Wst petite democrat SIIUUKRT A FORKTKR, Editors. VOL. 2. • flu £ nitre 3) mortal Tsrm* 11.50 per Annum, in Advsnos. I T SHUGERT .nd R. H. FORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, Jannary 15, 1880. ~ Oentre County Democratic Com mittee—■ 1880. M*T*ICT. !*. r. O. AHPOCM. - N W...WlUlam ti.lliroltli IMlolinito. - s. W...W. C. 11.11.te Bollrfont.. - W.W...William ll*rp.r... Mrllelont*. .. Frank K Ril.te MilaUiiir|t. . .ill, P. J. MrPnnn.ll I'nliinrillr. -A J. Gardner 11., word. Mii!iß*l"iK C - " Ufrlinicr „.Phliipt>nr(. [, Uteri", • 1 M Willi.Mm. UriahSlorrr }rZ,. la*. A MrClaln MOml nrg. ..j,. William llr|.|.|* I'iur liU-un. . Kam i Oilliland IhiaUtmrg. f '„ n Pavi.l (telling Il'.waril. , p Iten'l l>rirbrlli|. .... Stat*Colloß*. .. y p O. M Slir'U Slormrt.iwn. ' i„ M. Ri-lirl spring Mills. Omrgr K.l.ter Aanmaburg. !I!ofio.-r.n J"l>n W'ar.l StoroMtnwn. Ilarria Kanniel Inliter RuaUliurg. Il„aan| Iter id Tatiyrr Howard , n 11.!}.< hroiil'trr Martlia. i iiM-rtv W. ll.O.nlner Illanrhard. John Hay. Jr Walk.r il„ Sam'l K Faurt Millhrlm. O. W. Rnnit-argrr FHlmnra. p., ntl F Smith Millliriin. Putter.'S I' I> F Lite* >ntr 11*11 - 'K. P O W" Spangler .........Tu*M>)rtilli>. H, w i, William Cnllon.........Plillipliiirg. n.. Ski* John Q. I'ulf Snow 5.,..r. taring B.C. W.l Brtlnfont*. T,ji„r Janad Ho.iT*r Pi.ater. l„i„n J. 8. Frntertrka. .. Fteinltig. Aiii.r Samurl t>*,k*r Zion. gr |t|, j It. William. Port Matilda. J. L. SPANUI.KR, 11, airman Far.* E. Riiu, j*cr,.|ary. FRANK LESLIE, the famous publish er of illustrated literature, is dead. He dieost, to the election of 1870, Samuel J. Til den would be in the Presidential chair instead of the present fraudulent occu pant. Apply the same opinions to the late election in New York, and Clark son N. Potter would be the Lieut. Governor instead of the present Re publican incumbent. MP.. HAYES has again invaded the domain of the imperious C'oukling. This time it is the I'ticn Post-office. The term of Mr. Conkling's home Post master expiree!, and Mr. Hayes has appointed another man, uot in accord with the shot-gun hero, who is not at all pleased, ami may probably renew hi- former complimentary mode of treating the defac-to President's nomin ations when conflicting with bis per enal wishes. THE Ohio legislature was fiercely excited the other day because a saloon kee|,er refused to permit Williams, the negro member of the House from Cincinnati, to dine at his place. The legislature is anxious to know whether (>r not its dignity has been infringed upon, and threatens an investigation to find out. In the meantime the dusky member will bring suit against the proprietor of the saloon under the rivil rights bill. MIL HAYES has found an Ohio man to fill the acanry in the Washington pet-office. Now, can't he secure an other Ohio man to fill the vacant Rus sian mission? The man appointed post master of Washington is said to be a relative of Mrs. Hayes, and it is possi ble the estimable lady may have other Ohio relatives out of present employ ment, some one of whom would do for the lrosty atmosphere of Russia. THERE has been a little stalwnrt emokednes*. or a trifle of had man agement, in the stalwart State of lowa, *ith the school funds. In the last Wven years they have been diminish >nK in amount at the rate of $70,000 * year, which, for the time named, •baches the very snug sum of $490,000. Somebody is wanted to explain. Had this occurred in any Democratic State *hat lectures would be read to the *orld upon the wickedness of Demo nic official* and the degeneracy of the I)emoeratic party in general. Not even the school funds safe from their iHing palm*. "KqUAL ANI> EXACT JUSTICE TO ALI. MEN, or WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RKI.IMIOUH OR POLITICAL. "-J. ff.nK.n, ■ ■ ■ ■ •••■■ M _ jr . Gov. HOYT linn mustered up cour age enough to ap|K>int his friend, ('ol. | Stanley Woodward, Additional Law Judge, in Luzerne county, to till tin vacancy made by the recent appoint-, i nieut of Judge Rice to the President Judgeship of that district, vice Judge Harding, resigned. When the resig nation of Judge Harding was receiv ed, and the time dame for the ap pointment of a successor, the Govern or's inclinations were to give the place ! to (.'ol. Woodward, but a heavy pres sure was brought to l>ear agaiust it j by the Republican politicians who de- ; munded the appointment of Senator Payne. The Governor jiermitted him self to be bulldozed into yielding so far as to ap|>oiut Judge Rice, a Re publican, who was last fall elected , Additional Law Judge. There seems to be a sort of Dainou and Pythias friendship between Hoyt and Wood ward. Woodward haul ull his life liecn known as an active, persistent Democrat, but when Hoyt became tie candidate of the opposition for Gover nor, he allowed his Democratic antece dents to weigh so little with him that he would not conceal his preference for his friend. He oja-nly proclaimed his in tention to support