She (Emtit ifttls jPcmocxai, S. T. BIIIUKRT A. E. L. OH VIS, Editors. VOL. 5. ul'.t Crntrc grmtimtl. Tormiitl.AO pnrAnnuratn A gratify the Virginia senators lection of Qorhnm as secretary body, but as n salve to the J sensibilities of the rrpudia to hold them to their alliance le administration and secure ites fi.r the future, they were jpon the following committees ne. Chairman of Public Build - d Grounds, memlier of Naval tf Post Offices and Post Roads, CI neat ion and Labor. iCrierger, Chairman of Manu -7 member of Railroads, of Pis- Columbia, and of Engicmed TOB MORRILL, of Vermont, educed in the senate a hill to for a commission on the sub the liquor traffic. The com. is to Ire composed of seven ,not m-re than four of whom long to the same political party> idvocatcs of prohibition, whose shall be to investigate the c liquor traffic, its relations to tod taxation, and its general ir, criminal, moral and scienti st id connection with pauper inte. social vice, the public tnd general welfare of the poo •I also to inquire a to the prnc suits of license and prohibition on for the prevention of in toce in the several states of the Lottcr from Gov. Curtin. WASHINGTON, Dee. 16, 1883. EDITORS OF CENTRE DEMOCRAT • I am quite sure that since my return from Europe, I have per-i-ted in my efforts to have u road from Bollefoiite to Spring Mills, and in justice to the people of Petinsvalley, 1 proposed and 1 had pasel, the motion of our Board ! to lend credit to the road to Lemoirt. I Provided the L. A T. U. U. company would iron the road to Spring Mills, j It is unjust ami malicious for anv one | to attempt to pervert my action. I go ,to Philadelphia to see Mr. Roberts 1 and may get the demand ('25,000 ' withdrawn. If the Pcnna. Co. refuses, we should . j consider the propriety of extending the Buffalo Run road to Spring Mills nnd locate on the graded road. Tt is impossible fof the locution to he held I now, and if the Buffalo Run project j- not practical, suppose a new charter he taken. All thi- I will sav to Mr. Roberts and will be home soon to see all parties Yours truly, A. G. CricriN. Gov. Curtin's letter litis tbe right ring. We nur.-elves never doubted his position a- to the Pcnnsvalley road, but some have honestly mi-understood him and some have maliciously ued this opportunity to damage him before i the people, and for this alone we glad- Iv publi-h bis square, direct statement of bis position. Our honored towns- I man lias always the welfare of this community at heart. Aroorica's efforto Fall. o'DONNELL SI FFERH THE I'LNALTY lOR CAREY* MI'RDER. J-ONIXIN. Dec. 17, 8. 15 A. M. — , O'Donneli was hanged at ***2 riflsHt this morning. The weather was of the most boisterous and squally charac ter. This did nt deter a large crowd ! from assembling on the out-ide of the prison in order to catch the fir-t new of the execution. The people began to 1 gather a'oout seven o'clock, one hour ! prior to the lime fixed for the execu tion. The previous arrangements re lative to the exclusion of members of the prr-s and outsiders were strictly enforced. There wa not the slightest hitch. O'Donncll was placed o:i tiie scaffold a f w rniiute* before eight o'clock. He was calm, collected ami seemed not to lie in the least alarmed. ID was given an opportunity to make a Speech hut refused to say anything. He wn executed at 8 :92 and ilicd without any apparent slrirg. gle in a few minutes. The black flag was at once hoisted. Among those who had congregated on the outsido was the brother of O'Donnell. He was associated with a large number of workingmen and was during the whole time in a more restless and de jected ronnner thnn his condemned brother. He excited the sympathy of almost the entire assemblage. There was no demonstration of a very bois terous character, a* the black flag was raised to the staff and the execu lion was announced as having taken place. AT the meeting of the Republican National Committee in Washington last week, Chicago wns selected as the place of meeting of the national nomi nating convention for President and Vice President, and the