file Centre democrat. BILLEFONTE, PA. TksLsrgsst, Cheapest and Best Paper FUBMBIIBD IN CKNTKB OOUNTT. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT is nub llsbixl svsry Thursday morning, at BnllufouU, Csotrs county, Pa. T BUMS—Cash In tdrun, $1 BO If not paid In ndfuece B OO A LlVfi PAPBB— dsTotsd to ths Intsrsst* of thn shots psopls. PsymsnU made within three months will Be con sidered in advance. No paper will | discontinued nnlll nrrearsgennre paid, except nt option of publishers. Papers going out of the county must be peld for In edsanee. Any person prncurtns ne tenensb subscribers will be sent n copy free of charge. Ourexlenslse circulation makes Ibis paper en un usually reliable and proßlable medium fursnvsrttslns We hare tbe moet ample facilities for JOB W'OKK and nre prepared to prlolall kinds of Booke, Tracts, Programme*, Posters, Commercial printing, Ac., In lbs finest stvls end at the lowest possible rates All ndrsrUsemsuU for a tsaa term than three months 20 cents per line for the first tlirse insertions, and i cents a line for each additional Insertion. Bpectal notices one-half more. Kdilorial notices 15 cents per line. A liberal discount la mad to persons advertising by lbs quarter, half year, or year, as follows: t* ! ml ■sacs occvrtss. * 8 Oa Inch (or 12 lint* thU typ*) WIH Two 7 lo| 15 Thrnn inch** .. lo|ls| V r column (or 5 incliM) .10 H-ilf rulunui |ur 10 tnctiM) ....;9>|sAj W On* column fur 2* inchwl j3s|ft&|loo P r*tgn *dvrUo*aent> mutt b p*te, Linden and Eiby. The great lot# in the villages in nothing to that in the country, where the losses ere too num erous to be named. REPORTS PROW VARIOUS OTHER COUNTIES. Reports from Tuscola and La per counties, one tier back from the lake, while showing much destruction of property do not approach the losses in the shore counties. The loss by fire was much less sweeping and general and the loss of life was small, hut on I each side of these more favorable coun ties hundreds of thousand of dollars | worth of property has been destroyed. The latest reports from all these coun ties encourage that rain has visited | many of the sections and that the del uge of Aims is largely subsiding. The work ol immediate relief must now be systematically entered upon. The lum her to build houses, provision of all kinds, clothing and seed for future crops mint f>e furnished in large quan tities to prevent still greater destitu tion. Tbe benevolent societies can safe ly send money to K. (Jarleton. mayor of Port Huron, or to Senator O. D. Conger ] in the same place with the assurance ! that the means will be judiciously used. | Prompt action is urgently demanded. Cuicago, September If.—The Rev. Z. I Grt-nell. Jr., pastor of the First Baptist church of Detroit, has arrived in that city from Hand Beach by the Narrow Guage and Grand Trunk, passing through most of Die hurried region in 1 Hamilac county. lie gave a reporter a graphic and tearful description of the ! calamity RS lie saw it and heard of it from eye-witnesses. On his way to Port I Huron by the Narrow Gauge railroad it ' wo* noticed that in some places the ; track had been an effectual harrier to ! the flames, which did not find fuel in the gravel of the road bed. In other places, however, it burned the ties and twisted and destroyed the rails, which had to be replaced. In other places it had lea|>ed clear over the road and taken a new start on the other side. For the most part, it got across in some way, and the spots of unburol country were small, few and far between. From the car windows, all the way, it present ed to the view the aspect of a burner! desert of ashes and smouldering em bers, without a sign of animal or vege table life, a country abandoned by God and man, and to which it was impossible to imagine any one returning. The telegraph poles bad all burned and tbe wires bad been reset upon any stick thst could be found, and tor long distances were merely laid along tbe ties beside the rails. Tbe scene* of horror in the woods were too frightful for any pen to por tray. The de*d were found everywhere, very rarely recognisable, and in moat cases undistinguishable as human be ings. Msny were mere masse* of burnt fleab, which fell apart when touched, •- and in a very few could sex or age be distinguished. From one body the bead fell when it was lifted up; from anoth er, that of a young woman, the leg sep arated and hung