• ■iff* I iEI)r Centre jßrmorntt. SHIOKRT k FORSTER, Editors. VOL. Site Centre Term* tl.ftO per Annum, In Advancs. 8, T SHUGERT ind R. H. FORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, THK third-term idea grew wonder fully in favor last week. No # Repub lican opposes it now except Hlaiue and Sherman. They still claim some respect for the "unwritten law," as well as for the counsel of Washington on retiring from public life. MR. BENNETT, of the New York Herald, has started a subscription for the relief of the suffering in Ireland with the generous sum of 8100,000. Mr. Bennett deserves hid large wealth, lie is no niggard in its dis|>eusation when called ujion to relieve suffering. IK Don Cameron and his Pennsyl vania convention are not more honest ly committed to Grant and the third term than to the "honest electiou" plank of the platform, the distinguish ed traveler may have occasion to pray the good Lord to save him from hyp ocrites aud liars, about the time he emerges from the Chicago convention. IT is said that two or three hun dred families of (Junkers from Phila delphia, propose to form a colony in Minnesota next spring. The commit tee sent out to pros|>ect for an eligible location, after visiting Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in the performance of their duty, finally made choice of Cot tonwood county, Minnesota as afford ing the greatest inducements of soil ami location. MR. CONKLINO announces that he is not a candidate for the Presidency, and will in no event allow himself to bo presented for the Chicago nomina tion. He also say* he is iu favor of Grant, and will give him the whole weight of his influence. New York may therefore be considered certain to emphasize Cameron's victory iu Penn sylvania, and together, give Grant the leading cards at Chicago. THE parade made by the late Re publican convention in favor of "a pure and free ballot" would almost tempt one to forget the unclean source from which it came. It is difficult to realize that such utterances could come from the party that stole the Presidency and have yet exhibited no shame in having the stolen goods in po^so—ion—that have year after year employed "Gopher Bill" and an army of rounders and repeaters to pollute the ballot and falsify tbe honest result of elections in Pennsylvania. THE Committee on Agriculture in the House of Representatives has reputed a bill creating the Agricul tural Bureau into au executive de partment of the Government and f>ro viding for a Secretary of Agriculture with the same compensation as the Secretaries of the_ other departments. It also provides for an assistant Secre tary at a salary of $3,500 ; for a veter inary department in charge of a Vet erinary Surgeon at $3,000; for a divi sion of entomology, under the direction of an Entomologist at $3,000, besides the necessary clerical force to put the machine in working order. THE plan adopted by Mr. Ruther ford B. Hayes to renew the commia "ion of J. Madison Wells as surveyor of the Port of New Orleans, if not en titled to the respect of the Senate for ingenuity is certainly entitled to their fntcmpt for impudent hypocrisy. Being pretty well assured he could not paon the sharp dodge of nominating the son ft>r the vacant office. The ear marks, however, were too plain. The name of Wells in connection with Hayes was too familiar to go unchallenged. It is not likely the appointment will ever reach a confirmation. "EQUAL AND KX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OF WHATEVER STAT* OR PERSUASION, REI.IOIOUH OR POLITICAL."—Jefhnon Cameron's Triumph. Tho outcome of the Republican State Convention, which met ut Har risburg last week, was a decided and impressive triumph for Senator J. I). Cameron, notwithstanding the persis tent efforts of such Republican jour nals ah the Preaa, the Xorth American, and the Inquirer, of Philadelphia, and the Tribune and the Timet, of New York, to belittle its results, and the iu fluence it will probably have upon the coming National Convention of the party at Chicago. In spite of the out spoken antagonism of these journals and the largely preponderating senti ment of the party in favor of Rlainc, Mr. Cameron accomplished his pur pose, well-known beforehand, of com pelling the State Convention to adopt a resolution in favor of the nomina