¥ - d 3 a fsa a F.E & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. “EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTIUE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL." wJofferson VoL. ' BELLEFONTE, PA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1884, TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, is Advance. A AAS NO. 50, The Crntre Democrat, Torms 31.50 por Annum in Advane FRANK E BIBLE, Editor. Tus Missouri “man comes to the front now. Good bye, Ohio. Mz. Braxs told his sister who is Mother Superior ofa convent that Burchard had sandwiched * Romanism’’ in between Rum and Rebellion as one of the antecedents of the Democratic party and that had defeated him. Tax Philadelphia lawyers bave laken up the question of Police Magistrates, and are determined io reform the abuses that have fastened like barnacles on to that class of officials, Lawyers as a class don’t need any reformation un’ less it might be a Philadelphia lawyer. Hox. Lroxarp Ruoxe has been re elected Master of the State Grange. Honors crowd fast on our worthy Rep- resentative and they cone not unde- served. Mr. Rhone is one of the most intelligent practical farmers of our State He bas made agriculture the study of | his life, and richly merits his p'ace at the head of this organization. Tue Philadelphia Press verdantly re- | 18 senatorial question marks that the not settled io this state, Emory Smith, tell that to “mugwumps” “dudes” or; Pharisees, Mr, Blaine will carry out his bargain and you know it. Besides Don looked after a few doubt- ful districts, and somebody threw in enough Democratic seats to make kick ing useless, y - -- Doxarn Cavzrox will walk off with the Pennsylvania Senatorship as has been the custom of Don Cameron lo, these many years. There will be some feeble kicking on the part of a corpor- als guard of Independents but Don will smile gently on the August assem- blage koown as the Legislature snd Senator Don will be Senator, Don for six years more, RE cul Tweive hundred Booapartists ban- queted in Paris the other day, and said all manner of Napoleonic things. The origional “Bony,” never indulged in such political moves, But then a ban. quet is harmless, and men are. not so likely to go to war on a full stomach. About the best thing the French Re public can do is to give a banquet each week to the Bonapariists Orleanists Legitimatists, Illegetimatists, Rights, Lefts snd all the other parties inclined to make a noise. It may be expensive but will not cost as much as a revola. tion. i 4 A — Waarever political sagacity may be claimed for the Democratic National Committee, one thing is conceded by all, That the policy of Samuel J. Raodall | and the men who were brave efough to follow his lead, made Democratic victory possible. The free trade avalanch with which the county was threatened, dis. appeared before the sunshine of a wise, and cooservative tariff policy, Mr. Randall is now respiog his reward, His party Lis victorious, and from all over the country comes the warmest ex. pressions of regard for the great Demo- eralic Commoner. The leadership u. surped for a time by men of but single den, comes back to Randall as natur- lly as did the dove to the ark, and about the same resson. Like the “dove it conld find no place to rest. Ii _ isonly a broad, liberal and experienced Randall that can lead the ie party. ——————_ - ony Cotrntms, Cor, Dee. 8, 1884, like Democr Now Chawls | Something to Consider, Tue Republican campaign fund amounted to seven bundred dollars Their campaign was mansged snd run from Bellefonte. The Democratic ma- + | jority of four years ago was cut down from 996 to less than five hundred, The Democratic campaign fund amounted to $1400, the osmpaign wes managed from Philadelphia and the party major. ity reduced from 990 to less than five bundred, Just which of these two funds contributed most to this reduced majority we can't say, Perhaps both contributed their fair sha oe. The Rep- ublican chairman has had comparative- ly little experience in the management of campaign. The Democratic chair- man has had the experience of over twenty years in political life a thorough acquaintance with the county, and with the party workers in every district. The Republican canvass showed a little over six hundred Democratic majority while the Democratic canvass showed twelve bundred of a party majority, Now the querry is why should it take twice as much money to run the Democratic campaign a8 it does to run the Republican ecam- paign ? Again why should a Democratic | canvass of the county show 1200 mejor- | ity snd the Republican canvass show | 6007 The result shows Mr. Keller's can. vass to have been remarkably acowrate, and chairman Meoks to have been the | most macurale in many years, How { this to t | cannot be pleaded on the part of the is oe accounted for? Inexpeiience Democratic chairman, He claims that | bis committee did its work faithfully, | | then of course it canaot be charged 10 the county committee. The attempt to unload the responsibility of the chair man on the shoulders of some of the candidates is a failure. Whatever dis affection there might have been with regard to any individasl candidates would only effect that candidate, as his enemies would be sure to come out and vote against him. There was | 8 lack of confidence of the party in its