£l)c Centre mk Democrat.
S. T. NHUGERT A K. L. OBYIM, Editor*.
VOL. ().
Slit Crnttf democrat
Tar ma St. AO par Annum in Advance i
Thursday Moraine, January 31, 1884.
Gov. PATTISON ho* appointed W.
N. Hirst controller of Philadelphia,
to supply the vacancy by the
death of E. Harper Jt-ffrees.
THE dead lock in the Kentucky
legislature on the Senatorial fight, i*
still in full tide between Blackburn
aud Williams. It is thought that the
tide will eveutually drift in the direc"
lion of Bj>eaker Carlisle.
SENATOR SHERMAN think* it is al
most impossible to step from the Senate
to the Presidency. It will undoubted
ly bo a very heavy contract for him,
now that he ha* lost his "Eliza which
was a winning card iu placiug one
fraud in the Presidential office.
THE Trustees of the Pennsylvania
State College held a meeting on Fri
day last at Harrisburg, and appointed
Gov. Pattson, Professor. Alherton and
Mr. Higbee, superintendent of public
instruction, a committee to inquire
whether any change can be judiciously
made in the organization of the de
partment of public instruction, the 1
Committee to report at the next meet
ing of the board of trustee*.
Bus* obtained $lOO a day for his
services in prosecuting the star-route
thieves, but there are iboec who do
not scruple to believe that this is a
very small moiety of what he realized
from these cases from Imnk* and con
tractors who escaped prosecution by
having friends at court.
THE State Senate of Virginia pnned
a resolution Jan. 24th by a vote of 23
to 10 requesting Senator Mahone to
resign. The resolution goes to the
House of Delegate* where it will alo
pan by a large majority. The Re
publicans need not he uneasy. Their
little l>osa repudiate will not comply ,
with the wishes of his constituent*.
THE legislature of Virginia have
passed a biil to establish a borne for
destitute maimed soldiers of the south.
The bill provides a sum of &">,o<to per
annum for ten years, and 82,500 there- i
alter annually. West Virginia, Mary
land. Missouri and Keutucky are iu
cited to aid the undertaking and ap
point commissioner" in its management.
IT is interesting to know that the
expense* of running the stßte last year,
including the extra session of the leg
islature, was $250,000 less than the
preceding year when the Republicans
had entire control in all its depart
ments. Only for the obstructive and
revolutionary policy of the senate
under instruction of Don Cameron,
the saving would have been at least
half a million.
-TOINIINO from the intemperate
speech of Senator Edmunds the other
day, when he came down from the
Vice President's chair to insult the
southeran senators, the "congressional
tea" must have been unusually strong.
He is generally courteous, but on this
occasion he was pheoominally rongh
and unjust, and threw the "bloody
shirt" round with a looseness that
most have startled Sherman, if not
Logan, for the safety of their special
property in the "bloody shirt" boom
for the Presidency.
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Aw old cittxftn who retains a lively
recollection of the weather of 1832-
•ays that tho Jauuary of 1884 corres
ponds to it very closely, and that if
the February of this year has a par
ellel to that of 1832, we may expect
more disastrous floods ttis season than
the oldest inhabitant bas ever seen or
dreamed of. Tbe immense body of
snow on the ground and in the moun
tains, and tbe great My of ice on
the streams, more than gives plausi
bility to tbe fears of oar friead, and it
might not be out of place to prepare
for tho worst at exposed points. If
does not come, all tho better.
T % I
IVTMOKM have been floating ronuii
thai Governor l'attisnn woul<l make
I another effort to carry out the consti
' tutiou in the matter of apportionment,
by calling the legislature again into
session. We don't believe a word o'
it. He has cuough of that legislature.
THE Judges of Oregon, even the
Justice of the Supreme Court get but
s'2,oo<) a year. This would only be a
moderate compensation for a country
justice of the peace iu this country,
who never heard of Coke or lilack
; stone. The legal profession there
! must bo of the cheap order or only
practice law as an amusement, while
' they make the ducats in politics and
! trade.
THK. Democratic .State committee
> met at llarri.hurg on Thursday last,
and was largely attended by the best
working Democrats io the State. The
proceedings of the committee was
highly interesting and very harmoni
ums. The active and intelligent men
thus coming to the front in the man
agement of the approaching campaign
gives a-suranee, that it will not he
one of sloth or blunder. The merited
| unanimous re-election of Chairman
1 Hensel is guarantee of this.
The committee np|M>iutcd Lebanon
| as the place of holding the Stale con
vention, and tixed the date of its as
sembling for the '.tth day of April.
