S. T. BHUGERT \ E. h. ORVIN, Editors.
vol.. <;.
She Crntrc rraocrat.
Term* 51.50 par Annum in Ailvunc#
Thursday Morning, February 14, 1884.
GEN. W*. T. SHERMAN was placed on
the retired list of the army on Friday
last, under provisions of the act of con"
gross making retirements of officers
compulsory at the age of sixty-five.
SECRETARY CHANDLER'S estimates for
the nnvnl appropriation bill, which were
placed nt $22, WO,QUO, were reduced I ,y
the committee to $14..W0,W0. The
amount estimated for the four steel
cruisers was allowed, but that for patch
ing up the old rotten monitors was re
fused by the committee.
HONORABLE mention is due the three
Republican members of congress from
Pennsylvania, who had the manliness
and independence to vote for justice to
Gen. Fit* .lohn Porter. They were
Messrs. Payne, of Pittsburgh, Manner,
of Philadelphia and Smith, of Lancas
ter. All honor to them.
W. F. HARITV, Esq., of Philadelphia,
is strongly recommended by the Voting
Men's Democratic Association of that
city, a one of the dolegatcs-at-large to
the Democratic National convention*
Mc has earned for himself an enviable
reputation as a Democrat of high integ
rity and sterling worth, and we have no
doubt his selection would be jipliciou*.
PKXNSVLVAXIA'S favorite candidate for :
President upon the Democratic ticket
is William A. Wallace.— Canton Democrat,
Yes. and if any other state in the
I'nion has a favorite to excel him in all
the attributes to make a great, fearless
and honest President, who doe- not
press himself to public notice or dicker
for the office, let them trot him out.
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MRS. PATTISON, the mother of Gover
nor Pattison. died at the residence of
her son-in-law in Alexandria, Va., la<t
week. Her remains were taken to
Cambridge, Md., for burial, and many
friends of the Governor from Pennayl
vania and Maryland were present at the
funeral. We notice that Congressman
'"urtin. Krnientrout. Muchler and Rah.
dall were among the pall bearer*.
THE Kentucky senatoral deadlock has
at length had an end. Representative
Blackburn is the successor of Senator
William* in the senate of the United
States. This was a protracted and
animated contest, but the fact that the
result was not made dependent upon
either side by measuring "barrels" is a
subject of congratulation. Mr. Black
burn will at least be an honest, con
scientious senator, and will not discredit
the honorable record he has made by a
'en year service in the house.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, is chair
man of the committee on Revolutionary
claims in the senate, which may proba
bly have a case of that kind to conaider
once in three or four years. He, of
course, to keep up appearance and
maintain the dignity of the position,
must have a clerk. He has accordingly
appointed hia son to the onerous posi
tion at a salary of $1,200. Senators and
members of congress to considerable
extent consider the scriptural injunc.
tion that "he who will not provide for
his own household is worse than an
infidel," as binding now as ever. So it
is, But if we read the Scriptures cor
rectly, theft or downright meanness was
not contemplated as among the means
to be adopted for that purpose. Rut it
goes to say that Republican senators
and representatives did not form any
part of an American congress until some
centuries later. The Mahone's and
Joneses, and such, were a subsequent
product snd ean not trace these exam
pies back a dozen years, when nepotism
began to lose the contempt accorded it
in the departments of government.
A DKMOCIAT comtpunfoate* the follow
ing suggeative Heviptural *e*t to the
Philadelphia CkrmieU i
The citizens of our city hafe the re
markablo opportunity to secure:
"A King who shall reign and prosper,
and shall execute judgment und jus
Woe."—Jer. 23-v.
A Hunter who will hunt the ringaters
"as a fieroc lion."— Job IQ-xvl
A Shepherd who will scatter the
rirgalers "as aheep that have no shop
herd."—l. Kings 22-xvii.
