£l)f Centre democrat. SHUUKRT & FORSTKR, Editors. VOL. 2. fit (Centre jTraocrat. Term* tt.so per Annum, In Advance. S T. BHUGEHT and R. H. F ORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, April 22, 1880. * SENATOR CAMERON'S bill for a joint commission to consider what leg islation is necessary for the better reg ulation of commerce among the States was reported from the committee on commerce in the Senate, with amend ments. THE Commissioner of Pensions gives the amount already disbursed out of the appropriation of $25,000,- 000, for arrearages of pensions, at $24,500,000 and the number of claims now on tile is 250,000. Three thou sand cases arc "yet unadjusted. GEN. GRANT'S hippodrome perform, ed in Illinois last week. It met a fair reception at Cairo, and the General made his usual speech. The Mulli gans were no doubt surprised, and will be obliged to succumb to the logic of tbe Duke, and tbe necessities of the Empire. THE Wyomiug Methodist Confer ence, a body com|K)*ed of over five liuudred delegates, adopted at tbeir hue session a protest to the Board of Pardons, the Judge of the Court and the Governor, ngainst condoning the crime or failing to puuish the per sons lately convicted of bribery and corruption in the court of Dauphin county. THE Hon. Galusha GREW predicts that if Grant obtains the Republican nomination for President, the vote of Pennsylvania will be thrown against him. Very likely, and if the Democ racy don't act the fool, as some of them seem disposed to do, neither Blaine nor .Sherman will be available to save the State to the Republicans. SECRETARY SHERMAN'S boom for the Presidency has made no advance during the last week. It seems to be n a dead stand. Blaise i 9 a little bet ter, but the great Ulysses still "holds the fort," and is not likely to be routed by the Mulligan Guards. He has re ceived reinforcements front Kentucky and Missouri, and still has a large reserve in other parts of the South. JI'DOE BLACK, a traveler. He does not propose to follow Grant around the world in order to make a boom for the Presidency on his return, but merely takes A pleasure trip to Europe in company with his wife and grand-daughter, Miss Shunk, and will sail this week. The hundred thousand triends of the eminent Statesman and patriot will invoke for him a pleasant trip and safe return to his native land. THE Massachusetts Republican Con vention recommends Senator Edmunds ot \ ermont for the Presidential nomi nation nt Chicago. Edmunds is com ing up and may yet be the dark horse. He has now Vermont, Con necticut and Massachusetts, and is therefore ahead of Mulligan Blaine in New England. Dawes was President of the Convention and in his speech charged that it was the intention of the Demdcrat* to secure the Presi dency at all hazards. He is right. They intend to elect the next Presi dent, as they did tbe last, honestly, and inaugurate him "at all hazards." THE discussion of the Indian appro priation bill in the House of Repre •tentative*, on Friday last, indicates very strongly that the Indian commis sion was considered a useless and unnecessarily expensive appeudage to the Indian Bureau and could be abol ished without detriment to the public service. An amendment striking out the 110,000 for the pay of the commis sion, and repealing the act authorizing thier appointment was adopted. There are, no doubt, many other fancy ap pendages to tbe various departments of the Government that could be dropped with equal safety, to lesaen expenses. "Ecmo crats intend to nominate for President. THE Washington correspondent of the Bellefonte lie/mbliran, in speaking of the debate in the United States •Senate upon the hill for distribution of the Geneva award fund says that "Thurninnand other Democratic dem agogues, unable to refute Senator Blaine's arguments, took reveuge in twitting Blaine of not being a law yer." Is not this correspondent slightly ofT in this assertion ? The only "demagogue," Democratic or Republican, that twitted Mr. Blaine "of not being a lawyer" was A dema gogue called Matt Carpenter with whom Blaine had several lively tilts in the discussion of the Geneva bill. It wns Carpenter, if he is correctly re ported in the Congressional Rcrord, who said in hisargumcnt upon this bill, "I must apologize to the Senate for pur suing, perhaps, somewhat the methods of a lawyer. I kuow it is an offence to lie a lawyer in the opinion of some Senators ; and my friend from Maine (Mr. Blaine) always has his opponent at a disadvantage when he can charge him with being a lawyer. He knows nobody can retaliate that charge upon him." THE Democratic conferees of this, the 34tb Senatorial district, will meet hero to-morrow to elect a senatorial delegate to the State convention which meets at Harriaburg next week. We have no doubt the work of the con. ference will be well done, and that a spirit of harmony and a desire to promote the best interests of the party will prevail. THE regular State convention of tbe Democrats of New York was held at Syracuse, on Tuesday, and was controll ed by the friends of Mr. Tilden. The Tammanyites held their convention on the same day in the same city, and passed resolutions bitterly antagonistic to the nomination of Tilden for the Presidency. GENERAL NEWS. The Btnnn which prevailed