executive head which was well founded, and plainly evidenced by his vacillat- ing course and his indifference to the success of certain candidates on the | else back of all this. only be conjectured. conventions elect as chairmen in the future men who are known to be true to their party, whose past record will be a guarantee of their future, and who | do not seek the position for their own personal advancement and pecuniary benefit. What it Let our i» — A AI — New Markets. Just now what American manufact- urers and American labor needs more | than anything else is new markets for their products. Over production, will | not be complained of when the markets | of Mexico, South America and the West | Indies are open to our goods. The Ke- publican party which has been in offici. | al control of all departments of the gov. | ernment for the last twenty-four yoars | has by ita policy driven American ship ping off the high seas and banished from the marts of the world her commo- dities. Tariff has been the one idea of these statesman and none have been able to grasp the sitastion President Arthur has shown more statesmanship in bis short administration in dealing with international tresties than any of bis predecessors, Whether the pre sent proposed treaties with Spain and Nicaragua shall be ratified or not, they are the opening wedges to a new policy of diplomacy. That policy which shall give to American manufactures the markets of the world, and place her commercial marine on the ocean as the legitimate carriers of her freight, will start the wheeles of industry, snd the busy bum of trade will be heard throughout the land. Over production will be a thing of the past. When we take into consideration the set that, only two snd a ball per cent of the ticket, which may account in part for | | the failure but there must. be something | can | county | controls the ocarrving trade of that, Island as she does of the United States. It may take years to throw open the markets of the world, and for us to ac- quire our fair shire of commerce, but a wise liberal foreign policy will accom-~ plish a great deal in that direction in four years, Our manufacturers must be thoroughly posted on the quality and peculnrity of the goods salable in the different markets. The idiosyneracies of the trade must be known tv Ameri. can manufacturers. An intelligent con- salar service all over the world and managed with an eye single to the ad- vancement of American commerce will be sn element of strength. That Presi- dent Cleveland will be able to grap- ple with the question we have no doubt and with a return 10 the econsmy of past Democratic administrations we have great hopes of the future, —- A —— The County Committee The disposition of the county Chair man (0 lug ia by the ears his county Committee, and on their shoulders 10 unload the blame for his incompetency the members of that body if it were not for its manifest injustice to non participants. The rights of non-com- batants should always be respected, {and why he persists in it we cannot see, No person for amoment thinks of charg ing the greatest political farces of many years to the county Comm ties, In fact if it were not for the traditions | of our party in Centre county no one wou'd even suspect that there was such an organization. It is customary | the county Chairman to eall bis com- : mittee together during a political cam { paign and consult them with regard to | al § i its conduct, | least there was no meeting of the com- This was not done or mittee. If there was a single member | of that body in the confidence of the | | Chairman we do not know who he was | Perhaps a campaign oan be better run doubt it. | Once for all Mr. Chairman, neither the | Demovnar or the Democratic voters of without a committee bat we responsible for the masquerade cam | puign of last fall. — A—— Pablic Lands The lands has unanimously instructed Rep- House Committee | resentative Oates to report favorably { his bill providing that no alien foreign- | or shall acquire title to or own {within the United Foreign [ born persons who leagally declare their |intention to become citizens of the United States shall be elligible 10 ac- { quire Isnds. This bill strikes at one of landa States, | the great abuses that have crept into {existence during Mill {owned by non-resident Republican rule. land lords to | the exclusion of actual settlers. Be | tween the great railroads of the west [and the foreign corporations the pub- | lie domain is fast dissppesring, and the { prospect of small holdings or farms for [ the people becomes very blue indeed. { This bill in principle is right, and as it {has the unanimous : {of the House Committees on Pablie | Land it will likely pass. Here is one | measure of national importance which should be promptly acted upon. The puolic lands for actual settlers should be the policy of the government. The NOT MOUs ACErage NOW in possession of | English nobleman and capitalist will be one of the great drawbacks to the sel- tlement of & large portion of some of of our Territories. A farm for every man who desires it is a strong induce ment to our immigrant population to leave the crowded cities of the East, where both moral and physical disease lurks in every street and ally. These lands belong to the ‘people and the general government has no right to di vert