S. T. SHUGERT \ E. L. ORVIS, Editor*. VOL. 0. Cnittt Hemocrat. Tsraill.&Oper Annuml* Ad*noe JUST think of it, that "red-beaded and hopeful" Stalwart, Tom Cooper, out for Blaine. THE propoistion to restore the duty .in wool to its former rate, was defeat ed in the House, on Monday last, by a vote of 11* to 1'26. This probably j gives an impetus to the Morrison bill, that bodes its passage in the House when it comes up next week. THE Republican primary meetings were held in Ilarrisburg, on Saturdays evening, lat, resulting iu au easy vic tory for the friends of tilaiue. Ar thur, Edmunds, and I>jgan received a few votes, but the mass shouted for the "Plumed Knight." GEN. CHANT hobbled into the House of Representatives on his crutches, one dav last week, when Mr. Randall ! moved a recess of fifteen minutes, so that the members of the House could have au opportunity to pay their re spects to the veteran. The motion was unanimously agreed to, and the Gen era! was right royally received by I 'ongress. THE friends of Auditor General l/emoti, of Blair county, are pushing him to the front as a candidate for Gongreaft. Col. Lemon, has been very j -uccesful in his political aspirations hertofore, and is. probably, one of the most popular men the republicans can put upon the canvass for a creditable run, but the district is close, and the Democrats intend to carry it. GF.N. BEWER is iu favor of the unit rule, and thinks the Republicans •>f l'eiiiuylVAuiaaie for Blame. There is one thing the General is well sup plied with, and that is hack bone, and is not afraid to speak out. He is out of politics far the present and we arc glad of it Bellefoiite can ill afford to lose such an onergc-tic, public "per iled citizens at this period of her I. • tory. We arc for Beaver-at-hotne. GEN. W. WICKAH, a republic an member of the Virgiuia Henate and one of the most prominent aud hou orable member of that party in the south, testifies to the incendiary char acter of the speeches made to the ne" grocs of Virgiuia by the Mahoneites in the last campaign. In their at tempt to draw the color line they in cited tbe Danville riots and now old Eliza Pinkerston Sherman wants to make political capital for his party. The Ohio man is equal to almost any emergency, from stealing the presiden cy to inciting a riot, but we fear .John's contract in this case is too large. Try the Cincinnati riots, .John, they are nearer home. ——• tm THAT Blaine is the choice of the Republican masse* of Pennsylvania no one can doubt any more than they doubt that tbe Stalwart wing is bit terly opposed to the "plumed knight." lie will never be the nominee of the Republican party, and all the bluster and noise of his faithful followers will not remove a single vote of Stalwart opposition. The "plumed knights'" political scalps already dangles at tbe beak of the "strutting turkey gobbler" of New York. New York will go for Blaine under instructions (from Conk ling.) The leaders of the Blaine dele gation from Pennsylvania will be Stal wart. We advise the Mulligan guards to buckle on their armour and get ready to shout for "Chet" Arthur, the great presidential dude. All contests at Chicago will be decided adversly to Blaine. The great state of Pennsyl vania that for twenty-four years has been the bulwark of have no more voice in tbe nomination than will Kentucky that never easts a Republican electoral vote. James G. Blaine had better die of "a literary effort," than suffer from political'sun stroke" at Chicago. . * ' i . , * WK have faith in the future great ness of our towu tw a inuuufacturing centre an long an her interest* are in j the hamlnof home capital. Every sue- j ceasful investment in the pant few year, 1 has been that of our own citizens. We have a class of youug men of small means, but wonderful energy and en- j terprise, to whom we must look for our future business men and manufactur ers. They are the tnen who will push our town along. They are the men who subscribe to our railroads, who | help build our churches, und are fore most in every undertaking that t> is to improvement. Cap ?,, d tie* it.-.