*S. T. SHUGEBT k E. 1. ORVIS, Editors.
VOL. .
Slw Crntrf Jlmocrat
Ttraill.ftO par Annnmin Advance
Tharidaj Moraine, January 17, 1884.
WE have received a communication
iu reply to "Fair Flay" in the Centre
Hall Reporter of last week, but it
ctnue to hand too late for publication
iu this issue. It will appear in our
next.
IT is announced that Gen. Simon
Cameron has benefitted greatly in
jfhoalth by his visit to the Hot Springs
of Arkansas, and will leave that on
20th insL on a visit to Mexico.
THE late severe freezing and heavy
falls of snow and raiu are almost cer
tain to be followed by damaging floods
and ice gorges. Proper caution should
be taken to protect exposed points on
our streams.
BISHOP SHARP, of the Mnrman
church, has been on a visit to Wash
ington, and returns to his people fully
satisfied that great trouble is in store
for them and their peculiar institution
which "no one but the Almighty" can
avert.
THE New York Herald has under- j
taken to read the Hon. Samuel J. j
out of the Democratic party. j
nam is pretty solidly set and it will
a greater motive power than the
has ever used yet to move him
from bis moorings in the Democratic 1
ranks.
THE trial of Mr. James Nutt for ,
| the killing of Dukes commenced in the
Allegheny county court on Monday
last. This case was removed from
Fayette county, where the deed was
cornmit'.wi, to avoid the ettcitcmPnt of
the neighborhood and the difficulty of
obtaining a jury.
THE American porker to bo avenged
Germany and France having deter
mined to exclude the American hog
ifrooi the fowl supplies of thoee coun- I
Inc.,m asures arc being taken in
pongrrss th retaliate by excluding
French and German wines from the
Brinks of this country. That is if the
French and Dutch won't eat our pork,!
te won't drink their wines.
A COMMITTEE of Republican sena
tors was appointed the other day to
ftafer with Senator Anthony, the
father of the senate, to convince the
Sid statesman that be i unfit to be
president pro. tem. of that body. Thi^ -
Acre evidently successful, as Senator
Anthony declines the honor on the
ground that his physical strength
Would not he equal to the arduous
duties of the position. The vigorous
boss of the Virginia Republicans
would have no objections.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER'S
, department is now under fire. Mr-
Hppringer, chairman of the House com
■j mittee on expenditures, has served
on Brewster Camrton, late gen
eral agent of the department, to ap
pear before the committee with the pa
pers and evidence to sustain charges of
peculation and gross irregularities in
the Marshall's offices of Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Ar
kansas. The ball has only oommenced
to roll. It will probably gathVr in
terest as it progrw*.
TIIK municipal contest in Philadeb
pbia is becoming lively and interest
ing. The bosses have becu quite busy
in setting up the machine pins, in
which they have been successful in a
very marked degree. An unusual
V amount of grumbling is the result
Mrith many of (be prominent Republi
cans declaring for open war. Among
these, ex-Mayor Htokely is out-spoken
and in very plain words expresses bit
and that of bia friends,
J to support Mayor King instead of
3milb, the Republican candidate for
V Mayor. There l fun ahead in the
Quaker' city. The fVmocra's have
• not yet nominated.
Tariff and Charcoal Iron.
MUCH anxiety seems to be felt as to I
the course the majority in the present j
House will take on the subject of
tariff reform. The Republicans pre- i
diet that great discord will prevail be- j
tweeu the Democrats in considering i
the question, hut such an impression
is not warranted from anything that
has yet transpired. Differences of ,
opinion will, and doubtless do exist, as
to the expediency of considering the
subject in the present congress, but all
agree upon one point, and that is that
I tarifl' reform or tariff amendment is
absolutely necessary to equalize the ■
duties and reuder them more acccpta'
ble to the great mass of the people. ,
The cry of lree trade raised is all
, bosh. With here and there au im
practicable idiot iu both parties, no
person favors this dogma. This same |
may be said of protection for the sake
of protection only, as insisted upon by j
other idiots, and both may he placed .