suspended by the ten dona. 1 n some place* families were found reduced to an undistinguishable heap of roasted and blackened blocks of flesh where they fell together, over whelmed by the rushing flames. Tbe manifold horror* of tbe calamity were multiplied by fearful tornadoes, which cut on retreat in avery direction. Tbe awfiil heat of tbe atmosphere raised tbe ■moke a little from tbe ground, and it hung above the earth in an impenetra ble mass, shutting out every ray ol light and leaving the poor creature# below, helpless and blind, until the fire caught tbem and cloaed their agony in death. Now and then flames shot up in tremendous masses, which would he gliied by a tornado and carried bodily ,n quarter of a mile away and then pu*Ud down again to start the flames in amm quarter. In thla way helpleas fugitives flying for life were penned in s - -by sests or feme and roasted like rau . in a fiege. Among (he persons burned out lbo have come to datrail to get relief for the sufferers is Jo ha Rollantyne, of Verona Mills. lr an interview be told the following ■ tot/; "On Monday morn- Inc last it wu m pleasant at Verona Mills as it is this morning here. We had no moro apprehension of danger by fire in our locality than you appa rently have hero today. Hut about 12 o'clock a dense smoke began to blow out toward the lake and a terrible wind began to arise. A number of us went back into the woods to investigate. We soon found what was the matter, and, hurrying back, I told my iaoiily that we were going to be burned out—that it was impossible to save anything. It was not more than twenty minutes be fore a cloud of smoke enveloped us and we wero left in total darkness. Those who could flee to a place of refuge did so. I and my family started to go, but were caught by the flames before we had gone more tlian fifteen or twenty ror a neck yoke, and when he came out he could not find tbe wagon and team. For a minute or two be had to feel about for them like a blind mnn. Then be went into the house and carried his wife out on her bed. bed and all, and put her In the wagon. The children got in and a girl of fifteen drove the team oil' three miles, in the darkness and blinding smoke, over a had road, with trees tailing and horses perfectly frantic with terror. How site did it she hardly knows. The man being left behind, to make a lal effort to etnrt his cattle, escaped on foot. Before lie left the burn and farm were literally Covere I with flying cinders, the glass of the windows broke with the heal, the bellowing, moaning eiltle gathered to gether and staggered aimlessly about, and as he got into the road the build ings, fences, stacks—the whole place burst into fl'irnes, which made an uwlul yellow glare in the smoke. With ail this the wind blew with frightful vio lence and varying gusts; sometimes the smoke settled down about him in dense darkness, o that he staggered from suf focation. Then the smoke would rise before a gust of air, and an awful blis tering heat took the place of the smoke. The wo mls along the road took lire f>e hind on each side and in front of him, hut he got through safely, happy to find that the wagon with his family had successfully preceded him. The dcnce atnoke mde it dark n* night in the daytime and awful in the night, but the road* were the only path* of **fe*y. One man riding Inward the tire, found it ouddenlr behind him, and only escaped by abandoning In* hor*e and buggy to the flame*. Tho* who escaped rame in with their clothing scorched and often with hliotered hand*, facea and feet, On a space of seven mile* on one road ix per>n* dead and dying were found. < In* family ron*i*t ed of the husband, nearly (lead, with hair and whi*ker gone and face and handa peeled, hut hi* feet protected by high boot*; hi* wife, lying near, had her clothing burned of up to her wai*t and her leg* ainged ; their t*o children which they were trying to save, were dead. Probably a number of parenta could have aaved their own lire*, but they died in trying to *are their chil dren. The awful fury of the fire i* ahown in ita effect* u|>on the earth. In placea the aoil ia actually burned to a depth of *everal inches. Acre* and acre* of land hvve been direated of every living thing, clear down to the very root* in the ground, leaving the country a* bare a* a deert and strewn with aahe*. In many case* one cannot tell by the look* the difference