S. T. NHUGKRT Ac K. L ORYIN, Editors. VOL. (5. , jlltr Centre §1 eurocrat. Tarmi II.&0 par Aiiia Is Advamoa DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. CONG K ESS 11A N AT LA KG E, GEN. W. H. H DAVIS. OF BVCKS COI'NTT. THE ELECTORAL TICKET. UtCTOM IT UMS. Hirhar-l Van*. B. J Mrdrmnim 11. B. Pltimm.r. • Mrraic-r 1. John SlaTia, !*• Oaorga S. Par.ly, ■i. Juki) P. J SanaaaOorf. IS. P. K. Arkl.j, X John W Laa. 11. John P. Laran. . Uarhart J Horn, la. txra D Paik.r, 4. Richard L Wd*bt, IS X. D Mubm, 6. John H. Brlnti.n, 3U. A. H. Dill, T. W'm Utahlor. SI. franklin R Jamaa. 5. CUartM P. Raotacklar, W. J. K P. DuS. #. H. M. Nortk, SO. Joan Saan, . 10. BnrrrO Slllaa, A B Wlntaroltt, ill. A.J Bro*eated in defraud, ing the government. TUP; Tammany committee uf New- York, have engaged quarters nt Chic ago, OD the meeting of the Democratic National Convention for quite a for midable delegation. They have secur ed four hundred rooms, but how many they will pack in a room, is not stat ed. IT is immaterial to the Democracy whether Blaine or Edmunds be the t nominee for President, the Republi cans will furnish the campaign litera ls ture that will show to the people not only the propriety, but the uecessity of the defeat of the candidate. In either event the public will be favored with interesting reading. THE silk culture industry is to receive the fostering care of cougress. 6en- George, chairman of the committee on agriculture 'and forestry, reports an amendment to the Agriculture ap preciation bill giving the sum of 830,. 000 to be expended under directions of the Commissioners of Agriculture to encourage and develope the culture and raising of raw silk. MR. CHRIS MAOEE, who holds Sen ator Cameron's proxy as a memlwr of (he Republican National Committee, announces that the boss may be ex' pected home from Europe on the 18th of May. Magee is a •Sherman man, and in the event of the Pennsylvania delegation failing to nominate Rlaine has strong hope* that Senator Camer on will influence them in favor of the nomination of .Sherman. KKLLOOU escapes the law by plead ing the statute of limitation. This ends the star route investigation farce in the courts. It is said now that the case of Kellogg will he taken up by the Springer committee to determine his fitness for a seat among the Rep resentatives of the people in Congress. ' No peison doubts the guilt of all these robbers, but the protection of in high positions, who profit 'W kj these political villanies and enor ' mous thefts, are patent and irrcsista * ble under the present state of affairs. TnE Virginia Stalwarts, or Repub licans, held their State Convention on the 30th uIL, for the appointment of delegates to the National convention. They instructed for Blaine and Lin. coin. The Readjuster party had pre viously held a convention, at which they appointed delegates to represent the Republicon party, resolving at the same time that hereafter they would be the Republican party, although heretofore they had belonged to other affiliations, and few of tnem had ever voted a Republican ticket. This was a little too large a dose for the original | — Republicans to swallow, so the old "tagcrs came to the front in conven tion, and repudiated the action />f the pretenders who favored the nomination of Arthur, and will contest the right #of Mahone and his tUn to repri><-ut the Republican party uf Virginia at TM will doubtless be an interesting episode iu die deliberations of the harmonious body to meet on that occasion. BOTH being alike guilty is com forting to the Philadelrbia l'rtm, which says : "Nobody doubts the honesty of Seuator Edmund*, lie musu't imagine even for a second that anybody does. But the point we like to see stand out like au obelisk in a desert is simply this, that if he and Mr. Blaiue got their hooks caught iuto the same fish he couldn't say that he had captured a codti-h and Mr. Blaine a shark. Thev *v>th got el fish or they both got - 1 .... Mr. E3- inuuda is fisherman euuiigb to k now that." The plain Edglish of this is, if Blaine prostituted his official position for personal gain in jobs, as charged by his Republican brethren, so did Edmunds, 'and therefore honors are easy. Hence Blaine not being the ouly tattooed candidate in the Repub lican ring the I'm* can still he hap* py. FOREST fires last week, throughout the couutry, were about as disastrous and distructive of property andllifte t as the floods were a few weeks ago. The coal ami lumber districts of the state have suffered severely, and thousands of people have b>st their all. At Houtzdnle, Clearfield county, so great is the destruction as to de mand the most active iflorts of the people in more favored districts, to prevent the suffering of thousands who are rendered destitute by the calami tous fires which prevailed there. It is gratifying that