THE disastrous Hoods which have
prevailed during the last and present
week, has not been partial in their
' visitation, but have been present
wherever there were streams in the
country to receive their resistless tor
rents. The Allegheny and Ohio have
done much damage in Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati and the neighboring towns
on their course to the Mississippi.
The Susquehanna has been rampant
and threatening, but no very serious
damages arc rejiorted. llut our little
modest Juniata, as if jealous of the
Allegheny, has been on her ear plung
ing over her hanks and destroying
buildings and property and bridges
with a looscut-hs that might satisfy her
distructive craving for years to come.
The village of Alexandria, Hunting
don county, suffered severely, and we
are sorry that our excellent friend the,
Hon. H. I. Mclntyre, is anilhg the
unfortunates, hut we believe not to
any large amount. The destruction
of property in the village is estimated
at $lO,OOO, hut the damage in the
immediate neighborhood will reach
many\ thousands more. This to a
small village is very serious, but when
many of these building are rendered
insecure, and others entirely misplaced
by the torrent is an inconvenience not
to be estimated. We sincerely sympa
thize with them and the best advice
we can give is to desert the trencher-
I otis Juniata and come to the hills of
Bcllefonte where their enterprise in
building up comfortable homes cannot
he subject to such vicisitudes.
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TIM name of Blaine, it appears, will
not down in Pennsylvania at the com
mand of Bo** Qu:iy and President Ar
• tbur. Notwithstanding the Plumed
Knight of Maine is announced as out of
therin:-of Presidential candidates, hi*
nam-- figures prominently in the pre
liminary meetings of the "g. o. p a/-
the j roper nun to lead it with any Icq e
of sued ". Still, however friendly th
rank and file of the Pennsylvania Re
publicans may feci for the Maine state*
man, it is no evidence that ID- will be
the choice of the convention when it
assemble* to name the representative
to Chicago. The ring machinery which
WRA somewhat demoralized a year ago,
is again in full power with Malt. Quay
and fliri Magee. th<- lieutenant boNe*,
working harmoniously under command
of the Master I'*?** "ho i conveniently
absent, will control a* they have done
heretofore. They declare for the sue
eessor of the aasinated Garfield.
EX-SESATOB PATTKRCOX, says the
Washington I'oft, of South ( arolina,
with the quantity and quality of whose
statesmanship the country was at one
time tolerably familiar, is out of poli
tics just now— fortunately for politics
—but is personally in favor of Mr.
Arthur's rcnomination. He knows,
however, that the President doesn't
want it. How he knows it is because
the President himself so told him —
months ago. "To be nominated," says
Mr. Arthur, according to Patterson,
"would only bo gratifying to mc in
case it came spontaneously. But Ido
not want the Presidency again." That
would seem to settle it, if the word of
ex-Senator Patterson is good for any.
thing, and we give Mr. Arthur full
benefit of the doubt on this point.
Now, if John I. Patterson is the
only authority for this declaration of
the President, just write it down a fie,
for the fellow is as incapable of telling
a truth as he is destitute of an honest
impulse. *
THE Republican gerrymander of
t the congressional districts of Ohio, in
which they claimed fifteen districts,
giving six to the Democrats, has been
' repealed by the present legislature,
1 and a new bill passed which gives the
Democrats ten districts, the Republi
cans nine and two doubtful.
> THE legislatures of Ohio and New
Jersey have each passed civil rights
laws for the protection of colored
cititen*. These are intended to take
, the place of the law of congress, which
. the Supremo Court declared uncon
stitutional.
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"XQCAL AND KXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKX, OR WIIATEVKK HTATK OH I-KRSUASIOW, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. "—JmBtitou
BELLKFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1881.
Receipts and Expenditures of Centre Co
Last week we sent out a full itemized j
statement <>f the receipts antl expendi :
tures f the county for the vear IHH3. 1
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The statement being itemized, every j
tax payer in the county can see exactly
how much money was received and for !
what purjoae it was expended. This i !
a great advantage to the people. If;
they desire they can make a minute ex- |
ami oat ion, and from the statement it
self, determine whether any of the*mo- .
neys belonging to the public have been ,
misapplied or wrongfully appropriated.
