<Eljc Centre iSfik Slemnerat,
SHUGEKT \ FORSTER, Editors.
VOL. 2.
Hhr € nitre Democrat.
Tnrm* SI. AO per Annum, in Advance.
s. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editora.
Thursday Morning, June 3, 1880.
Democratic State Ticket.
FtR 4| i'RKMI Jt'DGI,
A. JENKS, of JeffeMoti County.
r<R AC I*l TOR GENERAL, 1
ROIIKRT P. DBCUKKT, of Philadelphia.
A RE-UNION of the Pennsylvania
Reserves will be held at liarrisburg
ou the loth of July next. Ex-Gover
nor Cur tin will preside, and Judge
R. M. Henderson of Carlisle, will de
liver the address.
Ji'tHiK KEY has been confirmed by
the Senate as I*. S. Judge of the East
ern District of Tennessee. The nomi
nation of Horace Maynard, of Tennes
see as, Post Master General, vice Key,
and General Longstreet as Minister to
Turkey, vice Maynard, have not yet
beeu acted upon by the Senate, some
objection being made to the continua
tion of Maynard on account of his hit
ter partisanship.
THIKTY-HI x Indian chiefs have been
on a visit to the Indian school in Car
lisle, including Red Cloud and Spot
ted Tail, who have children in the
school. They were much pleased
with the school nnd its management,
with one exception. It appears a
guard house is provided for punishing
refractory students. This the Indians
objected to, as partaking too much of
war urraugement and intolerable as
applied to ludiau children.
WE give iu uuoiher column a syn
opsis of Judge Davis' letter on the pol.
itieal situation. It is au able aud dear
exposition of the Democratic views.
Whether it is a bid for the Presidency,
makes no (Tiflbreh'ce. *" His views are
sound and no doubt honestly enter
tained. If the Judge had uot lost his
opportunity by refusing to serve iu
the famous electoral commission we
might go farther and fare worse in the
selection of a Presidential candidate.
THE Lancaster Republicans had
another riot a few days ago at the late
convention of primary return Judges
in which "the best workers" took the
usual prizes in the fraud manipulation
so common in the party of that city.
It npjiears the usual amount of drunk
enness and rowdyism was displayed
and two of the census enumerators,
Powell and Miller, who were especial
ly turbulent were with others com
mitted by the Mayor of the city to
prison for thirty days. Hut the ever
ready Judge Patterson was on hand
and came promptly to the rescue. He
relieved the rioters of their sentence
in order to permit them to enter upon
the important duty of numbering the
people, but supervisor Snowden was
just as prompt in relieving them of
all connection with the work of the
census by cancelling their appoint
ments.
GENERAL H. M. HLOCUM, a dis
tinguished soldier of tho late war,
writes a public letter in which lie re
lates a case of hazing at West Point
in 1871 which certainly exceeds in
cruelty and diabolism, the alleged out
rage recently committed dpon ('adet
Whittaker. On a fiercely cold night in
January of that year, General Hlocurh
says three young cadets were forcible
taken from their beds and put out
barefooted aud with no covering hut
their night dress iu the snow and were
compelled to walk all the way to
Pougbkeepsic, the young vidians who
had dragged them out not permitting
them to return to their quarters. A
congressional committee of investiga
tion found that Col. Frederic K. Dent
Grant had been the leader of the
party of "hazcrs." Upon being inform
ed that it would lie necessary to expel
his son, General Grant, then President
of the United States remarked that
he would pay as much attention to
such an order of expulsion as if it
had been passed by a town meeting
out west.
"iqUAL AND KX ACT J t'HTK'K TO ALL MKN, OK WHATKVKK STATIC OK l-KHMDAHION, RKLIGIOUS OK KOI.IT ICA 1.. "—Jefferson
"STIRRING l T i TIII: ANIMAIA" rc
remarks the New York World i.s a
game to which the Republican* in |
both Houses have devoted themselves
during the present session of Congress j
with great nssiduity and a signal luck
of success. Mr. Hoar in the upper |
house and Mr. Conger in the lower
have been particularly conspicuous in !
their efforts to irritate the Confederate
brigudiers into saying something ;
which could be of use in liring the
Northern heart. Mr. Hampton yestcr- J
day changed parts with Mr. Hoar and
assumed the character of bear-baiter, |
leaving poor Mr. Hour to play the |
part of the baited bear. As a bear ;
Mr. Hoar is calculated, like Macau- j
lay's famous animal, to give pleasure j
to the spectators at the cost of great j
pain to himself. It must have been
plain to every body except Mr. Hoar
that Mr. Hampton's citation of Wash
ington's opinion of certain men of,
Massachusetts iu his time was as good j
natured as it was mischievous, but
nagging is at best a barbarous pastime,
i and it was cruel to begin it at the ex-
I jK'nse of so thin skinned a legislator as
I the Senator from Massachusetts. Mr.
| Hoar was angry and petulant and
I slightly absurd, as might have been
expected. However, Senator Hainp
. ton has given a cue which the more
mischievous of his colleagues in both
houses will not be slow to take. If
Congress is to become a bear garden,
fairness requires that each party should
take its turn in playing bear.
