fbt Centre A ricnmcrat.
S.T. SHIOKHT A. K. I*. OUVIS, Editors.
VOL. 5.
Of Centre jjOeraccrat.
Terms tI.AO par Annum in Advnnce,
Thursday Mornine, December 0, 1883.
GOVERNOR PATIISON hud the tuan
liness to veto part of the appropria
tion hill. His claim being, that the
demand of the legislators for pay, for
service in extra session, was highly
iuiquitous when extended to time not
used hy them. Both branches passe*!
the bill over his head. The fellows
get their pay, hut the Governor gets
the honor. It is not a party question.
The Republican senate and the Demo
crutio house both grabbed for the
filthy lucre. Perhaps some have
earned it. Let the burden of coti
vineiug the people rest w'lli them.
HON. \VM A. WALLACE, senator
for our senatorial district, was in town
yesterday. His visit was uot one of
political nature, but on business re
lating to the Buffalo Run railroad. It
is cause for just pride, when our com
muuity is so ably represented iu the
stite seuate by a statesman of national
reputation. Mr. Wallace has the best
interests of Pennsylvania at heart ami
lias done more than any man in it, to
free our state from the oppression of a
single railroad monopoly. Iu the near
future, through bis efforts, Pennyl.
vauia will be able to compete with her
sister states, a thousand miles further
from the market.
LATEST news from Ireland report
au attack ou a pmtestnnt religioU.-
meeting which was being held in a
theatre iu thecity of Wexford. Dresses
were torn from the ladies, and gentle
men were iusulted and stoned. A
bonfire was made of all the Bibles
Bod byranbooks (bar could be found.
This affair and the attack of the
Orangemen on the Catholics some time
ago. show a religious bigotry in Ire
land of which we are comparatively
free. When Protestants and Catho
lics throw away their religious intoler
ance and unite in an effort for g'tod
government and the freedom of Ire
land, there will he *ome hope for that
unhappy Isle. But until that timt
hope is a stranger, ami the world
looks on without sympathy. The dm
of religious intolerance and fanaticism
has gone by. Ireland may lie Protes
taut or Catholic, but she must le
tolerant of all creeds. The right to
worship God according to the dictates
of one's conscience must lie assurearic
safe in Ireland a* in America.
Our Qas.
For some reason or other the Belle
fonte Gas C'ompeny will lower the
price of gas 33J |ier cent, after the Ist
of January next. We hail the reduc
tion of the cost of light with satisfiic
tion. We hail anything that reduces
the cost of living in our town with
delight. And our delight will not be
lessened in any respect, by a suspicion
of the motives influencing the com
pany. Our cititeus are divided on
the subject; some say that the new
Electric Light company has caused
, the trouble, some will say that the
! combination with the Bteam Heating
will allow of the reduction, without
L— loss to the stockholders. Every nto
tive will be assigned but the one, that
the company willingly reduces, for the
sake of cheaper light. Oil the whole
we incline a Utile to the first proposi
•ion, and hold it as au illustration *<f
tbe immense benefit of competition in
anything. But what matters the mo
tive anyway? The wished-for reduc
• tion has been partially obtained ; that
is enough at present, perhaps. But it
must go down further in the future
Gas must be sold at a dollar and a
half a thousand feet iu Bellefonla y*t.
The manufacture of gas at that tariff
■ will be legitimate and reasonable, and
I will afford tbe stockholder a fair
■ dividend.
ARTHURS presidential message is
on hand. It will not revolutionize
anything. It iatoo bulky to be printed
in whole, and too uninteresting for
Striding. We will try to boil it down
r our next.
"K*4CAL ANI> RX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKN, Of WHATEVER h'l A*l K OH I'KHBCABION, RELIGIOUS OH POLITICAL.Jeffroi>.