Ex SPEAKER KEIFER of the House
is under fire to explain some of the
dirty trausactions of the la*l Congress
which has returned to trouble him
now. At the close of the last session
of that Congress he required the re
signation of a competent expert steno
grapher in the employ of the House,
in order that he might appoint hi.
nephew to draw the salary, amounting
to over $3,G00, during the recess. It
i uppcar, the nephew had no knowledge
of the art, and was entirely incapable
of rendering any service a an equiva*
! lent for the monpy thus fraudulently
obtained from the Treasury. The ex-
Speaker is clearly in a hole from which
he cannot extricate himself.
"IK you elect Hancock you choose
pan JST wages, idleness and the poor
■ house, hut if you elect Garfield, you
will get higher wages, steady work
and prosperity." Such were the word.
; addressed to the workiugmen and
placarded on the manufactories pre
ceding the Inst Presidential election.
Under the inspiration of these decep
tive assurances and tho protection
fraud so often played upon their fear,
the laboring men were rallied to the
Republican standard, and what has
been the result ? With a Republican
in the Presidential office and Republi
can* controlling every department of
goverment and every act of congress,
it is now in order for the working man
to inquire bow about the promises
given—where is the higher wage*, the
steady work and prosperity ? In what
part of the country has the promises
been verified? Notwithstanding that
a high protective tariff has been in
existence all the time and is still in
existence, every where laboring men
have been worked upon half time and
wages falling regularly from Maine to
Oregon. Why ia this? Working men
will do well to do a little thinking for
themselves, and it may occur to them
that their happinees is not entirely
dependent upon the success of a party
whose legislation ia ao entirely in the
interact of monopoly, that they are
incapable of discriminating in favor
of labor, or keeping good faith in their
promises.
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JODOK SIMONTO* of the Dauphin
county court, baa given a decision in
the matter of the mandamus applied
for tome lime ago by A Homey-General
Caaaidy to compel the board of ifak
ing Fond ComaiaaioMve to invert the
fnnda ia securities in acoordnnos with
the Humes law. The Bute Treasurer
and Auditor-General who compose the
majority of the board, took exoeptiona
to th# Jurisdiction of the court and
I employed counsel to stave off the case
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'*KtjUAL AMD KX ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MIX, OF WHATEVER STATE OH 1-RKSUASIOM, KKI.IOIOL'S OR roLITICAL.J*ff<-,
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1884.
' until last week, when tho judge over
! ruled tho objection aud uffirmed the
i jurisdiction of the court. This course
was adopted by tho Treasurer and
Auditor-General not from any doubt
of tho authority of tho court or their
own duty under the law, but purely to
gain time to enable tho parlies who
had these funds in use in speculation
to restore them to the custouy of the
officer* who should have had them iu
baud, instead of loaned out to ohtniu
a percentage to which they were not
entitled in honesty or decency as
against the people of the state. Rut
the object was attained by the delay-
The rogues got their percentage iu the
mean time, and are now prepared to
gather up the money of the sinking
fund and comply with the mandates
of the law.
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THE investigation of the marshal*
now iu progress by Mr. Springer's
committee, continues to grow in inter
est. Every day some new rogue turn*
up who has been allowed to rob the
government and escape with the plun
der. The last is Governor Murray <>f
Utah. lit? was marshal of Kentucky
before he was appointed Governor of
Utah, and a# such tetious charge*
-tood against him reflecting u(M>n his
official rectitude. This dark record,
it is said, has laid conccaleei in the
I h-partment of Justice year after year,
und the present investigation ha* un
earthed facts that require satisfactory
explanation of the Governor of Utah
a duty he cannot evade.
CERTAINLY General .Sherman ha*
uo Presidential bee in his bonnet, says
'be I'itlehurgh He told a friend
la-fore leaving Washington last Mon
day that if he wa nominated by ac
clamation and received the electoral
vote of every state in the Union he
would still decline. He looked foi
ward for the remnant of h> Java l-< n
life of comfort and cae, and an entire
freedom from care or worry of any
kind. He thought it would he the
supremest kind of folly for him to he
tempted by the bauble of the Presi
dency to enter the White House and
have four years of Mrife, contention'
irritation ntfd criticism to encounter.