tion of General Grant for the Presi dency, aud binding the delegates to the National Convention to vote as a unit in all things'. So far then ns the success of this programme may be considered a victory, that victory is complete, and its results will undoubt edly lie fell in the larger counsels of the party. True, it was not achieved without something of a struggle. The opposition was strong and boisterous, and, indeed, at one jieriod of the frav, seemed likely to defeat tho plans of Cameron, and take from his hand for all time to come the sceptre of author ity he uow presumes to wield over the Republican party of Pennsylvania. Hut in the end, the dissatisfied ones, though strong in numbers aud not wanting in pluck, were obliged to suc cumb to the pre-ordained aims of the master spirit of their party. Their frantic attempts to free them selves from the domination of the ruling house were vain and futile. Grant and the unit rule were prompt ly and unswervingly voted through, and the indignant minority subsided into meek submission. It is not our purpose to consider in detail the means by which in the critical and all-im portant hour a majority of the mem bers of the convention, absolutely contrary to their better judgments and ' the pronounced wishes of the people ' they pretender! to represent, should have been thus brought to yield to the ; commands of one imperious and sel fish will. Yet so it was. There can be no doubt that the usual and never failing methods of Cameron, so well understood and so often successfully J employed in the past, played the part of a potent factor in this exciting po ! litical drama. Hut that is neither here nor there, however much it may affect the significant fact that many 1 delegates who went to Harrisburg avowedly hostile to the aims and in tentions of the young chief, suddenly experienced a change of mind, if not of heart, and gave him their active support. This is ever the case, aud need"excite little surprise or comment. With Cameron, the necessary means are always used to secure the desired end, and there is no instance on record : in which the efficacy of the Camero nian means is more manifest than in this latest exhibition of Cameronian power and influence. The picture may not lie a pleasant and encourag ing one for the better class of thought ful and independent anti-machine Re publicans to gaze upon. To see a great party thus bound hand and foot, and made to act in. subservience to the designs of one man , may be char acterized as degrading to manhood and repulsive to all ideas of free thought and action. But there it stands out in bold relief. Human eyes cannot be blind to its striking outlines, and its truthfulness roust force itself upon the contemplation of every one. It is Cameron's triumph, won in true Caroeronian style, and no one better than Cameron will have a right to enjoy the fruits that it will bring at Chicago in the nomination of Grant. The election will be another thing. THE borough and township eloctions will take place on Ttieeday neat. BELLEFONTE, I>A., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1880. Charles Stewart Parnoll It will be very generally regretted j by all who sympathize with Ireland in her terrible* distress—and their name is legion l —that the great Irish agitator should, by any act or word j of his, have returded tho substantial manifestation of American charity which was spontaneously flowing out J to his starving countrymen. While no one questions either the sincerity or ! patriotism of Mr. Pnrnell, there is a growing belief that he regards the ques tion of land tenure aud the extirpation of Irish landlords as of more impor tance than the ulleviation of the suf fering aud misfortune which have overtaken countless thousands of the peasantry of this unfortunate Island. Few men charged with an eleemosy nary mission, have been accorded so attentive and intelligent a hearing as was giveu Mr. Parnell on his arrival in this country. He was everywhere j greeted with the utmost enthusiasm ami the responses to his pleas for aid were liberal in the extreme. But as it happens Mr. Parnoll is not the only one who is moving to the relief of] famine-stricken Ireland. The Duch aw of Marlborough, the noble wife of its Lord-Lieutenant, has organized what is known as the Mansion