©he Centre jJifmacrat. UEILEFONTK, PA Facts Stranger than Fiction. Those persons who in any degree incline to u belief in special Provi dences will find in the following some thing to greatly strengthen them faith thnt the hand of the Divine Father is continually outstretched to guide and protect his children in ways past all human comprehension. The narra tive of fact rivals the creations ol fiction in an eminent degree. < >uo night two weeks ago William Hatter son, of Buffalo, left Bradford with his wife and two small children to drive to Howard's Hill, in the mountains twelve miles south of Bradford. He got on the wrong road, and after driv ing in various directions through the woods came out upon the track of the Krio railway's Bradford branch at an isolated spot. It was very dark, and Mr. Batterson determined to take tin risk cd' driving on the railroad track in hope of finding u road oroe-nig. lie lighted a lantern and walked aland ol the horse, xvhile his wife drove after iiim over the ties. They procecdi d a mile in tins way, ami toun 1 otilv high hanks and woods on cither side ol them. The situiitiou n>w hecame one of great |>eril, for a train mi_ht up proach at any minute, and it would he impossible to turn the horse tr<>m tin track. .Mr. Batterson, to insure his wife and children against danger, helped them from the carriage, so that they could at once climb up the hank if necessary. He then led the horse and the party went on their way. They soon catue to the Kin/.ua viaduct. This is tiio highest railroad bridge in the world. It is :;n:j ftet above Kiu/.ua ('reek, and nearly half a mile long. There is a narrow foot-path on one side of the bridge. The locality is in an unbroken wilderness. Although ignorantas to where it would lend him, Mr. Batterson determined to take tin chances ot getting across the bridge before the coming of any train. There was room for the horse to walk on the loot-path, but the wheels on one side of the carriage ran on the ti. s. It was now halt-past ten o'clock, and within a few minutes of the time that a north bound was due at the bridge, of which lact, however, Mr. Dattcrsou was ig norant. His wife and children lowed along behind the carriage. Tin party had reached about the middle ot the bridge when a sudden gut of wind extinguished the lantern. After trying in vain to light a match, Mr. Batter son groped his way onward, followed by his wife and children the latter crying with cold ami terror. They crossed the bridge in safety and found i themselves iu a narrow cut, where the darkness is impenetrable. Trusting to blind luck, Mr. Batterson groped hi way through this cut. If it had not , la-en that the up train was dclavcd tor ten minutes, a mile or two below, ow ing to a hot journal, nothing could have nved Batterson and h:- family from a horrible death in that narrow cut. As he emerged In- heard tin whistle ot the approaching train. To his great joy he found that there was a road nt tlio end of the cut. They hail not gone thirty feet from the raif road track before the train rushed by and thundered into the cut. Mrs. Batterson was so overcome when she saw what a narrow esi-ajie they had that she fainted. nion L rr tdrr, Chtff "Well, said the country postmaster, i as he handed a young lady a postal card, "I hope to gracious you can make some sense out <>' that, it's more'n I can do." W hat brought you to prison, my colored friend t sani a 'l ankee to a darkey. "Two constables, sail." "Yes; I but I mean bad intemperance any thing to do with it 'A et, sab ; dey was bof of 'em drunk."