Js Apr ' 1 / f - " v -sl)i' Centre Democrat. S. T. SIU'GKKT A. K. L. OH VIS, F.ditois. V()l„ 5. JTlu (Centre jDrmotraf. rrmill.6opor Annum In AIUMBCA, Thursday Morniue, November 22, 1883. THE Postmaster General ufCanadu. follow* the lead nt Poatmastc; General Grrsliaui, in excluding lottery circu lars and ticket# from the muili. TIIK trial of James Nutt for the murder of N. R. Duke#, will come up ; in the Fayette county court on the j first week in December. The services of Ihe Hon. Daniel Vnnrhoi'*, of Indi ana, bus I wen secured for the defense. IT is said that in the state of Texas forty two million acres of land have been devoted to the use of schools and asylums. This extent of ti rrimry would he several millions greater than j the whole surface of Pennsylvania, with New Jersey and Delaware thrown in. THE New York Tribune says "the j issue of legal-tender notes in times of j peace would he uneon-litutioual." We have no higher law in this country, and what heeonies of the Supreme Judges' decision appointed to declare the issue constitutional some years ago? Is the Judicial oaih less bind ing at one time tliun another ? AFTER SO many years of continued , service in Congress, Sunset Cox repu diates very justly the idea of enmpli ; mentury ballots for the Speaker-hip He only wants such ballots now, as means business. The three leading I candidates, Randall, Carlisle ami C,>x having each,according to their friends, sufficient Vote' pledged to elect them* complimentary ballots will not be counted as compliments. THE New York Hun is again to the fore to say that Mr. TIB fen is not a candidate for the Presidency. "Devo ted a- he is" remarks the Sun "to the welfare of the Democracy and still anxious to render everv ivis-ilde scr vice to the people, there are no cir cumstanees under which Mr. Tiiden can be induced to accept a minima tioo." SENATOR MAIIONK is out with a long address to explain the crushing defeat he received from the Virginia D .mot-racy at the late elections. His failure of explanation is about as marked as his fai.ure at the election. It is more mi attempt to flirt tt.e "bloody shirt" in the face of the peo ple. He com nenees with the most unblushing falsehood* on the people of his stale and ends in the same I strain. j A PROVIDENT DOCTOR H releas ed from duty by the Goininissioi ers of Pensions, the other da,*. Mr. Am! i Ames, Secretary ol the II .ston R >ard i of Medical examiners of the Peiisi n Office was dismissed for the ton close at- - tent ion lie gave to Ids private iuteress to the neglect of his offi..rial duties. The charge is that when pensioners called with good cases. ID* would say he was busy, and refer tbein to a cer tain lawyer. The lawyer would di rect Iht m to file the rase*, nml inti mate that by subscribing for stock in the "Kngle Orderlc** Company," of which the Doctor wa* president, their cans wotil l secure immediate attcn | tion. PRESIDENT ARTHUR has just niili- | gated the sentence of another cominis- I sioned ifficer in the army and no j I doubt be did well in doing so. Hot Kit might now lie in order to show some , Hclemeucy to a non-commissioned one Hpf more bumble pretentions, who is < Hindergoiug a very severe sentence in , Hhe |euiteuiiarv. Very few persons, . Bf any, would find fault with him, if i releases Sergeant Mason from con g| emeiit. He did lorthiiig wor-elhan Bike a random shot at the a*sassiu i 111' work places Mr. Arthur in the | chair. He can have no i against the |Hior fellow, who only i Ski to emphasize his disgust for the . < Bin of a President I Moro Rail Roada. : Relletonte capital is growing less I conservative every duy. A couple of I mouths ago some of our gentlemen 1 raised $lO,OOO to invest in Steam Heat ing ; last week other of our business men raised B'Jd.oOO to put in the Flee trie Right. This is all right. The DEMOCRAT is the last one to discour age loeal progress, even in the direc tion of comfort or luxury. Rut the | other day wo overheard a rising young j man remark, that "lie th night, when Bcllefonte could put ever s">o 000 into -uch enterprises, she certainly ought 10 risk something in new factories." 