between a ploughed field and one on which there was a dense wood. There are square miles of land already for the plough, cleared aa thoroughly aa if years of labor had been expended upoo them. And there are other square mile* where the pioneer can now make a farm by removing a few scattered chunks, not wholly consumed,and putting up fence*. Thera are place* where the telegraph line* were so effectually destroyed that on* cannot even find a vestige of the Iron wire. The section In which the fire* raged moat furioualy and were moat destruc tive to life and property embraces the larger part ol Huron county, moat of Sanilac county, and a large tract in the northeast, east and southeast of Tuscola oouuty, and some territory in the northwestern portion of Lapeer oounty. The fires were alao very disastrous in Oeniaee, Saginaw and Midland coun tiea, but in comparison with the wide spread destruction In Huron, Sanilac and Tuscola lbs losses are inaigmficent. An idea of the extent of the desolation in the shore counties may be formed when it ia said that from beck of Port Austin, or from Grindstone City, In the extreme north of Huron county, the fire has out a swath of from Ma u. thir ty mile* ia width down to tbt southern portion of Sanilac county, a distance of sixty mile*. Hundreds of nquartt mile* of territory were burned over, and the number of the de*titute rcache* thou*- and*. The town*hi|>* in Huron county bordering on Saginaw buy *eem to have got oIF most lightly, but thecentrnl and eastern town* hip* ruffe red heavily. Some of the shore village* escaped, but other* received a severe scorching and of Kimn there is scarcely a vestige left. Keports have been received *howing that every township in Sanilac county ►uttered more or less injury. The whoie interior of the county has been laid waste, while the township* in Tuscola bordering thereon have sustained severe losses. The three counties of Huron, Sanilac and Tuscola were ravaged by the great Urea of IM7I. hut the losses then, great aa they were, do not equal those occasioned by the lire* of this week. The three counties named had. in round numbers, n population in 1870 of :i7.000, and in 1880 of 73,000. They have therefore doubled in population since the destructive fires of ten year* ago, while as respects .their agricultural development, the rate of increase was much larger. The loss will reach Run dreda of thousand* of dollars, and, next to the loss of life, the saddest fea ture i* that it deprives hundred* of all moans of sustenance. A Congressman's Model Wife. KfOi the Aiktti Journal atnl Hev|rr. In this connection, we cannot help remarking that Mr*. Tillman i* one of the most energetic and wonderful wo men in the State. Notwithstanding the cares of a numerous family, she mounts her horse daily and personal ly superintends every detail of her husband's planting interest and is con sidered One of the most successful managers of a farm in Edgefield county. Owing to the Congressional duties and other business relations of Col. Tillman, he has turned the plantation over to iter, and she has proven herself equal jto the emergency. Such a woman is | an honor to our Slate and a crown of glory to the man whose household she adorn*. .V STATE NEWS. Hoy I Brother*, of I.ske Como, Wayne county, have completed at Morris. I'*., new tannery with a capacity for finish ing 1000 sides of leather a day. Five forty horse power engines are used to run the machinery and 300 men are steadily employed. The large engine at the Chesapeake I Nail Works, H-trri*hurg, broke down last Friday afternoon, causing the lit most consternation in the mill and thowmg SOU employe* out of work for a month. The puddler*. who had been getting $1 per ton. had just handed in liot'ee demanding $4 -. R. Davidson, of Pittsburg, is the President, the other corporator* being 11. C. Frick, Charles 11. Spencer. 