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If be Centre Clemocrat.
SIIIKJKin A FORSTER, Editors.
VOL. 2.
Sht to JJrmorrat.
Terms 51.50 per Annum, in Advance.
s. T SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editors.
Thursday Morning, April 8, 1880.
STATE TREASURER BUTLER lias ap
pointed William Lcvisse, of the Pitts
burg tax office, cashier of the Treas
ury.
GONERAI. HANCOCK is a weighty
candidate for the Democratic nomina
tion for President. lie ti{>s the scale
at tiro hundred and eighty neven pound#.
RILL KEMIILE, of "division and
silence," memory was a third-termer
and lieutenant to Don Cameron
What is he now? A fugitive front
justice to avoid his tirtt term under
sentence of the Dauphin county
Court.
DAMAUIKU rumors are now floating
of corruption in the Post-office Depart
ment at Washington in connection
with a Lottery Company which has
obtained exclusive privilege of circu
lating its documents through the
United States Mail. It is said that
830,000 affected the arrangement.
Whether the rumor is well founded
will soon he known, as the Postmaster
General cannot afford to allow it to
remaiu unexplained.
THE Republicans of York county,
following the lead of Laocaster, have
held meetings and demanded a new
deal. They are for Rlaine. A county
convention on Friday last declared in
favor of the election of new delegates
to the National convention, and ask
the other counties in the congressional
district to uuite in the movement.
This is another treason in Don's ranch
requiring prompt attention
IT is said that arrangements are L>e
iug made to bulldoze the Chicago Con
vention to prevent the nomination of
Grant —threatening a second nomina
tion in case lie should he the successful
candidate. The "Duke," as Grnut is
now familiarly called, is one not easily
frightened at trifles, nnd his principal
lieutenants, Conkling and Cameron
only need this kind of stirring up" to
bring out the full measure of their
courage and ri ourccs. Witness ?Jw*ir
management of the Pennsylvania ami
New York State conventions, where
they acted as skirmishers for the
Grant boom.
THE result of the election in San
Francisco is a sweeping condemnation
of the methods of Kearney and Knl
loch the leaders of disorder and ruf
fianism in California. The determi
nation of the busincsss men and
friends of order to take the mnnnge
nieut of affairs in their own hands, to
arrest disorder which has prevailed un
der the lead of these men, has had its
legitimate result, the success of the
Citizen ticket ami the overthrow of
the agitators, which appears to lie com
complete aud overwhelming. Kear
ney is said to be very much subdued
and broken down and is not likely to
give the jteople much trouble in the
future.
THE Marshal clause in the deficien
cy bill which passed the Senate on
Thursday last, did not excite the vio
lent political discussion anticipated by
Many. Senator Edmunds had the op
position to the clause relating to dcj>-
uty election marshals all to himself.
He was the only Senator who spoke
in opposition to its passage—the only
one to insist that the different parties
ought not to be represented in these
guardians of a fair election. Conk
ling and other stalwarts evidently
made an "April Fool" of the Vermont
Henator by putting hint forward as
the advocate of an exclusive partisan
election supervision and then retired
to enjoy their joke on his verdancy.
The bill as passed provides for the ap
pointment of these marshals by the
Circuit Courts in equal numbers from
each party, known to be of good
moral character. No chance here for
founders and thieves.