-If up in banks and grav ■ i ten per cent, discounts. Enterprise puts her shoulders to the wheel, and our Glass Works, Machine Shops and Nail W irks are the result. "The Belle fonte Iron and Nail Company" is a new establishment, and grow> out of the older plant, the "Ilellofonte Nail Company." The new firm includes in addition to the gentleman who cum posed the old firm, Hon. J. I*. Gep" hart and ects to put up a coke furnace and otherwise enlarge its business. We cau not go into detail in regard to this new establishment hut it is one , more step toward our future great ness. A few men with the enlerpiw of this firm would be a valuable ad dition to our town. It is only from i this class of men thut we can expect j anything. \\ ith the advent of new j railroad-, freight reduction will be in | order. The mineral wealth of our | Couuty will Ire developed. With the facilities for manufacturing that lielk- I . ° , fonte offer*, its nearness to the coal | and coke fields, lime stone quarries, | saud for the manufacture of glass, the immense heel of iron ore, almost with j in a stones' throw of the borough line, , it u the spot formed by nature fur the manufacturing centre of Central Pennsylvania. Keep your establish ments in the ham!, of your own husi* I n-s* men, tin ir su vt -- in the past, is a guarantee for the future. It others I desire to come and invest well and good, the field i- large au7 counties of the State on their choice for Presi dent and on the tariff. Randall is the cboice of Pennsylvania and a tariff for revenue, with incidental protec tion is the platform. Centre county is put down for Randall, hut uncon cerned about the tariff. This we sup pose is official, although Chairman I Meek's name doc* not appear to be at tached to the telegram. What is striking about the thing is that with the vast iron and coal interests of Cen tre county, she would be so indiffer ent about the tariff. The two great valleys that extend through her very heart are underlaid in their length and breadth, with vast bodies of valuable ore. She has thousand upon thous ands of acte* of the finest bitumin ous coal. She has five large iron manufacturing establishments, with millions of capital, directly or indi rectly interested, and yet she is not bothering about the tariff. We sup pose she baa eo much cofidence in her representative in congress, Gov. Cur tin, and in bis ability to take care of her interests, that she doea not need to bother about the tariff. Well, such is, no doubt, the case, but away down in tbe hearts of her sturdy, sterling democrats is a warm spot for "Uncle Sammy" the sage of Gramercy Park. She will, DO doubt, speak for herself at her convention, and again in November. A WHITE man's republican party is the last announcement coming up from the >South. Tbe republican lead ers of Georgia, Gen. Longstrect and other Federal officers have issued an address, calling ft meeting to form • •ft wliite mfto's republican party," and fhst the negro "have Ifcrusf z 'KQUAI. ANI EXACT JI'HTIC'E TO ALI. MKS, OK WIIATI.VKK STATE OH TEKSVASIO.N, HKUOIOUS OH POLITICAL.Jefferson BKU.KFONTK, l'A.. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, IHBI. themselves forward us a matter of right to the leadership of the party, aud being incompetent, have destroy |ed its power fr good, and placed themselves in a ridiculous light." The address further claims that under ne gro management "the republican party in Georgia has gone to the dogs year by year." The address goes on to de flare; "This is u white man's country, aud white men will control it. Any negro who pushes himself to the front , is unwise, aud any white man who ur i get* him to it is an enemy to his coun. try. The negroes are failure* a* voters as well as failures n* office-holder*." Further, it is declared that the ne j groes are not only "totally em flicient a* : party leaders," but are not "reliable voters." A republican party in Georgia, without the will he a weak af tair, hut not more so than the repub lican majority in Pennsylvania with out the same race of t-iiizeuship. THE committee of the lloi.se in the case of ex Speaker Keifer vs. Gen. Bovn ton, on a question of veracity, have made report, awarding the is Speukt r the premium a* a liar of the i first magnitude, a perjurer and a sub | ordiuator ol perjury. This is certain ly not a very flattering honor to be stow upon an ex-SjH-aker of Gotign -* and the present h-a ler of a gnat jo tiral party, who claim to po.