®l)f iCrntrr flrmorrat.
S. T. SHIGERT & E. L. OIiVIS, Editors.
• VOL. 6.
1 iht Ctnfte democrat.
Twai Sl.ftO par Annum In Advance
Thursday Moraine, February 7, 1884.
A COMMITTEE of the Window Glass
Workers association from Pittsburgh,
visited Washington last week with a
petition containing 75,000 signatures,
asking the passage of the bill to pre
vent the importation of foreign con
tract labor.
ALTHOUOH great effort has been
made to induce the Hon. Eckly It
('/OX, of W ilkesharre, to reconsider his
incision, he positively declines to be a
candidate for re-electioa to the senate
fjom the Tweuty-first district. This
will be a subject of sincere regret to
the people of the state.
FUKD DOUGLASS receives uuy
amount of indignant ju-otest from hi"
colored brethren for mixing with
"white trash," when there were so
many attractive belles of his own color,
who would gladly have contributed to
his happiness and the care of his
jdathoric bank account.
Boss QUAY IS very clear and satis
factory when he couveys the informa
tion that the Pennsylvania Republican
delegation to the National convention
will vote for Arthur, Edmunds, Logan,
Vmcolu or some other man. That
%)me other man" is probably a dark
that Matt may be grooming for
jJP occasion. Is his name Don ?
A FAT CIEKKHHIP 1 A committee
•if the New York legislature develops
the fact that County Clerk Keenan, of
|the city of New York, has an annual
income from hit office of gR2,000. He |
admits a net income from searches of
$66,000, salary 13,000 and other pea-
of 13,700. He objects of
.-,.<urs to any changes in the manage,
mcnt of the office.
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THE Patriot authoritatively settles
the question upon which the Republi.
can papers have been exercising tbem-
Jive* lately, that the Governor con.
mpl&ted calling auolher extra session
Mf the legislature. There will he no
lecial session. It was not thought of
t discussed by the Governor or hi
friends, hoftMr gratifying sueh a
thing might be to the 110 a day c<>rp
of patriots in Re senate.
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THE Dsmocrats of the I nited
State Senate possessed a little too
much gpod sense and sound judgment
to uflow Sherman and Mahone to in
veigle them into their "bloody shirt
trap." 'Sherman baited well, fully up
to his best efforts, when "Eliza Pinker
ton" was his inspiration, but tho Dem
ocratic senators treated him with con
tempt, and hia"b!oody shirt" campaign
for 1884, fell as flat and harmless as
his dead Eliza.
NOTWITHSTANDING his admonition
to another, Bora Quay talks and dumb-
Aunds some of his most ardent party
admirers by his talk, when he admits
kat there should be considerable
odificationa in the tariff laws. Be
careful, Mattl The senatorial elec
tion is sometimes uncertain and result
in the promotion of very insignificant
men. This ia no time for a Republi
can to be honest even if heroes acci
dentally catch a glimmer of tbat
virtue. "DonT talk."
CARLISLE on Saturday bad an arri
val of fifty-two Apache and ten Puebla
children to enter the Indian school at
tbat place to commence their educa
tion. They are accompanied by four
of toe Apache chiefs, who will remain
at the school a few days and then
proceed to Washington. Tbe addi
tion of these pupils raises tbe number
of students to between 400 and fiOO
representing many different tribes-
The advancement of the students in
(We schools are represented as very
flphfactory, and but little doubt now
mcists that the right method has at
BMMS been adopted to settle tho vexed
Awkfot of Indian civilization.
Our Improvement#
Railroad construction is the absorb
ing interest in this locality, and it is a
source of regret to us that we have
not had time since the sickness ami
absence of our juuior, to gather such
information of the progress of the
various works as would be desirable to
our readers, but we hope before long
to make amends for the omission. The
most important work now in progress
is the Vauderbilt line which passes up
Beech Creek, traversing Snow Shoe
and Rush townships in this county t
ami the county of Clearfield, and will
be intersected by the Buffalo Run road
from this place at Beech Creek. These
roads which have already made rapid
strides towards completion, wilt, when
complefed, bring into active market
the coal deposits of those districts with
the inexhaustible iron beds of this
county, besides settling and populating
: a large scope of country heretofore
j destitute of these facilities. Already
■ this fact is becoming apparent along
' the line of Beech Creek where settle
ments are made, and a respectable
town has sprung up as if by nfagic
within the last year, and is increasing
, rapidly. It is named in honor of Ex-
Senator Peale, who represented us so
acceptably in the State Senate a few
years ago. It is a compliment well
deserved a- it was to his energy
and public spirit, in connection with
our present distinguished Senator
Wallace, that the people arc largely,
if not mainly indebted for the great
improvement now in progress. Again
work has been commenced and is in
progrcra by the Pennsylvania com
pany for building a road from Belle
ibnte to Lemont, which is intended to
connect with the road from Lewisburg
on the Susquehanna through Peons
valley. This is another important
connection which should have bean
nllkde years ago in justice t<>our PeHos
'valloy friend- who contributed so
'liberally to its accomplishment. We
are glad now to have the opportunity
j to congratulate our patient friends on
the certainty of Us completion at an
early day.