WHITTAKKR, the colored cadet at
West Point has been found guilty by
the court of self-mutilation, and the
case referred by the Recorder to the
Secretary of War with the recom
ineudatiou that he appoiut a court
martial to try him "for conduct un
becoming a cadet and a gentleman
and for perjury on the witness stand."
Thus ends this remnrkable case so far
as the court of inquiry is concerned,
and thus has this foolish young man
by resort to dishonorable means to ob
tain sympathy and advancement in
stead of relying upon his own indus
try and intellectual application, wreck
ed his own manhood, and destroyed
his chances for the honorable position
in life to which he aspired.
W. L. SCOTT, one of the delegates
at large to the Cincinnati convention,
publishes a circular stating that be
has made arrangements for the accom
modation of one hundred and sixty
persons, and gives the rate of excur
sion fare on the railroads from the
different jtoints. Tickets will be sold
from—
Boston-- $34 00
New York 20 06
Baltimore 20 3<>
Washington 20 36
I Harrisburg • 20 00
Williamsport 13 00
Altoona 17 00
l'lttsburg 10 00
Erie 16 48
Tickets are good from dune 14, to
June 22, and will be honored for the
return trip to Juno .'lO, but can only
lie purchased at the ]x>iutx named.
Ma. SUKKMAN'H consists in
the strength of his record and of his char
acter. Bis political course has boon clean.
—Milvonuktr Sentinel. *
He ohtaiued an infamous promi
nence at New Orleans in 1870 by his
association with Madison Wells, Eliza
Piukston, Agues Jcnks and other in
famous persons through whom he
manipulated the returning board
fraud of Louisiana that enablpd him
to put Hayes in the Presidential chair
over the votes of the people of the
United States. His clean political
record is so recent that it cannot be
separated from the dirty scandal of his
rewards by treasury appointments to
all the scoundrels and thieves who gave
him their valuable aid in rendering
the crowning election outrage of the
century a success.
IF John Sherman has neglected to
organize a Returning Hoard he is not
in the count at Chicago. He cannot
win without his Wells,
BELLEFONTE, FA., THURSDAY, .JUNE :J, 1880.
Docoration Day.
| The beautiful custom of annually
laying the first Hewers of spring upon
! the graves of the fallen herons of tho<
late war, was observed with unusual
| solemnity and decorum throughout
the entire country on Saturday. Other
nations, in the different jairiods of the
world's history, have in many ways
j recognized the valor and renown
which clustered around the names of
their military idols. Hut the adula
tion of the populace was sjH>nt when
it hud erected magnificent monuments
iu bronze and marble to the successful
j generals who had won everlasting
fume ut the head of victorious armies. !
! C'a-sar, Ponqx-y, Alexander, Welling
| ton, Najxdeon and Marlborough were '
j remembered in costly and maguiticent
' sepulture and imposing monuments,
while the brave lieutenants and faith
ful soldiers were forgotten or thought
jof only a necessary and unfortunate
I adjuncts to the success of their mighty
chiefs. While the American jicople
are not forgetful of the skilled and
gallant commuudcr, they are not ob
livious of the claim the common sol
dier has upon their gratitude, and
hence while the captains in the great
civil conflict receive their full meed of
homage, the men who swelled the
ranks of the "Grand Army" are not
allowed to sleep their silent sleep "un
wept, unhouored and unsung."
