Centre A Democrat SHUOERT \ VAN ORXEK, Editors. VOL. 5. Che Centre jPmccrat. Terms tl.&Opar Annum,ln Advance 8. T. SHUOERT A J. R. VAN ORMER, Editor*. Thursday Moraine, April 12, 1883. Oontre County Democratic Com mittee for 1883. Burster. RAM*. r. o. AM>*SSK. BsllsfcoteN. W. J. M. K.lchlln. BHlofoots. •• 3. W Cb*. Smith " •• W. W. 8. A. MrVluutton. ... ll w.r l toro. Ira<\ Lr.th.ia ... lL,.r>L MHral-urg " Jm<- I' Jon<- Mllmhurg. Mlllhrlm " F P. MIIOT Millhtii I'hilip.t.nrf 1 W. ('. (1. l'htlii-eairß. ■I W a,.1 Schmidt •' 3W. ... A. V. C.rprtitrr. " UalnnYtlle boro. P.J. McDonald SWntnit. M.nn.r twp. Wm. Ishlsr It, tjr.ntr. Ki*K" lp Frank T. Ad.m* ....MlhwLurs. Barn-He twp Ilnirjr Meeker Pin. Ulwin. rtallr*. twp. . John Rna.p Lemonl. Curtin twp. John Mri'l—kcy BomnU. Ferguson O. P J. T MrCortulck.. SUlr College. j •• S|> L. W. Walker. Rock Sprln*.. Or..* S. P. John Coldrun Sprln* Willi. ( •• VP. Wui l.n*e ...Farmer Mm. . iu,„.a K. P I. n. Mevsr Woodward. " W. P. <}eo B .wer . l*roit.tirit. j lUir Moon twp. J. II Orlflln .... Storm.town. Il.rrta twp H W Meyer Ikml.bnr* Howard twp John Glenn Ilowa 1 Huiton twp. John 0 Mil,-. Julian. Liberty twp. Jain.. P. Linn HUnrhsrd. j Man 11 twp. J J Hoy .... Walker* Mile. ;twp. Kill. K Shafer XwUsonhnrs. P.tton twp. Airnew Seltpri Jr Ktlmore, P.m. twp. P. ll.Sta.Yer C.ilmrn Potter N P 1> J. Meyer Centre Hall. , " S P. . Samuel Slack. Tuaeeyyllle. ( Btiih N.p William Citll.n Phlll|burr S P J.T Kr-rly aandy HI la- Snow Shoe iwp. Win R H.ynea Snow Sno Spring twp K C. Woad Belle ftoite Tarlor twp. Ilepbnrn Blower. Fowler tJalao twp, s K ICm.rick Flrsntnf. Walker twp J.waeph Ktnertck llnblerabitr* Worth twp. M 8. Spott* Port Matilda W*. C HEINLE, Chairman. Yi MILM WKLNTM, SWWRRURY. BARNVM has had one of his largest elephants shot. It became so vicious j anil iutractableas to make it necessary to protect the lives of those compelled to be in attendance. CARTER HARRIRON who was the other day elected to a third term as mayor of the city of Chicago, by a majority of ,10,000, is prominently ; named as the next Democratic caudi date for Governor of Illinois. THK tkmte lair of Nebraska makes 81,000 the minimum price for a liquor license, and in some of the cities it is proposed to raise it to $2,000. It will require active drill on part of the liquor seller to whip in customers to pay the license. THE Legislature of Wisconsin ha= passed a labor bill making it unlawful and imposing a fine and imprisonment for the employment of children under the age of fourteen years. It is said that in Milwaukee alone this prohibi tion will throw 8,000 out of employ ment. PRESIDENT ARTHUR has gone on his fishing excursion to Florida. He took Secretary Bill Chandler with him as an expert sailor to mnnage his boat, and cut bait for the executive hook. ItilTn former experience in Florida may he valuable to the Presi dent now. THE movements of Mr. Parnell, the Irish leader, is variously reported— ; some claiming that he will positively j be present at the Philadelphia conven tion soon to come off to deliberate on ! the affairs of Ireland. Others assert, with equal positiveness, that he de cline to be present. ' THE Russian Czar has repeatedly shown his regard for Americans. The other day he decorated the local chief of police aud other persons, as a mark of his gratification for their kindness < in contributing to the comfort ami extending courtesies to those members of the Jeannette and Rogers who were saved. FAPPARENTLY, " says a contempo rary, "the salvation of Indiana is a thing President Arthur has more at heart than the redemption of Ohio, I but it may turn out in the trial that the Post-Office Department is not so all-powerful in that region as it proved to be jn 1880. Judge Gresham will scarcely attempt the sort of work Brady and Dorsey did in the Garfield campaign, nor is he the man to achieve the same success, eveD if be were in clined to the attempt. However, it is possible President Arthur, in the ap pointment of Gresham, thought only of the nominating convention and not pf the campaign that would follow. "K)UAL ASH EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL M KN, OK WTIIATKVKR STATIC OK BEMUASION, REI.KJIOUS OK FoLITIUAL."