tjljr Centre A, tlemocrnl. SHUGERT & KOKSTER, Editors. VOL. I. J lit Centre etuotr.it. Terms 51.50 per Aniinm. in Advance. 8. T. SHUQERT snd R. H. FORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, October 9, 1879. Democratic State Tickot. STATIC TItEASI'KER, DANIEL O. HARK, Allegheny county. Democratic County Tieket. JI'RY 005!MISSIoNKR. JOHN SHANNON, of Potter. CORONER, I)r. JOSEPH ADAMS, of Milcsburg. Democratic Mass Meeting. There will bo Mara Meeting of the citi zens of Centre county, at tho Court House, in Bellefonto, on Tmutiny Kvrniny, Oct. 14, I Slit, which will be addressed by Hon. WM. A. "WALLACE, U. S. Senator, of Clearfield county, Hon. GEO. A. JKNKS,f Brook ville, and Ex-Goy. ANDREW G. CI Jt- TIN, of Bellefonto. It is hoped that there will bo a turn out from all parts of the county. All citi zens are invited to come and hear tho issues now exciting the public mind dis cussed by honest, able and faithful public men. By order Of tho Democratic County Committee. DAVID F. FORTNEY, Chairman. IT is said that Grant was not pleas ed with Pinafore. He regarded Sir Joseph as a reflection upon that sturdy old salt, Boric, and understood Con*in Ifrbe to say, "and so do the C'ascys, the Corbins and the Dents." PROF. J. WISE, the famous aeronaut, who made an oscentiun from St. Isjuis ou Sunday evening, the '2* th ult., in company with a Mr. Burr, has not yet boen heard front. They have no doubt met the fate of Donaldson and his com panion who were lost gome time ago. Prof. Wise was an old man, and spent his life in experiments to successfully navigate the air. He resided in Lan eaater county, in this State; was well known to our people, and much res jiectcd. SOME reckless Democrat, without f*r of the wrath to come, was wicked enough to say the other day, that whenever a colored man at the south gets cowhided for l>eing in a white man's cbicken-house after dark, he sends word to the New York Tribune that he was there as a Republican for jiolitical purposes, and another brutal outrage is annouuccd. Hut nobody hears from the chickens! TIIE Republican platforms so far as promulgated this fall, seem to claim that the States have no rights that the Nation is bound to resjwet, and thnt state rights is an exploded theory and the reservations of the Constitution in favor of the States mere chimeras of the old fogies w ho made and adopted it. Well, perhaps the Republicans will come to their senses after the No vember elections, and see things in a different light. GEN. BHEKHAM, who has been tra velling in the Hayes Caravan, recen ly made a speech urging the people to use their influeucc with members of Congress to increase the army. It costs now $50,000,000 annually to keep up the present military establish ment of 25,000 men, and Gen. Sher man is not happy. It docs not come up to his ideas of grandeur. If Con gress would discharge the large sur plus of drones under pay, they might add to the rank and tile without in creasing materially the present enor mous expenditure. It need not re quire six officers to command ten men. After all, our reliance is not depend ent upon the army to repel invasion, if any should occur, which is not to be expected. It is to the people them selves, to the citizen soldiery, that we must look for protection. Hut Gen. Hhcrman with his 25,000 men on the borders, where they may be useful, but give us no more soldiers to con centrate at Washington and other pla ces to force the edicts of party to se cure the triumph of fraud. "Bgl'AL ANI) KXACT JUHTU'IC TO ALL MEN, OT WHATEVER MTATK OK I'KKMLAMON, HKI.IOIOCN OK POLITICAL."— h-lttnun Wendall. I*hilli|M announces tl at " the old Democratic party is about dead." Thin announcement has been made at least oticc a year, and the Re publicans have been preparing to bu ry it ever siuce that party had an ex istence, ami still the stubborn old thing lives on and retains a woudcr ful vitality. Notwithstanding its great age, and the extraordinary conflicts it has had to encounter iu the last centu ry with the aristocracy, their corrup tions aud frauds, it is still robust ami belligerent, and the Republicans may as well abandon the hope of the fune ral so long predicted and so ardently desired. The truth is the old Demo cratic party can't die as long as Re publican Government exists. When that dies,and the stalwart republicans have succeeded is establishing a cen tralized des|Hjtisn on its ruins, the grand old party may succumb, hut not until then. A LATE telegram from ltdiami|>o lis announces the unwelcome fact that the White House circus has conclud ed its full engagements at the Western Agricultural Fairs, and is alrout ready to return to winter quarters at Wash ington. At the hist appearance of the company, in the city