®l)r (Centre & Democrat. S. T. NIICUKKT Editor. VOL. 5. Give Centre democrat. Terms t t.ftO per Anuum In Advance, S. T. SHUGERT, Editor. Thursday Morning, August 9, 1883. FOR AUDITOR OKN'KRAL, Capt. ROBERT TAGGART, of Warren County. FOR STATE TREASURER, Hon. JOSE PA POWELL, of Bradford County. Tho Democratic Dologato Eloction and County Convention. Th* Democratic voter* of Ontrw connty will in- t at tho regular pltfM of holding th* ; *1 rlectte.i f--r the (liatrict* "i* itetunUy, A;c 11, l*Ki. t • t dt*lfgnt*n to th* Democratic County i_*n%•* >ti*i. Th election will open at 2 o'clock, i\ and clora at *i* • K, The delegat** choeen at tin*above time will meet in the Court lloute at IMb f< nte, on Tu. • l-ty, Aug. 11, •t i n'nlocilr r. *. te Dominate oil eand l late for A •delate Juiltc**, on*' ramlhlnte fr Dlatro t A11• "r• y. one cndlUte fur County Purveyor, ami to trnnaart hu< h other hnainets a* th* inter-*l* •! the |t*rtjr may demand. The number of delegate* to which ra h district in en titled i* an follow*: Ibdlefonte, N. W 2in,o P.. " B.l* I N P 1 Rush spring . 4 .''now ?h> • Taylor ! Walker I tnioo ... 1 Worth 2 The i-uuimlttea h ddln te - the delegate eh ti -n* and th" rule* will te pttblif ht-d next w— k. W. Mil | - W lUB, W. C. H-M r. retary. Chairman. JAY GOI'Ld, it is said, promises to spend 8">,000,0(H) to defeat the Tele graph strikers. Perhaps ho will, and still have to pan out fair pay to the operators. THE ultiruntuiyi-t* of the Senate, Cooper, Stewart A Co., have not yet gone home. Ultimatum legislation they find profitable and interesting. It's so amusing! THE Stalwart triflers of the Senate of I'ennsylvai ia, are still standing on their ultimatum. It has a slim founda tion, hut it will probably serve to bear the slight weights who lean upon it. THE New York llcrahl advocates the policy of the government assuming control of tho telegraph system of the country. Better wait until Gould has spent his $">,000,000 ou the boys. The Philadelphia Lrdyr thinks that the Senate ot Pennsylvania "un der its perverse and blind leaders, is making up a had record." A had re cord it is. Even John Stewart will learn that in time. Tiik death of Carey the Irish in former, was foreshadowed from the first. After giving away the lives of his fellow conspirators, no more culpa ble than himself, he had no reason to ' expect to live a day after the trial of his victims. SENATORIAL lightning refused to ! strike Bill Chandler. It glanced upon some of the granite rocks, and the thunderbolt intended to strike at the Navy yard in Washington took a cir- cuitous route hitting a decent re-spect ra iblo man instead. Mr. Pike, there fore is Senator, and uot Mr. Chandler of fraud memory. "THE Democrats must go," says a Baltimore Republican paper. That's true —they must go right in and take possession of the White House and its appendages just as the Republican thieves start on the final journey to which they arc doomed on the Ith of March, 188-">. Thnt they " must go " is the unchangeable law now. Jr- THE New York Tribune thinks that 7 the Republican party "ought not to go," because the public debt was re duced $8,(>00,000 last month. Now 1 let the Tribune show that the Repub licans paid the debt themselves—that the Democrats had no band in it, and it will make a case worthy of c-onsi -4 deration. But with tho present rates of taxation, the feat of paying to the public creditors out of the public treasury, eight, or even twenty-eight millions is not remarkable, only so far I aa that amount escaped confiscation in its passage to the creditors. SKSATOK GOURON in U speech at the late Democratic State Conven tion, referring approvingly to the Humes law recently passed, restrain ing the corrupt speculation and use of the public moneys, by officials lor personal ami political purjioses, said " millions and millions of the people's money has been diverted from the state treasury to iuii the republican party ami that department of the state government was the one great festering source of power remaining to be shorn of its uses to the forces of iniquity. "Nothing is known of the operations of the treasury. To the public, the owners, it is a sealed book, for the republicans have studiously covered up their work and avoided the (leople's demand- 1 . The question