' ;r, ' . , ffbf Centre Adrmorrat, SIIKJKHT A: FOKSTKIt, Editors. VOL. 2. Z\\t Cnilrc Hmottat. Terms 51.50 per Annum, in Adrsnee, g T SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor.. Thursday Morning, January 1, 1880. Centre County Democratio Com mittee— 1880. t>|T*ICT. ■ r- • ADMEM. n i ntc N W NVillkm Oftlbnith ftollefont*. . v. w © Ilvtnte ... IR Itofbtto. w \\ ..Willi tin ii* dm Btltotoaf. \i inshore Frtink K MM* Mil**l.urfc. . ..wile PJ- MrDowno'l \ 'nionrlll*. J. I, ",,! A J. Gardner Il<.rnl. C. *l. ll*rUii*pr ..Ilitlii*lnirg. 1 RHfrity.W Mill. Mm " r l/r.abßto*rr lU-lDfoiH*. A MrCUin MitMtmrg. H„rtMiilr Will Urn Il*|ll* Pin* Glrun. ( Ssm'l UllltUud llswilHßiirK. (N.rtin ... IhoLI Dclong ..Ilurtl. jVrgn on. "J 1 iHsu'l I'risbflbll- HUls Clltf N p O M Short* ...Btonn*U>wn. LM. Ri-h*l .. Spring Mill*. JIT TH-ONI* KPISIP; A *fotil>' TG. . .b. John Ward HtornisUmo. jj, rrl# Samuel 15hJ0r..... ll'iftUl ttrg. II V H IHVMl Tany*r ...Howard. H. Q.Chronlator...... Martha. L,t- ,ty 11. Uirtliif Blunt hard x I"hn Boy. Jr WllLff. \j .. SMIU'I K Kauai ...Millhdni. k ti G- W. Kunitmrgwr KHlin .ro. priiti W. ¥ Smith Millh>im. p., iter. N I' P K-'l.tiv Outrr 11*11. S. P o w Hp*nfftor .........Tu**v villi*. R.i,h William Cullm Phlli|whurn. Su-w . w b<* J olio G Snow Sin,*. Spring K. C. Wild 11*11.-font*. Tiylor lloovae ..Kowlrr talon.. .....J.I. Irnip 'rki * •• uiiig. W'ftik*r Ssunufl I>*rk*T 7.ion With O R. WHIUt Port Matilda. J. L. SI'ANOLKR, C'tiAirmnu Put MI E. RULE. S*-r*Ury. KIND READER, the DEMOCRAT ex tend- to you this morning the greeting ot a HAPPY NEW YEAR. THE Legislature of South Carolina has adjourned after a session of cred itable brevity, which might lie com mended to some other States! Repu diation met with no favor, and ample provisions were made for the payment of the State debt. BLAINE has a large Republican following in Pennsylvania, but it amounts to nothing. Simon and Don say "wiggle waggle," and the party must obey and go for Grant. They hold the convention nnd own the members THE MORNIHO TRIBUNE. This sprightly and newsy sheet, published at AltoODa, which has visited our sanctum daily during the past year, i- one of the very best nnd reliable dailies always prompt with the latest news, clear in it* discussion of important events, nnd worthy of a liberal and generous patronage. We otter our greetings for a happy and prosperous new year. IHE famous Dan Rice is said to be one of Moody and Sankey's converts, and is expected to take the field as an evangelist. Wondrous things do occur sometimes, and Mr. Moody should now wend his way to Maine. I here seem to he a number of bellig erent parsons up there who stand in need of speedy conversion, and they should not be neglected. Mr. Moody, try your powers of persuasion on them. •'Rant's great boom iu Philadel phia has not made a unit of the party in favor of a third term. Members of the I nion League have been in terviewed, and it is believed that n large number, if not a majority, evince decided and dangerous opposi tion. Thus it will be all over the country with decided conservative Re publicans who think for themselves and ramiot be driven to condone the great wrongs he committed in the Presidential office, nnd the disgrace and disaster he brought upon their partv. •ST. Louis amusement* for the hol idays are both novel and degrading. A prize fight between a man and a dog afforded amusement to an ex police commissioner, an ex-judge, three members of the House of Dele gates, a very prominent physician, and a number of business men. The man was a professional prize fighter, and the dog a powerful and vicious specimen of the blood-hound tribe. They seemed to lie well matehed, but the prize-fighter, after being severely injured in the shoulder from the teeth of his op]K>nent, succeeded in van quishing the dog. The whole per formance was brutal in the extreme, and large sums were bet upon the re sult. "KUCAI. AN I> KX ACT J t'HTK'K TO AI.L MKN, or WIIATKVKK OB PMRHVABIOB, KRI.IOIOUH OR I'Ol.tTICAL. "—JHtmon Maine. The intense excitement which has followed the action of the Governor and Council in the Pine Tree State, in tabulating and computing tho vote of the late election, culminated a few days ngo in a disgraceful exhibition of mob violence at llangor. What ever the merits or demerits of this controversy, the attitude of the He publican lenders in Maine lias been and is shameful iu the extreme. They have for selfish purposes incited the people to riot and disorder, and all that has occurred is directly attribu table to the inflammatory and seditious appeals they have made in the name of law and good government. Even the sacred precincts of tho Christian church were invaded, and the vicars of Christ upon earth were paraded upon the hustings, calling ujion the Jieoplc they had taught to love their neighbors as themselves, to enact sceues of bloodshed and murder, and all this because the constitution and the law had been faithfully executed