— Hultimnrt Every iSafurdoy. . W lien Lord Coleridge returns to his native eath and writes a hook about America, we trust he will not sav that Chicago is a larger state than iiobo ken; that Louisville is an isthmus that connects California and Hartford ; that the Hudson river is a beautiful city; that the Alleghenics are a lovely archipelago, and that Idaho is the capital ot Brooklyn.—/W\ An Austin lady, who had company to tea, reproved her little son several times, speaking, however, very gentlv. i At last, out of patience with him, she i said, sharply, "Jimmy, if j,,„ don't i keep still I'll send you away from the table." "Yes, that's what you always i do wheu there's company ami there i are not enough canned pearlies to go I around," was the reply of the gifted i youth.— TVjcw Rifling. "You should have learned some i trade, my son," said an Austin gentle- < man to his young hopeful ; "brick layers are getting gCAO a day, while lawyers can't afford to ride on the i street cars." "Pa, why didn't you learn a trade when you were a boy?" "That's not only a silly but also an i impertinent question. I did not learn i a trade when I was a bov out of re gard for your feelings. I wanted to give you an opportunity to sav that i your father was a gentleman." "It can't lie helped now," replied the hoy i moodily,"but I wish you had consulted i ine, for if we had arranged for you to i be the bricklayer I could have been i the gentleman myself." —TVfu* Sifting, < Wood Finish- The patented preparations known as wood fillers, are prepared iu differ ent colors for the purpose of preparing tlio surface of wood previous to the varnishing. They fill up the pores of the wood, rendering the surface hard and smooth. For polishing mahogany, walnut, etc., tlio following is reemn- | mended : Dissolve beeswax by heat - iu spirits of turpentine until tin- mix- | turn becomes viscid : then apply by a clean cloth, and rub thoroughly with a llannel or cloth. A common im><|<- of polishing touhogauy is by rubbing it !ir.t with linseed oil, and then hold ing trimmings or shavings of the sunie material uguiust the work iu the lathe. tains the following ar-- given J uz. of dragon's blood di.-solved in one quart of rectified spirted' wine, well shaken ; or raw -i- una in leer, with burnt -i una to give the r< quir- I tone. For darker -tains I> -it half .1 pound of madder ami -■/. of log* i chip- in one gallon of water, ami brush I the decoction while hot over the wood. When dry, paint with a solution o! J (>/.. of potash in one qiinrt of wnb r. , A solution of permanganate of p-.tn a forms a rapid an 1 excellent br -wii -tain.— Ainntc'ir Mechwnict London.)] Stanley in Africa. yw. . T- rif ■ u r l<\ an ' nknotcn < " A li tter from Henry M. Ftanhy, I dated at .Stanley I*. J, ('oiigo river, i July 1 I. ha- le n received by a per '-onal fricud in B-'-tou. Mr. Stanl- y I -ays : ">ince I have arrived . n the < >rr- ' go last Decenilh-r I have been up as 1 'ar a- the equator ami have establish • d two more-tatioiis, ai 1 b- --i < I - dis j covering another lake, Mantua, l.ave explored for u distance of one hun dred miles or thereabouts, the river known on mv map as IkeleniL:, bur which i- reallv the Malumindn. It not as large as I stated in mv b-->k, but is a stream of the i of the Ark : an-as, ami is deep, br -ad at: I vrv navigaliln. The big stream which I expect, milst drain the largest part of the .South ( -'tigo basin, inn-' he higher up. j "Having become b tl r acquainted with the country i atn reallv -truck with the den--- p >pulati >n of the equat orial [inrt of the liasin, which, if it j was uniform throughout, w u'ni give 9,Mt,(Hg). The number of products and the character ot the p< -pie are likewise remarkable. The gums, ruh | her, ivory, camphor wo *1 and a host of - ther things would repay transpor t tation even by the vc-rv exjH-nsive mode at present in use. The people are born traders, and arc, tor Africans, ver entertaining and industrious." Is Mr. Tilden Going South ? Samuel J. Tilden is said to be pre paring for a trip to the .South and the West Indies this winter. There are j some circumstances which seem to j warrant even this guarded allegation, j and yet nothing to substantiate its ac curacy. The yacht Yosemito which ! was hired by the mysterious old mail, j to run up and down the river, and ev en as far out as the Narrows with him aboard, has been lying in the North j river for some days, and unwonted ac tivity has been manifested with her crew. Boat loads of stuff, in hampers, boxes, and sacks have been sent abroad, and all the indications are favorable to the belief thnt she is victualling for a cruise of unusal length. Her captain declined to throw r.ny light upon the meaning of this unwonted activity. Her crew are quite as mysterious as the old innn himself. When asked if Mr. Tilden is really going to poke the Yosemite's now against Sandy Hook and hear uway for a milder climate, the sailor's only rcs|H>n*eis to shift his quid from the starboard to the port cheek, hitch his trowscrs and indulge in a va cant squint at the clouds and the hor izon. Lending Dernocintic politieans and others, who are supposed to know something of Mr, Tilden's plans were interviewed, would neither confirm nor deny the report. —New York ifpenal. Profits of the Mints -0 r SVtvn/, n Milium hH in Mti>lt ftom ihr (hinii'ir, ot
|Uul to an average net profit lor | the live years of 83,.'500,000 annually, j Large as this MS-lIIH it i" not so great in proportion to the value of the issue as that which rcsmlts from the coinage J of the haat r pieces. Last year the I profit from the coinage of nickels and ; one cent pieces at the Philadelphia) mint alone was about a million dol- i lar-. The director of the mint is cool-I ing a little in hi-- affection for the ; -tandnrd dollar, lie says he thinks wo have enough of them, lie will probably recommend the repeal of the 1 compulsory <• linage clause in the law in hi- message this year. Treasurer i \\ ymati reports a pretty fair demand f-1r the dollars at New (Mean?. La-t 1 month there were more dollars taken ; there than were i-.uil hv the locnl j mint, *S. FIN MI monthly. < hving to the fact that lie dollar is repugnant to the Pacific coa-t the coinage has been al -lin -t stopped at Sail Francisco. ( )s oim fpiesti in dispeu? I tin- "soap, ' agri i-s with Arthur. The weight of evidence i- against t i ivernor Porter. LI.UANON countv i? NOT entitled to a -< iiator under the i institution and the < '-nsus of l*su, n! ,.| tlmi i- (fie rea-< ii S nat r Lnntz clings to the , ultim i ni/i which prevents the r- < 1 i-- tricting of the state into SENATORIAL di-trict haiioti rob- tin- remainder of the state ot' a senator, hut that - ot of robbery -nits the lb-publican u-'ti'• : mo/.-. How They Do It ► ft.. M ' I U-"l ■ /.' I. /In / n! Ji:\."rd', , ' if. Few pi-iti in? m journalism arc s > important to a g • >t so easily tilh I a? toai of the "ea ch tinge editor." 1 o fho-e that are mi-' qdii-tieatcd into the working* "I a large in v,-paper, it may be stated thai tic xciiange'' editor ■- n man who uaea tho rciaaon and putafot, AIL newspaj ers of uietro|Ki!itan pretentions have exchange list* of hundred? of papers. Tli.