lime fixed for June 3d next. This is supposed by some to be in the interest of Arthur from the fact that the committee de clined to entertain the proposition of Mr. Fryc, of Maine, to arrange the terms of representation giving pre ponderance to the certain Republican slates over those of the certain Demo cratic state* in the choice —that I lie refusal to adopt the proposition of Mr. Frye settles tbe bash of Mr. Blaine, ns Arthur comes to the front with a solid Republican representation from the south controlled and operated by the office pal iimage he wields, i Off Ithe other hand, others, notably "BLTUAL AND XX ACT JOBTICK TO ALL MXN, or WIIATLVKB CTAT It Oil I'KHH ASION, l;KI.IO|Ol OR I'oLITH'AL. Jffroii RULLKI'ONTK, l'A„ THURSDAY, l)KI K.MIIKI! 20, IBKI. the N> w York Sun, believe* that the organization of the Republican com mittee with Seiintor ( hnpio, of Min •< - .sotn, as chief, ami the location ot tin ! convention at Chicago, wu* the join' M j production of Ligan and Blaine to 'capture the Domination from Arthu:■ I It will doubtless In- au interesting I 'scramble at uny rule. A l> met of Protendorn. The Harrishurg Patriot refers !" L 1 the impudencesif a pretentious h of men, hailing from the northern nml - western cities, and whom Mr. Gre l\ > j property diMguntul ns "blockhead , thus "A lot ot meddling hypocritr -1 killing tln iu- Iv< - the 'L'uion L ogin r 'of America" not nt Wu*hingt n on - Wednesday In-t nod pa-.cd resolution* - to the e fleet that they would nml. r I take to correct 'in>uihnn misrule' in l the - nit hern stale*. The fact that r ' their meeting -curred on the -aim day on which tin- Republican national , committee n--, mhled i- r itln r r-iguifi cant. Ii slows that the < he treated of iu serious iariir*t. It ha* always lie< n a stumbling block in the wiv of reform. It existed in New York during the Tweed regime, bu' the Committee of .Seventy, wi;h . 1 baiuuel iuiat.*ii4R •*.-< , at its head, had to lo organD'd to re , form the city government. It m .ihl I the politics of Philadelphia wh< n tin fraud* in the Gj- Trust, and Hi hwnv department and tie R< < nrd r - oil ■ ■ • were perpetrated, when corrupt >n was . rampant in every liraneh ot ih" < y governnient and when the debt of tlo city va pile !up to fixtv mi!, -• ; r dollars. Its silence gave ronn nt and some of tl. who are now pnimineiit in it* councils could tell interesting , tab -of the fearful mi-government ol that debt rid l*n municipality which re-ulied in taxation that f.-r a lime amounted nlmo-t to conf.-i nti.n. It wa* not the 'l'nioii L'-nc i,' Imt the Committee of One lluidnd which undertook to reforai the government of Philadelphia. "When the southern Mate* were j under carpet-bag rule the 'l'uion Lea cue' was aciivc nml untiring in promoting the p-dicy of Grant'* ad ministration which gave over the liberty and property of the people of those state* to the rapacious plunder ers who backer! bv federal bayonets seized the control of the state govern merits. Do the-e contemptible dissem blers imagine that people have for gotten the hi-lory of that infamous attempt to pillage the people f the south and to reduce then to a politi | cal bondage so degrading and hateful that Republican* like Charles Sumner I and Horace Greeley felt constrained : to raise their voices against it? In , : that wicked and shameful crusade against the southern people the 'l'uion I League" had it* full share. Fine . fellows ore these snuffling leaguer* to , propo-e to reform the state govern ments of the south! Iw them mind . j their own business iu their own state* j p anil in their own eitre* ami towns nml . they will have employment quite suffi cient Let them reform the Tewks hurys in New England, the election frauds in Philadelphia, tin corrup- j lions at Washington, the plundering j of Mahoue in Virginia, before they , preach their crusade ngaiust states i i which areas independent of their pro i posed interference as Maine or Illinois, , or any of the thirty eight free and equal republics which constitute the ■ federal L'uion." i I V<* W \ ' W.iy Wo Got io Jto in L' tinn vulloy. Let our I Yniisvallev fritnd- mnik i li;- 1 . ("I'loN* 1. I'r il run '<(/, ,1 , TIi! lIIV Oiilnnol i-OtnpiiliV 'it ||i. ( , I nil' II •mmMli, wliirh has In.ivil i r m::vh i<. ttr tinil In complc;< il ritilrt ml, yviihiti 111* li IH: prc.