Centre A Elemoerat.
81IUGKRT A FORSTKIt, Editors.
T VOL. I.
SHE TFTUFW DEMOCRAT.
Tortus SI.AO par Annum.ln Ailvonce.
8. T. SHUQERT and R. H. FORSTER, Editor*.
Thursday Morning. March 9,1882.
Democratic State Committee.
11 E A I*ol* A lIT EHS DEMOCRATIC STATE
COMMITTEE, WILKKSHARRE, February 2:t,
1882 —There will be s meeting "f the
Democratic Stuto Committee t the Bolton
hotel, Hrriburg, on Wednesday, Mitreh
22, ut 12 o'clock, noon, for the purpose of
fixing H time end plw-o for holding the
next Democratic State Convention.
E. P. KISSBK, J. K. BOOERT,
Secretary. Chairman.
MAYOR KINO, the Democratic Chief
Executive of Philadelphia, has added
two more colored citizens to the police
of that city. They now number seven.
THE annual product in the manu
facture of stoves in Philadelphia is said
to be 84,000,000, and the number of
persons directly dependent upon this
branch of industry iu that city is es
timated at twelve thousand.
**THE Philadelphia lltcord is one of
k the largest ami best daily papers pub
f lislied. It contaiira all the latest news
of each day, ami as much, if not more
general reading matter than any other
newspaper, and yet it is diliverod to
subscribers and readers for ono cent.
THE docket of the criminal court in
Washington, is said to lie so incum
bered, that it will lie six months be
fore the cases of the indicted star
route thieves can be reached. This
will serve as an excuse for delay for
half a year, ami in thnt time others
will conveniently present themselves.
SENATOR LAMAR did for Conkling
an act, which it is not likely Conkling
would have done for Lamar under
similar circumstances. He voted for
Conkling's confirmation to the judge
ship, ignoring mutual animosity and
recognizing his ability nnd fitness for
the position.
A BALTIMORE city missionary
demonstrates by figures that a family
of five persons may lie subsisted for
a year on 8-V). That is reducing liv
ing to a low figure. Congress should
have had this estimate when thev vo
ted the poor forlorn beggar in New-
York a pension of 815,000 a year.
U SOME of the Stalwart journals are
beginning to show trepidation and a
realization of the perils of the situation.
► Being confronted on one side by Wolf's
independents and on the other by
Farmer Butler, there seem* to be a
necessity to hedge somewhere. It is
discovered that "hay seed" would be
a popular rallying cry in the cam
paign for a Congressman at-large, aud
that Farmer Butler is the man of all
others,to carry the banner in triumph
to the Stalwart camp. Perhaps!
AT the session of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F. at Cincin
nati in Septemtier last, a committee
was appointed to revise the ritual work
of the order. That committee was in
session in Baltimore last week, to per
form the duties of their appointment,
and will have the result of their labor*
ready for the use of the Lodges by the
first of June. Amongst the changes,
and the principle one perhaps, is re
quiring the working of all subordinate
Lodgea to be in the third degree. The
.change is to go into effect after the
*firt of July next.
EX-SENATOR PLATT is reported as
* Baying that Conkling will not accept
v'on the ground that he cannot afford
f It nd prefera to remain in politics.
"Me too" was right. Conkling does
consent to enter the judicial sar
cophagus and therefore declines the
appointment tendered him by the
►truaident with the approval of the
Moate. This may Indicate that the
third-term, or Conkling, is yet an issue
to be settled. If the nomination by
Arthur was made to remove a barrier
to the succession that might be trou
blesome, it also indicates that stratej
gy don't always win.
"KqtJAL ANI> K X ACT JUSTICE TO AI.L MKK, OK WHATEVER STATIC OH I'EKM'ANION, KEI.IOIOt'H >H POLlTlCAL."—Jefferson
Lot us Doliboruto.
The Ilurrishurg Patriot makes the
I following timely and judicious sugges
tion in view of the selection of candi
dates for Stale offices soon to bo noni
|iuutcd: "It must he admitted that
the Democratic party of Pennsylvania
cannot afford to indulge in any violent
contest over the nomination of candi
dates for State ofiices. It has had
about as much of that sort of thing as
ought to fall to the lot of any [Hiliti
cal organization during an existence
of a hundred years. There has not
been a nomination for governor since
lXf>7 which was made without a fierce
and bitter conflict in convention. For
twenty years the Democracy of the
State have behaved in their State con
ventions as if a nomination was equi
valent to an election only to repent of
their folly when the returns came in.