is, shall such a thing continue. The con vention is to be congratulated upon its work. There have been slates hereto fore, remote and far between, but slates nevertheless, hut who knew of Robert Taggart's nomination before this hour? Did we have any one to tell us? Where was the keen sight so common to the newspapers that in menti ming others entirely failed to give < vena Taggart rumor? Oh, no ; there is no smell of the machine about this con vention, and its work is grand, wheth er you take the congressman from the old Wilmot district, the gallant sol dier from Schuylkill or the upright legislator from Rucks. It mak- s no difference. You have done a great work in carrying out the Humes law —a law intended to compel attention to the interests of a great common wealth and not a mere party —a law the republican party fongbt tooth and nail to kill in the recent legislature. There are strong arm* behind TOT! in this convention. You have a winning . chairman to take you on to victory, j There is no contest of rival b >-.-s hero —no fighting for the spoils—no ma chine. For this I congratulate you." The Senator may will congratulate the people of Pennsylvania up- n tin work of their convention, if by that means the treasury of the state can In rescued from the villany of administra tion which has marked i < profligacy, with a very brief interval ever since Rill Kemball applied the rulcof'Tnul* tiplication division and silence" to en sure the fruits of robbery to the re- i publican thief. These millions diver, ted from the treasury and operated for I the personal lienefit of the official ring and the necessities of party corruption - is no fancy thought of the Senator from Philadelphia. It existed large ly in 18t>d, in the ring of Kernhle, Uidgeway and other street railway operators, and it has continued in every Republican adminislratration since until now when the chaperon re- ' spectively of the present Republican Treasurer, and the one selected fur a successor, is the custodian of a large amount of the funds of the treasury, which the Humes law, will make a little heavy for him to carry. THE death of William A. J. Kiss, at the Norristown Insane Hospital, brings once more before the people of this Commonwealth the question of the care and custody of the I nsane. The case of Mr. Fiss is simply a case of murder and murder, which for brutality has few parallels. Fiss was kicked to death by a brutal attendant —Gafley by name. Galley's villany is only ex ceeded by the stupidity, ignorance and incompetency of Dr. Chase who al lowed the murderer, to leave tho insti tution before any investigation of the affair had been made. There are too many Galley's among the attendants, and Chase's among the physicians at our Insane Asylums. It is time to CA!I a halt in this department of pub lic charities. We may have a Tewks bury in Pennsylvania, with all the barbarities incident to the nature nnd life of tho American Indian. Ho nev er iil-trcatcd a human being on wbom the Great Hpirit had laid his hand. Investigate, place the charge of mur der where it belongs, push it to its natural COUCIUMOD. Better an iuves- "KUUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OK WHATEVER STATE OR I'EKMUASION, KKLItilOl'H OR I'oI.ITU AL."—J.IT.r IJEIXEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUDI ST <>, IHKJ. ligation every day in tho year, than another murder like that of Fis-. The charge of cruelty against physicians, attendants ami keepers at Insane Asy lums has become so common that lit tle attention iy paid to them. Hi re is n ciear ease of murder oceuriug in one of the he.-t conducted institutions of the kind in the state —a murder which would have been suppressed l>v the physician in charge, had not the wife of the deceased discovered the condition of affairs. These men should be taught humanity through the bars of our state prisons. "A si.i '(>ni> term" for President Arthur was the subject of conversa tion between a Washington correspon dent and a gentleman sustaining con fidential relations with the President, i Hu said "that the recent favorable ex \ preasions from all parts of the coun try as to the President's course and I the policy of his administration had not been devoid of gratification to the Executive. Particularly was he pleas ed with the change in public senti ment, for no one had been m >re seiisi ! tivc to the strictures passed upon him us Garfield's -ucce.ssor. He t his jN>st in the ground and worked to wards it, apparently unmindful of the | clamor on all sides for him to foilow | in the footsteps of hi- predecessor. He had frequently r- marked that hi- ac tions would eventually receive tlx ' sanction of the thinking men of the ! country, who would realize the pre ! dicaiucut in which lx- hud been placed by the a*-a--it' bullet. 