"EQUAL AKI> KX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WIIATEVK.It STATIC OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL."—J<-fferoii
JOHN SHERMAN has hied uway
from tlio cures and vexatious of the
Treasury department to spend a few
days in the delightful pastime of elec
tioneering among his lluckeye neigh
burs for the Presidency. It is true lie
had announced his candidacy a num
ber of times in letters to his friends,
but ho could not forego the pleasure
of appearing liefore them and saying
so in person. This he did on Wed
nesday, of last week, at Mansfield, his
old home. Modest, manly, John! It
was scarcely necessary for you to say
that it was "by the courso of recent
events" and not by "self-seeking" that
you find your name "mentioned among
those from whom the Republican
party will select one to carry its ban
ner in the approaching Presidential
contestand of course it was not
"egotism" to state the fact in plain
terms. No, indeed. The very* idea
of associating egotism with the Hher
man name would lie preposterous. Rut
the modest, manly John not only ac
cepts the position thus thrust UJIOII him
"by the course of recent events," hut
lie does it "without a pretense of mork
modesty," lest his supporters should
put themselves to unnccssary trouble
on his account without really knowing
timt lie was willing to accept. This
was very considerate in John, though
it is a fact yet to he established by
trust-worthy evidence that he ever de
clined to accept an ofliee of any sort,
and his good friends might therefore
have been permitted to take a risk of
that kind with little danger of being dis
appointed. Next we hear what John
expects, and the stalwarts of his na
tive State will lie very hard hearted
if they du not gratify his desire. He
expects an expression of "preference"
from Ohio and wants it to be given
with "substantial unnnifmtT.'" Hywtt"
means let it be given just as he wants
it. Rut when John .Sherman reaches
the Presidency it will be nfter some
thing more potent than the "course of
recent events" makes him a candidate,
and long nfter people have forgotten
events in which he played notorious
part with Eliza Pinkston and Agnes
.lenks as accomplices.
SENATOR WALLACE'S committee re
porting upon the question of political
assessments, quotes from the evidence
to show that both the letter and spirit
of the statute on the subject have been
violated as well as that the plain
meaning of the order of the Presi
dent relating to assessments for party
purposes has not been obeyed. In view
of the fact that the law is a dead letter,
the romniittee has prepared and pre
sented a stringent hill. It prohibits
any official or employe of the United
States from contributing to any commit
tee or person for any political purpose
or paying any assessment or income or
lending or advancing any money with
the understanding that the same shall
be applied for political purposes.
Heads of departments arc prohibited
from collecting or allowing to be col
lected, money for political purposes.
The punishment on conviction of vio
lating this law is imprisonment not ex
ceeding six months, and, in the discre
tion of the court, a line not tytceeding
$.">,000, and the person convicted shall
be forever thereafter disqualified from
holding any office of honor, profit or
trust under the United Htates. Any
officer of the United States who shall
violate any provision of this act shall,
in addition to such imprisonment and
fine, be deemed aud taken to have va
cated the office by hiin held.
EX-SECRETARY COX, of Ohio, late
of the Interior department, speaks
thus of the candidacy of Mr. Blaiue
for the Presidency. His "nomination
would open our campaign in scandal,
and put our party on the defensive
from the beginning. It is not clear
that under such a cloud he would
command the German vote any more
certainly than would Grant, and be
would surely lose much of the inde
pendant and liberal vote, so much
needed to assure a victory."
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, _APRIL 8, 1880.
Edmunds of Vermont.
The following pen picture of Mr.
Edmunds, Vermont's Senator, and
candidate for the Republican nomina
tion for President, is drawn by the
Washington Pott :
The consuming passion with Mr. Ed
munds is haired lor the South, He
hales its people, its soil, its traditions,
its heroes—even the very uir which
hears to him its f.ngranee, lie consid
ers it no wrong to slander every man,
woman and child living beyond a cer
tain geographical line, to hold them up !
to derision and contumely, to drive |
them into a corner aud then punish ,
them for their slightest attempt at self
protection. It is us good a thing in his 1
eyes to despoil ihem as it was with the 1
Israelites to spoil the Egyptians. Give 1
him an opportunity and he would smite |
them, hip and thigh. Put hun in the
Executive chair and he would discover
no single Southern right which a North
ern Republican would he required to
respect.
A large part of the fierce, intolerance
in Mr. Edmunds' composition, we ere
willing to admit, is fanaticism. He has
been brought up to it—and he has also
found it profitable. He is not, how
ever, merely fanatic, n* was Mr. Garri
son or John ltrown. He knows how to
harness his hatreds and at what pace to
drive, lie can be as adroit and as pla
cable as a courtier if need be. Give
the Vermont -Senator an object and he
will humor his foe to the top of his
beiit-Ountil it is time to strike. Then
the honorable Mr. Edmunds settles with
compound interest.