— JtBtnua. A Foolish Voto. The Oovernor for some unaccofinta blo reason has seen fit to exercise his power and veto the bill lately passed by the (ieneral Assembly increasing tlie pay of assessors from one to two dollars per day. The veto was put upon the ground that there was no public do" aisnil for the increased pay provided for by the act of assembly. It is not unfair to say that the Governor never undertook to inquire whether or not j there was a demand for this bill. If he ■ had done so he most certainly would have learned from representatives from ; all parts of the State that their conslit uents did honestly demand the passage of the bill, and that lor the work to be done one dollar per day was entirely too poor pay. All assessments should be well done- ! \ To have them faithfully and honestly made, men who are responsible and | competent should be chosen. Men who : have good sound judgment and at least i fair business qualifications make good ! assessors, but bow cau we secure such | men unless tbey are fairly paid. At this season of the year when our assess ment has to be made, the men engaged in if from the day laborer to the thrifty farmer can make at anything else from j two to five dollars per day. To do what ; ' they hare to do they must give their ! time, find a horse and bear their own : expenses, all on one dollar per day. : Surely the Governor knew not what he ; was doing. Beside all this the bill was | simply carrying out the principles of ' our constitution. To prevent the evil of special legislation on subjects of this kind, the constitution provides that the Legislature shall not JMS* any local or special law "regulating the affairs of | counties, cities, townships, Ac. This I bill made the pay of assessors uniform. • There area large number of special acts | passed before the adoption of the pres ent constitution relating to the pay of : assessors, and to show bow utterly uu | reasonable the Governor has been in his veto, we givea list of the counties which they relate to and the pay per day al lowed by each. In the counties of Allegheny. Leaver, j Crawford, t'learfield, Cumberland, Erie, Lawrence, Luterne, Venango. Mercer, Montgomery, Washington and Lehigh i assessors are paid two dollars per day. In the county of i-chuylkill it is three dollars per day. In ten other* it -- dollar and fifty cents per day. This list shows two things. first, that in at least fifteen counties beside ! the large cities, public sentiment has long ago compelled an increase of ns | sessors pay to the exact amount fixed in the vetoed bill. Second. That there is i a great inequality of the laws in force ' relating to the pay of aseors. In j equality before the law is one of the | evils the constitution of I*7.i was made I to break down, and here is the very Governor elected on that direct issue j and sworn to carry out the provisions of the sacred instrument, blocking the way to this happy consummation by the j injudicious use of the veto power. When the act of the loth of April, j 18.74, under which our assessors are paid was passed, the salary of the Governor ; was not over twenty five hundred dol j ! lars, to-day it is ten thousand dollars I We believe in public as well as private I economy, but when it it calculated that ' the Governor receives thirty-three and | one-third dollar* per day, counting three 1 hundred working days to the year, he , ought not to complain when the repre j sentatives of the people pass a bill fix I ing assessors pay at only two dollars per j day. The bill vetoed did nothing more I than allow a fair day* pay and it de i , manded a fair day* work in return. MR. COXK, the alert and able Senator from Luzerne called the attention of the legislature to the necessity of pro Tiding a more suitable building than the present inconvenient tender box arrangement for the safety of the value hie collection known as the State libra ry. Tbi* library possesses great value to the people of Pennsylvania, and its distraction by fire to which it is expos ed, would be irrepairable. It is grati fying that both houses promptly reepon ded, and adopted measures for the erec tion of a new library. There should be no unnecessary delay in carrying the resolution into effect nor no parsimo nious expenditure that would defeat the object of it* erection as a place of ■afety for the valuable collections of the Commonwealth, in one building at leaat worthy the great state. BKLLEFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, IHH.'