Have they at last learned the lesson
which they have been given so many
opportunities to study ? It would ap
pear from the reluctance with which
the voters are arraying themselves in
favor of any particular candidate that
they now understand the necessity for
prudent and cautious action. Thus
far but few counties have given in
structions to delegates and there is a
prospect that a majority of the State
convention will not be committed to
any particular candidate for any of
the nominations which that body will
be required to make. Democrats have
their personal preferences nod there
w ill of course IK- a difference of judg
ment as to the propriety of nominating
this or that candidate. Hut the fact
that the party must present a united
front ami select its very last men to
lead it if it would win the approach
ing political battle, must lie always
kept in view and should outweigh ail
other considerations. The Democrats
of the State will therefore do well to
choose their wisest nnd safest men to
represent them in the State convention
and to entrust to thetn the choice of
the standard-bearers who will lend
them to victory."
THREE or four years ago, it will be
remembered, the friends of General
Shields made an effort in Congress to
have this bullet-riddled veteran of two
wars retired as an officer of the army
on half pay. He was a feeble old man,
poor and needy, a brave nnd accom
plished officer who had rendered
prompt and valuable service in the
army of the Union as well as in the
councils of the nation. But he was a
Democrat as well as a patriot. The
(Senate was Republican, nnd this relief
to the poor old veteran was refused on
the hypocritical pretence that his case
did not fall within the statute for the
retirement of army officer*. Edmunds,
because the most adroit, and as a
demagogue, the most plausible, was
selected to assign a reason for that re
fusal. lie said:
"Too much cannot be said of Gen.
Shield*. He ha* been, a* I believe, a
good citisen and a brave soldier, and has
served in two war*. So have scores of
other officer* ; *o have hundreds of su
bordinate officer* in lower rank* than
he ; *o have thousands and ten* of thou
sand* private soldier* for whom the law
ha* made no provision and it can make
no provision ; and therefore this species
of legislation i* partial, it is unequal,
and it i*, therefore, unjust."
But now when Gen. Grant, who is
notoriously one of the wealthy men of
New York, who has been pampered by
his party and the rings which rule it,
vigorous, in middle age, comes in and
asks precisely what was asked for
Gen. Shields in his poverty and need,
where is Edmunds and his Republi
can associates ? No appeal is made to
the law as applied to Shields, but the
Senate votes without scruple and with
out shame, to retire Grant as a Gen
eral on pay amounting to 115,000 per
annum. Was ever infamy more ap
parent than is afforded by the com
parison of these two cases.
ANOTHER rotten borough to come
in. The committee on Territories
have agreed upon a bill to admit the
Territory of Washington into the
Union as a state.
BKLLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MA IK II !T, 1882.
THE reform "Committee of one
Hundred" in Philadelphia are itill
actively seeking settlement with the
; election rogues. To the lint, of candi
date--for residence at Cherry Ilill, for
la-t year's election, quite u number
! were added at the Into elections. The
committee who have been greatly en
couraged and give their time to accom
modate the machine rascals without
grumbling at the labor and expense it
involves, have this week unearthed
another hold fruml, conspicuous for its
audacity and the vicious training of
the Boss rulers of Philadelphia po!i
-! tics previous to the ndveut of this re
| form movement. In this case the
Time* says "the ballot thieves began
with number 22-1 and voted thirty
uam< -< in alphabetical order, eud tilly
from some assessor's list, and that only
four of the thirty really voted. Of the
others, some were dead, others had
tailed to vote and most of ibeni had
moved out of the di.-lrict before elec
! tion day.