-v -'ml their j aja-r to all the hading ocirnals in the country, he h?to a numb' rof i tintrv j apcr in the ininieoiate vicinity. livcrv one of tie •• pap> r- arc read by the ex < luiiige • litor, and if lie finds s.inn • thing novel and interesting, lie cut? it and credit- I > the pap" r tr mi which it i taker. When If get* a number of tli- lipping", he hand? them to the managing editor to make a selection from. The latter choo*< - the most ! interesting of them, and those are nuhlish'd HI the paper upon the fo|. lowing day. S")ine in w-papers ue rn< re clippings ; than others. In a large city, like New York, where interesting new - is plenty, few are needed, as the columns are well crowded without them. In < ineinnati, St l/>uisand citi'-s further west, the papers will IK found well filled with them, and there i- no mis take but that they make mighty good i reading. For instance, the following enter taining story, whirh i? from the Pitts burgh l)i'j>ntch, a journal which i* extensively copied, has la "ii going the rounds of the newspapers : "Very seldom do wo read of an actual case of recovery, where hops* j had altogether been lost, to parallel that which wa Monday investigated by a reporter who had heard j in various quarter? person? talking to their friend? of a cure, seemingly little sliort of marvelous, that had been per formed. The plain facts in the c ae referred to, without exaggeration, are these, as they were learned from the mother of the young man. his pastor and other persons well known in the community: "William Lincoln Curtis is the name of the young man in question. He is now employed at 11. K. Porter A Co's locomotive works in Pittsburg, Pa. A year ago ho resided with his mother, on firnnt street. About that time he went to lied one evening with a violent pain in his shoulder, the re sult, he thought of a cold. The next morning the shoulder was greatly swollen, the pain was intense, and aches were felt all through his system. His case was speedily developed Into a violent form of chronic rheumatism, among tho first notable features of which was the paralysis of his left arm. He gradually grew worse, and in a few months the elbow and knee joints, and both ankles became enormously enlarged. In March last the chock holies began to enlarge, and upon his left side particularly, spreading his face out of all resemblance to his former self. The pain in all his joints became intense; fever, with its de teriorating c flee Is, was now added, ami he became rapidly reduced to the semblance of a skeleton, while vitality reached its lowest possible condition, and his sufferings were of such an in describable character that those who mo*! loved him sometimes thought it would lie better if he was called away, j It this time physicians well known in Pittsburgh informed hi? parents that lie was in imminent danger of total i paralysis, and directly afterward they j announced to his sorrowful mother that tliey could give no hopes of re covery. The young man finally commenced taking that wonderful medicine, Pi.- lit VA. Almost at once the good effects were perceptible. In two week? quite ! a change, for the better, was percepti ble by all the friends of the invalid. J In six weeks almost all the enlarge i ment Imd been reduced completely, ' while in spirits and strength the pa ' lit nt was quite as well as lie had ever j been in his life. Nearly three week? ago lie resumed work a- a machinist at Ids old place, aide to perform u- i much Jalior as ever in hi? life. "The mother of Willie t'urti? in -tilting all these fuels, said : 'lndeed. \ I cannot look upon the cure much !