'lhere was no longer any doubt in hi- mind thnt the manses w-io on hi- sol--, and l>-" fore leaving for the Yellowstone he ■aid ihnt h>- frit more at ra-"- than at any time -ince the death of < iarlx-ld 1 He was not paying any ntt a Presidential bo m l"r a <-->nd term, j hut Would endeavor to make his in. curoberx y satisfactory to all ecti-.n of the > ountry." THE American F--re-try < ngr<-s is to me< t at St. Paul. Minn., - n the *th of this month. The oh •ct of tfii a-sociatioD i- tr - marked in years | past, and tu encourage planting <>f for <-t tr< rs in practical locations. On the theoiy thnt by denuding our mountains ' and forests our whole climate and coun try nrc seriously damaged, affecting the 1 distribution of rain falls and increas ing the destructive storms and fr> -lx-ts so prevalent in the la-t year, this Con gress meets for discussing the effect*, and tracing the cause in such way a to obtain due attention to the import ance of the subject. Nilea on ApiKirtionuient. During the regular session of the present legislature, says the Patriot, Hon. Heroine P>. Nile* was quite active and conspicuous in carrying out the dilatory tactics of the republicans with regard to np]K>rtionment. At the special session, however, ho has been very reticent on that subject. It is quite apparent that he fears to make a record which will return to plague him as a candidate for office. The fact is Mr. Niks is in a large degree responsible for the continuance of the special session. If he had risen in his place nnd told his party to accept the Stewart congressional apportionment bill when the democrats proposed it as J a compromise, the session would ere ; this have come loan end. Had he done so no opposition would have dared to show itself among the rcpub" licans of tho senate. Even Cooper would have been obliged to assent to tho passage of the bill. He has, how over, another opportunity to extricate his party from tho perils into which it has been led by the reckless managers of the stalwart senatorial clique. If bo will declare for the Lowry congres sional apportionment bill, another re publican measure now before the house, he will break the legislative dead lock and rewcuc his party. • Mr. Niles was not always so indif ■ foreut to tho rights of the jit-uple and tho commands of the constitution, in deed hut two brief years ago ho .vus quite as great a stickler for the con stitutional mandate on the subject of apportionment as Governor I'utti.-oii or any democratic member of the leg i-lature is now. When the legislative apportionment hill was before tlx house toward the close of l*sl, Mr- Niles arose arid delivered tlx-following pointed and excellent speech : "MR. NILES. Mr. Speaker: This bill ha- been postponed, for some rea son or other, until tlx- ln-t days of tlx session ; and its far as I am concerned, I do uot propose to go home until tlx hill is pas-ed or an earnest effort is made to pass it. 1 do not int> ml, as far as I am concerned that tlx; people of Pennsylvania shall -ay that we have ia-en so many months in -< --ion, neglecting our cou-titutomul ob/i'/ution to pa*s an apportionment hill which the constitution says SHALL be pa--- .ed at tlx ion succeeding every census. If this bill i- postponed, if it i- referred to committee, it we -Lirk our responsibility hero and let this bill ■j go back to tlx- committee, it look- to | the state-, and the people hav a right i to say, that we have done this thing Jon purpose to have an extra s-s-ion next winter. We ought to ux -1 thi qui -tioii like- men. 1 want the- hill pa-ed that the constitution says ISHALL be pa—ed at thi- session." It i- evident from this speech that tlx- republican leaders w-r<- opjs -ed to the pii-.