Jloyt on the ground of "personal friendship." Many Dem ocrats thought he made an unnecessa ry and even a brazen parade of his purpose to the public, and were not only greatly surprised but very indig nant at his course. Rut when the time came to appoint a successor to Rice, Hoyt, despite of radical protest and threats of indignation, returns the fa vor of the past. It is, as our irre pressible friend, Ben. Burroughs, of Harrisburg, would understand it, sim ply a "quid pro i/uo," and the Repub licans of Luzerne may as well take it with cheerfulness, instead of trying to kick up a big rumpus in the stalwart | camp over it as they are reported to jbe doing. Tearing down Gov. Hoyt'* | portrait and tramping it in the mud, as the Hoyt club of one of the Lu ! zerne county villages is reported to have done u few evenings since, will not mend the mntter. MISSISSIPPI, tbr one of the most be nighted of the "barbarous" Htates, as | our Republican friends are so fond of asserting, appears to be in an exceed ; ingly healthy financial condition what ever other diseases muy lurk in its body politic, or whatever may be the moral short - coinings of its people. According to the recent message of the Governor of the State to the Leg islature, now in session, the State debt Was reducer! $220,000 in the last two years, and there is an actual cash balance of SBOO,OOO in the treasury, with only $370,000 of outstanding in debtedness. K. T. HAM., of Columbus, Obi*, is in possession of the first Patent issued in this country, and proposes to sell it to the Government for $."00. It wns issued in New York July 31, 1790, to Samuel Hopkins, of Philadelphia, for an improvement in making potash and jicarl-ash. It is signed by George Washington, certified by Ed. Ran dolph, Attorney General, and its de livery to the grantee certified by Tho mas Jefferson. This is certainly an ancient relict, and as dating the first legal act for the promotion of the use ful arts, under the attestation of illus trious names, ought to be in the ar chives of the Government. Secretary Bchurz recommends an appropriation to enable him to make the purchase. "TRET refused to allow any Investiga tion, or even an examination and compari son of the returns. Republican editana' entitled "The. Maine Di*;rraee." They followed an excellent prece dent—that of the 8 to 7 Electoral Com mission. That illustrious tribunal re fused "to allow any investigation or even an examination and comparison of the returns," aud as a consequence of that refusal the frauds of the Flor ida and Ix)uisiana returning boards are in full force to-day. A wanted in-man occupies the place to which Mr. Tilden was elocted. BKULEFONTE, I>A„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1880. Tho Wrongs of Irelund. For almost ages a pitiful wail of j distress has been wafted across the 1 waters from the Green Isle. Under the subjection of a heartless landed aristocracy, upheld by the power of the British government, the condition I of the Irish peasantry has gone from Imd to worse until at this day it has reached a depth of degredation and poverty that excitcH the sympathy and * eommisseration of the civilized world outside of England. To add to the misery of the poverty-stricken nias&s a famine now stares them in the face, and unless speedy and abundant re lief is afforded them by more favored communities the misery aud suffering of men, women and children, in a land that should, and, under reasonable and bonigu influences, would be one of the garden spots of the earth, will Is- such as the mind cannot conceive or pen J describe. i The wrongs of Ireland are an old | story. The policy of the British gov- | eminent in its treatment of Ireland 1 and the Irish people has always been narrow, Selfish, overbearing and ofteu tyrannical in the extreme. The worst of the evils under which the natives of the country sutler flow from an uu just and oppressive land system under which the actual tillers of the soil are at the morcv of a few owners. Mr. I'aruell, the Irish member of l'urlia ment, now in this country, asking aid in behalf of his starving people, drew the following sketch of the Irish land system in his speech before a great au dience, at the Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, on .Saturday night: | "The Islets are in the hand* of tworlsM ;e* directly O|)|MHU*I to each other < )ne < IMSR are owner* and the other tiller*. On the 1 i one hand the Knglirh con<|Ueror*, who came and forcibly ei/.ed the land*, and * h ! for the mo*l part not modenU Of Ireland. lOn the other hand wo have the iruh or. I fettle race, who remain on the land*, Tut have no control over them beyond their cultivation. Thi* odiou* yicm ha* been tried in variou* other countries and In every instance it broke down by it* own onjuu weight. Tho *y*tem exitled in France, hut wa* abolished hv the Kerolu -1 lion. Since that abolition Frnnco hit* : been one of the most prosperous countries in