To accept the Presidency would ne
cessitate bis retiring from the army
and at the end of four years he would
be remanded to private lite just like
Grant, who was trying to earn a living
in the precarious occupation of a
broker in Wall street. Tbe office of
President, General Sherman said, was
surrounded with so much that wa*
difficult,ao much that was unpleasant,
so much that was unsatisfying, that
before long instead of men of high
character and statesmanship seeking
for it the trouble would be to induce
them to accept. "No," said be, in
conclusion, "people may believe it or
not, just as they please, but there is
and can be no possible contingency
which would induce me to think for
ODU moment of taking tbe office.'' This
is commended to those who discredited
the sincerity of Gov. Tilden's declina
tion.
ROME of the senators who recently
voted against the ratification of the
treaty between tbe United Rtates and
Mexico, excuse their votas on the
ground that Geo. Grant who repre
sented the United States, and Romero
who represented Mexico in forming
the treaty were partners, and possessed
some railroad interests in common. A
bad excuss is perhaps better than no
excuse at all. Even if the ratification
of the treaty intended to facilitate
commerce and trade between tbe two
governments, should also benefit Grant
■nd Romero, the commissioners, where
would be tbe harm ? That was to be
expected, and they should be allowed
to prosper with the prosperity of tkeir
respective countries without let or
hindrance. Geo. Grant, however, has
sufficiently dignified the silly excuse of
the senators giving such a reason for
their action,J>y a public doaial that
heand the Mexican commissio—r had
any business connection, of that they
possessed auy interest hi Chi treaty,
except as it "would hcrtUfif the two
republics and esiabjhk Jhjpt>'>sn
osght to exist.*' £ jk
Tho Blair Educational Bill.
IT WILL ME REROUTED FAVORAIILY
TO THE HKXATE EARLY Till* WEEK.
The Senate Committee on Education
I took up the Blair Educational hill
last week and approved, with slight
amendment, all the leaturcs except
that relating to (he manner of distri
buting the money to be appropriated.
Upon this point the Southern mem
bers of the committee urged that the
fund should he distributed through
the State authorities, instead of by
Eederul officials, a* provided iu the
hill. Mr. Blair expressed anxiety to
have the hill reported aud a willing
ness to modify this feature. He was
thereupon authorized by the unanimous
i vote of the committee to draft a pro
! vision covering this feature and report
it to the Senate early this w<t-k, mem
bers of the corn mi Hue reserving a
: right to amend the provision if it did
j not suit them.
The bill n it will lie reported pro'
; vid<> for the appropriation of fifteen
million dollars the first year, deereas.
ing one million each year thereafter
for ten years. The provision of the
hill which authorizes the teaching of
I industrial arts in the schools to be
I established ha* la-en so auu-uded n* to
j make it mandatory when practicable.
Any State not accepting the pro
i visions of the act, nor acquiring or
| retaining the right to dispose of its
allotment, the same shall become a
| part of the general fund for distribu- ,
lion among the other Stales and Tir*
■ ritories.
Two Reform Bllla
We learn from the Washington /W
that Messrs. Morrison and llewett of
the Way* and M< ans committee, will j
each submit tariff schemes to tbe com j
1 mittee. Mr. Hcwctl's report will
consist largely of a comparison of
rat-* Ttl tabula,- form with th* recom
mendation that the lowest rate be
| adopted. It will give the figure-* of
■ the tariff as it exist*, of the Tarifl
Com mission hill, of the House bill of
last year, of the Senate Tariff hill and
of the tariff a* it stood before the latest
j change.
Mr. Morrison's report will recom
mend a short bill providing for a hori
zontal reduction of from fifteen to
twenty five per cent, in the average,
j wiih large additions to the free list,
particularly in raw materials. He
said regarding hi* hill : "I have
not written a word yet, hut I can
I finish it in twenty minutes." He
I further Mated that he was waiting to
ascertain the amount of reduction io
revenue that would be effected by the
proposed changes, and alao to examine
Mr. Hewitt's schedule. Experts arc
at work on both bills.
Mr. Morrisoo thinks the result will
be a practical agreement between Mr.
Hewitt and himself on the main fea
tures. "Thoae,'* said he, "who are
talking about the paralysis of the
Ways aud Means committee are mis
taken. Before I draft my bill I want
to find oat exactly what the figure*
and effect will be of what I propose."
IT is explained by the New York
•Vun that the Republican party's equi
vocal attitude toward Mabone grows
out of Mr. Blaine's hostility to bim.