, upon an equality to be avoided. A
I decent revenue tariff, under the im- !
| mense duties now collected from iiu-
ports properly and fairly adjusted,
j will give all the protection necessary
| to foster the industries of the country j
| that needs it, and beyond this is op j
! prcssion. Tho preseut tariff is un.
j doubtedly unequal nnd works badly j
j not oulv in rendering the tariff law* u
subject of constant agitation and dis
satisfaction, hut unnecessarily ignores
I one class while it pampers another of
1 nogrenier merit. For instance,the most
! cx|>enßive manufacture of iron and the '
very best produced in the state, is the
! • 1
i one which receives the least fostering
consideration of the tariff laws. \V<
mean the charcoal iron, incomparably
the superior article, ami in direct
| competition with the cheap labor of
" the old world, and the roost expensive J
jof all to manufacture. And why ? !
For the reason only that the manufac
ture of the inferior irons and the steel
made by cheap processes, are in tbe
hands of the largd monopolists who'
have had the power to obtain the
| preference in the law, while the real
| meritorious class of manufacture are
i ignored. If the manufacturer* of iron
| is to be protected by a fair adjustment ,
• of the revenue laws, as we all admit
•t should be, there is no justice in over
| looking the expensive charcoal mauu
factum to lavish protection to the
i cheap proc*e*. which really doe* not ,
need it to any serious extent. When
this question comes up we trust some
of our competent statesmen will take j
the pain* to inform themselves of the !
facts as to the merits the one and
the demerits of the ether. We believe
that the leading members of congrc*s
who are deeply impressed of the ne
cessity of a reduction of the tariff are
reasonable men, and arc moved by
patriotic motives, but when they
' handle litis important subject, let them
look at it in all its beariog* as an act
- of justice aud equality, and not merely
I to foster the interests of those who
can afford to appropriate their tens of
' thousand* to election campaigns, by
' : the cheapness of their manufactures
" and the liberality of the laws which
'' are tujrjtoeed to protect weaker but
• • more valuable interests in the same
•' proportion.
I Congressman Mutcbler, of l'enn
■ sylvania, in an interview with a Wash
ington paper tbe other day, perhaps
indicated the view* of the Penu.-yl
- vania l>emocrats in congress when he
- said:
' "Whiio it is not of course impossi
■ ble that a tariff measure may be
i brooght in by the Committee of Ways
I and Meads that some of us cannot
support, we shall cast our votea as in
t dividual representatives, acting within
• tbe party, not in anpr sense as allies of
( tbe Republican minority. To give
, you as idea of how I stand on this
question, I may say that in cooversa
-1 tion recently with tbe chairman of
, Ways and Means, I told him tbat 1
f supposed we might naturally expect
r to get some kind of a bill from his
committee this session, and tbat I had
8 this la say in regard to it. Let it be
i a moderate bill, that Is, one making
moderate affl jt*f reduction in diit'c*,
"KUUAI. AKP EXACT JCSTICB TO ALL M*l, OV WIIATKVKH NT ATE OH I-EHHCABIOH, HEI.IOIOU* OH POLITICAL. "-J*W.nou
BELLEFONTE, I'A., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1884.
I and it should luivo tuy support. I
I said to him: 'We cannot afford to
have any liiffcrencts in tho party on
j this question, and wo must work to
gether so that there shall be uone.
j You, Mr. Chairman, cannot do with
out it*, any more than you could when
our votes made Mr. Carlisle speaker,
and we cannot do without you. Only
treat Pennsylvania as fairly in regard
to her great business and labor inter
i est* us you have treated us iu making
j up the committees, and there will lie
; no cause lor complaint, aud 1 think
this will be done.'
"'What do you imply by a just, as
i well as a moderate, reduction of duties?' !