Judgo Iloy and the Criminal Class
The fear expressed by many, left
the stem administration of justice hy
his predecessor, might become lux in
(be hands of Adam Hoy, is most
happily removed by that gentleman's
behaviour towards the criminals of
last week. Our people do not desire
unwise severity much less cruelly on
the bench. Rut thev do ask for the
rigid maintenance of the dignity of
the law itself, and as rigid satisfaction
of the claims of violated justice. If
the court he not u terror to the crimi
nal class, the criminal class will he a
terror to the people. Which terror is
desirable? The laws of this com
monweallh, made with a view to the
suppression of vice and crime, are for
the most part most wisely fiamed. All
that is necessary is to enforce them
wisely and justly, and the court is
clothed with discretionary power for
this very purpose. Mr. Hoy has
proved himself at the outstart no
friend to crime, but a terror to evil
doers. That is tight, make it hot for
them. The soil of Centre rountv
should not lie a soil wherein such
plantscould thrive. The last ten years
has shown how much a court of justice
could do towards ridding our com
munity of such pests, auii we can
prophesy that Adam Hoy will not
make our clime a more congenial one,
and the Judge will find that the peo
ple will endorse htm.
China Must Hold TonQuln.
It is the general opinion among the
Americans and Europeans that the
emperor of China lias full |tower over
his subjects. Hut such is not the case,
ami it is tiie intricacies of the numer
ous department 1 *, and the ionumcrable
cuslorus by which the empire is gov
erned, that compels the court not to
give up Tonquin ; its value per not
being taken into account in iu> present
intentions to fight for it The emperor
in his capacity of father of the people,
eon in theory give any order, and can
in practice have put to death any
official or citizen who disobeys it In
his dynasty are a large and powerful
number of princes and manderins,
abo divide the department* and vice
royalties among themselves. The pre*-
.•lit dynasty is a foreign one, and con
•o-quently is comjielled to re|>ect the
army. Now this army is, for financial
reasons, too small to pr.qierly garrison
the empire ; and should an uprising
•ccur against the government, the
army would lie useless. Hence, the
court cannot a fiord to offend either the
irmy or the people in such away as
to provoke their anger. The Tartar
dynasty which now reigns would be
-wept from the lace of the earth should
it not consult the will of the peopl*.
rhe present emperor is a boy, only
twelve years of age. and all real an
tbority Ix-long* to a widow of the last
full grown emperor, to Prince Kung,
Li Hung Chang, the man who moves
the mass ot native Chinese, ami one
or two other officials. Now these few
can send out any orders they please,
and arc o!eyed, but they have to he
very careful not to wound the feelings
or give affront to the pride of the peo
ple ; for a disastrous insurrection
would le sure to follow. The cession
of Tonquin to the French would cause
this, consequently we may expect that
either France will withdraw from the
peninsular, or else enter upon a ruin
ous war.— Harijord Telegram.
IT is announced that Gen. Fitx John
Porter will endeavor to have congress
pass a bill reinstating him in the army,
but not till after New Years. Of
course Grant will try to help bim now,
when Grant is no good.
THK country is palsied by one awful
fear. The ,a|>eakership is nothing; no
one cares for financial depressions;
coal and iron can go to thunder, be
fore the awful question, will Hergeant
Msson lecture? The nation ia holding
its breath uulil that one thing is de
cided.
BELLEFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, DKCKM PKR <>, 1883.
Our Paper.
The DEMOCRAT for the Inst month
has been passing through a series of
misfortunes, which, while they imiv
and do happen to Ihe hest edited and
the hest managed journals in the coun
try.are nevertheless deplorable and to
he avoided in the future. It is pecu
liarly unfortunate that these should
occur at (his particular moment in our
experience. Our circulation has been
doubled within the past quarter of the
year, and at this time tli re are pro
bably more readers for the DEMOCRAT,
iu Centre county, than for any other
paper iu it, and why ? For various
reason. Ist. Because we sympathise
with the demand of the people for
cheap weekly literature. Two dollars
is too much for any weekly pajrer pub
lished in the interior of the state, and
we propose to aid the people iu forcing
down the price.
2d. Because we befriend the busi
ueaa interests of the county and re
cognize that to many of our readers,
the building of a railroad or the build
ing up of a manufactory, isiofinil ly
more of interest, than one humlml
columns of clipped political matter.
3d. Because we give full p •: to
local happenings and incorporate in
our columns as much of the general
news of the week as is possible.
4th. Because we keep our paper
free from all moral filth, and endeavor
to publish that, which may be read iu
the home circle,aud not bring a blush
to one's wife or daughter, or a vile
thought to one's little child.