House l Committee, and has appealed to the | whole charitable world for aid. The Irish Home Ruler with wretched taste has been guilty of attacking the mo j lives of this committee and in his pub | lie addresses has openly accused the Duchess of using the mouey which has generously been placed at her dis |>osal with the design of perpetuating the destructive landlord system, and for other improper purposes. This i charge of Mr. Paruell's was met by the emphatic deuial of some of the inot distinguished prelates of both the Established and Roman Catholic churches in Ireland who bear willing testimony to the fair aud impartial manner in which the fund is distribu ted. A few days ago the New York Herald opened a subscription and its editor bended the list with the prince ly sum of one hundred thousand dol lars. In this country whore dames Gordon Bennett is known, it is enough to know that lie becomes responsible for the distribution of the money thnt comes into his hands. Mr. Bennett does not do things by halves and his personal supervision is au earnest of the satisfactory manner in which the money will be used. But Mr. Parnell has denounced this magnificent dona tion as an advertising scheme. In this last act of folly the gentleman has surely overreached himself. He lost many friends by his unwarranted tirade against the Duchess of Marl borough and in this diatribe ancnt the editor of the Herald he has done much to destroy that confidence in his own integrity which is so esseutial to the success of his mission. THE writer of the Republican plat form enunciated in Cameron's conven tion at Harrisburg must he considered the joker of the season, when he puts forth tbe following as the sentiment of the party which counted Florida and Louisiana for Rutherford B. Hayes: "Our Republican form of government will be a signal failure when any polit ical party can succeed in defying the publio will as shown by the people at the ballot box." Tb scutiment is right—too serious for a joke and in view of recent his tory, both National and State, exceed ingly out of place in such comical re lation to a Republican platform. The integrity of tbe ballot is too sacred to be thus trifled with. SENATOR WALLACE and hia com mittee have lately been putting the notorious Johnny Davenport through another course of sprouts. It is amai ing that any one should have been per mitted to tyranize over the voters of a great city like New York as this fel low has been doing for years in the interest of the Republican party. And yet, our Republican friends have the cheek to harp about free elections. Tiik National Democratic foiniuit tce will assemble in Washington on the 26th of this month, and proceed I to select a place and time for the hold ing of the National Democratic Con vention. The committee is made tip as follows: Alitltania . W|( Fortify M*utb")tiii>ry ArkMM* John L Hiiro tar If**t hjuitiKi California.. F \lc<<|>pin Knn Fian(i<<> II M llngli't ltMiVf r Cnmctirut .....Win II Itanium ...Lima ID* k . TV law ar a lUrLfiaoti lit* krnau li Filial lUikadal* Ja< kam Mlaaaurt. ...... John (J PHxat... M huu Nehaaaka.. Uanrx* L Miliar. Ornahu Nevada ItnU-rt l Keating Hold Hill New Hniii|rhire... Ahah W HulloWtsjr Krattklili New Jer.-y Hom Ni'W llrutiswhk Near York At>rni Ten tines .....William It lUte Na-hville T*xa* V 8 Htnt It It Finality IhuliiiKton Virginia Kotxirt A Coghlll New Hla-gow Weft Virginia .... Alexander Campbell Ih-thany Wiaecmairi William F Vila* MvJlaon riixiKMAV; W II Burnum Connerticut Frederick O I'rlnre huaetta XXI' ITIVX < ON MITT* I . ! William I! Baraum. John H Thompson, | R<*, Wilhum L Hriitt, I M W Ranaoin, William It Hut*-, j 51 M Hani, F O Prim .