al)c (tcntrc A Democrat. NHUUF.RT & FORSTEtt, Editor*. VOL. I. She Centre <2lraacr.it. T.rmi p-r Annum .11 Adf.aM. S. T. SHUQERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor*. Thursday Morning, October 2, 1879. Democratic State Tioket. STAT* TREASURER, DANIEL >. BAKU, Allegheny county. Democratic Connty Ticket. JURY COM MISS ION KB, JOHN SHANNON, of Potter. CORONER. Dr. JOSEPH ADAMS, of Mileebarg. Democratic Mass Meeting. There will ho Ms.*.* Meeting of the citi zens of Centre county, at the Court House, in Bellefonte, on Tnesdag Evening, I>rt. It, ISJit, which will be nddressed by Hon. \\ M. A. WALLACE, U. S. Senator, of Clearfield county, Hon. GEO. A. JKNKB,ef Brook villo, and Ex-Gov. ANDREW G. CI R TIN.of Bellefonte. It is hoped that there will be a turn out from all parts of the county. All citi zens are invited to come and hoar the issues now exciting the public mind dis cussed by honest, able and faithful public men. By order of the Democratic County Committee. DAVID F. FORTNEY, Chairman. PAY your taxes ! and do not fail to •do so on or before Saturday next. That is the last day on which a State or county tax can be j>nid in order to qualify any one to vote at the next election. JOHN RUSSELI. YOU NO defines Grant's position, ami says, "he refuses to accept another term of the Presi dency, subject to the decision of the Republican National Convention." Whether John Russell Young is defi nite authority on the subject is now the important question. No Democrat should fail to turn out on October 14th to bear Wallace, Jinks and Curtin. Mr. Jenks is per sonally known to but few of our citi zens, but he has a national reputation ami is justly esteemed as one of the ablest and purest statesmen in the Democratic party. THE last hope of the despondent Ohio Republicans is now centered in Secretary Sherman. It is gravely an nounced that the autocrat of the Treasury is really going home to vote. Such condescension is most remarka ble. Now if one of the Shermans was a candidate for something we might account for this extraordinary compliance on the jrnrt of resumption John. As it is we think he will have to lie closely watched or he will forget who is his candidate for Governor and vote for himself. THE colored voter, it seems is getting tired of being alw ays compelled to vote for the Republicans, and never lieing voted for in return. He is now making himself a troublesome element in some places, by demanding his rights and claiming a reciprocity of |rty services. In Bt. Louis the colored voters have resolved that they will no longer vote the Republican ticket un less they are givep an equal share of the offices in proportion to their vot ing strength. MR. HAYEK, the proprietor of the Presidential hippodrome now showing to delighted audiences in the West, has evidently been copying the style of the incomprehensible and didactic Kvarts, as will lie seen by an extract from a sjieech delivered by the dc facto President at Aurora, Illinois. If it wasn't pretty generally believed that Mr. Hayes is a rigid disciple of Joho B. Gough the impression might get abroad that he was in his cup* to a considerable extent when he perpe trated this monstrous travesty on the Queen's English. If he persists in such things be will undoubtedly be confronted by the ghost of Lindsey Murray, who can stand almost any thing but the wholesale murder of his own language. "XQL'AL AND KX ACT JUHTIC* TO ALL MEN, or WIIATZVKK STATK OB PKHAC ASION, BKLIOIOI'B OK POLITICAL."—JIT*r*r>f> ON Monday Gov. Hoyt appointed Hon. Henry Green, of Fusion, Judge of the Supremo Court in place of Judge Woodward, deceased. lion Henry Green was horn in Warren county, N. Y., August '29, 18*jx, and is consequently fifty-one years of age He grndunted from Lafayette College in 1841!, studied law with Judge Washington M'Cartney and in Sep tember, IXI9, was admitted to the bar of Northampton county. In polities he is Republican, but hits never been conspicuous for party work. In 18o(! ho was a member of the Republican National Convention which nominated John C. Fremont, for the Presidency. The only public position he ever held was as a member of the Constitu tional Convention. He wa not a regularly elected meinl>erof that body, but was selected to fdl a vacancy. The Harrisburg Patriot, in noticing ( the appointment of Mr. Green to the Supreme Bench of the State, says that "he bears the