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BHUUERT & FORSTKR, Editor*.
VOL. 4.
fhe Crnttc grmactat.
Terms tl.ftO par Annam, in Advance,
s. T. SHUOERT ind R. H. FORSTER, Editor..
Thursday Morning, January 12,1882.
THE annual meeting of the "Society
of Fruit Growers," is to be held at
Harrisburg on the 18th aud 19tk of
January, to which all persons inter
ested are invited to be present.
THE report of the Commissioners of
Agriculture places the number of per
sons engaged in farming in this coun
try at 7,600,000, and estimates the
value of farming implements at $13,-
461,200,343, about two-thirds of the
productive wealth of the nation.
IT is said the Altoona shops will
this year turn out ninety-live new
locomotives for the Pennsylvania Rail
road. This, with the rebuilding and
repairing of old ones, it is believed
will be equal to the erection of five
hundred in these shops during the
year.
THE question is to be tested in a
Massachusetts Court whether or not it
is libelous to misrepresent a man's
political principles. A lawyer has
brought suit against a newspaper, put
ting bis damages at $5,000 for assert
ing that he was a Butler man, thereby !
preventing his nomination for an office.
IT is said the net funded debt of the
city of New York is $93,290,206 equal to
eighty-one dollars and forty six cents
to each inhabitant This is quite equal j
to the debt of Bellefonte, but perhaps j
the burden is less onerous to the mil
lions of that great city, then our debt
is to the few hundreds residing here.
EVERY few days the announcement
is repeated that the Star-route thieves
are to be prosecuted vigorously to the
full extent of the law, and if guilty, to
be followed by punishment Fudge!
The assassination of the late President
nettled that business in favor of the
thieves. MacVeigh and James knew
this when they retired.
IT seems to be generally conceded
that ex-Senator Sargent, of California,
will be appointed Secretary of the In
terior in place of Secretary Kirkwood,
and William E. Chandler Secretary
of the Navy in place of Secretary
Hunt They are a healthy pair and
.fittingly draw prize* "lottery of
IhMsanination" in a StanNrt ndminis-
Plhktion.
R LISTER SMITH, of Philadelphia,
ha* been held to hail in the sum of
$5,000 for shooting Sam Joseph in the
foot IfSmith intended to kill Joseph,
he certainly proved he was not an ex
pert shootist, or, as is most likely, that
be was too drunk to elevate his re
volver sufficiently to obtain a proper
range upon the retired Philadelphia
statesman.
CONGREHHMAN WALKER, of the
Lycoming district has stirred up a
very lively fight over the Williams
port poetoffice. The appointment of
Capt L F. Burrows is bitterly con
demned, and efforts are being made to
have it rejected by the Senate. No
use t The appointment was not made
without the approbation of the Repub
lican Boss, and duly considered with
ference to its bearings on the stal
wart programme.
THE Denver Tribune, a Republican
paper, rebukes the President thus:
"The policy of the President appears
to be to encourage the repudiationists
•of the south; this is not the policy of
the party. Honesty has been regar
, sled as the best policy in our ranks."
I Well, this is cool to. Was it honesty
that oootrolled the Republican party
to steal J)>e Presidency in 1876, or
was it honesty that led them in 1880
to purchase states with funds stolen
from the people, in order to retain the
porloined power they obtained in 18761
Tbt question of honesty is one the
Republic:os should tawA tenderly.
"KOUAL AND XXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OF WIIATXVKK STATIC OR TKIIM:AMON, RELIOIOCS OR I'OLITK'AL.
The Men who are to Bend the
Solid South.
The Atlanta Constitution briefly,
but fittingly describes some of the
small politicians, the cheap heroes to
bo found perha|w in all the Southern
States of the Union, who are not only
willing to share the unenviable fame
of General Mabooe, but who are con
stantly proclaiming their purpose to
revolutionize divers aud sundry States
by the Overthrow of what they face
tiously call the "Bourbon Democracy."