If in their judgment any of the county 1
funds have been s<juardered or wrong
fully applied, let thcin not only call at- j
tention to the matter, but appeal to the
'"ourtsand have it judicially investiga
ted. The present board of Commission- '
ers followed no precedents. They were
elected on the reform current, and to '
reform they must be rigidly held. Their |
statement shows a determined purpose j
to conceal nothing. They have set out j
the name, the amount, and the purpose I
in every instance for which they paid ,
out money. They Imve gone a step fur. ,
ther. and have set out under the head >
of ''Road and Bridge views," the money ;
paid out by the County Treasurer with- J
out orders l>eing drawn on him by the j
Commissioners, so that the tax-payer
may know exactly how his money has
been expended. The statement sent ;
out also reveals two other f.ict* that
must be gratifying to the tn*-payer. '
One i that with very few exceptions !
tin outstanding taxi - have !.• n collec
ted and settled up to i- s 2. and nearly
all the duplicate* for that year have
been settled. The other i*. that in the j
two years in which the present board
has managed the atFir of the county, j
there has been paid of the county debt J
sdl,o2'>.*l. This should t-e gratifying to
every man who pays taxes in ''entrej
county. A loaTof over s4<',ooo lifted ,
in two y car-, aiwiin tli.it time it has not j
l-een found necessary to Furrow a dollar
to meet the current expense*.
With this showing, it is not out ot
pls. e to commend the present board of,
Conim.siioncrs. They Lave all acted,
with an honesty of purj>oe to faithful- ;
ly and intelligently serve the people, j
and the bc*t evidence the people have
of their fidelity is the statement sent to
their constituent* last week. No one
member of the board deserve* credit
over another. They all acted in harmo
ny in every matter relating to the pub
lic good, and have thus met the qualifi
cation of the public officer laid down l>r
I
Jefferson—they have been honest and
capable.
bet the public examine thi* state
ment thoroughly, and if need* he. criti
cise it, or the acts of the officers send
ing it out mercilessly. They have eer
tainly not intentionally done any wrong
or misapplies! any of the public fund,
and by the stats-men t referred to can
stand upon their record.
Before dismissing the subject, it is hut
just to say that the loard of commis
sioners were ably advised by their at tor
ney, I). F. Fortney, Ksq., on all question*
of law. and hia opinions on all economic
methods where a departure from the
usual routine of business in the office
were made a necessity, have been strict
ly followed. He is an able counsellor,
and devoted to relieving the people of
all unnecessary burdens of taxation.
Bribery In the Star Route Trials.
Kx Senator Dorucy he* just pub
lished a chapter in the history of the
Sur route prosecution which ought to
require the attention of congress. He
declares that he was offered immunity
from prosecution if he would pay
$.'10,000 and that "one Of the p; incipal
contractors'" actually escaped by the
payment of $200,000. These arc de
clarations that involve the adminis
tration of justice at Washington and
should not be permitted to stand un
challenged by the officials whoso con
duct they affect
Who was it that proposed to save
Mr. Dorsey harmless for $30,000 T
Was he an officer of the federal gov
ernment ? If not he must have been
one who believed himself able to con
vince Mr. Dorsey that be could influ
ence the power* that be. And who
was it that saved "one ol the principal
contractors" from indictment lor the
sum of $200,000 f ll* er thsf must
have wielded considerable influence
over the Department of Justice and
the criminal court of the District of
Columbia. Perhaps the grand jury
was the only part of the machinery of
justice at Washington that was influ
enced by thi* immense bribe, but it
i may be reasonably supposed that so
large a sum would hardly he given to
effect that simple purpose.
These "expenditures" in the depart
ment of ju*tic • are not exactly the
kind that Mr. Springer's committee is
authorised to investigate, but a* they
were intended to counteract the official
j expenditure and according to Mr.
