£TI)c (Centre AUs Urmocmt, SHUUERT & FOHSTER, Editors. VOL. 4. Oe en tre Ttrmc li.AO per Annum.in Advance. 8. T. SHUQERT and R. H. FORBTER. Editor.. Thursday Morning, February 23,1882. Contre County Democratic Com mittee —1882. auTMcra. SAME. r. o. M,aau. BrIU font*. N W..W. r. R.'lwr Bollifuiilo. •' s. W... Churl** SMITH-.... " " w. vr.juiip. Schofl.id. .. " Dovartl c. K. Bwinclou... Mll*tmr. Millh.itn ..A. W*l!*r* Mlllbplni. Philip*)' l "* l>. W ll,>ll Phlllpahiirg. tJnlunTill. J C Smith PUniln*. H*an*r l'rt.l, Sto.*r n*ll*tonl*. H..** A MrMoitlllll, Mil** l ""*. Burn, A William ll(p| la . Plno 01. . I.'oll** .Prank T.Jthi I.*moli(. Curtln ...... Prwik. RNBB IfoWSN. r.rfuuo. O. P...A J. OF*odorf.—lTar.liroA Mill*. S. P....J. 11. ll*l.*rliDA - ihn k S|,rtn*. ClroI. H •• M >* R'-i"l Sprtii* Mill* •• S. P.. HonJ. Umh*rt Itaiiir. CM. M. K.1.1.r - lUlfoKHinT Ornv Half Il.rn. _.J*nir Ollllhttid.. II"*!*'""*. linaard.... ,I T.njt.r IT*W*nl. Ilu.lon John y Mil** Julian. Liberty...—. W ||. ilar.lii.R —Bln*l,rJ. Marion J J. !!•>* Mil*. —. Uor** llainaa—Woir. Strwa. Pal tin !> I. L"k Buffalo Run |>,un H K. Duck Mlllhplm Poll* R, N P . W. Spsost** ...Tiwmyrtll*. 8. P J Wituipr W.>lf...C*r,ir* llall. K„,h ...„ _William Oulln Sand. H"t**. BoowSho* William ltaln*a. Sn .W Sho*. Bprin* T M Uarnhart. . H*llfonl. Taylor Vinton ll**klfh Foalrt. Union Chrl.tlan Hr>**r FL*ilnf Walk*r Amir** KN-amrr llnbl*Rl.nr*. Worth w. O Mnrrl•*'!>. Port M.tlhla. K. 11. FOK3TLR. Chairman. H. A. McKaa, B*cr*lary TUB House Committee on Territo ries, have reported a bill favoring the ad mission of Dakota as a Slate. THE Cleveland Plain-Dealer call* the attrition of the Republicans to the act that an >o<lictc<l thief is still Sec retary of their National Committee. A WOMAN named Mash in Lanra* ter, killed her mother on Friday last, in order that she might be hung. The people of Lancaster are not disposed to gratify her, and she is declared in* sane. TilEPennsylvania military academy located at Chester, Delaware county, was consumed by fire on Thursday evening last. The effects of the cadet* were saved, as also all the property of the State and government. The loss is estimated at 8200,000, upon which is an insurance of BTo,OOO. SENATOR BF.N HIM. has again L>cen under treatment in Philadelphia, for cancerous affection. An operation upon the gland of the neck was per formed by Dr. Oro*s, since which he has improved, and his physicians be lieve his case is hopeful and that all trace of the disease is removed. This will be acceptable news to the numer ous admirers of the eloquent ami courageous Georgian. REPRESENTATIVE IIORK, from the committee ou Civil Service Reform, made an adverse report upon the bill referred to them providing for a re duction of the salaries of heads of •departments. "Civil Service Reform" will do to talk about, but when it comes to practital results, such as cur tailing expenses or limiting the means of employes of thugovernment to make contribution to campaign funds, it is not to be encouragH. A YEAR ago the Le|islature of Wis consin passed an act it the interest of temperance, declaring ,hat the prac tice of treating to the "*dent" was an unlawful social evil, and nust lie aban doned nuder penalty. Tie Judges of the Supreme Court, wlo doubtless loved their toddy and peferrcd to have it free, pronounced th law un-' constitutional. The LegisUure now in session, give notice that bey have no objection to take a drink wth % few friends, by repealing the act. INDICTING THE THIEVES.— t is an nounced that the Grand Jury iiAVash ington are now actively engaftd in preparing work for a lively *e**)n of the criminal court. The leading ffpres in the meshes of the law are th<*tar route thieves, prominently represeted by Gen. T. I. Brady, late Assinnt Postmaster General, Ex-Senator. Lr sey, the Secretary of the RepublUn National Committee, and his brothr and a dozen others whom it is said te Grand Jury have presented as pecu liarly worthy the attention of court. ' "EQUAL AXD EXACT JUSTICE TO AM. MEN, Of WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, KKLIOIOUH Ok POLITICAL."