*2Tljc Centre jpmocrat.
BHUGERT & FORSTER, Editors.
VOL. 3.
Ttw Sl.ftO psr Annum, in Advance.
W. T. SMUOERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editors
Thursday Morning, Deoember 9,1881.
A MOB has taken charge of the offi
cers of a broken bank in Caldwell,
Kansas, and bold them for settlement.
Pay or hang is the judgment. They
offer collaterals for freedom, but these
were not considered a legal tender in
Judge Lynch's court at latest dates.
MR. GIBSON, the detective attorney
employed by the late Attorney Gcuer
al to investigate the star route thieves,
has made au exhaustive report, and is
now receiving the abuse of their
friends. He fiuds ample evidence to
convict Brady, Dortey, & Co. of all
the crimes charged against them. But,
these political debauchers aud thievest
have earued impunity of the stalwart
party, and we predict it will not fail
them in the Arthur administration,
whatever the pretence may be.
GEN. LOGAN was on hand prompt
ly on the first day of the Senate session
with his bill to place Gen. Grant on
the retired list of the army. The per
sisting to place this man upon the pay
rolls of the army would be creditable
if it were not contemptible, in view of
the position he has occupied and the
large amount he has already drawu
from the coffers of the people.
THK Judges of the Supreme Court,
despairing of Gov. Hnyt having suffi
cient courage to call an extra-session
of the legislature this winter, have con
cluded to do a little legislation on
their own hook. They have virtually
abolished the Judicial Districts estab
lished for the convenience of the vari
ous parts of the Bute, for the purpose
of locating the Courts permanently in
Phildelpbia.
Two of the brave reformers, Messrs.
Bayue and Campbell, who recently
participated in the Continental confer
ence to inaugurate measures to correct
the boss methods of managing the Re
publican party, within the party lines,
bad a taste the other day of Don's
whip in bossing the Pennsylvania del
egation in CoDgreas. The majority of
the Pennsylvania Republican mem
bers, among whom were the reformers
above named, favored the election of
Hiscock of New York, for speaker of
the House. But Don, after a visit to
the roaster boss at New York, called a
bait, and the boys had to vault to the
other side, and take Keifer, of Ohio.
Bayoe and Campbell, it is said, did
some good swearing, but the master
ordered, and Don manages to be obey
ed. _
THE Pittsburg Pont gives the fol
lowing sketch of the Speaker of tbe
new House : General Joseph Warren
Keifer, Speaker-elect of the House,has
represented the Ohio District three
times. His war record is honorable
and satisfactory. He was tbe son of
a farmer, in Bethel, Clark county,
Ohio, and was educated ID the com
mon schools aod finally graduated at
Antiocb College He studied law aod
was admitted in 18-58, but took the
field when tbe war broke out iu 1861.
He received the commission as Major
in the Third Ohio Infaotry. He rap
idly passed promotions until be be
came Colonel of the 110 th Ohio Infan
try. He served in alt tbe prominent
Southwestern aod Southern campaigns,
and was severely wounded in the bat
tle of the Wilderness. For meritori
ous services he obtained tbe rank of
Brigadier General from Abraham
Lincoln, and received a brevet Major
General on being mustered out the
volunteer service. He bad served four
years and four months and received
four wounds. He was appointed Lient.
Colonel ofU. 8. Infantry, but prefer
red, to resume his legal practice. Id
1870 he was elected to the Ohio Bute
Senate. He was a delegate to the
Hayes Presidential Convention and
was elected to Congress in 1876, 1878
god 1880.
"EqUAL AMi EXACT JIST ICE TO ALL MEW, OF WHATEVER STATE OR FEKRUAMOW, HKI.IUIOCS OR POLITICAL."—JVSmwii
The Outlook.
The firt Republican Confrni niiice
1874 assemble* to day ; and what do we
fee there? The lobby, which disappear
ed under Rtndall, is gathering again in
grand force, and will soon im ike itself
felt rh in the halcyon days o( Grant.
Rut when ia the reform within the ,|>ar
ty to begin ? New York Nun.
When power passed from the lie
puhliciui party iu Congress six years
ago. Every kind of business and every
form of industry carried on in any and
every part of the land was under the
groat cloud of financial distress that
then hung like n pall over the nation.