through out the State of California for neverel day* of Inst tveek w,u the severest ever known on the linn of the Central Pa cific railroad, through the mountain*. Ttiede ih i- announced of Mrs. Mary A. Woodward, mother of the late .fudge Woodward, of U-mling, at the ndvanc ed age of eighty two year*. She wan born in Wayne county, and nil of her three children are now dead. She was a uiout estimable lady and highly res ported by nil who knew her. _ Godfrey Smalley, reaiding near Ma rietta, Ohio, has been arreated cliarged with the murder of Jacob Haugliman, on August JO, 18f>3. Itaughman wa* a wealthy baclielor farmer, reaiding near Zanesville and living alone. Smalley is now in jail, and from a paitiul conlea ion he has made there seems to bo no doubt of bis guilt. The Secretary of the Treasury last week received an envelope, postmarked New York, in which was inclosed the •Uftl f 11,000 in United States and Na tional It ink note", with a tag attached, on which were written the words "in come tax." Tim money ha* been de |K>*itcd in the Treasury on account of ••oonncience." Jno. Siney.ex president of the Miners and Laborer*' Benevolent Association, and a prominent labor "gitalor, died at hi* home, near Saint Clair. Schuylkill county, on last Friday morning at three o'clock, of miners' consumption, lie wa* 48 year* old, ami leave* a wife, but no children. A committee consisting of Governor, Auditor General, Attorney General, State Treasurer, three Senators and tive Kepresentalives was appointed by the legislature to prepare a new general revenue bill. 1 hi* committee will meet in the Kxecutive Chamber at Ilarrisburg on Tuesday, May 18, and hear anv and all persons familiar with the subject or who have any suggestions to make. Judge Black expect* to sail for Lurope ibis week, accompanied by Mr". Black and his grand daughter, Miss Sblink. Secretary Rvart* has given him a circu lar letter that will introduce him every where. if he need* any introduction. Judge Black haa never been abroad lie fore, and hesava therewre three things that he especially desires to see : First, an Rnglish A**uo Court in session; sec ond, nunr.ymede, the historic sjxii upon which the Rnglish barons wrm-.g Irora fLiog John the MagnaCharts, and third, a Rnglish race horse, ► the Police court Monday morning the Prosecuting Attorney aked for the coin in i tine nt of Ifenni* Kearney. The latter was not present at the lime, but a few minute* later appeared with his counsel and asked for delay to enable him to make application to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus. The Court denied the request as unusual and extraordinary. A commitment was then made out and Kearney, evi dently greatly depressed and chagrined, wa taken below. In a few minute* he wa* removed to a hack and driven to the House of Correction, where after going through the hands of a barber and donning convicts' garb he w; placed in a cell. Karly on Saturday morning an attempt waf made by a po*e ol < flicers to arrest Henry Rngliah, a noted desperado, on a criminal charge, at hi* house in Caledo nia, Rlk county. Rngli*h barricaded himself in the bouse and defended bun self all day by means of a Winchester rifle. The house was surrounded by citizens who filed at Knglish without effect when he appeared at the window*. He shot three men, fatally wounding two. At V o'clock in the evening he ran for the wood*. He was wounded in the leg as he ran across a field, but crnwled into the bushes and escaped. The sher iff haa called out the pout comitatu* and at last account! was searching lor bun. The greatest caution is observed as he is armed with a sixteen shooter and haa plenty of ammunition. A fire broke out on Saturday night in the rear of H. Algeos' large straw good* factory, at 539 Hudson street, New York, which at one time gave cause for serious alarm. The fire occurred in the boiler house, a wooden ahed. and raged with great fury for about twenty minutes. Fifty or aixty working girl* in the facto ry, who were about to quit the building, were frightened by the smoke and sparks and thought that the rayn building was on fire. Escape seemed cut off and help from the outside was not at hand. The girls were seized with a wild panic and ran shrieking' from floor to floor. The police arrived barely in time to prevent some from jumping out of the windows and led them safely into the street The fire was extinguished with trifling ef fort. A comparative statement showing the receipt* from spirits distilled from ma terial other than apples, peaches and grape*, during the first six months of the fiscal year ended June 30th last, and of the first six months of the present fis cal year has been prepared at the Bureau of Internal revenue. This statement includes those districts which returned (30,000 and over from this source during the last fiscal year. The total innrease for the six months aa shown by the statement foots up $4,12*2.729.42. The south districts where hot warfare haa been made on illicit distillers show an encouraging Increase in the receipt*. The banner Btate district in increase is the fifth Illinois, the Peoria district. There the increase has been $1,683,516.96. The whole statement shows that much more liquor is being manufactured than during the same period of the