Dorsey had in one case the desired
effect, the committee might inciden
tally inquire into the matter. If, how
j ever, such an inquiry does not come
within the province of that committee,
| congress should not fail to order an
investigation by a special committee
■ fully authorised to send for persons
and pajx-r*. The true inwardness of
I the Star route prosecutions ought to
I lie revealed to a mystified public.—
Harrinlurj I'ulriot.
W; sec it stated that Congressman
| Hayne believes that Senator Camcrou's
I choice for President i* General I>ogan,
lof Illinois. That being committed to
Arthur he remain* abonad to avoid
personal interference in his behalf,
and allow Quay to fix up the convt-n*
i tion for lgan in his own way. The
congrc-sman ought to be able to judge
them pretty c- rrectly. lie knows
both Cameron and Quay, and that in
politics there is not a spec of honesty
■n the composition of either. When
they declare for one man, the only
safe rule is to read their professions
backward, and doubtless it is on thi*
i principle that Mr. Pavnc lands them
! in the 1,-gan convention.
Stnlwartiam Rcdivivus.
It might be going too f..r tft y that the
Administration is conspiring against the
i "ivil Service law, but fact* appear to
warrant the conclusion that several of
:be l.xei Hiiro departments have come
to a mutal understanding to discounten
ance thi* law, in various w ays, with the
palpable intent of bringing it into gen
eral disfavor.
Inai-mucb a* the acts of hca 1* of de
partments are virtually the act of the
head of all the departments, it i area
•onable assumption that recent mani
feMationofa spirit of hostility to the
Civil Service law have not occured in
opposition to the President's desire*.
Immediately after the election of
by which the Republican party
was jutly scourged for Civil Service
abuse*, the Administration and mod
of its follower* professed conversion to
Civil Service reform. In his message to
Congress a year ago last December, the
President admitted all that bad been
charged in relation to compulsory
political assessments, making pathetic
mention of poor placeholders who
handed over a part of their salaries to
Ifubbell "for fear of what might befall
them in case they should refute." The
word ha* passed along the Stalwart
line* that there must be a cessation of
the coarse abuse of the other and better
faction* of the party—the faction that
was opposed to prostitution of the
Civil .Service and would not admit that
the office# -hould be farmed out to the
bosses.
Then a deep hush fell on the organs.
They put a away their stock of standard
epithets, and, following the lead of the
President, the Stalwart politicians fell
in with the Civil Service reform element
of their parly, and for a few months
moved to the same music—the music of
reform.
Is it possible that the opinion which
had then become almost a settled con
viction in the Stalwart mind, and was
echoed by sundry Administration
organs—the impression that their party
must go down and out in ISB4 recon
ciled them to a law which would give
their party a good share of the offices
even in defeat?
Are we to conclude that because "the
devil was sick," very eick, indeed, in
thoee days, the sudden ohange of front
occured?
And shall we say that having gotten
over the scare to some extant, and see
ing (bat there is yet a fighting chance
the mask la now thrown offandStal
wartiam appears in its true colore?
It la urged against the Civil Service
Commission that it oostsperbap* a bun
r . '
f dred thousand dollar* a yetr to k<-ep
f its mechanism in operation. Thia
j- statement lias Ie-n made by a member
of the Cabinet. Well, a hundred
t thousand dollars is a good deal of money
■ but it isn't equal to a third part of the
' amount squandered by officials on
} pleasure trip la-t summer on pretence
of "inspecting" and " exploring."
