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8. T. BHUGE RT & J. R VAN ORMER, Editor*.
Thursday Moraine, May 10, 1883.
Centre County Democratic Com
mitteo for 1983.
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Chairman.
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Sar-rrUrj.
GEN. BEAVER'* Brigade of the Na
tional Guard are to encamp this year
at Conneaut Lake, Crawford county,
in August next.
IT is reported that neither John Sher
man, Stanley Matthews, or any of the
Ohio Republican statesmen, are wear
ing crape for the mother of the Hayes
administration. How ungrateful !
THE courts of Arkansas have de
cided that a man cannot lie punished
for arson for burning bis own house*
The offence to lie criminal under the
State laws, must lie committed on the
property of another.
THE Free Mason's ball in London
has been destroyed by tire. All the
luasouic insignia and furniture and
paintings were destroyed, including
the portraits of the past Grand Mas
ters for many generations.
Gov. BLTI.ER, with all his skill and
ability of investigation, it is said has
failed to trace the strawberries and
oyster and other delicacies, purcahsed
for the Tewksbury almshouse, to the
poor patients of that institution.
THE President lues not yet signed
the commission of Mr. Keim as Chief
Examiner in the civil service commis
sion. There seems to lie a screw Iqpso
in this little boss arrangement which
Mr. Cameron had better settle before
he starts for Europe.
DR. TALMAGE says "We want some
. one to do for New Yark, what Renja
' rnin F. Butler is doing for Massachu
setts." Well, borrow Butler. The Re
publicans of that State will not need
any further shaking up for some time,
after he is through with them.
THE jury in the case of Phipps the
ex-almshouse superintendent of Phila
delphia, charged with forgery, return
) ed a verdict Saturday last of guilty.
His counsel asked for an arrest of
judgment, and for four days to prepare
a motion for a new trial which wa"
! granted by the court.
THE Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany declines to honor the demand of
Secretary Teller of the interior De
partment, for money due the govern
ment. The company claim an oif-set
covering a large indebtedness in their
iavor on account of the mail service.
It is no doubt another star-route con
cern. „
A HEALTHY, industrious body is the
Senateof Pennsylvania. With the ap
propriation bills before them,
, other equally important measiH
claiming attention, they adjourned oB
Thursday noon last to Tuesday. This,
too, in the fifty days extension of the
regular session, aud for which they
are drawing from the Treasury of the
State 810 per day each.
"KV|UAI. ANI> EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, OK WHATEVER STATE OR I'KH* i; AHION, RKLKIIOL'H OR POLlTlCAL."—Jrffnrsou.
Labor Troubles.
Indications exist at present that
labor troubles between employers and
employed may be expected this season
I to a very serious extent in Pennsyl
vania and other places. In Allegheny
| county there is a formidable strike
among the miners, and now the dis
agreement among the iron workers
seenm to foreshadow a general closing
of operations in that industry in Pitts
burgh. Last Week a conference com
l mittee representing the manufacturers i
and the amalgamated association met
at Pittsburgh for the purpose of agrie- j
ing upon a scale of wages for the year,
but no agreement was reached, nor i
any indication that acceptable com
promise can be mude to avoid the !
starving process which is sure to follow
the disagreement. <>n behalf of the
manufacturers it was urged that the
condition of the trade was such that a
reduction of wages trutn ten to twenty
per cent, was necessitated to enable
j them to continue without loss, and on
behalf of the workingtnen it was pro
posed to continue under the present
prices, but that they could not accept
a reduction. This seeuis to have been j
1 the ultimatum of each party, and the
conference closed with the understand
ing that by the first of June the work
men will come out ami the mills will i
close, if one or the other party do not j
hack down. Here, we imagine, is the
proper place to test the efficiency and
virtue of Senator Wallace's arbitra
tion law to avoid the calamity of a |
protracted strike, in which thousands J
of workmen go into idleness and ;
poverty in preference to yielding a few j
cents of their daily pay to the de- j
mauds of the employer, or the rnanu- I
facturer chooses to close his mills at
an immense sacrifice rather than drop
a few dimes of hi- profits on the de
mand of and in favor of tho*; who do i
the work for hint. It is generally
more u matter of pride between the
contending parti s than of profit and
justice, which legal voluntary arbitra
tion may soothe and thus avoid the
disaster and p iverty which these
strikes only pr duce
THE PennsylvaniaS- nateappears to
be dailey growing in liberality. The ,
generous aud ivhl,--minded stalwart j
fellows who com|M >—>■ the Republican |
majority, have now fixed up a ( ongrns
sional apportionment which gives l'.t ,
Republican districts, 7 I)crnocratic dis
tricts, and two doubtful districts. Huch
generosity as that, can not escape pub
lic attention or fail to receive a proper
appreciation. It makes up a record
for them not to be divested, if the que*- 1
tiou of a fair and equitable apportion
ment or the expenses of an extra ses
sion of the legislature becomes a prac
tical issue.
