Slit Cttifae mortal *■■■■ ■■ ■ ■— DELLEPONTE ,'#P A . Th§Largeit,Chenpeit and Best Paper PUBLISHED IN CENTRE COUNTY. THI CENTRB DEMOCRAT U j.uh- TUur%lay tiiorniiiK, At Bll®font, < rntr© county, PA. TKRMB—-Cnah io AIITADC© ......... SI BO If Dot pslil In AtlvAOrfl, 8 OO A LIVE PAPEK—devoted to the Intereett of the whole ps>(ile. Pftyn*uu made withiu three month* will be coo* •idered in sdvanre. N<> paper will be discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at option of publiahera. Papera going out of the county inuat be paid for In advance. Any pemoti procuring as tencaah subscribers will be sent a copy free of charge. Our extenmve circulation makea this paper an tin uaually reliable aud proAtable medium for anvertielmc. Wo have the inoet ample faciiitiee for JOB W ORK and are prr paml to print all kinds of Rooki.Tra t*. Programmes,Posters,Cotamert lal printing, Ac., In the finest atyle aud at the lowest possible rate*. 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What that monument is to be we do not know, but if the committee in charge of the matter recognize the de mands of propriety and good taste they will reproduce the design and inscrip tion prepared by Jefferson himself, ami put into stone -immediately after his death. That simple and all-sutficient memorial for the place it was intended to occupy—a family burial spot near the house where he lived and died —has been so mangled and mutilated relic hunters that little is left otit. The reproduction will not cost, at most over #1,500, and the remainder of the appro priation should be expended in putting the lot in proper condition and provid j ing all possible protection against fu ; ture relic hunters. Jefferson has not been very liberally i honored in tho monumental way. There | are not, we think, more than two or three in the entire country. Lincoln j already has far more of that sort of bon ! or than the man without whose words j and work the promulgator of theeman i cipation proclamation would never have | sat in the presidential chair. Mr. Til den, in his admirable letter to the Jefferson club of New Haven, Conn., i •ays : "After the organization of the federal ! government a powerful class sought to impress upon its practical working the similitude of the British system. Mr. Jefferson was the great leader of the parly formed to resist these efforts and 1 to hold our institutions to the popular character which was understood to be long to them when the constitution was ratified by the people. By his intL-xi ble adherence to Iree principles, by hi. untiring efforts, bv his counsels and by the magic of his pen he was the prinri j pal agent in rescuing from its greatest jieril, and while yet in its infancy, the government by the people and lor the people." Nothing is more certain than that , Jefferson's mighty influence saved the goverment from becoming u feeble unitatmn, with a few republican vatii j tions, of the British system. Hamilton, who thought that system the best iti 1 the world, and our own, a "frail and worthless fabric,'* would have carried his monarchical ideas into effect had not the Virginia statesman stood in his path as the champion of popular rights, j Had Hamilton triumphed in tb >t mo mentous contest, the executive mantle would never have fallen on such hum- I ble shoulders as those of Abraham Lin 1 colo. None but scions of blue-blooded American aristocracy would have filled that high olfioe. The door* of the white house would have been closed forever against such plebeian stock a. Jackson, Lincoln, Johnson and Garfield, and they might have considered them selves fortunate if allowed to climb as high as the lower house of congress. | Jefferson is the typical democrat, and is justly so regarded abroad as well as at borne. No Kuropean writer on |>opu lar government fails to introduce Ins name as Its greatest apostle and advo cate, and the adjective "Jeffersonian" has not only been adopted into the Knglish language, but its meaning is understood by those who cannot under stand that language. It is a synonvin for "democratic" the world over. The )>oliticai principles represented, recom mended and practiced by Jefferson can never go out of fashion until the inabili ty of the people to govern themselves is fully and finally demonstrated. Lin coln's fine descriptive sentence; "A government of the people, by tho pco pie, and for the people," is thoroughly Jeffersonian. That was the kind of government Jefferson secured for us. To all human apfiearance we would not and could not have had it but for him. lie believed in it when others did not. He bailed it as the greatest of political blessings when others dreaded and de nounced it as the greatest of political curses, ills confidence in the wisdom, integrity and patriotism of the