Mr. Edmunds was the progenitor of
the electoral commission fraud. He
dug the pitfall and carefully concealed
it. It was his solemn assertion before
the bill passed that if its oLjeet was not
to consider all the evidence affecting
the votes of the disputed Stales, he
would vote against it, and then walked
over to the Supreme court room aud
recorded a deciding opinion against tin
introduction of the least tact that bore
u|M>n the case.
Of all the members of the Republi
can party sufficiently prominent to be
named in connection with tbe Presi
dency, there is no single one who for
adeptneas in political vdliany and pro
fligacy of sectional prejudice, can com
pare with Mr. Edmunds of Vermont.
IN reference to the Senatorial dele
(Wti to the HenHwrtwWwte Gonvt.ii- <
tion front this Senatorial district, we
nre authorized to state that Mr. l
Spnngler, the Chairman of our county
committee, Inst week wrote to the
Chairmen of the committees in Clear
field and Clinton counties to ascertain
their wishes in relation to the meeting
of the conferees. In answer to his in
quiries he has a letter front Chairman
Rurchfteld, of Clearfield, suggesting
Friday, the 23d instant, and Bellefonte
as the time and place for the meeting.
Mr. .Spanglcr on the part of Centre
county, has acquiesced in this sugges
tion, and it is to be hoped that Clinton
county will do likewise, so that it may
be understood that the conferees will
meet in accordance with this arrange
ment and elect our Senatorial dele
gate
THE fences of Secretary Sherman
in Ohio being in very bad repair, to
tally inadequate for the protection of
his premises from the predatory in
cursions of the Mulligan and third
term gunners in search of the game to
which the eminent financier claims an ,
exclusive right, he lias absented himself
from bis arduous duties of the Treas
ury Department to make improve
ments and repair damages. He has
made a speech to his tenants ami
irieuds appealing to them to keep
things in order during his absence.
What effect his appeal may have is a
matter of great doubt as the demorali
zation is wide-spread. Were his
speeches made in better temper the
case would be more hopeful. But find
iug it again necessary, for the huudreth
time, to announce that he is a candi
date for the honors of the Chicago
Convention, he no doubt became riled,
and launched forth in a violent philip
pic against the poor uuofieuding
"Rehel Brigadiers." In this temper
it is not surprising that John forgot
himself in waving the "bloody shirt"
as an attractive badge, when cool re
flection would have admonished him
that it has lost its effect —that this
banner of Radicalism is played out,
and that the. attempt to flirt the
dirty miserable thing in the face of
the intelligent people of Ohio, as else
where, could ouly have a damaging
influence. The people will make com
parisons, and the Secretary's speech
in Ohio will certainly present u sick
ening n poet when rend hide ly side
with tho remarks of (Jen. (Irani, his
principal rival, at New Orleans, where
lie uttered a volume ou tlie name sub
ject in the simple but truthful word*,
"The jxtM is gone." These ure the
word* of a brave man who had a right
to * peak tlieui, not of a coward who
kept himself ut very long range from the
"Kebel Brigadier*," when the history
was forming, from which the Secreta
ry hope* no make hi* stock in trade,
under the sanguinary rug, at the
Chicago Convention for the Presiden
tial office.
Tho Bribers.
Salter, Petroff, llunihurger and
Crawford, four of tho five fugitive riot
bribers, appeared unexpectedly at
Harrisburg, on Monday, and delivered
themselves up to the Sheriff of Dauphin
cpuntv. Soon after it became known
that they were in custody, Judge Pear
son weut to the prison and permitted
them to renew their hail bond* to ap
pear before him for sentence ou the
2f!th instant to which time court had
previously adjourned. With thi*
short lease of liberty they were permit
ted to depart in peace to their respect
ive homes, a privilege of which they
soou availed themselves. It was
peeled that Kenible would also put in
an appearance during the day, to have
his ca*e dis|H>sed of, for tho time Ireing,
in the same way, but at our latest ad
vices he had not done so. The Hur
ri.-hurg Patriot in commenting upon
this disposition of the eases, says:
"Thus the farce goes on. Instead of
submitting themselves for sentence so
that the law might la-satisfied and the
scuidal ended the defendants keep
iMir ense* before the public and ng
"PWtettff the sentiment already excited
against them by their efforts to escape
'the penalties of the law. It is un
doubtedly an unpleasant thing to go
| to jail, but a few days' delay will not
mukc it more agreeahle. This is a
government of law and public senti
ment recjuires that the law shall be
vindicated ; not that there shall lie n
revengeful execution of the law, but
( that a resjieet for the law shall bo
culcntcd to the end that evil mimle<|
l>eople may lie deterred from eommit
, ing nuy wrong against society. Thore
j fore many charitably disposed people
; who might not lie willing to pick out
these men lor harsh punishment from
jolliers believed to be equnlly guilty,
arc offended and alarmed at the ap
|iarent int-Huncy of the law in these
cases. It is one thing to ap|*-al to the
mercy of the court but quite another
: to attempt to evade its judgment."