WITH a Democratic majority in
both bouses of the legislature of Now :
York, and a Democratic Governor, no
attempt has been made by the ma
jority to make an unjust and unfair
apportionment of the congressional '
districts. A bill has been passed giv- >
ing 16 certain districts to the I)cmo-1
crats and 15 certain districts to the ;
Republicans, estimated on the vote of
1861, and leaving three districts in
doubt. New York is unquestionably
a Democratic State, and this example
of fair and honorable legislation is
not only creditable to the majority,
but is n just tribute to Democratic
love of fair play and honest political
action, and ought to shame the Re
publican party of that State who, on
an accidental majority some years
a K°i gerrymandered the State nnd
gave to that party a preponderance cf
representation to which it was not en
titled. The same thing was done in
I'eqjmyivania, and now when the
tfHiocrat* desire fair play and equali-
Hiccording to their numbers in an
and fair apportionment,
m>y arc met by Republicans with a
determination to prevent the passage
of a just bill, for the purpose of con
tinuing the villainous apportionment
tiucy enacted ten years ago.
I
BKLLKFONTK, l'A„ THURSDAY, MAY Id, IHKI.
IN the House on Friday Mr. Sterritt
j introduced a bill authorizing the Gov
' cruor to appoint a .-pociul commission
of three Senators and live members to
revise the laws of tho State relating to
taxation for county, lownship, munici
pal aud school purpo am, and to report
to the next Legi-dnti re, 85,0(1) being
appropriated for exp tn*e*. It wa* re
ferred to the Ways ; uid Mean* ('our
j mittee.
The bill for the a-emunt and col
j lection of mercantile said State license
| taxes was considered, tbi* being the
; third day of its discussion.
Mr. Jenkins moved an amendment,
which was agreed to by 67 yeas to 15
nay*. It reads a* follows : "Provided,
however, that the money charged and
received in the several counties of this
<'oinnion wealth for tavern license,
1 liquor license, retailers' license, eating
house license, brewers' license, auc
j tionecr*, patent medicine license, ped
dlers' license, brokers' license, theatre
, license, circus license ami billard
license shall be paid into the treasury
of the county in which the same are
j charged and collected for the use of
-aid county, and the State shall not
he liable in any ease for any costs or
expense for assessing aud collecting
tin; same."
Another proviso wa* added, on mo"
j tion of Mr. Hinc*, as follow- :
"That hereafter the license, fees to
be received by county treasurers of
the several counties in this State, or
any of the licenses afoicsaid, (-hall be
i 50 cents, and all sjweial act* relating
' to county trea-urers inconsistent with
this act be and tin- same are hereby
| repealed." Agrees! to, aud the bill
! was then laid over for third reading.
THE Republicans still a fits- 1 to be
j lieve that the Democratic party is
| in desperate strait.* on the taritf issue
which they propose shall iw- the great
j question of the next campaign. We
do not believe the Democrats have
much to dread if this issue is lorrcd,
for the party is unanimous for a Re
venue tariff. There may be a few here
and there who favor a taritf for pro
tection only, but too inconsiderable to
be counted. But where will the Repub
lican party IM> ? That party i* divided
'on this question every where, but in
Pennsylvania and a few of the New
England State*, and when the motion
is made to rule out the Republicans
who are opposed to a protective tariff,
the exmlua will amount to a great
popular movement. Gf this fart the
Republican leaders are not ignorant,
and for this reason will not dare to
make a protective tariff an issue in the
party platform.
HOME of our Blair county friends
are disposed to find fault and criticise
with unnecessary severity, the appoint
ment* of Mr. Africa, Secretary of In
ternal Affair*. We presume the Se
cretary looks to the efficiency of the
service in his department, and if he be
lieves that efficiency can le better at
j tained by retaining one or two or even
half a dozen of the old officials, thwii
by making selections from the list of
deserving applicant* furnished from
Blair county, he, as the responsible
party, ha* the right of judgment, and
we see no reason for censure in it* ex
ercise. The nepotism complained of,
is only a matter of taste after all, and
a* no one pretends to question the abil
ity. or the good character and entire
fitness of the appointees, our Blair
liiends might as well be satisfied, and
bold themselves in reserve for some
tiling better than more clerkships an
Capitol Hill. At bet, they are not i
places to lie desired by young men of 1
sufficient capacity to fill them. They
can do better, and l>e their own mas- '
ters at the same time.