-agc of any app rtioniiient hill in l-r*l just a- tlx-v are at pre-, nt. But Mr. Nik- was not then in liar in- nv with tlx- repuhix an < n-pirit >r against apportionment. H>- then h - i li- veil in ku-ping his oath t-> suppn the con-tituti >n. II ehargtd that I the legislative npporti nment l>ill had l-< n jxs r I each decennial cenu- he will i. t have the hardihood to c nPnd tliat tlx pre- 1 lit legislature i exempted lr-mi tliat obligation by th n- gleet <-f its predece-sor. The peojde of the -tat<- are anxious to lx-ar from Mr. Niles on this subject. They will IK ■ -p- 1 ially curious to know tlx rea- n for hi- pi -- longed silence on the subject of appor tionment considering thnt in l ,s l lx ' ! charged hi- own party in the house | with "neglecting tlx ir constitutional duty to pa-- an apportionment hill." Come out of your hiding-place Mr. Niles! In the forcible language of that speeeh of yours, there must lx- n>> ; shirking of re-ponsihility, and the members of tlx- legislature, including yourself, Mr. Nile*, "ought to meet this question like men." Mr. Nibs has the floor. THE Baltimore Day, while opposed jto the present internal revenue law, takes the ground occupied by the Washington Port, to wit, that the reve nue system itself need not be abandon ed. It thinks that a law can he framed j to bring this revenue into the Trcas- I ury, and he satisfactory to the tax | payer as well as just to the Govern ! ment ; at all events, says the I)iy, we think a Democratic President, and a Democratic Congress should have an opportunity of trying their hand at it. The Port's plan for collecting the liquor taxes by snlo of stamps from the Treasury direct will, we believe, he tho basis of a new revenue law. When we are not compelled to tax the most common and indispensable ne cessities of the poor, wo can give up the internal taxes altogether. But we cannot let whiskey oflT while taxing blankets nnd undershirts. IT is claimed, and probably with rea son, that Kriccson'a new torpedo boat, the Destroyer, is the most powerful and destructive engine of naval warfare in existence. Experiments have success, fully demonstrated that the boat can be sunk and driven under the surface of the water, that the torpedo gun can be aimed and fired effectively, and that at ■ a distance of six or eight hundred yards an object us large n the hull of a -hip CUII bo hit with a | rojectilo that would ; destroy any vessel afloat. Tho country I wa-t morn indebted to hrice-ou duriim the war of tlio rebellion than to the entire corps of naval constructors. ID is now an old man, hut does riot a| pear to have survived his usefulness. It i possiblo that hi- inventions may yet he as great a lic-lp in time of need ■wa his little Monitr r at Hampton Itoads when tho M- iriniae. having sunk the i' 'ongr-and the omherhitxl, wa- pre ! paring for other and greater victories. It i- altogether li. -ly that in maritime warfare and the defence of seaports, tlx- torpedo is ir, future to play the most prominent j rt. 'I hey Mu-t Gipitulute. MR. TIIOHI- ON- XKI.M 1 11- >. N ELOQUENT OKA TION. NO lit-1-OSITiON TO I LV. IN TIIE El r-iHT TO I I llll! . lilt i O.N-TIT ' Tlos -A 10'. St. ON UK IME COMMIT! 1.1 Kt> -MMENII Eli ItV TIIE 110 l : r.. '1 h<- following grap c report of I hurs day's legislative jnocs--i .ngi i taken from tlx- liar:.-burg /' In the Hou-e ye-w-r Uy nx.rni g Mr. Thompson, of l.- avr-r, rontin 1 h..- speech en Mr. Anx-rman - free . .r,fer i ence re-ilution. lie a-i-lresse-l i ru"-lf i particularly to tho ofi-tinate m lwart spirit abroad in the -enate, a -j ir.t which he raid bad deliberately bit ier- -i I legislation arid -- t a-.d.- the high" 1 law of the Stale, the ' onstitution, ly the : promulgation of an ultimatum He illustrated the stand of the T'< mocralic Hou-e ly referen e i i tlx- answer I're s.-ient dack-'-n gave to the nuh.'.-r- South 1 arolina, by a\;ng "The nu! lifx r- -a.d w, will it' ie. '/ ~ n, ~ , you will not. • ientlernen, we h:,v< u j protolyp,- of .Tackson in the gub, ma tonal chair, and the ho-> • say we will a i otirn. Tut the < >ov< rnor say - y < i w .il not si.: 1 lied 1 I. I want , to see bio lh- 1 or, th<- .1 of l'ennsvl vsnia but there was another me n of I titling down r< 5 eilion again l l ti. • or. stitutx i ' G-t ;t t-e nr. icr-tr. 1 ihftt tlx I id mu-t 1 ] -•-< i -ui 1 they w.li be ] . .i. No rm n re stand out again-t the will of the people. < nr. t.nuing, he > . i "11,- .