flit Cruftt $) moral. Til K CKNTRK DEMOCRAT iinub |hoit *lv*iico, 8 OO A UVB PAPftCK-ttevoUdlo the InUreete of th# w hole people. ft**jnuuU tn.ttl* within Uiree month* will be con • llrr.-.l 111 MIVAOCI. No ppr wll to* 4Un MI mied until arroaragooare p%i>i ,** opt %t iptton oi blither# I'.ipnr* gointf ml of tho Juunty must be paid for in Advance. Any person procuring •• ten- ash subscriber* will |e seal eoop) I• *•! clinr**. Uir< virculeUon make* this paper an un lU *|iy reliable aud proltuhf tuoiium lor AII. rtlalim W.. the iout imple Acllllles for .It'll WORK %u I ar pr p.n •-i to print ail kind* of IhNiks, I recta ft >icmni'iioe, I* *lers, i'oinuiercial printing, Ac., in t at style and et the lowest pOMiblv relet All a Irerttsoments for a less term than three months 20 cents per line for the first three Insertions, and 5 dents a line for each additional insertion. Special Q j Men a ne*hsl( more. as lit rial notice# lo cwtlper line. L >o%L N ti as.ln l calcolumns, locantsper line A liberal ltw ountl* mod# to persons adserUflng by h quarter.half year, or yeer.es follows: w ; - gfAtll jj One inch (or U lines this type) #j frill Two incliea • *' Three Inchee | J ' ' Os lawn (or • 1 H ilf 1 low i (or lynches One <• >lamn or • Inshos) F'ireltn sdverflement must Ie paid for I-fore In arlioa, tc<\ * r'\ nti -t- alien half-yearly *> armentaln a team *• i• rc 4 ulr*l PiUTi ai '• t■ nn p-rllneeacb In* rHon Nothln '"is r* for less thar •. rents. lottvtst N f| e edit© rial col .:mus to cents per llu,a*h insertion TELEGRAPHIC Democratic Victories in North Carolina. KMKKIII, AI>RIL 5 Municipal elec tion took place to-day in Raleigh, Now berne, Asheville, Circensboro, K.irbers, Durham, (loldsbori, 'ireeiuvillc ni-r provided with torpedoes. An acting agent of the n.w party rays tho party haa already con aidcrahle funds with which to begin a campaign with cruisers provided with torpedoes. Revolving gun- will protect tho crews if attacked, thc-e v. .-els will he employed again -t Hrtti-'i men if war in various harhors. - - - "Number One" Interviewed I'ARIS, April IS.—The Matin alleges that the party from whom its informa tion was obtained that "Number Mae" is in London, had recently interviewed Tyntn in that city, who -tat.d that be hind him was a force before whi h England wouhl one day tremble. "There are." said Tynan, "men of high position and sooinl and intellectual dis tinction among the Invincible*. ! defy the English government an I it- hire ling-." Disasterous Firo at Wllliamaport- WILLI* IMPORT, May 2.—A fire this morning destroyed five dwelling houses, three barns, and several smaller build ings on Lvmont and Elmira streets, causing a loss of between # s ,"Aand flO.ftfs). The fire started in tic esrpcn tor shop of Samuel Hendricks, who was lying inside intoxicated. H was erious ly burned before being rescued, and his clothing and which he had on his person were destroyed. After dr stroying I.uppert's mill and a lot of lumber the fire was extinguish. I The rolling mill was saved. ■ ♦ 1 Paupers Burned. FORTLEN INMATE* OK A < Ot'XTV llowr. ROASTED ALIIE. KAI AMC/00. MICH., April ' :U. -The county house of Vanburn county, ed near Hartford, thirty rail-* west of here, burned to the ground at o'clock this morning and fortc.