®lte Ctnftf jnrraotr.it, BELLEFONTE. PA. Tka Largest, Cheapest wad Bast Paper PUBLISHED IN CENTRE COUNTY. POPULAR DELUSIONS ABOUT UTAH. Nw York UsrsH, Fsb. 13. Mr. Edmunds proposes to call up in the United States Senato to-morrow his bill for the better enforcement of the anti-polygamy statutes in Utah. It is highly appropriate for a Senntor from Vermont to take tho lead in a legislative movement of this kind, for his State was the birthplace of Joseph Kmith, the founder of Mormonism ; and Brigham Young and Hebcr C. Kimball, who guided the conspiracy that engrafted polygamy upon the dog mas of the new religion, were natives of the same soil. There are some popular delusions about the Mormons, aud very intelli gent persons who have visited Salt Lake City for the purpose of making personal investigations there, and who fancy that they have a right to pro nounce authoritative opinions upon "tlie Utah question," are not always free from them. One is that the Mor mons consist chiefly of foreigners. On the contrary, the American-boru in habitants of Utah outn#iiber the for eign-born more than two to one. The proportion by the census of 1880 is 99,969 to 43,994. I>nkotn, which ap- ; proximates closely to Utah in the ng- j gregate of its population, having 13-5,-1 180 inhabitants, while Utah has 143,- 903, is muelj more under the domina tion of a foreign element so far as numbers are concerned. The propor tion in Uakota is 51,793 foreign horn to only 83,387 natives of the United •States. So is the State of Nevada. So are most of the great cities of the con tinent. The proportion in Utah does not materially differ from that in Rhode Island, one of the original mem bers of the Union. It will not do for the people of the United States to try to shift their own responsibility for the disgusting peculiarities of Utah society upon foreign shoulders. The Mormon religion was an American invention, and the ecclesiastical supremacy over its adherents always has iieen control led by Americans. John Taylor, who is the nominal head of the Church since Young's death, is English by birth, to I>e sure, hut he liv no means inherits Young's autocratic sway. It is shared with coadjutors most of whom are of American birth, ami he himself has been a resident of the United States for half a century. He was with .Smith in Carthage jail in 1814, and was wounded in the affray in which the Prophet was killed. Nor have foreigners ever predominated in Utah at any stage of the development of the Mormon community. In 1870 the total population was 86,7x0, ami the respective numbers of American-born and foreign-born were 56,084 and 30,. 702. In 1860 the total was 40,273, and the respective numbers were 27,- 519 ami 12,751. The bulk of the American-born inhabitants nlo nre natives of tbe Territory. No b-ss than 80,847 of the present 99,969 were born upon its own soil, under exclusively Federal jurisdiction. Congress ba had the power to control them from the cradle in all those features of life which ore subject to the regulation of law. These figures fix the absolute responsibility of the United States Government for what Utah is. As the twig is bent the tree is inclined, and if Congress had bent this twig out of its crookedness while the wood was tender and supple it might have spared itself the present severe efforts to straighten a stout trunk of more than thirty years growth. Another delusion about ( tab is that the foreign element in its population is recruited from European races which the. claimauts of a conceited superior ity for the so-called Anglo-Saxon stock fancv to be inferior. On the contrary, England makes the chief contribution to it,and next to England comes those Scandinavian countries to whoso peo ple the Auglo-Saxou stock is close akin. The infrequeucv of Irish or German Mormons is very remarkable, and the races of Europe never have been hospitable to Mormon mis sionaries. Has the discipline of the Catholic Church anything to do with this? Certainly it is next to impossi ble to find a Frenchman, an Italian or a Spaniard in Salt City. Tin proportions in which foreign countries have chiefly contributed to the Mor mon community arc very constant, as is plain by the following comparative table, which we have compiled from the censuses of 1870 and 1880 : ICH | ** I Bom In Engl*nit IS iC I Ifl.i-'.l Ham In SsaUnnd IWI I 201 Horn In Wnl*n ...... I.l*l i.Vju Bora in IrrlnnS soi l.ngl Ham In 1>ni?i*r1i.............. I.Ki :.7#l Norn In Swwlrn 1,7*0 .1 JSn Hern In Norwiiy..... mi I 214 Horn In Saiurlan4 11.40 Born In Orrn*nj Sin k.