Europe and one of the flrt nation* of the earth. The same iniquitiou* system wa in vogue in Prussia, and when the Kinc, obliged by the dangers threatening his throne, sought for advice, lie was told to j give the land to hi* people. He followed that advice, and it was well for the con sol ! elation of hi* kingdom that he did so. From tho very beginning thi* system fn Ireland was without the small* signs of succeeding that it might have had in France or in Prussia All conditions were unfavorable for it, because we had a class of people, who were the owners, at war with the tillers. The consequent evils have been a hundredfold worse in Ireland than in France or Prussia. Now, we ask that the example of France and Prussia be followed in Ireland. This system must be abandoned. We propose to abolish thi* system with the least possible dam age t<> the landlords who have performed their duties so badly. One of the most iniquitous feature* of* this system i* that it deprive* the tenant of all security and per mit* hearties* evictions and arbitrary rais ing of rents. A struggle has commenced which must decide which shall go, the landlords or the tenants. But the trouble about sending away the Inndlords is that no people seems very anxious to take them to their bosom. They value themselves at a high price, saying that it would take £2-50,000,000 to buy them. Well, we'll sen after awhile whether they can't be brought down a little." It is under this system of oppression that the Irish ]>cßanntry have groaned for centuries. It has reduced them to and at this hour it is estimat ed that a quarter of a million of them ore suffering for want of bread. .Sure ly their condition strongly appeals to the charity and sympathy of the world. In the cities of tho United State* which Mr. Parnell has visited he has met with hearty receptions, and his humane mission with much encourage ment. We trust his success will con tinue. A sense of duty to suffering fellow-creature*demand* that itshould. But aside from the requirements of duty, the. generosity of other people may yet awaken some slumbering spark of liberality in the English heart that will grow into a sentiment suffi ciently strong to compel a redress of wrongs, and end in obliging the Brit ish government to dea) justly and fair ly by a long suffering people. Ik his journey through the South (Jen. Grant received friendly and re spect Ail treatment, but his trip did not develops much third-term enthusiasm- Now You Sco It, And Now You Don't. I here is an interesting and highly J exciting game of political battle dore, i and shuttle-cock now in progress, in ; the stalwart State of Blaine. On the 7th of the current month, the members of'' the Legislature holding legal eertifi- I cates from the Governor and Council, met in Augusta and organized the Senate and lower branch under ull the forms of law. Senator Blaine's jumping jack, Hule aud a Prof. oung, both Republicans, qualified with the Fusionists in the House, this making what they would otherwise have lacked, a quorum. Finding, that in his zeal and anxiety to shine as tho bright particular star in the firmament of his party's trou bles, he had overreached himself, Mr. Hale absented himself from the delib erations of the Iwjdv in which he had voluntarily qualified as a member, thus depriving it of the constitutional number necessary for the transaction jof public business. The Senate organ ized with a legal quorum, and the Ke ; publican members holding certificates were all sworu in und participated in j the election of officers. It was not and is not denied that the Senate was legally organized and that its presid ing oflicer, Hon. -las. D. is under the constitution of Maine act ing Governor until Alonzo Garcelon's successor is elected. And vet with an utter disregard of the law both funda mental and statutory, ex-Governor J Chamberlain, in his capacity a* Major , General of the State militia, has ajtumed the civil administration and •efltod upon it# ruins a provisional— Ailarv government. That such a sSng could actually occur in the loyal ■ft* of Maine almost passes belief. W* tßunp4iaate the situation to a still greater degree a crowd of ambitious statesmen assembled in the State House the other evening and under the inspiration of little Mr. Hale or ganized a rump legislature. Of course this movement was revolutionary and in violation of all law. Our Republican ! contemporaries in large display line* announced this as "A recapture, by the Republicans," and now on last Tuesday morning the Fusiohiat* re-re captured the State House hack aguiu and propose to remain in continuous session until the knotty problem is sol v ' ed. In the meantime Gov. Lnmsou has assumed the executive chair and is- I sued a proclamation calling upon the I State troops to disregard the order ; of General ChamlK-rlain, and to re | port to him its Commander-in-Chief, j What the followers of Blaine failed to do by bribery they have en