{. i THE recent political arrests matin in South Carolina, so discreditable to the government official* acting under the direction of Attorney•(ieneral Brews ter, has called forth a sharp letter of instruction from Judge Bond, the I . S. District Judge, after being called to his attention by the attorney of the defendants. He say*: "it low been brought to the attention of the court that in several instance* in cases of misdemeanors the United States com- I missioners have issued warrants of i arroet upon affidavits made upon in ! formation and I relief merely, without any inquiry as to the sources of tlie 1 affiant's information, on the grounds t of his belief and under the impression | that the commissioner bad no right to make such inquiry. No warrant of arrest or seizure for any offense against j the laws of the f oiled States, upon the mere belief or suspicion of any person, should l>e issued. The court ! desires that you inform the commix- , sinners that it's not only their prero gative hut their duty to examine into 1 the sources of the affiant's informa tion aud the grounds of his belief. If | other proof is at hand or accessible it -hould be hud and examined. Tin issuing of warrants of' arrest and seizure is not a mere ministerial act hut a judicial function, and should not lie done until the commissioners' judge ment is satisfied that there is probable cause, and the court desire# the com missioners also to know that for the safety and protection of the commu nity aud the orderly conduct of judi cial proceeding-tall proceses i*-u-d hv them, except under extraordinary circumstances, ought to In* served by the marshal of the United Mates or I his deputies. ' THE Department of Agriculture has opened an ex| erimental farm in the District of Columbia, to • infinite the investigation and treatment of the disease* of domestic animals on an extended scale. The peice of ground leaded for that purjiose, will he placed in charge of Dr. I). E. Salmon, who for many year- ha- le-en employed in the investigation of animal disr-ases, and the Past* ursv-teni of innoculati -i) will f>o adopted. The origin and na ture of the Texas cattle b-ver, pluro pneumonia ami hog and chicken cholora, and the mean* of prevention ami cure will receive attention. TIIE news from England ln*t week possess intense interest. The import ant arrest of members of the Infernal Machine brigade, and the discovery of the secret manufactory where the ex- j plosive implement* are made, have filled the public mind with horror and alarm. However much the people of I Ireland mny sutft-i wrong from the English policy, no manly Irishman can sympathize in the work of this 1 dung roil* t-IH-s of nsHsin-, who do | not scruple to slaughter innocent men, women and children, for the in*re pur |H> of terrorizing the officials of gov ernment. These are not friends of Ireland but the worst enemies, aud the method adopted is calculated to deprive that oppressed people of the sympathy that all civilized nations i accord them. At the latest date there is no abate ment of excitement, but is on the in crease. Detectives are active and every day add* to the impression that extensive preparations were made nnd being made by the revolutionists for great destruction of life ntid Many arrests are being made of sus pected parties. It is also said that i English detectives are in this country searching for accomplices, all of which may be the mere out-crop of the scare. MRS-. BETTY MAIHIN publishes a letter in which she says she does not i propose that the grasping lnwysr who Hues for one-half the fund raised for her and the baby, shall have any part of it —that she never employed the man, nor did he ever do any service for the imprisoned Sergeant to entitle him to it, Hands Off The liPpuhlican press do not seem at all gratified at the idea (list the demo cratic House in Congress may not con 1 aider it expedient or desirable to waste its time and strength in a hopeless con test with a Kepuhlican Senate and d ministration over another tariff bill. The bait was YYCII set for such a result by the last Congress, but it is not like ly that any considerable number of I"einocrats will nibble at it, merely to oblige the opposition. The present out look is all that the democrats could desire for the campaign of 188f, and certainly cannot l> improved by tack ling the tariff and allow the Itepubli cans to