And \v>- remember that when Mahone
• in virtual command of the Norfolk
* Navy Yard, charged $109,000 to repairs
, on the Pints, the Administration made
i no outcry. It is due, however, to the
Administration and it* Virginia deputy
I a* well a* to the cause of Ugtii jd jus
j lice, to make record oj the fact that
| according to the report Vrf a'*Vavai
| board; the "I'iota" was not made any
' more utineaworthy by Mahone'• 1 ivil
, | Service operations on her shaky bull,
i ! The Htalwart* in Congress will not
. ! have the courage of their conviction
jin thi* matter. Whatever msv be the
*enlitnpnt| of the Administration, the
Republican Senate will not dare to
strike out the Civil Service appropria
' ' tion that be sent over from the Demo'
critic Hou-e. The Commission will le
j continued, because the politicians in
Congress will not take the risk of of
fending the people by killing it off.
, It's all up With Mo."
' AX OLD AIMV omnia kii.uo.Nß or TWO
riEsi-nr.ATK at ;*uL.tas.
lii suiso, Pa., f . b. 10.— A dc-perale
! encounter with two burglar- took plsc.
i yesterday morning at the cottage resi
! drnoe ofCspUin I. If. Ko-aler, ofMyers-
I town. About 1 o'clock bis wife awoke
him to inform him that she beard a
j noie at one of the windows of their
bedchamber. 1 lie faptain armed him
self with a revolver and ascertained
. i that the noise proceeded ft m aw indow
! of the sitting room adjoining. He was
j able to see through the inside lattice two
| burglars on the outer sill, one of whom
| was *lowly rai-ing the window. The
captain threw open the lattice aod saw
one of the burglar* drawings revolver,
" ; whereupon Captain Dossier quickly fired
' .and the first burglar dropped back from
' j the sill and fell to the ground. The
; -toond burglar then fired at the CAP
, tain, the bullet whizzing pa*t his le ad
j and lodging in the wall, The captain
was about to fire a second time when
1 the remaining thief jumped back and
j caught bold of hi* wounded companion,
II | whose blood was pouring from a terrible
wound in the abdomen. The burglar
j made a strenuous effort to help bis
j confederate who was hoard to exclaim.
"No, sir, Joe. you get away: it's all up
with me." The firing aroused the
neighlor*. who, together with the cap
tain, traced the blood marks with
lantern*, anil finally found the wounded
burglar near a stable *> out fifty yards
away. He was placed in the custody
of < onstsble Mover, who put the man
in a sleigh and took him to the Leba
non jail, where he is now dying. The
physicians were unable to find the hall.
The prisoner is very weak, but seem*
indifferent to his fate and positively
refuses to say anything more than that
his name is Miller and that he oomes
from Philadelphia. It is believed that
the two thieves were those remaining of
the band of three who recently visited
Salunga, Lancaster county, and where
one was shot deed in a scuffle with Mr.
Stouffer- The remaining two tramped
aero** the country and undertook [to
rob Captain Bo*alcr. Quite a number
of robberies have been perpetrated in
the Lebanon valley recently.
A Fortune-Hunting Lord Jilted.
Mis* Jennie Flood, the California
beirea*, who is reported by a London
paper to bo engaged to a British peer, is
in Chicago and emphatically denies the
report. It is understood, too, that Miss
Flood deniee that she was jilted by
young Grant, but claims the match waa
broken off by mutual consent. Mi*s
Flood ia an accomplishod and amiable
lady, highly esteemed by all who know
her. She possesses io her own right
$2,500,000 in government bonds, pre
sented to her on a recent birthday. The
Knglish noble referred to by the Lon
don paper is believed to be Lord Beau
mont, who was in San Francisco not
long sinoe. It is understood that tha
young noble made overturee for the
hand of the wealthy voung beirees, but
demanded a dowry of $5,000,000, which
old man Flood indignantly refused.
Quite a number of Chinese residents
of Peoria, IIL, are members of the
Young Men's Christian association Bibla
- class,
TKKMS: $1.50 prr Annum,in Advance.
' All Sorts
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, In G.-orgia it it claimed that prohibi
I tion work* well. The U-mi>eranc<-
qUMtion there in kept entirely out of
, politic*.
i The Altoona 'lt-nut nominate* Hon.
