51)1' Cenlre th'mocral.
SIIUGEKT .V FORSTEK, Editors.
VOI,. 3.
Slit tfnvtrr fkmoant.
Tor mi 31.50 per Annum,in Ailvunoo.
8. T. 3HUGERT and R. H. FORSIER. Editor..
Thursday Morning, May 5, 1881.
CoxaiDERiNU the troubles the Re
publican Senators at Washington are
now uudergowing, the Philadelphia
Times is disposed to think that this is
no longer a nation with a big N, but
a caucus with a big 0.
AT the opening of the criminal Court
in Erie, on Monday last, the attorney
in a homicide case moved to quash ;
the entire li.-t of jurors on the ground
that thev were illegally drawn, tlieju- j
rv box having been sealed with mu- i
cillage, instead of wax, as directed by
law. Judge Galbraith set aside the
whole array, and discovered the fact ,
that no legal jurv had been drawn in
° * *
that county in teu years, from the same j
cause.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad it i*
said, is preparing to build ten inon- j
ster locomotives like the one recently
turned out at Altoona, and which
runs bclwen Philadelphia and New j
York at the rate of a mile in fifty-seven ,
seconds. The experiment with this i
gigantic locomotive has been so sue- |
ccssful and satisfactory in overcoming
time, caused by stops ill changing
passengers, that the management has
determined to utilize them on other
divisions of the road.
THE Pittsburg Pod remarks that
the mere suspicion that a Federal
office-holder in Virginia sympathized
or co-operated with Mnhone in his
scheme of repudiation, induced Secre
tary Sherman to adopt measures for j
his removal. Tiiis was in October,;
1870. Eighteen months have jiassod,
and now John Sherman is doing the
very thing he declared the Virginia
tobacco inspector unlit to hold office
under the Federal Government for
doing. Slippery John.
THERE are before the I'nited S:at".-
•Senate two hundred and scvente n
nominations awaiting the action of
that body. To confirm or reject these
appointments of the President i* the
jHiblic business for which the Senate 1
was called together, hut the Repuhli- 1
can members of that body deem it of
far more importance to carry out the
terms of the bargain with Mahone.
which includes the election of Kiddie- j
berger to the jmsition of sergeant al
arms, than to do the only work legiti
mately before them.
FIVF. members of the Republican '
Senatorial caucus called upon Presi
dent Garfield on Saturday hist, in the
interest of jearo between the Presi
dent and Senator Conk ling. To the
main inquiry whether the withdrawal
of the nomination of Judge Robertson
would be embarrassing, the President is
said to have replied emphatically that
such a proposition was not to be cn-!
tcrtniued. The difference between
bull dozing a real President and one
who held the position wrongfully by
fraud is furnishing the stalwart Sena
tor from New York with some very in
teresting experience at this term.
AUDITOR GEXF.KAI. SIIKIX, says the !
Philadelphia Timet, signalize* his re
tirement from office by,turning over to '
the Attorney General for collection
claims for back taxes against certain
corporations amounting to three and
a half millions of dollars. The most
of this sum is charged against a single
corjmrntion, the Standard Oil Com pa-!
uy, which has refused payment for sc- !
vcrnl years on the ground that it is'
not a Pennsylvania corporation, and '
the matter is likely to be contested.'
Auditor General Schell has made one
of the best officials this State has had
in mauy years, and he has been parti
cularly vigilant in the work of collec
ting the taxrsi due from corporations,
to which sufficient care has not always
her j*'
"K<4UAI. AND KXACT JUSTICE TO AI.L MKH, CUT WHATEVER STATE OK I'KHHUASIOIf, HELIOIOI'S OK POI.ITICAI.."—JsIUnon.
Who ia Prcaidont? t
It has been generally believed by the '
people since the result of the last No- j '
vember election was known that James | 4
A. Garfield was the chosen President. r
Whether Garfield is President or not
i* now doubted by a great many men
who voted for him not over six months
ago. True it is that he, Garfield, seems
c
to have been inaugurated and taken
the oath of office, hut outside of this
nothing bus been done, in eight full
weeks, to lend the people to believe j
that he is now or will IK- President, I
one whit further than he is allowed t<> (
| he by Senator Conkliug, who leads a
I cabal of stalwarts hound by the treaty
iof Mentor to reap the full benefit <>! ,
• i
i the fraud and corruption that made |
the Republican party successful in
November la*t. Garfield nominates ; '
i. I "
I Conkliug confirms or refuses to eon
; tirm as the nomination plea*<> or di--
1 (
| pleases him ; and for eight long weeks
Garfield has stood sullen and cowed !
