<TI)c Ccntrr i&k Senior rah SHUGERT & FORSTEK, Editors. VOL. 4. ®lit Cadre jgenwftat. Tsrai 51.60 per Annum.in Advance. S. T. SHUGERT and R. H. FORSTER. Editor*. Thursday Morning, January 5, 1882. WITH this number, we commence the fourth volume of the CENTRE DEMOCRAT aud embrace the occasion to tender to its patrons our sincere thanks for the steady appreciation they have awarded our efforts to pre sent to the public a paper suitable, useful and interesting to all class of ° readers. Wo have doue the very best we could, with the means at hands, but we hope in the near future to pos sess facilities that will enable us to add much not only to the mechanical make up of the DEMOCRAT, but to the general interest and gratification of its readers. With the brief expression of our thanks we tender to our patrons the compliments of the season THE lottery of assassination is still l awarding prizes iu large numbers. The | successful holders are invariably of the j stalwart order. THE Tammany members of the New- York Legislature refused to join the Democrats in caucus for the selection of candidates preparatory to the or ganization. Kelley aud his friends are uudoubtly in the market as usual. GUITEAU'S reception at the jail in Washington rivaled the receptiou of the great stalwart nt the White House. Hundreds of people called to see him on the first of Awnuary. Wc have not learned whether their calls were made purely to pay respect to the famous "stalwart of stalwarts" or to satisfy a morbid curiosity to see the criminal inspired to remove a conservative President. PRESIDENT ARTHUR ami Don Cam eron, who are now running the ma chine, will soon be at leasure to attend to the "half-breeds," of Pennsylvania, and a general sweep may be expected. The Federal officers who wept over the of President Garfield, or endorsed his policy, may prepare to go to the rear. Don can spot them, and wants places for his trusty hench men, of the stalwart persuasion. THE Government Printing office, according to the report of Superinten dent Defrees, has become a ponderous machine in the public expenditures. It coat $2,215,959,27 to run the con cern during the closed. As late as 1822 the entire civil and mis cellaneous expenses of the government only reached the sum of 81,967,3116,24 nearly a quarter of a million less than it now requires to keep in motiou Mr. Defrees little printing machine. THE Judge Advocate General of the Army, General Kwain, on reviewing the proceeding of the Court Martial in the case of Cadet Whittaker has raised the point that the proceedings Were void on the ground that the Court was illegally constituted, being ordered by Mr. Hayes, the acting President, and not by the war Depart ment in whom he alleges that authori ty only ia lodged. The case it ia said will be refered to the Attorney Gene ral for his opinion. THE anti-tbird term Republicans, or half-breeds as they are now familiarly called, are bravely striving to find comfort in President Arthur's admin istration of the government, but as yet,they have little to encouraged them except in absolute submission to stal wart supremacy. With astalwart Presi dent and astalwart Cabinet of his ap pointment, under the immediate super vision and dictum of Grant, On k ling, Don Cameron, and ouch, the half breed hope of an eqOa! division of par ty plunder or inmunity for indepen dent preference in favor of Blaine or any other fcpti-third termer is not en •enraging. Faith is commendable, but it ia often delusive. This fact, our esteemed Republican contemporary, down street will probably realize in doe time to ayoid ship-wreck. ' V "JCUUAL AND KXACT JUSTICE TO ALU MKN, OF WHATEVER STATE OE PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OH POLlTlCAL."