fPje Centre 2sSt Democrat. S. T. NIIIGKItT Editor. VOL. R>. She (C>n in gewocrai T.rmi 51.50 por Annum In Ailvnnoe, S. T. SHUGERT, Edilor. Thursday Moraine, August 23, 1883. STATE TICKET. Foil AUDITOR OKNEIUL, ( apt. ROBERT TAGGART, of Warren County. FOB STATE TBKAM ILKIL, Hon. JOSEPH POWELL, of Bradford County. COUNTY TICKET. FOR ASSOt'tATR JtJDHK l>r. .1. It. SMITH, of Ferguson Township. FOR DISTRICT ATTUHNKV. IV. C. 11 I*. INI. I of Bellefonle. FOR COUNTV M ill KYott KLLIS 1.. < IitVIS, of ltellefonte. THE telegraph strike has collapsed. It was a distinguished failure, ami the operators are returning to service minus the increased pay demanded. THE New Orleans Picayuif Ims tin best method of promoting th civil service. It proposes to send only .uoli men to cougress as are fit to be there. THE growing independence of the colored voter and his distrust of the immaculate honesty of the g. o. p., i ouc of the aflliclions the R< publicans are encountering in many places. THE Sultan has ordered the ladies of the harem to wear thicker veils. If the Turkish ladies are like their sisters elsewhere, the Sultan will lie wise ill keeping hi* courtiers out of view of the harem, or the thick veil will soou he liberally supplied with air holes. IT is apparent that General Crook - services arc again much needed in tin Sierra Madras. The red devils ho , failed to capture on his former expedi tion and bring out of tie -c mountains it is announced have again comrnenet d their depredations of plunder and murder of the white people. He should try again. THE Austin Texas: Stat'onnn in a vigorous article advocates the nomi nation of Thomas K. Bayard, of Dela ware, as the Democratic candidate for President, claiming equal acceptability for him north ami south. If great ability, pure and unmixed honesty, and enlarged patriotism are considera tion to commend, Bayard stands well to the front. IT is said in Ohio that a mutual benefit society has been organized by , President Arthur and Oov. Charles Foster for 1884, and that Ohio is cx" T* pec ted to contribute a full quoto to the profits of the institution. No men- I tion is made that John Sherman has . Irecn consulted, or remains passive in the arrangements. John generally has something to say in small affairs of this kind. L 'THE reason that no agreement can be made by the legislature upon the ' pfts-ago of an apportionment bill, is liecouse the Republicans prefer the present shameless gerrymander of the state passed ten years ago, to any hill that could with any decency Ire passed now, with the most generous concession jKissihle on the part of the Democrats. It was to retain the old gerrymander that the odious and infamous Mc- Craeken hill was framed. lIOS. WM. 11. BAKNI M, who had "'national charge of the campaign, alle le ccssfully defends Mr. Tilden from the recent charge of procuring the defeat of Gen. Hancock. He ays that Mr. Tilden cantributed twenty-five thou sand dollars in aid of Gen. Hancock's canvass, and that the Democracy were indebted to hini* fiff much valuable Bf* strvico during the campaign. He also r eay9 thai Mr. Tilden was not averse to ■ (he nomination or election of Gen. Hancock. Nobody but cranks and , ■ personal enemies of the eminent New York statesman believed otherwise. "KqL'AL AMI KX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OK TVIIATEVK.iI STATE OB PERSUASION, KKI.IOIOL'H OB I'oLITK AL."—JiEvrton. "Post tho Books.'' In our last wo referred briefly to the creditable and proper reforms of the working force of the Democratic I louse of Representatives, by which $lB,OOO were saved to the taxpayers I of the commonwealth over former Republican organizations of that body, ami promised further reference to the more important actions of our noble Democratic (i ivernor in arresting U"' big steals annually perpetrated under the polite title of appropriation. These appropriation hills were puvd as usual and the Democratic hou-e, following the precedents cust#uis, in allowing theni to pass unchallenged became unconscious partic- to fraud. The Governor, however, with that in dependent investigation and fearless a--ertion of law and right for which he is fatuous, could not allow wrong to prevail on the ground that cu-totn sanctioned public stealing, cxerci-"l the veto powers vested in him by the constitution, and pla>ed the -eal < : his disapproval on the following items which imposes the tiece -itv t i "p> -t the hook- another time. The fir-t item tin Governor strikes out is £ '.,"JoU l'i r tie- pay of the chief clerk, reading, iotirnal and mcs-.ige clerks of the senate for pro rata sala ries during the time the legislature was' in sc.