to the Lancaster Intelligencer, gave expres sion to sentiment* which every good Democrat ought to lay to heart. He said: Itsoemsto me that greater activity on the part of the Democracy of the State to sustain and extend the circu lation of their paity journals, the wide reaching country press, as well as the dailies of the cities is demanded by the necessities of the times and the grave importance of impending political events, particularly those of next year. Tho country press is a direct local edu cator of the people in current events and contending principles. The one hundred and thirty Democratic news papers in Pennsylvania reach or should reach tho voters, whose presence at the polls determines elections and the pol icies of tho State and Nation. It is a business proposition that the press will be effective, capable and influential, just in proportion as it is liberally and justly sustained. Without its active co-operation, our political organization would lose its efficiency, discipline an,/ courage wulcr ilcfeat. As we have had something more ttian our share of de feats in Pennsylvania, the duty of far ing reverses with manliness and deter ruination has tieen the touchstone of fidelity to tho party, and in doing this, and in encouraging the Democracy to renewed exertions for the cause, the Democratic press has rendered its most oonspictions service. Especially in view of the great battle of next year should the active Democrats of every county in the State set about the practical and iui|>ortarit work of getting a Democratic journal into every Democratic house hold of the commonwealth, as well as into the households of as many of our Republican snd National friends as they can accomplish. It is the best mode of electioneering, as it eleratesail efforts in that lino to the plane of reas oning and thinking. Of It friend Shortlidge is this week sadly afflicted with rumors. Hoc B<-De finite Republican. It is scarcely neces sary to snv that they arc the mere fig ments of an unduly exciu-d bruin, and of that vivid imagiuatiou with which Mr. 8. is so largely endowed. Senator Bayard Heard Front. New Tort W.-rM. Aon>t W Senator Bayard, in a letter to a friend in this city from Carisbad. expresses himself as to (he "shameless speech" with which Secretary Sherman opened his href campaign in Maine with all the indignation aroused by that speech in the breasts of honest business men as well as of honest statesmen through, out this country. No man strove so hard in the Senate as Senator Bayard to bring Mr. Sherman to plainness of speech on the vital question of the can cellalion of the redeemed greenbacks, and no man, therefore, can denounce with tnore authority the scandalous im posture of which Mr. Sherman is guilty when he now parades himself all over the country as the author of resumption. CLAT was used first in the arts in pot tery, next in hrickmaking and third, for modelling the forms of the physi cal world. Clay, in modern times, was very much used by the Whigs. It is only in the matter of bricks that we rival the ancient manipulators of this kind of earth, for their potters and sculptors beat ua all to pieces. The Israelites took straw in theirs, and they grumbled meanly when the supply fell short. Some of the taskmasters of to day don't furnish so much as the clay, hut expect the tale of tiles all the same. The man with a brick in his hat, of whom we soaietimcs hear, finds his use for straw in illustrating the law of at mospheric pressure over the toothsome cobbler or the fragrant julep. Now and then we call a man a brick to distin guish him from a man of straw. ♦ CTXSR* day will be June 1, 1880. On that date in the neighborhood of 20.- 000 enumerators will commence their labors—those in the cities being requir ed to complete their work in two weeks time, while others will be granted lime during the whole of the month of June. Persons alive on the first of June (but dying before the enumerator reaches them) will be counted in the census. Births subsequent to the Ist of June will not lie counted. Special agents will be employed to collect statistics re lating to education, mining, manufac turing, agricultural and various other departments of trade and industry. M una PINTO, the Portuguese explorer of Africa, describes a race of white men, hitherto entirely unknown, which he found in the interior of the "dark con tinent." They are called Caaaequerea. They are whiter than the Caucasians and have their heads covered with small tufU of very short wool. They live on roots and animals, and are the only people known in Africa that do not cook their food in not*. They never sleep two nights in the same encamp ment, bat wander about, in groups of four to six families, over all the territo ry between the Cuobi and Cubango. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. DEATH OK ROI.AKO D. CcHTi.*.-On Saturday afternoon of lat week, at half pant four o'clock, all that was mortal of the Into Roland 1). Curtin passed away from earth. Jie had been ill hut a short time, and ere tho summer leaves had scarce began to color, the great reaper, Itcath, cut him off, and the tender Father saw fit to gather him in to be forever in the garner of the redeemed. No one could have been taken away whose loss will be more universally felt than that of "Koly," n ho was called by everyone. The children will have only tender, regretful memories of him whom they used to regard with all the familiarity of a brother; those of maturer years will miss sadly the little lorm which they were never accustomed to pass without the inter change of some pleasant remark ; and the aged will always give his memory a prom inent place among the many which lliey hold in pleasant recollection. But if his acquaintances miss hirn thus how much more will the IOM be felt by his near friends and relatives! The fact that he wa* a care to them has but bound them closer to him and will make the sep aration so much more difficult to bear with resignation. The vacancy thus created will ho felt the most in the family circle. Funeral services over the body of tho deceased took place on Monday afternoon at •'! 10 o'clock, from the residence of his mother. The body rested in an elegant casket stationed in the parlor on tho south side of the house and surrounded with beautiful floral offerings. Friends thronged to the house eager to mingle their sympathy with the deep grief into which the afflicted family w.-re plunged. Rev Hewitt, of the Episcopal church, qicn"d the service* with the annnouncement of a hymn and an earnest prayer. Key. Yocum, of the M K. church, read some appropriate selections of Scripture, and was followed by Rev. Schaffer, of the M. K. church, Milesburg, with the announcement of a second hymn. Rev. Wm. Laurie, of the Presbyterian church, made a few earnest, sympathetic remarks, when the solemn services closed with prayer by Rev. Schaffer. All the music was rendered most impressively bv a choir composed of Miss Orbison, Miss Clara Lyon, Mrs James Potter and Messrs. Hal. Orbison and Frank Keller. Then the friends took a last, long, lingering, sad glance at the body of little "Holy" and the ball bearers bore him away to the silent resting place of tho dead in Howard street cemetery. [The usual death notice of de ceased will be found in another column.] To the above notice we append the fol lowing, written by a friend : " He wa* taken sick Tuesday night, August 26, 1879, and kept growing worse until strong; he scorned to do wrong; his utmost en deavor was to do right. He was a great comfort to his devoted mother: he was always at home, alwaya cheerful, always ol>edient. His death will leave a void never again to be filled in the family circle. He had not been, since two or thtec years of age, strong in body, nor was he strong in mind ; yet hia useful nnss has been and is being felt, and will redound to his honor. There arc many to-day in the Centennial Temperance Club that will bear record to hia useful ness. Nothing but aickneaa in lied would prevent his attendance at these meetings. In thia, as in all else, he was conscientious as to hia duty. It ia a comfort to hia family and friends to think and, in fact, to know that Jesus walked through the dark valley and shadow of death with him, and that His rod and staff comforted bim. A." TRIKUTK or RESPECT. At a meeting of the Centennial Tem. perance Club, held at their hall in this place, the following preamble and resolu tions were unanimously adopted : Wit ERE AS, It has pleased Ood to re move from our numbers our late member and co-worker, R. I). Curtin, Kfolwtd. That in his death the family has lost a kind son and brother, and the temperance cause, for which he labored so earnest'y, one of its beat advocates ; and hruotred, That our hall be draped in mourning for the unexpired year, and the members wear badges for the space of thirty days; and /feso/eed, That we deeply sympathise with the family of our deceases! brother, and tender them our sincere condolence In their great bereavement; and Nesofeerf, That a copy of these resolu tions be sent to the family of the deceased, and that they be published In the IbwdW oss, CENTRE DEMOCRAT and Watchman. A. MORRISON, K. A. SMITH. TERMS: fc1.50 |mt Annum, in Advance. A Dinner and a Klm. "1 have brought your dinner, father, The blackxnitfi'* daughter *aid, A# she took from her irroi a kettl" And lifted it# shining lid J "There'* not any pie or pudding, (So I will give you this—" , A nd upon hi toil-worn forehead Hhe left r childith kisc. The blacksmith tore off hi* apron And