All tho appointments of the Hecre- ,
tary, so lisr as we can judge, are of the I
first class—- that from this county is cer- 1
tainly one of great merit, which can* (
not be discounted either in qualifica
tions or general intelligence. I
L j Hon. JitmcH Macmanuu Dead.
James Macmanus, K"| , whose death or
-1 rurred in thin place on Haturdsy afternoon
i ut 3 o'clock ha# been for many year. th<
, j konior Member of the Centre county bar.
Ho was born in Carli!e, Mhj IT, ]wil
I ] Hint bail nearly completed the seventy
ninth year of hi* B(je. He came to Holle>
' j fonto in the year and was married in
, 1 HIM to Mi<* .lane Armor, a!*o from Car
lisle, and the rami- yi ar wa* entered a- a
student at law with Hon. Thomas Burn
side. Mr. Macmanus wa admitted at
August Term, IH2O, and immediately
! commenced the practice. The following
; year he appointed Deputy Attorney
(Jeneral for Clearfield county, by Hon.
> Frederick Smith then Attorney General
i under Gov. John A. Hbulze, and held this
. office under deputations from Attorneys
| | General* Hly'he, Fllinaker and Markle,
( ! and wa appointed Deputy Attorney 'on
eral for Centre ai.d Clearfield counties
• the Gov. Wolfe administration
und.f deputations from his ucee- iv.-At
• torneys General Samuel Douglass, K111
]<ewis and tn-orcn )| Dalia- and during
Gov I'orter • administration, l h to D I '.,
from Hon. tjvid K. Johnson Mr Mac
; in an us declined a further lender of the
! office made by Hon. John K Kane, At
tornay Genera! under Francis K -hunk
fi When Jefferson county *■ annexed to
I this district, Judge Burnsid" appointed
I Mr Macmanus to ]>rose< ute the common
wealth s pleas for that county, and on the
1 ' organization of Clinton county was a*- go
od to the same duties by Judge Wood"
ward. He was also counsel for the ■ >unty
commissioners of ('.mire cou-.ty for over
, eleven years.
In 1 41 he was ideef-l to the Legislature
from E'entre county, then a distru t of
itself. Among the prominent men, Dr. of
the assssion of D> 12, in the lo use, were
• 'hief Justice Sharswood, Charlos B Trego.
John J McCahen. Asa Packer, Judges
Win. Kiwell and tieo B Barrett, llend
rick H. Wright, James Boss Fnowden,
John II Deford and other men "f grat
I ability including the great commoner
I Tha/ldeus Steven*. Neverlheles* before
I the close of the session Mr Marrnanus had
! trie credit of being one <.f ibe most in
fluential member* of the house. During
j the discussion of the tariff resolution of
I the c*ion of l*< 2 he stir itte-i bv bis
j
I colleagues against Thaddeu* Stevens and
made an excsswdingly able speech against
the resolution of instruction hv tho legi*.
lature to m inemlsers of congress fr..m
this state by which it *, ught to cnlrol
the conduct of the delegation in congress
on the tariff question, which he denouncnl
as "n n unwarrantable assumption of p- wer
without right.
In I*l2 he declined re-election and sug
gested the nomination of Hon. George
McCullough who wa* taken upand elected.
In lap! Mr. Macmanus was again nomi
nated and elected, hi# personal piof.ularitv
snrmounting tho faditical wave that en
gulfeil every candidate on the Democratic
county ticket from Congressman to County
Treasure: In l*lt he docline,l renomi
nation and retired from political office
though ever taking groat interosl in poli
tic*. he preferred quiet home-life to pub
lic life. When Hon W W. Potter died
in 1*39 he wa* tho choice of tho Demo,
cratic party to succeed Mr. Potter in Con- i
grfss, hut he declined to accept tho nomi- i
nation Gov. Shunk offered him tho potl- i
lion of President Judge, this ho also do. I
cllned. to continue the practice of bis pro.
feeaion. In August, IRA), he had com- j
plated (*> years of aclivo practice at tho ;
bar and occasion was takon by tho bar to
1 prnsont him with a gold headed cano. As
a member of the bar ho was highly o. j
toemod by all his brothron as a gonorous 1
opponont, as a hard working assoriato ,
counsel and for hi# strict integrity—his j
verbal engagement was always taken and ;
invariably adhered to. As a citizen ho
was kind and generous, and no deserving
person over applied to him for relief or ;
help in vain. Ho was a member of the !