above named, it is said Mr. Haves made a speech about the return of prosperity and the re sources of Indiana, which was favora bly received. It is not said, however, that he reja-ated the lucid sentence ut tered by him a few days before, nt Au rora, Illinois, "What I wish to say is, let us see to it in all our pleasure, whatever may be remembered and whoever may lie forgotten, we should not fail to remember that we shall not forget the laborers- of our country." Huch a "gem of thought and jewel of expression," does his Frauduleuey in finite credit, and should be placed l>e fore his admiring audiences every where. WE feel inclined of cay to our GAL lant au- lisher, and H. J. Walters as associate editor. It is an excellent newspaper advocates sound Democratic princi ples and should receive a liberal sup port from the Democracy of Mittlin county. Gentlemen, we wish you all success in your new departure. J. HLAKE WALTERS, Esq., Cashier of the State Treasury, has been ap pointed Paymaster of the National (tuard of Pennsylvania, with the rank of Colonel. The Patriot says the gallant Colonel "is ready to march at the tap of the drum," but is happy in the thought that "grim visag'd war hath smoothed his wrinkled front" and that there is no smell of villain ous saltpetre in the land." THE rush and roar of the Grant boom was last heard in Nebraska. In all the speeches made in the Re publican Convention of that Htate the other day, Grant was named as the standard bearer for 1880. Hherman must speedily work up his " solid south" or he is irretrievably lost. BELLKEONTE, PA., TIIU Tho Congressional Content There seems to be a singular, not to sny surprising, unanimity of senti ment in at least two quarters in regard to the contest from this Congressional district now ]>cnding in Congress. Notwithstanding the resolution unani mously adopted by our county con vention, three weeks ago, expressing a sincere belief in the election of Ex- Governor Curtin by the honest vote of the district, and giving a hearty en dorsement to his course in contesting his right to the seat, our neighbor of the ffalr/iman condemns the contest, and our Republican friends exactly agree with him. They are in sweet and loving harmony with each other. Indeed, tho resolution passed by the Republican county convention, of last Tuesday, condemning the contest and endorsing the right of Mr. Vocutn to retain the sent, rends as though it might have been written within the inner precincts of the ll'drAwum's cosy sanctum, so beautifully does it har monize with the views expressed by that journal upon the same subject. Rut in defiance of all this exhibition of impotent disappointment the contest will still go on. The friends of Ex- Governor Curtin have an abiding con fid* nee in the justice of his cause- They believe that the evidence in the ease shows conclusively that lie re ceived a handsome majority of the legal votes of the district, and know that a Democratic majority will not be SO far derelict in duty to the party as to refuse to award him a scat to which he was fairly and honestly elected. As nu offset to the opinions expressed in the two quarters above indicated, we append the following extracts from recent issue* of the Washington IW, byway of showing what is thought about the propriety and justice of this contest at the t'aj ital : •' When tho Republicans controlled the House thoy were accustomed to turn out almost any Iemocrat whoso •oat wm claimed by his competitor re gardless of the fact* in the aso. THp Democracy bare not followed thoup Lad precedent*, but bavo bpn guided by tho principles of law and equity in deciding contested elections. Meaar*. Yocum and Orth will, in all probability, bo eliminated from thn present House for tho good and sufficient reason that thpy occupy paU to which Mcrarsj Curtin and McCabe were eleotcd." "One of the brut duties that will de volve on tho lloup, when it meets in December, will bo to put Andrew (i. t'urtin, of Pennsylvania, and .linua McCabe of Indiana, into thn seats to which tlioy wore duly elected lat year, and from which they are debarred by the temporary tenure of Yocum and trth, respectively. The howl which the Kadical preM ia raining, in antici pation of this event, ia not calculated to alarm the Democratic majority, both juatice and expediency demand that the l>emocrata elected to thoae aeata be inatalled in them. And we have a strong conviction that thia will be promptly done." THE New York Sun ha* the follow ing comment* on the speech delivered by Senator Wallace at I'ine Grove, which are worthy of the careful atudy of the producers and workingmen of Pennsylvania: Mr. Wallace remind* hi* audience that no people in the Union have no important a Make in the restoration of