reputation of being an able lawyer while he is a man of the highest probity of character. The design of the new Constitution is to mnintain as nearly as possible the political equilibrium in the Supreme Court by providing that when two judges are to be elected for the same term of service each voter shall vote for only one, and when three are to be chosen he shall vote for no more than two. Under this provision .fudge Woodward was elected at the same time with Judge Paxson. Rut there is no way of making this provision binding on a eiiscs of Government, arc not issues that the Republicans delight to contemplate. In this State also they would ignore State issues, but from a different stand point. Here they seek to hide from public view the enormous expenditures of the pule lie money, the base corruption which marked the proceedings of the last leg islature, and the robberies and general cussedr.eas which have prevailed for more than a decade previous, in which they have had unchallenged control of the finances and legislation of the State. A OKOROIA paper advises the IWm "ocrats in Congress "not to make any more fuss about the election laws. The Republicans seems to have much affection for them, and it would ap jcar to le mere wantonness to re|>eal the acts. They want troops at the {mils, and it might be well to accom modate them under IX-moeratic ad ministration." This is putting the case in a different light, but as the Democracy will not want Republican precedents, nor to follow them if they had them, we are in favor of early ac tion by (kmgress, to cracc the villian ous laws from the statute books. THE Kansas Relief Committee, ex pecting a large exodus of negroes from the Houth this fall, arc out in a circu lar declaring their inability to pro vide for them, and appealing to their friends that some effort be made to turn the tide to some oltlor northern Ktate where there is more money to relieve their want*. Bend them to Maine or Massachusetts. They will IKS warmly received in either of those States, out of pure love and philan thropy. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, IH7O. THE political campaign in Ohio is now at fever heat. Roth sides, that is the Democratic and Republican par ties, are making earnest and energetic efforts to carry the State. The Green backers keep up the pretense of an or ganization, with a ticket for State; offi cers, but can scarcely be considered a factor in the contest so far as they are to lie regarded as a political party. A vast majority of those who have here tofore IM'CII classed as Grcenbaekers will not vote that ticket this fall, and probably three out of every four of them will prefer Gen. Kwing to Foster. The prospects for Gen. Kwing's elee" tion an- very encouraging. The Dem ocrats are united, active, and deter mined to win. A FELLOW named Woodin, who has been re-nominated for the State Senate in New York by the Republi cans, shows his fitness for the honor by the following sentiment: "We have gone too fr and too fn>t in the dim-lion of forgiveness Mid pardon for treason, and done too little in the way of si-curing guarantee* for the future. fh<- low of tin* Slate this fall will 1M- the lirnl fatal t<-p that lead* to rebel supremacy.'' This man Woodin was proven to IK* the constant recipient oT Tweed's bribes when a member of the Senate. Tweed was punched and died in prison, while Woodin i still at lurgc, the representative of Republican de cency. It is just such thieves as this man, who continue to float the bloody shirt and endeavor to keep up the divisions and animosities of the war. ■ ■■■■ WE are authorized by the Chair man of the Connty < 'ommitlec to '•ay that Senator Wallace and Hon. Go>. A. Jcnks will certainly lie at the Dcm ocratic meeting to IK* held at the < ourt House, on Tuesday evening, the 14tli instant. Mr. Fortney has heard froin these distinguished gen tlemen by letter, and both have prom ised to s|M-ak at the meeting. In con nection with Ex-Governor Curtin, who will also IK* present, we will have an array vf s|>oaking ability that cannot be excelled. Let us have a packed t'oiirl House. Turn otrt,-*HH*4UId all. SENATOB BRUT E, investigating the Freed mail's Bank fraud, promises startling developments in hi* report, the nature of which he is not yet at liberty to disclose. The pious scound rels who managed that swindling con cern, ami robbed the confiding negroes of