the people were prompt in supplying the immediate demands of the destitutes with food ; hut much more will he required, as few of the unfortunates of that dis trict, saved anything but the clothiLg iu which they escaped from the flames. Our own citi/ous deserve credit for promptness, as they hnd a car load of supplies on the road in a few hours after learning of the nr o -ity for them. IT is announced that at an early day Representative Converse of Ohio, will introduce another tariff bill as an amendment or substitute for the Mor rison bill. This bill, says a Washing ton correspondent, proposes t„ restore the duties on wool, except m to carpet wool, which are to be placed upon the free lilt with -on e twenty other ar tides. The metal schedule i to be equalized by reducing the duty on some articles and increasing it ou a few others. The tobacco internal tax is to be abolished, and a provision i to be made for giving alcohol to man ufacturers free of tax. The manu facturers who manufacture for export arc to receive a rebate on their raw materials equal to the duty less t< u percent. A reduction of 10 per cent, is to be made in favor of goods im ported in American bottoms. This is said to lie similar to an old law passed in Jefferson's administration, except that Jefferson's differential duty was an increase of 10 per cent, on the then existing tariff list, while Converse pro poses 10 per rent, reduction, (kin verse thiuks that this bill will reduce the revenue 140,000,000. STATE TREASURER BAILEY on May Ist made his report, and handed over the public treasury to his success or, Mr. Liveey. He makes the follow ing exhibit of the finances of the state, and where the funds arc deposit ed, exclusive of money appropriated to the sinking fund : AlWfhaii; National Bank. INIM nr*h f19|,20? ,V. Ki tiaef. Hank, BraSSard In mnin F.-n Hank, Harrtafeurgti Ki A'O f Karrii-r.' and W• h.n ic' National (tank, t'hl!S-l|)hla ...... V'lMI S" Klftk National Sank, Plltal.nrgh V.IJ) fin Klra* NaUoaal Bank, HarrtaiHirgh IM.KI HI rift Nati-nal Bank, Cakmtowo ISS.SOD ml Kf.h"W Sank, PltObwrgh Mi,mm mi Dlrant National Bank, PkliaSnlKbla .*> Maar>nl Bank, fnt.lai P>l la a Bank, <4 I'kiia l-i|.l,la ISi,ia) m S ItantM. Ohark. aah llama an.l pro lW limit la laatt of AW-taay -taaaaal...... ...M Ml T-Sal laran |a Attn! Pin la fI.UC.-H IS "KUUAL AKI> KX ACT JUSTUS TO ALL MKN, OK WIIATKVKH HTATK OK I'EIUiUAMIOK, KKI.IUIOCH OK POLITICAL. "—Jtßtttvn BKLLKFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, MAY *, 1884. A Disgraceful Controversy. The acrimony which characterizes the contest for the Republican presi dential uominatiou is inexpressibly painful, remarks the Harrisburg l'a triut. It forces the conviction thulall the honored leaders of the grand old party are alike tainted with corrup tion. Such a knowledge can afford pleasure to no one. It must be humil iating to all. The frieutU of Rlaine charge Mr Edmunds with having dabbled iu stocks and bonds of a railroad which obtained value by legislation promoted by him. Mr. Edmunds by irnplica cation admits the soft impeachment. The friends of Edmund* charge Blaine with the same crime. The friends of Blaiue plead guilty, but assert that what Blaiue did Edmunds did also. There is no doubt that the charges in both cases are strictly true. But what good can he accomplished by parading them before the public? If the party was lietter than the culprits in this case the public would be spared ami both men quietly dropped into the disgraceful retirement they de. serve. It is the rule of logic that when rogues fall out honest men will come by their own, however, and this controversy will probably end in turn ing all the rascals out. Pennsylvania Coal Productior for 1883. There is a jmpular uha says the Philadelphia Timet that the bitumiu ..us coal industry of Pennsylvania, being scattered over a much gnater extent of territory, is of more value to the state than the anthracite field. Such, however, is not the < a*e at pres ent. The anthracite field is confined to portions of nine counties and com prises 310 colleries, which employed last year 87,30* persons, to whom s..'