harmony and good government a* the people of Pennsylvania. He refers to the uncertainty of foreign markets, not only for the products of our farms but also of our manufactories, and shows very clearly that the south ought to be again as it was once, the most certain as well a* the most profitable market for the varied industries of the north, lie asks s "How are we to insure a for what we produce In the future? {'an we do it by causing divisions among our own people, and by arraying one section of the country against another, by daunting the 'bloody shirt' and crying 'lbwn with the Confederate Brigadier ?' Or shall wo re cognise the fact that the actual market for our manufaclurea is in the south, and aid to restore our own market by restoring unity, peace and good government through out the whole country f The only securi ty for a continuance of the period' of nros jierity now about breaking upon our Penn sylvania industries Is to be found in re storing the whole country to the condition of one prosperons and united people. We of Pennsylvania are more interested in this queatln than any other section of the republic, for wo are the workshop of the republic. The true protection for Pennsylvania's industries is in the restora tion of peace and good fellowship to all." It la marvelous beyond comprehen sion that la the -State which furnishes tSDAV, OCTOBER !87!i. coal and iron, nnd all the multitude of manufactures which they unite to pro duce, u party could he maidialed to keep in uproar and contusion, ill slavery and poverty, the population of eight or ten Slates which are its natural custo mers. When tho society of the south is settled and its agriculture revived, Pennsylvania furnishes it with imple ments, from a cotton planter and it plough to a stenm engine and u press. \\ hen her railroads are to he rebuilt Pennsylvania sends her the iron. Her coal Boats choke the upper waters of tiie Ohio before every freshet, and the number of them increases with every day of peace and uninterrupted indus trial ellbrt in the southern States. lVnnHylvHnjn, the great central com monwealtb, "the workshop of the Un ion," as Senator Wallace call* it, has a larger interest in sectional tranquility than any other community of equal numbers in the cojntry. Its people will orary ; their wounds are hut in the flesb. and it is the pride of the generous to forgive and forget them; but the slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rank le longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind, and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trilling collision." If Mr. Irving were living to-day he might apply the same words to the chronic habit of the Republican press to vilify and slander the Southern people, and the rebuke would be just and timely. The wounds of the sword would have been mutually forgiven and forgotten long ago. and the people of the North and South would now be on the kindest terms, had not the unscrupulous men who control the Republican organization decided to re-Open those wounds, in the hope of making |>olitcal capital thereby. For this reason, and no other, the Republican press, with few exceptions has kept Up an incessant and increasing torrent of abuse and cal umny. The sad results of this policy are apparent in an increasing luternaa of feeling. Cooper tells us that "mountains interposed, making enemies of nations that had else, like kindred drops. l>oen mingled into one." The Republican managers have erected mountains of lies to separate the North and South, and excite mutual hostilitr. It is the most impolitic and wicked thing that any man or act of men could do. It re tards the progress of the Nation in all its greatest interests, and it sows broad cast the seeds of strive, that are likely to bear bitter fruit for years to come. Hut the men who coolly decided that thero was "blood enough in the old shirt for another campaign" care noth ing for the great and (>ermanent injury they inflict on the business, the social end moral interests of all our people, if they can but solidify the North against the South—the South already solidified by cruel oppression and unrelenting malice. Yet these men will fail, mis erably fail, in their infernal purpose The great commercial and industrial interests of all sections must, in the Tery nature of things, he arrayed against the policy of propagating hate and nur turing malice. And on these great conservator of fraternal relations we may safely depend for the final over throw of the party whose only hope of continued existence is sectional ani mosity. ♦ An I ndcrground Hirer of Petroleum. There ia said to be a river of petro leum flowing through the subterranean I raviliea of lex**. It takea it* riae in ! the