-. We are satisfied, by inquiry, that the large ratio of increase of Irish aud German immigrants exhibited in this table is due to the development of mines in the Territory, and not at all to convdßkoria to Mormonism. It re inforces HI noo-Mornion, or so-called Gentile, section of the population. Another noteworthy fact is that the Mormon community is not n favorite asylum for Chinese. Notwithstanding the facilities the Pacific railroad affords them for acccso to Utah there were but 445 Chinamen there in 1870, and the number had increased only to st)l in 1880. A third delusion nbout Utah is that tho females greatly outnumber the males. This popular notion among uuiuquiring people arises from suffer ing their minds to dwell upon the abundantly-stocked seraglios of the wealthy potentates of the Mormon Church, without considering that the poverty of most of the agricultural settlers in the Territory makes it em barrassing for a multitude of them to support ono wife —much more two, three, or half a dozen. It is, to be sure, a Mormon practice to marry women for cooks and chambermaids. There are conveniences in the practice in respect to stability of service. But the circumstances of most Mormon hushaudmen forbid them to employ cooks or chambermaids, whether by wedding or by wages. Notwithstand ing the vigorous preaching of poly gamy as a duty for the last twenty-five years, it irf probable that a majority of the Mormon males still are monoga mists for economic reasons, ami that polygamy is a luxury, like cigars ami champagne. The proportion of the sexes shown by the census of I>t wonderful decision* that have ever been dclivcre.l ince the day* of Solomon. Not Ion); since Jim Webster wad brought up la-lore him for cuttiiig oir the ear ol n row that had broken into Jim's garden. The cae was clearly proven, and the colored Solomon saiil : "1 sentence Jim Web ster to lie locked up in dc county jail forde sjmcc obone year." "But,your Honor, the statute says that the penal ties for such offence* shall la-a fine, not to exceed fifty dollars," said Jim Welister's attorney. "I knows datar, but I take de old Inw on de subject." "To what old law does your Honor re fer?" "To de law of Moses, sab, which says, 'an eye for an eye, a toof for a toof, an ear for an ear.' I)e pris oner nt dc liar cut off one ear ob dc cow, and de law say* splicitly, dat he !<*•* a year's lime in de jail. Kf he had cut oir bofe ears ob de row he would hali got two years. < 'all dc next ease on dc docket." Au Innocent Abroad. Frunt the Hartford Tlmst. A young lady from the rural dis trict recently visited town with her lienn. (Jetting into a ear for the first time she took her seat, while her lover planted himself on the box with the driver. Very soon the conductor be to collect the fares, and approach ing the rustic maiden be said : "Your fare, miss." The rural rosebud al lowed a delicate pink to manifest itself upon, her cheeks and looked down in • I confusion. The eouductor was rather astonished at this, but ventured to remark once more: "Your fare, miss." This time the pink deepened to carnation, as the rustic beauty re plied : "l)eed,nnd if I am good look in", you hadn't ought to say it out loud afore folk* r TIIK BOFTTON Pod can *O no reaaoti why Chinamen ftlmuld no( Itecnme po* line officer*. They tin not *|><-ak the Knglinh language very well, but neith er floe* a drunkard. KCHTACIEH AT REVIVALS. Whole Conyregatione Prostrated by "Jerk*" and Nervout Kxhaustipn. From ft Pftper lijr PrufrMor Ynrimll, of l*iit*vill. Extraordinary interest was excited in the popular mind of Kentucky, at an early day, by a form of convulsive disease, which, though it had been witnessed elsewhere in the world, had never assumed a shape so decidedly epidemic. The spectacle of |>crsoiis falling down in a paroxysm of feeling was first exhibited at (Jasper River Church, iu one of McGready's congre gations in the summer of 1770. The movement proved highly contagious and spread in all directions. After a rousing appeal to the feeling* of the listeners, ami especially during spiri ted singing, one ami another in the audicnee Would fall suddenly to the ground nnd swoon away. Not only nervous women, hut robust young men were overpowered. Some, continue., the historian, fell suddenly as il struek by lightning, while others were seized with a universal tremor before they fell shrieking. Dr. Rlvthe, who often witnessed scenes of thi* sort, assured Dr. Duvidsou that he imd mice felt the sensation himself, and only ovr came the tendency to eolivulsiun by a clfnrt clfnrt of hi* will. A few shriek* never