The election officers who porpelra
| ted this monstrous fraud are John
| Johnson, .Judge, 1-127 South Seven
i teentb street ; Elisha Conner, minority
| Inspector, 1411 Bancroft street, and
W. 11. C'ristie, majority Inspector,
t 14-44 Bancroft street. Detective Smyth,
of the Miller and Sharkey bureau, at
j tempted the arrest of Christie, one of
the ballot-thieves of the election board,
on Saturday evening, but just when
the detective could have secured the
criminal, the police came to the rescue
• of the ballot-thief and arroted the de
tective. It is safe to assume that Mayor
King, when be comes to hear tiie re
j |Krt from that district this morning,
will make one or more very sudden
vacancies on the force. The refusal of
a police officer to aid a detective who
| exhibited a regular warrant for the
arrest of a criminal, i* worthy of the
: old time Imm police force when Johnny
I Ward and his fellows graced the uni
form and star.
The (Vimmniittee of Gne Hundred
I
ofTcr a reward of five hundred dollars
for the apprehension of Johnson, Con
ner and Christie, and they will either
lie transformed into jail birds at an
early day, or they will honor Phila
j delphia by their permanent absence.
THE people of the 16th Judicial
District seem to be perfectly jubilant
in congratulating themselves upon the
attainment of an honest and faithful
judge. And well they may after es
caping the inflation of having one of
the most arrant and dishonest political
demagogues nnd tricksters in the state
who aspired to the position in the per
son of John (Jfssna. The Bedford
Gazelle exclaims thus:
"Ever* man in the 16th judicial dis
trictof Pennsylvania can congratulate
him*elf upon having on the bench a
Judge who is kind and courteous to
client*, witnesses and attorneys; a
Judge who ha* the confidence of the
people ; a judge who is fair, frank and
honest in all bis rulings and charges;
a Judge who will arid lustre to the
bench an*! one who will never soil the
judicial ermine with which he is clothed ;
a Judge who has no enemies to punish
or friends to reward ; a Judge who will
not attempt to drive from the bar cer
tain of its members on account of per
sonal difficulties and private animosities;
a Judge who will not attempt to brow
beat attorneys when in the faithful dis
charge of their duties; a Judge who will
not advise suitors who to employ to tran
sact their legal business ; a Judge who
will not pollute himself with tbe slimy
dreg* of politic*; a Judge who will not
coolly cilculate how to defeat an attor
ney in the trial of a case, through per
sonal malignity. We repeat again the
people of Bedford and Somerset counties
can congratulate themselves upon hav
ing a judge who will allow no wrong to
be ooc-milted and who will hold the
scallß of justice in the temple of law
evenly in the balance. The one eminent
ly fitted for this important position is
his bonor, Judge Baer.
Ex SENATOR BUTLER HTRANO lias
lieen appointed by the President to tho
Marshalship of Dakota Territory.
Hmall favors thankfully received ! We
believe Mr. Htrang was a candidate for
Oovernor of that Territory. Bui this
prize in the "loltnry of assassination"
went to some other fellow. Mr.
Huang's ticket did not bear the lucky
number 306.
PARTIES iu Congress are preparing
for n lively tuseel at an early day on
the question of amending the rules.
The rules adopted for the protection of
tlm rights of the minority which were
••- teemed proper ami admirable during
llm time the Democrat*! held the ma
jority, are now considered by the Re
publican majority very defective and
require amemliiieut. The D 'Uioerats,
believing that if these rules were lie
cw-ary uml proj*er to protect the rights
of u Republican minority, they arc
equally nece—ary ami proper to pro
tect the rights of a Jjemocratio mi
nority, and at a caucus meeting on
Monday determined to re-i-t a change
by all the mentis at their command
ln this they are entirely right, ami the
Republicans have no cau-c for com
plaint. This l. iiig the first case in
volving a party contest since the or
ganization of the HOUM, it will no
doubt lie lively ami test the metal of
leaders to their fullest capacity. The
leading motive for (-hanging the
i rules now, although uot the only
one by any menus, is to force certain
territories into the Union ns States,
who are not properly qualified for ad
mission, preparatory to the Presiden
tial struggle iu IHB4, a* well as to
swell their majority in the Senate,
which is uncomfortably close nnd un
certain. If they can remove the re
-1 straiuts which those rub* impose, and
tie the hands of the minority, the "rot
ten borough*" applying for admission,
with others jobs, can be lobbied through
and many corrupt rogue* will fill their
colfer# at the expense of honor and de
cency, while serving the party that
, never scruple* to profit by any means
that tend# to perpetuate their control.
