SHUGKRT A VAN OKMER, Editors.
VOL. 1.
She Centre Sinnocvnt.
Terms 31.50 pnr Anunm.ln Advonc*.
8. T. SHUGERT A J. R. VAN ORMER. Editors.,
Thursday Morning. April 13, 1882.
SECRETARY Ilrsr, late of the Navy
Department, being an unnecessary po
liticnl appendage to a Stalwart Pres
ident seeking his own succession, is
exiled to Russia as an easy way of
getting rid of a respectable incum
brance. lie accepts the Russia mis
sion.
IT is reported from Washington that
the President is considering favorably
the appointment of Judge faft of
Ohio, as Minister to England. Ibis
is probably true. The President has a
fancy for "small fry" and Ohio is pro
lific of that kind of material in Repub
lican circles —both as to Executive
and diplomatic service.
THE Democratic successes at the
late election in Ohio, Indiana and Ilii
noia are represented hy the Republi
cans as "not much of a shower" after
all. The inspiring ctfcct however they
may have upon the Democracy will
require further appropriations from
John Welsh and others to repuir the
broken down fences of the Stalwarts in
those states.
IT is now reported that Gen. Fitz
John Porter will he given honorable
mustering out of the service with the
rank of Major General of Volunteers,
and that he will be placed unon the
retired list of the army with t® rank
of Colonel, but not entitled to back
pay. This will be some compensation
for the brutal maimer he has been
treated, but not enough.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTF.R
seems to be very earnest in stamping
oat election frauds in the South. This
is all very well, hut ho might add
very much to his reputation for con
sistency by extending his operations
North also. He would have n large
field of usefulness in this line of busi
ness here, which we believe he hns
never shown a very strong inclination
to occupy.
"IT was a rainy day" say the Illi
nois Republicans that gave Chicago to
the Democracy at the late election.
Very likely! But if the delicate
sickly Republicans were not in con
dition to face the small storm which
took place last week, is it likely that
they will be sufficiently in health to
meet the great political storm now
brewing when it bursts upon them a
year hence?
SENATOR HOAR, of Massachusetts,
is now drawing his pay. The term of
his friend, Collector Ueard of Boston
was about to expire. The Senator was
anxious to extend it. Relying upon
"Senatorial courtesy" with the aid of
his associate he expected an early
announcement of the re-appointment
of Mr. Beard. But the President
found another fellow up in Boston, a
Stalwart friend of Conkling, and the
opportunity could not be lost to ad
minister a proper rebuke to Mr. Iloar
for his opposition to the confirmation
of Conkling on a late occasion, when
"Senatorial courtesy" did not count in
Massachusetts.
THE Mormons of course cannot feel
comfortable under the Aoti-Polygamy
law recently enacted by Congress. Its
provisions are stringent and difficult
of evasion if the Federal authorities
perform their duty. The Mormons
seem to realize this, and are preparing
to revenge themselves upon the Gen
tiles by starving them out. At a late
meeting they resolved not to trade
with the Gentiles, and stringent pledges
were exacted to that effect. This kind
of war will doubtless affect all parties
inconveniently, but the only fruit it
can bear is to intensify the determina
tion existing throughout the country,
to wipe out the brutal blot of Polyga
my from the social life of the Repub
lic.
Thon and Now.
Speaking of the facility hy which
Republican sentiment, if not princi
ple, can he accommodated to circum
stances, the Washington Pott says:
"With unexampled bitterness and the
most indignant language Republican
papers during the campaign of 1880
denounced the authors of the Morey
letter for their attempt to impose upon
the people to the injury of the Repub
lican party a document which was ut
terly at variance with its principles.
General Garfield's prompt reply to
< 'hairman Jewell denouncing the letter
as a forgery, and in which lie said "its
stupid and brutal sentiments 1 never
expressed or entertained," was accept
ed with marks of unqualified approval
by Republicans everywhere. 1s tus
see what were these "stupid and brutal
sentiments" according to General Gar
field. Here arc the passages :
"I take it that the question of em
plovers is only a question of private and
corporate economy, nd individuals or
companies have the right to buy labor
where they can get it cheapest. We
have a treaty with the Chinese Govern
luent which should be religiously kept
until its provisions are abrogated hy the
action of the General Government, and
1 am not prepared to say that it should
he abrogated until our great manufac
turing interests are conserved in the
matter of labor."