• m crat.c pirty d s not w ,nt to throw the rwonl into the scale. : iiey jr>'• r | eaceful means and th th.ng* that make fur peace generous ,ncr--.on ai. l COIT. I r nr.-- . iln e tlx v havo oflcre I. We Will say :- Abraham 1 tx In ► . 1 in the dark" 1 hour of thenar when rxke 1 : ! "What are you g .: g to do about thi* rebellion ? '< th,' he replied, -we are go ing to keep p. g, ng away. And that i what we are g ;r.g to do here kee|, pegging at the r ! elliou* r- of tlie Senate until it s < nder." At the close of i - ;-cecli Mr. I horn j son wa* highly r< mpument" J, the | plali*e t-ring g ortirinment bill and the House then passed it on first reading. Whilst thi* was being done there wa* more confusion, Mr. lline* informing Mr. (lavitt that he was the wrong person to attempt to bull dose. Ho then, declared the House ad journed. The senate leisurely came together, some with satchels in hand, and there being no business before the body an adjournment was the only thing before it. Senator lieyburn moved that when adjournment wa* agreed to it be until next Tuesday evening at nine o'clock. Thi* appeared to suit the taste of the SUlwarta, and it was about to pass, 9 ____ TKHMS: per Annum, in Advance. i when objection wan raised on the ground i that it wait more than three legislative 'lay. The motion was amended to read Monday i-vi ning and so agreed to. ( ,'tjite a portion of the S< uate i* in ses ► ton iri the oil region* to day, many leaves of absent" being granted. I'lOtb Senator* I.rnery and Davie* think the •••►sjoii will be over tiy Au gust lu. Senator Harlan iscertainof it. ♦ ADDITIONAL LOCALS. —1 he Bellefonte Fencible military corn, pany, numbering ah .t sixty members, und'-r the command of tt.r gallant 'ay tain, Mr An. * Mullen, departed thin m ■ ' r Lake < nneaut, in Bradford t' -iity, t attend the s< . lit rs enr ampmcnt, which t-mmen- •- to-day. The hoys wero "j. 'aiitly attired ir. full military uniform and jo-sent 1 a gas and grand appearance. Ihi- ■hi w..l he a j lea-ant trip fur the boy I. —lfer. af'.< r th- .tre g :• <{ ■ur town *.ll he • nUrtained r.y the " Adelj hie Or • !.• -tra f Jl ' rile, with rnu-ic be fore the n-ing - ■ el-. 1 - ■: i: ... f r.te'- g . 11>. k;.ng !>• y-. "f . r the Or o -tra *. II be an at tract .n ,n ;t" .f, ar 1 the a . lience will he .•nteriair 1 t).r ugh the . r.tlr" evening, w.th m . i at, i ; ay, this in connection v. ilh the 1 a .'..fully de rated < j.era hou it 1 th- r.ew • -nery ■ jgt.t t • insure . good compare. ■. But. r.>■ - - generally, bat be. n extreme. •>' • t: i i i. hut traf'e pap. r ar" • . .ring th-- fil T! y admit that trade !hi :. t been g i ; !■ it in ( ns< juere aof th uneua.lv large cr •• this s'-atuns , lhr< ogh it t' • . r try will evidently ; f ve a t'-n ]<-r. y t • g w that t r tl lei. .. t . th ! .'or.-, u!. h, h w've-r, i a.l that is re .jr. 1 1 keep things novir •. These ar 1 very v, . ®. p.. t . all branch' ef tra h —Th. i. how a I'< r.risylvan.a 'ramp rs ;r. -K- bin. elf th<- .r.t< r. r .fa bv ! lli f 7 ■' "Barn* and box-car* ar" my !.. ; r in, r a hn r<" st when I •>n tal." a ■:..rt a <, the iinc, 1 am the k.r, 1 t: y spr. ■> 1 ri land; counting ;at .•• r ■ - ne- a ■ t" a: 1 I ar r, . r'-.at. ri 1 am a 1' - r...ylvar.ia t-arr.j The ah \ i- a v.ry ; la' . an 1 expro--ivc piece i f joetic I' ai, 1 evidently fu lv involve* the '.l r.tiri.- r its . f the a nth' r. It ! rati ;. : • f.-r I t ■ learn that (!. f. tival he ; at .Jack r.ville on !al "• iturday cvemrg. was a> usual, largely ar dw. 1 alter lei . r..g i r.; rt. it > have ... U.TTI 1 during the day and evening, to mar the p>a>antri"s < f the < casion, 1.1 everything ; ■ i ('/harmoniously ar, i plearantly. However, it i- not sur pri-.rg t u. when *e ct r,'. ier tbenoUblo sure. ■ that usually attends public possible to Prof. 11. M Wolf,. Spring Mills. Each family attending the forenoon session, expecting to remain for the afternoon, S# requested to bring a basket lunch to be taken at the church • during the noon recess. Since everything worth anything costs something,' each delegate is desired to come prepared to as sist In defraying the necessary expenses of the convention/' —Mr. John Sourback sports the "bcHn'' delivery wagon of tho town. NO. :N.