JOHN KELI.EY on hi# return from
Florida expressed salisfa-lion with the
course of the Tammany senator* at
Albany, Of course he tvn satisfied.
They were a merchantable commodity,
and a* the Democrat* refused to pur
chase, the Republicans were the only
customers at hand. Now, if John
can borrow or steal a 300 medal, he
will be in luck for a rich prize for
himself. Mount of the Philadelphia
penitentiary could loud him one for a
year or two.
IN THAT HO? We see it stated that
the daughters of Lieut. Hayes, who
with Gen. ("tifter wa* massacred bv
the I ndinn* are obliged fo make un
derclothing in the city of Washington
at fen cents apiece to enable them to
buy bread. If the Government can
afford to give Grant an uiimerrited
pension of 815,000 a year who is not
in need of it, a little relief to the
daughters of a brave man who lost his
life in the public service who are needy,
might not be out of place.
A STORY i* started in Utah that
Brigham Young is nlxiut to be resur
rected. Many believe it. Othc.r* pro
tend to say the old polygamist never
has beeu dead, hut is hid away all
these years to lie brought forward as
from the grave, when his service is
uceded to save the institution and his
church, at th critical moment. That
time it seems has now arrived, and the
old sinner had better hurry up.
♦ ■■
WHO IR IIK? A prominent lawyer
in Pennsylvania, says the Washing
ton Pod, has just been arrested for
buying a colored voter at the last
Presidential election. If this thing be
carried out in earnest the State will go
Democratic next fall, nnd the first duty
of the new Legislature will be to pro
vide a few extra penitentiaries.
IK Conkling refuses to accept the
Judgeship,the Washington Pod thinks
there is little doubt that Gen. Grant
would take the place, as in the entire
history of the world he has never been
known to refuse anything.
A correspondent of the Sew England
Farmer writes about "My Experience in
Hee Keeping." Hut as he say* nothing
• bout jumping into a well lo drown
the pesky or tilers out of his trous
ers, we don't believe hn ha* made a
truthful statement. Why will men
dissemble about such matters ?
Workman ami Employer.
! liarrLLurz I'strt-jt.
Labor troubles are agr.in threatening
; the prosperity of some ol the manufac
turing industries, and it i 11k• ly thai
1 thousands of operatives will quit work
witliin a lew days. At Homestead, near
j Pittsburgh, a difficulty ha* arisen be
! lIV.-CN the Amalgamated Iron and Steel
| worker* and the stockholders of tin?
Bessemer s:e-I company. The former
have resolv. d to force the closing ol
! eight iron and steel works whose pro
pi let *r bold stock in the Bessemer con
j cerii. It i probable that some tour
1 ll ounaiid men will tie thrown out of em
ploy nienl by tin* determination of the
Amalgamated association.
It i* clear that there i* something
wrong or something wanting HI the laws
regulating tin* relation* between em
p.oyer and workman. This i* proved
in-yond question l.y the constantly re
"urring conflict* between capital and
lal*or. ihe assertion may be safely ven
tured thai greater loss i* inflicted upon
in >bu!a< luring interest* and greater
misery er.tailed upon the working class
oy labor strike* and lOCKOUU IU three
month* than the highest protective
| laiifl duties can compensate in three
years. Indeed it may he set down a* an
economic axiom that striae* are always
more or less disa-trous both toetnployei
and employ ed. Nevertheless both classes
are always ready to suffer when Ihey
come to an issue in regard to their re
spective rights. There certainly ought
to la- sufficient wis.jom in the legislature
to devise a si .tute which Would insure a
just arbitrament of all disputes mat rn*>
j aiise between the two. J..tor ought to
be free to seek employment where ll
please and capital ought to be equally
at liberty to give employment to whom
'.I will. But since tlie exercise of this
freedom on the part of one or tfie other
: lead* to strike* and lock out* there
! should be just and proper legislation for
the settlement ol the disputes and diffi
J cultie* it engender*. A special tribunal
should be erected to take cognizance a'
ill such disturbances, whose deciaon
would be conclusive upon both side* to
the quarrel; and it i* suggested that a
committee of three persons, one to be
i appointed by the governor, one by the
•cgislature and a third by the supreme
judges, would most probably prove an
efficient and impartial court. home leg.