their earnings, have cut the crimi nating proof out of the books in some eases, hut have not sufficiently cover ed their tracks to avoid detection of great villainy. Under the best cir cumstances, Senator Bruce docs not expect the depositors to realize any considerable |Kr cent. BI.AINE makes his appiuranre in the (>hio canvas ostensibly in the in terest of the Republican party, but it is believed by some that the true char acter of his service will be that of a guerilla. Rlaine has no love for John Sherman, and his appearance in Sherman's State may bode no good for John. They are both Pres idential aspirants and hoth dema gogues of the highest type. ■■■' THE Fraud has been a great at traction at theagricultural fairs of the West and increased the gate money prodigiously. And why should he not bo? It is the only President of the kind the country ever saw, or ever will see, and ought to be as drawing as Barnum's woolly horse or any other monstrosity that could be presented to attract the curious and stir up the crowd. DENNIS KEARNEY called at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where < ten. Grant and his party are stopping, and sent up his card, hut the Gen. de clined to receive it. Score one for Grant. The vulgar dernngngue need ed snubbing, and he got it. WILLIAM RLIKKR, oldest son of the Hon. Eli Hlifer, of Union county, was instantly killed in a stone quarry near Ixmisburg, laat week, l>y the caving in of earth and rocks upon him. Ho wn* n." years of age. The Adams Family Ever since John Adams, second President of the United States, uttered those grand words of patriotic fervor that have come down to us from the convention of 1778 tliul declared In dcpcudence, "KINK on SWIM, LIVE on DIE, SURVIVE OK I'EIUSH, I OIVK MY IIANLT AND MY IIEAItT TO THIS iKI LAKATION," the Adams family has occupied an honored and distin guished position in the history of our country. Each succeeding generation of the family has produced notable men. Father uml son were Presi dents, and the present head of the family, Charles Francis Adams, lias fill ed many positions of high distinction. Long life and domestic happiness seem also to have blessed the family in a remarkable degree. John Adams, the first, lived long enough with his excellent and accomplished w ife —who in her day wrote such charming let ters —to celebrate a golden wedding. Their son, John Quiiicv, after year* of wedded bliss, observed a like event, and now AM son, < 'baric* Francis, ven erable in years and noble in honors for the works of a long life of usefulness to his country, likewise marks his on ward pilgrimage through time with a "golden milestone." An exchange, moralizing over this event, so rare through successive generations, savs that a " golden wedding reems to have been a <*ort of heirloom in the family, like the Presidency of the United States. The parallel runs out in this third generation, to IK* sure, but no doubt if Mr. Charles Francis Adams knew that he could not have both, he would rather have bis second wed ding than the political nomination. With it* sliding social scale, and its migratory habits of many citizens of this great and glorious Republic, it is a matter of remark when tiie golden weddings of three successive genera- tions occur in the same bouse. It is pleasant also to reflect, in the frequent cradi of matter nnd wreck of domes tic world*, on such an uninterrupted reign of happiTlfSiKud p*aeo and prosperity. If any onfrrElftrmed at the statistics, has said in his ba.-(e > i4 | t all men are unhappily married, and that in the present state of society, the officiating clergyman is only play ing into the hands of the divorce lawyers, let him read the family rec ord of the Adamses and recant his rash decision. Here, for one hundred and fifty year*, the course of true wedded Uve nin smooth. John Adam* and hi* wife—Abigail Smith that waa— celebrated their golden wedding when he waa scvcnty-nitie year* old, and John Quincy Adams was juat entering on hia eightieth year when he w#e married over again. And having refreshed his memory With these chronological facts, the constant reader falls to moralising on golden weddings in general. There is always something slightly fantastic about one. It is a masquerade, hut there is a pathos that cannot he drowned in festivity. There are too many memories, about. Komel>ody has to endure the awkwardness of in troducing