j£!)r Centre A Demornt. S.T.SHUGEBT&E. L. ORVIS, Editors. VOL. 0. sht Centte Term* SI.SO per Annum in Advene* DEMOCRATIC STA'IE TICKET. CONGREBSMAN AT LAROK, GEN. W. H. H DAVIS. OF BUCKS COUKTK THE Greenbackers are generally appointing delegated to the ludian apolia convention, ami instructing for Gen. Butler as a candidate for I'resi dent. TIIK Stalwarts and half-breeds are a very happy family just now. The harmony boasted of is extremely har monious, especially in New York and Pennsylvania. THE impression is gaining consider able weight that Gen. Grant will be a prominent factor in making up the tinal result of the Chicago Republi can Convention. _♦ ~ - A COMBINATION of Arthur and Edmunds' friends have completely tloored Blaine in New York, ami his chances for the Chicago nomina. lion is growing weak ami desperate. THE Maryland republicans gener ally endorse the administration of Arthur, but prefer and instruct for the nomination of Blaine. But all won't do, Blaine is left, to pursue his literary work. WALSH, the hlinnt witncs, who ha* so long delayed the trial of Wm. Pitts Kellogg's participation in the Star route frauds, is now in Washington to testify. It is said he has fire in his eye, and charges that Secretary Chan, dler has been protecting Killogg THE Trinity Church corporation in New Y'ork, have refused the offer of a party of English capitalists of SS,OtIO,. 000 for the church property on Broad, way. Their object in the purchase war. to erect a large building to accom modate the bankers and brokers on Wall street. THE business of Congress, particu larly in the House, is stid to be v- ry much in arrears, ami will take up the balance of the session to consider the bills already disposed of in the Senate. This is not creditable ti the Democ" racy of that body ami should demand immediate step* to correct it. A WASHINGTON correspondent states that the Pension committee has determined to a-k the President to withdraw the nomination of Yander slice, recently appointed Pension agent at Philadelphia, on the ground that he has not refuted the charges preferred against him. This appoint ment was made under the patronage of BJSS Q my, and the c harges made against the appointee, by Congre-Hman Kelley. i—i * m ■ - CONGRESSMAN O'N'EIL, declares his preference for Arthur, because he "thinks he ought to have the nomina tion," for having rc-united the party. Blaine, he ay, "stands no chance of success. The nomination will either be given to Arthur, or the west will he permitted to name the man, hut in the latter contingency, "we ought not to go into Ohio for our candidate." That is, Sherman's "bloody shirt" program is a failure, and won't win. A VALUABLE MHCOVERY, IR sue* < ECU-'I'L. A rac. htt.tr, in Erie, who has been experimenting for forty years, claims that be can manufacture iron blooms directly from the ore, as cheap as p : g-iron can be made; that the coet of the furnace to make 500 pound balls, will not exceed the cost of a double puddling furnace and tbat he can produce the same amount of wrought iron direct from the ore, tbat can be produced from pig-iron. If the inventor can do all this, bis for tune is made, and he may spend the balance of his life reflecting upon tuo great benefit ho hat contributed to the ' country. '• J '4 "VOCAL ARM KX ACT JUITICI TO ALL MAN, >itited the delegates to the Republican National Convention, of which he is the head. They now proclaim themselves the Republican party of Virginia, and declare for Arthur! Deleudorf aud other Republican leaders are thrown overboard, for the rebel-Brigadier who, at the last Presidential election' claimed that he and his party were the true Democracy of the State, ami voted for Gen. Hancock. Rut Ma hone having sold out, is now deliver ing the goods to Arthur. THE Philadelphia Record pro ! poses to commemorate its seventh an i | niversary under it present manage-1 ' ment, to-day by the issue of a double sheet. Apart from the •bread free trade doctrine, it