I Illation of l(u* character is necessary.
| not only for the benefit of the woraing
| das* and the safety of capital irivesteo
; in manufactures, but lor tlie protection
tr lUE community in general wh.'ch *1
way* share* the injury and distress oc
j caaloned by labor trouble*. The detail*
of such a measure may present aome
difficulty to the legislative mind, (.ut it
the measure itselt t.e grounded on just
principle* it* frame work need not be
complicated or even ingenious. If the
average law-maker could but divest bim
j self of the idea that he miUl play the
demagogue and f irget that there is a
county of Buncombe he would find it
j '-asy enough to frame and pass a bill
which would put an end to the sensc
, less and suicidal conflict* between work
man and employer.
\U Appropriation Hill i'as*-tl.
The Consular and Diplomatic Appro
! priation bill, on which the previous
■ question was ordered last Saturday, wa*
; taken up in the House yesterday and
j Mr. Holman moved to recommit the bill
j with instruction# to the Committee on
I Appropriation* to strike therefrom all
1 provisions in regard to envoy* extraor
dinary and minister* plenipotentiary,
minister* resident and secretane* of
legation, and to insert therein provi
sion* for the appointment of such
consul* and other commercial agent*
a* shall be nece**ry to promote and
encourage the commerce of the United
State* and protect the interest* of citi
ten* of the United State* in foreign
countrie*. The motion vu lout by a
vote of 22 veaa to 77 nay* and the bill
! was pa •ted.
M tttoxa's reason* for an extra e**ion
of hi* Repudiation Legislature in Vir
ginia are such a* ought to make that
session a fatal one to tbe Mahone party.
One of the reasons for an extra session
i found in the failure of tbe Legislature
at tbe regular session to pa** the extra
ordinary hill to gerrymander the State
into Congressional district* in *uch way
as to give Mahone eight of the ten
member* of Congrena. This bill wa*
prepared under the personal aupervi
| *ion of Mnhone, and iu passage i* ne
cessary to enable bim to keep bit prom
ie* with hi* Republican coparcener*.
There are some other scheme* to benefit
the Kepudiatora which were put through
the regular session. It i* intended to
legislate out of office all the Democratic
Circuit Judges by redisricting the
State, their place* to be filled by Repu
distort. The bill for this purpose ia
now pending. Altogether there are
lively time* ahead in Virginia, and af
ter Mahone and hi* coparcener* have
swept all the regular Democratic offi
rial* out of office there will be ■ quarrel
between the Democratic Repudiate™
and their Republican allies,— Pkiladd
phia Time*.
Nw YOXR, March 6.— lt is reported
about the Federal building* to-day that
the United States grand jury have found
an indictment against General Nehe
roiah M. Curtis, Specisl Agent of the
Treasury and that it will be pieaented
in court to morrow. It j* *aid that the
indictment contains nine or ten oounts I
and charges General Curtin with 00l
leeting assessment* from government
employes, which were used for political
purposes during the last Presidenti .1
campaign. The indictment, it is said,
wa* found under one of tbe section* of
the Congressional appropriation bill of
1878.
TERMS: SIJjO per Annum, In Advnnrc.
STATE NEWS.
Young I'unlnp, of(urw-n*vill(s Clear
fi<'M county, i# crushed to death by a
falling tree on Tuesday of last week.
A atock company ban been formed in
Blniraville, Indiana county, for tbe t ur
of establishing gla* work* at that
place.
I ne Fas ton Ar/ftt nay* that the bur
glarie* perpetrated recently in that sec
lion have been committed by two gang*
of tramp*.
I here wa* more .late .hipped from
Northampton county in January than
during any other month for tbe past
three yearn.
Joseph If. Snyder, of Middletown,
Dauphin county, *•* .truck by a train
at White House Station, lat evening,
and instantly killed.
Mis* r.it**dy, of Smick.burg, Indiana
county, ii 13 >ear* old, 32 inches high
and asighn '.'2 pound. She in well de.
veloped and yery intelligent.
Ihe Monongahela JlfftuUiran thinks
that the sign, all point tothecoal field*
of Western I'ennaylvania being at an
••srlv day in the baud* of a grand syndi
cate.