In the years past, the observance
of this day has la-en used by |x>litical
demagogues for the purpose of reviv
ing the animosities and pasions of
the war. Instead of breathing over
the tombs of the dead a spirit of for
giveness and fraternity for the mis
taken people who were rushed to
their destruction by the madness of
leaders whose reason refused to saw
them from the crime of precipitating
a fratricidal conflict, they fumed and
raved over the most hideous phazes
of the war and conjured up demous
of hate instead of invoking the nngel
of peace. These men seemed to forget
that they desecrated the very graves
they came to honor, for the bitterness
and hatred shown towards the people
of the South did not come from the
men who staked their lives upon the
existence of the Government, but
from those who, for their own selfish
purposes, and to the end that their
political ambition might lie furthered
by keeping alive the embers of hate
engendered by the war, stirred up the
Northern heart on Memorial day with
blood-curdling tirades against a foe
who had no existence, except in the
disordered imaginations of thwie men
who never saw the enemy when he
actually existed. The old battles
were fought over again and the
familiar cry of rebel and traitor
echoed among the graves of the patri
ot dead. Again, the Democratic party
would be called to stern account as
the aider and nlietter of treason nnd
denounced as being unfaithful to the
Union or in open sympathy with
armed reliellion. At the very mo
ment these profane charges were
being made the speaker was likely
standing within the shadow of the
graves of gallant Democrats who
offered their lives as willing sacrifices
iqion the altar of their country's hon
or. Men high in the esteem of
the nation, honored by their fellow
citizens, and called to lofty public
positions, stooped to utter these silly
slanders in the hope that it would
inure to their political benefit, and
then the whole pack of traducers,
fray, Hlancbe and Hweetheart, were
let looee, all over the land, on Decora
tion day, and with the example of
their leaders before them, they took up
the refrain and rang the changes upon
it until one would almost imagine
that a hostile enemy was on our fron
tier and that a considerable portion
of our population were ready to
receive them with opeu arms.
Thanks to the good sense and re
turning judgment of the people these
exhibitions of party malevolence are
becoming more rare and isulutcd'wilh '
each recurring year. It if not nearly
80 popular with the musses now to in- j
dulge in indiscriminate abuse of a pen- |
[tie to whom we are bound by every tie
of a common humanity. While these \
frothing apostles of the bloody shirt
were doing all in their power to con
vince the people of the North that
the spirit of 18(10 still existed in the ,
former slave States, commerce and in
ter-Ktate trade soon convinced the
northern people that such was not the
case. Being brought together in the
ordinary business transactions of life, i
the men of the North and the men of
the South met upon a common level, I
and the lurking poison of suppressed
disloyalty was found to have no ex is- I
tence. To day the most cordial and j
friendly relations exist between the !
people of all sections of our common
country without regard to locality.
The war is not forgotten, nor nevei
will be, but that mud pns.-don which
brought it about has died a naturul
death ami reason has ouee more re
sumed her throne.
In our own county the exhibition
of anything like partisanship was con
spicuously absent. Our advices from
ditycrent parts of Centre county, show
that while there was a more universal
I
observance of the day than ever here
to! re, it was with a spirit of grave
; ret peet and grateful memory to the
jde d heroes which characterized the
|ee emonies at every jioint. Bcllcfonte,
j M lesburg, Snow Shoe, Uebersburg,
iPi leGrove, Gatcsburg, Meek*s church,
i Pe Hall, and various other places in
lla county observed the day with ull
tla pomp aud circumstance which
fi&ao naturally to the commemoration
'>rfhe deeds of the gallaut soldier
'l|,uiL But WC have yet to hear of a
finite instance in which the solemnity
of the occasion was broken by injudi
cious or intemperate speech. This is
the more remarkable from the fact,
that the orators, at the different points
in the county, represented every shade
;of jKilitical opinion. We regard this
a matter for general congratulation.
| As long as men live and are in full
poiessiou of their faculties they will
disagree upon almost every vital prin
ciple of government. This has been
demonstrated through all time, and it
will remain a fact so long as govern
ment exists. But the men who seek to
keep up a fruitless discussion of a
subject that ho* boon most effectually
disposed of, for the simple purpose of
exciting bitterness of feeling and con
cent rated hatred between people of
one country, for purelyfersonal and
political ends, arc more dangerous ene
mies to their State within than un
armed foe from without.
"Ox TO CIIICAOO" ha* been the
shout of the Republican liosses for the
post week, Blid thousands of the active
workers of the party, Itcsides the dele
gates to the National Convention, have
olieyed the summons and are earnestly
aiding in the business of selecting can
didate* for President aud Vico Presi
dent of the United States. As early
as last Monday the great city by the
lake became the scene of a political
excitement seldom equalled, never ex
ceeded, in any of the struggles of heat
ed partisans for the success of favor
ite candidates that have proceeded it
tu this country. Down to yesterday,
the day for the meeting of the Con
vention, the desperatiou of the excited
masses there remaiucd unabnted in
intensity aud bitterness, and will prob
ably continue throughout the deliber
ations of the delegates. The" Grant
forces are led by that able, adroit and
powerful senatorial syndicate made up
of Conkling, Carpenter, Cameron and
Logan, and what these men will not
do to accomplish the result they have
so much at heart is hard to imagine.