—Jsffmoa I The Commissioners Annual State ment. The people of the county for some i years have been under the impression that it is the report the County Audi tors that must he published. This no doubt arises from the fact, that for years the Commissioners have publish ed an abstract of the report instcnd of the statement required of them In law. The statement this year is the full est nud most complete we have had in many years. Ii gives the people a j fair chance to see what is done with their money. The Republican just now is doiug much to mislead the peo ple iu its attempt to pervert this re port. There was a letter published the other day from some fellow in Snow Shoe, proposing to go back for ten years and investigate. Right in the face of this they make no charge that there is now, or has been anything wrong except with the Sheriff's ac count. The business man of the two boards of Commissioners preceding the present, was a Republican, and it does seem that there ucver is any thing crooked in the management of the county finances, but tbat a Repub lican is in it head and lieels. Twenty one years ago there was trouble, then the couuty Commissioners and Tn n urer were Republican. Now the eflbrt is to make the Democratic party re sponsible for errors, if nnv there weie, committed by the late Sheriff. Whcie was the Republican Commissioners when settlement was made ? The minutes of the office show he was pre cut and took part in the settlement. It was his business to examine the board account tiior rnghly to see wheth er the number of days charged for each prisoner was or was not correct. While we do not believe that the late Sheriff would wilfilly do a wrong art, if such has been d ne.and the record seem* to show it, we dare not, nor will we un dertake to sh eld him one whit. If he has through inadvertauee or oth'-rwi-o drawn pay for boarding more pris< ti ers than lie was entitled to, he should be required to refund, aud we have no doubt will do so at once. The Slitriff is not to be blamed that he received fifty cents a day for boarding prisoners. That responsibility belongs to the Com missioners, and according to Republi can views that board was Republican. Another charge against the Sheriff is his charge for removing fish baskets. Here the Sheriff arted clearly on a mis understanding of the law, which did not require him to search the streams of the county for fish baskets. Rut whose fault is it that it was allowed ? Whose business was it to stand guard over the public funds ? We leave the public to draw the conclusion. When we stand by the law we can not go wrong, or if we do we cannot be blamed, for it is the law and we must obey. A brief examination of the acts of Assembly relating to the removal of fish baskets will show what the Sheriff* ought to have done and what he ought to have left undone. The Eleventh Section of the Act of Assembly of 24th of May, 1871, re latiug to the protection of fish pro vides that "the Sheriffs of the counties "having jurisdiction of such reaches of "the streams, whenever they shall dis "cover or be informed of the existence "of such contrivances for the catching "of fish as are commonly known as "fish-baskets, eel-wires, kiddles, brush "or facine nets, or any other perma nently set means of taking fish, in "the nature of a sieve, which are known "to be wasteful and extravagant modes "of fishing, the said Sheriffs shall give "ten days notice in two newspapers of "their respective counties, that the con "trivances arc known to exist and are "declared a common nuisance, order "ing them to be dismantled by their "owners or managers, so as to render "tbem no longer capable of taking or "injuring fishes of the streams of what ever kind ; and if at the expiration "of the said ten days tbe dismantling "shall not have taken place, then the BKLLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23,1882. I "said Sheriffs -hull proceed, with such : "force (of) good men of the couuty nf ! "may he necessary for the purpose, and ' destroy or dismantle the said lid • , "baskets, Ac., so that they may be no "longer capable of taking or injuring i "fish ; and the accounting officers of I "the counties shall make good the cost ! "of the proceedings to said Sheriff or "Sheriffs in the settlement of their n<- | "counts with the said Sia-rili'-." Ry Section 9lh of the Act 28th April, l*i 3. J "The provisions of the Eleventh Sec tion (the one just quoted of the Act 24th May, I*7l, are made upplicuMi to all the streams or parts of streams 1 under the jurisdiction of thi* Coin ' moii weal tli." Under this law- the Sheriff is only \ bound to give notice when he shall dis cover or is informed that fi-li baskets, Ac., exist, and after notice lie is to destroy tlu-rn, providing they are not destroyed by others on notice being given. Tbe law does not, nor did it require him to travel up and down the valleys,or over our mountains to search for nnv fish-baskets, or any other con trivance in the streams. Whatever the Sheriff did more than this m t re quires and received pay for, was wrong and lie should promptly refund to the county. This act says the accounting officers shall make good the costs to said Sheriffs, Ac. Ry accounting officers we uuder.