"'I nieau one that will not injure I
any particular branch of trade for tbe '
benefit of others, or reduce duties that
1 are protective, leaving those that are ;
• not protective untouched. To illus- j
j trate the case: my district produces, j
, perhaps, more pigiron than any other ,
ditricl in the Union. If a bill should
be brought in taking the duty off scrap
! iron and leaving it upon jute butts, 1
l >diou!d be ccmjM-llcd to oppose aud
, vote ugaiust such a bill. Such action '
1 consider altogether unlikely, nnd iu
case a tariff hill is passed at this ses
sion you may rest assured, from the
character of all the gentlemeu con
cerned, that it will not be one that will l
cripple our industries or result disas
trous! v to trad?.'-"
i
Jt *T at this time the great dailies
' >f New York, Chicaga, St. I>oui*, j
( incinnati and Boston, arc denouncing
the nomination of Mr. Payne by the ,
Democracy of < >hio a* a candidate for
senator, to succeed Mr. Pendleton, as
a shameless sale to the monopolists.
The Washington Pott also expresses
disapprobation and thinks Mr. Payne
ought to decline the electiou or suffer
defeat. If base means were used to
obtain a nomination, it is not likely
that the actors in it will stop half
way. The election of senators, parti- j
cularly in tbe wc*t, have become n
thing of purchase, to he determined
by the weight of a roan's bar- ,
re I. It iw disgraceful in tbe high- '
eat degree and it wa* to he hoped the
Democracy would be slow to follow '
! this example of their opponents. We
hope, at least, the severe strictness of
the press oo the methods of Uu Ohio
j Democracy is unmerited. Of Mr.
Payne, personally, no evil i* sj>oken,
but as a man of great wealth, connect
ed with the Standard Oil Company
suspicion is probably excusable to sonic
'extent.
REKEIIUINO to the importance of con
gress adopting some more satisfactory
method of obtaining a count of the
| electoral vote, than that now existing,
tho Washington /W nppeaU to the
' Republican senate and Democratic
i house, in this time of general Iran- i
quility, to remove the dangers eon
| fronting the country by a failure to do !
so. The Pott says: "As the matter j
j now stand* it it full of danger. Tbe
j Constitution treats the count only in
vague and general terms. It says:
'Tbe vote* shall then he counted'—
leaving for congress to decide how this
! counting shall be done, and how dis
puted points shall be settled.
"Have wc not been sufficiently
warned of the danger of leaving this
business where it is ?
"If this people is fit for self-govern
ment, ought not its law-maker* to be
capable of settling upon question* on
which a year hVnce tbe very existence
of tbe Government may depend ?
"Is it too much to ask of the Demo
cratic llonsc and Republican Senate
that they prepare tome safe, reliable
plan for determining where Presiden-'
tial 'inability' begins and where it
ends ? A President is liable to be
prostrate*! by disease or wounds, to be
stricken with intanily; 'inability' may
come on him at any time and in any
woe of a thousand ways. But who is
to decide when tho next in lino shall
step forward and assumo tbe dutiea of
the Presidential office? And who Is
to determine when tbe 'inability* baa
ceased and tbe Preaident shall resume
his place ? Governments have fallen
into chaos on smaller troubles than
our* is e*j#cd to by continue!
1 of this matter.
, "Cannot tbe Forty-eighth congress
make itself immortal by rising up in
the might of true patriotism and put
ting these gieat dangers out of the
pathway of the Republic?"
Tardy Reformers
HOD. William Mutchler, chairman
of the house congressional committee 1
on civil service reform, says the liar
rishurg Patriot, is losing patience with
! the civil service commissioners. HE j
wants to obtain from these gentlemen j
a report of their proceedings, but ha**
: not been able to do so. Mr. Dorinnn 1
| B. Raton is voidable enough iu private
; conservation on civil service and i
'Judge Thornan is free of speech in
| commending the merits of the work
performed, but nobody can get them
to formulate a report on which the
public may predicate an estimate of
' the success or failure of the scheme.