occa-- | ionally iudu'g-s in, no |>ap< r in the country discusses the public que*- lions of the day, with more intelli. gence and spirit. Indeed, it isa perfect jewel in the discussion of labor ques tions, and for general m.as is unsur passed. The low rate of publication, and its spirited defense of the toiling i millions, should place the Record in the hand* of every lal*>ring man, or intelligent nader ambitious to tracer , the relations, between capital and la bor with a view to secure to the latter | that independence ami consideration , to which it is entitled. Now that the Danville investiga ! tion ha become stale and the results a most tiisasterous and disgraceful fail ure to John Sherman and Mahone, the Washington Pott suggests to Mr Sherman the propriety of looking into the conduct of a negro "Inlmr organ izer" in Middle G> orgis, who i- array ing the thriftless and worthh ** of hi* own race agniti't while and colored alike. Ra.t week the members of a I colored church in Baldwin county re fu-ing this per. HI the use of tin build ■ ittg to hold a meeting and the next night it was burned down, ami a well to-do colored man in the same county who had built a church on his own laud, lost it in the same way aftT a like refusal. There is plenty of work i ' for Sh> rman. if ho wii! only 1 >ok in the right direction. SAY- the Pittsburgh /'': "FIN great engineer, Jarms B. Kad, has arrived in this country from London where he ha. been for several months. He submitted his plan to English cap . italists, from whom he expects a-sis. tance to build his ship railway. On the day before he left London he ex ; hibiled to about seventy of the most prominent scientific men of the British i empire a model of his ship railway. Capt. Eads has brought with him the cradle in which the small ship belong ing to the model rests, and also the ship itaelf. The ship is seven feet and the cradle six feet i four inches long. Capt. Eads says that he shall rely mainly upon Eng ' lish capitalists for assistance in con. stnicting bis railway. He thinks he will lie able to complete the railway in five years from the present time. The distance from MinatWlan, the termi nus of the road on the Gulf pf Mexi co, to Tehuantepec on the Pacific ocean is 130' miles. The cost of the railway is estimated at from $50,000,- 000 to $75,000,000. It will be con structed to carry the largest ships which go around Cape Horn. The ' maximum of the gross weight of the to be transported is 5,000 tons. :4* ■ HELLEFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 1 IHH4. Tin: Utica Convention has certain. ! : .ly nt lieen a great boom for cither ■ Blaine or Arthur Blaine ha* a few | more delegates than Arthur, hut Ar ] ihur and KdtnumU combined, leave the I'l timed Knight hopeh-iudy in the rear, with bis principal support, ! Warner Miller, defeated. It is now | said that both these principal candi. dales are out of the field, that either haa sufficient vitality to defeat the other, and both are earuest in the pur pose to do so. The result will lie that new combinations must be sought for. SK'RKTAUY CIIAMDLKIt has a very slim chance of getting hit 8G,<)00,000 appropriation which the Senate added at an amendment to the Naval appro priation hill. The House declines to concur in the amendment, and it goes to a committee of conference, at the , head of which will be Mr. RaudalL lacked by the united democracy of 1 the Houp, who will undoubtedly se- 1 cure its defeat. With this immense ' fund in the hands of Chandler to dis | hurse as an election corruption fund ,to stock the Navy yards and private hip yards and sources of supply with ( , republican voters, projwrly placed, for assessment or purchaso, the repuhli cans would scarcely need the' service# i of a corps of assessors in the Natinnn' committee. Chandler could do it. His education has not been neglected in that kind of business. Bi AINK, perhaps, when Premier OF Garfield's cabinet, did a little >o much hossing for the harmony