-n inmates jei ishesl in the tl mi". The name* of the patients burned are as follow* Jan. Johnston, au old sailor, eighty- eight years old: Henry lUker, half mute, ig. d forty. P-enj. Rogar-lus, ng> 1 forty *ix; an old man named Sawyer, inane, lately removed from Ks'amnm asylum: A man named Seargent, over seventy yesis; Fred. Eiehenberger, an epileptic, aged seventeen years; a man named Meyer*, over seventy yean and Feter Roldrn. Alao six females, Deborah firavatt, over seventy years; Miss Curtis, an insane j woman; Caroline Shearer, aged thirty five yea's; Caroline Large, aged thirty ' years: Mr*. Wilson and her daughter, aged ten year*. Tho huil ling was a frame one and hurned very rapidly. Ahos e were all in ooa wing. Mot of them were smothered in their beds, hut several were found together. uns .eporter ytaterday: "1 have not seen Mr. Ttlden in some time. I do not think anybody can say with poaitive ness that h.e would or would not accept the Presidential nomination. Hut there are certain things in the past from which we may,judge. Ho never wanted tlm Presidency as a personal matter, because he thought In- could servo his party and his country he was willing to accept it. In IHM) he was very glad to be relieved of tho harassing cares incum bent upon the nominee. He does not desire or wish the nominate n now. I am certain of that Hut he would have accepted in ISSO, even though it looked like ji eacrifi.-e of bis life. "And 1 believe he would accept now. if the nomination should 1-e tendered him unanimously at Chicago, as it may I.e. If Thurman and Haynr I an.l Hen drieks had sunk personal feeling in I s and acted purely from patriot -m as Mr. Tild.-n did. he would now he President, i buy siy he ha an t the | ink. all'l th'lt he let the Electorial bill become a law because be was afrai I of a light. "I reiuembf i well during th d i • i'" '■ when betook me into n ir.n r : oom -t his lu i-c for a een-ultnti m <>v> ttnpir tint ma'teis. lie was walk ni '! -d down the r> oni. I '-k> d hire Mr. 1.1 den, if you are called on to go to W R*h ingte.n and h ■ inaugorite 1 will you - • He raised hi- arm a! 'i 1 he "t f, | p. -l for a moment *. i i W.ll I g- ' M II I g Ye*, th- igh lam killed •ti tie step- of ill • Capitol, Iwll gs ' 1 ii p. he won't h • nomina'. -I I- u-.- ! -.m out of politir-s and dnt w ml to 1.-; dr:ian in aga>n. CHICAGO Prcpurititf For tho Two Big' Con vention W ssniNCTox. April .'lo, A hirer, f-iv ed here to-da\ from t'iiirago indicate that all probability the cr> vd of out ■ider* at the Democrat . Convention will be much larger than at the Itcpuhli j c ti Convetition. Tho rev. r*e ha* here tofi.re always been the case. The 'fain tntny organization of N send more then a thousand repre sentative- to watch the proceeding* of | the Democratic Convention, <|u.irier* having already been secured for more than that number. Ag< nt for Demo eartie clubs of several other cities are now in f'hieago making arrangement* for Accommodations. The P*im> r House people have written her.- that all the available room for the Democratic Convention h been engaged, but that thev still < purpose ; undertaking to diet lto the action of the c..nrention If there should Is any mob pressure brought to hear on the Homo rratie Convention It is anticipated it will come front those interested in Wes tern candidates ; but this only in the contingei ev which absolutely and i irtcvokibl • leaves Mr. Tilden'* name . from the lit of candidate*, for it seems to have b.-come so thoroughly fecognix -led ns srireelv to merit question, that l if he will he the candidate no other I name will he presented to the conven tion. A Democratic Senator said to day i that In all the conversations on that • de of the Senate chamber it waa uni j verally agr<-ed that Tildan wouhl get i the nomination by acclamation if he would only speak the word. A Moasn ehiisett* Republican of prominence say a Mr. Tilden wouhl get from 20,001) t036,. 