m Centre sss>, democrat. 8. T. SIIUUEBT k E. L. OR VIS, Editors. VOL. (>. Ihe gmocvat Terms t1.50 per Annum in Adv ence Thursday Moraine, January 10, 1884. THE Bostou llendd thinks that neither Senator Logan nor Mr. Rlaine has the slightest chance to be elected President, if either could bo nomina ted. The Herald's opinion is sound. The next President is to bo a Demo crat. IT is said Chandler, secretary of the navy, cuts out anil preserves in a scrap , biok all the unfavorable notices taken of him by the newspapers. The scrap v book must be a prodigiously unwieldly document now. What will it be by the close of his term ? B. F. BUTLER last week retired from the executive chair of Massa chusctts, and Gov. Itobensou was in. stalled. Great rejoicing prevailed in the radical circles of that state over the retiremeut of Butler, whom they hate most cordially. Whether the tanning of humau skius will be re sumed as au industry now that Re publicans are restored and Benjamin retired, will be for futuro investiga tion. SPEAKER CARLISLE seems to l>e looming up as a probable compromise candidate for United States Senator L from Kentucky. The contest in that state has grown quite bitter between Blackburn and Williams for the una torship, and it is believed that the friends of one of the candidates will unite upon Carlisle for the purpose of defeating the other. Mr. Carlisle is uot a candidate, but it is urged by many be elected without bis <■<>a wciil,"unorder setvkt the dispute. MR. SPRINGER, chairman of the commiHoe ou expenditures, proposes at once to institute a thorough investi gation of the department of justice. J Humors of rotteuness in this depart ment has been rife for some time. Mr. Homager does not predict any result, % except to say that the whole truth I shall be known and that the investiga ' ■ lion, so fsr as he is concerned, will be lion partisan and impartial. The dude management of that department is severely criticized as corrupt and in efficient. The committee has asked fbr power to send for persons and papers. THE .Senatorial contest in Ohio is quite lively and somewhat bitter be. tween the friends of Pendleton and Payne, with, it is Mid, the chances in favor of the latter, who is supported by the Standard Oil company and the monopolists generally. It is to be hoped :hat better counsels may pre vail, and that if Pendleton cannot be elected, as be ougbt to b, that the op ponents of monopoly may rally upon Judge Thurman and return this dis a tingnished statesman to the position he so greatly adornad a few years ago. f Gen. Ward is believed to be a "dark borae* in the muddle, bat tbe friends of Payne claim an easy victory for tbe nomination on first ballot. ' - Dow CAMERUIT is not likely to be without formidable competition for re election to tbe U. 8. Senate, and is evidently preparing for tbe encounter. Tbitf waa foreshadowed by tbe stalwart fight for control by the defeat of ap portionment in tbe last legislature. Having acbhved that infamous vic tory, his most faithful lieutenant and general manager, Col. Quay, in order to strengthen tbe Senator's position, it U said, has completed negotiations for ifea Philadelphia Evening Nem, which, under his management, is to be the Stalwart Cameron organ in Philadel- Jrpbia. Cameron has had no reliable ®vgan in that city for some time and |jupy furnishes the funds to found one interest aider direction of his gfoueaisi! for the Cairras DEMOCRAT. * % . . \ a.- i • m * FOSTY LIGHT degrees below zero in 1 Dakota! Think of it. when u rhiver and grumble at the cold weather e here at 12 degrees below zero. THE convent at Belleville, Illinois, was destroyed by fire on Raturdny Inst, and tweuty-eeven of the inmates — 1 twenty-two pupils and five Meters, in* | eluding the .Sister Superior, [teriehed ' iu the flames. I TIIB fire it Cleveland which de stroyed property of great value on Saturday last, vas certainly quite im partial in select;on, having devoted an 0 , expensive rhun-h atul an imposing j theatre to destruction. MR. BLAIR lias introduced a hill in the senate of the United States t > fix and regulate the hours of lalorers i • workmen and mechanics who may he j in the employ of the government, and that they shall not lie paid less wages | than other like laborers in the vicinity | where employed, and limiting a days work to eight hours, except in cases of ; emergency, when the public safety j require it. MR. Cox at the head of the Naval committee in (he house, is the right man in the right place. Tbe large appropriations d tnaoded by the Score j taryot the Navy, should he scrutinized by QUC of .Mr. Cox's exjerienco and j R •c MI rage. That department has long L ' ; needed a careful and honest watcher- Robeson is in retirement, but Chandler i is in the fiont. j A Miss lILI.LN It. GARDENER loc e | tuied in New York the other night 1 j "On Men, Women and Goals." She f! was introduced by Bob Ingersoll, who ! went from Washington for that pur | pose. Bhe asserted her disbelief in # any religion and severely criticised the position taken by Biblical writers |on