Mr. Mutchler i* an aide and practi-
I cal man and that he is only now show- 1
ing a spirit of refttivenem is testimony
1 that he is remarkably forbearing. 1
Most people who have given the sub
ject any consideration lont patience
I long ago. The blundering lieginning
of the commission was testimony that
the work was committed to stupids or
theorists, and the reports of their pro- !
• rcedings since gathered hy the enter- 1
i prise of the newspaper* ha* confirmed
thi* impression.
But the commissioners will do well :
to avoid the ap|>caranrc of trifling
with Mr. Mutchler. lie is a civil -
I service reformer of the right sort him- j
j self. He ha* a remarkable faculty of
{judging men. He would not select a
professor of Greek to drive a baggage
wagon nor an unlettered coal-heaver J
jto serve a* au interpreter. But be
will choose with judgment and exact
j a full measure of service from a!)
within his direction high and low. If
the public estimate of the < <>inisaion- j
cr* is discovered by inquiry to be tbe j
correct one Mr. Mutcbler will say so, ,
but the Verdict will not be avoided by .
neglect to give him the facts. Mr.
Raton ami hi* associate* may as well
look this matter in the face.
•M• -
'I nr Wrtl Chester HfpuMimn norni- (
uatea Gen. Beaver, of thi* place, as a •
candidate to succeed Don Cameron in
'he senate of the United State*. The j
].\ib!ir,in i* sensible, at leant, in pre
ferring brains and rapacity to political
chicane and trick.
C Jov. Ho A PLY ws quietly inaugu
rate,) at Columbus, Ohio, on Monday
UsL The absence of pomp and parade
on such occasion* is becoming popular
j for the reason, no doubt, that Beino
i cralsarol sensible men are being called
I to these positions now.
JOHN SHERMAN now po*e* a* ■
martyr. He was recently offered tbe
office of President iff the Northern
Pacific railmrd, tod asked to assures
the management at a salary qf $50,000.
He signalised kis martyrdom by de.
dining. With a Democratic legisla
ture in Ohio, he could not *ee hi*
course dear to prevent tbe dectioa of
a Democratic successor to the senate.
Tbi* would be awkard of course, in
view of ths small margin given to hi*
party in the seoate, but John wo*
equal to tbe occasion. He let tbe
$.50,000 go -all for tbe glory of tbe
g. o. p.
THE: bill presented by Senator Ed
munds te provide relief for the sur
vivoisof the Jcannetto expedition and
crew, and of tbe heirs of tbe deceased
member*, was prepared at the Navy
Department. It authorizes the Hecre
i Ury of tbe Tresvury to |ay to Chief
Rngineer Mellville mod Lieutenant
Daoenbouer each $1,000; to Ray
mond 8. Newcomb, naturalist, John
Cole, acting boatsman, W. T. C. Nio
dermsn, seaman, And Jos. H. Bartlett,
seaman, each $600; and to tbe re
mataing survivors, each $3OO. It also
authorise* tho payment of a sum equal
to salary of tbe deceased
members of tbe expedition and crew
LETTS' * - *•*
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* tk. .-■•SL'.A
Tin: Democrat, io the .-Anterii {.. it
of the .rate .re bringing the linn.