000 votes from Republican* in lha State, who would gladly aiexe the oppor lunity to show their disapproval to the fraud by which he waa deprived of thw Presidency, Mr. Tilden haa never commuted as error in his |H>litic*l cal dilations, and he has no dould himself that, should he consent to run, he would le triumphantly chosen over ft ny nominee the Republican a could put up. —Nobby hats, in tUa latest ttylM, at Marutan't. Tho Now Pension BUI. The pontoon bill j***od l>y tho lloune of Representatives thin week i in more thin >ne important respect a hasty and ill •considered set of lcgixlntinn. The Secretary of the Treasury stated in hi* | last report tlint the Commissioner of ' Pensions would require fur the years 1 1884 nd 1885 the enormous sum of i $165,000,000. This is an annul average ' expenditure of $82,500 000, or s.'!|,fHH), 000 more than tiie interest on the public i debt lor 1885 will amount to. Any ad dition* to this prost huidrn, except such a* may be slwolutely necessary, I are to be deprecated, yet that is just what the 101 l passed thi* week conleni plate*. Moreover, h makes tho increase of expenditure indefinite, and open* i the door to fraud, a* i( there were not ■ frauds enough siren ly in pension claim* npcinat the Oovernment. No word of protest will be uttered agnin*t sny one i legitimately entitled ton pension; hut everybody, ami e-peeislly thoie who served honorably in the army, are inter jested in protecting the treasury air>' ' the raids of bounty jumper*, clef, rtcr- i and unprincipled claim agents, fly a pr< vi'.us t ill passed durii _• the j present *< -ion deserters are said to be admitted to the rolls ly creating ill their favor nice d 'inrtinn between "technical and "iiitcnthnal" d.**.-r ti.n. A el&u-o of the 1 11., 't pn*-ce which tl.* re ' • j-r I ..M< j ramp to Ic-lieve '-riginaw d in the service n the line of doty, is no* d, iil-bdit; ' whole or in f r.rt for procuring iib'i i ei . e I \ institisl labor.' shall he place d on the j*eni >t roll*. The phr*e"pro Ruble c .um- to believe" olnr-u-ly give ■ Urge ti: etmn, and must operate ti ll" 1 li.e Pern, II 1'.J1.-SUI* ill clem*' of the tl m*|est chnrscti ■ A second i Isiis® ere .te a n.-wcla of benrficiaries. Parents whose son* w.-r, lost in any war in which the United States have been engaged are to U* pensioned, provided they c>n make it appear that they sre without other present m'-*nof supf>ort than their • *n manual Isbor or the contributions of others not legally bound for tie ,r nip port. The present l*w require s paren to show that th'y w. re dependent on th< ir sons at the date of the death 1 of the latter while in service, but the bill just p.v< d emits this requirement. \ third provision pu's upon the <}ov ernmcnt tb.- onus of proving that a claimant ";ss in any way diseased when he entered the service. At best tbi* is ill considered legislation, and will add hundreds of thousand, and probably tuanv millions, to the burden under which the tsv payer is already groan : ,nv --/' ifc'lir/A /'.( Some Point* For Farmers to Con aider. A New York A.a up rter lis* had an i ler.iew with J. ('. Puck waller, late l> incc-atic c.inlidste f-r Hovernor o? • boo. and who hi* recently returned n 'ln- wo a 1 ti- dof India and \u tci'i t lis says : 'be a Uf abor Saving machinery ih * o untry cu grow agricultural pro ducts that would meet the requirement t bit 7.",*t.00n people As we l a ■ <>> y '• 0 of honiccon-umer we a e obliged to look to fore'gn coun tr e • r h consumption of a portion. ei*e the p ice at which wr would he ; compelled to sell the whole amount in i this country would fall below there rnunerntivrs point, a* the price of the export surplus fixe* the value of the i whole product. To knew how important a factor , this exportation of agricultural products ha* hecn in maintaining the prosperity ' of this country it isor.lv tier. * ary tor* fer to the fact that in thla*t ten year* those product* in this country amounted to $20,000, 000,000 f..r home consump tion, besides furnishing f'..000,000,00n : for exportation. It i* therefore ap j i patent, since the price of agricultural products is fixed In foreign countries, that