These puny patriots are loud in their
protestations of devotion to "a full
vote,lt free ballot, aud a fair count,"
and to attain these desirable and praise
worthy results, they are jointly and
and severally ready to undergo all
sorts of afflictions; to endure all the
privatious, scourgings, stripes, impris
onments, hunger, thirst, nakedueas, j
and dangers by sea aud land, that fell
to the lot of that great Christian hero,
the Apostle Paul. The last one of
these fellows is ready to meet contume
ly, obloquy, and insult; to encounter
all the ills that flesh is heir to; and,
in addition, add to their sorrows and
sufferings by accepting an office at the
hands of President Arthur, as evidence
at once of devotion to the old flag, and
their constancy to principle—the prin
ciple of taking everything in sight—
and with heroic courage refusing noth
ing that will pay ! Patriotism, which
surly old Sam Johnson declared was
"the last refuge of scoundrels," is still
a potent factor in the affairs of this
world, and to use a slang phrase cur
rent among the boys, "the woods are
full" of gentle, hut hungry patriots,
who are ready to do anything in the
world but die, for "pay and provanb"
Large numbers of these enterprising
fellows have been in this city lately,
and more of them will soon be hang
ing around the Capitol, the While
House, and the various departments.
When they first reach this political
Mecca they are generally in good con
dition, having managed to encase
themselves in tolerably prescutahle
outer garments ; they hie them to one
of our first-class hotels, where, for a
brief period, they flourish in festive
gaiety, and recount with sportive glee
their innumerable interviews with the
President and other gentlemen occu
pying high official positions. For the
first week or so these interesting crea
tures have very elevated notions of
their importance, and of the exalt
ed stations for which they are destined
as the reward of great merit and val
uable services. In the first flush of
their exaltation each one selects a first
class foreign mission for himself, but
if, as sometimes happens, there is no
vacancy, he reluctantly consents to
bumble his pride, and agree to become
a minister resident at a second-class
court, but, finding no vacancy in
that direction, he finally concludes
that, for the good of the country he
might be induced to become a charge
d'affaires. When he finds that the
road todiplom§tic fame is impassable,
he turns his attention to the Territories
and dreaming of future senatorial
honors, he modestly insinuates that he
would accept a governorship or a ju
dicial position. Here, again, he finds
himself balked, and lowering his pre
tensions, he comes down, step by step,
until in his desperation the poor devil
is ready to beg for a $9OO clerkship
in one of the Departments. And yet,
for the most part, it is such fellows,
as these who are rending their gar
ments, and making night hideous with
the vain boast that they are going to
do in their States what Mahone did in
Virginia, aud thus sever the solid
South, and bury the Bourbon Demo
crats beneath its ruins.
The sensible men of the South
know that these brawling patriots are
harmless, even for evil. They know,
that with a few rare exceptions, they
are as destitute of character as they
are of intellect or influence, and that
their windy proclamations of what
they are going to da, is the merest
balderdash and folderol.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1882.
The most of these chaps would
gladly accept the compromise offered
by a seedy adventurer during the ad
ministration of General Jackson, lie
desired a first-class mission, but fail
ing in that he came down gradually
to some paltry ami contemptible place,
when, finding that too, beyond his
reach, ho told old Hickory that lie
would be "much obliged for suit of
his old clothes I" But hero is what the
Constitution has to say of the gentry
we have been describing :
There hss been much said in the
Northern pre-, and in the South about
the effect of tlin success of Oenernl
Mnhone in Virginia on the Ihdepend
ents of other .Slate*. There is scarcely
a Stale in the South that has not one or
two cheap heroes who are willing to be
used as Mahone*. They are just about
as useful, 100, in politics, ns a hung
would be to a cooper who was in a hur
ry to make a barrel.
THE Lancaster Intelligencer re
marks that "the Independent Repub
licans of this state faintly took heart
the other day when it was given out
that the senator whom they had elec
ted was about to perform some of the
things promised of him. The late
postmaster of Pittsburg resigned with
out any notice to anybody except a
little ring of Cameron henchmen, and
they speedily had his successor ap
pointed in the person of Chris. Magce's
ponies. There was a howl Mitchell
would antagonize the confirmation and
be able to secure its defeat. Mark the
sequel as told in the Times dispatch
from Washington:
"Senator Mitchell says, relative to
the Pittsburg postoffice question, that
no opposition to the con
firmation of Mr. McCleary has been
developed so far. He has received a
good many letters and telegrams pro
toting against it. M<>*t of these letters
assert that while McCieary is kuown
ns a good fellow the feeling ofthe busi
n ..* community is against his appoint
ment. Precisely to what extent this
feeling exists the senator has not the
means of knowing, as it has not mani
fested itself in any shape outside of
these individual complaint*. The
principal soreness appears to be in ref
erence to the manner in which the ap
pointment was made. 8o far as he is
concerned Senator Mitchell says he
has no'interest in the matter beyond
giving time for the people to be heard.