-? than a- a miracle. I do net hesitate in sounding the praise of I'i.iu NA, ami in recommending it to all mv friends. My heart is very full of grati i tilde for my boy's recovery was really | like that of one snatched from the jaw? of death.'" The pastor of the church where the i young man attended Sabbath school was vi-ited, and lie readily confirmed ' the facts of the deformed Imnes, the '■mam iat' d condition from dbca-e, ami of the doctors having given him up. The young man entered the minister's lioii?e with the reporter, and the pn tor, who had not se< n him since hi? recovery, was greatly surprised at his improved condition. Said he, "if he had not sjMiken, I would not have known him." ADVICE TO MOTHERS Are V T| haturt t LIGHT FIIT*KE •* u?iy re. - rnni'i,! ' *WAY N E > I'll.l-S. ?? t, rr )> j r-oriUin rrn-tu inL ; r >i?-rt)p j O.H-,k-,1 f. , r. > i,l!o-r r' tii- iy S- nt ty mail f r *_' i cent#, IXIX of ..'I pill# ; "> $l, 'IN >l*n -J . Aiiro., NIL SWAYNK A S "N. I'hiis- lolj. his, I'H S -i t•. Ilfuj. g't. ft-R-LY. I DEALERS IN PURE DRtTGSORLY _ I ZELLER A 80N, : - * ' • I'M O'.lsT* 2 > - Ho -r. *lk. P I Z# All the JUNUFL RTM M**M'l.E 2 £ wrlj>tt tit gr-L iifmlt 1U I{.* A, ORTIEL; *■ - TmeeeS < |hvtll4et fttwe# Ar ,|/ 2 B 4,f 5 ! BEST AITD CHEAPEST. Two Weekly Nowapapera for tho Price of One. AMI TIII 15>T I)AII.\ AT I-?W U*T3. TH> lldftiAi'tjrf WtlllT RTFLLOF !• • IDTGE Eghl I HW#t •4 rtefi>* * GRRETAT virfett of RF IFING mattrr then KRF fiber |*|-R J-IT LIH'-T IT >• |I. j intrwM* i f l tn*lnin| Ih Mitwrrfpi♦ i ' th M irtti R*TRt >T i |1 /•' |'r annnm c*eb IN j dlttftr# V 1.1 ft VIV Ni\ The UIIKIT ftttt tftftdK'vTf'k Wweltljr Pw ■HIt . tifit . ftftx *T'htree st |W'l. • •> \* AT f ? ' It -AF the Mttut I'Affttor ?ew T <>rh W*hlt W irii to gri9 a Ure, | wt |M||d, for 'te rear f##r |1 '• the Miitif rATdtnt the PLHa-Llj f ia atnrr|di j I lle?otrl, |.af pth! (>ng J wr f..f II RO. th# MTTLU J fttwot ant rhilg?lr Ij.hia Weell]| Tnea. fsitf f-t i ; ne |,ar f r IN all raat the twh MUD •"dm 1 Ian* the riter. TII K II A I H V PATRIOT !• 111* OFTLJ tn MINT F*WLEH*"L AT the MUTE C+P F fUI. THE ONLY morning F|ER nteiHU KIL SFW YNRR |M|#EV The LUILT I'ttkiot hi* L**-N L'ONTLF imftt Tnthe and ii r >w e-jnal in oil RREPERU and • MR in D'TNA HI the dalliea OF THE LAR ER riliM Prtre hjr mail fn(RL •nnnmin ADRANRA TOR P If IM1 PAID In A#lvanrw>; FT.RO for OIK month a, In M\ aanre ; || ,V tor threo montha. in I'LTANCE ; hO rente f<#r OM N nlh. in olfitwe ;to rlsl* of fite. OI PER ROF.R |*r antuim . LO rlnba bi Pnily Reonrd (NTIDAR Mlillort •% I OPTED) will T#e aent ONE YEAR to any nddreaw f.#r V* A W*h In ad R a ore. Pnd for APERINTEN RO|4ew rf the lutlf and WVREII PATRLOT. In remitting Hr •nl acrlptiolt ae-nd pnai offire INOIRY order, RHEV k or draft. Addreaa PATRIOT PI IU'VAfUNd CO AA Mittr? RTRGRR. Harr lahnng, pa. 111 FQ FL tiwaja on tha lw>kont for XJU I Cl' liigfei tr* ivonr tpnre moment*, fnll inhrmaion and nil that te needed aent free. Ad lrmaftftw>R A Portland Walnr ♦ IT ly. .,.L, 3. "J it / iimifttrr. THE Bull Dost Wins, BECAUSE HE HANGS ON! "I T " Nobody but A Fool Be-, lieves Advertisements. X —t 0 ( It is'ut true that It. H. H'AXGLKR I A ('<)., SELL Ft lIMTI ISI: l-low co-t, i nlthougli thev have said So sell all kinds ami "tyh ?of tin brset Furniture at an AIVAN< >: of a small per cent which just gives the firm as u ffi c i en t amount of mon ey to pay wash bills and bo a rd and cloth ing, not one cent IH-VOOH thi*. Now some fisd will say that's u lie. liut we refer to our boarding house and wash woman. M e hav< no family and could nt keep any if we had. We *<•11 so niKti' and that we never exp-ct to make any more than what we have at present. U 0 j * .... # i We Sell a Walnul Suit for • S3B and up to Sl5O :1 " ! We sell an all ASH Suit for 529 50 We sell solid Walnut Book Case with plate glass for $32. 