JUDGE PATTERSON, of Lancaster is
this week receiving the attention of
the Press throughout the State for his
arbitrary and tyranuical order disbar
ring Messrs. Steinman and Ilcnsol
from practicing as Attorneys in the
courts of Lancaster county. These
gentlemen, besides being attorneys, arc
the editors of the lAUicaster Intelligen
cer, and the judge attempts to hold
them responsible as attorneys for
what they deem themselves called up
on to say as editors. The trouble be
tween them grew out of strictures
which the Intelligencer made upon
certain proceedings in a somewhat no
torious criminal case before Judge
Patterson which, to say the least, were
of a very suspicious character and not
at all creditable to the court. The
actiou of the judge, we are glad to say,
meets with the condemnation it de
serves, and as Messrs. Steinman Htid
Henscl will* no doubt take an appeal
to a higher court, it is to be hoped they
will in the end receive a complete vin
dication of their rights, and the un
just judge a rebuke that will be a les
son to him while he remains on the
bench.
THE re-nomination of Dr. Sherwood
by Mr. Hayes to be Census Supervisor
for Philadelphia received very un
ceremonious treatment by the Senate.
It was promptly without a
call of the yeas and nays. The Senate
does not propose to be trifled with.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
I*'"** RKLICK. —In various parts of,
I our country, notably along tho lower '
Hah! Ragle valley, trace* of the copper- j
1 hueil race who were owner* and inhabi- >
tunt* of the country when it wm yet in
it* native exist in great nutn
j her*, even ut this late day, and are fre- !
inert Ily discovered by farmer* and other* i
j whose occupation* take them to the wood*
| and 'J It" latest of these disr overie-
Jof im|>ortnnce which ha* come to our
notice, wa* made by Mr. John W. Gard
■ nur, of Howard, on a wood lot, now own-
I ed by Mr. Gardner, but until recently be
j ' on K'"l> the estate of the lalo ex-Gov.
. Packer, on the north side of Bald Eagle
cros k, and a little west of the village of
Howard. Thin wood lot lies on a steep
; hank immediately on the creek, and was
I crossed by the prominent Indian trail
! leading from Great Island—now Lock
Haven—up the Uald Eagle, to Howard, '
and from thenco out to Snow Shoe,
and Glearfb'iJ. Thi* trad crossed Bald
t Eagle creek at the point above men
| lioned, where the water is quite shallow,
and from the time ( .f the first settler* has
I la-en known a* Indian Iti file. Probably
! because of its steepness this bank had
never been cleared, and,had upon it some
| tine large oaks, of apparent great age. In
j working one of these old ok*—some j
| three feet in diameter—up for posts, a few
weeks ago, Mr. Gardner noticed, witbin
■ about two inches of it* centre, a remarkably
| well-defined, and well-preserved axe mark,
j evidently made by a very small and very I
axe or hatchet, and u|e>n fully e?|tos.',
, ing it to view, and counting the growths
] which had accumulated oul'ide of it, it |
wa* found to have W-en made one hun- j
dred and seventy-two years ago. This '
j take* it back to 170 ft, or twenty-four I
years before the birtb of Washington. J
At the time the cut was made the tree was
but a sapling, of about four inches in diam
eter, and the chip marks of the evidently
dull tool can be seen as distinctly a*
though they had been marie within the
year. At the same time at which we saw
I this, we were shown an old hatchet, found
j by ex-Commissioner J. Newlio Hall, bur- j
I led deep In the ground, under a large tree
; which lie had occasion to remove lately,
- and which stood close beside the same
' trail, and not tnorc than sixty or seventy '
' rod* distant from the marker] tree found '
by Mr. Gardner. The hatchet had evi- ;
dently been lost many year* ago, and the j
j tree had grown over it. It is not impos
•ible that it is one of those given the In- i
dians by Penn at his treaty with them un- i
der the great elm ; and it does not require i
( a very great stretch of imagination to be
lieve that it is the same one with which
the marks were made on the oak sapling !