i
i like a cur, uuable and afraid to move,
.. . "
| heeause his master is in the way. The
| government may go without proper i
| treaties with other nations, and every |,
branch of the public service suff r be- J,
j cause of the will of one man. It is j
j proper for the people to believe that |
| the man they elect should he the Exe- j
cutive part of the Government; but (
i when they see that branch of their gov- (
{eminent entirely swallowed up by a (
! cabal belongiug to another and en
i ti rely different department of the gov- ;,
erument, and that this cabal is led, (
{ controlieil and entirely subordinate to
the will of one man, they have a right ,
to enquire wilb nlarni who it J'rci ,
• dt'nt? The deadlock between those',
two branches of the government is the
1 result of a most disgraceful bargain, ,
'•'"treaty" nwr* property. < niTned mt t,
scaled tit Mentor in the early part of {
October 1&H0. Garfield, in order that |
lie might be elected, yielded consent to |
■ articles of the treaty llicn proffcretl by
Conkliug. The substance of which (
! was that for New York tit" Senator
should say who should and who should ,
uit hold office under thi* a lrniuistra- ,
II
lion. I. 'gan was to have like control
over the Fetleral officers in Illinois, j
and Cameron to have the same power ,
in Pennsylvania. Tl.is article being ,
ratified and confirmed by Garfield
without exception, the stalwart e!e- ,
inent of the Republican parly nil over
• the North was set in motion, immense ■
sums of money raised and the patron
age and power of the federal Govern
ment used to make him President. 1
When inaugurated he undertakes to j
abrogate this treaty without notice to
i the other | anies ; to violate with iin- *
[•unity this one artirle in particular. .
Of course it causes war. The disrup- |
tion of treaties without notice ami in
an abrupt manner generally does cause
war. Why should it le otherwise now,
even though the public do suffer, our
government become the laughing stock
of the world, and the people wonder
j who is President, Conkliug or Gar
; field ? One hour's exhibition of nerve 1
and hack-hone by Garfield would put
an end to thi* disgraceful squabble, and (
would settle at once that the mnn the J
people voted for is President.
A SWEARIVO PAII*ON. A Ken- 1
tucky Presbytery ha* dissolved the 1
pastoral relations of the Rev. F. It. '
Moore and the Fourth Presbyterian
church of Bovington for reasons which '
might be considered novel from their <
rarity. Wc have heard of preachers
being discharged for teaching doctrines
not strictly in accordance with the 1
received views of Calviu and other '
divines. But brother Moore has mark-
ed out a new field of difference not !
before explored hy divine teaching.
He affirms that the Bible contains no
authority for the oliservanco of the |
{ Christian Sabbath, and that it is law- i
ful to pass the clay in amusements; <
that it docs not prohibit sweariug, i
which is only a matter of taste in <
language and expression. These arc 1
some what peculiar views to come from 1
• '•n in"onrv and it i* not surprising i
BEEEEKONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, MAY I.hhi.
tlmt they nhoiild ho startle the straight
laced Presbyterians of Kentucky at |
to hnve some doubt whether the Kcv. '
Mr. Moore wan the right man in the
riglit place.
A Legislative Apportionment.
The rogues are showing their hands!
True to their instincts, the State plun
derers are preparing the way for the
future triumph of fraud and ring gov- !
eminent. liilliugxley, acting in con
cert with the agents of the rounders
and thieves of Philadelphia, has re
ported in the House an Apportion- !
ment bill which for desperate villiany
and unfair manipulation is without
a parallel in politics. It is said to ,
have been mainly the joint product j
of a committee of Philadelphia ring- \
sters, and intended to secure a Repuli- I
iican majority in the legislature oi ;
at least eighty under anv circumstan
ces. The districts are so arranged as t->
give preponderance to the worst cle
ment of that party over any honesty or
conscience that might remain amongst
them in elect ons. The llarriduirg i
Patriot speaking of this bill says:
"After au incubation of five months j
the House Committee on apportion- >
ment through iuchairinau, Hilliiigsley- ;
has made its report. As might be
imagined from such an origin the pro
duct is a scorpion. Democratic coun- j
ties are carved up ruthlessly in order to !
elect Republican representative* while
Republican counties of like population j
are left intact. Its author boast* that ;
the bill will give the Republicans !
seventy-five majority in the Legists- j
tare on joint ballot on the ba-ia of the
(iarfield vote. Rut there is no danger
that sucb a monster of ge. ryaiandcr- j
iug villainy will meet with the appro
val of tk-j honest and fair-minded
p"7*n of m* HpiWWB!W NtHf
pit-cut legislature. They will spurn j
it with the same contempt which they i
must eutertain for it* author.