IF any other evidence were wanting
then the contempt meted out to Ma
hone and Sherman by the Democratic
senators, to prove that the late effort
of these worthies to inaugurate a
"bloody shirt" campaign for the Presi
dential election, is destined to end in
discomfiture, it is given by influential
Republican journals, who -peak for
decent Republicanism throughout the
country. The Utiea Herald has this
to say : "The solid South is, in it
essence, chiefly an organized protest
against Federal interference with the
internal affair* of tbe Southern States."
The Rochester Po*i-KsprtM signifi
cantly says: 'No mention was made
of the 'Southern question' in Presi- 1
dent Arthur's last message. We are
also of opinion that in bis inaugural
President Garfield said something
very like this: 'Enterprise* of the
highe*t importance to our moral and
material well being invito us and offer
ample scope for the employment of
our best powers. Let all our people,
leaving behind tbem tbe battlefields of
dead issues, move forward, and in the
strength of liberty and restored Unioo,
win tbe grandest victories of peace.'
Garfield and Arthur ought to be pretty
good authorities on such a point."
The war irauee are past and Sher
man, at least, ought to have tbe capa
city to discern tbat tbe existing busi
ness and social relations between the
two sections are an effectual bar to the
"blood and thunder" denunciations of
tbe Southern people, because some
rogues ply their villainous methods
there, as ihey do to a very large ex
tent here in tbt North.
MA HONK'S aim, be of hip-pocket
notoriety in tbe Virginia riots, baa
been given a place in tbe senate, su
perceding an experienced and respeota.
bie official. Tbis ia civil service in
the senate. . :
"X|UAL AND XXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MXN, OF WHATXYKR STATS OX FKXPVAAION, KBtlOloe* OX POLITICAL.JW.rot.
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1884.
THE G. A. R. of the department of
Pennsylvania is to be held in Laucax
ter, on the sixth and seventh of this
month. Great preparation has been
made for this meeting, and it is ex
pected to be very largely attended.
WENDELL PHILLIP*, the world re
nowned lecturer and orator, died at
his residence in Boston on Sunday
last of heart disease. He was in his
seventy-third year. His career has
been that of a reformer, and has oer
tainly tilled a prominent part in form
ing the history of the country.
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THE reveoue officers at Philadel.
phia, it is announced, have discovered
; irregularities'at twelve distilleries in
| Lehigh county. Stamps uncancelled
and casks tilled with liquor without
j lieing stamped. These operators do
, not appreciate laws that place stamp*
| upon their industries.
THE distiibution of the eastern
mail the other day was not made
strictly in accordance with the rcgula
-1 tious of the post-office department,
when it was scattered along the rail
road for a distauce of seventeen miles
1 between Huntingdon and Altoona-
The mail pouch thrown from the fast
train at Huntingdon struck a snow
bank, was caught up by the wheels of
the car and carried aloug and de
stroyed with the principal part of their
content*. Registered letters and pack
ages were found along the track rilled
of their contents.
THE Democratic State committee at
their recent meeting in Ilarrisburg,
cl.-cUb an executive committee com
posed of the following gentlemeu :
W. P. Harrity, of Philadelphia, R. P.
Allen, of Williamsport, H. S. Packer
of Mauch Chunk, B. F. Myers, of
Harrisburg, W. 1. Brennan, of Pitta
burgh, Richard Coulter, t>F Westmore
land and E. A. HtgW, of Clearfield.
TBE>ablo and experienced Democrats
co-operating actively with the live and
energetic head of the Htalc committee,
is an earnest that the Democratic
party in Pennsylvania will not fail
from inefficient presentation of the
issues involved in the campaign of
IHM.