in 170 S. Both these interesting relics of
the old inhabitant* of, or traveler- through, j
the Bald Eagle valley, have been left at !
our office l*r a few days, for the inspection
of those interested in such matters.
FIBX COMCAST FESTlVAL.— Neatness is |
next to virtue. The I-ogan Fire Company ;
| find that their uniforms are in a sadly |
worn, dilapidated condition, and a* Deco- ;
| ration day and other grand national
event* approach, they become cognizant !
of the fact that they will cut but a sorry
figure if they sppear upon the street* In I
their present tbreadbsre uniforms. In- !
deed, some members of the company ind
that those indispensable garmenta called
pant* are certainly non est, and they do
not wish to shock a proper sensitiveness by
appearing without them. Therefore, they
' would beg |M>rmi**ion to announce that on
j the evenings of Friday and Saturday, the
16th and 17th instants, they will hold a
festival. The proceeds will be applied to
the purchase of suitable new uniforms.
All the delicacies of the season will be
provided and, of 4|prte, the presence and
patronage of citixertlis requested.
—We desire to call attention to the fact
that Mr. C. F. Uarlacher, of Centro Hal),
is at present engaged in the business of ren
ovating feather*. He is at present estab
lished at Levy's store room, at Milesburg,
and will remain there a few weeks in
order to give all person* in thia neigh
borhood who have feather beds and
mattresses that they wish to have cleansed
an opportunity to call upon him. He
claims to have the champion renovator.
Hi* proceaa It an entirely new one, and
performs its work effectually, without the
alighteet injury to the feathers, by the
Joint action ot steam and cold air, drying
them by draught and not by lha old man
ner of baking them dry. He will call for
beds, mattresses, Ac., and return them
without extra charge, guaranteeing satis
faction in every case. Mr. Harlacher baa
long been areeidentof Centre oouuty, and
is a reliable and trustworthy man, to
whom work may be confidently entrusted.
We say this from a long acquaintance wltb
him and can therefore assure those having
anything to do in his line that they will
consult their Interest by giving him their
patronage.
TERMS: #1.50 |MT Annum, in Advance.
TNK B'IROI'OII COO.*' RI.—THREE .MEET
ISO" os MONDAY.— Last Monday MORNING
at A. M. , tliu old council held it. last
m''ting. Then* were a few congratula
tion# over the legislation A''runipli#h<d
during the JIH-T year. The Market Clerk
reported $1.30 market FEE*. The financial
(ominittee reported the following pay
ment# ON duplicate* sinco LA-t report : 1 HT",
$100.20; IH7O, $19.26; I*7B, $F309.62;
1879, $8,605.08. Total, $.7,070.70. After
a f-W remark* from the PRESIDENT, council
adjourned tine die.
The NEW council met at lOo'clock A. M.,
when Mterj, MT-fjuistion, Mullen and
Tate were #worn in n members. Clement
Dale and John Sourbeck, Esq's., also took
th"ir oath* of office a# Chief and A#*i#tarit
Burg'*##. Mr. John Ardell wu elected
L're#dent of council and Mr. Iraae Mitchell
clerk.
At the meeting at 7.30 p. M. the follow,
ing member* were preaent: President Ar.
dell, and MOTORS. (.'rider, Harper, Hunter,
M <** K. MULLON, MCCLUR**, MCT|uition AND
T H T<*.