—Jeff'roon, TIIE Philadelphia Courts and other officials are niaVing creditable pro gress in suppressing the operations of their thieves and scoundrels. Besides the trial and conviction of the "roun ders" and "bullot-box stutters," who for many years have flourished through the instrumentality of "machine poli tics" and made the elections of that city as well as those of the Common wealth a reproach, they nre now ex posing the official thieves whom parti san blindness have installed in places of trust. The Recorder's office, the Gas Trust, the Tax office, and indeed every department having any agency in recieving and disbursing the funds and taxes of the people, show a rotten ness and disregard of honesty which shames the Tweed rule so successfully squelched by Mr. Tilden and the De mocracy of New York, a few years ago. Now the Almshouse is under special investigation, and the details of evi dence iu this department involving men who stand in the highest political and social relations, is sickening in the extreme. That such scenes of pecula tion and cruelty should have so loug escaped public reprobation is marvelous and can only l>e accounted for in the blind fanaticism iu which the majori ty were held by the boss or machine system of politics adopted to hold them iu subjection to party success, while the bosses themselves filled their coffers with the blood-mOney of the victims of poverty and misfortune. But we trust that better days are in store for the people of the city. The organization of independent voters, with the stern and heavy blows of the independent press, amongst whom stands in defiant graudure, the Phila delphia Time s, offers hope for the peo ple. This paper recently turned iu attention to the "Jury-Fixer" whose operations in the corruptions of the Jury-box have rendered the convic tion of rogues a thing of impossible attainment, arc now coming to grief, mainly through the stimulating influ ence of the large rewards offered some time ago for their detection and con viction. The convictions of several of these rogues arc now announced and the payment of the rewards handed over by the Timet Publishing Company to the detective who furnished the evidence, on the certificate of the District At torney. THERE seems to hnve been good reason for the refusal of Mr. John Shermau and his friends to call also for the testimony when he demanded the report of .Secretary Windom's Com mission to investigate the disburse ments of the contingent fund of that department under the fraud adminis tration. Mr. Paue Brown, one of the witnesses testified under oath as to carpenter work done on Sherman's house and paid for out of this fund, and it is understood will report that testimony before the Committee of the Senate now investigating the subject. Refering to this investigation a corres pondent of the Times says "it is stated that evidence will be offered showing that a magnificent sideboard was con. •tructcd in the Treasury shops out of government material and labor and placed in Sherman's residence. The pattern for the article of the furniture was obtained by Treasury officials con nected with the Pitney ring of a local furniture dealer, who gave the infor mation which led to the discovery. Another witness has been subptenaed, who will, it is alleged, testify that the expenses of a serenade to Sherman, — given to bim on his election to the Senate —amounting to $169, were charged to the Treasury and paid for out of the waste paper fund." All this will account for the desire of Mr. Sherman and his Republicau friends in theSeo ate Committee, that the session shall be secret. JUDOE KELLEY, it it said, proposes to foreetal the creation of a tariff com mission by introducing a tariffbill that he believes will be satisfactory to all parties. Perhaps! . BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1882. EVER since the Washington confer ence, which decided that our towns man, General Beaver, should be the nominee of the Republican bosses for governor, that gentleman seems to have given himself up to interviews with newspaper men and the sayings of the General are duly laid before the public. In one of these interviews with a correspondent of the Press, he is reported us follows: "A duy or two ugo I received u letter from an old army friend of mine, who said that although he disagreed with ine politi cally, he should on account of "old as sociations support inc for governor." This "old army