THE work of restoring the stolen
acra- of the public domain to the
ownership of tiio government has l>e< n
commenced in Congress, and it is to
be hoped will he continued, so far as
restoration is still possible, Mr. Cobb,
chairman of tho committee on Public j
Lands, on Friday last called up two
hills which were passed. The first.
forfeiting all the unearned land grants
to railroad corporationa in Mississippi,
Alabama, Iyouisiana and Arkansas,
amounting to many thousand acres
The second forfeit# the grant to the
Texas Pacific railroad. Involving 15,- I
ODO/MK) acres situated in New Mexico,
Arizona and California, and ia claimed
on behalf of the Southern Pacitic on j
a consolidation of the two roads. Mr.
Barr, of Pennsylvania, past the only
vote in the House against the passage
of the bill, and may be considered the
champion of the fraud, if not the
attorney of the lobby now in Wash
ington protesting.
THE latest rumors of cabinet changes
at Washington sends Attorney-General
Brewster to France and places Mor
ton, the minister he snooeeds,' in the
offioe of Secretary of the Treasury,
and lands Secretary Folger in the
office of Attorney-General. These
changes are pronounced jndidons by
the press. Morton, it is believed will
be an able and capable guardian of
the Treasury, whose appointment will
please and restore Conkling to good
temper. Folger is an accomplished
lawyer, and will probably have some
old fashioned ideas of honest manage
ment of the Department of Justice,
while Brewster can flourish ia frills
and exccntricity in the French Re
public to bis heart's content, and
a reasonably creditable repreaeolapra.
• Irr your Job Work done at the Can#
TXB DaaocßAT. Jm
' < KeF • -ffj JkiiM
Justlco to Gen. Porter
The bill for the relief of Gen. Fitz
John Porter pawed the House of Rep
resentatives on Friday laid, by a vote
of 184 to 78, after eloquent speeches
from Ex-Governor Curtiu, and M<w*r-
Phelps, of New Jersey, and Wood fort,
of Keutucky, in the interest of justice
and right. Gov. Curtin is briefly re
ported as saying: "He knew Fit*
John Porter, and in the beginning of
the war that the general was the most
enlightened and ardeut advocate of
military discipline. The record would
i show one significant fact, corning not
|so much from the living as from the
graves of the dead. The first citizens
who asked for a redress of his wrongs
were Horace Greeley, Henry Wilson
and himself. (Certainly the fidelity of
those persons to the Union could not
lie questioned. Porter had never ap
proached him to ask him to be his
advocate. He was pained to hear a
distinguished member of the house
| (Keifer), over and over again say
that Porter was a coward. Before j
j God he never knew a Porter who was
a fool or a coward [applause.] He I
, never before came across a man who
had the termity to say that Porter was
u coward and he would never hear it j
again. He gave an interesting history
of the movements of the army of the
Potomac in the Iteginning of the war
and nearly every member in the bouae
stood in a circle around him and fro- i
tjucntly applauded his remarks. He
dwelt upon the services rendered to j
his country by Fit* John Porter and
ridiculed General Pope's proclamation j
which he declared rattled and glittered
with generalities. If Gen. Porter had j
violated orders, if he hail treated hia
superior officer with disrespect or con
tempt, it was the duty of that superior ,
to have taken away his eosigu of rank
immediately and put bun under arrest -
Referring to the fact that Cute boon,
of Michigan, had eliminated Ijrcra the
record his imputation (jcncrsl
Grant, he congratulated gentle
man upon the good taste which he had
exhibited, and that between the time
of the delivery of the speech and pub
lication of it ho had had time to re
pout. He criticised the speech of Mr.
Ilorr, of Michigan, for its expression
of the opinion that no ex-confederate
should vote upon this bill, and took it
for granted thAt the mvu who, in error,
but in the belief that they were right,
had fought in the great war were lietter
men than rjuartermaters, paymaster*,
sutlers and contractors. [Laughter.]
In a brilliant perorialion, which was
warmly applauded, he appealed to the
house to do justice to a wronged man,
and at the conclusion of bis speech he
was heartily congratulated by his
friends.
Aw exchange speaking of the death
of Harry F. Packer, which took place 1
at his residence in Mauch Chunk on
Friday last, remarks: "There has
been a strange fatality in the Packer
family writhio a fsw years. Judge Asa
Packer, the heed of the family and
founder of the Lehigh Valley railroad j
system, rounded out bis three-score and
ten years with his faculties unabated,
but since his death both his sons and
bis wife have followed him to the City
of the Silent, and both sons died child
less. The only lineal heirs of the
large Packer estate now living, are
Mies Mary E. Packer, the only sur
viving child, and the children of Dr.