by faithful officials. The Republi cans made the laws, drafted the con stitution and a Republican Supreme Court has explained the different pro visions relating to the holding of elections time and time again. Fol lowing their clearly indicated line of duty the projierly constituted author ities counted the vote. They were not deterred by threats of violence, and the reaction which has followed the fitful fever of excitement shows that they were right and the revolu tionists wrong. The election machin ery in Muine is so complicates! as to IK* almost unintelligible to the ordinary miud. There is no State in the Union that ha surrounded the ballot-box with po many temptations for chican ery and fraud. The law was cun ningly devised for the purpose of making Republican ascendancy per jietual. llow well it worked will lie readily comprehended when we re member that (lovernor Garcelon is the first Democratic executive Maine has had for a quarter of a century, and he owes his success to the Repub licans themselves. In a letter to the New York Herald the Governor epit omises the whole situation in the fol lowing brief and pungent manner: " The simple and only question there fore is, Shall the Governor and Coun cil follow the mandates of the consti tution, the law and judicial decisions explanatory thereof, or in obedience to popular clamor violate their oaths of office, trample the constitution un der their feet, and forfeit not only their self-respect but that which they have a right to claim from both friends and foes so long as they adhere to the line of duty?" This is certainly not the utterance of a conspirator who is treasonably endeavoring to strike down the liber ties of the people or subvert the gov ernment of a great State. It is rath er the language of an honest man, who in the discharge of important trusts has brought with him a consci entious regard for the sanctity of his official oath. When wc recall the fact that the venerable Governor of Maine is over seventy years old, and that throughout his long and active career has borne his name unsullied and his character without stain, it will be difficult to believe that now in the sere and yellow leaf of his life, with his head crowned by the frosts of seventy winters and standing almost within the portals of eternity, that he would deliberately besmirch the record of a long and honorable career by the commission of a heinous ofTense. One of the mott eminent lawyers in the country, who is politically opposod to Governor Garcclon, said in a recent interview that from his knowledge of the law, —and from his situation he is well calculated to judge,—the Govern or and Council could not have acted differently, and this will be the dis passionate judgment of all men when reason once more resumes her throne. In the meantime it is the duty of all LEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1880. ~ BEL good citizens to sustain tho legally constituted authorities of the State. It will he a dangerous precedent to establish in .Maine or elsewhere to re sist the legitimate government in the lawful exercise of its powers. The fate of I)orr, in Rhode Island, should he a sufficient warning to ambitious anarchists. THE twenty-first triennual conclave of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States is to meet at Chicago on the 17th of Au gust next. The preparations, which arc far advanced towards completion, are on a collossnl scale. The invita tions, which have been seut out, have an illuminated fronds piece, having the insignia of the order printed iu half a dozen colors. Encampment tents will he erected on the lake front of the Park, which will lw lighted by electric lights, and a building erected upon the Park in forni of a passiou cross. It is exacted that twenty thousand Knights, in full dress, will participate ip the parade, and prepa ration is being made to scat fifty thousand at,the banquet. The Chi cago committee have chartered fifty vessels for a moonlight excursion on the 17th, which, with other uttrao tions, will exceed in grandeur any thing yet attempted in this country. Tit ERE arc about 1200 negro emi grants at St. Louis in a most destitute condition on their way to their funded Arcadia. They are mostly from Mlß sissippi and Arkansas, and are in a most forlorn condition, quartered upon the resident blaeks, to await the trans portation promised them by the hrut< who have enticed many of them from comfortable homes. .Some idea may IK- obtained of the means used to de lude the poor creatures by t be. fol lin ing description of photograph* dis tributed largely among them, headed, "Emigrant Life in Kansas i "A cottage in the villa tyle. IW.n open, showing ologsnt furniture and an °P-' N grand piano, at which others parly attired in the latest fa-hlonahle style are sauntering through the hall, and piazzas, or surveying parterres of flowers in the adjoining ground. The landscare, present, a fluid of waving grain, with horww and mules in an adjac.