to the ancient bridesmaids and antique groomsmen the new min ister, who stands in the place of the dead and gone. "Best men" are apt to be missing—men so good that no effort is made to fill their places. Perhaps the first bridesmaid has gono with a handsomer roan. And there is no one to take theold-fashioned, short wristed kid glove front the ancient hand of the bride. Hatin will grow yellow in fifty years, and orange-bloa aoms will fade and be crushed a little with the long hoarding, and their breath of bloom will be mixed with the fragrant fibre of the cedar chest, which is also a member of the family. There is such a crowd of uew faces, and so many footsteps on the stairs, and, with the strictest care iu the in vitations, so many shadowy guests come unbidden to a golden wedding." IT will doubtless greatly disturb the organ* to hear that S|waiter Kandull ami Senator Wallace met ami cordi ally exchanged greeting* at I'ine (irove l'ark, in C'umherland eounty, the other dav. They both cjxike from the mime platform to the *amc large assemblage of Itemoerat*, and there wasn't the slightest sign of either a \\ allaee party or a Randall party. They were all for Ilarr. . - - ■ ■■ STATE NEWS. The Rodman Furnace in Blair eounty in to be put in blat shortly by the Cambria Iron Company. John Morgan wan killed at No. 2 tunnel colliery, at Nanticoke, Luzerne county, bv a tall of top coal. ftobert Cbatnplain, a farmer of West field. Tioga county, *m shot and killed on Friday while cutting corn. The shipment* of coal over the J'hila delphia and Reading railroad and branch©* lat week footed up T.;l ton*. * William Kirk, an ex Mollie Maguirc, lia* Ween *ent to jail at Wilkenbarre in default o( 3 f OCO bail, for counterfeiting coin. The rail mill at the tJcel work* at Scranton, which ha* beef idle for aome week* past, returned Mierationa last week. m Alout #2i*i worth oT counterfeit sr>$ r > bill* of the National Itftnk of Troy, N, Y., were paused in Chealftron Saturday. No arrest*. t'harle* Tipton fell frern a tree Friday afternoon at Gettysburg while nutting, and divl an hour afterward from in juries received. The school* of Palo Alto. Schuylkill county, have been temporsTVly closed on account of the prcvaiencA-,of diph tberia in that place. 7 1 'n Wednesday evening of last week, Mr*. Harriet ''ran*, of Wilhamsport. a* she was entering her house with an arm ful of woooione4^^^HH^^BHH old that c^^^N^NN mg occurred large tani^^HH^^HH[^|||H ha* )>©cn j because put operati^^^^^H^* ># '*oth in ft Ul< . X,na will in Al- X c rrol'l°y ,, ®i F ' i operation, g,r --"y the usual number of ' n T great time about the mili tia where everybody want* to Last evening Captain j Lieutenant .lackson. l.i.•wi*. Fitzharri* and Private 11. I 11. Ilarr arrived iu Philadelphia, and today will see Adjutant General* l.atta and present to him the advisability of adding the two new companies raised i in Altoona to the Fifth Regiment. The advance in the price of iron from | cent# to 3 cents a pound, by the Western Iron Association, on Friday, is of great imjKirtanoe to Pittsburg. II i* to be estimated that it will bring an in crease of from $20,000 to $22,000 per day in the receipt* of Pittsburg iron manu facturers, and an increase of from SI,OOO to $1,200 per day in the wage* paid pud tilers and helpers. An interesting case is to be heard at Allentown on Friday next, in which Hon. Edwin Albright, President Judge of I*>high county, is the defendant. Mr*. Wetherhold, a soldier'* widow, 1 living in Allentown. presented her claim at Washington for a pension, and ; it was returned with the statement that the elatm had been presented some years before, assigned to John Juten, M. I)., and the check sent to Albright, then an attorney at law, and represent ing the assignee. The Judge claim* to | have paid the money to a daughter of Mra. Wetherhold, who denie* that she aver received scent. Ienae fog hung over the Reading Railroad track at Ikouglassville on Sat urday morning when the gravel train of which Isaac Priser was conductor went steaming up at the rate of eight mile* an hour. Juat below the station George Priser, a brakeman on the rear car of the gravel train, saw approaching on the aaxne track (he Blue Line freight, which was bowling along at a speed of thirty mile* to the hour. At the alarm I from Gnprgc Priser all the men in the ' caboose at the end of the gravel train leaped for their Uvea, except Alexander Young and the conductor. In a mom ent the Blue Line telescoped the gravel with a terrific crash. Conductor Priser, who waa a resident of Pott*town, was killed. Alexander Young waa taken frotu the debris and conveyed to hi* home, in Rouglesaviile, where he died at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, David Davidbeaer waa seriously injured, Several frieght oars were wrecked. I>eputy Coroner Joshua Ryer* empanel ed a Jury and began an investigation. TEH MS: |x*r Aiiiium, in Advance. GENERAL NEWS. I Mud wood, I). T., had a s2,ofjo,(J(io fire ) last Friday. Ihiririg the month of August, 2,'.'