friend" is decidedly more liberal then the General proved himself to bo iu the Hancock cam paign. General Beaver could not find it in bis heart, "on account of old as sociations" to support Hancock, the best "army friend" he ever had, but throughout the entire campaign uot only waged a bitter and vindictive warfare against him, hut pursued sol diers who favored his election iu the same spirit. When the General be comes the boss candidate, soldiers who disagree with him politically will lie reminded of his course during the late Presidential campaign nnd probably but few of them w ill support him "on account of old associations." THE story recently passed the rounds of the paper* that J< Hereon Davis, iu his flight from Richmond on the colla|se of the Con fed racy, had carried off large sums of spicie lielong ing to the defunct government, i* con tradicted by Judge Regan who was Secretary of the Con federate Treasury. In doing so he adds that Davis' "worst enemies had never ltefore ac cused him of dishonesty" and says that "the funds consisted of $600,000 in new confederate notes, $86,000 in gold coin and bullion, $35,000 in silver, coin and $36,00J iu silver bullion, making a total of $157,000 exclusive of paper worth nothing; that Davis got none of it, and that the coin was subse quently distributed amoug the soldiers at Charleston, S. aud the notes burned.' There is no reason why the President of the ex-Confederacy should not have justice done him. He was no worse, and perhaps no better, than those associated with him in the rebel lion who have since been taken into high official favor, and made the recip ients of exnltcd positions under the Republican administrations of Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. DR. J. PERDUE GRAY, one of our na tive Centre county boys, hut for many years Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum at Utica, New York, in which lie lias acquired merited distinction in his profession, has liccu for some days before the court as an expert witness in the trial of Guitrau for the assassi nation of the President. I)r. Gray's testimony does not sustain the pica of insanity put in as the defence of the assassin, but he arrives at the conclu sion from personal examination of the prisoner, and the facts developed in the case, that he was sane when the act was committed, and is now only acting the part of a shrewd viilian to escape the consequences of his crime. He evidently places little faith on Di vine inspiration as the controlling power of the assassin's removal ol the President in the interest of the stalwart division of the great Republicau party notwithstanding the very apparent re sults flowing from the bloody deed. IT appears Queen Victoria, of Eng land, is not possessed of the fabulous wealth that she has been accredited with. The Londou Truth has been investigating, and ascertains that her savings in her forty-five years on the throne have been less than £20,000 per annum, aggregating $4,500,000. J. GORDON BENNETT, of the New York Herald, it is said, has gone to St. Petersburg for the purpose of eon* suiting the Russian government as to the feasibility of organising a new polar expedition. The Reform That is Needed. There never can be a better time says the Washington Pott, for the Democratic party to look to its lines and mend its fences than at the be ginning of this new year. According to the most accurnte returns for Presi dent in 1880 it polled more votes for Hancock than were cast for Garfield, yet it finds itself in January, 1882, with no authority in any department of the Federal Government, and iu control of only fourteen of the thirty eight .States of the country. Why it got to this is not worth one's while to discuss. Why it ought to get out of the rut is u matter of interest to all good Democrats. The disease is so geueral that no specific cure can be safely recommended, but a few obser vations rnuy tend to restore it to health and usefulness. In the first place, the party should reform its lines and cease relying upon men who cannot he depended upon at all times