repair their work, or throw the onus of its failure upon the majority in in the next House. The last ICepuhli can t'origress passed a new tariff bill. It jis all it was intended to bo a thing to ! cstch gudgeons. It pleases nobody. Let them revel in it, and enjoy it. Hut let democrats keep their fingers out of j the trap. ♦ We take thd following from a l'hila j * Jelphia correspondent of the St Ji /,< i ' j'r, at Jackson, Miss., purporting to convey the preferences of nearly all Un democratic editors in Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, in the choice of a Presi dential candidate. The editors of the dzaocßAT are put down thu* "The lt*morrolitirai situation to deliberate upon the vital question what can the Kepuhlican party "do to be saved. 1 ' Ihe "grand old party," has already sinned away its tlay of grace, and is perhaps beyond tbo pale of hope, but, if it vrero possible, under its present leadership and management to culti vate honesty for a term ol year-, it might again acquire some degree of respecta bility. Tnx>outh Pensylvania railroad have contracted for the erection of a 4 l.OfKi. i*K bridge over the Susquehanna river from Harrisburg to the <'uraberland side, and it is supposed wiil be nearly two miles in length. Tur. late elections in all the principal cities and towns of the west, do not en courage a glimmering hope to the He publicans of any abatement in the "tidal wave 1 ' that caught them last fall. The "grAid old party," as Hubble chose* to designate it, has again met defeat at all |>oinLs where it formerly ' triumphed. Succews in anti-Republican Ithode Island is about the onlv enlace that spurious Hepublicanism can now count upon as endorsing the usurpation and proscriptive tendency of the party, or rather ila leader* and basse*. The reckless extravagance and fraud u|>oii true Republican principle* and the rights of the people a* expressed through the ballot which has so distin guished the present organization, is now being revealed to the sober reflection of the true lirptMieant, who have been drilling with the federal party under an assumed and usurped name. The theft of the Presidential office is bear ing fruit. IN New York they propose to crush the drama called the pasaion play, which Morse hs* beon so persistent in introducing to the public for the last year, by legislative action. A bill WAS introduced in thelseuste tha other day. and immediately ordered to a third reading to prevent any attempt to per- i sonate or represent Jesus Christ, the Savior, by any show, play or dramatio j representation. The bill prevenU any such representation, whether free or for admission fee under it, and make* it a misdemeanor punUbabte by a fine not * lea* than |uoo nor more than IJJMKV or imprisonment not lee* then eix month* nor mora than one year. TKKMS: JMT Annum,ln Ativans. GAI.VKHTON, Texas, on Saturday laxt, wan the Hceiieot'a'Tlutel Horror," in which many live* were lo*t by the . • falling wall* and lir<\ The disaster i" ( supposed to have occurred by the ex ! plosion of powder in an adjoining hardware store, which blew out one of flit! wall* causing the building to fall. THE Standard <>il company got a damaging blow in the Senate on Fri day hut, hy the passage of the Free Pipe bill. < oojier made a desperate effort in the interest of that infamous monopoly to avert it, but without suc cess, in which he r>-ci ived some telling shots from ls-e ami Emery for his pain*. Ex • Pit km I* ENT DIAZ, of Mexico, having spent some time in Washing ton and New York, where be was liandsomt ly feted and entertained, is now taking in the lmJ> and will make a general survey of N<-w England. Thin di-tinguished Mexican -oldie/ ami statesman is making a good im pression, and itppere- to be v< rv earn est to establish plea-ant commercial relations with the United Statin, alike conducive to the prosjierity of both. JAY Got I.H at a < ost ~f B>oo ha-provided hiin-lf with a n-w pleas ure yacht ju-l launched, which for beauty ami elegance, it is said, will not IHI equaled in the world. < iould ha- schemed and labored for imtneuse wealtli and having got it, he may as well enjoy its luxuries, lb-will pro bably la- as happy in his way, as the grand old philanthropist, Pt nrt xiper, who hn- ji;-t g- ne to hi- reward in an other and l>cttor existence, was in con tributing to the w. 11-lx ing and happi ness of the needy who surrounded him : here. "ONI M.