i deavoreii to encompass by bold aud dariug robbery under the protection of the military. It is a sad commentary on the stability of our institutions when designing men cau overthrow civil authority and mount to power under the shadow of military des|H tism. THE Lycoming Republican* bnvc instructed their delegate* to the 4th of May Convention iu lavor of Passmore of Schuylkill, for Auditor General, | He was an unsuccessful candidate for the same office in 1877. They do not i ndicate auy choice for the Presiden tial candidate. That is as the Camer ons shall order. It may be Grant-r it may lie "uncle John," or it may lie some other fellow that Dou cau deal with to advantage. All the same to the Lycoming Republicans. THE closing argument in the contest ed election case of Curtin vs. Yocum has boen made and the papers have been submitted to the sub-committee charged with the consideration of the case for final action. Chairman Sprin ger has indicated his determination to examine the papers and re|>ort at once. .There appears to lie but one opinion in Washington and thi* to the effect that the case made out by Governor Curtin is impregnable and absolutely conclusive of'his right to the seat and insure* a favorable report from the committee. IUK i'liiladclphia Thncn, recogniz-| ing the fact that the local press is the sufcM and surest index of public opin* i ion, recently sent circular letter* with ' blank circulars enclosed for answers, | to the 040 newspapers published in j Pennsylvania, requesting from the editors an expression of the feeling of the people in their respective locali- ' ties upon the presidential question. ' The first of the responses to the Time* inquiry, were luid before its readers on Monday,aud showed a decided prepon derance of sentiment for Blaine over the man on horseback, with a sop : here and there thrown to the Sherman whale. ()u 1 uesday the Time* gave the second installment, this time from the Democratic press. Tilden is first choice with Bayard a good second and 1 Hancock and Kevtnour inside of the distance flag. The Time* will con- j tiuue these publications until it has an expression of opinion from ull the ■ •540 pa|>crK interrogated. IT is a beautiful and editying spec tacle to see the frugal and eeouomie Secretary of the Treasury decapitate, with Roman firmness, the official head of one of his department underlings for the excessive expenditure of money while traveling gpon public business. It counted for nothing that the gentle man in question promptly offered to refund the overcharge when his atten tion was called to it. This would have deprived "Honest John" of the exqui site pleasure of appearing before the | country in his new and altogether gro i t*qe character of a careful watch dog of the people's treasure. When we puusc to thiuk of the magnificent sums of money Mr. Hherman ha* annually drawn from the Treasury to pay ex f>en*e* of himself and friends while os ten-'bly inspecting our coasts and hur- IFOFK in government vessels, we are M | to the inevitable conclusion that the wily ry has. nAri the pruning knife of economy in the wrong place. An attempt is to l>c made in Con gress to make the General Govern ment liable for the IOKS sustained by the colored people who deposited their savings in the"Frwdman's Saving and Trust Company" in Washington. The i claim is made, we believe, on the prin ciple that because the Republican ('ongrcss chartered this fraudulent concern to afford their stalwart friends facilities to rob the negro of his earn ings, therefore the Government is re sponsible for the robbery. If such a principle were adopted, making the , public treasury liable for the acts of all the had men put- in place under Republican administration, the pre sent national debt would pale in insig nificance to the amount which would swell its liabilities. ! "WE cannot but believe that the poltti | clans of thi* day and country have reached the very achnie of proficiency in the prac i tice of chicanery and fraud."— Repubhrnn editorial entitled "The Maine Di*r/raee." Yes, that fact has been patent to the most ordinary understanding ever since John Sherman, with the help of the "visiting statesmen" and Eliza Finks ton, induced the infamous Louisiana returning board to make a false count of the vote of that State in 187(1, by which the people were basely cheated out of their choice for President. That rascally business was a sample of "proficiency in the practice of chican ery and fraud" that will not be soon forgotten. We think the "achiue" was reached about that time. AN election lor a iucmler of Con gress was held, on last Saturday, in the seventh district of Missouri, to fill the place of Mr. lne million pound* of tobacco chang ed hands at Lancaster on Satwrday. Some ol Kdison's electric lamps have bean burning for 450 bom a without so rnnch as a flicker of weakness. General Grant will probably sail for Havana on the steamer Admiral next week, and