and under all circumstances. John Kelley is an example of those who are more of an injury than advuutage to the party. Throw liiui overboard nnd let him drift whither the tide sees ; fit to carry liitn, and the party will be all the purer and better. Again, drop away entirely from Southern Inde ■ pendents. If they clm.M' to run Con gress a* RepublicanmAr IndejtcudcnU and can be elected in spite of the ef ! forts of the Democratic party iu their , respective district*, no one has a right ! or seeks to complain ; the only objec tion is to their being one thing at home and another at Washington. Being iu the minority it isof no special consequence whether there arc oue or j two Democrat* more or less in either branch of Congress, hut it is of first important* to know that those within the chamber can be relied ujain in all emergencies. To rely upon Southern 1 Independents, who have been elected Iby Republican votes, is to lean upon a reed many times twisted and oftcner j broken. If the party desire to enter upon what may be a successful campaign in the year 1884, let it lay down a plot ■ form of principles which Democrats can approve, stick to it and rely upon nobody who will not indorse it. The probable disruption of the South, if it should be possible, should not be a matter of discouragement to any De mocrat. In the old time, before the war, the strength of the Democratic party was at the north of Mason's and Dixon's line, and the Whigs were all powerful below it. Whatever States, if any the Republicans may win on the other side of the Potomac, by honest or dishonest methods, to them they arc welcome. More and much more will they lose on this side; and we need ribt wait longer than the Congressional elections of the present year to find it out. A Shrewd Politician. Oue by one the leading Stalwart politicians of the Republican party come to front under the auspices of the Arthur administration. They draw the highest prizes in the "lottery of assassination," and all the depart ments of the government arc rapidly coming under their control. The President is acting the part of a shrewd political manipulator, and upon this matter the lanraster Intelligencer aptly says "he is accomplishing all that his Stalwart friends anticipated, and as much as the other side appre hended, without giviog them any special particular political advantage, such a* they expected would certainly ensue in cose that Garfield cabinet was displaced. The prime minister, upon whose performance in office all the political hopes of his friends were fixed, is succeeded by a third termer ; so is the stiff-backed MacVeagh ; and Conk ling's friend is the dispenser of the powerful patronage of the treasury department'; James makes room for a devoted henchman oflheGrant regime, and the father-in-law of one of the star routers counsel; and now Sargent and William E. Chandler are talked of for other places in the cabinet! The Stal warts control the House and Senate, and it is now hinted that the next stroke will be the elevation of Folger to the supreme bench, his succession j by Conk ling, the nomination of Col lector Robertson for governor of New i York, the appointment of Cornell to Germany, and the placing of u thick aud-thin Conkling man in the custom house. Iu the promised conferring of honors and profits upon (.'handler and Robertson, two of Blaine's next trieuds, the President's sagacity is just as evident as in taking Brewster for attorney general aud Gray for judge. In the latter cases the fitness of the appointees disarmed all criticism upon their political status, and if he assigns high places to Chandler and Robertson it will break the force of a good many disappointments, possibly win a section of Blaine's friends to the support of the administration ami se cure for it control of that great politi cal lever the New York custom house. Chandler never was reconciles] to his slaughter in the Senate, permitted by the Garfield administration to appease MacVeagh, nod if he now has salve put on his wounds by a stranger hand New l!aiit|H<hire is a* likely to be swung into the