The Philadelphia portion of the
gerrymander is the work of ex-Sheriff
Leeds ami some other member* of the
city ring who were in conference with
the ap|Hirtionmeat committee a few
night* ago. The rest of the State wa
•afely left to the chairman. But then
was no intention of passing an appor
tioninent bill at this session and it is
now 100 late. This job wa* carved out
for an extra session of a hundred day* j
It will never pass through this Legi*
laturc either at a regular or an extra !
session. Mr. Billingsley and his com
mittee have exposed their partisan tin
scrupulousness to no purpose."
THE Star Route postal swindle, is
just at present engaging the attention
of the Postoffice Department at Wash- j
ington, and the developemcnts arc
likely to bring to grief a number of
famous j lets of the Republican party.
Brady, the official who had charge of
the star route business of the depart- ■
ment, has been akod to resign, and a
number of others implicated in the
frauds will fall with him. Tbo New
York Time* says that in ninety-three
of these route* "which have been in
creased from $727,119 to $'2,075,09-"
the name of .1. \V. Dorsey appears
eight times. One increase of his an
nual pay on one route wa* from 82,-
k!)2 to gl!),0-j|. This man is tho bro
ther of ex-Senator Dorsey, of Arkan
sas, the Secretary of the Republican
Xutional Committee and the man to
whom Vice President Arthur gave the
credit of securing the election of the
Republican ticket in the late, election.
Mx-Senator Dorsey is more than sus
pected of having n pecuniary interest
in the contracts that stand in the name
of his brother and of J .M. Pock,
whose name also appears eight times
in the list of ninety throe."
THE Duke of Sutherland, with a
party of railroad men from Kngland,
are on a visit to this country.' Their
object is to inspect our railroad system
with a view to improvement of their
own. They were in Baltimore and
Washington on Saturday, and will
visit Harrisburg and Altoona on their
return*
Tho Facts.
It will be remembered that Senator
Butler promised to give the public
"irrefragable proof" of u corrupt bar
gain between the Republicans and !
Mahoue to control the organization of
the I uited States Senate. < too day
In-d week Mr. Butler, in the course of
a reply to the virulent tirade of abuse !
uttered by !• rye, of Maine, aguin-t
the people of the South, proceeded to '
fulfill hi* promise, and in support of
hi* position he presented the following
j seventeen facta, which Republican*!
! ran answer in their leisure in imenis: i
Firt,( —Tbe.S-nator from Viigtniu (Mr. i
j M ibone) was elected to the Senate aa
I a Democrat.
/ -His purpose to vote with tloi '
I Republicans bud never been announced
j un d Ins vote disclosed tbat fact.
Third —Following that vote be had
been assigned to ih* chairm nhi|i
an important committee by tin- li -pub- j
liean caucus.
Fourth —This hud hei n followed by
the nominal ion of Mr. Iliddleb.-rger f-.r
Serge ml-nt-Arm*.
Fifth —George Gorhsin. nil r-irne-t
friend of the Senator, ha- le-.-ii nomi
ii ii<- I an Secretary.
,V h ||e (Mr. M shone) hiid appoint
ed Mr. Durham'* brother in law a- cletk
of his colli in it lee.
Seventh The nontiit-*ti >ns by the
('resident of Mr. M ihone's politi. ■] \
friends to Fedetal offices.
Ku/hth —The Senator ba* voted on
every motion villi the ReiiildientH,
A'tslA—Hv such votes he was earning
out the will of the Kepuhli >u caucus.
Tenth —Ho had moved hl seat to the
i Republican side of the chamber.
rjen A—The Republican caucus re
fu-e-i to tiansict put IK- bu-ines- until 1
j tlorhain and Iti-ldlelierger were e'ei ied
Twelfth —I he Senator still ria in —l to
; tie a Democrat stel \uled wt'.b the He
' pufdicons.
Thirteenth ~-\h |i|lsls*frsr was an avow
-d Heir -rsl and lepudlalioinst ahd
! Ihe refute ritfeii-ive to tfir It -publicans,
Fourteenth— The Senator frulti tloio
Mr. Stjeriiinn avow.-.i that anything
that would boat down toe t). lUuCTato
j partv wa-jusiifi it |e.