-tnnd County Auditors. They are to examine this bill and allow only his actual coats nothing more, and thu only menus for fi-h baskets removed according to law, not according to the notions of the officers. The otln r complaint made bv the I Republican and its numerous would ) e correspondent*, is that tbe .Sheriff has received more per day for boarding ■ prisoners than the law allows. No one i of reasonable intelligence will pretend that prisoners can be kept for twenty five cents a day. Tbe CommiMuoueia have nMowed fifty cents a day. Th<y were left the sole judges of the matter. Tbe Art of Assembly says the Sheriffs shall "receive such allow ance for boarding prisoners as may In fixed by the Court of (Quarter sessions, not exceeding tweuty-five cents per day for each prisoner." It is (beauty j of the Courts to fix such compensation, but if they do not the Commissioners cau pay, without risk, more per day j than that amouut, and if they do it is right that it should be allowed hy the Auditors. The Courts know that the amount allowed by the Act of Assem bly is too small an allowance for board, i and for this very reason have made no decree in the matter, beginn'ng back as far as 1863 or 1864. # As Democrats we have nothing to cover and no one to shield. Let the Auditors go into thie charge and all other charges thoroughly, nllow what is lawful and proper ami not one farth ing more. The effort of the Republi ran to make the Democratic party re sponsible for the persouai act of the late Sheriff, is as senseless as it would bo. to charge the Republican party with the murder of (Jarfidd because (fuilcau was a Republican. TUB Senators and Representatives from New .Jersey have written a letter ■ to the {'resident, urging that he relieve . (fen. Kit* John J'orter of the penalties and forfeitures lie has endured so long With but few exceptions, it is univer sally conceded that this gallant and noble officer has suffered great injus tice and wrong. This feet being brought to the attention of the Presi dent, by the report of the able officers who reviewed the case, by Gen. Grant and others who have taken the trouble to investigate it, every day's delay i in doing justice to Porter is positively , criminal and a disgrace to the Gov ernment. WB regret to see the announcement in the last Clinton Democrat that Mr. Rieffenhach, the able and accomplish ed editor of that paper, has retired. WIIO slit Whittaker'a ear? is ctill the difficult conundrum in official circle* at Wndiington. Tlio Court of Inquiry found that Whittaker did it; but the I'rcwident, the Secretary of War and the Judge Advocate General seem to doubt whether to believe the liegro, or the court of honorable officers who I exhaustively investigated his mystiri | ous jterformancea. A cask of creditable, if not rare, lionesty, and its prompt reward occur red the other day in Boston. A gen tleman on a visit to that <-ley, lost his pockethook containing 8500. It was found by the conductor of a street car and returned to the owner, who took the conductor to a hank and deposited the amount to his credit and subject j to his order in one year. Tim dumtnniiy incmliers of the New \ ork legislature, not being able to flicker with the Democrat*, carried i their wares to a party ever ready and ! open for a barter. They transferred : themselves to the Republican*, body ! and britches. Ihe Democracy may well IKS satisfied. They kuow now where to find John K-lley and his chin and need uo longer he victim* of their treachery. Tin: special committee appointed to audit the expenses attending the sick nrs- ami funeral of tin* laic President, agreed upon a bill allowing Mrs. (far field an mutual pension of $5,000, which was subsequently rejmrtfvl ami passed. They also allowed some minor bilk, ami intimate that the total amount of bilk presented will not be much short of two hundred thousand dollar*. Lvery per- n who furnished anything during the illness of the President dc manda payment tif the Government, and even aome member* of Congrew presented bill* for their individual ex j peases incurred in attending the fu neral. Dcadlockm BROKE*. In the New York Senate the existing deadlock in the organization of that body haa been broken by a contract lietween the faiurnany Bosses and the lb-publican*, and in Virginia it ha* been broken by the whip* of Mahone and Arthur re quiring a straightout Republican, who voted with the Democrat*, to surren der hi* indc|endcnce and *u*taiu the c aliiiou I >!