-rt ibnl lv tin- law applicable thereto,-bail Ia v* a | riod I five \ oni -, iiimi 11, i!,ito • tie* pn-nge i 1 this not. for the m[-;* '.ion lil the same, ami in H >• orih r | >■ it hI of month* lor tin h twciilv livo mill- or 11.11 *i' >i al |.i r I .t ittuilv five mi!- , by vi• i• I tb I raiir>:i tuant r * t scribed liv lav,. Arr ROVED -1 In* l-t day of Jam, A. I. I**3. ll'nT. I 1' *TI I- iV. The nlsve wn- nia r* v**!* I ngai:. t it, kn iw why our |* njile * r<* n >t alarmed in lime, not n note <>• yyaruing wa rn.-' 1. Now the citt/* ns o' I**m , valley may understand why the IVnit "♦vrfT*!!:** T! Tf. U ) i* 'in!. They have five year* now to complete tie mad. Win) tin- a'*. 0 been slipp'd through MI quietly, t . intir* i ad would have been compW !< 1 or have In ent r'eiled. We are : v. |* wcrl< . Pat! lean's Inve'-Mput ton ( *\ertK*r i'alti- >ti la-: w - di pat( lied I** the auditor pnu ti the f*.| I iwing significant con nun i* iti* n II iiirti-iift:'., I)* c. 13 1 i Hon J'!ll> -I I.niiOn, ,1 II it it e I. rral, ftr'ir Sir. I'i* -•* furnish the executive department nt your earliest convenience with an item,/ 1 state liient of the e r.pcndiluri - of the . m* titigctil funds ot the e.':ate and It u-e of representative* at the late extraor dinary -■ --ion of the , era I a--* '*• ly, showing the name- of the persons to whom the money* ol MUI futid* have lie II paid, together with the amount paid t*> c-nch. Alt" n -la i ient * >t mining the mum - of mi offi * r- and employe*, including tie j of the hotie and senate, !* yyl. in moneys have IM* n paid forscrvi" during the -aid se-sion, together with the amount paid to each. Your- very respo* 'fully. Uotii ttr K. PAT rt*o\, Gov. Between Patli-ori and tho legi-'a turo yvo have no difficulty in taking our position. We ate f'.r the Gover nor. He i liomst, lie i fi arl*-- and he is conscientious. Tiie legi-lature deserve* none of this prai-e, but ha# proved itself a deeper di-graee to the commonwealth than any >f it prede re*- ,r. Prom the lieginning it has iriffid ; it has per-itenlly slefieil the constitution; it# entire existence has lieen a continuous perjury, and its dissolution a scene of little cupidity and of shnmcless greed, surh as a ! hootblack would blush to manifest. We sp* ak of this body n- an entirety, yve gladly make ome itoNouAttt.E ex ecptions. But has ever nu linnest, reforming executive been cheekcl by ns mean and petty n lot of legislators! And now Pattisoti intimates that the . accounts are rotten and asks lo have them shown up. He is looking after the rats. We know of no specific charge, but we can believe anything of tho legislature of 1883-4. The people will hack you. Governor. A/I our cuunly papers sustain yon.aud for Heaveu's sake go to the bottom. —Holidsy g111 1.• .* *1 th'* Madagaseau ;* ol* ! \ li' inar un I .M ! ini'ou. I- : ' I'l 1 li, ti A r |tiq*a ha- In i n vn: i! t! * 1 hv t!i- • to.iii. H< ii ri * fur! 1 it, li.,* v.. il kn ovii I r* i.i b lii-lori.in, di I ye-n rdav. Hi -rb * I.i, ad", I'ren u poet hi 1 nuilior, * / ; : I k -'.ai' Ifepartrnent ha-received 'i m l!. I '*••! > ali - * •.-u! a' Isr* • n. ' ■ ro. .a *. • p -of a letl< r -•■ nt t* Pi • H -msri*, by the < nan - b r of ( imrnerce of tliat place, pr e te-'mg a.* liu-t ilie- prohib : nol the . imp. rin*. .-nr. Am ri< an j ik. ' i ... 'I - *. si. ,|• t. : i*i .** ur ll* 1 I'** :un*r. n w visiting , P • * nitry, -ns t . N yy Y*ok * tor k * m ii) damage- f*; u*ieged Hlh-I HI , treating In- b"-ture t.ti prehistoric, ancient, n ii val and modern tin'-, ' in a spirit of !< vity. Intenc'd yesterday— :i -on t" b ha *1 and the father to life-long irnpri- mnicit. Tl •r* v * JI I : * ir, -in the I Hi. ted !*:al - r<*p i rtcd sinri; ' the yrck pa-t, nineteen nn.re than the corrcs* ing yy k . I#".'