{,• 597, 252 was paid in wages. The mines were worked an average of 21 i days during the year and the output was 3<>,l ."i t,bib tons of coal. The lib luminous field in operation f,, r the -ame time comprised portions of twenty-five counties. The number of active collieries was 381, employing to, l-Vt men aud boys, to whom U17,- 014,024 were paid in wage. The av erage number of days the collieries wire iii operation was 207, and the output of coal amounted to 18,723,- s l7 tons. This includes the arnout t of coal used by 10,017 Coke ovens in the manufacture of 3,3*0,872 tons of coke. A comparison <>f tli< ui figur. ■ di-- closes the fact that while bituminous coal is produced in nearly three tine - as many counties a* comprise the whole known anthracite field, and while there are seventy one more bi tuminous coal collieries in active opcr* stion than in the anthracite district, hut little more than half the number of in-1) are employed producing coal and receiving wages in about the same proportion. There is a iarge field for future development in the bituminous districts, but at present much of it re mains untouched. PROF. VIRITIOW, who has probably given closer scientific attention to the subject than any other man in the Germrn empire, testifies that no tri chinous epidemic has been produced in that country by the American meat product and that no cases of disease have been observed which can be at tributed to its consumption, excepting in n solitary instance at Bremen, where living trichina' were noted and ionic sickness of the nature of trichi nosis discovered, but without fatal re sults. With such n showing as this it is not easily to be understood why the importation of American jiork, al most invariably well cured as it is known to lie, should have been pro hibited on sanitary grounds. It is true that many Herman* are in the habit of eating their own swine pro duct without much, if any, cooking, aud disastrous results quite naturally follow such egregious violations of tho laws of heal.h and common senw. It in a little unjuul, however, tlmt a pro duel which iu thi* couutry in cousid i?red healthful and nutrition*, forming a general article of food, should he debarred from the j>ort# of Germany, for the reason that the people of the country are made nick by eating their own hog* raw. Rut it in becoming more and more evideut, an the facta are better known, that sanitary con* ' sith rations have never had much to do with the questions, excepting as a pre text for unfriendly legislation, and the I opinion of Prof. Virchow will doubt" ' lota go unheard. AH the Jkrliner 'TagtiUtt says : "The importations is and remains prohibited, for whenever eertain interests are at stake neither morality nor science stands a chauce of being heard." Tut: United State# rounds off its list of metals by the discovery of im tut use t n deposits near Huriug's je-ak Dakota. Prof. G. K. llailey, analyti cal chemist, who has exumined the country, sa_v that the region contains large quantities of ore which can be profitably worked. "I can safely say," said he, "that a great .Jeal of the tin hearing rook tan he easily obtained. It can lie quarried from the surface instead of being ring for and followed underground. How abundant thi* rook is you may imagine when I tell you thnt I have seen veins of it meae uriug more than fifty feet in width. This rock can easily lw crushed, the ore <-incentrated, and the metal Work ed int > bars of pure tin. To extract the stream tin the proccw would re semble placer mining for gold, ai , though, of course, much rougher, the metal being iu larger fragment* and larger-quantify. The ore is much bettor than that of Cornwall, where the rock averages about two j* r cent, of tin. The stream tin—that which must be obtained by sluicing, or plar. er work—will yieid about 7" per cent. Tin acquittal in Philadelphia, on th< ground* of insanity, Kruma liickel, who had deliberately killed a former lover by shooting him from a window, where she had fr some time waited knowing be woifld pass the hcuse, shows how hard it is to convict a woman of a capital offense and to what extent public opinion allow her l-i ii- a pistol with impunity. A* n matter <-f form she will be detail ed in a lunitic asylum for n short time, hut, in a few months at farth-*t In- again free to seek another 1 ver, and, if she feels like it, kill him should he desert her. Not an unnotlcehle feature of the trial wire the murmur* < unpunished, it may 1M- taken for granti.l that the train is laid for another murder, though there lc not the slightest ap parent connection between them or the at tors. —Washington I'o*l. Ah the tariff discussion pmgrcwH*, says an exchange, it becomes apparent that there i* only one really vital uue | before the country, and that is the necessity for a reform of the system of taxation which places the principal burden of supporting the Government upon consumers of the ncccwiarie* of life. With sueh an extraordinary sur plus revenue there is no excuse for delay iu lopping off the unnecessary taxes. As the Republican* have per sistently refused to do this, they hare given the people the best of all reasons for turning (hem out. While it mav he unfortunate that a minority of the Democrats should want to stand on the Republican platform on this ques tion, the average voter and tax payer will hardly be foolish enough to think that the much desired reduction ran be attained as lurclr by keeping the 1 Republicans in as it can by turning j them out. We thtyefore expect to sec 1 them turned out. neck and crop, next i November. A Navy. Ib Republican paper* express a great ile.l of indignation at the course of l)eni',crui iti < "ongress who object to gr> ng to C.isn-ilttr ufii i<- it in iney to buil I a navy before he p.issiw from pub lie life. They have no confidence in hi* integrity, and believe he would di vole it with the Johnny itoachs snd i heir political p%itn*r*. 