--ion over 1"" days, on the ground that all th -e officers receive i a fixed -alary under the act of May 11, For the ante reason t). Governor disapproved of an item ap propriating $ I,'Jo'l for the pay of ti,• chief clerk, reading, rt-ident, journal and im -age clerks of the house pro rain according to -alari- sir- very day the legislature was in ses-ioii over Itßi days, h ction in of ', uppw | riati in hilL appropriating •?!. •" • ach t" the chief clerk- ot the senate and h 'ti- for extra cleric al -rvicc • devolving upon them during the y- .r I*-M. I'nd r >ur constitution the 1 ;- i-lnture only meets in regular -• -i n once in two years. There can be no rcgulnr s< -sion therefore in 1 ami the (iov< rnor in his message well nv "l can imagine no function- or duty of chief clerks during that year." An appropriation of |G<)O each to the chief clerk of the senate and house for the expenses of their < llice-' during 1884, i* di-approvi d, ami among other items disapproved by the Governor under the authority of the constitu tion giving him the right to cheap- i prove of any item of an appropria tion hill are the following: T ■ IHIUr Lather, ?G- j • f the L r-l of J.TJI!. • •: • T> with if !!• ri T'l tfintfif,atatflor GTAML MKI IM mi y ftIHW *l. •U ' 11 '' 'r 1 * * tI t T Aa iK f r fomttur* T> r**t D ut t i#*r k i*f th* fr < i j f- r ToiN-fintr i.i rvtrUn for wn* j**r 1.- To o+nte Ll r*f .*n for I,*ij TO r ti'LMIT cturk "f th* IHII* UND librirmn - f th# •* n<*t#. A*Th 1 r rlvrtmt anxt for ti w hour l wslk 1 T<* ' "TiimitMioD m of public ground* ! "The practice," saysthc Governor, "under various forms of words of making these officers perpetual at large compensation and great expense, has in the past grown into a regular system. I am unable to comprehend how any such sum can IK* needed or properly used in a period when no session is being held. I have there fore disapproved of all such items for the year 1884, when these officers nre not rcpiired to he in attendance upon the legislature, and when the law says they shall receive no salary." This is sound doctrine. The people can and will endorse such action. Tltr Governor doe* not rreoynue the pro priety oj the *tat' paying for errvice* not rendered. The people now know where many thousands, ami even hun dreds of thousands of dollars of their money have annually gone, and who received it, and,by what means it was taken. But for this information they are not indebted to scrub women re* form legislation. To the Governor, who it is charged is arbitrary and set* up his opinion against the legislature* belongs tho credit of revealing this method of stealing. To the veto of the items mentioned, and especial) IJKLLKUONTK, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST X\, iss:;. the cogent and courageous manner in which it was done, the Governor was entitled to the strong endorsement given tn him in the first resolution of tlie platf iin adopted hy tho 1 at• Dem ocratic eoiiventi'oi. This is reform in dead 'arin -l. It -ti ikt at 'jn< stioiia' hie prncti • - in the 'Hi * of tin State. Trea-ury, the Auditor General, the Attorney General,the('hi' fCh i 1.-, Re sident Clerk, Librarians and a multi tude el other- who have long fed and well fatted upon money illegally and unlawfully drawn from the people. We lio|m the reform thu eomuiein cd hy a vigilant <• .v ri.or will lie con tinued until ' vrv illegal appfhpria* tion is stopped, and every unie * ■ - .try office ludder i- permanently retired. With tin - fact- before u- we cannot iiii'lerstainl why the committee n r ■ olutioii- appointed by the lap IF tin - erati*' county convent: >n should hav*- n ."ted the following r. Jution, t * wit : ' Re- .Iv. d, That we < pe-ially •u -elol I- th- ill ti 111 of the ( I Vi 11. r ill ui approviu - of many of tie items in the genera! appropriation bill, for hy tlii- rin ans lie -avtd to the taxpayer of the coniiiiouweulth many ihou-ands of dollar- illegally and uiu n-titu tb naliy appropriated, ai d ii i lo d< terminal ion to rigidly en: re and honestly !>1 and maintain emi nently wi.