These sentiments—that corporations
have the right to buy labor in the
cheapest market, and that Chinese im
migration should not lie restricted so
long as corporations need laborers —
Republicans through their leader char
acterized as too stupid and brutal for
any member of their party to enter
tain. Rut the more attention is di
rected to the veto message of President
Arthur the more apparent it become*
that the jiosition taken hy liitn does
not conflict in any material particular
with the opinions upon Chinese labor
put into Garfield's mouth by the un
known forgers. Speaking of the Chi
nese President Arthur remarks that
•'no one can say that the country has
not profited by their work.
Euterpries would have lain dormant
but for them. . . . There may,
however, be other sections of the coun
try where this species of labor may be
advantageously employed.." He might
as well say that no matter what are
the opinions of the entire Pacific slope
our great manufacturing and other
interests all over the country are not
yet conserved in the matter of labor,
ami that our policy as to Chinese im
migration should not he changed until
they are.
Without discussing the point whether
General Garfield was right in his
letter to Chairman Jewell or Presi
dent Arthur is doctrinally sound in
his veto message, it is enough to say
that Republicans, in adopting the
views of the latter, set themselves as a
party, in direct opposition to the opin
ions of the late President while a can
didate, and show that they were only
hunting votes when they raised such a
hue and cry against the villians, who,
in forging the Morey letter, published
such "stupid and brutal sentiments"
over the signature of their leader. It
is one thing to be a candidate for office
and quite another to he a President
installed in office.
SKSATOB MAHOSK has been kept
so busy repairing the broken down
fence* of the Repudiation party in Vir
ginia that he has been continuously
absent from his acat in the Senate ever
since the meeting in December, with
the exception of two or three flying
visits. He has now dropped the re
adjustcr dodge, and his official organ
proclaims that hereafter tbey will only
be known as the Republican party of
which their chief Repudiator is to be
the BOM.
THE Atlanta OotutUution says, "If
anybody knows why all the funds in
the United States Treasury shouldn't
be turned over to James B. Eads, he
will please rise and state bis objec
tion'j." If Eads gets all, how is Kis
kiiuinitae and other trout streams to
be provided for in the River and
Harbor bill T Of course we object.
"KQCAL ANI> KXACT JUSTICK TO ALL MKN, OF WIIATKVKH STATU OR FKRSUASION, KEI.IUIOCH OR POLITICAL."—
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1882.
A Doubtful Decision.
The Ontro county court hits just
made * dec ion that will not prove very
acceptable to the politicians. An editor
sti'-d a man who was it candidate for
office, ami after the election re I used to
pay for the complimentary notice*
which had been given him during the
campaign. It WHS admitted that the
complimentary editorial* were not or
dt-red t.y the candidate, hut the court
held that a political paper i* expected
to do its utmost in furthering the inter
est* of it* candidates, and t liat in return
the parties so n ved are hound to pay
the editor lor his I itior. Thi* is anew
departure in political finance which, if
generally en forced, would work hard
on the defeated candidate. Arte Era.
In commenting on the above extract
the Lancaster httiUv/rnccr says : In the
absence of the text of this alleged de
cision. we are loth to believe tliat any
enlightened court in this common
we*|th lot* pronounced a judgment so
utterly at variance with every legsl and
common sense principle as that which
i* here ascribed to ilie judicatory in
which Judges i Irvis ami Mayor are
arbiters of the law. It is well establish
ed that without promise, cxpteaa or
implied, no obligation to pay can he
contracted by the voluntary net of one
party to the nssutued contract and that
party the obligee. If the candidate for
office can be held liable to pay far "com
plimentary editon!*'' inserted in a
newspaper without hi* oid'-r, the same
principles which sustain this view of
the law will compel business men to
pay for complimentary notices of their
interest* inserted in newspapers with
out their direction. <U course the su
preme court would promptly reverse
any sueh absurd judgment of the Centre
county court or any oilier.
The above extract is taken from the
columns of the Watchman and if the
IfafcAui'in has given proper credit it
WOK taken originally from the Lancas
ter .Vein Era and the Lnncnster In
telligencrr.
The Dmcoster papers chouhl quit
meddling with our courts and credit
ing thorn with decision*, never made,
or else inform themselves properly ami
then give the truth to the public. No
excuse can 1m? given by the Hatrh
man for repeating the ignorance of the
I*ancater papers except that its edi
tor in chief has a dislike for Judges
and Lawyers.
The editor of the If'alMauin was a
witness in the case on the part of the
plaintitr, heard all of the testimony,
and so far as we know, the arguments
of counsel and the charge of the court.
The court decided nothing, the case
involved a question of fact, which was
fairly submitted to the jury and found
by the jury for the plaintiff.