I Ksmucl J. Randall to tho front as a !
favorite candidate for President. A
| Democratic meeting in Philadelphia j,
i leads off, aud now Gen. Davis of the t
i Doyle*tow 11 Democrat, places his name | (
lat the head of his columns, and in an ,
! utile article gives his reason "for the j,
I faith that is in him." Mr. Randall'.* {|
distinction as a statesman of tried
merit nnd uncorrupted integrity i*
well earned suid universally acknowl- !
edged. The names of Gov. C'urtiu ,'
! and Senator Wallace have also been j'
favorably named for the Presidency. '
With such eminent statesmen—such | !
j unquestioned ability aud purity to ; 1
choose from, Pennsylvania, at k-aM, j '
can make un mi'k'* •" j 1
- m ■! > 1
Ohio's Now ciovornor. i
f'OL'-ani i, C., Jan. 14.—This afiei-
noon tbo Democrats were given com 1
| plele control of the stale government. ! '
1 being tbe first lime they have find en- j
' tire rharge of the public ntfl-es for over {
' twenty five years. The inaugural cere
monie* were performed in the rotunds f
of the eapitol. According lo the wish ,
! of Judge Hoadly, no great demonstra i
lions were made. On the platform , '
erected for the occasion were the judge. '
j of the supreme court and commission- .'
' representative* of the pre**, the mayor | *
' *nd city council, state officer# and siste i
officer* elect, except the governor, the (
| president of the senste, |>eker of the ; |
bouse of representative*. memter* of j j
the a.NeroUy and clergy. A committee
conducted the officer* elect ,
j to the front of the stand, where, after '
i pr*yer WM ofT-red, Governor Foster '
presented tbe new I*emocrstic gover '
| nor elect of Ohio to tbe |w*npl, tho i
delivered hu inaugussl address, in ; ,
| which he urged graduated taxation as :
tbe best remedy for the evils of tbe .
liquor bu*ine*, and holds tbat probibi
tion is out of the question s ineffective, i
Upon conclusion of the speech Chief i
, Justice Johnson, ol the supreme court, ] i
1 srose and administered the oath of:,
j office, when the g'-vernmenl of Ohio',
wi formally given to the I'emocracv I ,
Tbe heu'enmt governor received |he
oath of office in the supreme court ,
chamber, while the other executive j 1
•flicers were alminUtered the oath in 1
their respective departments.
A Ropubßcisn Picture.
ll
j The country hse been for twenty
three years under Republican rule. '
For eighteen years including the j
last two years, the Republicans held
full control, of both house* of Congress '
and tbe Krocutive. They have been 1 1
in a position to perfect just such legt# <
lation a# they desired Tbey could j
make any laws tbey wished, Nothing i ,
stood in their way. j.
Into what condition has Republican J
socslled statesmanship led the country?
Let one of the leading Republicans ;
answer- The Trtfmne, in reviewing the 1
past year, draws the following picture*
1883 has not been regarded as a good
year. From the outset it ho* lisd-a bad
reputatioe. It has been a year of uni
versal distrust and apprehension-
Rusiuns* men in the United State*
have plodded or staggered along from
month to month, oppressed with tbe
haunting thought that a panic WM in
pending. They have been over cau
tious and unduly suspicion*, and have
passed the year fighting shadows. • • •
Itradstreet reports 10,187 failures tbi*
yesir-about one third more Ibsn in
1882, about per cent, more than iu
1881 and 130 per cent, more than in
1880 '** There is complaint of dullness
io tba iron trade in this country, and
reduation of wages in thst and the cot
ton and woolen branches of manufact
urn i* in some quartar propos. >l. ** *
The shrinkage in volutno ol bwsinesw
bare, other than in stocks, will be close
to 20 per cent. For the whole year
188$, in compariaon with 1882, of which
- a part it due to decline in prices, but
probably more than half to compare
tire inactivity in trada.
What a revelation does this admit
•ion present of the result ol Republican
rule l-.Vrss York World.
— m
The reported engagement of Mary
Anderson (be actrm, and Lieut.
Dukes, of Portland, Oregon, mmrt be
a canard, a* no luch person a* Dukes '
| it known to be in existence.