the subject of woman's place iu ! j society. The position she takes in s society, under the eha|>eronage of Boh, • is one not to be envied by her sisters - certainly. MR. RANDALL is rushing the ap. propriation hills in Congress, and ex ' 11*< •Is to get three before the house this wk. The fortification and military academy bill will IM> reported early iu j the week. The sub committee on pen sion* has presented to Commissioner Dudley for consideration somt changes I which it propose* to make in the law. I One of them is the reduction of the number of agencies where funds are disbursed from 18 to 10 or 12 at the most prominent commercial centres. Commissioner Dudley has recom mended that the number of examin ing boards be increased to about 400. At present three surgeons, who receive •2 each for every examination, con stitute a board. There are of these boards between 200 and 300. The sub-committee favors the increase in number, but desires that the pay of surgeons shall be $2 for each exami ner for the first five cases and one dollar for each additional case ex amined during a day. The commis sioner is expected to give bis opinion on the proposed changes to the sub committee. The members of this committee say they wish to act har moniously with the commissioner in ! every change affecting tbe appropria ' tion that is to be made. Randall Nails a A Lie. Washington, January 3.— -The atten tion of Chairman Randall, of the House Appropriations Com mi tee, waa called to the published statements that his policy would I* to reduce the appropriations in aucb away aa to cripple the depart ments throughout the country. "With all due deference to the press,' said Mr Rat-dall,"the majority of thoae articles are made out of the wholecloth. I have been very reticent, and said nothing to any ona indicating what my policy or that of lh committee , would be. Of course, I cannot speak for the committee, but I do not think the policy oftbo committor, will be to 1 retrench to any extreme point, thereby ' crippling the public s err ice or stopping 1 internal improvement of importance." I "EqUAL ASK EXACT JUBTICI TO AI.L MM, OR WUATEVEk MATE OR PERSUASION, RELlOtntlr OR POLITICAL."—JsffsrMb BKLLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 18*4. Tariff us an IBSUO Hap the Pittsburgh Port : "A prominent Republican leader in Con grt i, according to u World inter viewer, gives up the sectional i**ue, and this seeniH to be the purpose ol the influential papers and the reaj leaders of the party. 'lt would be nursing a cold corpse' is the idea ex pressed as to the 'bloody shirt.' It is further declared by this shrewd ob server : "You can never gel tbs peoplo of the 1 North to try any more experiments in the way ol regulating the local sfl'iir* of j the South, or to try by legislation to | l etter the condition of the t.egro. The i Northern people or" indifferent. They ' recognise the faet that you rmnoi put 1 i the Itrains and superior intelligence ot ; a community, even if it i in a minority, : und-r the control nod domination of ! anv inferior intelligence. That experi ment ha* been exhaustively tried byh powerful Government, backed by the | army and a tierce pirtv aeotimenf, only to fail wretchedly. If it failed then, j what can any one hope to gam now in I the reasilatinn of the question in the | faen ol the Northern apathy on the j ! tii j.-cl ? The R-'puhlican* wtio think j the Southern huiineaa can he wanned ! over again (or use in the next campaign j 'are simply lb-publican R turbans who] 1 retiie to *e the time* have changed. j j The negro must take cre of h'tmelt. : j lie cannot be made an l*ue. Tlie evi- | denre of this i shown in the way the civil rights decision of the Supreme I Court lIUH been received. Ten >ear I #g-> this decinon n uid have awakened ja perfect storm of agitation. Now it i* j i received with the moot perfect inditier ence. "The 'prominent Republican' IMP Micros the Tariff the impending issue, but even here there nre difficulties. 1 The W eetern Kepuhlicans nod a power- j ful influence nt the East will not ac- 1 i eept the Pennsylvania Republican doctrine. In Illinoi*. lowa, Michigan j and other \V*lero elates the oppoei- I tioa is a* bitter as that of Penusyl- I vania Ih-mncrats to a 'larifl for re. venue only" platform. Both parties 1 are undoubtedly considerably mixed. "Tbv moat remarkable tariff revolu tion we have ever seen wax the one adopted by thefrreclcy Convention at Cincinnati in 1872, and afterward* accepted by the Baltimore Convention. It iimply remanded the tariff question as a local i*uo to the decision of the people in the election of Congressmen. That met the necessities of the case jn a national platform, and expressed the truth. It nmant it wa* a matter of detail rather than a national princi ple ; that it was to le decided by com promise and concession, having refer ence to local as well as general inter cats. The citizen in a manufacturing state regards protection quite differ ently from the citizen of a purely agricultural state. It is a packet question in both rasas, and