*. | A 8 Hewitt, John H I'ileat, laaac K Eaton. OUR neighbor of the Bellefonte Re publican is in n had humor over the course pursued by the delegates from this county to the Republican Htate Convention, and earnestly demands au explanation. He charges them with a flagrant disregard of the wishes of the party in voting for instructions for Grant. They did this in the face of a ballot for President taken by the committee which elected them, that stood 22 for Rlaine, 4 for Grant and 1 i for Sherman. The gentlemen are duly i wutnc* iLtkat their reasous for their coursofjpUl be complete and satisfac tory if lAeyVxpect future favors from the party. The demand for an ex planation seems reasonable enough in the light of the facts stated by the Republican, but the reply of, the naughty delegates will probably he, in the famous words of the late Boss Tweed, "Well, what are you to do about it?" THE muu who is heroically drawing Mr. Tilden's salary, at Washington, woke up the other morning and to his consternation discovered that he hadn't appointed an Ohio man to office for over a week. As soon as he recovered from the astonishment onus ed by this apparent neglect of the patriotic people of his home, he prompt ly looked about him with a view to remedy the oversight—determined that such things should uot IK*. His eagle eye at a single glance lighted upon nn appraisership in the New York custom house—just the place for some noble son of the Buckeye State —and lo ! in a twinkling, John Quincy Howard, " author of the life of President Hayes," was hunted up and discovered to be just the man to fill it. John Quinry Howard, of Ohio, and "author of the life of President Hayes," is nn doubt a personal favorite with his fraudulency and must of course Ik* provided for, and thus we have another line exhibition of civil service refotm. " Ouly this, und nothing more." THE Hon. William D. Kelley has matured a plan for paying off the greater part of the National debt in twenty-seven years by yearly install ments. It is intended as a substitute for Secretary Sherman's refunding proposition, and has been discussed with considerable favor by the Com mittee on ways and means of the House. He proposes the annual pay ment of $36,216,370 exclusive of in terest, and claims that on his plan the total cost to the government in that time would be only $1,628,261,068, in stead of $2,270,049,980, as on the funding plan. THE work of the Republican State Convention may bo summed up as fol lows : Grant aud the Unit Rule; for Judge of the Supreme Court, Hon. Henry Green, of Northampton coun ty, by acclamation ; for Auditor Gen eral, Hon. John Lemon, of Blair goun ty, by a vote of 168 to 93 for J. A. < M. Paeemore, of Sebuylklll county. ; Wrltl.-n fur th. rVi.tr- Dsfltocfst. THE WRECK. j on th. ocmii —no bright mam glh.ni ] OVr the foe. of the water. *> rmtlem and .Uep, ! All in huahe.l—even ceau*d la the .ea-guir. ..r-Miii There hreuthe. In the air lint the |rell of .lee)., | A .learner so .lately that naught could It lack, [ Collie, freighted with hundred, of Immortal oul, ! Not one dreatn. of danger—yet It Inrk. In tbelr track, j And I. fn.t creeping on them with each wave that roll*. . It near, them—it .trikei with a thundering >ho k, ! Afflighted they wnk.u and elirtek in their fear— I. the teuipekt upon llieui! No, they're .truck on a rock— for the fog hang, low where the ledgee rear. Now the .hip I. a thing of life, It would .eem, How it reel, .nd .liake., when It feel, the hard blow. It .htidder. and <|uiver. in every I ram, A. It. .trong .idee l.teak with a aounding throe. Wild terror l.a. wired wjnie— and mute drepair 11.. M-tlled on other.; Come, death through the wavea* N Maat their hodlca nntornhed and unrofltned ret there. No darling hand atrewlng love', flower, on their grave.• 1 "God have mercy"—from horror-.truck lip. alive— i One plunge—and the ve.el .Ink. gurgling down. In vain, In vain aro the heart-rending crtiw, Oil ocean: cold ocean ! your victor) I. won : ! Von have .wallowed the youth, with their .unoy baJr, I And the ag-d with link, of a .livery hue, The man In hi. prime and tha matron fair Sleep their long, la.t lcep. 'nealh your water, blue, Vou have darkened the home, that were Mini with light— -1 Vou have changed the laugh into hitter taar.— tu have iruehed the bearta that were I-ouadliig bright, And blighted the hope, of coming yr. I* A. S. STATE NEWS. Judge Acbwton is of the opinion that | .tore order. do not con.tilute a wage* lien. The totsl daily production of the oil re ■ gions per day during Jahuary was 60,00(1 I barrel*. One judge and four member, of the Armstrong county bar have died with i | in one yenr. Saturday wan another big tobacco day for I.ancaeler. Several Urmi received front f j 60,000 to 100,000 poundi. ( The Pennsylvania Furnace, Huntingdon ] county, will .tart up a* eoon aa the I.ewin • burg and Tyrone Railroad i* completed to > | the latter place. The liewepajatrg