a single acre from them. Absentee ism will manifest itself in this country in afow yoars unless checked, Nothing will make a man a good eitisen and a or neglect of daty would be amusing to | for | on public ions of acres of land in the west sre | recommendation | Going Out to Stay. Our Republican friends are gradually coming to a realizing seoxe of the im: pending change decreed by the people oa the 4th of November and (0 be con- sutmated on the 4th of March, but it is a tremendous task to the party to rid i1- sell of the chronic delusion thet it really owhs this country, and that its deplace- ment is a conspiracy of the majority agdinet the divine right of the minority. For twenty years the Republican party has been claiming that to it alone be- saved the Union in the war between the sootions, For twenty years “we: the Republican par.y, have been paying the national debt, making no secount of the fact that our plan of taxation imposes the heaviest burdens on the working. men, most of whom are Democrats. the results of scientfiic progress, the | {bis will, aod that being a citizen of | | ization —all these have been claimed as | Wis State be was entitled to its pro- | fortes of nature, the tendencies of civil achievements of the Republiean purty, It is therefore, little wonder that the | arty came at lust to look upon itself as ' the owner of this goodly land snd di | vinely commissioned to rule it: but this delgsion is slowly giving place to the sober truth that the people have rights which minorites cannot always tra nple The preposte waved thi i upon with fr ests ity HnpanIty ¢ onatwe' that nion 1 bombastic “we” that has “mad ® Buen 8 #1 i splendid progress in paying publ debit " med the good results of a'l couse. for a! the “we that has el all most 8 quarter of a century is coming to un and Dem { derstand that it must step aeidea | let “turbulent and dangerous cratic majority take the helm Bat the old perty eannot make ip is mind to go out withou! sssuming » por troniziug a'r, and instruoctig the Demo | eracy very carefully and minutely how the governmental machioe mast be run, but its solicitude is not culled for and its advice will not be followed. The ! | old party should understand that it is | the county bold the county eommittes | NOR merely going oul between the acts i ina case reported in Penosylvaoia i {the Court intimated upon a similar | | “10 see a man," but is golng out at the | close of the performsnce—going out to | stay. ~ Washington Post — a —— Other Paoples Money A great many persons seem ever and over willing 10 undertake the mavage { ment of other people's money, and by | far 105 many forget, after they are oc- | gaged in the work, that those who paid i the money expect to know all about | whet was dove with it The most recent ease brought to our | notice is that between the Demoerstic | editors of cur borough on the subject of the Democratic esmpaign funds paid into the coffers of I. Gray Meek, Euq., and the wail that goes up with it sounds very much like Hans Brightman's wail { over his party, “Vere i<h dot now 7’ | If the Caxras Democrar is correct, P. Gray Meek, Esq, acted as chairman and treasurer of the county committee, {and as chairman, ordered work of P. | Gray Meek. Bag, editor Democratic Watchman, and for which P, Gray Meek | Esq, tressurer of the county committee | paid P, Gray Meek’ editor and ete, without action or endorsement of the committee, forgetting, us Brother Bible thinks, the wise injunction of Robert Burns thet “oekieh | mankind are very weak, And lithe to be frosted, 11 wolf the wavering balance shake, 10% rarely right adjusted 1° Bat the Cexrre Dewocrar mast not push Brother Meek too far because you see he has spread himself considerably for this campaign. Think of his being & ® £ if 5% 2 3 TR Esrf : =} longs wll the glory and hovor of having | The development of our agricultural | m neral and manuleoturing resourses, | Inter-State Question of Local In- torest ALsany, Dec, 9, 1884.--A some: what novel and, it is said, unpreced. ented controversy came before Gov ernor Cleveland for adjudication to. day. The facts arc sisted to be as follows: About October 1 of the present year Patrick Norton, living in Allegheny, Cattarsvguy county was kidoapped in Buffalo and brought to Erie, Pa, bys person samed Dennis O'Connell. Norton was charged with the crimes of grand larceny, embezzlement and conspiracy to cheat and defraud. Counsel for Norton made a demand on Governor Cleveland for a request on his part to the Governor of Pennsylvalia for the prisoner's release on the ground | that he had been kidnapped and taken { from the State of New York agaiost tection. | Governor of Pennsylvasia for a re | quisition upon the Governor of this | State for Norton's return to Pennp- sylvania, This requisition was re. the kid napping process, after the refusal of fused. It was sought by the requisition, to get him within the tale of Pennsylvania in dellance of t all legal right NORTON'S Upon the above facts the Goversor {decided that iL was his daty to lay {the papers in the case before the | Governor of Pennsylvania, with the | | request that, if consistent with bis |idens of justice snd due exercise of | executive power, be should cause the |relesse of the prisoper., A careful examination here fails to disclose a | similar case in the previous history 