it is just a* important for the fat mer in Alabama or lowa to consult the I rlaily quotation in the market of I.ivor pool and of Kurache* a* it is to consult the quotation of Chicago and New I York. "The agricultural producer* of this i country stand at a great disadvantage ' from the fact that the price of that ; which they consume and do not pro dure i so much greater than like pri cea to the farmers of other countries that it la difficult—even though our 1 farmers posses* certain advantage over them to produce the same things at as low a price. This anomaly exists in our industrial system, that while the price of what the farmers and planters re ceive for Iheir products is fixed hy com petition in foreign markets, the price of that which consume and do not pro duce i* arbitrarily fixed by IheCongreea of the United Htales. It would aeem, in all fairness, that the price of what they buy should be fixed in the same market* that fix the price at which they •ell. It i* remarkable that the agn rulluriata of this country seem to have discovered the fact that having for many year* competed with the jx-na ntry and cheap labor and France, Rus sia and Houth America, and now having to confort a new rival in India, who work* for five cent* a day, there ia star in* him in the face the necessity ef re discing I he coat of production." BEATING TIIK RECORD. Fltzuornld wiriH tho Chtimptonuhip With n Champion Scoro, HOWRII's PI.RRKY STRl'aiii.r. HUM TIIK KX- A I.IIRK MAX. Nr.W YORK, Muyii. — The great six dxy race has proved L.RHE the closest, as fur a* the two leading contestants are con cerncd, that has ever taken plaee in New York. Thousand* of people have ih rouged Madison Square flarden to-d ugh an*ious FOR daylight to relieve them o' their t .*k. Cud. incn'h the i WSLKTI trttdg. 1 P . nfully .long the. R weary WN\ until the l ist diy'S un came to lighten th> ir way TO vie! ry. At 1.2 M 1 I. v. ! T/gerai I line out of B;- hut and went io wotk to incrci-. hi* lead of "b • '*n inil. It TS jII* t AN hour later when Row ell e.iuie on. the tall irishman •hsn 1 • ing tiltrs-n mi <•* ahead. Roth tn. ii walked for an hour, when Uowell ■a n retired and Fit/gcnld ran h lesd up to tw. nty NUBES by I o'clo K. At that time F.tig. rald thing* e:.-ier j and * ent to hi* hut at fr< ju*nt intervals, ■shich Rowsll industriously improved, knock ng six {mile* ot! the |. I i I , I • clork. In the rr xntime. the rs. e f..r third placs- LE-TWCIM Noremac and Pan I .-hot t j Wis going st* a lil) at the rate ot fin | mile* an hour, while tho Scotchman . W.l* evidently pu>)ie*i to go at aMM b | j lc.er p< e. THOUGH LIE stuck gamely to tl.e track. xoasi.t I'tsriK.s RITR.IIKRAI.II. Alouot . 0.8-ck 1 itrgerald, alarmed ■ t the rapidity with which Rowellw.,. r. luring THE lead, went around the track with vigor. The little Kngli-htnan bowed wonderful speed for the last day in the race, and frequently during th< morning incrers'd hi* "ORE six mile* an hour, an I reduced ih. lead ev*-n wlien both men were on the tra K They kept R nstantly t- srether. .-V • when Row .II spurted. Fitrgerald w.is ' off the track for fifty minutes L>etw<. n It! and 1 1 <■ COM K and Rowell ran SIC mile- further, reducing the lead t • LESS than four mile N ore ma. error d to have given up his struggle with Panchot for third | bo- A hopeless, and spent most ,f THO tirre in his lint r ur ng hi* stitl joints N1 ! preparing hint* IF to defend (ourth 11. against llertv Vint *aid that h. would I • SST istird if IN- was able (O get a sharp of THE GATE money, is nri'siM. thi Btroßti, In th. afternoon the rrnw<] I.e. .nne .dense, Fitzgerald, who was evidently tired, made frrqumt N TRIALS TO hi* tint, but the *pur's OT Rowell AND the rherrs ot the spectators did not permit him to rut long. At 1 o'CB Ik L it /gr raid was five mdctahsad of the recrrd. snd ROWELL also hsd |.ased it. Noremac w rit off' the track j a little liefore ~ o'clock, and Panchot followed half *n hour later with A lead that insured bitn third place. At '.o'clock'2s minutes and 10 sec onds Fitzgerald made his 000 TH mile, and treat HA/sel'S re< the charge* of irregular i ti in the I nit' i >:ate Marthal'i oil. .