With six years of economy, practiced
in the appropriations of the public mo
ney necessary to maintain the public
service and carry on the needed pub
lic improvements came universal pros
perity. During this period no corpo
rations were made powerful by Con
gress giving to them territory enough
to make an Empire. The public lands
were saved to and for actual settlers.
During this period the rich and uutu
rally productive .States of the South
were rid of that worst class of all
thieves aud human peU —the carpet
bagger. These .States were permitted
once more to rise to the dignity of
sovereigns, and live under the reign of
law, administered by their purest and
best of men. Iu Congress llu-ir repre
sentatives were able, houest, and true
to the interests of their Slates, as well
as of the nation.
The credit of the government ad
vanced almost beyond measure. When
its bonds, drawing six per cent, inter
est, and over, became due, it was ena
bled to refund then, first, at four and
a half per cent, then four, and but fur
the crime committed against the peo
ple, by It. B. Hayes who was conceiv
ed and thrown upon them in fraud,
the la*! six hundred and fifty millions
of dollars of the old bonds could
have been refunded at three per cent-
Another great reform came with the
Democratic Congress. The lobby, the
most powerful that ever existed, was
driven from the halls of Congress —its
business ceased when the House be
came Democratic. There was then no
opportunity to set up Credit Mobilier
and De Gulyer jobs for the extremely
virtuous Republicans of the House to
invest iu. There were no more railroad,
telegraph and steamship subsidies to
be forced through by corruption and
fraud. Whiskey rings and revenue
thieves disappeared. Randall was in
the cbair and manfully did he crush
this monster's head and drive him from
place and power.
But as power again returns to the
Republican party we see the gather
ing of the lobby in grand force agnin.
The prosperity of the people will be
used to destroy them as in the days of
Grant. Whole empires of the public
domain will lie given to corporations,
which in return will be expected to
use their power to intimidate aod over
throw the will of the people. Corpo
rations in existence will be strength
ened, whisky rings, revenue rings, trea
sury rings, DeGolyer and Credit Mo
bilier rings, or their likes, will spring
ioto existence with mush-room quick
new, yet be as permanent as it is pos
sible for the lobby to make them. Re
pudiation, a thing unheard of uoder
Democratic rule, is taken aud foster
ed and caressed and made powerful by
the Republican party as it returns to
power. Repudiation is made the chief
plrank of a platform on which they
carry a state campaign. It bids the
parasites that had been driven from (be
South, yetum and begin anew their
system of plunder; pile debts moun
tain high upon their states and then
repudiate. You will be aided in this
by all the power of the Republican
party. Fortunate indeed will the
Southern people if under the joint
reign of the Row, the ring, and the
lobby they are not turned over to the
rule of the bayonet. With the Repub
licans again in control of both branch
es of Congress, and a long session un
der such auspices iu prospective, such
is the outlook preventive for the con
templation of a thoughtful people,
i lE||g&*g§
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER k, 1881.
A Severe Arraignment.
In a recent speech to the Democra
cy of New York, the Hon. Samuel J.
Randall, of Philadelphia made tbe
following arraignment of Rutherford
B. Ilayes, late fraudulent President of
the United States. Referring to the
power of the tiatiouul hanks of the
country, iu connection with the three
per cent, funding bill, passes! by a
Democratic Congress and vetoed by
Mr. Hayes, Mr. Randall is thus re
ported :
" He spoke of tbe power of the na
tional hitiik* as the most nefarious ever
wielded by any eor|mrations in a civili
sed country, and then he aaid that Pre
sident Hayes vetoed the bill. He had
no more right to do it, continued the
speaker, than I have to cut all your
throats ; hut he committed a great puh
lie wrong tor private interests. That is,
perhaps a strong thing to say; but I re
reived the original message of veto by
President II yr' own messenger, and
the erasures ami change* in the manu
script of that tnp*<age proved absolute
ly that the veto w.ia written two days
at leasi before ho received the bill.',
Nobody ever doubted that the veto
of tho tuuding bill was prompted by
the national batik*, and that it wa* in
tended to Kulwcrve their interests ; but
the positive declaration of ex-Sftcaker
Randall that Hayes wrote his veto
message '• two days at least before he
received the hill," will convince all
all cuudid men that the message was
conceived in iniquity aud was the ab
solute production of a corrupt bargain.