people was boundless. It was his religion. The people hsve rewarded him for that confidence, if not by monuments, by an affectionate veneration far more pre cious and enduring thau marble or bronze. Ilia name is a watchword in every struggle for liberty in the two hemisphere*. The maxims be laid down are, in one shape or another, the vital elements in every republic in existence now, and will be in every republic which exists hereafter; and when theae maxima ere repudiated or ignored, a republic will be an impossibility. It is to the eternal credit ot tho democratic party that it ban never altogether for gotten the teachings of its founder and father. It has at times strayed widely from them, paid the penalty in disaster and humiliation, repented and returned. Nothing can destroy that party while theso teachings are its guide and guard. Nothing can save that party when these teachings are, for any reason or under any oircumstances, definitely and de cisively abandoned. - - ♦ Another Indian Massacre. AN ARIZONA TOWN DESTROYXII AND TIIIRTV WHITE l-XOI'I.E KII.LED. San Francisco, Cal., April 2fi.—A dis patch from Sbakspeure, N. M., dated yesterday, says; A telegram just re ceived from tho operator at Stein's l'ass, reports that the town of Galey viile, in Arizona, just over the New Mexico line, was burned and complete ly destroyed this afternoon by Indians. Thirty white people ware killed. The Indians are scattering into small bands and making lor the Chiricahua Moun tains. Col. Forsyth, with his entire command, is in pursuit. A Tucson dispatch says: At n mass meeting of several thousand citizens held to-night it was uuanimously de cided that tho following, signed by James A. Toolo as Chairman, and L. C. Hughes as Secretary, be sent, and it was immediately wired as an open let ter to tbo President and his Cabinet ; and to both Houses of Congress: "I>uring the rejoicings incident to 1 the grund military display announced to take place at Fortress Monroe we beg to offer you as a skeleton to sit at your banquet the fact thai nearly 100 of our pioneers have, within n few days, been wantonly murdered in cold blood by the devilish Apaches, whom a cruel and a mistaken policy permits to survive their crimes. If some small portion of expenditure incurred in your grand display could be directed to such meas ures as would preclude the probability of an increase in the list ol our mur dered dead we could send you a greet ing of gratitude and cheer in place of the message revealing our sorrow, our helplessness and our desolation." Another Tuscon dispatch gives the following special from the Tombstone Citizen: Indians attacked an American mining camp at Bacuaclii, Sonora, on the 20lh of April, killing Messrs. Low rey. Bay and Itickey. Three others made their escape. The Indians cr ried off all the camp property of value. Many Americans are in the neighbor ing hills, and more murders are ex pected. The President of Bacuachi, ! Senor Salazar, had ordered soldiers and •volunteers to pursue the Indians and I take no prisoners. J Willcox, Arizona, April 26.—A din i patch reports that tho Indians are i within four miles of the town. Three ' men are reported killed near San Car ' los. Washington, I>. C\, April 2S.—Land ! in the vicinity of Lordsburg and Clifton j ! is undestood to be rich in minerals, and | the fact attracts to that region large ; numbers of adventurers. osure on the plsins got safely to Clifton, which lie found empty and desolate, lie has many friends here, heme connected with the family of Henry If. Cooke, and ! representing important mining com • panics in which citizens of the district , are largely interested. At Cook's bank ing house they hope to hear directly j i from Magrudcr today, and meanwhile ; ! lite friends have such direct informaton j respecting his safety a to put the,.i in I good spirits. Fleeced hy Stocks. (tow A 1.1 RGB rORTI NE Wis *'- fell ,i PhitailelpkM out fifteen animals were obtained the first year. During the tint winter a tremendous bear approached the slop about midnight, drove the dogs in. ami j attempted to board u*. The alarm was given. Dunbar was on deck instantly, j with rifle in hand, and shot the hear through the heart at ten paces. It was i the biggest and most ferocious bear se | j cured on the cruise, and be bad been 1 attracted by the quarter* ot Ins comrade I that were triced up in the fore rigging. ( | A few fo*es were seen, snd their tracks ' were quite frequently observed. L "Alter this one year of experience in! ; the ice we concluded that the general ; motion of the was due principally to j j the wind and that the resultant of the j winds was from the southeast. We felt assured that if the ship could remain intact long enough she would eventu ally drift out between Spitsbergen and Bear