-esn ' all the decency" af jsoliiics. A Forlorn Hope 'I he Ilarrisburg J'ttriol d<>e not ap pear to be intenly impressed with the boasted harmony in the republican party. It says: As the times for the conventions of the two parties -'raw near, there is less interest in tbe result of their deiiber* , ati.ma than tu to 1m ezpeeo d. While this is sotm w hat surprising, the ; reasons for it are entirely obvious. A close contest always develops intense interest in the preliminary struggle, but where the result of the ultimate battle is so clearly forecast, as in the rne of the present iustnnee, much of the excitement give* place to the apathy that belong* to despair. With the republican party united ' ami harmonious this year there might lave been sufficient hope of vie j tory to induce nn nctivo effort on the part of the managers. But instead of that the organization is broken into fragments and distracted by adverse and conflicting interest to such an ex | tent that all promise of success has j departed. In this state the Blaine people are conducting what seems to I be an earnest endeavor to nomiuate their favorite. It is, however, the | shallowest pretense. Their only pur jiose is to crucify and destroy the other faction of their own party. That ac eomplishod their zeal will fag and die out,and when the main battle comes on i they will refuse to meet the danger , and expenses of the eocouuter. In any aspect in which the case is i presented they are alike hopelessly I involved. If Blaine is nominated New \ ork, New Hampshire, Connec ticut, Massachusetts aud the Pacific stales are lost beyond the possibbty of recovery. If Blaine ia debated for the nomination Pennsvlvania, Ohio aDd a number of other states in which his adherent* are numerous and influential, will default in the Novem ber contest. With corruption and chicanery ruling their primary con tests it is not surprising that these con ditions are apparent. They all teach the inevitable lesson that the repub lican party must be defeated. TIIE Detroit llainiletUer, the organ of the colored voters of Michigan, says they number abouf 6,600, and that if Michigan republicans do not accede to their reasonable demands they will make trouble. Times was w hen the republicans of that state could look on with indifflrencc to a tranfer of three times 6,600 votes to the democrats, but now it Is doubtful if they can af ford to merely lose the 6,500. They certainly run a risk by alieuating any body from the party ruuk* this year, a* they are likely to need all the votes they cau muster. IT is estimuted by Inspector Thorne, of the New York police de partment, that there are uot less than twenty thousand men iu that city who are iu full sympathy with the so-cal cd .Socialists, and these twenty thous and men arc for the most part "strik ers or loafers. "They constitute not on ly it very inflammable, hut exceeding ly dangerous element, nnil the honest working classes eaunot too emphatic ally repudiate them. No lasting or substantial victory for the rights of labor can ever he gained in this coun try under the red flag of anarchism. Ilalftteud Reviews the Riot 7111 rn:i.l> HARSH AI. THINKS Till; TKOOC" IKI.Xi.ST ITKIIIER TKOCIII.K. t'lN'Ts.vxTi, April ".—The follow ing review of ilie n>l was wired to th New Y> rk T i'/unr from Muri t Mhl lead, editor ol the I '■■mmrrr,al (} nette. to nigh: ' Toe iiiitiibt r nt per-oii" killed and wounded in the riot thus far is aboti) W. Tbe last fa'al sh >t fin din ang. r up to this writing xv - fired between four and fix- o'elo k th morn ng, though a ]< >or hi di-r boy w instantly kilied this evening lx the a t was in the t-ea- irv is all snfe. The x nlt*. xs hi< h weii very heavy, are mainly good. Wehsvecoa fid-nee tin t<- w,]| not b a rejieliti >ti of the terrors of three nights t hat xs .11 In- s i i memorable here, list only the over , whelming foree* of Sis to t roop# pretri-n'a | furt te r il<-enption and valuation of the property. These are valuable now. Hie rioting the first right was largely by worki lignum of grxxl character, who resented the fact that murderers who have money to set in motion the machinery ol criminal law vers liavo had freedom here. The •et ond night thesp rit of the commune appeared slid petroleum xs as put to use as by the Parisian* when they are plea*, od to burn their public building-. The thir l night the numfier of determined men had been largely r. .!uc>d and there were swarm* of troys. Of the crowd that was smashing pawnbroker*' shops three were grown inen and they were thieves. They had a rabble of Itoys gen erally from seventeen to nineteen years of age. and one tostifl-d in the Police fVturt today that be was Thirteen and going en fourteen years of age.' (hit of sixty rioters gathered in for attempting to seize the battery of cannon at Music Hall only ten were men. The rest were boys. Some very bad one, while others seemed to want the exeitement above all things and so the crowds bare depreciat< d front honest raen. mi-guid ed but animated by righteous wrath, kindled against systematized