-nt pasturage browsing on clover waist high. In the midst of all ibis luxury a tino buck lope* up within j easy rifle range from the vtlla door ready ; to bo shot for the day's repast.'' Attorney Genkrai. I'ai.m er has given the opinion thai building and ' loan associations are subject to a three mill tax under the general revised law passed by the legislature last winter. This is nn im|>ortant deeision, and it is probable n decision of the courts will be invoked by the building and loan associations by resisting payment |of the taxes. The Attorney General ha also decided that the loan nnd bonded indebtedness of corporations arc liable to a tax of four mills, to be deducted from the interest clue on such loans, and # fo be paid into the State Treasury, unless the bonds are held by non-resident holders, who are Lexempt by decision of the .Supreme ; Court. Tiie plan adopted by the Radical* to change the political complexion of the Htate of Indiana by the importa tion of negroes, is beginning to show very decided evidences of failure. Thousunds of Republicans are indig nant, and it is now believed that for every negro vote thus obtained they will lose fifty or a hundred white votes. The instigators are already sick of the job. Grantiam in A. D. 1666. " The Emperor, like ninny poten " tates before and since, was fond of " great political spectacles. He knew " their influence upon the masses of " mankind. Although plain, even to " shahhines* in his own costume, none "ever understood bitter than he how "to arrange such exhibitions in a "striking and artistic style."—J/ot ley't Dutch Republic, Vol. 1, p. 95. A dm act Rous Are occurred in Boston on Sunday last. It laid waste several acres of the business portion of that city. The loaa is estimated at a million nnd a-hnlf of dollars. Cost of an Investigation. pf the com mi tteeV appointed hy the Icnslnturc last winter to'hivestigate utpallcged over-issue of State bonds in the year 1853, did not succeed iu es tisl.ing the fact that there had bppl such an over issue, it has at least stgbcedcd in rtiniiiug up a tine hill of expenses for to pay as a re turn for its vuluahle services. Those patriots and immaculate stalwnrt statcsmcu, Elisha W. Davis and Henry Huhn—by the l*>ys famili zrly called 'Lish and Harry—the first uamed, as chairman*, and the other, as clerk, of this committee, have return ed to the Auditor General's office, at ftarrishurg, accounts for expenses ag gregating the snugaum of 810,41 H.l 8, on which nmouut warrants upon the treasury amounting to 88,.j;il.08 have been drawn aud no doubt paid—leav ing a haluncc of nearly stand ing unsettled and awaiting the action < the department. Some of the items l.iat go to make up the aggregate are sxnewhat astounding. For instance, $•5,000 for the board bills of the com mittee. \\ hat stomachs in vestigators must have! Then, $2,000 fog car fare, carriage hire and other travelling expenses. It would be in teresting to understand how the vouch esMbr ear fare were made up, consider iujfc that probably every memlier of thweommittee and all connected with it on free passes furnished by tij^ailroads. We do not know this to l*ja/aet, but itwould lie a "ucwdepart from old customs if it was other wise. Probably it would be very un ; boidjfitiidr fhe Auditor Gener al- d/tpartmeut or any memlier of the [ cA >ftiiUyfexcept Davis and his clerk, fur this unblushing ptfdW Don lit let# !in due course of time we shall have , | toiuted and explicit disclaimers from the members of the committee of any i part or lot in the disreputable work ; and the Auditor General will fall back upon the law of 1879 providing appropriations for the |litieal shnrps have all the power necessary to successfully make them. Hut after all, should wc complain ? Indeed we think it al most a duty to advise the people to he patient and forbearing—to take the burden upon themselves and hear it without making ugly faces. Home doubting Btid unsophisticated individ ual may ask in astonishmeut, why? Will that individual please answer a question? With a pair of liberal minded and practical roosters like Davis aud Huhn at the head of a committee—the one to do the figure work and the other to certify—is it not a great wonder that the amounts sent in for payment are not two or three limes in excess of $10,416.18? Is it not, therefore, a lucky escape ? Blaine. 1870 I 1879 Glad. j Had. Why ? Hamlin. 