. iuni eighty four more tiinn ill same w<*i k of l* s l. Ifuring the current year 0"1>23 iriiniigrant- ha\ arrive tin the I nitcil State-. I* -ialed in N wY rk that Clui-iiancy vsa- hound'd to death liv - *mc men yyh name* have i. *t iH*eii revealed. It i generally c m ider - i hy rail* r >a*l m n that a evc re yynr in fare- to the yy<#t i- impc-uding. It i- reported from Hue, the capital of Annam. that King Hicpbma ha In i n |**>i-on* Iby hi- servants nt the instigation of the <' linesc. ( Uher re ports hold France responsible. The maiidarimsof A nnam have proclaimed war against France. Iteinforcemcnl# Itnve been forwarded to Admiral Courbet. A solemn reception will be givrii tho American bishops by the pope previous to their departure. In a speech at Liverpool last night Sir Richard Asshcton Cross strongly condemned the extension of the fran chise to Ireland. Baker Pasha has given it as his opinion that nt Ica-t lo.tfOO troops will be required for n successful campaign in the Soudan. He also slates that . Kgypt is unable to supply that num i bcr. John Bright, in a speech nt Kiigh . ley last evening, declared his opposi tion to universal suflrnge, and said that he would endeavor by nil possible menus to maintain the forty shilling | county ftanchi-e. A commission of inquiry to investi- i gate the causes of the recent Orange- I | Nationalist riots in 1 Londonderry sal yesterday A number of persons who participated in the riots were summon- j ed ns witnesses, whereupon the Roman Catholic* in attendance left the court in a body, protesting against the ac ceptance of such testimony, TKKMS: £1.50 per Annum,in Advance. iii !>(,%, uf the I/ouisville < 'i/, rn<]i |j- l!i platform lur.i.ly creciiu-ij to hi 10. He MJM iiitl ilr clamor about free trade is a ttepublicun invention that lie advo a!<- tax reform, not free trade, and ■ long a- two hundred millions must ' di eted through the custom houses, here ran he no nich thing as free ! trade. Additional Local. ■' h " i- almost here and per ere * ,1c youi pllreiih.v) 1 *'* 1 wii it they are to be. If overlook tie- l,i-rty, w#> ■' 1 ,v things from which •t -i lcet |u <- a fine 1 • ' .en. King*, of course, understood, and an opera ■t I In- t liing. A fan of : i die r it have, then whv '. u _• I Ii • Ine one, but a gold !,. ,t plea.e better than all •a pi- napkin ring might be de-ire. \ boy's watch is i th.ii • ' r i 1 -v. insures steady I ii tualili and prompt t; : n • taincl jn no other A i • litih- clock for his room w-uM be ! n'Xt best thing. The 1.11'• ! delight mostly in rings r [a rhapd a silver cup, i.i ... i sjMn-in. but to make • 11 •• it shouhl have < • • !. and f 1 at Frank P. Blair's. I i-t w<- n w<- informed the people ' 1 • ' nte m i vicinity that Lewm A <"■>.. i i etois of the popular Alle jh< ! i sire- t i 1 lliing house, had the l.irgea) sto. k of mens' and 1-oys' over ai n f'Vntre i inty, and they cer t nly li I large tock. We hardly kti "iv i-t how it happened, but ring 1 i idi-.v and >aturday they had Mich .i In ivy run on thee goods that Mr. l.ewin* was compelled to take the late train on Saturday n gilt for Philadelphia and send hit goods t > t xpress to Bellefonte, in order to meet the demand of their customers. The gaods csme promptly to hand on Tuesday morning, and illustrates the I set that it will he a "cold day" when Mr. l.ewin geis left.. t'sll ear It. and you will get the very latest city styles. You rarely ever see as large a eelec ten of ChriMmas gOods aa ia niw on exhibition at the music store of Bunnell A .tikon. All their organs and pianos hail to be removed to make room in order to display them. The moment you enfr into their store you almost imagine you are in sotn® fairy and stand rivitod to the spot for a moment ere you seem to realise that everything is real and not imaginary. —As people pass by Sands' window yon bear them exclaim, "Oh! look there, isn't she sweet. **h! the dear little tiling." All such remark* are mvie about the little lady on exhi bition in Sands' window. She ia to be chanced off. Don't forget that for every dollar'a wor'li of toys you purchase yotl get a chance —Special reductions to churches, Ban o.