of his party, hut he hail to do it. or h< come second fiddler to Roscoe Conkling, and | it is scarcely fair in the New York Herald claiming that b< cause he did s >, he is answerable for the murder of Ciarfield. The Herald says : "Presi ] dent Ciarfield was shot, as everybody j knows, because he had, in the sit.iplic* ity am) frank truthfulness of his heart allowed a boss to take the reins of government out of bis hands ; became that 'boss,' Mr. Blaine, boas like, at ( once began to reward his friends and punish his enemies, and in a few short week* created such a turmoil in the party and in the country as flung both into the mot peculiar and extra, ordinary excitement they had ever known—an cxcitemcut so extreme n to upset the weak mind of a demora |liz- d wretch, who thereupon became an assassin. • m Keifer a Impudence The Washington /'osf a\> "There i, do a not seem to he any limit to the time which Keifer propose* to con sume in abusing popular patience Failing to receive any sort of recngni tion at Cleveland, a colored 11-ptibi can 1> ing chosen alternate ileh gats- to Chicago from liis own county, he is now working day and night to - cure a re i.(initiation to Congress on the ground that he ought not to ho askesl t i I nvo "public life un b r firv." As it is altogether probable that fie will lie forced to retire, fire or nr. fire he would do well to submit in silence to the inevitable. But he will n.>t do n. In the face of an unanimous adoption of a report that practically convicted him of a false swearing, be ; procures himself to be interviewed to the effect that Democrats and Repub- I 'icana believed that the special com mittee was not justified in its action, ami that they would vote to lay the report on the table. He could not I find one solitary Menilier who would make such a motion. He aaya that it was known that he would not *|*>ak except he were at tacked by aomc Member. So over, powering is hia impudence that he really believed the House would listen to a defense in peraon, and it was only by the utmost efforts of friends that ho could be induced to hold bit tongue. Nothing saved him from expulsion ex cept his non-interference with the , adoption of the report of the commit- < tee, criminating though it was. He is not safe yet. If ho have any frieuds left they will do the govd (Art * " * * vv'l by him in co>ii|ielliiig absolute silence regarding that investigation until the close of this Congress. There will lit* no necessity for the next or another House to take any official note of him." —— ———• ■ THI: House committee on public land in the House, have decided to re port a hill granting bounty laud* to the soldiers of the late war. The hill is to provide that every pcrsou who served in the late war not less than fourteen days and was honorably discharged shall be entitled to eighty acres of public laud ; those who ser ved not less than otic year shall be entitled to I'2l acres, and those who served not less than two years shall la entitled to 160 acres. In the event of the death of such jx-rson during the I service or after honorable discharge the patent shall issue to the surviving wife, child cr children, if there be any, and if none, to the father, and if no 1 fath r, to the mother. A Serloua Chargo Against Ed niuuds. rvnator Etmunds i* ardently sup-' ' ported for the Presidency by the Eve ning /V, which makes itself reaponsi , ble ugain for the charges against Mr' Blaine. But precisely what if falsely asserts as to Mr. Blaine, the r< ord I proves Mr. K Imunds'did. Though it ha space for three columns of attn k , upon Mr. B'aiue t the Evening J'uet has in ithi r the space nor the courage to m> ntioii the a. t of Mr. Kdmuud. It is not true that Mr. Blaine had any interest whatever in the I.itlle ll.s k road, when b. acted on it in (.kmgrt-M. But it is the truth that : Scnutor L imundsand He-nator Grimes acquired '.heir interest in the bonds of the Burlington and Missouri when they were in thubcuau-, that the hill to restore the land grant to their road was passed on the same day with the j Little Hoik bill, without a ! dissenting vote iu Hiuo or Sen ate, and that Mr. Edmunds owned these b. nds when he thus Voted to rc. j store the laud grant to his road. He , had n direct personal interest in his | vote, while Mr. Blaine had none in his action. Yet the Evening !'