•(*< in the Repudiator* and Republican*, Democracy in a minority in both cases occupy a higher and more honorable position, standing alone unmixed with the base traffics which the Republicans do not hesitate to employ to maintain their power to obtain power and place. Kel ley and Maboue will be congenial spirit* in the Republican ranks. TIIB Apportionment Bill ha* passed the House after agreeing upon a basis of 32ft mcmlfcr*. Mr. Beltxhoover's amendment designed to prevent gerry mandering in the formation of Con gressional districts, providing that they shall be made up of contiguous Terri tory, it incorporated in the kill. The representation under this bill will be a* follows: A ............ T Ark*k- '• ... ]4 iWIIMni*. .—... 1 X-t>nk 3 ( nl.mtA.. 1 I (Wwllrtl 4 *r lUfnpfSlrf. t D*Uw*............. .. I X-w 7 ZImKW ..... V S.-* Trk M dmita luiXorOi WM>. ... S 11iiimw *i iSiio 11 1 ri'lion4 Mlosf* 1 ...... ... II r-nn-<ltiU IS Ktv 7 Rkih MM. 1 K-ntickr ll!fc.tk Cord I m ._ 7 Uial-tana (' T-unnxfi 10 Wain* I T II Vr;l*mt ...... (-Visum.- 1 H**Mrhn**lu 11. Virginia... In WkhlOß ... II W<-| Vlrloi*. ... 4 Mlnn'O iU...4,W1 mrtla • IM| Ml The increase of membership over the prevent, is thirty-two. Maine, New I Hampshire and Vermont each Representative; Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vir ginia and West Virginia, each gain one member; California, lowa, Michi gan, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Carolina, each gain two members; Kansas fair members and Texas five. MUM. ficovtLLE, the sister of Gui ti-au, has written a letter to Mrs. Car field urging her to use her influence to obtain a pardon for the culprit. Mr*, (•arfield has very properly declined to interfere, und has authorized a reply stating, "that toward* the slayer of her husband she cherishes no malice, he must answer only to bis Cod and the American people. For the sister and all the members of his family, she feels only profound pity. Further than this, she ask* to he left alone with her j own sorrow und to be spared being ; dragged into useless and torturing publicity. ' 'I hi* is just what might lie exjK-ctcil lroru a noble Christian woman, such ns Mr*. Carfield ha* j proved herself, in I lie frightful scenes through which she has passed. Bow Itt'l.K KXTIXCIUIHHKU IS I'HM.AOUI.I'IUA !—Yesterday at the municipal elections the Bosses and • rogues found the honest |-op!e fullv equipped and earnestly determined to reform the corruptions and abuses which have fur year* liet-n growing up i under the loss jioliiic-al organization jof that city. 11l proof of their earn estness that at lea*t one election in that municipality should bear the im press of honesty, the Reform comrnit tee of "Cue Hundred" offered a re ward of for the detection and coiviction of those engaged in the , pcrpctratiou of the usual election I fraud*. This gave notice to the bosses and their corps of ballot-stuffcr*. rounders and repeater*, that there was danger ahead in plying their usual method. The rascals to some extent, heeded the warning, and the result is a *ignal triumph of the ticket endorsed by the Reformers, which is pretty j e-rjuallyr composed of Democrats and Republican* MR. EDMCXD'I anti-Polygamy bill has passed the Senate. It declares all polygamou* marriages in Territories of which the United folates ha* exclusive 1 jurisdiction unlawful, and after the passage of this act, punishable by fine not exceeding #SOO mud imprisonment not exceeding five years, and author ize* the President to grant amnesty to offender* guilty of bigamy, polygamy or unlawful cohabitation befote the passage of the act on such conditions and under such limitations as he shall I think proper. The bill also declares that no polygamic, bigamist or any person cohabiting with more than one j woman, in any Territory or place where the United States have exclusive juris ' diction, shall be entitled to vote at any 1 election or be eligible for election or, appointment to any office or place of public trust, honor or emolucmcnt in, under or for such Territory. It also declares vacant existing rcgestralions and election officers, until supplied under tbe provision of the bill. This ' bill is sweeping iu its provisions, and some thought unconstitutional, but it is to abate a shameless blot which has been suffered to exist, almost unchal lenged, until it has reached alarming proportions, and it is to lie hoped may be successful in rooting it out. THE STATE COIXEUK located io this county, is being handled pretty rough ly in different parts of the State, in duced probably, because iu President happens to be a candidate for Gover nor. We cannot see the justice of tbi*. Au