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 <lovernor w hen he fills a
vacancy caused by death. As Mr.
Green is an extremely moderate Re
publican Gov. Hoyt has adhered to
the spirit of the Constitution as much
as his party predilections and obliga
tions would |iermit In appointing a
Republican successor of a Democratic
Supreme Judge he has not imitat'-d
the example of party conventions by
the choice of an extreme partisan.
The appointment is one which we have
no doubt will prove entirely acceptable
to the people of the State."
IT is not suprising that the Repub
licans of New York desire to avoid
State issues in the present campaign,
by floating the bloody shirt. The
magnificent record of Gov. Tilden and
Gov. Robinson in smashing rings and
reducing the exj>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.
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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.
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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.
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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 woo<l, fell and broke her neck.
The funeral of the 1 te .lodge Warren
.1. Woodward took place at
on Saturday. A meeting
Aasocia ion of
ard eulogies passed upon
An unknown man was k
track of the lwhigh
near Penn Haven, last
paper* found on hi* {-ei-son
•opposed to be Edwards
He was alxcit 65 year* of
Citizens of Clarion oo^
autboritie*
the matter.
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parties who |>oione4^^^HH^^BHH
old that c^^^N^NN
mg occurred
large tani^^HH^^HH[^|||H
ha* )>©cn
j because
put operati^^^^^H^*
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X,na will in Al-
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--"y the usual number of
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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
; i<ogan life there as a washerwoman now
ha* an assured income of $l,00l a
| month. It i* also stated that in -pile
|of 422 offers of marriage she is still in
"maiden medidation fancy free."
tSeneral Grant is not the first Ameri
can hero to whom the San Francisco
people have given a rou*ing reception.
When General Wmfield Scott *top|>cd
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.