11 is a paradox, ihai we should guthei. every comfort of city life, and lie e in tented to remain a village. And a village we shall he, a- long us we en dure the monopoly of a single railroad. Grant tliut that road builds three or tour other branches into u*, but is that | enough ? We welcome the proposed improvements; great conveniences they are truly, yet freight tarilfs will he | just us heavy ami the companies, th t | do not pool with the railroad rings just a- unable to cope with their more lavored competitors. R->ok at Rock Haven, Ivrone Huntingdon and Hoi liduyshurg, they have plenty of roads of the one kind,) hut they are ami al' ways will be little towns. We can j have an opposition road to connect with the Vauderhilt system at Ileech Creek, by getting the right of way, with the guarantee that the toad lie 'complected within the year. The right will not cost $">,000. Will the | town, which ha* jusi given over $ >O, 000 io sti am and light, hesitate a nu> ineut at this crisis ? TLLE New York lime* shaking of ; the result of the late election in Vir , I ginia oo doubt r fleets the sentiment jof the host element of the Us; uhiiuni 1 party when it anya : "Mahoue's defeat I is a matter of congratulation in the . North, however much the way in which it wa- accomplished may he disapproved. In the first place, his treatment of the negro voter has not lieen, at the lioltom, any better than the Hotirhoi,- He has fomented the race feeling as much a* they, and his |M-ople are by no means innocent ol intimidation. There are many other Republicans who know, though tins may not deem it expedient to say -•>, that Mahoue's treatmeLt of the oeg roc? ha* Is-en ii finitely wnr-e than lhe\ ever experienced from the *R >url>nn-,' and that Ma hone alone i* guilty of all the 'ruee feeling' that has lieeii to mettled since he became aAsiWer in Virginia |sliiics." THE Phil /-Iphia C->mmittce of One Huudr /claim to In* in |Mi**e*- ion of ' ./?* of extensive and bold frauds upon the lialh ' at the lateelcc l tion iu thai city. That committee ha . >n them again to step to the front iu a vigorous defense of the purity of the ballot, ami the prompt prosecution nt the vidians who corrupt it. The |sij>- ular elections of Philadelphia have heeu too long stained by the nefarious methods of the boss rings, and its re sjHTtable citizens should sec that they arc not continued by their indifference to the puuishments deserved. The Pittsburg /W say# : "The stop page of some iron mills and the de creased production# in others, it is to be hoped, will fa* temporary, ami is susceptible of easy explanation. Nev er before in this country has iron been J sold also narrow a margin between; the cost of production and tin) si lling { pi ice. There is adi mini-lied demand —possible what may lx< called n nor mal demand—and a productive ca pacity iu excess of this demand. That there should f>e a tendency to lower the waves ami decreased production is one of those inevitable law* U trade from which there isou escape. 1 ' "KV|I(AL ANIi KXACT JIJKTIrI TO ALL MKN, OF WII ATA VKH FT AT K ON V KRNU ANION, KKI.IOIOUh OK POLITIC* L."—Ji-IDrwis IJKI.I.KKONTK, I'A., THURSDAY, NOVKMISKR IBBX A NATIONAL RKAIIUI: has been formed, with hcadipiarters at Cleve land, Ohio, charged with the suppres sion of Polygamy. They have issued an address urging organizations in all the cities, tow n# and school districts in the country to get up petition# to Con | gress favoring a constitutional amend : menl lor the mppressii n of the abom inable institution. Rut why this round about course of a constitutional amendment i* adopted, when <'o.igress ha* ample authority over the territo tie-to meet the case, is not satisl'aclo i rilv explained. To this movement, the Do-eret .V in, the organ of the Mormons in R'tah mutters thus : "The im|ioriant viial chiracier of ifie Ic-iureh ol Je-u- Christ of llie I,ll-r ' l> v S*inis i nlinont ilemonvirait d Ey 1 iii- wole pieml and corn),rein nsive op |HI.