F'/henih —The Heuiorratic Senators i
■ ha-i bru >-J UrvsUH- Uir) Voted as
warnm v ipame sow i
divert the atfrntP-n of Ifie country!
| from an Unlaw Jul aJiuuiCO.
[ .v -WiM i n-t. ad of ins il ing an inVs * ■
!• i ration of 'lie ih- rj s 11,.. t., ,ator Iron.
Virginia and his lneiid sought to pre
vent tr'-e peecll slid l- gi'.lo ite d.scu
*irn by threats an l •leiolin ilion.
Af-sC-sM— Ihe re ,son s-nyiisd (is
tiie rwl.liutl wa- that the > naltu from j
Virgi is >-• in f.voi ola (n-o hail .
t ind a ir count.
A lr--*- li-l'sl and a fair count ! con
tinu* 'Mr Hut ter. hen 1 i,e laat e|.-e
tirni the State of Indiana was colonized
we'o negr voters from tli v South in
order to nullify and ncutrali.o tb<
Democratic vote of that M*t.
_ _
A sen at ona case w I --lore Mover
bvon, of i'ltlstmrg. last week. All
j -srill) officer Was 01, *• of 1,,„ pa,st*oge,-
"0 t tie train from Chicago. Ills Dtne '
j is John Con line sml tie r'-nks s firt
lieuienant in the Ninth 1 atairy. lie
j wa on his way from the jdains, Texas
or Me*ICO. to \\ arhington on msius! of
final business, and. it appears, had t
come deranged for some 1 use or other
o.a the way. He jumped up in the Cur
and drove the passengers out with hi
revolver. At the I. ninn dc|nit he w
j taken to the Central II ua-I, where fie
was a-* gned a room. He threw the
clothes out of the window and acted s
if be was about to jump out himself.
He was taken to the Central Station, as
it was impossible to watch him and it •
was believed he might do to himself *e- 1
1 nous injury. He had checks and tick
ets' with him that shows his baggage
had been sent on to the capital and
that was his own destination. Mayor
Lyon discharged him and he was taken
to the West l'enn Hospital.
Miss Maria Htimson Hiinan, daughter
of the late I'rofeasor .J. Lewis Hunan,
of lirown University, was killed at
Providence, R. 1., on Friday evening '
last. !*hn was riding on horseback, at- j
tended by a student in the University. :
when her burse became unuiaiiHgetble j
; in going down Angcll street and dash
ed against a tree in the rear of the
first Baptist Church. The young lady
died from concussion of the brain. Her j
attendant had just caught the rein of
ber horse, hut too late to turn, and he
and hia horse went through a lence and
over the bank wall of ten or twelve
feet into the church yard, receiving
little injury. Miss Diman was twenty
years old. Her lather died three
months ago.
Mrs. Ann Allen, a relative of R. M.
Elliott, in chsrge of the New York
bui'dings at Pittsburg, while ransac king
an old desk, discovered documents tbat
evidenced a ninety nine-year lease ol
$40,000,000 worth of property in New
York and Brooklyn. The lease had
expired about eighteen years since,
and on two different occasions adver
tisements had been inserted in different j
papers calling for the heira, hut the rel
ative* did not see them until within a
few days. Mr. Elliott and Mrs. Alien
propose to institute proceeding* to re
cover their interest in tho property.
Pennsylvania tobacco it now leading
in prices tb tobacco raised In tcany cr
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
General Weaver on Reform.
A TAI.K lIV Tint I.ATK lilt KXN' HACK CAS- |
UIUATK yon I'KKsIDKSr.
The people of liellufonlo hihl vicinity,
on Sntortiny evening Imt, hail the plea-ure
of li-leniiig to an able and eloquent speAh
froin fjeii. .1 Mines 15. Weaver, of lowa, !
! who will bi- reujemhered by a large riuiii
h-r of the readers of the Dkmockat as the
| < andidate for President of the National
i-ruenkack Labor party, lu-t fall. Mr.
Weaver served as a member of the -Pith
<'< ingress from lowa and wliile there was |
1 "t" 5 of Hie ablest advocates of the priiici
-1 | ie of his party. It 1* an unusual thing,
| 111 the history of the pilules of our coun
try to have |>oliti.ai discussions at a lime
. when no {.articular question is before the
' people or when we are not in the uiidst of I
a [tolilical campaign. But no doubt it is I
i stroke of jm.lii ai diplomacy on the i
I part of the leadera of the party whose
: jirinciph-a Gen. W.-av.-r is 1 -|iusing, and
! ja-rhaj-a one that is worthy of commends- I
' lion, as it gives hitter partisans an oj.jH.r
lunitv to reflect on Ihe (juestioijs of the
-lav at a time wio-n they are not treading
.a the foot jalhs muikcd out by tne lead
ers of their resja-ctivu organiza
: tions.