failed lo put the assem bly in motion and set iio-n aud women to falling around. A sense of "pin* and needless" wa* complained of by many of the subjects, mid others fell a numbness of Imdy, mid lost all voli tional control of their mucles. It stain grew into a habit, and those who bad once fallen were ready to fall again under circumstance* by no tneau* ex citing. The lir*t form iu wbiel| these spasmodic movement* made their up |M*aranee wa* that of a simple jerking of the arms from the elbow downward. When they involved the entire Imdv they arc describe,! a- something terri ble to behold. The head wa* thrown backward and forward with a ecleritv tliut alarmed s|iectalors, causing the hair, if it wa* long, "to imp like the lash of ft whip." The most graphic description of the "jerking exercise" wa* written by thu Rev. Richard McNernar, an eyewit ness o| ihe frenzy, a* well a* an ij*i!o --gi-t, believing it to he n display of Divine favor, in hi* "History of the Kentucky Revival" he say*: "Noth ing in nature could letter represent tins strange and unaccountable iqicra tioii than for one to goad another, al ternately on every side, with a piece of redhot iron. This exercise commonly 1 cgail in the head, which would fly backward and forward, nud from side to side with a quick jolt, which the |>cr.*on would naturally labor to sup press, hut in vain and the more any one labored to stay himself and he sober, the more he staggered, and the more Ins twitches increased. He must necessarily go as lie was stimulated, whether with a violent dash on the ground, a bounce from place to place like a foot hall, or round with head, limb- and trunk twitching and jolting in every direction, a* if they must in evitably fly asunder. And how such could escaja? without injury wa* no small wonder to spectator*. Hy thi* strange ojiernlioti the human frame wa* commonly so transformed and dis figured a* to i< so every trace of i * natural apjxarntiee. Sometime* the loud would lie twitched right and left to a half-round with such velocity that riot a leature could lie discovered, but the face appeared a* much behind a* before. Head dre**es were of little ac count among the female jerker*. Haukerchiefs, hound tight round the head, were flirted r*, ami, being in what the historian call* "one of hi* big way," he rxelaimed : "I feel like breaking the trigger of hell!" and at the same time gave a tremendou* *tamp with hi* foot which actually broke one of the joist*. The |ieople below, hearing lbe*uddeti cruh ran *creamiug, to the door, *omc of them really imagining,a* the writer of all these event* relate*, "that hell had overtaken them." GKXKRAL GRANT, when asked the other evening where was the sword which he wore at Ix-o's surrender, answered : "I didn't have any on. I seldom wore a sword. I did wear one at the battle of Bhi!oh and it saved niy life. A ball struck it and broke the scabbard, which dropped on the field. I Indieve Mrs. Grant has the blade. Hhe is better at saving things than I am." It is estimated that if a man lives to seveuty-two years old, he passes at least twenty-four years in sleen 80, you sets, a man is a pretty goon sort of a fellow one-tbird of the time, bad as he may be the remaining two-thirds. Let us bo charitable. A Young (Jlrl Marries a Murderer. fat) Pftktti iaro Alio. About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon u vouug lady named Mary E. Willis, a blonde of prepossessing appearance and twenty-four years of uge, applied at the County Clerk* office for a mar riage license, permitting her lo murry George C. Gottung. who only two hour* before had been sentenced to serve a term of ten year* iu the Htate Prison at San Quentiu for the murder of hi* wife. About the *nme time Justice Pennie wa* called out of the Court room to go to the County Jail to perform the marriage ceremony, and half an hour later the jail door was opened iu answer to a knock to admit, on a permit from the (Sheriff, "Judge Pennie, Mr. Gottung (a brother of the groom) and Mis* Mary E. Wil li*." The trio wore taken to the re eeptioii-room, where they expressed a desire to see George C. Gottung, uud explained the object of their visit. ( VII No. 