1 | state of facts, if a request were made | {by the Executive of the Siate in | which the prisoner resided, the Court | would feel bound to set him st large | New York Herald | Our distingoished legal light, J | Le Spangler, Esq., is Mr. Norton's {attorney in this case and went to | Albany, N.Y, and laid the matter | | before Governor (jeveland. There : {is no precedent in the legal history : | either of Peonsylvania or New York, and it may become of national im- | | portance. Governor Cleveland has | placed the matter in the hands of {Governor Pattison. We have per. | fect confidence in Mr. Spangler's | | ability to take care of his clients \ | d the larger the case the more his | legal talents shine forth. Our readers { no doubt remember the famous Her | dic case, in which Jack's legal abili. ties were so well tested. That case was worked up entirely by him. We hope be may be successful in this Go in; you'll be attorney general yet. RBar ?<Why should a Demooratic edi tor write “National” Administration? Why not say Federal and thereby estab- lish your I . . Again : “Natiog- al” Capital. Would not Feders!/ sound better. Cearfield Republican, We know some fellows who might use the word “Federal” all their lives and not establish their Demoeracy. i ——- A — Guxenas Gray prefers to be retired on the army list, ther thar accept a pension on the civil list. It was jo con. sideration of the fact that having retir- od from the army and accepted the Presidency for two terms, he gave up the compensation which would have aoeraed to him at the age of sixty four yours; that a quarter of a million of dollars was raised for his benefit, the proceeds of which be now enjoys. His friends vow insist that the Jaw be re. poaled in his ease, and that he bs ex- cepted from its application, but receive pay from the date of his resignation in the regular army to be President, and four hundred thousand dollars during his sight years, and ts d and It appears tist an spplica- | ton had previously been made to the | RELEAE T0 BE ASKED yor, | 1° f this State or of any other, although | 1784. CENTRE COUNTY, A Retrospect and Comparison. BY JOHN BLAIR LINN, On the 14th day of January, 1784, the Congress of the United Siates sasem. bled at Annapolis, Maryland, ratified sod confirmed by a unanimous vote. the definite articles of pesce between the United Biates and George 111, which had been agreed upon at Paris on the 3d of Sey tember, 1783. On the same day Thomas Mifflin sent s mes senger, carrying the news to President Dickinson at Philadelphia, and on the 224 of January, 1784, the President and Supreme Egscutive Council of Penvaylvanis issued ao proclamation, contaning a copy of the treaty, snd requiring all Sheriffs to cause the pro- |clamation to be made public in their | respective counties. At thet date sll the territory em- | braced within the present boundaries of Centre County was in Northumber. {land County, with the coynty-seat at | Saubury, and the proclamation, in the then state of the public roads, though sent by special messenger. would not resch Sheriff Heary Antes for five or The oy i Uses six davs Wirts thes met on the May, io the Sret opening Spring the glad fourth iny sof Februsey, August and Novembe r. but woek of the Tew would become generally known. O relurning jurors snd sithesses settlers, who bad fled from our valleys Ant In- diane, after Col, Hartley's regiment was withdrawn from the West Branch Val ¥ oul op on July, J cipating inr ads by hostile ley General Potter and { nearly sli the inhabitants of Bald Eagle, Nittany and Pean's Valleys, after cut- {ting their harvest, to Baffalo Valley and Middle Creek, aad some The s0, which was excep- tionably severe, drove out the resolute | few who remained, and our valleys were entirely abandonsd welll the Spring 178. Having twice sbandoning their homes to escape the relentless savage, were in no { humor for returning, until suthorita. retired farther Eastward and Southward. | Winter of 1779-15 land Summer of they | tively assured that a treaty of peace had been absolutely ratified Ly Con gross George McComick, (the ancestor of Wm. K. Allison, Feq.), was among the last to leave. He said, “1 fled sbout | the 12th of April, 1780, and the winter {of deep snow, and | was away three {years and ten months.” He was the {first to return in February, 1784. He said the settlers returned generally in 1784. Treditionary incidents of the [return are preserved among the old families. Jacob Stover was also one of {the last to leave. Barbara Stover used 10 relate that they fled in the early | Spring, overturning their sugar-kettles, {and leaving them in the woods ; when {they returned, she oarried a small apple tree as a swilch, ss they came {through the narrows from Ruffalo | Valley. This she planted, and the tree [ was yet standing a few years since. | la 1784 the only public road was the {one from Buffalo Valley, which ter- | minated near the west line of Gregg Township, made in 1775, There was & path through Logan's Gap (Heol), and “one over by Coanelly's,” who lived near Pleasant Gap, gave communication with the settlers at Milesburg, and the path from Kishacoquilles beaten into a road or trail csme into Peun's Valley & mile or more east of Potter's Mills, The only townships were Potter and HH HL
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