decided according to the universal law of human nature. Wa don't suppose either patty will go into the Prewlden tial fight on such a sensible resolution but nevertheless it expresses the truth and clearly forecasts the action of Congress on any tariff hill that will be presented. If a majority of the people feel that a tariff for revenue only is to their pecuniary benefit they will have it ao. If tbe varied iateresU benefited by protection are in the majority, that system will be maintain sd. Our own viaw is that a vast majority of the people of the Uoilad States want tariff reform, of varying degrees (again affected by local interests I, as soon as they can get it; that the discussion o' the question is strengthening the re formers and weakening the protection* isla ; and finally, that tbe present de pressed rendition of the manufactur ing interests, as the climax of twenty years of high apd often excessive pro tection, and even of prohibitum, has made and is to-day making more con verts to tbe idea of a reformed re. venue tariff (ban all the pamphlets and speeches and newspaper leaders of the free traders in tbe last fifty years It is a solid fact appreciable by tho 1 millraen and day laborers, the miners and skilled mechanics that excessive protection—t) lc Pennsylvania ideal of ! a tariff— box brought about tbe same , conditions pictured as the necessary accompaniment of a non-prdtectivc < tariff. Home competition is worse 1 . 3 I than foreign competition, modified as i it must neceMurily IKJ by a revenue tariff. While this fact strikes at one of the fundamental ideas of ihe pro tectionists it also makes against the favorite argument of tho free traders that a protective tariff enhances the cost of manufacturing products, the increase, of course, going to the work ingmen—a fact not visible to the naked eye, or with one of Sim \V id ler's telescopes at this time. "This reads like a contradictory article, hut then the tariff is a cor. tradictory nml eufangling subject." Underpaid School Teachora. i Iu a letter to the I'nilade tpltiu Sorth ! American, Professor J. P. Wicker sham, LL. I). tiiak.s the startling as sertion, and proves it by the presenta tion of the mceatary figures, that the compensation of public school teachers in Pennsylvania is not nearly equal to that of other persons whose capabili ties, training, etc., may ho considered ol corresponding grade; and that ttie ■public schools suffer largely on this i account. lie states that "four tlmu- j ; sand teachers Irnvo the profession every year in Pennsylvania! Of these, many of the most promising young men *tudy law or medicine, engage in some kind of clerical work that pay them better, or tnl-r upon a hu-iut* ] career. The loss is almost enough to paralyze the whole work of education. | Besides, this constant change of teach j ers is very damaging in it* iff -is up* n 'the pupils in our schools. No one can teach a child well who is not thoroughly acquainted w t > his talents, taste* and disposition; and such an insight into tbe inner being of a school full of children is not acquired in a day or year. A mature mind must knit itself in love with an immature "os, rnfrur Inspire it with confidence ' and trut, before tbe work of im-'ruc tion can properly comi*ence; and this is a process of slow growth. With n constant change of teachers, the pupils of a school lose all that is most valua ble iu education—the mou'ding of, character, the shaping of life, that | (raining which makes the best possible nieD and women." Tho Trodo Dollar. A hill ha* Iwvn introduce in congress for the recoinage of the trade dollars ' into standard dollar*. In addition to the iluty of maintaining the national honor the following reaaon* have liecn otiered in advocacy of tbe measure. 1. The government coined and al lowed to go into circulation avastnum lcr of trade dollars not legally intended for circulation in this country. 2. Three trade dollars gradually received public confidence and were used as currency in all miooT business trans actions. 3. The regular or legal dollar wa* then coined in large amounts and in time met tbe demand for cur rency, so far aa silver was needed. 4 Then when the trade dollar was largely scattered among tbe people, it was dec lared worth only eighty five cents, and was thrown out of general circulation. 5. Many merchants chose for a time to take these trade dollars at par for good*, not In a spirit of •peculation, but to relieve the poorer clauses from lea*, and trusting the jaatioe of the government for their redemption. There can be no doubt aa to the cor rectneaa of all theae atatemeot*. Heading's Oreat Record. a srsTtatar vast WILL A SKI eunxias SHOMO rat STOCK Rot,naas. The comparative atatemeot of the busineaa of the Philadelphia and Read ing Railroad and Coal and Iron Com pany for the month of and the fiaoat year ending November 00, 1883, ahowa the total groaa receipts of tbe railroad company for November 83.634,916.21; and tbe total groaa expenm excluding rental* and internal 81,381,435.43. Profit for the month $2,073,4R0.76, profit for the year to date $14,347,479.25, profit for the *ame month of 1882, $1,104,564. 