-e an i prop ;• pe \ i-i• :. < t t!se e n-'.i;uti in." This r 'olutioii was among tie num her prepared f r the < m-id<-re.t. n cf the eommitt'-i on ri- ' •, and when returned to the c nveutioii it I.ore the rly mark- el a i in d. p * sstn prc-c miin iitly fair and i i. I t •<1 the action f the Governor in am v ter oT moro in; re t to ilie j, ( ,pi e than anythingcl- j l ively* uld be. That the comn.itt" wr.s iriv ri to -trik* tlii- r' -oluli' i by >lll4 outi*h.' influ ence, there i- little \ mi to doubt. It certainly reflects the views of the I Jctnocraey. MR. l'ltiw. 11 A IT>N, as one ■ f the deputy postmaster generals, it seems, diil some farming in that departrm nt in anticipation of the inauguration cd" the civil service rub . lie provided a place for a writ' r on his m w-pap< r at SlJ.tMj.i; tie nhe promoted hi - bar ber wli> is incapable cf writing a decent hand to $1 Jnu. The writer for the newspaper th*n got a month's leave with pay. He then reduced the pay of two good clerks from $ 1,200 to $l,OOO and put the* pay on. hi" own uncle hy promotion from $ 1,20. Nothing elcfi natc* has yet been settled. We believe our gla-s w >rks are operated under the Fa-ton district, so far AS the labor IS concerned. ♦ - — TIIK press and correspondents are very enthusiastic svor the success of the President in angling for trout in the waters of the Rocky mountains. In that wild region where tho "speckled beauties" nre not educated as they are in tho civilized streams of this section, little skill is required to make cap tures. But let him test his luck in the mountain streams of Pennsylvania where a trout can detect a green-horn at forty yards, and the enthusiasm of the press will fall to low figures. Dl.mcm KATIC rally in tho Court House, Tuesday evening, Aug. 28. i Tho FiguroH for I^B*l. The main i -ue in the n* xt Presi dential election, -ays the New York Sun, will he whether w*- -hall hav a Democratic, horn t, < ronomical ad luiui.-tratiiiu of the government. Can there he uny doubt of the result in a conti -t waged on MJC!I ground- ? Let u.s look at the figures. General Ham ekw ild have been elected if he had received the thirty five vol* o: New York. He obtain* d i only seventeen in the North. The j rest of his one hundred and lifty-fiv" came from the South. There i- nut the slight* -t na - ti fur | supposing tha' any -Mat* , N rth > \ ' S >uth, that uppurti i llati k in eighteen hundred and * . tv, v. nld tail to vote ibr the D :aui ralit: * audi •late in eighteen liuudr**! and eighty four. If w add th thirty-fiv* v Jl* - of New York to the Hut: k vote tiii- would deti niiiuo the truggle in lav r ui tin Democrat! 'nominee. The six Vol s* t( MIL' :ieut and tie-fitt. -ii of Indiana would ' any tin De-timera tie majority up t , a hand- m figure. Sum*- doubtful Siat* - may al- . fall int • line, afid make t!.-- tibnnjili et , hoti'sty ov r profligacy e-p-cialiy me mora hie in the lii-t ry of th, < uu try. I lie R* puldii an party mu-t Tm Bejnihiii m pre - at* j.r-.fu-e i . ' 1 ■ : . ti inal r nunitiec, not bccau-e lie was a -tnr i ut*- eon-pirator, hut h- eaus* he knows too much and i- • itnewhai leaky. Hi- knowk-ige of the nxip busine-- in In liana and N* w York, j for which he was feted and honored hy Grant, Arthur, \\ .udom and t Beceher in the famon- han-juet of I H *l, is an ' ; bode they pas fair hills, all rea- -nahle con- C v-ioiis to Republican demands, and, upon the refusal of tin -• natc to con cur, to adjourn and go home?" HAYS the New *-rk .Sun, "Mativ of the ablest and foremu-t R< publicaiis at the North have op] 1 coaliti >u ' with the Virginia Readju-t rs. lr -m the time when ("handler r mmittcd th • Admini-tration to the blunder of a bargain with Malione, that ojqm-i -tion has been intensified so it i- not likely to he abated between this and • i ihe dale of tho next Republican Na tional Convention. A determined stand will he taken against the admis sion of Mahono delegates to the Na tional Convention hy the regular IP publican- of Virginia, hacked hy those of other State-. If Mahonc i- re ject "1 hy the Convention if remains to he seen whether he can hold his own at home. (.'AI*T. RIIODKR who ha- l>oin ex citing the people in the neighborhood of Niagara, hy preparations to swim the whirlpool, has weakened and pro* poses to substitute a dog in hi* placo This is had for the poor dog, hut may save the life of a fool or a crank for whatever it i* worth. HON. Joe. M< DONAI.H, tho able representative of Cambria county, will accept thanks for a pamphlet copy of the interesting addresses delivered on the occasion of dedicating the Cam bria county Court House. THE Georgia House of Representa tive* ha* passed appropriating $1 000,000 for the building of a new Capitol. It will take five or six years to complete the work. 