The proof produced by Mr. Randall
would damn anybody but Mr. Hayes;
but as lie is already past praying for,
his sauetimonous character is not like
ly lo suffer any material damage,
TIIK first session of the forty-seventh
Congress l>cgan at ooou on Monday
last, and was organised by theelcctiou
of the officer* nominated by the Re
publican caucus, J. Warren Keifer, of
] Ohio, Speaker; Edward M'Pherson,
of Pennsylvania, Clerk; Walter P.
Brownlow, Doorkeeper; George W.
Hooker, Sergeant-at-Arms; Henry
Sherwood, Postmaster and the Rev.
F. I). Power, Chaplain. Two hundred
and eighty-eight out of the two hun
dred and ninety-three members were
present —the absentees being Demo
crats. The Democrats voted for S. J.
Randall, of Pennsylvania, for Speaker,
and the Greenhackcr* fur Nicholas
Fori! of, Missouri. Tbe House bciug
thus organized Speaker Keifer procee
ded to swear in the member* aud after
some skirmishing about scats aud tbe
appointment of the several committees
to wait upon the President and the
Senate to announce that the legislative
hall was in motion and ready to roll,
and receive messages, adjourned. On
Tuesday the message of the President
was delivered, but as we have not
space for it now, nor time forextended
remarks, we defer publication to next
week.
STRINGENT, but just! Henry Jones,
an election officer, was sentenced by
Judge Ludlow of Philadelphia the oth
er day to an imprisonment of forty
days for neglecting to require the ne
cessary proof of a vote, which turned
out to be fraudulent. The offence io
this case was considered by the Court
a neglect of duty, more than an intent
to commit a crime, and the sentence
was light in consequence, but it may
admonish election officers that it is get
ting unsafe to pass carelessly over the
responsible duties they are chosen to
perform in giving due voice to the peo
ple in maintaining their most solemn
right of suffrage. The prosecutions
now iu process of the viilaina who have
made the elections iu Philadelphia a
fraud aod reproach upon civil institu
tions, under such sentence as Judge
iAidlow brings to attention, Is notice
lo the bowses as well as to their lackies,
(bat frauds can no longer be carried
on M a business without great peril.
THE REV. Mr. POWERS, the new
chap] in of Congress, had to pledge him.
self to stalwart Republicanism before
election. If he can consistently with
his pledge, keep that kind of poli
tics out of bis prayers, his chances for
reputation as a divine will not be les
sened.
Guiteau'h trial ia approaching its
end. The defence has about concluded
the evidence that will be oflered in his
behalf, and after the lawyers and judge
have had their say in the case, the re
sponsibility of a decision will fall
upon the jury. A strong effort has
been made to show that the prisoner
is insane, but what impression the ef
fort has made upon the jury will not be
known until after a verdict is rendered.
The prisoner has continued his absurd
interruptions down to the present time,
aud bas given the trial more the char
acter of a roaring farce than a serious
transaction in which the life of a hu
man being is at stake.
AN exchange say*, it is whispered
that Ex-Senator Coukling will be con
nected in a high position with the
Arthur administration before long.
Why, he has it now, Is he not the
acknowledges! bos* of the administra
tion, and is not our Don his trusty lieu
tenant ? Ask Congressmen Bayue and
Campbell. They have felt the pres
sure.
SENATOR ISAAC HERKTER died at
bis resideuce near Gettysburg, on Fri
day evening last of pneumonia. IB
was a member of the House of Repre
sentatives in 1870-71, and was elected
to represent York and Adams in the
Senate in 1878. He was a farmer aud
highly esteemed as a sensible and cre
ditable representative.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
A* UxrorcLAK f.'nASoK.—The rail
*oed company ha made a chant;" in lbs
running of the afternoon train* that it not
received with much favor by tho ciliA'-ns
of Bellefonte. The mail treat in the after
noon no longer cornea up to town —patten-
gera from here being taken down to Mile*-
burg on the Snow Hhoe train and trans
ferred at that point to the tegular train.