0. K Boaworth, Pittsburg; John Huffy, W. C. Huffy, Westmoreland. The principal office is in Pittsburg. Previous to Auditor timer*! Schell'a leaving nfllce he settled an account of over •**) against the Standard Oil Company for taxes which thecorpo ration refuse Ito pay. Before the sixty daya were up in which the company was allowed to take an appeal ita attor ney asked for a reopening of the mat ter in order that a resettlement might le made. The Board of Public Ac counts considered the application, and withheld ita answer until last week, when it informed the Standard Com patry'a attorney, M. E. Oimatead, that the application for a resettlement is re fused. The rase will now be contested in the Courts. Franklin R. Oowen, who ia in Kng land, hu issued a circular to the share holder* of the Philadelphia and Read ing railway, offering himself for re elec tion aa President ol the company at the annual meeting on January 9 nest, and giving directions in regard to registra tion ao that the votes shall be valid. The London Daily AVwi cautions share holder* against listening too readily to Mr. Oowen's arguments, and says that the condition of the company's affair* is improving under the present man agement. The Daily Ttltgranh, on the other band, says that the relative pros perity of the company at present it really due to the efforts of Mr. Oowen and not to the men who obstructed him in carrying out hi* plant. SKILL IS TH* WOKKSBOP.—TO do good work the mecbaniti mutt have good bea'lb. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled hit hand or dimmed bit sight, let him at once, and before some organic trouble ap pears, take plenty of llop Bitters, llis system will tie rejuvenated, his nerves strengthened, bis sight become clear, and fab whole oondilion be built up to • better working condition. \ i t-: ;J Tux resolution of the stalwart con vention on President Oarfield is a most curious performance in a literary as well aa political |K,int of view. He again print the resolution j "That to President James A. Oarfield, this tender and loving, tliia struggling and suffering, this pure and brave man, now become the beloved of this people and the admired of all people*, we ten iter for ourselves and our constituent* insurances of deep and heartfelt syrn pathy ; and keenly appreciating the value of such u life to his country we express the prayerful hope that he tnay soon bo-restored to the discharge of the important duties for which he is re mitrkably qualified, anil from which by a peculiarly infamous crime and an un deserved assault upon whom for a con scientious exercise of proper executive power, he has been temporarily with drawn." It leaks out of the committee on platform that the first part ol this re markable resolution was drawn up by the tender and sympathetic .Senator Cooper of Delaware, whose affection for President Hartieid i* well understood. The lulter hall of the resolution down from the semi colon la by the fine hand of the Hon. Ivlward McPherson. Mr. Mcpherson's malevolent purpose to wards the stalwarts struggle through the ill constructed sentence which In succeeded in dove tailing upon the res olution of Senator Cooper. In this sen tence the stalwart Republican*of Penn sylvania are made declare that President Hartieid is the victim of "an undeserved assault upon hint for a conscientious exercise of pro|>er executive power." I What wa* this exercise of executive | power but the appoint merit of Collector Robertson? Who made this assault j upon the President but ex Senator : Conk ling and the stalwart* ? The ma lignant hut indirect purpose of the 1 resolution is to hold Conk.mg and the j stalwart* responsible for the bullet of the assassin, or else the resolution has !no meaning at all. Mr. Mcl'herson is j not in tire habit of using word* without a purpose. The ring managers were so ' intent on the practical business of the convention that they gave themselves no concern about a mere formal decUra lion of sympathy ; and by their neglect ihey have permitted Mr. McPherson to ►end abroad as their act a vindictive resolution associating the stalwart' with Huiteau as the re*|onsihle author* of ji he infamous assault upon President j Hal field.— lljrruburg I'a;rtoi. On last Friday afternoon five men were hanged nt Fort Smith. Ark., for murder* committed in the Indian fer i ritory. The billowing are their names nn arriving at William*'bruise with the warrant the dead body of Wil liam* was found lying ti|on a bed quilt in the yard. The head had been nearly severed from the body with an axe, which was lying lieuiae t. No living person was found in the house, lint it wa# learned Hist two daughters of Wil liams, who had been left with him by their mother, had fled after having per petrated the murder, and have not y< t t-oen arrested. William* was an edu rated man, of good family, but addict* d to drink, and dangerous when drunk. The wonderful discovery of gold in the bed# of the -ivers in northern Geor gr* is creating much excitement. The State Henlogist sava there are two com paniea now formed for mining the bed* of the river*. Philadelphia Market*. Psiumuu. S-jilwnUt 12. I#S|. There Is e *rai<-r I—lis* la hrendetaffe, as 4 shal I* Maker ri/-ca.