'l'he country can staud it without a fighting navy un til Democrats take charge of the Gov ernment, when the money necessary will be forthcoming with i-omc assur ance that it will be economiralh and I honestly expended. The I.un-aster fnlft!igtiv<:r, discussing th : s subject, nates: We have visibly utl'er<-il because of our deficiency. We never needed one much until in the civil war and then we picked one up which we* good enough for the occasion. 1; is true I that this was because our Opponents had no navy, and we e.*krd where we would be if a great naval power should liounce down uj-on u*. Doubtlc** *< would be nowhere. Rut then the great I naval j-<>wcr h* i |>ouhccd,and there ■re |. 11l jcdi.te (glut tlist it Mi 1 . J htre is mi old -a) ing fr jut it when tin- war i- not discernible. We can go ,i ,iit the hu*.n fashion that m<\ be **<• will net long want *u#ml--t(. At anv rate we will lo*e nothing by waiting for the honest intcli gence of a Democrat:' s lain * trstion to d< termine what win-ed in the shaj- of a navy and a naval aims llient. A Republican Convention Calling for Reduction The Republican Convention of the Second Congressional District of Maa -achuM-lis yesterday elected Henry P. Kidder ami Edward I*. Iha roe dele gates to Chicago, and, with but few dissenting voices, adopted the follow ing resolution "Resolve*! that the leading n< w i.*.ue confronting the statesmanship of the present day is the question of reducing the surpln* revenue of the Government; that the Republican party should recognize and put itclf in accord with the best sen timents of the time on this question, and advocate in it* national platform an immcdiab reduction of the pre sout tariff ami an increase of the free lit, with a view t•. reducing th- revenue.'' On J. of the trf whom would vole against th- bill if it were put upon its passage to-rn >rrow." It i-> -m l that Air. Morriek withdrew from the Kellogg case because h® doubt ed the faith of th® government in the prosecution. Mr Merrick understands Kellogg s relation- to the F.t.aware, New Jersey and Ore* gnn have joined tho Mulligan Blaine procession and New York is still mov ing in that direction. - Bss halt bell*, Osrmsa'i. IKItMS: *1..V0 |>r Aninini.Jn Adtaiire Itein of Interest 'ioveriior Jfoadly ha* IMul . d hi „ procUr malum, designating Friday, May 18th, "" " t ' t * l' : ntng day throughout Ohio. ''aowng, r trair,. .re expected to be running on the JWcl. Creek, O'learfieid A Southwestern railroad by the middla June. Judge IhslforcJ, member of Congre*# from Colorado, will deliver an oration on the evening 0 f Decoration Day at the Court house in Lock Haven. Ue la •aid to l, an eloquent speaker. It i. a rather curiou. fact, in the eati mation of the Dam aiter InUUiytnur, thai Pennsylvania in all honorable vi ays to secure audi conviction. I'he Supreim Court of lowa ha* r-tuv ed to grar.l a divorce to a woman with a drunken husband, because *1 e married him knowing that h<- dinsk, and that she knew, .i* .11 the world kcow*. that a promi*e of reformation made by men who drank i* elwsy* broken. In short, she w.s told that a* she had knowingly marr ed a drunkard she must jut uj, with the trial* of life with him and b'- content to be a drunkard's wife. On the iflth ult., it was announced that th• >j ini*h contract for Kentucky tobacco, involving dO.is'M hogsheads, had been awarded, at about eight cents a pound, to the Marquis De Campos, fo f whom a tobacco firm in this city act, a* agents. The value sf the tobacco U fully f r OCKi Of*', and lie price is much higher than th- Span a government, paid two year* ago. Kk i >unty has just ! • ! nni of it* oldest residenter*. in the j erson o David Thayer, who served one term a" Sheriff and kejit a hotel in Kidgway for over thiitj years. He w- a nativeof Saratoga county. New Yotk, in 1812, and was there fore 72 year* of age. lie was wi d an 1 favorably known by cit, /-n* in the surround nr countc. 1 taeMcKean Mv.er • *** Newspapers though everyb iiy does not seeem to think so, .ire bwjj pod for in advance. It li,e thoughtful sutsrr.bar dm n't do it the jr -prietor la* to do so. The psjier and ir.k manufacturer and prin ter will not wait till a year r r perhaps half a do/en years, exjures before they g. t their j'y. The subscriber in arrears should think of thi* \o exchange says: The supreme curt of In! a in a rec tif deti ion declare* that tlie legal i u* of a p< i-oti . tnlsfl . 1