49, for the year $9,857,064,98. t Grow receipt* of the Coal and Iron Company for,*he month, $1,786,384 50, i grow expense*, excluding interest, s|,. , 2 1 363 379.34-, profit for the minth. $l'J3. 204.86; profit for the year to dale, $921 - 771 79: profit for the same month ot 188" $303,121 24 for the year $2 200 173. 91. From Ihia lietluct for the tailr-tau company's debt: Balance in renewal fund. $27,499 03 j slate tax on capital stock, $35,909 30 ; all rental* and inter est on all out-landing otili ( atior s, in. eluding the floating debt, $12,101,666. 99; for the Goal and Iron Comp ny'a i lull interest* on till outstanding ol.lqa. I tion* other tliHn those held by the r* I. roatl company, $1,126,942.70; total f 13,. 312 017 98. .Surplus of both companies, $2,157,- 1233 06: 7 percent on preferred sioch, $lOB 626 00 ; 6 per cent on common -lock. $| 930,972.52. Total, $2 <>9.1,59-.- 22. Balance applicable to interest on defcried income bond*, $57,634 54 I'hi* include* full in'ere*t on the entire amount of convertilile loan, a j>ortioii of which ha* been funded. The afrfive statement inclitd--* the working* of the .J-r#ey Central railroad of New Jersey and branches for N ivt m h< r. and for MX months from June 1 to November .30. Net profit for the month, $124,407.51 ; for six month*, 033.482- i • All Borts Amorg the names mentioned in cor- I nrrtinn with the presidency of 1 ti•- Northern Pacific rsitr.md are those of 1 •senator Sherman, < x Senator AV'inudley. I-*nea*ter county's tax rate for the | ensuing year i to he two and one half 1 mills, a reduction of one half mil! from i lat year. t It is **id the Allen Iron Work* o! Tsmaqua have been sold to Commander Gnrnnge'-s Fhiphuilding Company. Reservoir* on wheels, to IKS filled from tbe harbor by tbe fire l*vt, are tl e latest New York Fire I prirtment im provement. J Cleveland's 136 mill*, with $21,202 s*o capital and 17,114 bands, turned out $32,411 600 worth of manufactured iron Ihia year. AA', 11. Vsnderbilt has contributed $5OOO towards the next walking match at the Madison Square Garden. George I). Phillips, the celebrated Amateur skater, made a half mile yesterday in New York in one minute and thirty seconds. There is quite a petroleum excite ment in Sandy Valley, Ky., some fifty five miles from Catletuburg. One well baa obtained a depth of 1300 feet. A Toronto man waited until he was eighty three years old before be got married. lie waited till he was sure that if he didn't like it he wouldn't live long to repent. Employes in tbe poatoffce depart ment at Washington were on Saturday notified by th# postmaster general that tbe purchase of lottery ticket# would hereafter be regarded aa sufficient ground for removal from office. Professor C. W. IluUon, of the Uni versity of Miasksippi, who baa taught both young men and young women.de clares that tbe girl student it, in the great majority of oases, sooner and hotter able to acquire knowledge than the boy student j and her mind K gen erally speaking, quicker, brighter, more alart than that of man at the same age -between 12 and 20. "The averaga girl student," he adds, "is also* more ambitious, mora devoted to study for study's sake, more responsive to the effort to excite her interest.'' A couple of young ladle* at Prince ton accepted a peculiar stager from a dry good* merchant of that plaoe. The merchant agreed to give them each a silk dross if they would drive two hogs he wanted killed from his promisee through the principal part of the town to his slaughter house, Tb# offer was made iu fuo, but, much to fata surprise, the young Indies took him at hk word, and valiantly drove the swine to the required destination. The girls were brave and easily earned their floe dresses. TERMS: $1.60 jwr Aitmim,in Advaure. I here it .1 ill audi t thing * COB •eietice in Onio. Mr. Lloyd Login,of Winchester. V*., received by express from Cincinnati, no (lie \v. railroad n finr mile* we.t of I'.ei h ("reek on Friday last, between 0 and 7 o'clock, I* a,, and wa killed instantly. He w&* teen by the engineer lying on the tract but too * i late to utop the train in time to save {him. An inquest was lieb! over the body by Squire Kunea, of I". i,: eville, 1 and the rnn*ins wer- *ent to Snow Shoe. Sheriff Uunkle notified our c>roner, 1 Dr. H K. Hoy, on Tuesday of the acci dent and ordered the body to I M . re. j turned to lb'lle r on"e, which srrireil ; Wednesday A. m. !:. Hoy irr,:i. r*diate]y summoned a jury and proceeded to jf.. vcetlgatc the actual cause of the tin for tunate man* death. V very strong impre-Mon prevail* tbnt be VT** firt j murdered and then thrown across tho tr. -k to b:de tic wtjfk.ci tl* * ii-..i-siri lor a* *-. in. A p ; mortem examina tion by the lr. revealed no due of any j pistol or gun alio! wound, and all other j trace* of foul play wa. totally destroyed by 1 htpn. tdated eondtl ion of the eorjtsc, bo b.nl to determine! ' whether'aoiK! club or tb- engine. lOn account of further ny being required, a *erdi