may visit Nassau before go ing to Ilaratia. A widow in Hulialo has won three re volvers, a sword cane and a pair of dumb-bells in late rallies, and is now ready for marriage proposals. The Russian budget for the year IKHO shows an exact balance between the income and expenditure of the Kmpire, each being fif-0,000 000 rouble*. Algernon Nartoris, the Knglish son-in law of General Grant, ha* arrived in this country, but Mr*. Nellie Grant Sartoria does not accompany him. An order received by a New York jewelry firm is from an Knglish lady in that city for a bangle of beaten gold set with every known precious 'stone, to cost $15,0K). South Carolina seems to be fast re turning to the pious ways of other days. I he Legislature just adjourned sat ex actly thirty day* and passed over two hundred hills and joint resolution*. It cost the State less than $40,000. Ihe ( incinnati Ent/ulrer ha* it from New \ ork that General Grant will go to Australia and New Zealand before hi* return to the United State*. He will not be hack before the Republican National Convention shall have met and decided. Senator Houston, of Alabama, re cently deceased, had been in public life for over forty years. lie served eighteen years in the lower house of CongreM before the war, and since the war was Governor of his State and at the time of bis death U. S. Senator. W. H. l'reece, the Knglish electrician ridicules the news of Kdiaon's latest oc •ess, and Charles Blight writes to the I London Ttmrs to say that Edison hasn't solved the problem. But meanwhile j the London gas companies are reducing their rates. 1 he Senate in executive session, on Monday, confirmed the following nomi nations : George B. Cork hill, to be Unit ed State* Attorney for the District of ;lumbia; United States Attorneys Chyles S. Varien, for the iHstriot of Nevada; John K. Valentine, for the Kistern District of Pennsylvania. . h#tfc Jv. J- W Kite, jLawyer, gar* U*- ; chael kmealy, a brother of the bar, tne lie direct in a St. Louis court room last Friday, Kinealy threw an ink stand at him with such bad aim, that Judge i Wickham was obliged to adjourn the court to wash the ink drops from hi* (ace. Before adjourning, however, the Judge took great pleasure in fiuing ; both lawyers fifty dollars each. "We were shown on Christmas Day, by Mr. Robert Ware," savs the Colum ou* Ya. j Kn>fitirer, "a box ol fully ri|>e | ind matured strawberries, which he gathered on his place about a mile from ihe city. They were grown in the open air, and he represents that the vines were full of blooms and young strawberries, and if the cold does not come ami kill them large quantities can be gathered in a few days. They received only the ordinary cultivation , and attention." One of the aged men of the throng j who shook hands with Mr. Hayes on New Year's perpetrated a joke that was all the belter for being uninten tional. Said the venerable party, a* he grasped Mr. Hayes' tired band and be gan the pump handle motion : "I have voted at all the Presidential elections for more than halt a century, and of all ; Ihe candidates I have voted for you are ; the only one who was elected." Mr. Hayes "smole a ghastly simile" as the ancient moved on, unconscious of Ihe | *ting he had given. There was a christening in Baltimore lon New Year's day that was not a christening. A Methodist preacher went by request to the house of acquuin j tances to baptise a child in the presence ! of a lew invited friends. The ceremony proeeeded smoothly until the parents were asked to name their child, when it I was discovered that the house was di ; vided against itself, the mother giving j one name and the father another. Net ther would yield, and the clergyman extricated himself from an embarrass ing situation by postponing the cere mony. A Boston lady, whose husband was frequently visited by nightmare, was | one night awakened by a noise and to tier horror saw her husband sitting up | in bed saying in a whisper, "Now 1 Jiave him, he can't escape 1" and point , ing his pistol at an imaginary burglar. Ilia Hnger was on the trigger and he was aiming direct for the baby's head >in the cradle, (juick as lightning, his wife said in a low tone: "Too low 1 aim higher!" He raised the pistol, she snatched it from his hand, and the danger was past. There is a grain "lock-up" at Chicago. | The elevators of the city, with aoapaci ! y of 16,000,000 bushels,' are almost full, and the railroads are refusing transpor tation or grain to that market for want of storage capacity there. For this con dition of affairs the only explanation is that the grain syndicate, ol which James R. Keene ia the representative, have by constant purchase forced the market price of wheat in Chicago to a point where it ia e dead leas to ship it to New York, and to a point where itcennot be abip(KHl from New York to Liverpool, even at the providing low rates of ocean freight, with any prospect of a return of tnV money invested. NO. 3.