The iVrw Era says "An editor aued
a man who was a candidate for office
and after the election refused to pay
for the complimentary notices which
had bceu given him during the cam
paign." This statement is incorrect,
because the editor did not sue to en
force payment for complimentary no
tices given, but he did sue to receive
pay for the printing of tickets for that
particular candidate.
The editor of the Walchmnn testified
when on the witness stand "that he al
ways charged the candidate for the
printing of tickets, that the charge was
regulated according to the value and
dignity of the office. That he charg
ed a candidate for I'rothonotary, Leg
islature or HhcrifT more than a Com
missioner or District Attorney, because
the office is worth more; that his charg
es were at the rate of three dollars per
thousand; that lie printed the tickets
upon the order of the Chairman of the
Democratic County Committe, without
being directed to do so by the candi
date, and charged the candidate with
the printing of the tickets." One or
two other newspaper men testified to
substantially the same thing.
The plaintiff in this case had print
ed tickets for this candidate, under
this custom. The If atchman and the
Millheim Journal printed tickets for
this same candidate, under this same
custom, exactly, aud the candidate tes
tified in the cose that he had paid to
these papers the charges they had made
for that service* And in the face of
this refused to pay the editor who had
brought suit to aecuro pay for printing
the tickets.
If the Lancaster papers do not re
quire pa) from candidates for the
tickets printed for them or from some
one of them, they are far behind the
newspapers in Central Pennsylvania.
So well satisfied with the ruling* of
the court were the defendant and hit*
counsel, as astute and aide lawyers as
any at this bar, that they have not
even thought of taking the case to a
higher court.
It may lie that the Lancaster news
papers have been misled by letters,
from this same candidate, hut they
have no business to sit in judgment on
cases tried in our courts, of which they
know nothing. And if they desire to
be fair to our courts and Judges, fair
to the public and fair to themselves, j
they will make haste to correct the ;
errors into which they have fallen.
The Judges of this District arc not
yet so far along, that they strike mem
bers of tin; bar from the li-t of attor
neys because they may express uti <
opinion in a newspaper that is some
what different from their own.
PRWUOKNT Aimtri: has got through
with th" work of retiring the (iarlield
cabinet and reconstructing one on a
more stalwart basis. The only mem
ber of the late cabinet remaining is
Mr. Lincoln, Secretary of War. He
is spnred because "he is the son of his
conservative father," and is himself
sufficiently stalwart to satisfy the
highest demands of th" Duiteau suc
cession. Lnt w<-ck Secretary Kirk
wood of the Interior arid Secretary
Hunt of the Navy Departments were
required to surrender their portfolios
to Henry M. Teller, of Colorado, in
the Interior, and William K. Chan
dler of New Hampshire, in the Navy
I Apartments. No halt-bred- are Deed
ed in the council of the Stalwart Pres
ident, and none are allowed. By
the-e changes the President secures a
man of fair ability in the Interior De
partment, for one of superior merit
and adaptability to the position he
filler! acceptably to the country. In
the Navy he steals from Mr. Blaine
one of his smartest and most adroit
political lieutenants in the late fight
for the Presidential nomination. Able
nnd unscrupulous, lie is probably a
valuable acquisition in the contest l<# i
the succession in IKM.
As the lime for the convening of
liepublican delegates approaches the
tumult in the councils of that party's
leaders. Incomes less oaeli day. It is
the calm that precedes the coming
storm. Cameron is striving to heal
the many dissensions in the ranks, and
if some aspiring gentleman's political
head must drop, why, Don will not
scruple to issue his mandate authori
sing the decapitation. The truth of
the matter is, that the dynasty is in a
perilous position, and to rally the de
serters is a task that J. Donald has set
himself about doing. In the case of
Heaver, it ha* already become patent
to the minds of the bosses, that in nil
probability should he be able to reach
the gubernatorial chair of our com
monwealth he will hang out the sign,
James A. Beaver. Without Cam
eron's aid IJcaver cannot be nomina
ted, and nominated with it he cannot
be elected. In disposing of the rest of
the ticket the plans seem pretty fully
matured and have in view the solidi
fication of the different revolting sec
tions.
TIMKI.Y LIT NTH. We notice that
our Democratic contemporaries, in
view of the fact that the next legis
lature will be charged with the duty
of apportioning the State into Con
gressional Districts, are urging the
importance of selecting the best men
aa Representatives—men of experience
and ability. This suggestion, we trust
will commend itself to the good sinse
and sound judgment of all, and that
care will be taken by our Democratic
friends in nominating candidates to
represent them in the Legislature, that
they shall be disreet, competent men,
who arc not only honest in tbeir con
victions of duty and right, hut io poa
session of the courage and ability to
enforce them in word and act, lor a
fair and equitable apportionment. The
Democracy should ask nothing but
what is fair and just and should ask
that with courage and determination.