We propose to increase the excel
lency of our paper week by we<k, and
we ask our friends to oveilook what
was only caused, by the inexperience
of t or foreman and a slight defect in
our press, aud extend us the aid for tiie
future, that you have so kindly given
us iu the past.
The Spcakerahip.
A despatch on Sunday told us in
Bellcfotitc, that the long ami appar
ently doubtful contest for the highest*
merely civil, office of the nation, had
at last terminated. Three gentlrtmo
of national distinction, three state-men
who had each served sufficiently long
in public life, to convince the country
of their ability at least, and prove to
our political euemira that Democracy
ha* plenty of talent to lead, struggled
for the coveted honor; John Carlisle,
of Kentucky, S. 8. Cox,of New York,
and Samuel J. Randall, of IVnn-vl
vanin. Each of the eminent rivals
had strong claims for recognition by
the party. Cox, the witty, graceful
CoX, the traveller, the littrratcur, the
representative of the Empire state,
trieil in many a fight and rkirmish on
the floor ; Carlisle, the polished orator,
the brilliant leader in debate, the able
representative of the great southwest;
aud our own Randall, thrice speaker
of the house, a man of thought, of
tact, of the strongest common sense
anil judgement, conservative, the gr< at
champion of Pennsylvania's industries*
the man to whom the manufacturers
in coal and iron looked to for protec
tion. This had no parallel with the
contest two years ago between Kas<on
and Kr ifer, between a polished gentle
man and a boor. For in the election
of any of the three, Democracy could
have no cause to blush. The vote
stood 30 for Cox, 52 for Randall and
106 for Carlisle. We have no hesita
tion to admit that Pennsylvania's son
was the choice of theO'KXIRK DEMO
CRAT. He has been tried aud has the
confidence of the whole people ; hut it
is otherwise, we can gracefully submit
to the nomination of John Carlisle
and can assure our readers that the
administration of the speaker's gavel
n the hands of a statesman, an honest
man and a gentleman, cannot hut
most happily contrast with the coarse
and corrupt speakership of Keifcr.
After December 1 the new standard
time will be adopted by the interior
department.
Evucuatlcn of Now York.
(The following account of theevacu
■ a*ion of the city of New York, on the
2 )ih ot November, 1733. is taken from
/,'/(■ini/hiii'n CSuzrttr. and I niverml Ad
xi'.rti'if ot the following day, :
Ye-terday, in the morning, the
American troops marched from liar-
I* m to the Bowery lane. They re
mitined tlx re until about one o'clock,
when tlx- Rritii-h troops left the Posts
in tlx* Bowery, and the American
tr >p marchul into aixl took p*sses
sion of the city in the following order*
viz.;
1. A Corps of Dragoons.
2. Advance (iuurd of Right lufan
t ry.
3. A Corps of Artillery.
I. Battalion of Right Infautiy.
■>. Battalion of Massachusetts
Troops.
0. Rear Guard.
After the troops hnd taken |*osos
sioii ot the city, the General arxl Gov
ernor made ilx-ir public entry in the
follow ieg manner :
1. llxir Excellencies, the General
ai* -1 <i -vi-rnor, with their Secretaries,
on hor-i hue k.
2. Ihe Ricutenaut Governor and
the Member.-* r.f the Council, for the
temporary government of the Sjutb
ern District, four-a-hreast.
3. Mj.*r General Knox, and the
< 'Hi ers of the Army, eight-a-breast.
4. ( itizens on horseback, eight a
br*-ast.
5. The Speaker of the Assembly,
ami eiiizeiis on foot, cight-a-breast.
11 *ir Excellencies, the O <veroor
and ( rninnrxb i-iu Cbir f, w-erecscorted
by a I* ,dy of \\ estehestur Right Horse,
iiixl.r the command of Captain De
lavan.
The procession proceeded down
Qo. en strut now Pearf and through
the Br>nd Way to < tavern, at
tb<- r rner of Br< adwa;r and Thames
' stre* t.