infamy of the most outrageous character, to vicious rabbie of boys in the hands of the lowest desperadoes. The excited people hail a real grievance to begin with. The administration of criminal law here has been damnable urt li >uie on Tuoday. Kvorybialy x* -a urated xsi-.h the Arthur-Biaino sentiment. The < nvention xva cal.ed to order by Co! D S K'-lh-r, the Chairman of the County Committee, and .Jm I. S immerville vn • lect'd Chairman. This xsai a piece of Stalwart ilrategy, and vn in>nded to tike tbe wire edge off of the opjoiilion knife It wav ai . < -iful n.oye, *i d gsvo the convention '.he appearsnxe of a Bialne Arthur oischine. A cmm tu— of five wa* appointed to draft resolutions—sir-sdy cut snd driifl, snd In Colonel Keller's ve*t [KKk-l. Thi* herculesn tn>k tbe commit i tee [irformed after s few minute*htaiwart inlcr. We inuil lax, that the resolutiom r* fl-ct great credit on the County Chair man They are the regulation Arthur- Dlaina revolutions, with s little tar.ff and a vigorous thru-1 with a straw lance at th D< m a rsl*. After tbe "Wberrases snd, 'Kwlxei h*d be*n (arefuliy laid sway . nomination* |..r delegate* to tbebla'.e Con v. ntlon were In order. \V B. Wigton ol Puliijwb.irg, Col. I> ,S Keller snd G--■ ; Vslenline were put in nomination. Ju*t at Dm point lb* On* band of lb* V r thur - B.afne ma, hir.e became viiibi- Ttie machine was operated fr< m the |,a< k r-om, where Colt Hailing* and Keller snd Jn I Ban kin managed tiie diff.-rent wr" Tio r ult ws* fortoen. Tiie pre_ I inninarj s. rk i.sxing been done early in the morning down st tbe railroad station *i rarli train lc-Caffertjr J ate. Kd. iirown, Jr., Hick# and L. L. Brown. After the minutes were read and approved, the clerk read fhe comtnit tee* a; pointed by the chairman ae folloe* : Finance—L. 1.. lirown, It. K. Hick-, IM. Br K.T. te. 1,. L. I'.rowr. David Hartley. I' ir. an I /'- Set !>. i Bart lev I). K. Ta'e. H. M• 1 -iflrtv. nrr -Joseph Odar-. Kd. Brown, ■la.. L U Brown. When the verbal < ially requested < mo' ll to compel resident* rear the Allegheny i connection -f that tr-et to put d-ywo hoard walks. He *&ys that he baa lourtr-r n lot* on tue street and will will ingly t.uihl walk* in front of hia pro|er tv when tnow-further wet have done A petition - gned by shout all the resident* of that ateet then re.vi □taking a aimilar request in reference to lioardw a!k and street iatnp. This ra pir**t was afterward referred to j *iset committee. Mr. Willi tn .1 one* w** (nominated I for collector lor the ensuing tear and on motion of Mr. McCafb-rly hi* elec tmn waa mole by acclamation. lit* oomjen'-ation it '• percent. I.jU for each day he wotk. Mr. Samuel Itr> ** on motion o' 1 Mr. Shortlidge, selected for engineer at Water Work* and superintendent of water pipes. '1 he question of salary u not acted ujton Subject of * Alary fur the borough enpioeer and tbe borough solicitor wa deferred for a future it- sting. The salary of clerk ol council waa cm tinu.l. a* laat year, at $l3O. ( ierk M ichel, road a complete (man cial statement for th. year which we shall probabl* give to morr w. It ahows a considerable dificit for the yror, but thi* i* abundantly accounted for by ex traordinary ex|K-n*ei, such a bridge building, repair* at water work*, etc. which will probably not occur again for a long time. Tbe borough affair* have be' n manage.! with great ec roomy and i-ommendm'dr discretion, and the gnat et financier in tbc world could have made no better showing.— Xevt. Butchered by Her Huaband. Ai rooxa, Ta., April T.—Mr*. Dr. L. W. Beach, tbe wife of a prominent physician, KM discovered in a room at her residence thi* morning with her beftd cut almost from her body. An investigation developed • licumstaDCM of so *u*picious a charactrr that the doctor wa* arrested, and two largo knives and a cleaver used for ampu tat.ng purposes wore found bc*ide the victim. Tbe coroner's jury found thai Mr*. Beach came to her death at the handa of her husband, and the doctor waa ac cordingly remanded to jail. He admits that he killed hi* wife and want# to be hung or shot. Siooe hi* arrest be tried to borrow a knife, and on being refuted asked for a pin, which waa also refused aa it waa believed he intends to commit suicide. He waa received into the Lutheran church only yesterday morn ing and partook of ommunion. It ia gem-rally believed that he it insane. W**tsi> —By a young lady, a petition in a hotel or prima family a* cook only. Ha* bad considerable eiperieooe. Address "Cook," cars of Ckxtsk DsuoctAT IMlcf'-n'e, P. NO. 15.