'J"i, wherein (Joining was con fined, was opened and the party pro ceded to cell No. 1, where Justice Peuiiie united the couple, the only witness present being the groom's brother. After an hour's con versa tion. the newly-made wife and her brother-in-law left the jail and Gut tling was locked up in hi* cell. Got tung i* seven years the senior of lit* bride, and by good behavior may he released in about seven year*. Mary E. Willi* i* the daughter of Robert Willis, a house painter, re-id ing at 171* Ix-a veil worth street. She has been for a long time a member of the Woman's Emit and Flower Mis sion, and was a frequent visitor to the county jail, where she went for the purpose of laboring for the welfare of the prisoner*. While in thi* work she became acquainted with Gottung and took n great interest in him. The frequency of her visit* increased, and it soon became apparent that between the two hud sprung up a strong at tachnient, report* of which finally mt<4icd the ear* of tl.e young lady's father, who trid to dissuade her against yielding to an infatuation that could result iti no good. Rut as she wns of age and had a will of her own, the visit* instead of decreasing la-came even in- re frequent and of longer dura tion. The lather tried to induce the jail officials to refuse her admission, hut as they scemd to think they had no right to comply with the request, lie finally suhmittd to the inevitable, hoping f.r the best. The result is, that tin! infatuated girl has —unless the ceremony wn* void, hy reason of the outlawry of the groom—been married to a man under a ten years' sentence for the killing of hi* former wife by stabbing her iua Ix-er saloon at North Reach. Hon Marriage* Itnokes a Will. ft- m • fi'lußf Some very hard caw* have arisen under our Pennsylvania Inw in regard to this subject. A man about to mar ry ba made his will in favor of his in tended wife, and a woman about to marry has inade her will in favor of her intended husband, and in both caw-* the will* have lieen revoked by the marriage. It has happened more than once that purchaser* who Ixuight from the device* or legates under a will have found that they had failed t'Mfcct a title to the whole property on account of an outstanding claim on the part of an after-born child of the testator. It is iniportant,therefore,thal the following summary of the law by the late thief Justice Reed should l>c k< nt in mind : First. The will of a single woman is revoked by her subsequent marriage, and is not revived by the death of her hushatid. Second. If a man makes his will and marries, and die* leaving a widow, so fiir as regards hi widow, he dies in testate; that is, his will is revoked pro tanto (or in that respect. I Third. If a mau makes hi* will, and has an after horn ehild or children not provided for in said will, and die* leaving this after-born child or chil dren, he dies intestate, and his will is revoked pro tanto. Fourth. If a man make* hi* will and ninrrics, and die*, leaving a wid ow ami child not provided for in such will, his will is not revoked alisolute ly, as at common law, but only pro tanto. Fifth. If a man makes his will, marries and dies, leaving a widow, but not known heirs or kindred, it is clear ly revoked, so far a* to give the wid ow both the real and personal estate absolutely. The law refuse* to admit that a man can intend to disinherit his children, unless he shows that iutention by a will made after they arc horn. Making New Eyelid*. Transplanting human flesh basal ways been considered a difficult opera lion, hut the success attending two re markable operations of this kind re cently performed by I)r. Richard J. I.evi* at the Pennsylvania Hospital has attracted the attention of the en tire medical profession. The subject that received the severest cutting from the surgeon's knife is a coal miner named John Delancy, from the Le higli Valley district, who received ter rible injuries about the head and breast by the explosion of a can of blasting powder. The accident happened Ave {cars ago, and alter the wounds had ealed the man was horribly disfigur ed, presenting a sickening appearance. ( The head was drawn so far forward that hi* chin had grown fast lo his breast, wliih: hi* eyes were without lid*, it wa* impossible (or him to *hut hi* eye*,and food could be taken with only the greatest difficulty. In this condi tion life wa* a misery to the unfortu nate mnn, while hi* repulsive np|*-ar ance was no le** a Hource of annoynnce to hi* friends. In thi* condition he came to the Pennsylvania Hospital about fifteen months ago, and wa* placed under the care of Dr. Ix-vis. i lie head wa* fir*t brought to an up right position by what i* known a* the plastic operation. The flesh that held the chin down wa* cut, and to prevent thi* new wound from drawing the chin to its former position it w a* covered bv *kin turned up from adjacent part* of the breast. The chin wa* held in posi tion by props and bandage*, and within a few weeks time