The trantfer it juatlv complained of at an
inconvenience to which the railroad com
pany tbould not subject passenger*. Belle
fonte is the most important j>astenger arnl
freight station on the road and Uuffieople
of the town who cot tribute to the
treasury of the company en
tilled to some contideratilL. a ndtouid re.
ceive fair treatment and r' arcotn
modalicns. We trust therefore The com
pany will re-consider the present arrange
ment and permit the train* to run to (Wle
fonte aa u*ual. Some year* ago the atne
thing was attempted, but it did not work
with any kind satisfaction and it wilt not
be found U> do any better now.
PLEASABT GAP BNXVITIR-*, —The Gap
is unusually quiet at this time, the only
excitement being over the public play
going on daily in Washington, and the
Beehive store, where the new* is also dealt
out, is always thronged at mail time by
newa seeker* waiting for the daily paper*
containing the account of the proceeding*
of the trial.
The Literary society ha* been reopened
at the pike school house and this week
will discuss tho propriety of banging or
not hanging Guitenu. On the decision
rendered by this august assemblage wili
depend the life or death of the great na
tional prisoner.
The Bible class is now fairly on it* feet
again. The worthy Kranci* has resigned,
but other* have taken hold of it and will
follow as closely a* may be In hi* footstep*.
' That the Gap I* a good place to live in,
but a bad place so far a* work is concerned,
is evident from tbe fact of several of the
resident# being away working now;
among whom are J. Kekenmth, K, H.
Noll, W. H. Noll, John Harrison, Sr.,
and C. Waltc is getting ready to go. We
do not know whether they are all busied
at their respective trade* or lecturing, but
likely tbe former.
Tbe new cabinet, carpenter shop now in
process of erection, is a fine looking build
ing and will soon be completed and the
party owning It will be ready for any
work en trusted to him a* before mentioned.
Our merchant, Bill, should not com
plain for want of businena Judging from
the amount of customers congregated there
in the evening. Probably not so much
custom as company, tor we notice all the
big guns are there assembled discussing
tbe leading events of th <l*y, while dill
la cussing tbem for sampling hi* raisin*.
But boy* that It played, for bo ha* put
them out of reach. SmxaoKK.
—You are invited to call and examine
tbe fine Holiday Good* at Ecller's Drug
Store.
—The only physician we have hsd in
the family for three years Is PBBCSA— tbe
beet. . |
Court Pbo< sedihcs.—Court com
menced on Monday morning with Presi
dent Judge Mayer and Associate Judge*,
Fraru-k and Diven on the bench.
Sheriff Hpanglcr off.-n-d the following
deed* fur acknowledgement: John Slang
ier, sheriff, to George L. Ileed ; same to
Kdwnrd Brown, Jr. ; *ame to Barbara A.
Bilner ; nmn to it. Mulhnlland ; mine to
Adam Iloy; *ame to John Stoncr , same
to Adam liny.
'I lie flrat case called wa* Daniel Wcilaod
v*. Klisabetb Mallory. Jury called and
♦ Worn when a juror wa* withdrawn and
: I BUM; continued at the c>t of plaintiff.
Joseph Boss v. M. Jtunkle. Defendant
confesses judgment for the turn of So 00.
Ou ro ■•.'vn of J. L. Spang'er, K*<j ,
j Horace I*. (Hover, Koj , wu* sworn and
| admitted to practice in the several court*
j of Centre county.
Bradley Child*, et al. v*. If. Merriman,
II A. Merrirnan, It. 11. .Merriman and
Samuel MnrHi. Action of treapart. Cut
ting Umber on plaintiff"* land* and luit
brought to recover the value of the timber.
| Jury called and worn. After the evi
dence bad been beard and the case argued,
the plaintiff* moved to be allowed to
| change the form of action from lre*|iea*
to assumpsit. The motion wa* allowed
j and a juror wa* withdrawn and the enure
i continued.
I.ik inda Spnr.glcr v*. 8. 11. Kune*.
Plaintiff charge* defendant with polluting
a well of water on her premise* in the
j t"wn of itagieville. On trial at tha time
we go to pre**.
—1 wih I were you about two hour*,
*he *aid to her huband with great tender
ness, "And why, rny dear f" he asked.