They have enjoyed the privilege, and,
from the character of the opposition,
he does not feel justified in approving
the confirmation. There is no ques
tion of this confirmation."
As Mr. Wolfe is said to have re
marked, the less said about Mitchell's
election as au Independent, the better
it is for the reputation of the Indepen
dents for political sagacity."
MRKINI.EY'S hoop-iron hill present
ed in Congress, providing that no
manufactured article shall pay more
duty than the material which is its
chief component part, it is said meets
the approbation of the committee of
ways and means, of which Judge
Kelley is chairman. Mr. Randall
very properly antagonizes it on the
ground that the whole tariff bill ought
to he acted upon at once and not in
detached parts.
GEN. GRTH, one of the Republican
leaders in the House from Indiana,
has made a very scathing attack upon
Speaker Keifer, which certainly ex
hibits the latter in a very unenviable
and eonlemptiblo position, but not
more so than he deserves. The shame
less and disgraceful manner in which
he constructed the committees of the
House, which are not only partisan
aud personal in resentments, but base
ly corrupt in the interest of jobs and
dishonesty generally should receive
nothing but condemnation.
FAT women and living skeletons a
novelties in shows are played out, and
the fertile brain (if the great Barn urn
is on the alert to supply their places.
He is now holding levees and adver
tising for tho handsomest woman in
the world to be exhibited in the next
summer campaign. Hundreds of pret
ty women are presenting themslevM to
the inspection of his committee of ex
aminers in hopes of being the favored
beauty of the show.
Ouit contemporary, the lkdlcfoute
Republican gives the Beaver boom u
boost by devoting a pago of its is
sue of this week to the General's can
didacy. A brief and fairly written
biographic sketch of the prospective
candidate is followed by favorable no
tices that lie bus received from the
Republican press of the state.
THE annual election for officers of
the Readiug rail-road, commenced on
Tuesday last aud it is supposed will
continue for the several days before the
final result is known. So fur as the
election has progressed, the Gowan
parly arc largely in the lead, and it
appears to be generally believed will
defeat the Bond management, which
overthrew Mr. Gowan last year.
THE lumber business appears to he
booming in our neighboring city of
Lock Haven. So gieat is the demand
for platted lumber that the operators
have found it necessary to erect addi
tional mills, and procure new machi
nery to enable them to supply the or
ders. We congratulate our neigh
bors upon this evidence of their pros
perity.
THE Hon. William A. Wallace is
to deliver a lecture in Lancaster, l'a.,
on the 24th instant. The subject of
the lecture is to boon "Pennsylvania's
"'urinative influence on Federal In
stitutions." The ability of the lectu
rer and the interesting subject he pro
poses to discuss, promises a fine treat
to the intelligent audience which will
doubtless greet Mr Wallace on that
occasion.
A CONVENTION of agriculturists is
week, and will discuss, according to
to be in session at Washiugtou City this
programme, a variety of subjects im
portant to that interest. No doubt one
of the main objects of the meeting at
this time is to influence Congress in
the establishment of an Agricultural
Department, with a political rep
resentative in the Cabinet of the
President, if not to boost Commission
Loring as the proper person to fill the
place.
THE trial of Guiteau has now reach
ed its ninth week, but it is announced
that the evidence is all in. This gives
some prospect of an end to the farce
within the next two weeks. The late
expert testimony introduced by the
prosecution all tends strongly to the
conclusion that Guiteau is sane, and
that in all his antics during the
progress of the trial he has only beeu
playing a studied part The general
impression is that the jury will find
him guilty.
THE Washington comedy has sub
stantially closed, at least, so far as
Guiteau can appear as a clown to
worry and annoy the court and jury
by his impudence and antics. The
ease has now reached the argument
and its tragical phase will assume
prominence during the present week
by verdict of the jury, which of course
will either assign tho assassin to the
walls of a lunatic asylum or to the
tomb of a murderer. In either case
his effort to "unify the Republican
party," was not a successful or paying
operation.
EFFIGY SAROF.AXT, late Senator
from California, and the notorious
Bill Chandler,from "away down East"
are the two latest names mentioned for
places in Arthur's Cabinet Two more
disgraceful appointments could not be
made. But still we presume it is all
right Arthur himself is only a trad
ing politician, who was removed from
the New York custom house by Ilayes
and Sherman because of the corrupt
practices which prevailed under his
management of the business of that
important public position, and it sooms
meet and proper that he should sur
round himself in the White House by
as scurvy a set of politlbal scamps as
he can find in the United States. Let
Bargaut and Chandler by all moans
go into the cabinet.