last fis cal year, and that the laws are more ebeved. forest fire* are raging in Pike and Monroe counties, Pa., and people are , fighting the flame* in Sussex county, New Jersey. Charley Townsend. a child five years of ,gp, reading at Know Hon, Chester county, was hitten by a dog on the 27th of Marc-hand died on Monday night from a severe attack of hydrophobia. Baltimore ha* a new institution in ; the share of n big van, loaded with hot colli-e, which is driven al-out the street* for tiie accomodation of laborers. A ! cup of the beverage is sold for three I cent*. The tide of immigration to the far west is at its height. Large numbers of people pas* through Chicago every day. Many are from hurope, but a considera ble number come front Canada, and are I induced to emigrate from there by the : liberal offers made them by the govern went and the railroads. It is announced that the Pennsylva nia Railroad Company contemplate making the run between Philadelphia and Jersey City in one and one half hours, or ninety minutes, which means one mile per minute running time con tinuously for the whole distance. Ex Sheriff Evan Mishler, a candidate j for Congress and a well known Demo cratic politician in the State, also pro prietor of the Mishler House, Reading, is very ill and not expected to live. Ft is thought that his malady will necessi tate sending him to the Asylum at Harrisburg. j State Treasurer Butler, who takes possession of his office on the Ist of Msy, ha* made thn following appoint ments: Cashier, W. Levissee, of Pitts burg. Clerks. Representative 11. C. Oreenwalt, of Franklin county; Q. If. | Reidleman, of Wyoming, and Thomas A. Reiley, of Cumberland. Messenger, ; John A. Stott, of Coatsville. Watch man, Oliver Reynolds, colored, of West j Chester. tieneral Grant arrived at Cairo, 111., I last Friday afternoon, and met with a hearty reception. In a rather lengthy address he spoke of his enthusiastic re ' ception throughout the southern Ststes ' and said thai there was an evident ; desire on the part of the southern peo j pie to forget the past difficulties and enter into s generous rivalry for the prosperity of the several .States and the , nation. The tieneral departed on Sat j urday morning for Rloomington. A I rightful Storm j Tirr WHOI. z or HAMiiricu), MO., LEVELED rue Kciss CATCH FIRE— rotTV OEAU DODIES It ECO V SUED. BT. Lor IS, April 19. Passengers who passed through Marshfield on the St. l-ouisand San Francisco railroad at 8.30 i last night gave a few facts concerning | a terrible disaster. A man who came to the depot at the edge of the town while ; the trsin was there reported that at 6.30 | o'clock a furious hurricane struck the 1 place and leveled all that part of town j lying west of the Centre Square flat to i the ground. The debris immediately I took lire in several places, and the flames could be seen at some half doren points by the psssengers on the train. Forty dead bodies have been taken out, and j many more were supposed to be buried I in the ruins or burned up. There were also many living, still im j prisoned in the debris of the fallen buildings. All the physicians of the town wpre killed, excepting two, and , there was great need of doctors to at tend to the wounded, of whom it was said there were some 200. A relief train j with twenty physicians and nurses and | full of supplies left Springfield. Mo., this morning, and probably other trains will arrive during the day. IN 1853 four gentlemen entered Iheir son* at boarding school at C keshurv, S. O. They had been for years intimate triends and clergymen in the Metltb di*t Church. These boys remained at this school, room mates and classmates, for two years, and entered Wofford Col j lege, standing relatively first, second, 1 third and fourth in a large class. They remained at this institution four years, were room mate* all the time, gradu ating relatively, first, second, third snd fourth. They then entered a law office at Spartanburg and studied law under the same Chancellor. The war broke , out, and at the call for troops they all entered Jenkins's rifle regiment from | South Carolina, and were messmates in the same company. Being near the ' satne height, they stood together as comrades in battle in this regiment. ! At the second battle of Manassas, Au gust, 1861. a abell from the enemy's battery fell in the ranks of this com pany, killed these four boys and none other in the company. They are buried on the battle-field and aleep together in the same grave. Their nanrea were Capers, MoSwain, Smith and Duncan, and they were the sons of Bishop Ca pers, Rev. Drs. MeSwain and Smith, of South Carolina, and Rev. Mr. Duncan, of Virginia, the laat being a brother of Rev. Mr. Duncan, of Rsndolnh Macon College: The grave is marked by a granite cross and inclosed with an iron railing. THE Washington /Vs/has interviewed Mr. (leorge W Oorbsra, late Secretary of the Senate, about the third term cam paign. He expressed contempt for the "soratchers" and "bolters" and perfect confidence in the suooees of the move ment. He foreshadows the ex-Presi dent's proposed policy as being one of conciliation and peaoe. Tbe /Vsf adds, however, that the ex-president onoe fooled the South with the phrase "Let us have peace," but ba will get no South ern votes now unless he buys them. "Ha cannot steal them, nor can he oajole them." TERMS: #1.50 Annum, in Advance. A Sh IN TilK STCEI.TON BTEKI, WORKS. I'rom l>i.j,irh to lb. Time.. lIARNIMII RG, April 15.