Stalwart column as Ohio will be led there by the speaker ship. With these allied to New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, Vir ginia and other Stall* that they can manipulate, the Stalwarts have a grip for 1884 which their opponents cannot louse. SINCE General Grant is at last con strained by a sense of justice to admit that (sen. Fitz John Porter was a deep ly wronged man, let the wrong under which that gallant and accomplished soldies has so long rested be righted by h prompt re-appointment to the rank he held at the lime of his unjust dismissal from the service. Gen. Por ter can never be adequately oomjiensa ted for all the wrong he has under gone. The years of mental anguish he has suffered while resting under false charge* can never be effaced, but the government will be untrue to every idea of justice if it docs uot at once do all in its jiowcr to wipe out the stig ma which he has been obliged to bear | for so many years. —— mm ADDITIONAL LOCALS. THE TEACHER* INSTITUTE. —The an nual meeting of the Teachers' Institute last week brought to Bellefonte a large number of teachers from all parts of tba county, together with many others inter ested in the cause of education. The ses sions of the Institute were fully attended and the exercises throughout were of an unusually interesting character. The lec ture*, essays, recitations and discussions were all exceedingly appropriate, enter taining and instructive, and the teachers in attendance undoubtedly received many useful hints and a great deal of valuabla information, from which they will not fail to profit in their professional work. The lectures of President McKee, of the State College, and Profs. Saitford and lli'lman, ware of a high order of ability and were heard with great pleasure and benefit by large audiences. The exercises of each day were enlivened by excellent music, and upon the whole Superintendent Wolf is to be congratulated U|>on the fine suc cess of the first Institute held under bis management and direction. We eppend a list of the teachers present which we take from the Troehrrt' Journal : LIST OP TXACIIBR*. Bellrfonte—D. M. Lieh, J. C. Meyer, C. P. 'Uewes, A. I>. Delany, Misses H<-oMe McGinley, Bella K. Kankin, Anna McAffrey, Liaste Swart*, Mary Shroro, Liaaie Campbell, Km in a Urahatn. /tenner—J. H. Kankin, 8. C. Bathgate, G. M.Glenn, W. 11. Clark, John Kline, J. A. Noll. W. L. Bnyder. BOMK— Ward Riibel, John D. Rishei, 11. H. Harshbsrger. T. B. Uupcrt, W. J. Singer, John K. Bickford, Misses Annie E. ShulU, Mary Kvans, Nannie DeLany, Kate R. M'Cormlck, Jennie Tellhelm, Laura V. Poresman. Hurnnitle—L. C. Runkle, J. X. Klein, D U Stewart CkJUge—T. C. Boot*, Archie Moor, G. W. Jonnstonbeugh, J. K. Warson, L. N. Musser, T. R. Dubbt, W. L. Foster. Parti*—George K Bible, A. B. Lucas. Ferfmon-Kd. Ward, C. D. Moore, X. 8. Stevens, A. O. Archie, Luther Museer, C. U. Foster, B. F. Unman, Misses Jen nie Archey, Annie Musser, Hue Denley, Glare Walker, Mary M'Cormlck. Grass—Lewis Belter, 8. C. Stover, U. F. Feitomlf, W, A. Brown, H M Cain, F. F. Jamison, P. J. Vonada, J. L. Rousb, G. M. Musser, Miss Maggie Banna. TKRMB: $1.50 p*r Annum, In Advance. //nines—Miss Bella Cronirniller, '/. I). Thomas, T. G. Krbard, O. N. Krherd. //<{/■ Moon .Muse* Halli'* A. Mwk, Hal ite T.Berr, KIU M. Flock, 11. K. Leit- SHSII. //am'*—Misa Florence M. Kielcy, Hen rv Keller, G. W. Williams, V. K. Ktner ick, J. 11. Jacob*. Howard lloro. —Reuben Pletchcr. Howard— M i- Sallie K. Smith, W. T. I Turner, T. M. .Mitchell, J. L. I'letcher, ■ Tbeo. Pletchcr, J. L. Gardner, J. 11. Glitter. Mutton— Mue* Jntio Richards, Maggie Brown, Pheuie Tallhclm, J. A. Ward, | W. 11. lieslon. Liberty—Mitt Lizzie Kunes, Anna I Hairier, W. T. Auruari. Marion— U. W D. Yoarick, W. H. Bickle, M. J. Gardner, A. C. Haihurst, J. A. Khreckcngasl. Milrt —J. 11. Do Long, A. N. Corman, T. M. Gramley, C. C. Lu-e, Simon Bicrly, Corneliut Stover, J. C. Morris. MiUtbnrg— Mirer-* Carrie Green, I.ida Taylor. MiHhrim —W. F. Smith, M. I. Jami iron. J. A. Keen. /'alio ii—J. F. Orav, A. C. Thompson, Gray