||I(III io 11, winch i* making #|u-ril *>o| unjij-flv diM-riminatinv legislation, school-, churchi-s nml politic- and oili er orgaliil tlion* >ire all aiming • h-ir *haH* al ihc Mormon* wnh vindictive ilirust sml deadly purpose. The war l*re tia- been both open and secret. Eul it appeir* dial Ihe slat- in llie back mo ilut nfieramh i- likely lo he laigeiy in die , ro|Hin o ranee, judging from the iniiia I • <>r undergrouioi mgania tlion esiab h-lieij in Cleveland. Such movement*, ; heing connected Willi H subject of (Kip ular luleresi, have a propavalive ten ! i- no, and it would occasion nosurpri-e I I ihe example of die Cleveland anil- Mormon secret antagonist* would be mlhiweif bv men similarly ta-rii in other icon# throughout the Un-I This tri oi)i situitioo of # | ople seeking to cir jll init their honest conviction- of right is ex hi hi led, tnle t here is a corresiajnd ing mani'esi AMOO of the atwnce of any •enlnnenl ol niignanirnu* in thebrea-t* ol tlie generslny ol Ihe people uf the •ouiitry at large, who either look ujein ■he s),-ciacle with apathy or exultation. II It (lie Cllliniiiatiori ol Ihe suhlle move nent will t,e distress and distructiou. ' Tin: rascals sre always on hand to inke HilvHiiiuge of the generous pro visions made by C'.n r r-* f-r every g'*> I purpose. The law* pns-ed to promote settlement of the public laud# and fat iliiaiAt the arquiailiou of com tort Mile anii)as in she ir .untrioaa jseni." JuiMiE t'i>x, in the Circuit court jof the Disi— ' i #ct aside the ver dirt of sf!(l.v§ B nrr awarded by ! 'be jury in 9 HI case f..r fnl*range Judd pany, at $1.50 |>er annum. THE snow is two feet deep in the mountain# of Huh. Tho Spcukornhip. The three gentlemen, says the W nhiii|jt<>n J'w>t, who aspire to the chair of tlie Speaker of the House have arrival in Washington aim be gan their canvass. They nre distin guished representatives of the Democ racy, and would each do honor to the position. Mr. Randall has In-en Sja-a. 1 I ker during tliree Congresses ; Mr. Cox and Mr. Carlisle have held important i trusts, and are universally recognized as leaders in the National Legislature All three are aide, experienced, incur -1 | rnptahle men. The Democratic partv I is honored in such competition for the ! great office now in its gift. . j However, only one of these gentle ' men can he elected. The olhrrs must I J lie content to servo on the floor of the House in the pots in which they will il* placed. The question for the Di rn j ncratic caucus to decide is who is most ■ worthy to he made the Sjx-aker. Mr. Cox enters the arena with the great and influential delegation from New i York h( his back. Mr. K udall is , declared to In? the favorite son of Pennsylvania. Mr. Carlisle is luarti ly endorsed by the Representatives : from his own -talc and the great West j No nue of them npp-ars r* a sectional | candidate. Kach has supporters in j Ih North, the Kail, the West and ! the South. The House must decide among them, on the hroad and impartial basis of (-r -| soual fitnesa for the (motion aspired to. The men and their records arc known to the country. If only needs that the | jury which is to award the prize shall . Ire thoroughly familiar with both. Indications For 1084. The New York World give* a col umn of test votes in debatable state* jU'tKayeara precesimf the las* 6 ve. presidential elections to thow that these votes distinctly indicate the heal ing of the public pulse and an- really ibn moat important evidences u|Kn which to base circulations as to the results of the Presidential contests. This year the Republicans hold the following state*, either hy present elec tions, or, where none have been now held, by the latest contests : Mwwaa' hn*tu K i-nblfran nj rlt% i >**o , I■ lbs)o it) /M |l limsi*. ft, ti'-hmii m*j flty eai t'NM)IUlii lUi t)Mh an m ) t|J I7 Mlttti • at Ma ) Hs.'ttr eau y 1.4 u ('•miiMtkvt.lUpahllrak nsj -ntt : The Democrats either hy election this year or last year hold the follow ing of tl.ese debatable states : Net Yof% fwrw w-ati |t*j fill l*ff • •If .lh-tternfM r Jl) i I'aliMnit, |t< Hi/ f n>*j ■> it) H.a ■••in 11, V tie n. )t f. s,r |t a wraur tit.) nj 4 n hs' -w lr'Hi rah nia) -ty 7 Inlian Ihntor ati >uij'-rlt) |# Sf Jsrjst. IHti . < .tt. Ms Ofilt h •at <.!ovit, .. | srtii (ri||( tn<) >ti y i Msiimfftlk tisajur il l . .. 