Blaine sees that if the party were to
acknowledge Mahone fully, and there
by silence the clatter of the Blaine
Republican papers, tbe Southern dele
gations would at once take tbe Vir
ginian as their leader, and follow him
into tbe Arthur camp, if one should
be established. Bat with Mahone on
tbe ragged edge of tho party, admit
ted when his vote is wanted, but
shouldered away like a poor relation
when he claims a right to the family
name. The Republicans of the South
are put on their guard against bim.
A contesting delegation will go from
Virginia to challenge bis right to be
considered a member ef tbe party.
Then will come the final struggle be
tween the Blaine-Garfield forces on
Ibe one side and all who favor South
am coalition movements on the other.
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Democratic Duty.
it is a pleasure to note, says the
I'nion Ijeader, that the Democratic
'journals generally, instead of ignoring
the Tariff question, as is by a few ad
i vised, are devoting themselves to fully
(explaining and emphasizing the fact
that tbe issue between the parties as
far as formulated, is uol whether we
shall have protection or free trade,
hut a* to whether we shall have a pro-
I tnhilory tarifl for surplus and inouo-
I poly, or a tariff for revenue with such
incidental protection only as is es-en
j tial to the maintenance of fair rates of
wages iu industries embarrassed by
foreign competition and whoso en
couragement is conducive to a proper
| Jevclopement of our natural rcorce*.
Democratic newspapers car. lie at 110
hi tier work than that of making this
explanation, proving it* corrertnes
and forcing the facts home to the
knowledge of their reader*. The RE
publican party is no more a protec
tion and uo less a free tru le party
than the Democratic party. The dif
ference i* that the former aim at the
highest tariff possible, because that is
! to the intr rest of the monopolists whose
money they uc to keep them in power,
while the Democrats aim at the lea*t
protection that will answer the pur
]* for the sake of the working pco
pie whose iu'crests tin y are pledged to
*crve and whose vote* they want to
put them in power. It i the little
game of the R< publican press, of j
' cour*e, to hide ihc-e truths and distort
i the issue, but it it a little game they
cannot successfully play, if their Di in
| octatic coo temporaries continue alive
to their duties in the premises.
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An Indian Agent's Coatljr Error
Mr. fiffiny, who w an Indian
• gent in New Mexico in 1881, testified
hefore the |{ >ue Committee on Ex
pendi'ueea in the Department of Ju*i<--
veterdar, that he had submitted are
port to the Department of the Interior
containing an error of #l2. II*m
afterward* arrested in New York and
taken to th Territory for trial, hut his
cae so never tried. Mr. TifTny
•aid there were ten iri-l clnients against
turn. The prosecotion, however, could
never secure the necessary witness to
convict him. He estimated hi* expen
aes in appearing for trial at between
fire and six thousand dollar*.
A Blackmailer.
Washington, January 20—A curious
fct i re|jrtcl by Kx<miaer JUllin of
the Ih-partment of Justice, in conncc
lion with the examination of the ao
oniinta of tbe late United Slate*
Marshal Hell, of Western,l'enna)lvania.
Tbe discovery of the irregularity in bis
accounts was made by the attempt of
one of Hall's deputies to blackmail the
Marshal. Tbit Deputy, it appears, saw
the loose manner in wh -ch the Marshal's
business was being conducted and in
vestigated on his own book enough to
find out there was short some $9O.
000. He said be had no desire to get
Hal! ioto trouble and would say noth
ing about it if paid $lO,OOO. This was
the first knowledge the Marsh al had
of hia own shortage, and it ia considered
highly creditable to him a* an honest
man that be indignantly rejected the
offer, saying in effect that if he had
been (pending the Government fnnda
he didn't doit knowingly and would
not now begin by paying hush money.
The deputy threatened, bat Mr. Hall
snapped bis fingers at him. The result
waa the blaokmailer immediately in
formed tbe deportment and an examiner
was sent to Pittebargh to investigate
the case, which, as has been published
found out a shortage of $150,000. Ex
aminer Ballio cays that Hall was very
much affected by the discoveries, and
waa apparently more astonished than
anybody elee. The matter to worked
upon bim thet it waa feared that he
might commit suicide, and a watch was
•et upon bim to prevent any suoh un
fortunate occurrence. He wee, without
knowing it, closely watched all sum
mer because of this supposition, nod It
ia yet feared that bit reason may be
oome so clouded a* to prompt bim to
take hia own life.
GET your Job Work done fit the
CENTRE DEMOCRAT office.
TERMS: $1.50 per Annum,ln Adtunre.