Kepbart., O. W. Mclntyre, O. W. llnrrbberger. I'enn— Mir* Marv Strohro, A. J. Long, C. K. Finkle. /•otter— F A. Foreman, W. A. Krire, W. 11. Ott, .1. W. Shire*, Wm. Brown, T. J. Stiver, J. 15. Strom. W. W. Kiihel, JVm. N-fl, Jatnes N'-ff, W. P. lio*ter> man, A. C. itij.ku, J. 11. I,,re, Mirtea Nannie M'C'ormuk, Lide MrKlroy, Cora ! K. Murray, MM. C. E. Wolle. l'hilipivrg. —Mirter Clara B. Lukeni, i Ella Howe, Mary M. Crow. Jtu*ti. —Mirter Mary A. Waring, Ada I Kothrnck, Ida M. Hall, Mrt. R. J. He* I Woodie, Silat IL-eco, E J. Duffer, s , Mm,- Misses Mary E. i'ile. Jen ; nie Morrison, Mary Byerr, Mr*. F. A. : Thomat, Tho. Cameron. Spring. —T. M. Ban,hart, W. 11. Noll, Jr., J. F Ilarriton, G. M Noll, J. K. Sheffler, J. c Dale, K. c. Wood*, J. K. i V*ii Ormer, J. I). Miller, J. C. Noll, M i*ret Carrie Ilume*, Juttico Hoy, F. K. Howe*, Mr*. J. J. J don. Taylor —Muse* Annie Miller, Mina ! Clark, Libbie Fortney, 1.. C. Steven*. I'nionrUU. —A. I). Wirta, H. K. Cam j bridge. Union —William Fisbar, E. C. Mcln tyre, Uieei T>mpie C. Hall, Alice Hall, Maggie K Blair. Annie Biair. Walker. —E. 11 Mourer, E. C. Emerick, K. J. Warner, M. S. Romich, W. H. Markie, D. A. Deilriek, J. L. Shaffer, Mim Mary Kline. Worth —W. G. Morrison, D. U. Bean, J. W. Bean, Mr*. Mida Iter,net, Miatea j AlTa Lamliorn, Nettie Kicbard*. Olhrr Tearher*. Henry Thompson, O. i W. Fotry, Samuel Brugger. W. 11. Gard ! ner, Aaron William*, C. P. Leiuell, D. W. Wood ring, 1). F. Fortney, J. C. Harper, Dr. G. M. Swartz, l>r. P. T. Mu*er, Dr. S. C. Muaeer, G. W. Rum | barger, Dr. W. 8. I*orworth, Clement I Dale, Exp, W. C. Heinle, Eq. t W. A. Tobia*, D. 11. Young, A. A. Dale, 8. P. Ray, J. L. Spangler, Mitte* Maggie Scan lon, Clara Strickland, Lida McGinley. DirtfSri.—A. T. leather*. Daniel Hail, Henry Bock, J. H. Routh, W. C. Kerr, Wm. Mill*, J. C. M'<ore, A mo* Mullen, R. G. Brett, Jno. W. Shark, Henry Arm agatt, Jamr* G I.ucat, Harvey Hoover, Harry Pontiu*, 8. D. Gray. Honorary Membert. — Rev* J. W. Won ner, G. W. Peonenacker, Jolin Hewitt, Wm. Laurie, Patrick McArdle, John De ling, Clint Furtt. John Palmer. Maj. R. II Forter. Joe. W. Furey, E. T. Tuten, Prof. J. Wiliard Miller. (Any omission* of names properly be longing in the three last lista must not bo attributed to the Roll Clerk, as all vera requested to make announcement of those present entitled to *ucb mention.) Sraixo Milui Item*. —Quite a number of change* have been taking place this fall and winter. Robert H. Duncan ha* told bis tlock of good* and rented his beautiful store room to Messrs. Whitmer A Co., for a term of three year*. The business of thia firm hat increased so rapidly that they have been compelled to open the second store. They call the old store the "Cen tral Supply Depot" and the new establish ment "The Feir." I. J. Grenoble has bought from R. H. Duncan the swamps lying between Henry Krumrine and the R.R. Station for $2OOO. Henry Krumrine ha* bought from Mr. Duncan a lot lying along tbe pike and ad joining the property of J. D. Long, on wbicb he contemplates putting his tannery at some future lime. He will erect a dwelling bouse near the present site of bis tannery next summer. Hie eon Sydenham takes charge of tbe tannery. Tbe Post office remains in po*session of Mr. Duncan, but will be kept in tbe store of Mr. Bpig lemeyer (of Wbitmer A Co). Our leech ers are all home from Institute. We be lieve they all came home sober. %• —-We regret to announce the death of James P. Hale, of Osceola, which occurred on Saturday morning, December 34, 1881. Mr. Hale possessed many amiable and attractive traits of character; bad a large number of warm friends in our com annuity, and bit early death will be sincerely re gretted. ilia remain* were taken to Beading for interment. —Our kiod friend, Mr. J. Calvin Baur*. left a newspaper upon our table the other day from which we intended to make an extract of an occurrence to which he had called our attention. Some one, however, thought he had more use for the paper than e bed, and carried it off—before we bad accomplished our purpose. NO. I.
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