1./UJ The changi*s thai have taken place are significant, and show that the g. o. p. is going with cunsidearhlc celerity. Ex Bf.!Jatir Di.zkmxiki , (repub lican,) of \"irginia, shaking of the late Ma hone manifesto, says : "That every statement or insinuation that a reign of terror exists in Virginia is an infamous lie. He protests agsinst. having his property in the Old Do minion injured hy .uch falsehood* as are m'. foith in the Mahone address. The election, he adds, was (traceable and fair, and Mahone was squarely and honestly beaten. If the Mahone ticket had received every vote east in Danville it would not have changed the result. The riot was unfortunate, but it is attributed directly to Ma hone'* (Meuliar methods of conducting the campaign and the iuflamatory sjieech of the redju*ter Situ*. ' Mi*9 A una Die kkmson ha* left the ' Mage and entered into an engagement with the "Knights of Labor" to speak ill their interests. For that purpose she has prepared a lecture on labor under ll title "To the Rescue" which she prrqiose* to deliver in all the prom inent cities ami towns in the country. will open the Cooveutiou at Detroit an the lHib uf December. ♦ ■ ■ TIIF.FI: ia now 687 prisoners in the Wcsteru Pelteoliary. The Oovornor Hollo Down a Moun tain in a Buck a Embrace. __ Kditor Dcrn, of the Albania Trib une, who accompanied Governor Rat : lison in a recent hunting ex|>euilt, the Governor v.-as siutiou eil. He did uut have long to wmi un til In: saw ihe monster of the forest, a ten pronged liurk, wiih unth-r* like an elk'*, coming directly for him j*l hey looked at each ol her for a run 1 uieiilaml then lost ths.r leni|a-rs. The Governor,wiih hislrusiy hrcech-loader, In gun Io |siur buck slu>t into the lace ■■l the noble animal. This only served to enrage the buck the more. The space between the two rapidly dimiu i-lied, the Governor all tie- time |*>ur ing shot into hi- antagonist's IHC AS the glaring eyes of the buck raim level wnli his enemy's HIC' a* his hoi liri-aih fanned his cheek the Gnvcrrior reinenila-r-il hi* strength—for he is H |siwi-rlul and well built man, standing -ix tcet two HIHI one-half inches in hi siiK-king-—threw down his gun ami grappled with hi# fierce iv ' | eruor succeeijed in gelling the right | ! fore fisil over one of the prong# of ihc monster's antlers, thus entirely disa j tiling him. Alter treeing himself trim the animal arid taking a long breath ; be drew forth from In- bell a Irtrgi hunter's knife and stabfasf the fun k to the heart. During litis great slrng gle his clothing wa torn to shred* and lie looked more like a tieggar than a i Governor. A "mile hovered over his | countenance wtien tdd that he wa 'ihe chanipioii d*erslayer.' The above account of Governor Pat , tisou's hunting exploit mut be true for one cannot doubt bin courage, or the ; uniform aexuracy of the sterling journ alist endorsing, when hi* imagination ! is not particularly drawn ii|Nin for n seiisaliorial paragraph. Rut to u* the story look* very like to those given to | the public by the fieby amaturcs of the trout streams m summer. ♦ A New Road Diwu Bald Ensrle We have tried in another article to impresa u[>on Rellefoiitc the im|>or tancc of urging the new road eut r prise. Rut is she alone interestc*! ? i Not by any means; not even as much j so a* Mileshurg or Howard. Relle fonte i# more iudepenrlerit. She has ' a chance to have the mad down Nit lany. But it i otherwise with B<>gg, | Howaid and Liberty. They must gci it rioir or never. We propose to these localities to form local commit tee* to obtain in the township the right of way. The reduction in the price of anthracite coal for one year would pay for the effort. The two iron work# iti the valley should head : the movement. One week's work on the | art of the people will multiply their busioe** op|M>rtunities nt lenet two fold. Our pa|>er ha* urged the road to Ire built in Nillany valley, for the sake of that section, but that seems I impossible just now. Ivt us see wbeth !er the lower Bald K.igte lown*hi|>* ! can secure the prixe We have this lo say, that in either event a mad will be built to Hublersburg any way THE boom of Blaine ami Rincoln in the West, will probably have the ef i feet of drawing the "I'lumed Knight" from hi* hole in Maine, before Arthur gets all hi# pins set for the nomination. Wlieu these champion Republican leaders lock horns, we may expect again to see a little life in the dead i carcass of the "grand old party.'' When the children who attend public l echo its in this Slate have subscriber! a ! sufficient number of pennies to erect a monument to Thsddeu# Stevens, be cause of his efforts to establish the system of common schools, it will be in order to vindicate the truth of bi'lory and erect a similar ono to the memory of George Woff, who. as Governor, was the real author, and exercised thechie! influence in the passage of the law.