<( hunts down Mr. Blaine with ferocity and "iijiporu Mr. Edmunds wiih mat '. j protestation* of lofty virtue. The public will judge if there is iu this any honesty, aud care for public virtue, anything hut personal rancor, jers i,- ii 1 amhitioD and private schemes. Tho Presidency THnging on n Criminal Trial I If Ki i nstor, now ltcprr*, nUt is, Kellogg wi re not the controller of the, I to rotci of I. 11 "isn* in the t'h.< ago • v.ni.on he might anlu-ii UP w.ih more i • tsinly that ho wniiM get justice In the ti i! which he i shout to undergo it W.t-hmgton. lie ha- f i • in t. ic • <-n demanding with-len*ihl<> anxiety 11 at the ' hsrg* ngainst him should )>e ei In r brought to the ti -t of exsnuna tion or abandoned. Kffor'* have o'ten been ma le to aeootnmod tie him in on > t way or tl>. other, but what has been done fr ni time to time Ins tieen lack ing in finality. Hi* case came tip in court at Washington on Monday last. ! hut wa* postponed st the Attorney Geo- I eral'a rciplest until nextTliesday on the ground that before that time he could j i not engage to have present Walsh and i Price, the tsvo witnesses on whom the Government must depend for proof. As it depends upon the rcult of the | trial at Washington whether Kellogg'# sixteen votes are to ho cast for one candidate or another, it is not impossi ble that the impending legal proceed ings may alter the choice of the Chicago Convention for the Presidency. The Louisiana delegation is at present credited to'Arlhur, but Blaine may gel them after all. Intimations have heeu given out, it is said, that it will vote for Blaine. Should Kellogg he in the Albany penitentiary on June 3 the Louisiana delegates will he without their aceustomed guidance, ami may be expected to wander off. The country will thereforo watch {ho Kellogg trial with abundance of curious interest. Get your job work done at the Cix Tat Pcvocftsr. ■ *^w- TKKMS: r Aui:um,iu Ad tame. N. Xt Con&rubniuun. 1 KfOfb ILSI ClibiGii In tuo ui Without inu-n ling to .n'ttgoiiixe any as pirn it I >r engender ilinn, ill fluoure and piwi'r in the Nttoiml LegiaU ure and through out tbe country thiit I in. tier, r been ex ceeded by a I'enn-y Iranian in tbe taint ' length of time, and I hit gives sd.gr*. i !of u-ltnutnyi- snd honor to hi* conati ' tuf nt. that i. iar tor dtvtrirU to enjoy, j snn. A. Lliernor of the great State of i .iiti-lvaii n -l * iv u > ate of ear i rior* aiel p iti int. winm vr r ufh quoli | , lie* Were required by llie e* gem ;er ol the country—he cnb -eiiy conirit.u. ted more largely than any other uttto I man ill th Union to the pre.ervAtion J of our Nationality in the |.|fM>dy an nd Southern Stat-.. A.a Minister; i Pl- nipotentiary in Europe he sea nex j er<~icd cornmsmlihg influence in he J halt of hi* country. When he returned j |to hu native land he at once graaped, | ;in their ni it p rtenti u extent, the i j -iangrr. uj-r-n wLi h the country was be. ! ,ng driven by the Republican ptty i 1 and though up to th.t tiuie he ha-I been ' an honored and oonsequenti.il member of it. he did not he.itse to tram pie up. 'on promises anil hopev of high official i j>ov tion. and lake a leiding *ti I intfior tant jiart against his former j .irlv sfliluti -us ai I proclaim I ■ the people that th'-y niut jun hi old political | adversaries to ve their country from consequenci tl.t " u d I.- destructive to the r intercs', to their form of gov rn : ment. an It > their liberties. WAh this I high pre- ige he entered f'ongrc**. I I'nere he ,t i nee tr>ok a pi co in the front rank of leading s"d able nrn. ' Mt! ough on'v in hi* er-nd term he : ha* already attained the v< rv hlvhest 1 -■on'ideralir-n among hi* fellow mem ' yr r* *• hi •!