Linderman. Only six years ago Judge
Facker celebrated hia golden wedding,
with the venerable minister who had
married him fifty years before, and bis
sons and their wives and his daughter
present. Now father, mother and sons
have paaed away, and but one of a
family of five remains to mourn those
who have gone before. Harry E.
Packer, who died on Friday, was one
of the few millionaries of the laod
wbojeroploywl wealth in all channels
oUtaMficcoce." The deceased at the
tnue of bis death was a member of
tbo democratic Executive committee
of Uti state.
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MIL MOUIHON, chairman of the-Ways
and Means committee, completed his
tariff bill on Monday and introduced
it in the House on the call of stales.
It makes a reduction of 20 per cent,
on numerous articles, which in some
CAM* the reduction is greater or less
thau this rate, and provide* that there
shall be no lower rate than in the
Morill act of 1861. The title of the
bill is "An act to reduce import duties
and war tariff taxes." We may now
expect that the great struggle of the
j session commences in earnest.
The Washington Pout *ay* of the
bill: "It would be impovible for any
man to prepare a tariff bill that would
,give universal satisfaction, indeed,
: so difficult is the work of tariff" revis
ion, so varied and conflicting the in
terests involved, and so discordant the
1 view* of even those who agree on eer
lain general principles of tariff taxa
tion, that one may almost say that no
man can make a tariff that would be
altogether satisfactory to any other
: man.
The hill introduced by Mr. Morri
son yesterday and referred to the Ways :
and Means committee, will, we are
confident, meet with a* little opposition
as would be encountered by any
schedule intended to effect such reduc
tion of revenue a* i* now imperatively
demanded.
All tbe protection afforded by tbe
Morrill tariff of 1861 jg provided for
in the Morrison bill. Almost twenty
year# after the war, and when the
people are being taxed to the extent
of about a hundred millions a year
more than the Government has any
proper use for, it would seem to lie 1
high time to do what this bill proposes
—"To Redocc War Tariff" Taxes."
It may be said in favor of this hill
that it is intended to insure the relief
falsely promised by the present tariff"; i
also that it is not unnecessarily aggros I
sive in any direction—aiming to make
the requisite and indispensable rcduc* |
lion of income with the leat possible 1
disturbance of our industries.
We believe that about all of the ad- '
ditions to the free list will be approved
by the committee, by the House and
by the people.
The committee will give roost care
ful consideration to every feature of
the hill, and will make changes where ]
good reasons may he shown therefor.
Mr. Morrison doe* not claim perfec- i
tion for this measure, and will i.e glad
to lie show n how it ran be made bettor."
Gov. HOADLY, of Ohio, declare*
himself in favor of Senator I'ayno for (
I'irsident. Of course! He's an Ohio
man 1
COL. T. B. MARTIN, a well known
lawryer of Wilkesbarre, in a public lee.
lure. Siturday, asserted that the people
had a right to petition Congress to prs
vent the importation to tkia country of
Hungarian and pauper labor by corpora
tions and wealth, tbat their coffers may
grow (at regardlera of tbe condition and
welfare of the American cititen. 'To
day," aaid the speaker, "many of our
mines are running on half time, and
the ore mines of Reading are paying
but aixty five cents a day, and many
families are destitute in consequence.
Whet ia the oause? The cause ia Hun
garian and pauper labor brought into
oompetition with tbe labor of men wbo
demand fair wagee tbat tbey can live in
daoeacy and not in infamy and diagraoe,
as do tba pauper laborers of Europe.
Ry virtue of this cheap labor tbe
markets are glutted with an over-pro
duction of manufaotare# of all kinds."
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A New Yorker fbr President.
The New York Star is n pertina
cious advocate of the proposition that
tbe Democratic candidate fbr Presi
dent should be taken from New York.
It Memoes that the electoral vote of
that State is esmntial to the suooess of
tbe party, and claims that it ia a euro
Democratic State when its vote ia
brought out, adding an admitted fact,
tbat the recent accession* of former
Republicans to tbe Democratic ranks
ia more noticeable there ibn else
where.