the patient wa* able to hold hi* head erect. liut the eye* were *tili a source of great annoyance to him. The upiier and lower lid* were burned off, leaving the iuflumcd edge* turned outward. The upper lids were supplied by flesh f rom a little finger which it wa* neces sary to amputate. The application healed, and in a short time Delancy returned home greatly improved in ap pearance. He wa* able to partially close his eyes, but the under lid* were *:ill sore. A few weeks ago he again came to the hospital, and wa* supplied with new lid* taken from the fle*h of an nrm. Thi* application was no less successful thai! those that had preceded it, and in a short time the man w ill li able to have. The second operation performed bv Dr. 1/ •vis was one requiring even more skill than the preceding, although the result* obtained were not a* great. The patient in this case was a young woman, the corner of whose mouth and the under lip were eaten awav by disease. The flesh was gone even down to the jawbone. To heal thi* a jtor lion of the upper lip wit* cut aud turn ed over, so a* to fid the place of the part eaten away. The wound i* heal ing readily, and withiu a short time the mouth will he whole and without disfigurement, only a slight sear show ing.— I'hi/a. Jlrronl. Fundamental Difference*. N Vok ibiti Mr. Jefferson's remarks prefatory to the Ana-, written twenty-five years after the Anas themselves, are full of interest. "A short review of the facts," he *ays, "will aiiow that the contests of that day were contests of principle between the advocate* of republican and those of kingly government ; and that had not the former made the cf forts they did, our government would have been, even at thi* early day, a very diflVrent thing from what the successful i*sue of those efforts ha* made it." The Ana# were Mr. Jefferson'# re cord of the occurrence# in ami about the Washington administration. They •how the real, unvarnished opinion* of the Matcsrmn of that day upon vital question*, and narrate the conflicts out of which arose the parties which subse quently divided the country —one of which, the Democratic, still endures, while the other has shifted it# name, hut not it* esseutional doctrines, many time*. Hut the germ or beginoing of every political controversy that has ever shaken the republic, from the in auguration of Washington to the pres ent time, niav be found in these narra tion* of the first secretary of state ; and elsewhere, iu the official papers sub mitted bv the respective leaders, Jef ferson and Hamilton, are elaborated the divergent view* of fundamental principles upon which partial have since stood and fought, and indeed, are likely to stand ami fight so long as the Constitution of 1787 shall last. It was, however pretty clearly the opinion of Jefferson, as it ha* been of nearly all hi* followers, that the abso lute triumph of the Federalist* would put a practical cud to political parties. The leader* of the Federal party then avowed openly, a* the leader* of the Grant party have since done, although with more caution, their purpose to change the government, so a* to make it " stronger" as against the common people. Hamilton's demand for a " distinct and permanent share of authority" to he given to wealth as such, was plainly reiterated by the (•rant conspirators iu the prelimina ries to the Chicago convention. Such a change would soon be followed by an hereditary tenure of many officers, by a ruthless use of the power of taxa tion for the further enrichment of the fortunate few, by monopoly in every form and bv large navies and standing armies. What, under such circum stances, would be the opposition or Democratic party. It could scarcely be anything hut a conspiracy against overwhelming power, with DO hope of succest except in revolution. Mean while the condition of the people would be what it has been in all ages aud til countries where, instead of making their rulets servants, tbey suffered them to make themselves mas ters. HOW TO HLEEP WELL. Tkt Cau*f Strrp— Voluntary and In vol untary Mutrular Krrmot. No healthful sleep comes except that which follows voluntary or invol untary action of the muscles of the body. Pedestrians fall into sound, deep sleep as soon as put to bed at the appointed time for rest. That is the sleep from voluntary muscular exercise. A person in good health sits around the house all day ; an invalid may all day sit and lounge and'lie down from morning until night without (deeping, and both the healthy man and the in valid in the course of the evening will become sleepy ami fall into