—.lust a* tho men on the night turn at the Pennsyl vania Steel Work*, up at Steelton, Were quitting work this morning, an accident • •cciirred which seriously injured nine men, two fatally. Aa one of the big | converter*, containing six ton* of mol ten teel, wan being lowered, it dropped .uddenly, scattering the hot metel all over the workmen. J. B. Marten, the foreman of the turn, and Daniel Day lon. employed in the pit, *aw the con verter awing and ran out of the way, at the same time calling to the other*, hut they were too late. It wa* all the work of an inatant, and the first intimation the other hand* in different part* of the mill had of the accident wa* on hearing the criea and ahriek* of the men who were covered with the red hot metal. I he acene that ensued beggar* descrip tion. The ho*e waa turned on aome of the men who lay on the edge of the pit, powerless to rise, with their clothing in flaraea and the blistering metal burning into their flesh, and willing hands lifted the unfortunate* and carried them to the engine house. There were nine of them hurt,a* follow*: George Horning, married. Steelton ; Monroe Miller, mar ried, Steelton, who was working on tho runners at the time of the accident; George Yost, aged 18, Steelton ; Simon Martin, married, Steelton, who also worked on the runners; Albert A. West brook, single, Steelton, who worked un der the converter; A. Covert, married, Highspire; Samuel Covert, Highspire; David Shoop, Steelton ; A. E. Pawber, Sheealey town. All these men were around the pit at the time. Some were preparing to pour the metal from the converter to tho moulds and Yost and \\'etbrook were washing, preparatory to going home. David Shoop waa patch ing mould* at the time. Yot and West brook were burned the moat seriously, the former's clothing being one mas* of flame. Westbrook lay on the edge of the pit, burning, when the water from the hose was played on him. Yost died at noon and Westbrook a little later. The Nation'* Creditor*. BOW THE GOVERNMENT BONDS ATE DISTRIIt- ITEO AMONG TIIE i'EOPLE. Eruta tb Sf>rui|;ftrUi R.puMiosn. National bond*, it is probable, havo always been held in Urge blocks, but at present an unusually large proportion of the interest bet ring debt api>ears to be "in sight," as the grain dealers say. The New York State saving* banks hold $119,985,000, the savings bank* of this State rJ3.W4.0t10. Vanderbilt is credited with $4:1.500 000 and/two of the Pacific Coast bonanxa king* made purchase* a short time ago which, according to a Waahincton dispatch, swelled their holding* to t5.000.000 each. There is. besides this, the great amount held to secure national 'bank circulation; amounting to #.164.68 1.000 and #14,817,- 000 held as a guaranty tor government deposits. These sums make no account of the Winds held by saving* banks out *ide of New York and Massachusetts, nor of government trust funds, some of which are known to be inveated in Federal bonds. The total of the hold ing* already specified is $575^887,000. The interest-bearing debt April 1 waa #1,760,698,400, so that nearly one-third ot the debt ia represented by. these large amounta in the hands of known holders. The real owners of much the Urgest share of these great sums are, however, the proprietors of national bank shares and savings bank deposit or*. The last time a tally was taken of the shareholders, in 1876, they num bered 208,746. They have not probably diminished since then. The number of savings bank depositors in this Bute and New York, or, to be more accurate ot open accounts, ia about 1,500,000. So that the real ownership of the na tional bonds held in Urge quantities ia more widely distributed through tho community than any other form of pro perty, and the same thing is probably trueol bonds held in smaller sod less known amounts. General Hancock. Mr. G. C. Bennett, editor of the Bur lington, Vermont, Herald (Republican), was present on the battle-field when General Hancock waa wounded and helped care for him. In a recent issue of his paper we find the following strongest possible endorsement of the General: • If Hancock i* nominated the Repub lican party will find a fight on its hands that it never knew before. The old Union guns, and drum* and flags of the Republican camp would be effectually nullified and our vast battery effectnaliv •piked with a vast mass of voter* that ordinarily seek our camp. General Han cock's blood spilt by a rebel bullet, once stained our fingers; bit that ia the way in which we should wish to Rave bis blood on our hands. We should hate tremendously to vote or fight against him. Ilia loyalty, gallantry and honesty were never questioned; and a candidate more dangerous to Republi can auoceas could not be set up by tho Democrats. The trustees of St. Lake's hospital, at South Bethlehem, have accepted the $300,000 provided by tho will or the late Asa Packer for the hospital, and im provementa will be made at once in the way of new buildings. The gift waa made with the understanding that Lehigh Valley railroad employes who were injured should be oared for at thia hospital, NO. 17.