-V-ON," truthfully -av* the Boston Transcript, "of recent wc-tcrn elections is that temjH-rance cannot lie advanced by blending it with j>-litic*. The underlying reason for this inay la- that the reform strik'-- at a habit from which no power outside of the individual can ho held re-jsinsible. Primarily, the question of drinking i* settled within the province of private judgment, and external politics can not enter there except by infringing on a domain where its presence excite enmity and resentment. When a community attempt* to control indivi dual choice* through the suffrage th->-e advocating this procedure are sure in all large communities to find them selves in a small minority. E\-CY>M.KE>*MAN Rr< lIAKH CKOW- I t.Y.-HVsa Wasl ington correspondent, is -aid to have left the White House last week forever, Mung by what he considered disrespectful treatment from the President, ile has, it is said, resigned his position a- I nited Stan * special counsel in charge of the South ("nrolina election cases, giving up #8(1,- tHHI in fees. The Stalwart organ here attacks the President bitterly to-day. It says Crowley wa* the resjieeta ble Stalwart who maintained relations with him. Whether or not Arthur desire* to get rid of "'respectable Stalwarts' 1 •> it is quite certain there are a nutn- IMT of disreputable ones lie could di*- penee with much to his credit. He might begin on his present fishing com i |>aiiion. TMR Kusian C*ar must be looking for want with much pleasure to the cere ' monies of his ooronalion, soon to come j off, w hen he read* the announcement of the revolutionist* to make the occa • ion a tragic affair by explosive* similar ; to those which ended the reign of his , j father, the late F.mperor Nicholas. 1 They claim to have full preparations I made, and warn all persona to keep at a distance from the Cxar during the ceremony, if they value their personal satety. BRIG. GENERAL J. K. BARNES, late | Surgeon General of the 11. S. Army, i died at hie residence in Washington city on thS &lh inet., of Brights disease. He WM buried on Saturday last with military honor. XO. I;>. CoN<;NE make an apportion ment equal and jU't according to the letter and spirit of that instrument. J-quality of represention is a* ciwaiiy demanded as the apportionment itself, and no mental reservation or other con sideration can excuse thejduty in either cae, or justify wrong in the minds of others. The people, not party, de mnnd an hone.t apportionment, and will not IK> satisfied by the continuance of the present fraud or the substitution of another. <>f this the legislature may be assurred and profit accordingly. SN tit W T MEET A- SIN. —The following is one of the most brilliant paragraph* ever written by the lamented George I •. Trent ice "The fiat ol death i inexorable. There i* no appeal for relief from the law which dooms us to du*t. We flour ish and fade as leaves of the forest, and the flowers that bloom, wither and fade in a day have no frailer hold upon life than the mightiest moti.rcu that ever shook thia earth with hi* footsteps. Generation* of men will appear and dis appear a* th„ grass, and the multitude that thror.g the world to dsy will di* appear a footstep* on the shore. Men seldom think of the great event ot death until the shadow falls across flieir own pathway, hiding from their eyes the f ree* of the loved one* whose living snnic *M the sunlight of their existence. Heath i the antagonist of life, and tne thought of the tomb i* the skeleton of all feast*. W edo not want to go through the dark valley, although the dark passage may lead to paradise; we do fiot want to go down into the damp grave, even with prince* a* bed fellow*. In the beautiful drama of 'lon' the bo)>e of immortality, no eloquently uttered by the death devoted Greek find* deep response in ever thoughtful soul. When about to yield his life a sacrifice to fate, his Ciemaulhc asks if they should meet again, to which he respond* : 'I have asked myself that dreadful question of the bills that look eternal—of the clear streams that flow forever—of start, among whose fields of exure my rased spirits walk in glory. All are dumb But a* I gate upon the living faee 1 fees* that there it something is love that mantle* through it* beauty, that cannot wholly perish. We shall meet again, Clemen the.' " .