Blaine is represented by Hamlin,
Prye and Hale of his own State, aud
the unscrupulous William E. Chandler.
John Hherman has his henchmen on
hand, with Garfield in the lead, and
they arc not mere idle spectators of
the fray. The Convention met yeeter
day, hut at this writing it is hard to
predict results. The nomination will
probably be made to-day, aud we can
only say to our friends, that whether
it he Grant, Illume, Sherman, or some
dark horse not considered in the race,
should matter but little to Democrats.
Whoever the Republican candidate
may be, a united and harmonious
Democracy lias victory iu its bands if
a wise use if made of the opportunity
that now presents itself.
TUB correspondence of the New
York press is prolific of rumors in
reference to the position of Mr. Til
den and the Sjx-akcr of the House.
Some time ago Mr. Tilden was to
decline on account of feeble health
and transfer the Presidential nomi
nation to Mr. Randall. Now it is,
that Mr. Tilden and Mr. Randall do
not pull together squarely, and the
latter has set up for himself, with the
understanding that he will baud over
the honor to the Hon. Jeremiah S.
Black. Perhaps neither of these men
have much to hand over —indeed we
doubt whether either of them are pre
pared to deliver goods if so disposed.
Hut if the people's representatives at
Cincinnati iu looking over the field of
great men, should chance to light
upon Judge Rlack, there could be no
discount ti)>on their intelligence. The
transcendent abilities, the honest aud
fearless statesmanship of this favorite
Pennsylvania Democrat, would give
ample assurance thai in the event of
an electhm to the Presidential office,
there would be an end to trifling with
the constitution, which he has studied
faithfully and is ever ready to defend
against any odds.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Prof. Cecil ga*e bis promised exposi
tion of the dexterous and ingenious man
ner in which spiritualistic mediums suc
ceed in deceiving their credulous dupes,
in Reynolds' Opera House, on last Thurs
day and Friday evenings. Mr. Cecil came
here well recommended by both press and
public, and it it but simple justice to say
that he more than justified the enviable
reputation which preceded him. On the
first evening he asked for the presence of
three gentlemen in the audience on the
stage to son that he was perfectly fair and
ojten in bis demonstrations of the running
contrivances by which modern spiritualists
are deceived. Jno. N. Lane, A. Brocker
hofT and G. K. Barrett, Jr., were selected,
and although they gave the closest atten
tion to everything the Professor did they
were unable to offer any explanation of
the remarkable and wonderful tricks JXT
formed under their rigid scrutiny. On
the second evening Major W. F. Reynolds,
John Curtin and W. I). Bailey, of the
I>KM(M'RiT, were called u|>on the stage,
and the openly expressed astonishment of
these gentlemen, as they severally were
made the victims of the art* of the ac
complished prestidigitator afforded great
amusement to the audience. Major Rey.
nolds was inducted into the mysteries of
the mystic cabinet, and Messrs. Curtin and
Bailey were thoroughly convinced that
there was something going on which they
did not understand. At the conclusion of
his demonstrations the Profeasor explain
ed many things which seemed incapable
of being rftadc dear and satisfactory, and
every one was of course surprised that
they bad not seen it before. Although
the audiences on both nights were small
they embraced our best people.
—Wo have been informed that a num.
ber of persons, actuated by a spirit of ma
liciousness, undertook a few night* ago to
tear out the dam erected in Bald Kagle
creek, near Ml. Eagle, and partly succeed
ed in their purpose. The dam is at present
used by Mr. John B Leathers in connec
tion with his pottery establishment aqd it*
destruction would have caused serious loss
to him. The act was a lawless one, and
those who committed it deserve punish
ment.
—The entertainment given by the dra
matic club of the State College on lMt
Friday evening i well epokcn of by thoea
who were present. The play of Kugene
Aram was well rendered and gave entire
Mtiafaction to a refined and intelligent au
dience. A considerable number of per
on from llellefonte favored the club with
their preaence. We are indebted to the
kind noes of the management of the club
for complimentary ticket*, and regret that
other engagement* made it iropoaeible for
ua to enjoy the evening with them.
TERMS: # 1.50 JMT Annum, in Advance.
THE ISI II House.—Mr. J. 11. Myers
ho* retired from the management of tbi*
fuvorite hotel, a* appears by hi* cerd below.
He is succeeded by Mr. Peters, a live man,
of large experience, who will render the
Hush HOUM! a very desirable place of en
tertainment.