—a ;v * - 'V •
TERMS: JftlJiO per Annum.in Admix*-
All Sort a
Wattemon, of the Courier Jovmn/
is after the printer* : "There are in
men who ought to Lave gone out with
the old year. Oue is the type-setter
who throw* in a com rim alter every
two words, and the other is a tyjw wt
ter who will not put in a comma stir
where. \\ hen tliese men die they will
both go to the same climate thai dead
proof reader* get iato."
KumeTOtf.Out., Jan. 9:—Ou Thurs
day last, William and .lohtjHjx •rwii'k f
of Home Island. left Clayton, .V. V.,
for home. A snow storm caiue i-t
aud losing their way they were sej ar
ated, John becoming exhausted du e *
hole in the snow and crept into it. lie
was found thenrxt day by some 15 b< r
man almost unconscious. He war l r
ribly Iroat-biltea aud when takcu In -rue
his feat and hand* dropped oT. Will
iam's body was found yesterday but id
in the snow.
St. Let ts, Jam. 13. —To-morrow t.
the day set for the trial ol Fi.uk
James lor what is ka in in the iiamlu
history as the Blue Cut roblie.v.
There is no certainly, however, that n
will ever be tried fnr this or anv o|i#-r
crime, for since his release on had.
some three weeks his health 1.0.
steadily failed, aud on Thursday lai
it was auuouueed ika: be wa. past , -
covery. He i nt tbe b<>nw ol I *
father-in-law, Col, .Sam Ualstou, o. >r
In J jsudiucc, wbero he isattended 1./
his wife and members of hsr fatul.
i'Alitr., Jan. 13.-—KI Mabdi damaisi.
two thousand pi.uads rana-uu for li%
nuns ami four p-iert* whom he hold,
in captivity. Tbe Austrian cou.ul i
"•king the merchant# to subscribe the
amount.
Tlie board of director* of the I'hil*
drlphia Zoological So, iety have d*t
ded not to aecejv. the giA of foO.OU I
offered by Mr. .Wpb L Temple on
condition that the gardgl should •.
open free to lb* public out- dav to each
week.
Hon. \\ I* llutbburn. prewiient ,f
tbe First National Bank of (Tatta
nooga, Tcnn., died yesterday. Mr.
fsathburn is well-lus>>n throughout
the country n* tbo> .leading capilali-i*
in his sect iota
The roof of theKumi bnuw of the
Ihdaware, We kaaanna and WiaUm
Railroad r.l Ih-koken. N. J. aa
crushed in yesterday by the weight ..f
the accumulated wow and ice. John
Jordan.au employe, was fa tail v in.
jured. Two anginetwere badly wrwk
od.
A gcn'Jeroan in Oreensboro hta of
fertd to donate two acres of ground
aod all the stone accessary to build a
factory if the striking glasublowem of
Pittsburgh will aw>ve to that town.
At Veast 4Q,otfc* men aae employ-*]
in the iroti interests of Pittsburgh,
while perhaps double thai number are
! dependent on the product of their la
• Iwr in the m)W tlf tbe milla now
! idle only Iwe have not dctermin- <1
when they will resume. All (ke nasi
! factories now idle will begin operations
again on tbe llth of February.
Homebody says that "igcora&ct'
may sometime* be "bliss," hut that
"Bliss" was certainty "ignorance," and
very gross igooraaoe, all the time in
the star route trial. That is one of
tbo New \ork Worl>ft smart saying.
Kvery man has 240 bones cxecept
the minstrel end man, who baa 244.
Tbe lungs, contain 175,000,000
cells. This it what makes man a prac
tical joker.
luul year 110 unknown dead per
sona were found in Philadelphia, and
the ooroner held 1,773 inquests. Tbtrw
were 20 murders and 100 suicides, and
the death rale of the oilv reached 2U,
000.
Tbe heart in its normal condition
beats aevcnlj-five times a minute, Ink
when a young man meets a pretty
girl at n party and stops tremblingly
to profler as escort home, the Dumber of
beat*—heart htti-lwitsflv mounts
--W Iff* <3 ;h ?ha-!c.
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