—T.<- flour aek-l is St a, end , • f, ST Us, and talents •I *Ms *V Hi* flnr M firm *1 fA . WHS tr Is In fair dem,,.| and !r higher, dosing *1 the following rates: tl UU tod. It 4H, ••*.-! ho Mo. i foil. *,. lender , |l IS 10-l, l *BW naked for So. 2 red. Mlf: ft A* 104. tl sated Mo 1 red. M'.reml I to Bye, per kaakat A an Com. rob „ *0 Corn, ahe 11 ad - Ml (MM. ........ so tlour. rMall. fer harr*1....„............................ t 00 flour, wboleanl* 0 M Prow let on Market. Corrected weekly by Ilarper Bed her*. Apples, dried, per pound — • Cherries, dried, per pound, seeded.lo Henna per lunrt — M .-a I frank baiter per p0und...... ......... Hi Chickens per pound I Cheewe per pound ......... 10 Cniniry ham, per pound..... It llama, engur cared.™........™..... IS tard per pound 10 Xggs per dog ...*..™ ........ ..... Ik Ntliea per hnehel ...... ... Tt Dried Mod ™.... ™ 1* A'rrr Atlvrrti**mmt*. A UDITORM NOTICE, it li Ike Orpkaae' Court of Oewtr* rwuaty: to tka metier Ike —tftle of William Myers, gemmed : Tbo auditor appointed to pnss up--a the etrwpMorw Sled to Ike eoroant of John f. MrOormk-k, gdnxnlsiretor <>f William Mr***. In eased, ewd make dleirOmii >a or Ike fnnd In Ike bends of sold ndmlote Irs to end make report lltoionr will meet the north* in lsln*M nl il< office In IWlatols. on MONDAT, OCTOBKK \ At 10 o'clock A M. XLI4A L. OHVt*. Auditor a week to yworewa towa. Terms ewd IA out AV-r/i A ilt'rrtltwtncnfH. A UDITOK'H NOTICE. . tn II'O Oi|dis.M'Court "MVntre,,,only In the matter of Ike estate of DAVIIi I,A MII. nosed : j In- undersigned, nil Audiuir, s|>| uittt>-'l by sui-l ""l to I-S-- Upon ll.e eg,.tal -1 to the third nr. ..nut of Wlllieu, Allison Kie.nlor.,l f iMrld I,sin I- and rn.k. d la-t11.,.t1.,,, „f llt e I. o' In I he hands ..f *ftid egernior. will .(tend i„ the duties of his appointment at his -.(Hre In lla-llelnnie „„ SATI H IIAV, letnto-r S l**l. at lo orliak A M where all p.|Tnl |i-|iriMr'|,|Ht|iH of Jt-lifj I. \l>k*y. dceskisl, to com* ftal** r*#nt .. %hm 4tl MoisiUy of XovmulNl n*t I" feT'pf or refum tOfff|r| Nt 111* altlMlLiD, fr lb"M 4MH**- lIJ tl <4 Auaat. IMI l** forw Ilia thf Jod**- "I III" M!ir and Kanaif-I lla•hhfra'-r, lha hrtra and t* k 'al of |lv|t| f*h dxrxatt, h roin# it f.. oonrt il>* 4th lt< day of Kott u>b*f next, I ar*wp| -r r*fat<- t* a< *-*-jd at th raltiHtjon, <*r ho can*- why th foal of III#- aatd 'Wflmd •lihttM not !.#• -hi, In t-wllm- n trb>n f I lti HerMinUi wl m) hand and ttia aral of MII-1 roan, at lh lh fori'tr. th mktth; of Auffuat, A ft I^-1 MM K lU'Rt lini.f.f), C Or. ■ Att'-at Joiv UptkaUft M Oft. -V* 4r A L'DITOH'S NOTICE. lam. In thaOffhao* 1 urt •f 1 Vntr- r .nnty In tba ituattf f of llif MrlKfied tatal" f < •. 4i*-d!< r The Auditor Mpoioiid bj lb* Ooturt t< I frfafl dlwtrt'-tjlh'fi *4 lb*- lataiifw in lh- hai/da of J 111 RiHfkfiJihff. A4ftM> of liHNfa Fhwji tr. will Riiwt ! th* parlir* intfV'-Htfwt ff th* |>urpae* of hi* n|>tsiint' 1 tn*-nt. at tl*. -fflvof J L MpUnnlaf. 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LYDIA t PIMKH&M, OF LYNN, MASS., \v Ni^g&M LYDIA E. PINKHAM'B YZSETASLE COKPOUITD. Ig^Vselriv^Tnre Are all Ikaae PslsfSl C'emptelaie asad V* eekeeeeea e.'.w aa aft laasrb—l heala pagalsllea. It win eur* entirely Use eonl funw ef fi inl Case rhlsta. ell seorlsa Irealdea. Inffemwiattrui end I Vera | Una, I'slllng aisd 1 UejUe—siaecUe, atsd the i nner orient Spinel V-sksea, and le inrUeniarty adapted lo the ( Vang# et Ufa It will **■! n* and espef ftrmrss from the atseweln ea eerty stegeef brrlijiiuiit The lewdmry to fan- II ruai Imaaoretheirlecfcerbed aas/ PJ— dtlj t.y ttenes It t emu ■ a* foil I nam. HoHaleary, da sti nyealt erasing far Blmnhnta. and tetlerea wsatineee of tkeetomark It rare* HaHsg, ITis tick is. Nerraae fraetratlni.. cenetnl D*kUßy, ffliulnm i in. Drptwmkm end iodl That fseliftg of heertng ( \** prepared a ■ nod t* Wsntern Atwaue, I.yna, Base Prtee *l. Rtokatttsefar *2 *rat by nail I Is the form of pCU. she la the farm of limgw, cm reastpt of prtee. *1 per hag for either Mrs Ptokham freely ftMaeerss.il lettsws of Imrslrr Head for pamph let. A*