" lb-cause" aid he, toying affectionately
with hi* watch chain, "because then I
would buy my wife a new bonnet." He
looked at her wildly for a moment, and
thinking her mind wa* wandering from a
disordered late of her liver, be bought in
stead a !><> each of Green * No. 1 and 2
Liver Pill*.
—Horace Glover, Kwp, of Miffiinhurg,
one of the riving young member* of the
Union county bar, calledat the Democrat
office on Tue#day afternoon. Mr. Glover
came to Bellefonte on legal bunincs* which
wa* *ati*factorily arranged. It wa* hi*
first vi*it to our town, and be expresses
himself a* h'gblv delighted with thcplacej
W- trust he will' toon have occasion to chrf,
again.
Holiday Good* jut opcriJ|yand now
V* exhibition and sale at Zellk'w Drug
P
Perusta it in iuelf a great phytician.
Sulfide of Warren Woodward.
_____
ma nonr tiiMovtaro turkk dats after
the siiootinu.
Syet I*l liUpth h to The Tlaae*.
l.'f iMMi, December 6.
Warren Woodward, attorney at law,
aged 27 rear*, the only nonof late War
ren J. Woodward, Justice of the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania, was found
in bia room thia morning, ahot through
the iiead. The body, when found, waa
in an advanced state of decomposition
and had evidently lain there for some
time. The last seen of Woodward waa
on Saturday evening, when he told
some of hia friends that he was going to
leave the city on a visit. Thia was
thought to l>e the case until a |<arty of
friends concluded to visit hit rooms,
which are in the law building of George
F. Baer. The rooms occupied are three
in number and are elegantly furnished,
the front one being a library, in which
is said to be the finest selection of law
books in the Slate, left to the deceased
by his father. One of the rooms is oc
cupied as a bed chamber, and in this,
after the door was broken opto was
found the lifeless body of the young
lawyer stretched at full length on the
bed, with the revolver still clasped in
his hand, which waa lying across his
breast. Deceased has but one sitter,
married to F. B. Howe, of Danville, son
of Bishop Howe. The body wa* taken
in charge by friend* and the relative*
living in Wiikeabarre notified. The
funeral will take place at that point.
Woodward graduated from Princeton
College in 1876 and studied law in this
city where ho waa admitted to the bar.
The Death of General kilpatiirb.
The consul at Valparaiso telegraphs
to the Htsie Depart ae.it that Minuter
Judson Kilpalrick diod at Santiago on
Sunday last. He was '.sorn in New Jer
sey in 1838 and radusled at West
Puint in April, 1881. He served as
captain at the battle of Big Bethel, and
in the autumn of the same year became
a lieutenantoolone! of cavalry, la
1862 he took part in various operations
of the Army of the Potomac, lie was
appointed a brigadier general of volun
teer* in May, 1883, after which ho en
g*god in a raid to release tho Federal
prisoners at Richmond. He command
d the cavalry of Hherman's ariny on
the march from Atlanta to the sea.
After the war he took an active part in
politic*, being minister i. Chili during
Grant's first term. In 1872 bo support
ed the nomination of Horace Greeley,
He was appointed minister to t 'hill hy
President Garfield men after his room
Men last March, lie has been ill for
some time and bis death has been oi
peoted.
TKBMS: sljW per Annum, in Adianw*.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Mr. Flouth, of Peoria,stepped off*
Pullman car in hi* sleep and lit in a
corn field.
A California lady thi* year baa made
60,000 (jalion, of wine and a proportion
ate quantity of brandy.
Jay Gould, after a eon teat, baa sue
reeded in obtaining control of the New
York and New England Railroad.
H'mon Draper. living at Reedsville,
Mifflin county, aiiot eighteen aquirrela
in .even boura, on Thanksgiving day.
I lie ' incinnali f'omMtrtial tbinka it
probable that worthy soldier* get aa
tnueh a* ten per cent, of the money
paid out every year for penaiona.
SecretHry Folger, it ia aaid. will be
transfered to the Supreme bench, and
Roscoe Conkling appointed Secretary of
the I reaaury. Anything to provide for
! tbe Bora.
A bill ha* already t>een introduced in
| Congress for the pui*hient of attempta
jto take the life of a President, lm
| (>ri*onment for life i* tbe |>enalty, and
; it i* none too severe.