CONGRESSMAN ORTII, Republican,
of Indiana, angry and disappointed in
not receiving the recognition he ima
gined his great merits deserved, tried
to corner Speaker Keifer the other day
by offering a resolution in the house
to change the manner of selecting the
committees. Orlh is chairman of the
committee on civil service reform and
desired his resolution to be referred to
that committee. The speaker Leaded
him off, however, by deciding that the
resolution related to a change of rules
and should go to the committee ou
rules. The house sustained the decis
ion of the HjK-aker by a decided vote,
and Ortli must nurse his wrath until
a more favorable opportunity to get
even with the chair presents itself.
A MEETING of the Itcpuhlican State
Committee was held yesterday in
Philadelphia, at which it was decided
that the convention of the party to
nominate a State ticket should be held
at Harrisburg on the 10th day of
May. The fixing of this early date
for the meeting of the State Conven
tion is regarded as a decided triumph
for the Cameron machine, and a ma
chine ticket will of course be nomi
nated.
POSTMASTER GKNKKAI. JAMES be
fore retiring from the Department,
created a great sensatiou among the
Star route thieves by further disclos
ing their villaines and causing the
arrest of a number of bogus bonds
men used by the rogues to procure
mail contracts. It ap|tcars that thir
teen thousand bonds have been impos
ed upon the Department which are en
tirely worthless aud fraudulent. Home
of these bondsmen are clerks in the
Departments, and all falsely represen
ted under oath as possessing real es
tate equal to the amount required to
legalise them. Verily, there appears
to he no end to the corruptions of the
Fraud Administration.
Tin: Albany legislature is again
dead-looked. Thin time it is on the
organization. The majority ia aup
posed to be Democratic, but amongat
them John Kclley'a Tammany party
hare a following who hold the balance
of powers between the true Democracy
and the Republicans. They appear to
be up for bids, and it ia probable that
no organization will be effected until
the terma are made satisfactory on one
side or the other. We trust the De
mocracy may stand upon the integrity
of their principles and purity of party
organization. It is more creditable,
and in the end, will be more profitable
to remain in the minority, than to
submit to the tyranny of Ikws Kelly
and his trading gang of desperadoes.
Alliances with treachery and bossisra
never have giren strength or standing
to any honest party, and never will.
Ooartshlp by Wire.
During the last two years Miss Louisa
Rib, and Miss Laura .lonian, telegraph
operator*, have worked together in the
Western Union office st St, Joseph,
Ma Persons about the office who could
not read the tickings of Mia* Eib's in
strument were puuled frequently to
see Misa Jones put her bands to her
ears. The very inquisitive, noticing
that during the quick motions she
shoved bits of cotton into the auricular
channels, sometimes would ask if any
thing was wrong, but Mi Jordan would
avoid the question. Not until two
weeks ago, indeed, was light thrown
upon the mysterious movements of the
yonng woman and tha atniling ha hit* of
her associate. Then it was revealed
that Miss Rib is to be married shortly,
that the young man in theoaae is John
Martin, a Kansas City operator, and
tlial the young couple have been mak
ing love by wire alnoe 1879. In that
year they agreed upon a cipher alpha
bet by the use of which many tender
sentiments passed to and fro. Mi<a
Jordan soon eaugbt up the key, how
ever, and that she might not be in the
way, kindly stopped her ears. The
tnen in the office often wondered at
Miss Kib's thoughtful silence and the
happy smiles that completely mastered
her at she sat at her operating desk,
and now that they kiow the secret
they insist that she shall be married by
wire, but, being a sensible girl, she pre
fers the hand to hand custom.
The Stalwart Programme.
ratrstuia TO sraastorsaK ma LIKES IE
ItfIKSVLVANIA AXO BIMWRKaB.
Spertal dhfslefc to UM Tisw
There is no longer any donbt express
ed in Washington that Sulwan plans
are being laid looking to the control of
the neat National Convention in the
interests of Grant or an equally Stal
wart nomine* as against the Blaine or
TERMS: $1.60 p*r Annum, in Atham-f.
liberal wing of the Itepublicaw pert jr.
The mainspring ol this movement lie*
ooild in the division and dulribation
of Federal patronage in such a manner
n will do the most good. The same
movement which is now being inaug
urtU-il in the .States of Pennsylvania
and New York will le carried out all
along the line—North. South and West.