Presbyterian church and as long as ho wa* |
able a constant attendant upon worship,
and always a cheerful contributor to tho j
cause of religion. Ho wa# of eiceedinglv i
cheerful disposition, retaining up to the i
last his interest in tho welfare of others, I
with an unclouded mind and in the full
possession of his faculties he passed peace
fully away.
Gn Tuesday, at 3 P. M. all that was mor"
lal of Mr. Macmanus was laid tenderly
away beside thoee be loved and lost in our
village cemetery, where within a narrow
circle are the graves of Iluston, Burnside,
Petriken, M Allister and many others
good and great with whom he was Inti
mately associated in life, and to whom he
is now united by the solemn mystery of
death.
A meeting of the bar wa* held on Mon
day afternoon presided over by Hon. John
H. Orvla. Genl, Beaver moved the ap
pointment of a committee of Sve to pro-
pare a minute ul tin- liand career of 4 tin
deceased. Messr- Uurtin, Beaver, JSIIIM
11. Knnkin, Durst ai,<l l.inn w-re named
n
they immediately retired and alter consul
r lation reported their woik fin: bed I
I was order, i that the memorial l; sprea,
j Upon the court record, and Hon. A. G
Curliri wa selected to present the same ai
n tho next session of the corniC' n pleas.
<>ti motion of Mr (,'urtin, the , i lH ir di -ig.
nated the follow ing attorneys pa I hearer
. j Messr- It,,wer. Bpaogler 1.-p K\l
it Blanchard, Kelh-r r,d I.ov
v | It wa- also re lve.J ti.vt the i,i,r atler,,;
i the funeral in a body.
'lnr. R'Riiinf; A' "* thus refer* to
tlie by-play now being worked up by
. the ever hopeful Cooper and bo**
> to re-tore the liarrnoriv of "the
'i grand old party" by uniting the ma
" ehine Stalwart* and the Inde|uudent
half-breed* in one common purr>*e for
• lie next campaign. "A ne-.v oj* ra 1.-
, to be produced :.t an < arly day bv the
g Pennsylvania R. publicans to be called
>, "Reconciliation." The libretto will
1M; written by ('baric* Eniorv Smith,
of the Philadelphia /re , and the
j music will be arranged by Alexander
~ K. Met.lure, of the Philadelphia
1 /'two. The manager will be Hurry
i''liver, the deputised ('ameron leader
" of the n>-xt eampaigu The musical
' director will, of cour*e, be Matthew
j Stanley Qasy,the fir-t fiddler# will be
r the l'r rand the Harris
| fiurg T*U<jraj>h. Among the -econd
" fiddle* may IK- safely counted Reading
Times, Pottaville Journal, Lanca-ter
' ; Kraminrr and Scrtntou Ji'-puiluan
| Gen. .Jame* A. Reaver will play the
, cornet, James Me Mane* the tr unbone,
Sam I/o*< h the cymbal* and < apt.
Delaney the big l.ax- fiddle. Among
1 tin- melodic* are the "Mulligan f iuard,"
"Give u- back our oHI commander,"
i | "what can the matter be," "Hold the
( I oft, "Kcemo Kc-imo," "Flanigan'*
i flaneur," and other familiar mu*ip."
f j The exportation* from fhi* country
' to England show* that "King Cotton"
( no I mger reigns supreme, but ha-a
formadalile rival iti meat.- and live
( jenttlc. An English newspaper make*
1 the .statement that during one week of
April seven steamer* arrived at Liv
-1 erpool from America with cargoes of
fresh meat, coni*ting of f,n HI quarter*
of IMNT and 1,608 carcaseee of mutton,
. while seven other vc**el brought to
J the same port 'J.Gofi cattle and 2,315
*heep.
TIIK Philadelphia fw fixe* a
i very low standard of character upon
the memlsers of the Pennsylvania
legislature, when it charges that thev
would delay action U|w,n irnfmrtant
legislation for the mere purpose of
being re-called in extra session at the
rate of 810 a day. There are some
mean men doubtless in the legislature
J a- there are mean devils out of it who
1 make great pretensions, and write
i volume* of criticisms upon their acts,
but we cannot lielieve that any con
j trolling number of men chosen to
represent the people, end ohligat#d !
under oath to perform the duties of
representatives, eould be found to fill
: the bill drawn by the Time*. The
L Time.-, however, may IK right, the
'editor has a gnat familiarity with a
! portion of these representatives audi
may s|icak authoritatively. Time will
J tell.
i
Jt'txjK MILKER of the court of ap- i
j peals in Maryland, has decided the I
legality of a preferred assignment in
favor of a wife who loaned money to |
the hubaiid on the express promise to
repay it. He said "a wife may become j
accreditor of a husband, and the pro
vision of the code that property shall
not pax* to her from him in prejudice
of the rights of creditors was never !
intended to prohibit him from paving
or devoting his property to the pay
ment of a debt due to her. If she is.
in fact, such creditor, (he law regards
her rights with as much favor a* those
of other creditors."