Lost hi* girl. Mia* Nellie Hazleton,
well known ah the belle of St. Louie,
who a couple of summer* ago wa* re
ported a. betrothed to Samuel .1. Tilden,
was married to Mr Fred J. Pararnore,
millionaire, a resident of St. Louis.
I he Republican* are said to hold the
House by a slender majority. Tbey
don't bold tbe Senate that way, bow
ever, for tbey hold it by David Davis,
who i* by no means slender. There
may be said to be some weight in this
remark.
Price and Ilam, the two Arkansas
I train robbers, who have been danger
ously ill, are reported out of danger.
Tbe boy* were looking forward to being
pardoned out after serving for two or
three years. The sentence is for seventy
years.
There are seventeen contest* filed for
*eals in tbe bouse of representatives,
nearly all of them from tbe south.
These contest* generally cost from $5,-
(100 upward* e&cb. At an average of
that figure it will cost tbe oountry $85,-
i ijOO to dispose of tbe claim* of these
! seventeen gentlemen.
The body of a man genteely dressed
was found floating in the river below
Richmond tbe other day. in the pocket
of bia clothing was found a copy of tbe
Pittsburgh Omnrrrtal GateUt, which ia
supposed to be tbe immediate cause of
bis disaster.
The directory of the Pennsylvania
railroad company has organised a system
for tbe benefit of trainmen on tbe road,
' Smail contribution* will be required
i r n>m member*, and benefit* will be
given in case of sicknea* or death, and
pensions in old age. Tbe membership
will not be compulsory, and the train
men will be represented in tbe manage
ment of tbe system.
rermilia Krickson, an eccentric
maiden lady, aged seventy years, living
at Port Monmouth. New Jersey, com
milled suicide by hanging. Tbe au
j tboriliea found $4,000 in a bureau, and
j put two men in charge until tbe rela
tives would claim tbe effects. When
tbe relatives took charge the $4,000 was
missing.
A few days since, while a party of
ladiea and gentlemen were enjoying a
sail in tbe pleasaot yacht Wuigeoo,
near Havre de Grace, one of the ladiea
wagered that be could kill a duck on
the wing with a single rifle shot. Beta
were made on the result, the ladv fired
and brought down her bird. One of
the gentlemen is now looking for a pair
of eight-button kid gloves to pay hit
bet.
The Burns brothers, who are on trial
at Clarion for tbe forgery of the title
deeds, seem to have succeeded in a
barefaced swindle simply because of
their audacity. Men id Clarion and
Butler counties purchased tbe deeds to
Missouri lands st very favorable rates,
and subsequently discovered that the
papers were forgeries and worth 1m. A
hundred of these deeds have already
been traced to the two Burns brothers,
and their conviction and the imposition
of heavy sentence* seem now beyond
all queation.
" ♦
MiiDM at last.
tke *** who nansrsn ma tort ox na
wcddixo dvt aacTinaa trrtiu.
Spmlal Txwulch t lb* Tlmw
Wilkssiuxie, December 4.
P. Weller, th lover whose
strange conduct in deserting beautiful
Ileasie Norria on the morning of their
wedding day caused much comment,
and who returned subsequent IT to iind
the poor girl proelrated with brain
f*, made things nil right this morn
ing by marrying hit affianced. The af
fair Is moat remarkable in many re
spect*. The sudden flight of the lover
threw Miss Norria on a bed of sickness }
where she lay between life and deeth
for many days. Upon Waller's return
be went to see her. He was refused
admission to tbe hnnse by the lady'*
mother. He pushed his way in and
oaught her in his arms m she waa ap
proaching him from her tick couch.
After that the pbyaieians ordered him
to remain by her. He did so, nursing
her nnttl she waa out of danger. She
waa willing to forgive him for Ikie con
duct, the mother's objections were over
come, and this morning the two were
married in the brides home. Miat
Norria waa robed in a magnificent bridal
costume and the ceremony was per
formed under a large floral horse-sboe.
A houseful of fhesta enjoyed a grand
wedding breakfast, and the newly
rt*d couple Mibeequently started on a
tour to Florida.
NO. 49.