'IK It .M S: *1.."i1) jM-r A Mini in, in Advance. ■I ml ire Itliiel* Head. ■ j Till. KM IM. NT J I Kl I A Nil -TATI." MAS I'EACE- I I J.I.V I'A- SI 1, AM AY. i YORK , JV, August I #. —This corn • | niunity ws -hoi ked this morning l y I the k nd lii-MA of the de ilh of Judge .1. S. I'dnek, and nil day hi- many friend* c >uld he reeogniz' I hy th' ;r cud fare* -' Ml on thu street•. His life ari'l service- to his party and country have hceil the OtIO tll-|j|e of I, showing hi- belief in tli Supreme Is ing who judges the quirk , and the de.vl. Hi. funeral -. rvices will t <• place froin hi* lnt<- n -idence at o'clock on Thursday afternoon Hi- reman will be interred at Fro-pert IB 1 < -nieti ry n< >r th. j lace where he ha- a family lot. I>r. l owers of the • or tan church of Wu-hiogton ha hern >-urnuiuned and will probably ofll <- - * ■ ' J d k 'ii- I j'• tcefiil,y . fen. the 1 . nn ng of his illn• he be li'-vi- 1 that b" woul I iev*-r recover and a pern 'u f ?• -ner. M cuLi-ller were j rer. Nt at the dissolution. v hortly before Judge j 1 ok tnou# • example. ( ourernitig I'enalons. The cruel wr came to a clow eight teen yi ago, I ut the pension law baa le-eii iii rea-ing the cripple i ver lince. If the increa <• keep* < n at it* preaent rate en paid out iri peniion* the round mm of $3741,000, , while in the last year 137,611 new l-n*ioncr* were created, and 1369,67 •> a) plicat.on# remained to be passed upon : i'ubhc o* eel.on doc* not lie ag-.iri't the policy of pensioning dis* ' . 1 r !dier, but of throwing the i reasury oj en to able bodied scamp* who take advantage of the < a>y and ' ore! ent rnetlio 1 which the law pro : vide* for establishing disability. W illUniport\ Senaatlou. Williamfport h furnished another ei sation. Vot long ago the public wa# turtle ! bv the announcement of the flight from that city of a young banker * ith a large sum of money not hi* own and a woman not hi* wife. Now a •• er from the same place ha been . in • tor '.igh nearly the same kind of in spade, and that city is all agog v iii IN .-<■ c nd recent big sensation. .T. >. I' ker, who has decamped with some "i belonging to tho law firm of wl. h ho was a partner, and who took along wit), him a young woman, leaving I ( hind hi wife and child, is well known n thi* city. Ho i* a man of ability, a ' llego graduate, and w;, a worker in the Sunday school* of hi* city. Why lie >hould sacrifice all hi* bright pros ; e< t* for tho future is difficult to under tan I. His j artner Mr. bentloy is griev outly stricken. Tho whereabout* of I'arker have not been ascertained, but .t is supposed be ,* on his wav to Tu rope. fV,■#/, ii r. ADDITIONAL LOCALS —A\ e aro indebted to If. O. Deiningor, ■f the Millbeim J 'ma!, fr a copv *>f the Heady K-b ronco Tax Bercipt Book. A Ittic bo"k publish)#] by Mr. J>eininger, Having receipt* sufficient to last ton years. There is also a summary index •howing the valuation b-r each year. The tiook is just the thing for all classes of people and particularly for real etate • >wners Buy it, and you will have your tax receipts all together and in good shape. —The trade dollars are circulated again m all the principal cities and it will not bo nng before they will "go" everywhere. There is no bar hut that Congress will pas* anj act to retire tbem at full face value, in fact, such a bill was passed in the last House but failed to be reached in the ■ Senate. A# tho speculators have made about all they ran out of them, they will clamor for their re-entry into circulation. TIIK lltT RBT.—A physician says the cry for rest has always been louder than the cry for f<*>d. Not that it Is more im portant, but it is often harder to obtain. Tho best rest comes from sound sleep, of two men or women, otherwise equal, the ontf who sleeps the best will bo the most moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of tem per, peevishness, and uneasiness. It will restore to vigor an over-worked brain. It wilt build up and make strong a weary body. It will cure a headache. It will help a Wken spirit. It will assuaga sor row. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervousness and other maigdie* that sleep will cure. The care of steeple**, ness requires "a clean bed, sufficient ex ercise to produce weariness, pleasant oc cupation, good air, and not too warm a room, a clear conscience, and avoidance of stimulant* and {narcotic*. *