THE star route trials it is expected !
will end this week bv the closing
speech of the Attorney Generkl. The
defence, it app ars, have concluded to
submit (he case* to the jury without 1
argument. ,
'I KHMS: s|.r>o jHT Annum,in Advance.
I in. extensive machine shop be-
I" Rosier A McKay, manufac-
turer* (iI (toilers am! engine* at Titus
it j ' '*• ua * clo<l by UM Sheriff on
,j I rid ay Jar-t, with JiaKiJit j(-„ amounting
to SL'oO.OOO. <hie hundred and fifty
t men ure thrown out of employrneut
'• Ibv the failure which i- chargable to
jtiphtrje.fi of the money market and
failure of irr-n men in Pittsburgh-
Ihe lirrn, i ir said, had a larpe trade
in the south and west.
I 111. ( 'oMtnis-iuner of IVIUHODH ha*
0 prepared the ! iet 'if p<nrioner* of the
v I nite i Mate-, which i< now in the
1 .'iatid-i of the Public Printer. The
work on the document will commence
• : duly 1. In rcponee to the demand for
t j thif information CV.nprc at the la-t
r | session authorized it* printing a- an
- j executive document, for distribution,
e It i- -tat'd that when printed, the work
t will embrace forty-eight volume* of
I : ox hundred pnpf - ea<
' I CHAIKMAN FOR.i'j i:. f the Repub
r licau >tate 'oniiiiitto--, ha- i'-u'-d a
4 ,a " f*'f the licpublicau >:ate Conven
. lion In be held at Harrhburg on the
I Ith ot duly. ri.e .nrg'-st freedom in
j general participation of the primaries
consistent with the preservation of
party organizati n i- recommended.
. ' hat is, the Indcj ndents or half-breed*
I may come in this vear.
1 'ii. most absurd of all political
p.atitude-, says the \\ a>liington
i fc the claim that the "country owes it
present prosperity to the Republican
• party." Vet this old absurdity, which
.ift" done service in many campaigns
; of the pat, is brought out and paraded
again in the hope that it may check
the progre-s of di-integration by which
the Republican party i- being reduced
, to a hopeless but dosperate minority.
The prosperity of the United Stat'*,
a- compared with other and older
countries, i- due to causes as fai above
; will beyond the control of anv partv
as the progress { ,f the seasons, the
movements of tides or the revolution
of our planet. Most of the causes of
our prosperity are natural—the ex
iiaustless resources of a young country
incomparably rich in all that contrib
utes to material growth. Our empires
of the most fruitful land on the globe,
our vast deposit* of coal, iron and the
money metals, our grand waterways,
our variety of soil and climate—these
were not made by any party, nor could
any party prevent a free people from
making usc of them. Their utiliza
tion was well under way Iwfore the
Republican party *a born. Next to
our indebtedness to nature is our ob
ligation to the men who shook off
British rule and established free gov
ernment in tlii country. And next
to these must bo placed the victories
won under a J>emoerafic administra
tion by which the area of the Union
was extended over those regions which
have given us gold and silver iu al
most fabulous amounts. Whether the
Mexican war was right or wrong in
the abstract, its influence on our na
tional prosperity has been grandly
great. Such a people as ours in such
a country as this owe prosperity to no
party, nor has there ever been a time
when they would have permitted any
l' ar, > I® block the path of progress.
As we have shown. tl|e political events
which, supplementing natural cause*,
have made us what we are, occurred
long before the Repuhliean partv came
on the stage. How, then, cau the ad
vocates of Republican supremacy pre
tend that we owe our prosperity to
their |Kilitical organization.
CowtmiKsMAW HAYNK has detected
a serpent hid in the stalwart Senate
apportionment bill, to legislate him
out of CongrtM. Mr. Bayue is the In
dependent representative from A lie
gheoy county. There arc a good lot
of snakes in that bill that nceil* att< u
tion from houcst Independent Repub
licans if they desire to retain the char
acter for fair dealiug they claimed for
themselves last fall.
NO. 10.