1876 I 1079 Glad. I Mad. Fiel GEM. GRANT'S friends say that he will not go into a scramble for the nomination for President. Then he will not be a candidate. The scram ble he cannot evade, and it is getting more doubtful every day whether he can succeed with it. The third term was unpopular in 1876, and the great booms have contributed nothing to make it otherwise now. A New Chairman a net a Now Commltteo. fc 'IMi>H day J. L. Hpaugler, Esq., as sumes, under the rule* of tlie partv, thy,dutics'of the chairmanship of the Democratic committee of Gentre coun ty fur year in "place of D. F. Fortney, Esq., who served in that capacity ably ayd faithfully during thenar 1879. In bin retirement we believe Mr. Fortney taken with him the good will and reapcyt of a large jnajority of the party in Centre couu ty. His fidelity to the Democratic cause and the excellent result of the election iu our county last fall, brought about largely bj his activity and energy, in the face of adverse cir cu instances and some uujust criticism, richly deserve an expression of com mendation and most cheerfully do we give it. There are still higher honors in store for Mr. Fortney and beyond a peradventure the party will award them to him iu due time. With the announcement of this changtMu the official head of the party we are*lso enabled through the cour tesy of Mr. Spangler to lay In-fore the readers of the DEMOCRAT a list of the memliers of the county committee selected in the various election dis tricts to aid him iu his work. The list seems to be made up of active, in influential and working Democrats— excellent material throughout for n committee —and will no doubt give good satisfaction t the party iu all sections of the county. We predict that Chairman Spangler will prove a host iu himself. Ho is young, able j and energetic, has;good judgment, ex cellent organizing.capacity, and under his control and guidance the work of preparation and organization for the apppoachuig great the PivSlSltWfy will [continue without interruption orintei* I mission until victory settles upon the Democratic banners ucxt November. Hut a word of caution to our friends, j Too much must not be expected from the chairman and his committee. Everything must not bo left to them. The rank and file of the party have something to do. Let us aid them to thj extent of our power iu the good work on hand. Let all of us who have the triumph of correct theories i '>f government at heart—the true ; theories of Jeffi rsonian Democracy— | aud desire the success of Democratic principles give a helping hand to the cause, and, our word for it, Centre county will give such an account of herself at the next election as will as tonish even ourselves, let alone the ; opposition. THE Vie murderers nre still at large. Ourav and other chiefs select ed to go to Washington, have come to j the Los I'inos Agency having in cus tody a part of the Meeker murderers. They were surrendered to Gen. Hatch, who refused to leave until all the pris oners demanded hy the commission were surrendered for trial. Ouray asked for further time, and five days were granted to deliver them. The success of the commission is very doubtful, and the army may yet lie compeled to endure the rigors of a winter campaign, with the snow from five to fifteen feet deep on the range. Ouray is acting in good faith with an honest desire to surrender the priaon crsjuid save further trouble, or else is a diplomat of no mean capacity thus to successfully evade the demands of Mr. Hchurz's commission until his friends are out of their reach. AT the meeting of the Republican State Committee, held in Philadelphia on Tuesday, it was resolved to hold the Republican State Convention at Harrisburg, on Wednesday, February 4. An effort was made by some of the members to fix the time in April, but the influence and tactica of Quay, Negley, and the irrepressible George Handy Smith were too much for them. "Short, sharp and decisive" the Grant campaign is to be. The machine works smoothly, and the anti-third termers may as well surren der at once. TERMS: SUV) pet- Annum, in Advance. Locals Continued. , Sesj> u-HciiTOt. CoxVKxrwx. —On Tuesday, Thi' 2fl l Ult., I hi* Centre eountv Hahbath-scbonl Association h'*M a district at Lpmont, consisting of morn ing. afternoon o and 27 teet respectively. It has • number of piers—fourteen of which are founded u|>on the rook. The superstructure of the bridge consists wholly of wrought iron girders. Tiie bracing is of the double lattice form. At each end of the bridge there ia a curve of about a quarter of a mile radiua. Six hundred hatter* of Reading )nm aked for an increase of wage* after the first of January. It ia said the Russian Mission haa been offered 10 (to*. V*n Z*nt, of Rhode Island, and that he has accepted. Sheriff Start well, of McKean county, report* a prisoner to the jail there who has been thrown into the deepest de spondency by visions in which he sees I racy, who was recently hanged. Thompson Brothers' woolen mills, at Lewistown, Mifflin county, have manu factured idio yarn and stocking*, store the first of March last, 80.000 pound* of wool. These work* will operate thirty five knitting machine* the coming year. The palacial residence of ex Senator Stewart, of Nevada, was destroyed by fire, at Washington, on Friday evening. Mr. Stewart waa not in the city, and Mr*. Stewart was attending a reception Her little child, 6 year," of age, wn sleeping in an upper chamber and was rescued by the servants. J-oas estimated at $50,000. NO. l.