island to Atlantic waters. A verv high latitude would doubtless be attain ed, and would depend in a great mean- Uire on the influence of Franz Josefs ; I land upon the motion of the pack. It j is rny opinion that had we entered the 1 pack two hundred miles to the east- i ; ward of where we did, we could have | worked up near l'rince I'atric* land, j ;< ur smallest depth of the first year's ! drift was seventeen fathoms, and the greatest depth not over sixty, the aver- j age being generally thirty and the ocean bottom nearly unifom." ■ ♦ m A lilt of Society (ios*l|>. LINCOLN AND TIIE SWEETHEART or THE AS SASSIN or nts FATHER. The appointment of Mr. Chandler to j the naval portfolio ha* developed an interesting phase of Washington social life which seta gossips agog with speou lation. I( will be remembered that when J. Wilkes Booth was shot, the picture of a beautiful young lady, • reigning society belle, was found on bis person. The original of the porUait WAS recognised in the, per ion of Misa Hale, the daughter of A leading politi cian and statesman, and a lady of wbom Booth had become deeply and seriously enamored. What encourage ment he had received was not precisely known, but there wu enough between them to form the basis of a good many romance* which afterward appeared in the public prees. Misa llaleafterward be came Mrs. Chandler, and is now the wife of the Secretary of the navy. The seme whirligig of time which brought thin about has also made the then young son of the martyred Lincoln Secretary of war. It now appear* that according to official etiquette, it 1* the duty of the *ecretary of war to e*cort the wife of hi* next in rank to dinner on *ute oc casions. tie must take the wife of the Secretary of the navy. Secretary Lin coln must, in short, escort the one time sweetheart of the assassin of his distinguished father. Therefore society la shocked. - ll $ —■■■ * FOB nervousness and Chronic Catarrh take Pta CM A. 1 tried it. L. K. Mrs- LBB, Alleghany City, Pa. Dorsey and llrady. TESTIMONY OE MACVBAOII ANII JAMES—TWO EX-CAIIINBT OFFICIALS EXPLAIN TO A INI LICE COURT POINTS or THE STAR ROUTE CONSPIRACY. Washington, April lift. - The case of M. C. Rerdell, against whom an indict ment connecting him with the Star Route conspiracy whs quashed a few days since because his Christian name bad riot been used, was to-day before the Police Court for a preliminary hear ing with a view to hi* indictment again by the Orand -fury. The warrant upon which Rerdell was arraigned before the Police Court con nist* of the original indictment, which was quashed by Judge Wylie, with an Rtliduvit attached to the fact sworn to by Chnrle* P. Black mar, a clerk in the Contract office of the Post Office Depart ment. The affidavit places the date of the alleged conspiracy as upon May I, IH7D, instead of M irrli 1, as w.i charged in the original indictment. After the reading of the warrant ; Hon. Wayne MacYeagh was sworn, lie said Kerdell told him that ex Sena tor Clr.yton, ol Arkansas, was present when he hud made his formerstnlemerit to the Postmaster General and Mr. Woodward. Kerdell said he was a part ly to a large extent in the previous mail b-tting*. The tiamcs used were J. W. Dorsey, Vail, Peck, and possibly Boone and others. 8. W. Dorsey'• name had not appeared because be was in the Senate. Stephen W. Dorsey, after his : retirement from the Senate, had pur- ! chased a number of these contracts, j and he ( Kerdell) was a general mans ger for him. He prepared ail of the papers and was his bookkeeper, sec-re tury and general assistant. He had : kept certain books and accounts and had made entries therein at Dorsey'■ j request. They would show the partic ular* of the expedition of route* and j other information. They would show , what moneys Brady and Turner hud re- I ceived. When the Congressional in vestigation wa* in progress great fear km felt by Dorsey nt the probable re sult, and he (Kerdell) pleaded sickness as a means ol delay, und meanwhile had prepared a false set of book* to be shown the committee. Brady and oth j ers interested in the Dorsey cotuhina- i tions knew ail of these d-tail, and, I they knew be possessed this informa tion. Kerdell said the original books were in existence in New York, and be could and would get them a* a measure of self protection. They would fully corrobo rate hi* statement*. He also produced papers in ex-Senator Dorsey'* handwrit 1 I ing i tbe content* of which witness did i not remember), and had said they would fully connect Dorsey with the scheme*. ; It was regarded as necesssry by Brady j to obtain petitions and affidavit* a- i. plausible excuse for the expedition. ] , Kerdell *aid a man bad been It I red to | get up these forged paper*, notably in \ \ Kansas. He claimed to be in the poo