TLW- President announced the following
standing committee* :
Finance Ilt.r|ler, MeClure and Hunter.
Hater —M<Clure, Crider and Hunter.
Street— Crider, Tale and Mullen.
J ,rr and I'/dice —M ullen, Tateand Meek.
Market— Hunter, Mctjuistion and Har
per.
Nuisance — Tate, Meek and McQufstion.
On motion of Harper, seconded BY Mc
( lure, Samuel It van i retain* da# engineer
at $1.60 |E*r day. Mr. Strickland i* re
tasned A# superintendent of water commit
tee at $ll PER month. Mr. Shaughen*oy
i* employed A* street cleaner at $1.05 PER
day. Mr. Hoffman I# retained as lamp
lighter at the #atn<> priest paid !a>t year.
Benjamin 1 tiller i# employed a# janitor at
$2-7 JAR year. Mr. Shaugheneey will act
a# market clerk for 50 cent* per week.
I he diflerent committee# of council have
expended during the pan year the follow
ing amount*:
Street Com mi tee $2,637 83
Water Committee 3,272 00
Fire and Police Committee 2,819 S3
Market Coininituj*„ 18 75
Nui*ar.ce Committee 4 4.7
Finance Committee 696 55
Total ..T $8,809 00
BEAI-TIFUL BRACKET WORK. —Mr.
Jack Holme*, *on of W. M. Holme*, of
thi* place, i# a young gentleman of great
ingenuity and industry. He ha* taught
tchool during the pat winter and ha*
occupied much of hi# spare time in carving
brackets of beautiful design and superior
and delicate workmanship. The beautiful
parlor of his father's residence, (he occu
pies the ton mansion belonging to the
Thomas estate, in the lower part of town),
is filled with some excellent specimen* of
hi* ingenuity. One represent* a complete
combination of butterflies ; another show*
a dog, holding a deer at bay, while a hun
ter, standing behind a tree, take* aim at
the deer ; then there is a landscape scene,
and a variety of other design* of equal
interest, hut too numerous to mention.
Jack hat sold several beautiful bracket* to
hi* friends.
Mr. ,lamr* B. Anthony, of Belle town*
•hip, Clearfield county, lost six child
ren in one week with diptberia.
Beading's new hank will be known aa
[ the Commercial National Bank. Itcom-
I tuenoe* under favorable auspices.
The Catholic temperance societies of
thi# State will hold a Slate Convention
at Shenandoah on the third Monday
of June.
Dauphin county is excited over a case
of witchcraft. Mr*. Boyer, a reputable
woman, being charged with bewitching
a young woman named Kildey,
Colonel Benjamin Brownfiehl, living
near Uninntown, Fayette county, i* 100
year* old, lie ha* 12 children, 110
grandchildren and 31 great grandchild
ren.
An expedition about to aeil from
Philadelphia with arma and muni
tion for the Cuban service is under sur
veillance of the Government authori
ties.
George Punchard, widely known as
the author of the "History of Congrega
tionalism," in hi* earlier year* a minis
ter, and formerly one of the editort of
the Boston Traveler, died on Friday,
aga i 74.
Fred Frb, Jr., of SU Joseph, Mo., has
accepted a challenge of Captain A. H.
Bogardu* to shoot 100 bird* at thirty
ydrd*. English rule*, at St- Louis, thi*
month for $5OO a side.
While engaged in mnatfucting the
iron bridge across the Hudeou river at
Lansingburg, N. V., on Thursday morn
ing. ten men were precipitated fbrly
•even feet into the river by the break
ing of a scaffold. Three of the men
were badly but not aerinualy injured,
And one fo*t an eye. Work oa the
bridge has been temporarily suspended.
As an earnest of the feeling of confi
dence engendered by the result of the
recent election at Sam Francisco it may
be mentioned that the arms of the mil
itary companies, which during the late
excitement were removed to the central
Poiioe Station for greater safety, have
been returned to the armories of the
reajiective companies. It is very doubt
ful whether the election will be con
tested by the Worktngmen.
NO. 15.