Too meeting at which Mr. Weaver ]
-jKike was heid und'-r the auspices of the i
1 Greenback |>arly It wa* organized by
clcctingex-Cohgr< .--man Yo. Un chairman ,
Mr. Yocum upon taking his seat as chair- j
I man of the meeting, made a f-w remarks
jjsoti Ihe importsn - of the j*-ople and
clt.zeiis of the Ui.i'e-d r<tai-- presorting
the 11 her tow and powers delegated U> them
!by the Constitution. That these jiowers
•r gladuaiiy being Uh> 11 from theiu by
the moneyed and . ■•rj.oralo infiuen<-s i f
the country ; that tie-y should l->k after
their interests, and ww that they ef
rejirto iiud in the law-u.a)..ng power by
persons wh-.s- ir.l'-re.u aie o-mrnon with
their own. He cloud his remarks by in
j troduiing (un. Jauus 15. Wavi-r, of
lowa, as the s|"Hinr who would discuss
the j.r.n ij !••• <d tb- ir parly at length.
II I irt>if > I i'Vai*vwkM^e^a4dL.'*''it,
'he *RS haj.py to meet the |e*or,l and
I neighbors ed the cht.rman, Mr Yocum,
| who had Iwca hi- fiietni and felh-w co
j Ishore r, forj|i>" s->-iot,s of t'-Lgre., in
- re.,:. of tin ir
| stituenU and th inn-rc. t -f the nation,
' slid thai it Was a ircc of gr at jih-ssur
so him to m n in this town his jwrsona'.
'I r tends, a; 1 talk to ill-in uj-on ihe great
{. sure of reform and the gn at cause of
human Industrie* Mi- Weaver said be
nad ben sp-.king every day for the last
,wek*, and Snun-d the audlenca be
would not be at this Wtifk if he did not be.
• hew that there was an u' .lute iiec-e- it*
for it. Tlisl he r-v gnU ! ;ho fa*-t that
j .aher j were j~t much interested
Ja th- ir party wa- in ■ d government
an-l that nis D.-ir.ixratic and Itej-uhlican
j rii-nd* wen-ju-t a l. tn" t in proclaiming
tie ir pdilical view* *. th< y claimed to be.
i lhal we are ali 111 teresl.d in good govern
; in* lit, but we di:!'.-r a> to how- this good
I government should he obtained.
Tbers w. re fuiidataeutal principle* of
; i-overnment, given to the J—.pie at large,
rigiits and j rivileg.-s guaranU-s-d them l-v
the Constitution of the United .S;tes, and
ths jseople were resj.<>nsible for tho proper
. use of them. The jmnpi,. have a voice in
| the affair* of this nation an 1 they eserciss
i it by means of the silent ballot they ca.t 1
on election day, con-tjuenlly Uiev should
consider well before they cast it. The
framer* of the Constitution of the United
1 Stales intended that the people should rule
! this government by their repre*enlMive
j in Congre** and that Congress had certain
power* given it by the Constitutinn. Hut
j instead of being ruled by the people the
I country i ruled to-day by five powerful
1 kings rej-resented by five great monopolies
j —Railroad* and Telegraph oumpanie*,
National Bank*, Standard Oil comjianv
'and Alaska Noel Cotnj.any—any one of
I which could get any National or State
| legislation they desired to increase their
power, to increase their profit* or to op- 1
pre** the people. Tho people have given
them thi* power and now they have bo
come *0 powerful tbat they u*e it a* a ma
chine of oppre**ion in every conflict with
their intere*U. Thpy are robbing the
laboring man, buying up !cgi*)*tures w ,d
wink at the law—for they need only say
so to have a law that revlricU them in
thair profits repealed. They not only ac
oomplih legislation with their money and
power, hut they elect PreiidenU. They
did it la*t fall. There la no man In thi*
houie who does not in all conscience be
llevo that Garfield wa* elected by the
money p'sti- of U> country. He wa*
placed In the Presidential chair by the
power of monopolies, and that he will he
controlled by tha 11m* power while Pre#!-
dent hat nfreedy he'-n rhevm by ccr.e (
hi# ' gel*.
. - -.A
TKKMN: $1.50 p< r Ammni, in Adrinrf.