carboniferoua atrata north of the great bend of the Colorado above Lam paaea, thence it flowa in a aoutheaat direction. The first indication known of thia atream ia in llurnet county at "tar springs,™ where petroleum covera the surface of the witer. Again it ap |>eara in the aoutheaat in Williamaon county and at aeveral pointa in theaame direction in the unfrequented forests and thickets penetrated by the Great Northern Railway. Further aoutheaat it appears again nine miles northwest of Sour Lake; it appears again on moat of the wella, and haa covered Ihe surface for a considerable apace with hard aaphaltum. Again, some thirty milea aoutheaat, it appear* at Beaumont. Some fifteen milea from that |>oint an arm of it cornea near the a irfaoe at what ia known as Oil Hay, on t ie gulf, where the water ia no covered with oil that the waves have no effect. Even when the gulf ia on ita heaviest "benders" the waters of thia bay are said to he perfectly quiet and peaceable and it ia therefore a favorite place of refuge for trading vessels when a storm ia threatened. Perhaps thia river of petroleum passes through the aubterra nean cavities under the gulf, and ia the same that at last boil* up in Trinidad, making the great aaphaltum lake. Along the shores near Sabine Hay it ia also common for chunka of aaphaltum to be thrown up by the aea. The river, if it be a river, baa never yet I seen tapped by the hand*'of man, and iu great supplies of oil are doing no good except in Trinidad, if it be theaame that rise* on the island. Hut it must be recollected that Texas ia yet, from some stand-points, an almost totally unexplored region. STATE NEWS. Butler county ships wheat to t'incin nati. It is rumered that the Cambria iron company of Johnstown will increase the wages of its employes in Novem ber. The Pittsburg division of the Balti more ami Ohio railroad has drawn upon the main line for about a dozen of ex tra locomotives, so great lies become the traflic of the road. Huntingdon is putting up a hand some new public building at a cost of #I!O,(MXt. A three-story htick building has also been erected on the site of the Henry A Co. (lour mill, burned some time ago. The work at the new penitentiary at Huntingdon progresses slowly, hut a small portion of the outer wall having reached the surface of the ground. The reservoir, however, is almost com pleted. 'I he inspection of the bridges, iron work, etc., ot the Pennsylvania railroad and brunches has commenced. The general and local engineers of the scientific department comprise the in spection party. A little girl named Ilaney, of Cam bria county, who bod been detected in unauthorized purchase of urtie'e* at a grocer * was so humiliated that she undertook to commit suicide. .She wa* only twelve years ol^^ A party of boy* gathering cbe-t nuts, Sunday, in Lhe woods near Sjiort bill, at Scraiit-on. found a human skele i ton with two hole* in the skull. It is supposed to be that of John Lorson, who is said t-o have been murdered. The publisher* $f the Wilkes bar re r are now issuing a real and sprightly little daily, 'I here was a held for an afternoon paper in Wilkesbarre, and the lift* the ability to succeed. It starts with, the news, both local and general, and that is what makes a paper in these t's.ies. It is understood that :a Philadelphia gentleman named Whitehead has made all the preliminary arrangements to ward securing the contrdl of Elizabeth furnace, about three mi bis east of Al toona, for the pur|>ose a* putting it in blast. When this occurs many men will be thus given employment. The Rehigh iron company's mine near hast Texas is c.llled the "murder hole" because of lb4 many live* lost there. The xoikmA do not like the place and the machinery destroyed by the last explosion not be replaced, arrangements having l-eeti made to wash the ore on a property near by. The firm at W ill,*am*port which en tered into a contract with a New York house last summeiv to manufacture AO,- 000 toy pianos is progressing. finely with the work. These pianos are 19 by 9 inches, neatly, made and varnished. From .100 to f**'are turned out daily. The contract irfust be finished by the first of liecemntc- "ne hundred and ten girl* and vyomen and twenty-five men are emplctfod in putting them to gether. The |firm xpeeta to fake a large Euroj>e*ide* dam aging othAr buildings. The Curwens villo occupied part of the hank but all their safes, valuable p3jmHv>d books were saved, and there will be no interruption to the bank's business. <>n the third story was the Curwensville Library Association's reading room and (kid Fellows' Hall, the loss on which is complete, with no insurance. The aggregate loss by the fire is about f30,0(J0 and the insurance 117,(100. Two yearn ago theae