able committee was ap pointed by the last Legislature to make an exhaustive investigation and report on the condition of this institu tion, which we presume has also in view ite efficiency and adaptability to promote the interests for which it was organised and endowed. Until that committee has made their report, it seems but fkir that clamor against the college and its administration might rest in obeyaoce, and the President allowed to stand upon his own record and that of the political faction with whom he ia identified as an aspirant for political favor. We have no inter est in the oollege—owe them no favors TKRMN: $1.50 per Annum, in Advanre. iu any form whatever, and if the in stitution in a unclean and unnecenaary expense to the Commonwealth and a fraud upon the public, an is alleged by it* enemies, we would utter no word to sustain it, but let facta be submitted intelligently through the legal channel designated by the legislature, and not ock to prejudice the investigation by ignorant clamor or false declarations with the view to its partisan effects in deciding whether Farmer Butler or Gen. Beaver should be the Radical candidate for Governor. HOME one of the speculative corres pondents at M adiington ha* discover e<l or a political "marcs-neat" and sent it broadcast, as the latest political news from the National Me tropolis. It is that Jere Black, Seoa tor Voorhees, Senator Morgan and a number of influential Representatives of the Southern Democracy, have con spired to spring ujjon the country in I*Bl, a new political combination of which Mr. Blaine is to be the Jxad and Senator Voorhees or some orlber prominent Democrat the vice or ornamental attachment. £uch foolish twaddle may do to excite curiosity and alarm a stalwart, hut the correspon dent is unfortunate in selecting the conspirators. To those, at least, who know J ere Black, the very idea of identifying him with an arrangement to place Blaine at the head and a Democrat at the tail of a Presidential t cket, nan only excite a smile. This uncompromising war horse of honest Democracy never surrender* the first honor, or compromises a Democratic principle, which is as dear to his heart a the Gospel of Truth itself. This alone is sufficient to stamp the roor back. THE members of the Legislature got the s.*ioo extra pay to which they were eulitled for the prolonged session of last winter over oue hundred days, under the act of 1874. The question was raised by the Attorney General as , to the constitutionality of the law, and under his advice the State Treasurer refused payment. It was then brought before Judge Pearson who affirmed the views of the Attorney General, and decided that the extra allowance claimed over the tIOOO salary for a session of one hundred days, could not be legally paid. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, who have re | versed the decision of Judge Pearson and settled the question as to the con stitutionality of the law of 1874. Here after the length and cost of a session of the Ijegedature, whether one hun dred days ami #I(WK) salary, or one hundred and fifty days and 11500 salary, can only be influenced by pub lic sentiment and the integrity and decent propriety of the meraberMhero selves. Tbey are, however, Mill an swerable to the people for the waste of the public 1 unds and should be held to strict accountability, whether for the last session or those to follow. THKNashvslle American, referring to the bill giving a pension to the wives of ex-Presidents, relates a fact not generally known that Mrs. Jaa. K. Polk has 'lived out all the means # left her by her husband and adds * "On the score of necessity, therefore there is not among the surviving wid ows of deceased Presidents of the I uited States of America, one whose claims are more deserving the con sideration of the American people or their representatives in the American Congress. The wealth-producing State of Texas and California were acquired under the Polk Administration, and millions to the revenues of this coun try and to the private wealth of its cili tcn. The name of James K. Polk should be reverd by the American people and the comfort and care of his widow be the willing charge of her countrymen. She is now well stricken in years and apprnachhMAe end of a life which has been an Woamoa to American womanhood and an honor to the social lift of the capitals of her Stat# and of the nation. Proper pro vision for the few years Ist to her would not bankrupt lha Government, and Congress could not do a more graceful thing, than to make it. NO. 8.
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