All Sorts.
Don't disappoint Logan. It in all
the Presidential capital he has.
Dame wa* found frozen stiff in
; Butler county on Sunday la-l.
Tlie Washington Port suggests that
Alaska bo made a penal colony.
, Oregon e*(ecU an increase of 40,•
00*) iu its population this jear.
I he Pittsburgh Port want* no more
extra session* of the legislature.
No le*s than 165,000 human beings
have been trausporn d to Liberia dur
ing the past ten year#.
Ex-Governor Hendricks, who i* now
in Pari*. write* that hi* health is much
belter than when he left thj* country,
i Ihe lilrel suit of .Jonathan Meek
against the PoUavilie Mm ere' Journal
lor $ i,ooodamage*, r<suited vettndiy
in u Vfnlici lr not? etui
A Bilk farm has been isiuhlirhed in
Powhatian county, Virginia, lv &
number of French families. Anoiher
one will noun beataiu.il in North Caro
lina.
Over fifty acre* of surface ground
has cracked iu the vicinity nl I'ieaa
ant \ alley, Luzerne county, owing to
the pr ij* in old t(a] working* having
given way.
"The Friend* of Religious and
Political Liberty" urc holding a con
vention in Lideaville,Crawford county,
for the purpose of celebrating Paiue'a
birthday.
It is report*<i that hor*< anil rait 14
*'*t of the Mt-'iina River iu T> xas
are dying hy hundred# fir want of
gn**. Owners are driving their stock
Smth.
Ex-Governor Litcher, of Virginia,
died at Lexington iat week. He was
for many v-ar* a member of congress,
and a very promiucut Democratic
leader in his state.
A negro in Wvtbe county, Virginia,
has iieeu found guilty of murder in
the first degree by a jury rtiin|mwi|
exclusively of colored men. No chance
there to wwve the "bloody shirt."
Bv a German statistician the 425,-
000,000 Christiana on the giob<-, aru
divided into 21 •"> OOO.OtTJ Roman
Gat hoi ICS, 122.00U.U00 Prutt*Mnu,*o,-
000.000 adherent* of the Greek church
aud 8,000,000 of other churches.
The resolution passed in the Vir
ginia senate a lew nay* ago, requesting
General Mahonc to resign h * satin
the I uited S'ates senate, came up in
the House of Delegates aud was agreed
to without debate.
Mr. D. R. Locke (Nasby , who is
writing letter* from the South ay:
"If I was twenty five years old and
had $l,OOO to start life with, I had
rather risk my chances iu Atlanta tbaa
any city its the world."
English trade ha* sulT- red from
farmers holding their win at for higher
prices, but nevertheless there wcrs
fewer buincs* failures in that country
in 1883 than in 1882.
The Hon. John C. New has resigned
the office of Assistant .Secretary of the
Treasury and returned to Indiana.
Mr. New expected to he Secretary of
the Treasury, but Fnlger was not
elected Governor of New York, aud
was too stubborn to resign or die.
Mr. Allison, of lowa, ia tbe only
senator thus far re-elected this wiuber
to succeed himself. He thus enter*
upon his third term without opposition
in his own party and with the con
tinued good will of even the opposi
tion.
When Mr. Fred Douglass declared
thirty years ago "that if a black mat*
burnt his feet by marrying a wbit®
woman, be must expect to stand upon
tbe blisters," it did not occur to th
dusky orator that be would be walk
ing upon blisters in bis old age. Bui
such ia life.
General G. W. C. Lee baa paid t9
tbe Alexandria County Supervisor*
tbe war tax due on tbe Arlington ee*
tate, amounting to $2,600, leaving th
United Stale* Government still owing
him 122,500 retained of tbe purchase
money.
_ Mrs. A. B. Shea, formerly of Nc*
York city, who had buried two hue
bands and three children, committed
suicide in Bradford, Saturday, because
George N. Howard, a widower of thai
place, refused to marry her.
If tbe congressmen who are taking
an opportunity to shake tbe bloody
shirt in tbe discussion of the FitiJohm
Porter bill think they have tbe taasa
of tbe Republican part* with then*
they are Tcry much mistaken.—Ai-
Itxma Tribmms.
Senator Lamar is said by bis Missi*-
cippi friends to be one of the few poor
men in tbe United States Senate. Of
lata years moat of bit salary baa gone
to pay old debts, obligations of a na
ture that only a man of wrapuleue
integrity would think of paying.
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