- under the tupcrv.*. .ti of <>. M.irtbai II ill. i'erkim tiotifi' i tliat he had , lit cud h dcp'orable condition of af air a* conduct! 1 by Hall. For a whilfr, during tin- great run ol bankruptcy bti*in<-i some year* ago, lie raid Hall made { ,Ot**'a year out of the oflice that he ego-red upon the duties ~f i),<- | position a bankrupt rh 1 retired with Ifl'OO.'OOor# He thought the f*| u lence. Hall, he *ald *• an informer | for the Robert* Torpedo Companv and had made money in that direc tion. The end. nr. of Ib-n.on .and I'erkins on Cameron, how-tht h> care it al-out on i | .r w ill the cot lu< t of s Mitchell, at the < ioe of the hut *e*ion ' ..f Congr< .* in d - bargirg the efficient clerk of the Pennon Committee, of which he i h.iirrnan. after the ■> k w.a* done, and bringing hi- fifteen y eat-old .'.n fr -rn school to lake the outb and return tobib-i)k whib- drawing *ix dollars a week Extraordinary Ib\ K< A INK IN IRON-STONE CHINA UND TABLE 6LASSWABE. W. H. WILKINSON, Agt Denier in CHINA, GLASS, Queens ware, ; \ I.l,Eiill A N V STKI.KT, Belle fori te, Pa. I* selling A 1.1. KINDS of i"rockery jand Table * piece*) - . s.l 60 | Hinner plate* -lrge*lii?,<-—per dc* 1 2-' Itiuner plate*—medium do 1 Ift I Tea Plate* do AO , Tureen*—round or oval each 00 Sauce ilithe*—round or ot1 each 20 Sauce Tureen*- 4 piece* fo Sauce boat* 3ft Cup* and aueer—handled —l2 piece* Oft do do unhandled do SO Fruit **ucer—per dor. 6ft Chamber *et* —lO piece* a oft Pitcher and Ba*in ] oo Covered rhamher 76 TABLE GLABKWARK. Tumbler*, each, 04c tioblet*. . , 06c Fruit Howl* . , * 25c fake stand* , , 3,6 c filn*s Set*. 4 piece* . .TV lull Stock of Decorated Tea. Dinner and Chamber Set*. IV*t Ingli.h ware. Tea Set*, Decorated in Blue. Black. Brown or Claret, 56 piece* $.6.00 -regular price f7.no. 1 ull n*ortment in Majolica and Fancy Hood*, Ac. Majolica Pitcher*, 20c; Bohemian Vaee* height 10 itn he*. $ I.oft, and every thing el*e ju-t a* cheap in proportion. Uaf I deaire to *ay to every reader of thia advertisement i 1 1pan/year ottlnm, and in reaching out for ill am Billy pre pared to gixe you tba Greatest value for your money ooce yet obtained. Call and examine the good* and the price. If I do not fulfill strictly all I claim a* to pnoe* being LOWKK than ever be fore heard. I do not a*k your patronage The greater amount of good* I can sell the lower price* oau and will ri mad*. Keapectßilly, ..* J W. H. WILKINSON, kgent. > I'll Groceries, Provision*, " Lima ' . 2o I " Corn . . 2- r t ■' " T'imatiH-s . . 25 Granulated Sugar . 9 1< an E'iue*! California Fbachce 3.5 1 " Apricot* 30 1 " . " IVar* 30 1 pound* Sultana Prune# . 25 1 gal. Beet Table Syrup all sugar) 70 Sugar Syrup, . . 4.0 Choice Lice " Pea.* 25 lit 1 " Good Table I'cache* 2ft •> Bottle* Catsup . . 25 i 1 " l'ickle* . . 25 1 H>. Baking Powder . 30 j 1 lb. Pure Pepper . 25 1 " Glueoee Syrup • 45 j Lump Starch " . 06 Corn Starch, jer pound . . 0b 1 pound best Coffee . . 19 ' Sardine*, 3 boxc* for • . 25 Scaled Herring, per box . 35 K.xtra honed Codfish, per box 45 I*oosc Valentin Baiting A , French Prune* . 1& Olietii Soap . . OfT Bloater Herring, per dot . 20 2 lbs Canned Corned Beef , 27 Tapioca Flake or Pearl . 07 EVERYTHING ELSE Sold as Cheap in Pro portion. Wc also have, in connection with our store a first-class Meal Market/' Ami sell CHEAPER than any other Meat Market town. Jk E. BROWN, JR., & CO. 1-1.1 j BELLEFOim; PA. *