-7 fire* occurred in Russia. I.a*t week 3,72 ft emigrant* arrive! at j Castle Garden, New York. Two in eh n of .now fell at Mount l/oui", Ijuebec, Friday morning. Lincoln county, • ieorgia, ha* seven i gold mines in steady operation. !' 'n Friday )t. Marsh'* harvester work* at l'lano, Chicago, were destroyed i by tire. Prof. Peter*, of Smithsonian Institute, announce* the discovery by himself of a ' planet of the eleventh magnitude. Rev. Robert Collyer began his New York pastorate at the Church of the Messiah last Sunday before a very large congregation. A dead Raltirnore tramp proves to ] have been the son of the late John Stewart Fra/.er, a wealthy citizen of I Glasgow, Scotland. The financial outlook in Kngland 1 grow* worse and worse. The latest ac- S count* tell ol further reduction* in | wage* and threatened strike*. The Supreme Court of Rhode Island, ! in session at Providence, on Saturday unpointed Rotert Thompson trustee of the property of Mr-. William Sprague. While Mr. Henry Freed, of Nouder ton, was out driving a few (lays since, he was thrown from his wagon, and breaking his neck, was instantly killed. Colonel Frederick I>. Grant arrived at Council Rluffs on Saturday from San Fpanci*< o. He ssv hjpfithcr will come ; Ka*t about the last of ' •cfoberor first of j November. The munificence of the I>uke of Nor i folk a* a Catholic is wonderful. It i* I estimated thai within (lie past twtf I vest- he ha* applied over his religion. A. Low. a f* Cumberland, Me., ha* is a propose to erect to died at the |n*t of (luty Yellow fever epidemic of Ho! for 1/eadville. A woman who ; icd there on his way to San Juan Island, he we* received with the utmost enthu siasm of parade and other pomp. In New York, on Thursday last, a poor woman named IWtha Wathan, wa* unjustly accused and arrested on a charge of passing counterfeit coin on an j Italian peanut vender. She was dis charged, and her excitement brought on an attack of sickness which resulted fatally. Two robberies at Long Branch have created great excitement. R, I>. Rrice, a contractor, wa* knocked down and robbed of SBS, and Hamel I.awler, who runs a hotel, was attacked in his bar room. He got the better of the rob ber*. who escaped with the content* of ! the till, however. Frederick Harvey. living near Muddy Creek, Ureenbrier county, V*., wont to hoar a funeral sermon preached a few morning* ago. and returning home, af ter conversing with hi* stepdaughter, seised her by the hair and attempted to cut her throat. She wan horribly mutilated and after a deaperate atrug gle escaped. He than wont into the yard and cut his own throat from ear to ear. The man' is believed to have been laboring under a fit of religioua frenxy. "ne half of the money to be paid out for pension arrearage* will go to veteran* in five State*. New York will have >3,150.000 : IVnnaylvania, *3,030,- 000: Ohio. |a,000.000; Illinois, £2.150,- 000; Indiana. *1.750,000. Twelve Northern States, exclusive of those named, will receive together tl. 400.000; and Maryland, Piatrict of Columbia! New Jersey and Pelaware will reeeive' *1,800,000. The current payments in pensions will involve an additional out lay thia year of *30,000.000. Mr. Isaac If. McCauley. an old and respected member of the Chamberaburg bar, died suddenly, of heart disease, at the residence of his brother, Rev. Thomas McCauley, at Chester, Pa., on Saturday morning last, aged 61 years. Mr. McCauley served several years as one of the Clerks of the Senate in old Whig times, was also Clerk under (lov ernor Pollock, and served one term as Protbonotary of Franklin countv He rW? 4 published a history of Franklin county a few veers ago. that is *"1 unusually accurate com pilation. He leaves one son, now * minuter in Washington. NO. 10.