• W. A. Wallace for the Presidency. No
better timber could be presented by
i any uto.
Small pox hat made it*appearance in
1 tb; aoulh, ami a number of caae* are
' rep rted at Louinvi.le, Ky , and Sbreve
-1 port, La.
In our reeolb ' tion, tereral newipa
per* bavetna>lc great men, but very few
gr. at men indeed have ever succeeded
in qiitking a newspaper.
Homeraet county paid f 11,485.77 for
tiie maintenance of her poor last year,
and Bedford county diabuned >12,168
for the tame purpose.
Lch I nited .State* Senator i* to have
a clerk at *0 per day—and the Houte
should *ee to it that the Senator* them
reive* pay for the luxury.
John Sherman'* ?eal in investigating
the Lan ville and other outrage* raiae*
the suspicion that he is bargaining for
jOutbern delegate* witb William
Mabone.
A Vigilance r inmittce io Ncbra-ka
it doing a staving bu-ine* . It ha* hang
ed eleven lata and i* looking for more
Unlet* thit committee it disbanded the
lb-publican mjyority in Nebraska is
*criou*ly threatened.
The ground on which an lowa man
ekt f>r a dirop • .* that hi* w.fe is a
drunkard: and the peculiarity of the
complaint i- it* specification that ahe
acquired the habit of intemperance
while tending bar in hit own saloon.
An lowa boy aged 15, worked a
month for the physician of the neigh
. borbood, and wa- g.ven, instead of the
(10 which he expected, a bill for profes
sional services which the doctor had
rendered on the oc.uion of bis birth.
The \\ athington •Star remarks : "A
very jolly cham,-agne lunch given yester
.day by i newly fa.tailed Senate clerk,
in the Senate restaurant, raise* the
question whether, it. the opinion of the
Senate experts, that beverage is in
j toxical.ng.
A t'xnnecticut lawyer ha* sued oneo*
hi* client* for a bill (i0 for iwrvice ren"
jdered. It appeared that the client's
I suit had involved a um of about (50,
and had continued through 21 terms, on
each of which the lawyer charged a (20
term fee,
■fame* Lick, the California millionaire,
left ('-O.Otsi to pay for the erection of a
j monument to Key, the author of "The
Star Spangled Banner." The trustees
have ,just decided to build the monu
ment. Ten year- have pa**ed since the
death of Mr. Lick.
A man in Nebraska City i* actively
promoting starvation by giving aw*av
flour to the poor. He distributes it in
sacks, one to every purchaser of 100
drink* at his bar j and. under the cir
cum*tances, the winners are bound to
be losers.
President Barrio*, of Guatemala,
haa invented a new way to build rail
roads. He haa issued a decree oom
pelting every man in Guatemala to
take (40 of stock in a railroad he has
projected to the Caribbean ooasL He
expects to raise (8,000,000 at least by
these forced subscriptions.
I>r. H. W. Buchanan, of St, Paul,
Minn., died of typhoid fever in Potts
ville a few days ago, I>r. Buchanan was
a prominent cttisen of St. Paul and a
second cousin of the late President
Buchanan. He was thirty seven years
of age. His remains were taken to
Huntingdon, Pa., of which place he was
a native, for interment.
The Republican leaders who during
the special session of the legislature
hooted at the idea of the possible dis
franchisement of Pennsylvania in the
next congress are beginning to tremble
in their boots over the prospect that
such will be the ease. Cel. <juay now
wants an extra session. Too late. He
and his party played idiot, If not rascals
when there was one.
No bureau of the Government exceeds
in importance the United Stale* Talent
Ofiioe. From the start it has been
•elf-sustaining and now has sn un
expended balance to its creditof about
(2,500,(XX)- This money is the reeu't of
i fees paid by inventors to secure the
> patents which protect their invention!.
1 The business of the Potent Offiee hen
increased with each year of Its gxbtcaw,
NO. 7.