hsve taken up the prop . osilion to remove the Theological College j from Getty.burg to Harriaburg, and ap. prove it heartily. The UarrUburg car ahopa were reopened . <>n Monday, and will give employment to I 1,000 men. The .hop* had been'cloaed to ■ j make alteration*. The cremation of the body of Miaa Hart man, cif Pittsburg, at Washington, on . Saturday, wa* the fifth cremation In the : Lo Moyne furnace. ' The debt of liarruhurg U s*>>,Bs2 01. i Thia leave, a margin of $118,671.39 yet to . go on before the dept equal, the full "value 1 of the city'* real ac*et*. ' Oil City ha. a family compoted of twelve * person, whone aggregate height ia a little ' more than seventy-two 'eel. Some of the girl* of the family mea*ure over *ix feet. Look Haven is to have a furniture facto r ry. Citizen* of that place are also consid ering a proposition to raise SIO,OOO or $20,- ' 000 to establish a box factory and a cigar i and tobacco factory At Wciasport, Pa., Urban Iloyer wa* bitten by a dog, last summer, and has i now been seized with hydrophobia. Two , i little girls were bitten at the same time, but thus far have shown no symptoms of the disease. A man in Lawrence county whipped hi* wife lccau*e she joined and persisted in • attending the Methodist Episcopal Church j against his will. Instead of having him arrested, as she did, she ought to havegiv. en him a dose of broomstick well laid on. Mis* Butler, of Pittsburg, Pa., had ' ; looked for a man under her bed everv i night for many years, and at last sbe found not one there, but four. They wore black masks, and left her bound "and gagged . when they went off with the family plate and jewelry. 1 Bucks county claim* to have given to ( the Union army the youngeot oldier for Pennsylvania. 'David Kleinman, now of Denver, Colorada, but in 1861 pf Kpnng- I Held township, Bucks county, enlisted when eleven years old and servMi with the Third Pennsylvania Reserves. In removing a building in Washington, Pa., known in the days of the stage coach 1 as the "Good Tavern," a number of old ' I coins were found. One silver coin i* dated 1778; two copper coins are dated respective ly 1776 and 1 68 ; three United States cop per coins are dated 1783, 1801 and 1820. The Commissioner* ol Allegheny county on Friday afternoon eaused to be paid to i ; the Solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad , ! Company (1,600,000, the amonnt ol their claim for riot losses. The evening before $3-V233.8'2 wa* paid to the Baltimore and Ohio Company. Other claim* to be paid are small. In the United Stales District Court at ' Pittsburg, on Tuesday, the creditor* of j Peter Herdic, of Williamsport, offered objection* to his discharge from bankrupt cy. Mr. Herdic charge* that, instead of owing $1,(>00,000, he only owes $400,000, ; and that he will aoon be able to pay hi* debt*. He further state* that his present j appearance in court ia the effort of hi* law yer* to blackmail him ; that they offered to settle all sufls if-he would pay them $500,000. The following name* of Penntylvania post-offices were changed during the last week : Allegheny Bridge, McKeancounty, to Kldred ; Kldred, Wayne county, to ; Boyd'* Mill*; Litis, Lancaster county, to Liltu. Also the following change* in poet master appointment* : Israel D. Barner, Carroll, Clinton county; Wm C. Dotterer, Chadd'* Ford, Dataware county; J ease K. Dale, Dubois, Clearfield county; Cat mm 8. Glendenin, Kberly's Mills, Cumber land oounty ; K. V. Spackman, Luther*, burgh, Clearfield county: Septimus B. I.a bar, Marshall's Creek, Monroe county ; Peter M. Bruner.Jr, Mount Nebo, Lancas ter oountyj Falk James, Bute Hill, York county | George B. Thomas, Thomasville, York county. TERMS: #1.50 per Annum, in Advance. GENERAL NEWS. Two children died in New Cattle from the effect* of eating candy. The lower House of the lowa Legislature has voted to submit a constitutional amend ment making women eligible to the Legii lature. The seventieth birthday of Ole Bull, the violinist, was celebrated at Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday evening, bv a very distinguished .surprise party, including Professors Longfellow and Holmes. During a squall, on Sunday afternoon last, a schooner was capsized at Cheney's I Cove, Grand .Marian, an island ofl the northeast coast of Maine, and .John Nesbit, Frank Robinson, John J.any, Mrs Lind say, and Mrs. f-imeon Franklin were drowned. They all belonged to Great Man an. Richard Smith, of Pittsburg, ha* been arrested at the instance of a very handsome and wealthy young lady of Rochester, Rea ver county, upon the charge of obtaining money under false pretense*. She loaned him $1,648 to go into business, which she had thought safe after a courtship of three years duration. Rut finding that the young man avoided her company and had not gone into business, she bad him arrested. A large number of unemployed working men assembled on the hand Lots, San Fransisco, on Monday afternoon, where they were addressed by Mayor Kalloch. He gave them to understand "that within a few day* Chinatown would be legally de clared a nuisance, and that the work re sulting from such a declaration would give them employment. He counseled them to refrain from any illegal off injudicious ac tion until they heard from him again. A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says that reliable advice* have been received there I to the effect that Jay Gould and Colonel j Thomas A. Scott, representing the Texas and Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas and I Texas Railroad, have purchased all out i standing bonds and securities of the Dallas and Wichita Railroad, which will be ex j tended so as to connect with the Dennison I and Pacific extension of the Missouri, 1 Kansas and Texas Railroad, thus making | Dallas the terminus of the Missouri, Kan : .as and Texas Railroad, and making the i latter a competing line with the Texa. j Central Railroad. I On Thursday evening as the 6:14 ac | commodalion truin from Milton, on the ; Calawissa road, going east, was passing Hoffman's crossing ind nearing the West Milton station, it ran into a two-horse sled j containing nine young gentlemen and j ladie, instantly killing' Mis* Sue Bennsge, | who sat on the front seat, fracturing hor ! skull; breaking th left arm of John | Sbedle and giving two severe flesh wounds ito Thomas CreMwell. Shedle i* senseless j and not expected to recover. The remain ing jarty ecpod uninjured. One of the horse* was alo instantly killed, and the other so badly hurt that be had to be shot. The party, merry with excitement, was on it* way to a Sab bath-school teachers' institute. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. LAST WEEK or COCST.— The following cases were disposed of in the Court of Common Pleas of this county by His Honor Judge Orvis and Aaaociate Judges Divena and Franck, beginning Monday, 1 eb. 9. up to Wednesday noon : D. K. Tate vs. GustareLyon, mechan ic's lien. Case settled and costs paid. J. Keller Miller vs. Anna Cottle, me chanic'! lien. Settled and costs paid. Samuel C. McClellan va. J. 11. Holt, action of debt. Judgment entered by the court in favor of plaintiff for #590.- 77, with stay of execution until May J, 1880. John I). Lieb's administrators vs. Curtin, I-oeb A Co. .Settled and costs paid. James 8. Marsh vs. William Allison, Jr. Judgment entered by the court in favor of plaintiff for #136.25. Henry Moyer vs. Aaron Lukenbacb. Settled and costs paid. Mary Snyder vs. Ira E. Snyder. Judgment entered by the court in favor of plaintiff for #240.30. R. H. Wooley, for use of James Scar let vs. A. 8. Valentine. Settled and costs paid. Jacob Sparr's executors, Ac., for use of Margaret Sparr and Nancy H. Sparr vs. Peter Rouble's executors. Verdict for plaintiff for #1,327.32. The Com. In rel., Ac., va. Adam R. Barlow and Samuel P. Gray, surviving heirs. Jury sworn and verdict for plaintiff for penal sum ol bond. Adam Swartt, Sr., vs. H. D. Van Pelt and Howard Spangler. Jury sworn and verdict for defendant. AThoma* R. Hayes vs. Francis M. Webb, executors of, Ac,, of Dinah M. Adams. Jury sworn and verdict for plaintiff for #186.07. D. K. Tate vs. Joseph A Brother Jury sworn and verdict for plaintiff for $21.92. Hoffer A Kline vs. Joseph Schneli and George A. Bayard, overseers of the poor of Bellefonte borough. Judgment en tered by the court in favor of plaintiffs for the sum of #694.14. Sheriff's deed of John L. Spangler to R. M. Magco acknowledged in open court for property of R. G. Hock man, of Madiaonburg. Jaoob Roff, et. al.. va. William Wit mer. Causa before the jury at lime of going to press. NO. 7.