Extensive coke work* are to be built
i on I he Dillinger farm in Bethany town
| ship, Fayette county, by McClure k
] i'A). The farm contain* 't(JO acres of
j coal land*.
"ne hundred and fifty people of
Heading are to be prosecuted by tbe
tgf-nt of the Society for the Prevention
of I ruelty to Animal* for participating
in a cock fight.
Mis* Josephine Mcllermolt, daughter
of "01. B. M. McDermott, of Altoon*.
lied from small pox, at the residence of
her parent*, in that city, on Thur*day
evening last, gel 21 yr. tr „.
The colored Mason* of Haven
are making arrangement* to have a
course ol lecture* delivered there, on
Masonry, the proceeds of w fiich will bo
used in fitting up their lodge room.
An explosion took place at tbe gas
house at Wilkesbartc on Monday after
noon. the entire structure being de
molished. The loss i estimated at #lO,-
< 100. The cause of the explosion is un
known.
The trial of Trof. Jackson and Chas.
Van Horn tor carelessness at the late
explosion of the former's fireworks m*n
ufaciory at Chester, has been postponed
until June, on account of tbe injuries
of the latter.
J. M. Sutton, ol Indiana, formerly
treasurer of that county, ha* suffered
four amputation* of one of hi* leg..
I'he la*t amputation was performed in
Philadelphia a day or two ago by I>r. D.
| Hayes Agnew.
"n Tuesday of !at week, eight hun
dred loaded car* were shipped over the
Clearfield branch railrosd to Tyrone.
I hecoal sggregsted over eighteen thou
**nd ton*, Nix hundred csr* per day
iva* the average for the week.
Mr. J,. ||. Mertx, of Allentown, con
j fronted a burglar in her cellar a few
j night, ago. she recognised him. but
promised to keep his name secret if be
would leave at once, and this he did.
The lady .tale, that Le it t prominent
i citixen of Allentown.
A gale overturned a tree at Misery
Bay, near Erie, on Wednesday. This
exposed two skulls, supposed to be
1 i hoe of James Bird snd Edward Ran
kin, deserter* from Niagara, in 1813.
Bird wa*. at tbe tin*, made the subject
of a well known ballad.
The Free Masons of Pennsylvania
will have a grand parade and other fes
tivities at Philadelphia in celebration of
the sesqui centenniel, or one hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the organi
sation of the R. W. Grand Lodge, of
Pennsylvania, on the 24th of June.
Judge Benjamin 8. Rentier died at
Williamsport. on Monday. Mr. Bent
ley wa* appointed president judge of
Lycoming county, March 17, *lB6B, and
was the first president judge of the
eountv after it had been constituted
the XXIXth judicial district. He held
this office until January, 1869. In Aug
ust, I*7B, he wa* appointed president
judge of the new district of Lackawan
na county, serving until January, 1880.
The Franklin Repository gets off tbe
following : "The ten plague* of a new*,
paper office are bores, poets, cranks,
rats, cockroaches, typographical error*,
exchange fiends, book canvassers, de
linquent subscriber* and the man who
alwaya knows how to run a paper better
than the editor himself."
The Standard Oil Company was organ
ixed in "bio to escape taxation in
Pennsylvania. It entire business wa#
practically done in this State, and by
straddling the western boundary it
hops* to avoid the payment of just tax
ation in either State. It may succeed,
and the decision be good law, but it
certainly is not good sense. The Stan
dard Oil Company has been an immense
monopoly, clouding by its baneful in
fluence not only the btistneaa interests
but the legislation of tbia State, and it
ought to pay jta full share of tbe taxes.
Wtlketham Record,
The Reading AVim publishes the
deathbed confession of Mrs. George
Met*, who died recently at that place.
Her husband was proprietor of a large
farm in Berks county in 1882. and em
ployed a young tn*rried man at that
time named John Raucb. Rauch sus
pected Met* of intimacy with bis wife,
and during a fight in the barn over the
matter Rauch was killed. Met* set fire
to the barn, consuming tbe body of
Rauch. and before hia death a few ywer*
ago confessed the deed to his wife,
.She, unwilling to carry the secret to the
grave, communicated it to her frieotfe
while on her death-bed.
NO. 10.