CAKD KKOII J. 11. MYEKH.
Jn retiring from the Buth House I wih
to thank the public ip-nerally for their
patronage and kind influence, which bar
enabled me to largely increase the pa
tronage of this favorite hotel, and make it
not only profitable but desirable. Iri the
new proprietor, Mr. D. P, Peter*, we have
secured a man of large and favorable
experience, who it able, willing and de
termined to make the Bush Houae the
•leading hotel in Central Pennsylvania for
commercial travelers, a home for Centre
county farmers and a favorite summer re
sort for strangers. To this end Mr. Hush
is newly furnishing and refitting the hotel
in first-class style from top to bottom.
All person* having claims against me
will please present them immediately for
payment J. H. MYERS.
DEATH or AX KSTIMAHI.E LAIIV. —
With feelings of great sorrow wc this week
announce the sudden death of Mrs. Wil
liam Cook, widow of the late Capt. Wil
liam Cook, long a highly respected and
honored citizen of Belleforite. Mrs. Cook's
death nccurod at her residence, on Howard
street, on last Saturday evening, and was
caused by heart disease. She was a most
estimable christian lady, and will be great
ly missed by her family and friends to
; whom she was endeared by her christian
virtues and her many amiable traits of
character. She was in her Girth year.
COXCEHT TO-XHIIIT. — M iss Snowden, the
accomplished music teacher, with her class,
will give a concert at Humes Hall this
evening, to which we invite special atten
tion and liberal patronage. Mias Snowden *
is an estimable young lady as well as a
musician of rare merit and culture and
her entertainment, supported as it will be,
by the now celebrated "Bcllefonte Orches
tra, will afford a rich musical treat. Let
none be absent.
—The Bcllefonte wheat market was
booming yesterday. The advance in prices
eastward induce Messrs. Alexander A Co.,
with Mr. WB. Shortiidge as business
manager, to commence- buying at once,
who edvanced prices to $! 25 per bushel,
15 cents per bushel above other buyers'
prices. As matters now stand among our
town buyers, it is Alexander A Co. against
the field. Farmers take notice.
—Gen. James S. Brisbin and family ar
rived in Bellefonte on Tuesday evening,
and have taken rooms at the Bush House.
| We understand it is the intention of the
j Genera) to remain with us for some time,
j Ho is a pleasant, genial gentleman, and
has been warmly greeted by bis old friends
and acquaintance*.
—K. G. Brett magnanimously instructed
the Veteran Club of Furgeson to draw on
him for all expenses incurred by the club
in the elaborate Decoration ceremonies of
which they had charge. Score one for
M.
—Harry Green it always ready to sell
you a fine cigar. Hi* slock is the best to
be found in town, (lire him a call at the
drug store and satisfy yourself that this is
the truth.
—Don t buy any shoes until you have
teen Lyon & Co'*.
The Work of a ( j clone.
; THOUSANDS or noi.i.sas' WORTH or raor-
KRTY IIESTROYED IX RINCV VSLLEV
WiLi.isiiarotT, ' May 51.—Late last
night two severe thunder storms came
in collision over Muncy valley, a few
milee below the city, and developed
into a destructive cyclone. The large
barn of .John wu leveled to the
ground, two valuable horses and three
cow# killed, wagons broken and general
havoc produced. The Items of George
Watt and William Beeber were also
destroyed, and the large and valuable
barns of Amos Sbipman and Jacob F.
Hill were unroofed and otherwise dam
aged. At the moment the storm came
up Mr. Hill was engaged in putting
away his wagons, when the roof was
lifted off his barn and carried a distance
of two hundred yards. His fruit trees,
! fence* and outhouses were all dcetroy
ed, Thomas J. Opp, Jacop Wbitmoyer.
Hraneis Beeber and a number of Other
farmers suffered severely in the destruc
tion of building* and fences. A very
handsome grove belonging to George
Beeber. near the borough of Muncy.
was leveled to the ground. It contained
some fine timber, and the loss will be
considerable. This is one of the most
beautiful and highly cultivated valleys
in the county, and the destruction wilt
amount to thousands of dollars. The
storm covered only a narrow atrip of
country, but its course b marked by
destroyed and damaged buildings, fallen
timber, uprooted orchard* and pros
trated fences. The growing wheat was
beaten Into the ground and utterly
destroyed. The storm was ftcoompanted
~ on* n t cf lightning
and terrific peals of thunder which
fairly shook the hilla. Fortunately no
lives were lost, though several narrow
escapee were made.
NO. 23.