I hey need no success obtained by
chicanery to favor party. This State
has been f'io long degraded hy Gerry
j niandering, and il is time that honest
j men, of either party, should feel the
obligation upon them irrespective of
j any mean party advantage to set their
face against it.
rut-: electoral count bill has passed
the Senate without a e-all for the yeas
| and nays. It is believed that this hill
will change the existing laws for the
j count of the I'residential vote for the
better. The time for the meeting: of
of the electors is poet potted by the
; bill from the first Monday in Decent
' Iter to the second Monday in Decent
l her. Two months are to intervene be
tween the election of electors by the
people and the otlieiul meeting to
choose a President and Vice l'resi
j dent. The bill also provide* that the
title of any electors may be inquired
i into and settled by the State in which
the contest arise* prior to their official
meeting in accordance with the laws
in force on the day of their appoint
nient, and that the decision of such
States shall be binding upon Congress
j when that body makes the count.
The main features of the bill, differing
from other law* upon the subject, is,
perhaps, to provide for the settlement,
| without delay, of contests for dec
tors, where they may occur in the
States, hy proper laws cnactcl for
i that purpose, so that but one lawful
return may be sent to the Pr<-ident of
the Senate. It provide* also for a cn*e
where two or more State tribunals ex
ercise authority, that Conger-*, each
bouse acting -'-parmtely, shall deride
which i* the legal ret tit ns. A decis
ion in the same maimer i necessary if
there lie an undetermined contest be
tween two or more sets of electors. If
1 there be only one return from a State
: it must be counted, unless both houses
determine otherwise by separate vote.
TIN: STAR Rom: THIEVES TO RE
| TRlED*—Judge Wylie ha* dismissed
. the motion made by Rob Ingersoll, the
attorney of tbe jobbers,
'ne indictments found against
them. The motion *& made under
an old obsolete statute of Maryland.
The judge decide* that it i not the law
of the District of Columbia, and that
these public robbers are properly ar
j raigned, and will be tried. The deci-
I siott, it is said, has created quite a sen
' ation among the rogue*, as they de
pended upon this old law to escape
trial. The only recourse now is the
favor they may extort from the admin
istration and Republican sympathy
for partisan services.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
I —The special Easter services in the
Lutheran church last Sundav proved to be
very interesting and appropriate. The
Sunday school and the congregation were
united and rendered the beautiful service—
prepared especially for the occasion—with
earnest, devout spirit and touching devo
tion. A full bouse attested the happy
effect of uch religious etercises. The
pulpit platform was gracefully decorated
with growing plant* in bloom. The Lord'*
Supper wu administered to the largest
number of persons that has thus far at one
time communed in this congregation. j
There were nine accessions to the member
ship of the church, which, with two who
were confirmed at a previous time, make
eleven recent addition* to the list of com
municant*. All present greatly enjoyed
the service* and no doubt went away feel-
Ing glad that they had been privileged to
go to tbe house ol the Lord on Raster Hun
day. The impreuions of tbe day will not
soon fade awey.
—Hon. Thomas MrKee died at hit borne
in Puniiutawney, Jeffervon county, Pa.,
week before last. For many years this
man lived among us—was married and
reared hit family here. In an endeavor
to sum his many excellent trsit* of char
acter and virtues, we And ourselves almost
unable to do him justice. As we knew
him, he was remarkably fine-grained and
symyntbetic; repelled by whatever was
low, vulgar or coarse, always evinced a
good degree of self respect, was in a meas
ure fond of tbe approbation of friend* but
never sacrificed principle to obtain it
After leaving Bellefonte be was elected to
the Legislature from Jefferson county,
where a* a bold uncompromising Demo
crat be did tbe party yoeman service.
—For nervous debility take Ptncvs.
TKK MS: £ I .'A t por A nnn m. in Advance.
—The marriage ceremony ha* under,
gone om change in the course of time.
Some three centuries *go, the husband,
taking the bride'* hand addressed her thus:
"I, John Jonej,, undersygne thee, Mary
Doe, for my wedded wife, for better, for
worte, for ric her, for poorer, yn sickness,
and yn healthe—till delhe us depart, (not
"do part,'' for tlr/xtrtr then meant to ttpa
rate, ia* holy c-hurt he hath ordeyned, and
thereto I plyght thee my trow the." Then
aid Mary: "All right, John, the only
condition I have to stipulate, it that if we
lire) three hundred year* you will buy all
your groceries from Secbler A Co., Belle
fonte, Pa."