Ibe 1 1 'Vi rnor gave a public dinner
st J r riirirc *'< tavern, at which the
(' mound* r in-Chief a <id other general
• tli •r< r* present. {This historical
city lav* ru, still standing, is that in
which'icne*nl W ashingtou, December
•'!. 175. ba e a final farewell to the
primi.is! • • f! >r of the nriny. We
ar*- informed by Mr. Kclbv, of the
N- * \ ok Historical Ribrary, that it
tin* bun hired by Mr. John Austin
S;< vens. SM -rotary of the Chamber of
( orimiffc<*, for the pnr|>ose of ccle
brn'ing the coming centennial anni
veisarv of the Evacuation Day, by a
public breakfast there by tfttit body.]
After dinner the following toasts
were drunk by the company :
I. The I'nitcd States ,*f America.
2 His M<>st Christian Majesty.
*'t The l*i itrd Netherlands.
4. The King of Sweden.
6. The American army.
0. The fleet and armies of France
which have served in America.
7. Th • memory of those Heroes
who have fallen f*r our Freedom.
8. Muv our Country be grateful to
her Military Children.
ft. May Justice support what Cour
age has gaiucd.
10. The vindication of the Rights
of Mankind in every Quarter of the
Globe.
11. May America Ire an Asylum for
the persecuted of the Earth. „
12 Mava Close Union of the States
guard the Temple they have erected
to Liberty.
13. Msy the remembrance of this
day Ire a lesson to Princes!
The arrangement of the whole con
duct of this march, with the tranquil
ity which succeeded it, through the
day and night, was admirable; and
lire grntrfirl citizens will ever feel the
trxMt affectionate impressions from
that elegant and efficient disposition
which prevailed through the whule
event.
Right Rev. William Fitzgerald, D.
D., Bishop of Killaloe, Ki (tenors,
Clou fart and Kilinacduagh, Ireland,
(tied on Saturday.
Telegram Briefs.
A hand of robbers at Itlacziquitlaw,
Mi x., killed a priest named Michael
Cuba and his niece, cook and man
servant.
The hotel keepers of Chicago have
ibus far raised $l,OOO as an induce
ment for the national republican con
vention to be held iu that city.
Ilerr Raslor, a member of the Ger
man parliament, inteods to make a
study of congressional practices at
Washington during the eusuing ses
sion.
The value of property destroyed by
the fire at 81. Paris, Ohio, yesterday
is between $25,000 and $50,000.
About one-half of the loss was covered
by insurance.
The democratic caucus of .Spring
field, Mass., last night indorsed the
citizens' nomination of George H-
Blelock for mayor. Mr. Blelock is a
member of the democratic slate central
committee.
It is stated that a conference took
place on Tuesday between Prince Bis
marck and Ri Tong Pao, the Chinese
minister to Germany. The subject
matter of the conference has not yet
lieeu learned.
The York, Ontario and West
ern railroad employes, to the number
of 200, who struck last week in Os
wego, went to work yesterday, after
being paid off. The trouble arose
over a proposition to pay monthly in
stead of hi monthly.
Information has been received that
there is likely to Ire serious difficulty
with the Piout Indians, who recently
left the reservation in Washington
i territory six! are now leading vaga
lw>od lives uear their old haunts iu
Oregon to the great annoyance of the
settler*.
The funeral of Sojourner Truth, the
aged lecturer and companion of the
Original abolitionists, took place at
Battle Creek, Mich., Sunday. Many
white person* were present at tbt
funeral. She is known to have been
low years old and wes probably older-
Six thousand Bedouins aud 800
Anatalinns have enlisted at Alexan
dria for service in the Soudan. One
hundred Egyptian soldiers at Cairo,
who were unwilling to serve in the
expedition against El Mahdi, have
been discharger) and their places sup
plied by Arab*.
Great anxiety prevails at Gloucester
Ma**., for the safety of several of the
Haddock fleet, which are considerably
over-due. There are five or six other
schooners which are now absent longer
than usual, but they are well provis
ioned, and possibly they may have
gone to some of the eastern hanks,
further distant in search of fish.
Advices from Algeria state that
there is great agitation among the
native tribe* over the reported success
of El Mahdi in Soudan having raised
the Musselman fanaticism. It is also
said that El Mahdi's emissaries are
traversing Tunis. The governor gen
eral is urging upon the French gov
ernment the necessity of retaining a
strong military force in Algeria.