was a railroad diaaater on the Pickering Valley road, near Kimberton, a few milea" from I'ho-nixville. A crowded excursion train, returning from the I'ennypacker family re-union at Schwenkaville, ran into a chaam caused by a heavy raft wadiing out an embankment. Seven people were killed and about forty wounded. Some forty auita have been brought againat the Heading Railroad for damagea. That of Harmon Ander aon waa terminated on Saturday night at I.an raster, and the verdict waa in favor of An demon. lie waa awarded $3,500. The caae will now go to Su preme Court, The report of oil operations for Sep tember shows a falling off in the aggie Cle production, although there has en a slight increase in the lower re gion. In the Bradford region the wells completed last month numbered 160, increasing the production 4,639 barrels, or an average of about 29 barrels to the well. The increase during September w not ao great as the previous month, when 5,939 barrels were added to the daily production by the completion of 506 wells. As compared with August, September's figure* thow that forty-six fewer wella were completed, and the in crease in production fell abort of Au gust's increase by 1.300 barrels. A* compared with July th* number of completed wella is 109 less and the pro duction 2,652 barrel* leas than July's increase. The wella drilling and rigs up number 446, an increase of eight over August's figures. The rig* up are fewer in mimher than thoae of August, while the wells drilling are inoreesed by thirty-one. Thia indicates that tba drill will be pushed during Gotober to a {reater extent than it was in Septem er. The late rise in oil hae caused a great increase in Hg* and also started the drill at rigs which have been stand ing for many month*. TKHMS: $1.50 |mt Annum, in Ativan*-*'. GENERAL NEWS. •Secretaries Schnrz and Key have re turned to their desk*. Secretary Thompson will return from Indiana in a day or two. Invr ligation shows that Anna Mulii g an, an aged New York beggar. ha* more than t to her credit in the saving* banks of that city. Mim Lillie George, of Cincinnati, aged eighteen, attempted auieide on Sunday bedataeOof the death of Kred M. i'erri man, her betrothed. Hon. I>. I. I.ewin, member of Con gress from the Tuskaloone district, has been unanimously elected president of the I nivernty of Alabama, and has ac cepted. Grant didn't like "Pinafore" when he saw it or heard it, for the first time, in San Francisco the other evening. He thought 11/ l r nairbiri*and the I lenta." It i* stated that Judge Brummond will retire from the United Stale* Cir cuit judgehhip in Chicago, 111., January I. lie ha* reached a ripe old ape, and ha* been a United State* Judge for twenty-nine yearn. A San Francisco dispatch tella of an accident at the lioga Mine. Nine men were being lowered down a shaft, 50U feet in depth, when the engineer lost control and the men all fell to the bottom and were fatally injured. The Post Office I'enactment ha* de cided that lette * ado tensed to lottery companies o • to individuals, when ad dreased to them an a~ent* for such com rmnies, are unmailable per w>, and that I'wtiuMieri should refuse to register letter* w hen so addressed. 1 he Pennsylvania railroad i* turning out some taautiful passenger coaches, upholstered in the Kastlske style. The seat* are low and covered with blue plush, the window* broad and furnished with double blinds, and the chandeliers very handsome. Mrs. Dickerman and Mrs. Baldwin, sister*, at New Haven, Conn., brvc both died from poison administered by the latter first to her sister and afterward to herself. The Coroner's jury on Sun day found in ac o darcc with the above far ts and returned a verdict that Mrs. Baldwin was temporarily de.anged. Secretary Sherman sent William 11. Vanderbilt a check for $50,000 on Wednesday and o.e of about the same value to Colonel J. C. Flood. Both these modest fellows own $5,000,000 worth of four t>er cent, bonds, and tho check* served as reminders that tho quarterly interest was due. If General Fremont doesn't earn hi* aalary a* tiovernor of Arizona hi* wife, do*'* for him. Mr*. Fremont ized several cla.se* in , ho grown sons and o( |(r tier*, and i fast "fifing the semi civil ized over froijribe ways of barbsri*m into whigb Grey otherwise might drift. Gaotf through one of the pane* of glaoa in a window, making a round, wellahaped hole. Through an oppoaito open door it took ila way into an ad joining room, and there, apparently, in the abape of a large, fiery hall, atood •till for several neconda at a diatance of about two feet from the floor and then diaanpeared. What became of it, all tha ladiea were too much frightened to aee, and one of their number van bally atunned by the atrango visitor. NO. 11.