In ttiis division and distribution of the
► poils the lepreeentalive Kulwarla of
the various State* are being consulted.
The process ot strengthening the
Stalwart wing of the party is going band
in hand with the clearing out of all
Half-breeds and kickers. Where the
latter can be won over by Federal favors
it is to be done. Where resistance is
otmliinite the kickers are to he crushed.
No pains will be spared to proselyte
where the influence of the men is worth
the effort. As regards the State of
Pennsylvania the Stalwart leaders are
in constant communication with Sena
tor Cameron. Two conferences have
been held, one at the Capitol and one
at Cameron's bouse, (juay and Chris
Magee, it ia said, have submitted plans
for working their reapective quarters of
the Stale, and these plana, with a few
alterations, have met the approval of
Senator Cameron.
One ol the first converts, it is alleged,
ia Collector Davis, of Pittsburg, who haa
made his peace with Cameron, and the
piroof of it will be his retention in
ofiice. In return for this Davis and his
friend By nan expect to deliver the
Welsh vote to the Stalwarts. This ia
the only thing which explains the long
haggling over that Collectorship. Case
will go by the board. In Bayne's dis
trict it is aaid a man of hia own kind of
independence will be put up, wbo will
divide Bsyne's following and beat him
in his own camp. They propose to wipe
Bay ne out as a troublesome fellow who
can't be coaxed out of bis opposition to
the machine. In Philadelphia the man
agement will be carried out on a larger
and more sweeping scale, as bas been
indicated. The delay is but for time
for the perfection of the details of the
Stalwart resolution.
The plan covers other portions of the
State with equal thoroughness. It will
not be carried out in any startling way,
but will move with sufficient celerity to
satisfy those wbo will gradually find
themselves crowded into the.corner* or
forced over the fence. A gentleman
who WM pressing a friend upon Cam
eron was in formed that the place wanted
was intended for another man : "Your
friend can do us more good somewhere
else," said the boas.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—The store of Mr. C. Dingo*, at Centre
Hell, narrowly escaped dMtruciion by lira
on Tuesday morning of last week. The
inside of the building >u discovered to
be burning at an early hour, but timely
aid prevented the flame* from gaining
much bead way. The damage to the build
ing will amount to about $l6O, and a
quantity of merchandise we* alao injured
by moke and beat, all of wbicb U covered
by inurance in the Centra Hell and two
other iniurance companies. The Reporter
think* tbe Are wai caused by aome one
caretea*ly throwing a lighted cigar Into a
*pittoon late the previous evening.
—The Oaceola RetrMt make* a loud call
upon tba new board* of County Commit
■ioner* of Centre and Clearfield countiea
for ibatnew bridge over Mosbannon creek,
at Osceola. From all we bear about the
matter we do not doubt but that a new
bridge U greatly needed at that point. We
think, however, our contemporary mis
take* tbe acope of what it call* the "grand
jury'* order." The grand jury doe* not
"order;"it merely recommend*,and under
the act of aaaembly relating to tbe building
of county bridge*, it i* entirely within tbe
judgment and diacretion of County Com
mUk>ner* to act upon auch recommenda
tion or not a* they may *ee proper.
Pi.k asavt Oar.—A number of our res
ident* are at preaent on the sick list,
among them Mr. John Harrison who la
sufft ring from a sever* and painful attack
of rheumatism. We trust tbat he will
speedily improve.
Mr. John Sweeny is also afflicted with
nerval* debility, and is quite a sufferer
Her daughter, Mia* Margaret, wbo was
sometime ago injured by being thrown
from a buggy, continue! to improve,
though slowly,
ftotiieb Haag now has hi* new gristmill
in full working order and th* machinery
works in the moot satisfactory manner.
He will do considerable business with tho
mill.
—The Osceola RrvnlU my* that "a little
child of Alfred Isonburg, of Houtodale
was so badly burned by the explosion of a
coal oil lamp, one night last w*h that
eued it* death a few day* aft.r the oc
currence. It seems the lamp was pieced
on a sewing machine, at which a lady was
doing some cowing for th* flsmily and the
lltlla one it appear* was playing by the
machine when by some means the lamp
was thrown down and aiplodsd burning
tbe child as above stated. Just now there
are any amount of accident* occuring
from thecmrelen handling of coat oil lamp*
and every precaution should be token to
avert them."
NO. 2.