Tbe Albany TVme# finds objections
urged againat either Tilden or Sey
mour, by those pho, nevertheless, con
cede tbat, if there be a man who, on
TERMS: $1.50 per Annum,ln Advance.
the Democratic ticket, can carry New
York, that man rhould be made the
candidate. To thin implied inquiry
our contemporary )al named offere
the following lint :
GROVER CLETEUIIi,
RoMWKLL P, FIXIWIB,
HKNKY W. SLOCVM,
FRAMCIA KKRNAN,
AHRAM S. HEWITT,
EttArrt a RROOKH,
CALVIN E. PRATT,
ERARTLH CORNING,
WILLIAM DOBHHI£UKK P
SAMUEL 8. COX,
AIXKN C. BKAF.-H,
WILLIAM C. RUOER,
GEORGE B. BRALLBY,
HOMKB A. NELKON.
The Star says : "Borne of the gen
tlemen named in thin list would cer
tainly carry the Mate, if nominated ;
and there are many other able and
deserving Democrat*, not embraced on
the nbove roll, who would prove
equally strong if brought to the front."
The Wilkesbarre f
freely confesses its inability to decide
for itself as yet which of the galaxy
f eminent names mentioned above or
elsewhere ought to be placed at the
head of the Democratic ticket at the
approaching convention. Were it
mearly a question of men, the task
of making choice would not be diffi
cult. I'encylvania has at least five
great Democrats, either of whom
would honor the ofliiec. There are
no brighter, cleaner or safer men
than Winfield Scott Hancock, 'Bamuel
|J, Randall, William A. Wallace*
Andrew (j. ( urtin or John Trunkev.
The country has never had a better
President than eirher of this brilliant
quintette aonld make. The situation,
however differs materially from that
which four years ago impelled the
I nwn-Ijeadrr to take position among
the very earliest advocates of the
nomination of (reneral Hancock.
There is uo such drift of Democratic
sentiment as then towards any one
man. There is no such moving cause
for it. It is not a time for indulging
jTrv.nal preference or for considering
the question of locality for the mere
purpose of honoring a locality. The
great issue is slowly and surely being
made up, and when that shall have
I Income definitely settled and nnder
-tood, then the records of the several
gentleman named and their personal
j strength in the localities in which they
1 severally belong will unerringly mark
I the men whose nomination will he
i most likely to bring victory.
Haainv Naval Cadets.
> tin Mtrswcx* pr 4rr*ts mini oc-
CI SSIJ. I.4ST MTCRDAT.
ANNAPOLIS, M 1., Jan. 30.— 00 Satur
day afternoon a number of first class
men went into fourth Classman f'adet
' r *ok M. Kussell s room and requested
him to stand on bis head. Fourth t'lass"
m*n Cadet Charles C. Craig, of Illinois
Itusscii t room male —was next ap
proached bjr the first classmen, when
t'rsig raised his skates and struck Cadet
John . Maxey, of Texas, in the fore
head. The ligbt were then put out
and a free fight ensued, in which Cadet
Harry Fried lander, of New York, of the
aecmd clam, waa knocked down and
kicked in the stomach by Cadet Craig,
who managed to fight faia way out of the
crowd and get down stair*.
The rebellion of the fourth clansmen
against the higher classes was imme
diately reported among the cadets, and
three of the upper classes made one
end after supper Cadet Craig seas oou
fronted by a dosen upper classmen who
wanted him to challenge any one of
their number for a fiat fight op stairs.
He said he would take it now. They
then attempted to oarry him up stair*,
but he resisted, and the noise at tract nt
the attention of the Sergeant of Marine*,
who does police duty at the new quar.
ten, aed the sflbir ended.
The matter waa reported to Captaio
Ramsay. .Superintendent of the Aca
demy, on Monday. It ia reported that
after Craig had eluded their greep the
upper classes slashed through the fourth
clammen's quarters, and haaed them "all
hand* around." The fourth rlammsn
show all their old-time determination to
prot*ul their tormentor* by their sileece
aed feigned igooraeoe.
Neval Cadet Sam WHeea, .Tr„ ami
William Peacock, fourth rlaemtea, both
of Indiana, quarantined en the Unites!
Stete* ship San tee, left their quarter*
yesterday and ctaid all night at tho
Maryland Hotel, in Annapolie, where
they eeolly registered their full names-
This morning, their s bee nee bring die
covered, Watchman Denver waa sent
after them, and they were taken to the
Sentee end pieced hi eoUtary confine
NO. 15.