< tion a chairman of the j-npertmt eonjmittee on foreiren rrla tion* fully stte-t*. No new -ir tindi inpu'*? cd meml . r ' , COM I I hope to attain such commanding and ii fliK n'ial piaitton even -fterroany > yeßTiefreri c- in U ngrevs. I* it rot 1 fully, therefore, to th nge him for an ( until'd and it fiiiot man ho ens ex .robe no II fl i nee an-L do rn GOOD : when t looted ? And thi", t>o when the ■tun'ry is threatened with the throe*! of finsnci*! iii-a*ter., with it* labor un heaving throughout all it. parti crying for work, f"r bread, for adequate com pontation, and thresli r . .-nily r ,.,- 0 j IUD | ert f or j Ike luwyer. re leaving Dakota in j ''onoquer.o* of the paucity of judges. A PiTTeatau nml factory baa suoef a j Iuil l*.ie( the eapentneut of making i u-el i.iuir, M.ch'gan M retried to produce ■ Unit two-third* of the peppermint j crop of the world Toe ratilo jnrtuMrv in this country ' represent* over 4 T.ftiirt 0(>0 head "feat : tie, wor h |l,sfit,Qori.oQo. A Broadway store window shows a trickle j*r2OUo year. old. The pi, kh ; were a'n acme fme ago. Many n voting roan ha. learnrd to ; hi* sorrow that it ia ea-i r to pop the ; (>i< ir-n then to question the Pop fiaxro*. Hunt .-f New Hampshire, -*ys of Samuel Rat dalt; 'He j* the ►tmripil Democrat in the country to During the ya -1 .is yetrt Illinois, lowa, Kanas, Nebraska, Minnesot*, Missouri and Ohio have established over V00 rream< ri ' Oeneral Butler *ll a-k- I the other i iy if lie 11 a* going to he a candidate r the P't*idi-iicr. "Not unlmi I'm j nominated," *e the reply. Toe Rpu 1.-atia -d Illinois" met in indi on the attention ■ of the poycrment and the ountry, and to make an appeal fur increased fundi. ID Chicago there are !.777 A!oon, or one to evrri 3 r > farnlie- ',l?. li-.kiTi, or one to eyerv 470fam*li*s: 71b butcher*, lor one to erer 20. r famdies; and 1.601 p-ocerr. or one to every eighty-nine families. Fotatoe* are so jlenty in Cumber land pouu'y that the Diet exceptional lot* bring "nly 2"> to ,'t.l cen'a per bushe] and no tew are o!d even at that low figure that a 'ttie oftfie farm* r are feed ing thm to tlieir h"g. The first l.icyt I • in tbi** oountry was brought here it - -,i 1 iu |> i. and waa ridden through '.veral < minecticul village*. Now tl.r e *r* (ifai I i--)clca n ihe country ready to take the road a* aoon ** spring la* fairly njon<-d. A eoflln made for a Hungarian who died m r I>ul-oi*e, C eirlield county, a few daya ago, i* mid to have been found if * niche, too short w li- n it arrived, but hi* fclh w laborer* on the railroad aoon solved t e probl-nt by cutt tig off the d ad man'* feet. Tlie managers of a wire -t car railroad in \alpaia o have | laced woman on the cars**conductor*. They have proved theniselvo* honest an I accurals* and their report* are so correct that the employment of "rj>otter*'' hasl-cen abandon*d. Frank G. Connolly. a-i*it*iit rity editor of the Philadelphia who ha* been with that j api r for a nuinl*er of ye**r, haa severed hi* connection with that journal to accept the position of |*cinl prewa agent for Forepangh and leave* the city tonight to enter hi* new field of labor Ihe Supreme t'out to( Pennsylvania ha* rendered everal deoistona of gen eral interest in the matter of road ia*. The right of farmer* to tvotk out thier road tax Itn* been generally conceded, tut supervisor* in a few town*hipa in aiat that the tax must lie paid in money. A test case La* been derided in favor of tax payer*, and their right to work out their taxes distinctly and finally affirm ed. In other case* collector* of read tax have claimed a commiaaton should be rejected on the part worked out, aa well as that paid into the township treasury. The Supreme Court decided that all claims for such commissiona should be rejected, the working out of a tax impo'ing no labor upon tho col lector or treasurer, but on tbe supervisor who is paid for hit services.