dined in happy mood, Wondering rriu' h at the favor Hid in hi* humble food, While all about him were viaion* Full of prophetic hli* ; But he never thougnt of the rnagic In hi* little daughter'* kiat. While she, with her kettle swinging, Merrily trudged away, Stopping at right of a squirrel, Catching *om<- wild bird'* lay, And I thought how many a rhadow Of life and fate we rhould tniwi If a!way* our frugal dinner* Were seasoned with a kia*. GENERAL NEWS. It in not expected that the Cabinet will meet again before the middle of October, when Mr. Hayes returna from his western trip. Thirteen young men, of good family, bave lately arrived in thia country from Brazil, for the purpose of receiving the advantage* of our best schools. Mr*. Catherine Chare Np rag lie has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, of Khode Island, asking for the appoint ment of a trustee of her protierty and estate in South Kingiton, in that State- A new vein ha* been dineovered Ist the Lehigh Zinc Company's mine near Friedensville. The company is taking out a very peculiar kind of ore, which is ca|>ahle of being used when worker! up into brass tor purposes for which ordinary zincs are not available, among others that of making metallic cart ridge*. General 'rd. of Texas, recently sent to the artnory a piece of rneteorolite picked up in Mexico acme time ago, with the request that it be made into a aword for himself. The piece is com posed of iron mainly, but is so soft and brittle that the water-shop folks find it very difficult to harden the metal suffi ciently for the blade, though they will probably be able to finish it in good shape. The sword will not be ready for some time. Fight cases of yellow fever, seven white and one colored, were reported to the Hoard of Health on Monday morn ing. Nine interments hsve been report ed since Sunday night, among the num ber Maggie Sullivan, Annie M. Camp bell, Archie Mills, Mrs. htnms Arnold and .lame* Houck. Jr. The latter died at Buntyne station. Twenty-five cases in all—fifteen white and ten colored were reported on Monday. Two addi tional deaths have been reported. Another widow has mysteriously dis appeared, the remarkable feature of it being that she was a Maryland widow and about to be married. With the Georgia widow who disappeared a week ago this makes two widows now miss ing. At this rate it doesn't seem aa much fun to be a widow a* some folka bave supposed it i*. There is a chance that the Georgia widow will soon turn up, a* she has written that revenue offi cers have carried her off for unpaid whisky tax, and the fact being that tho government doesn't take widows in payment even of the whisky tax ahe will no doubt be finally returned to her children and friends. If there are any more handsome widows left it might tie worth while for them to lock themselves up before it is too late. Mr. Charles Francis Adams celebrat ed bis golden wedding on Wednesday last. Ihe yuincy (Mass.) Patriot ob serves: "It is an interesting and very unusual fact that three golden weddings of successive generation* of the same family should have I>een observed in the same house. That of President John Adams and hi* wife was celebrat ed on the 25th of October, 1814. That of their son, President John tjuincy Adams and his wife, on the 26th of July, 1847. The third has just taken place. It will l noticed that the in tervals between these occasions were respectively thirty-three and thirty-two years—almoqfr exactly the lifetime of a generation. Tit the lime of their gold en weddings President John Adams was seventy-nine, and Preeideot J. Q. ** Adams had just entered hut eightieth 'jj year. Mr. C. K. Adams is seventy-two." Pope Leo is said to look taller than be really is because of his extreme slender ness j his figure, however, is elegant, in spite of his leanness. Ife has a splendidly shaped head, fringed with silver hair, and a kindly face, healthy in coloring. His mouth, chin and jaw express strength and firmness. Ha wears a sou tane or close redingote of soft, white woolen cloth, taking the form of the figure at the waist and held, there with a band of embroidered silk, and buttoned quite down in front, show ing the slippers of red silk, embroidered with a golden cross. A cape of tha same color and material falls from the shoulder to the elbows, similarly but toned to the coat in front, with some soft substance, like down or edging the cap# around the neck, but not closely, and down the front} e golden cord hangs around the Bfcck, resting on the shoulders, and depends ing in front is a golden aud jeweled cross. His white hands are narrow*and the fingeis long and beautifully rounded and the nails are perfectly almond shaped and pink-tinted, (in his head he wears a white skull cap. . stffe-'-TT NO. :\7.