—We are *o used to bearing and credit
ing wonderful report* In regard to Califor
nia and Oregon that nothing excite* much
surprise. The latest announcement ii the
coming of the McGibeny family compoaed
of thirteen (-ersons, all notably proficient
musicians, who have succeeded in winning
the) enviable title of the tnost wonderful
mutiral and ►ketch entertainer* on the
road The proceed* of the entertainment
are to be applied in liquidating the in.
debtednc** <f the Lwilown Lutheran
church. At Keynold* IJull to-morrow
i Friday ) niglit.
—The miners throughout the Snow Shoe
region have been conidering the expedi
ency of a strike, for *orno time. Many
stranger*, whose but:n>t no one cm
l'-*rn, have been noticed moving round
among the workmen. The only thing,
however, tbal operate* against a movement
of tbi* nature, i the unprepared condition
of the men. They cannot afford to tand
out. Nothing it gained by tbi* • peci CM of
insubordination arid our Snow Snoedelvcr*
after durlcy diamond* are, fortunately, too
poor to attempt to compel their employer*
to pay mi re than they can affotd.
i —lt seem* impossible that a remedy
j made ol uch domtnon, simple plant* a*
Uop, Huchu. Mandrake, Dandelion, Ac.,
should make so many and uob great cure*
as*llop Bitter* do; but when old and
young, rirh and poor, pastor and doctor,
lawyer and editor, a!) testify to having
le-en cured by them, you must believe
them yourself, and doubt no longer.
—An aged citix*n of Snow Shoe, Mr.
Meee fiunsaulu*, dcd on Thursday of
last week, lie wa, probably, the oldest
resident c>f that village, and was much r
1 ► jiected by all who knew him. Ill* wife
and quite a number of children survive
him. Hi* age was 67 year*, 'J month* and
| 6 day*.
j —Tn* Milliken case it again brought
prominently before the people— the Su
j prema Court hav ing on Monday reversed
! the decision of the court below. The ef
fect of thi* decision will be to reinstate the
j defendant—James Miliiken, Esq., a* trm
i tee.
• —To our friend* out of town wo are
pleased to say that in purchasing clothing
you can suit youre!f best at the Philadel
phia Branch. Mr. Lewin understand*
your need* and i always ready to accord
i you a hearty welcome whether you come
; to buy or not.
A (ip.AJsn St'OCKM.—The grand open
ing of the great Boston Clothing llouse tn
Major Reynold*' Bock, opposite the
Brockerhoff House, Bellefonte, Pa., took
plsce a* stated in our columns before, on
Saturday morning last The opening of
that concern was a great success in every
respect. Crowds of people were thronging
to that establishment from early in the
morning till late in the evening, and
everyone seemed happy except those who
could nut be waited upon on account of
the rush. We can honestly say that never
hefora bat such a fine stock of clothing,
boot* and shoes, everything in the line of
men's and boy*' wear, been offered at auch
extremely low prices, in this section, as
tbal concern is selling them. W never
have tried that House, hut are satisfied
that Bellefonte is in need cf such a con
cern, and it won't be long that people front
fifty mile* around will find that it will pay
them well to come to Beilrfont* and buy
their clothing, boot* and shoe*, at the
great Boston Clothing House, Just opened
in Reynold*' Block, opposite the Brock
erboff House, Beilrfonle, Pa.
—The publishers of the Mmtnttonml /fe
ririe offer Appleton s American Cyclo
paedia to the person sending the largest
ust of words formed from the word "/1B
<Wo/y." Other prixe# are Chambers'*
Cyclopmdia, Worcester's Dictionary, un
abridged, and the Musical Autophone.
This la a rare chance for our reader* to get
a cyclopesdta worth sOfi, or sfiO in gold,
beside* getting the benefit derived from
looking up word*. Full Information ran
be obtained by rending three cent stamp
for circular, or ten cent* for sample copy
of the Kd*eatumnl Amos. Address, jW
aeeftofMif ifmm, 1.12 Fifth Avenue, Pitts
burg. Pa.
—Ladies coal*. jackets, dolman*, circu
lar* and ul*teraites, in end lose varletv,
*tyl** and colors, and price* lower than
elsewhere at 8. A A. Lost *.
Dress goods, silk*, velvet*, plashes and
tinsel plaid* and strip** in all badtw rnd
effect* at the Be* Hive.
—530,000 worth of dry goods, clothing,
hoot* and shorn, dree* goods, Ac., for oust
*t Lroit A Co.
NO. 15.