Placards have been extensively
l>osted at and in the vicinity of Newry,
Ireland, exhorting Orangemen to pre
vent hy all possible means the entrance
of Parnell's "rapparees" into the town
nu Sunday. Those papers are signed
"Lord Arthur Hill." The land lea
guers have decided to meet outside
the town. Four troops of dragoons
and 300 police will arrive at Newry
on Saturday.
The Standard underground cable
company, using tbe Waring cable,
have just completed the work of laying
underground telegraph lines connect
ing tbe capitol at Washington with
the various departments and police
headquarters. The lines were tbor*
oughly tested yesterday, both with
Mnrse and telephone system. Tbe re
sults obtained were iu every way satis
factory and corroborated experiment*,
previously mad* in other cities.
TEHMH: $1.50 p-r Annum,ln Aflv§nee.
All Hort*.
Vigraux again defeated Kchaefer
last night in Paris, leaving the Arneri*
can 124 behind.
Ii in estimated that the decrease of
(he public debt for the month of
November will be about $1,7.50,000.
The panic in Khartoum is increas*
iug. Ihe UlemaH of Mecca have
formally condemned El Mahdi as an
impostor.
Theie was a riot in Newrv, Ireland,
on Thurfvlay night. Resolutions were
passed at a I> ague meeting condemn*
ing the Government for proscribing
ihe National league meeting next
Sunday.
Arrangements are being made by
prominent Irishmen in Iymdon for a
banquet in honor of Mr. Parnel),
which will be simultaneoua with the
one given in Dublin on December 11
Two steamers were in collision on
Lake Geneva on Friday between Evian
and Onchy, and twenty passengers
were drowned. The collision occurred
during a atorm.
The Lower Uoue of the Hungarian
Diet ha* passed a bill permitting civil
marriages of Jews and Christians,
hitherto forbidden, and legalizing civil
marriages contracted in foreign coun"
tries.
! The American bishops have closed
their conference with the Papal Pro
paganda. They will have a grand
reception at the College of the Propa
ganda on Saturday, the Bth of Decem
ber and will leave Rome on the 10th.
Dr. Henry Ib-ose donee, F. R. S.,
one of the most prominent physicians
in Great Britain, and author of a
number of medical works, was acci
dentally shot in the aukle last week,
and Hied from the effect* of the
wounds.
A wild Woman, named Anna Mills,
was captured near Adrian, Mich. She
had been haunting the vicinity and
living in the woods for a long time.
She narrowly ocaped being shot by
sportsmen and wa then chased and
caught.
The trial of Patrick O'Donnell for
the murder f) f .James Carey, the Irish
informer, on the steamer Melrose
Castle, was begun Nov. 30th in the
Old Bailey, before Ju'tice Denman
General Pryor appeared in court ai d
advised with O Douncll's counsel.
Carey's wife aud son testified.
The German Crown Prince landed
at Valencia on Thursday, ten thou
sand people witnessing the landing.
Next day he reached Madrid. King
Alfonso, wealing his uniform as a
Uhlan colonel, met the Prince, when
he alighted from the train, and the
welcome was most enthusiastic in
every respect.
Dr. Charles William Siemens, D.
C. L., etc., the well known scientist,
engineer and electrician, died last
week of rupture of the heart, at the
age of sixty three years. The deceased
was born at Lenthc, in Hatiover. The
funeral took place at Westminster
Abbey on Monday, with great cere
mony. The remains were interred in
Kensal Green Cemetery.
The locomotive engineers of the
Texas and St. Louis Narrow Guage
railway have been on a strike since
last Tuesday, on acconnt of the refusal
of the company to psy arrears of
wages due for several months. Presi
dent Parrarnore says that the difficulty
will be arranged at once and the pay
car has been ordered down the road
immediately.
The mystery surrounding the death
of John Hanlan, who was found in
the river three months ago, having
been killed by a club, at Joliet, 111.,
wa* partly solved yesterday by finding
his gold watch among the plunder of
a gang'of burglars, which has been
broken up by the arrest of its leading
members. John Hungerford. the sus
pected murderer, has a daughter who
was Haitian's mistress.
NO. 48.