sound re pose, the result of the weariness which involuntary motion hringa ul>out; lor the various organs of the body, tie heart, the liver, the stomach, the eyelids, work steadily every day. The intestines are a ceaseless in their mo tion as the waves of the ocean ; as these latter are always dashing toward the shore, so is the great visceral machin ery working, working, pushing tlm wastes of the body downward and out ward from the first brerth of existence to the last grasp of Jih\ There is not a movement of the system, voluntary or involuntary, external or internal, which does not require power to cause it. When that power is to u certain extent exhausted, instinct brings on the sensation of sleepiness, which i ; the result of exhausted power, inten ded by nature to secure that cessation from activity which gives time for re j cuperation, very much as a man who 1 runs for a while stojs and rests so as Ito get stronger to run again. We | get up iu the morning with a certain amount of reserved or accumulated strength ; in the course of the day thai ! strength bccoui'-i expended to the | point oectasary for the commencement of a new supply, which corner from rest, the rest from sleep, ((pium nar cotics, ail forms ol aii'slvuss, cause sleep artificially by com jailing re-t. A horse may Ire tied so that he cannot ; move; he is compelled pi |w at rest; it !is not the rest of tiredm •, hence it i | unnatural. Anodynes, in a sense, tie a man down ; they take away his (inn er of motion ; they COUI|KI rest, hut it is not the rest which is the result of Used up strenght, hence it i an arii : fi'ial sleep, not natural can not I. • healthful; hence the truth of the first utterance of this chapter—healthful | sleep comes from the expenditure of 1 the strength of the body iu various forms ot ex< rcise. A Pretty W>lrni Komaiicc. A brother ami sister have met after a separation of twenty year*, ani il. meeting has U(H br light About in I) i'Vi iijcirt bv tin* little win of the air ier in a iiio-t jM-cubar way. One week B K° yesterday tlie rait steamer Clyde Went into !>i'ven(>ori nil ber way tinrth, and Captain Douglas* tied up hi* boat lnr a while in order to jxrmit some of the crew t> go aln>re and make pur chases. Am.ng others wlm went ashore wa Aarnn Carter, a raftsman. Tb • weatlier i< very cold, with a keen north-wed wind. While going along the street Carter met a poorly-clad lit tle boy. who was running along, cry - ing bitterly. Carter asked him what w. the matter, and the little lad sob l>cd out: ''l'm cold." "Come with me," said Carter; and taking the boy to a clothing More he bought hini n suit of worm clothes mid a |>air ol mit tens. He then asked the boy In- name. "Aaron Dunhp," • the reply. Car ter wa thunderstruck. Aaron Dun lap !he cried. "Where is your lather and mother ?" "Father i deail," tlje boy replied. "Well, take me to your mother, thdi, a- quickly a- you can," said Carter. The boy t xk him to his humlile home, and when flatter color ed t he house t lie boy 's mother rushed in to his arms with a shriek that made all the other occupants of the tene ment house rush into the hall to see what was the matter. Carter had found a sister whom he had not set u since the year lX cent* a pound, and a good sctbkin sacque cost* as high aa SSOO. The necessaries of life must experience a fall in price be fore two souls willredily blend in the assimilated alemiic, and so forth. IN a pleasait company each one asked a questim. If it wa answered, the quesliotte' |id a forfeit or if he could not anwer it himself he paid a forfeit. Anlrtshmati's question was : "How does fie little ground squirrel dig his holt without throwing any dirt about the ait ranee 7" When they all gave it u|. I'm said: "Sure, do you see, he bgins at the other end of the hole," hie of the rest exclaimed; "Hut luX does he get there ?" "Ah," said Pa. "that's your question. C'an you atiwerit yourself." WITN an Austin, Texas, school niaste entered his temple of learning a fewdaya ago, he read on the black boar* the touching legend, "Our teaefcr is a donkey." The pupils ex pectd there would be a com bind cy do* snd earthquake, but the pbilo sopical pedagogue contented himself wit adding the word "driver" to the leend, and opened the school with payer as usual. £)j a Third avenue sarfare car re* roily ft woman entered the forward fthin, which is devoted to smoker*. The conductor touched ber on the houlder and told her that it waa the moking department. "You mind your Own business," aaid sbe, and she took out a pipe, loiuled it with tobftroo, and enjoyed ber smoke.