session of letter book*. Willi letter* from j Dorsey therein, which would prove the | truth of these statement*. Witness said that Kerdelll told him one-half of th<- (slies remitted went to the oontractoi and the other half to Brady and the other Post < 'tfice official* connected w.ih him. He had also said there were rout' whereupon the lawful service was . not performed, and others upon which ; absolutely no service wa* rendered. When cros examined Mr. MacVeagh j *aid he had no personal knowledge cf the exislance ot a conspiracy in th'e, I case* beyond the records and Kerdell'* < statement. Neither bad lie any know! ! : edge of anv fraud U|>on the Government committed by defendant* except wbat • J be had l>een told or had seeu from the | record*. The only other information | ' given by Kerdell wo* that Ik>re_v and I other* had obtained a contract for #3,(WO in Colorado which had been inrr<*s or A HARAMEfi HUSBAND— TRAGIC RNDI NO OT DONRSTIC TROUBLE. It is not often that a more remarkable story is beard in a court mom than was told last week by I-awyer J. C. l-ansing, of Kureka, Xev., on trial for killiag hi* wife. When he took the witness stand the grief in his face hushed the bar and spectator* into a pitying silence, lie began by declaring that be b*d con sented to say what he would have to say about the dead ooly upon the urgent requirement of bis counsel, and for the sake of his daughter. Then he gave the jury the history of hit married life. Ever since 1864 it had been, he said, wretched in all ways. llis wife took to liquor. Bbe was a powerful woman— fully his equal in strength. When drunk she was violent and ferocious. She frequently attacked him, threaten ing to kill him and, as he believed at the time, meaning to carry out her threat. She threw stones at his bead, poured boiling water on him, tried on several occasions to stab him with the carving knife, once et least, drawing blood. She followed him into court, making such a disturbance that the police bad to remove her by force. She burst into his office end beat him over the head with a rawhide till the blood streamed down his face. She beat hi* little daughter with an iron noker. "I felt like letting loose all holds," lie said, "and i drank heavily, too." Once or twice ho decided to leave her; once ho bought poison and was on the point of swallowing it when he ihohght of his daughter and threw it away. Last year matter* grew worse, until a night came when he did not dare to sleep under the same roof with her, and called in a neighbor. They tied her wrists and ankles with silk handker chiefs. "I'll kill you for this sure," she screamed. At daylight shift prom ised to behave, and they unbound her. At her request he sent out for two bot tles of chumpaigne for her to "sober up on." He wandered about all day, shunning bis acquaintances, trying to straighten himself up. "1 could not be still in any place," he said, "1 could neither stand up nor sit down—had to walk all the lime." At dusk he went home. The Chinaman had finished his work and gone for the night. 11 it wife came through the kitchen and went down cellar, as he supposed to get whisky; "*be often hid a bottle down there." When she came up he spoke of going down town. "You——," she *aid," "I'm fixed for you, arid you shan't leave this house I He tried the door ; it was locked. He turned around ; his wife was right in front of him, her hand pressed to her hip. "I'll kill you. I'll kill you !" she screamed. In a frenzy of utter nervousness and terror he caught up something—it was a kitchen chair—and struck her. He j saw iter lying at his fet. Then he found hitnelf out in the street—he had no remembrance of bow be got there—looking up at the dark windows of hi* neighbor's house and deciding ! not to wake him up. Then all was j blank again in hit mind until a late I hour, when he was standing in front of 1 the sherd!' and uttering the words. I "I have killed my wife." "The jury were out twenty minutes. When they came in their verdict was. "Not guilty." Lvdia E. Pinkiiam's Vegetable Com pound doubtless rank* first s a curative agent in all diseases of the procreative I system, degeneration of the kidneys, irritation of the bladder, urinary cal culi, Ac., Ac. Send to Mrs. LyT Mint*. Ul* tR* rnMes* r Mrs. N M. M**d. d*r***d, f-r rent. cniornWbwl. tagnthw will tin sr-natuft*. on*- hu*M, KnUlKn. ♦>- lattanSUt* p*mSM *!•*>. Apply t<- JAMS* MILLIKHf. TrtMtm. IWDfonln. Pa., Ms, 4. IKS*. 18-lw EXECUTOR'S NOTlCE.—Notice I J in hn*Vi glwi IUI IMM* taßsnlMT N tR* ****** M llnnrj Hr.lt, Ut* of *****•■ InraiMa, Bnw—t. Un Ins pwIM *0 th satm-ribcm, m*- mUA mtst* of* n ******* In ank* Iwmwfutn pnani. n4 Vham cUßsm ar Bn laasip, vtll n**R* ko.mii lb. an* a-ttßnat 4*laf. ft. 0. 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