Mr. Weaver went on at n0r,,,, length to
demonstrate that the people do not exer
-1 cine the proper ere In selecting th-ir legis
lator* or in exercising their own opinion,
lie charged that in a great many instance*
throughout the country, men were made
to vote through thr'-ati of their employer
as tho employer dictated. There was a
| great necessity for reform. Whenever
j the fault* of the party in power were about
to be laid oj>on, they would cover it by
raising the hue and cry of the "Solid
South." Hut that cry i now hushed for
ever. They can no longer rely on that.
That question i* settled forever in tbia
country, and people will no longer be de
ceived by that false aUrm.
He sjxike of the creation of the debt of
the United States occasioned by the isle
civil war, and if the plan of Thaddeua
Steven* bad been adopted instead of the
I plan offered by Wall street of New York,
thtt great debt might have been avoided.
ISul be charged that there was a "crimi
nal conspiracy concocted to take advan
tage of the misfortune* of the country at
thut time and to "speculate in the blood of
her sons." He said he would try them for
j tbia crime now : he would present hi* case;
cat) the defendants themselves as witnesses
and would take for bi* jury the con
science* of hearer*, and that be would
prove th'-m guilty by their own testimony.
II "re the sjieak'-r en We I upon an exhaus
j tive argument on the subject of finance
; and political economy, which to do justice
! to the sjrf-aker would require a verbatim
| report of bis Speech, which our sr.ace fer
| hid*.
Mr. Weaver sjoke for two hour*, and at
( the close of his tpecch predicted that the
1 reform* r,< <es ary t. make thi* the I est gov
ernment in the w rid could only be
achieved bv the sure •* of the National
Greenback parly. Hut bad Mr. Wearer
| b<cr <andid he would have admitted that
| th principle* be advocated in hi# speech
were the principle* of J< ff<rsonian De
mocracy, with a tingle exception. Tbe
' view he expressed on the refunding bill,
whiib was that the National Greenback
J party i* in favor of cancelling ail out-
I sUtiditig bonds by issuing enougb grcet*-
* *as* * nav itin od a* Mw Isxaat. da*,
and instead of refunding, redeem them in
I
' ihal way. While the Democratic docii.no
| is to refund them at a low rate or three
i jcr cent. bond.
—Prof. Daniel M. Wolf, elected on
Tuesday to the im;rlact office of ,Su;r
--i itcndcnl of the public school* of Centra
county for the coming three years, is a
gentleman in every respect well qualified
for the responsible trust confided to oia
>-are. In the requisites of character, schol
arship arid experience to fit him for the }*>-
silion he stand* pru-eroineat among h,
fellow*men. II? is a native of the county,
and by earnest, faithful and conscientious
deletion l .'very duty of life has gained
a position in the public esteem that any
one might l>e proud to occupy, l'rofesaor
Wolf will enter upon hi* official work on
the first of dune, lie has devoted \ears of
his life to the education of youth, is thor
oughly conversant with our school system,
and his whole career is an ample guarantee
that the new duties that devolve upon him
will lo justly and zealously ja-r formed.
Certainly the school* will l>e safe in hia
hand*.
ln tbe school d. rector's convention on
st Tuesday a number of tbe warm per
•ona! friends of Professor Henry Myer in
i-ud oti voting fer him. and Continued to
do so through a number of ballot*. Of
course the compliment was deserved, but
it should not lead person* to regard Mr.
Meyer a* having been in any seme a can
didate asking or desiring a re-election U
the Supcrio tendency which be has so ehly
and acceptably filled during the joist six
year*. Mr. Meyer will turn tbe care* and
responsibilities of the position over to hia
successor on the first of June with a con
sciousness of daty well performed through
out hi* entire term oi oflke. Under his
supervision the school* of the county have
made marked improvement and he will re
tire with the respect and confidence cf the
public.
Mr. 11. L. Harvey, of Hoggs town
ship, makes bit morning round* with
great regularity and dispense* to hi* many
patron* in Bellefonte tbe jairest of milk
and cream. Hereafter on each Tuesday
and Friday morning, Mr. Harvey will be
pre|ared to furnish butter milk to tboee
who desire it.
—We have been rrqma <d U announce
that Rev. M, 8. Clair, of tbe church of
the DUciplo* of Christ will preach in tb
school house at Central City on Katurdny
evening next.
—We noticed Mr. Willis Muster, of
Millhcim on our streets the other day In
quiring fr goof draft home. He recent
ly browyht three fine horse* from Clearfield
r •* •- nnd '""•••fa ready -ale for them,
NO. 18.