— HasAington Potl. TKKMS: $1..*0 per Annum, in Alliance, All Mrl*. Judah I'. Bei jiin in talk* of corning hack to thi* country *n>l returning In* rt*fci'lf*f'o49 in Srw 1 *t l*• hn*. li-h-gate Singlaer, of Maho, think* thai Nft |).ria.d Htnl Wallace a* a Pres idential ticket would please all hand* nri'l might carry Pennsylvania. In L-e, Man, on election day, the Selectrnr-n <-riforced i|,c j M w prohih.ting *ny person going r,e*rer the ballol-boi than ten feet to ee how an other Csat* liia tote. Colonel Jerome Napoleon H napartr- e I deal (Ixtjgli-r will make lier 'lel.Ut in A a-huigton society early tin* season, at * hriluaiit entertainment to i>e given hy tier father 111 honor of the event. A I'niU'lfiphi.i irnfairier "can *fe!y aeert that f r one bottle of claret drink hi 'flat cil) five year, ago a 'jimrtercHtk is drank now I lie wine ia gi a•I u * liy neoiirning fvopular all over the country. Colonel Jerome Bonaparte, who i* new in Baltimore,wrill in K few data take up hi residence in Washington for the •eaaon. twenty French nervanta have recently hr rived f fo tn Pari* lor the W ashtngton houae. Gov, I art' •< opened a colored people'* Mate fair in Rrleigh. N. C , the other -lay ; and said fie knew of no S'ate in which Ihe colored people are doing 0 much for themelve and none in which -'I much i being iutie for them, a* in North <'aroline. Mrs fieorge Bancroft, the wife of the venetablv hilorin. reached her eigh lietfi birthday U-t week, "-lie i* describ ed as a very pretty lady, wonderfully widcd hy themiH In R tne.O*..whin>| ia. drsub' 1 led it* mschinery amce Its nr . ■uonths ago. It is running n gbt an*l lay and is forty vlay* behind it* orders. v x Kllery M. Andrew, the ghiOGbde '"U ter of the Northwestern B.nk.of 1 oicsgo, told his wife of hi* ditrlicuon T.e evening, and the next day the good wounn promptly notified the hank that ner husband was a thief, and jailed him. • 1 *ing to recently discovered frauds, I'>i uiH'ter 1 fener*| Grrshara hasiasued an order forbidding postmasters to liirnih lists of names of ex l'uino soldiers and others supposed to be •-untied to pension* to pension claim atlorne. .. W, A I'leder, ch*irm*n of the Ex i eculive t'.nnmittee *p|Knnted by the j' sitored ('invention lately held 111 |I. •uisville, lias taaus-d a Csll f-r a iUrettng of the committee in Washing tm. on December I'd. toconaider matter* of interest to the colored race. (ten. Grant ha* pist bad made at j Hartford *n improved machine gun, with a capacity of .VjJ shots a minute, ' which lie propose* to send a* a present to the Viceroy of China. The laiter will find it a handy thing to have about die hou*e in case the uitimttuin of the Mtrrpn* Tseng i* not accepted by the French- At Lexington, Kv , wa establish the first lo (ge of Fii-einasem in the great Weal, \ iveni'wr IT. 17**. It* otiginal charter, yellow with age, i* still to be seen there. C tlonel J.w Dsviet, the , prosecutor of Aaron Burr, so a mem b.-r of (hi* lodge and Grand Master ot ' Kentucky when be fell at Tip|>ecanoe in 1811. , The R-adju*ter of Virginia are in the dump*, hut tbeir slock of impudent audacity remain* undimini-hed. Tba announcement that they "will demand recognition and friendly counsel'' from the leader* of the U--publican party cornea over their late A Imnistrauoo allies like the cold wave that ia sweep ing down from the northwest. /**< L _ RtrmA, The schoolmaster at R*d Bank. N. J. who liaa been arretted for cutting a gash arroas a tvoy 'i face with a heavy ferule, justifies himself on the ground that the scholar Was a ISihT (ohm leach er and a fl igrant violator of