77s sell LOUNGES from $5 to S2O. 1 * I V7e sell Side Boards I from $9 to 40. ' . We sell Chairs from $4 per half dozen to SlO. We sell Cain Chairs from $5 to $2l. MI ...... • We sell Parlor Suits from; $4O up to $l5O. Call to ua at our Furniture Ware Room opposite the Bush House, Bellefonte, and if you ain't pleased we j will pteernt you with a PARLOR Srrr. Ren. SPANULIW, of I ft B. SPANGLER It CO. 38-tf. * 0 V. ;■ v> , v Itching Pilos—Symplons and Cure. The ryrnptom* arc rnoialure, like per* Kpiration, interim- itohin tr, iiicrea*ed by tcratcbing, very di!re*ing, particular ly at night, eern* a* if pin worm* were crawling in arid aliout the rectum; tt*o private parta are aonielime* affected, If allowed to continue very aerioga re null* follow. "SWA VNK'SOINTM KNT" j* a pleaaant. aure cure. AIo for Tetter, Itch, Salt Kheum, Scald Head, Kryaipe la, Barber* Itch, I'.lolhche*. ail rculy. cruaty Skin Irineaaea, Sent by mail for 50 cenla; .! boxea $1.".',. (in iiampn. A'ldreaa, Dr. NW'A VNK A S< >N, I'hila j delpbia, I'a. Sold by DruggiM*. ,V 8T y BOM* V4LE\TI\K, |' ri;n'i:kaI. Inm. and Commiwion Agt., Jiellefoute, I'a. I Offlw lb Af < ad#, l£cid floor. I I lie following corn pa nice repreaentr-d ; —0 tire. Uwow Fbiladalpkia, A MKIIM AS ,i, ak " ,a!< l, *£* do. Toronto. to*sr..ll. rt Hartford. afiu olhcrii. 0 LIFE. Tit a■. m.:n I.,rr. A A. 'in.. Hartford and other*. —0 The romrniMK.n bran, b o| rnv bu.iam l re, civlng k pe, a tl e,.i I( , ri j',. ~ ' •' l " advantage, ... I have faci.i tier for ditpotitig „fh< JM-r. |r,d, (U . ~n hort notice and favorable term. - l f ' m BOND V A I.KNTINK j >knnsylyania STATE COLLEGE. Tall Inn bag,M Sptrr,b. r 12 ISB3 * egftotlao I*hold la—*ef th* !*■>. or, i i,-!tiifg| .j. t. ,< ia tuUf A ri- I 1...1-., I I.a ' l-:L IH e J - tl. f i inf Court* a Mi *) I A r:i ra.aarlral oourw • f r„ o i \ ~rt • A rall * i-tU! • < -a. , f rt. ,? The • air "t'K< iAI. ,(, I(w ,, t- fulluaioj tfc. tnl la-a ~-*• ~f 11,. hr a Coura. •' AOHICtI.TVK it SaU'RAL llirronv < lIKMIFTIir AMJplllMOi id/ CM 11. KM.IS) r Hl*,. I A.l rt M'M IAI. (Ot ll| 1,. 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I, • B„ b ' ,„4 I.■• and *,rl. e.aka *raat |, K< ad.r ,! r. ,„( Imioail l,i I, i i car B,k irrral ;. . .|| lira., a rit. ( r earl, ulara i II II • i iitt A < I' it and. Man- 4-47-1 • /tUAinr** fVirrf*. ( ;i:m bakbkr shop, t'vMlrr Fife! Votirrnal HKi.IA IN T fa /;. .1. tif ell mar I! k i'ro/tr. I [ARNESS .MANUFACTORY ■* * lb Oinaan'i N> tH a(<til J. D Piratmt.Cdbaklft mf j et—atwet I r niui.Otik'r. |?IRST NATIONAL BANK OF 1 REI-l.ltroNTK. AHNtkrr,! Mf *(. HollHnato, P*. 4-If M icrilti NratM 1 'JPHE CKKTRE OKMOTJUT i BOOK and JOB OFFICE ALLEGHENY STREET, BKM.KKONTK. PA., 1* xowr orrKßixo GREAT INI)UCE A! EN T 8 TO Tn*B Wtenixo t IkeT-t'LAMi j Plain or Fancy Printing. We have unuauel feriltiier for prSatir.ff LAW BfNtRS, rAMPH I.KTS, CATALtHJUKS, PRfHJHA MVRB, ST/TKMKNTS, CIRCULARS. BILL HKADS, NOTK HKA Its, nUSINRSS CA KI>S INVITATION CARDS, CARTES I)K VISITS, CARDS ON ENVELOPES AND ALL KINIKS OF BLANKS HyOrder* by moil wilt reobve prompt otteption- Printing done ia lb* beat iljrle, op •Jwrt notice end nt t£e lo)rwt '