| A . KE. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. UEQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER ETATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL, Jefferson — TERMS: $1.50 per Avvun .in Advance. VOL 7. BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1885. NO. 7. The Centre Demorrat, Terms $1.50 por Annumin Advanoe FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor, Cleveland locked his mouth with a pad lock and threw the key into the | deep blue sea, ITavLy ie about sending an army in to Africa to co-operate with England. There bas always been friendly inter. course between England and Italy, and Italian interesis in Africa while! not so extensive as those of its Ally, makes Italian interferance necessary, The Italian press is wonderfully unit ed an the question of an expedition to the Soudan, and an expedition is now on its way to Suakim. " - Curtin McClain the Mifflin murdererds making a desperate strug gle through his attorneys for a new trial. The murder was brutal unprovoked, and no doubt exists as to McClain’s guilt as he confessed to having sommitted the deed, although county and the confession was expunged from the record. The defence asks a new trial on “technical irregularities” the loop hole through which so many murder ers have escaped hanging. — A —— The question of American ship will come up for definition soon citizen- er or later through the acts of the ni hilist, dynamiters and communists, who are constantly plotting against the peace both of Europe and Ameri. ca, If these fellows are American citizens, then they are violating the laws of the United States by their conspiracies. If they are subjects of foreign governments, then they are violating the laws of hospitality as well as the laws of the nation and are fit subjects for extradition. If American citizens, they can have no grievance against foreign governments, | as the United States are at peace with all the world. These men cannot he- come citizens of the United States for the purpose of making war on friendly nations and themselves under the American flag. i —— A A—— We perceive that the CExTRE DEM OCRAT records the name of every fel. low who calls and happens to pay a subscription to that paper—as if such days were “red letter” ones in its his- tory. Poor davils-we rather guess such sheltering | > | Khartoum. | The fall of Khartoum is a disas- | trous conelusion to the English oceu- | pation of the Soudan. The policy of | Gladstone which was originally to | saveEnglish interests iv Egypt and the | Soudan, has been severely criticised both in Englan { and on the contin ary not as to iis correciness as a matter of | statesmenship but as to the inadequa. | ey of the force employed. The fear.t in Africa wonld be considered a8 ab hat a large English army Europe, should of the army of conquest by | never have entered the head | English premier, or if it did heshould have banished it as unworthy of him | self | edd. men in and the government he represent It is always better to have more a than are fight absolutely necessary, than not to have enough, With all the experience that Eogland has had with Mohamedans avd Arabs since Richard the First crusaded io Palestine, she has never learned that the 1 savage warriors. The discipline, valor the foe she has to ¢ntend with is bravest, wiliest and cruelest of a f a few thous land improved arms « and english soldiers cannot withstand the terrific onslaughts of times if trained { mated by a religlous zeal unknown to ten { their number, WArriors ani | christianity, whose death in the cause { of their faith gives them instant en | trance to paradise and the society of | Houris. The Moha:iedan welcomes death with a joy the christian rare {ly childhood up he that to {him can have no terrors, that hap- piness beyond comception awaits him, in a paradise that appeals both to his poetic and sensual nature. He feels, From 1% death taught fender of his religion aod country. | He asks no quarter and he gives none, when the Mameluke cavalry charged | the solid squares of the French army and even backed their horses on to the bayonets in order to break the French ranks, said, “these men fight like dev- very Freoch soldiers bore testimony to that fact on the plains of Palestine five hundred years before. So the | fight to day, and with modern weapons. | The folly of the English Ministry will The Watchman reproduces its silly | tirade agaiust the business men of | Bellefonte because they fail to adver: | tise in that paper with the “largest | circulation.” The article malic | ously false in almost every statement and is ca’'calated to create a bad im: | presion in thg county and among | ' the city merchaots. If the editor of | the “paper with the largest circula tion” wants business men to advertise is with him let him tell the truth about | their business and not misrepresent | things so outrageously. Basines has fallen off in the past year, but from | ‘causes which any man with ordinary The hard intelligence is fam liar. times, low price of grain, reduced freights to other points which allows | country merchanis to fairly compete Bellefonte, the money market with the stringency of the employment throughout the county and lack of are some of the causes and then too the failure of the merchapls to the Watchman. We to call the attention of our busioess men advertise in desire and our Board of Trade to the impor tance of advertising in the Watchman. | Three thousand dollars paid into the treasury of thar paper would have saved three hundred thousands of dol lars worth of trade to our town. Jum think of You actually lost three hundred thousand dollars because you have not adver it, gentlemen, have | tised in Whe right paper. Each one of y able editorial in the Watchman of | the last two weeks took yourself down | { into the celiar sod sent for your clerk | to come and boot you, but the appli- | cation came too late. | ! We have known for some time that | AN AMERICAN | purpose of rebellion.” Leity. ou no doubt after reading the remark. | March of Anarchism SOCIETY WHICH AIMK AT THE OVERTHROW OF LAW. An expose has been made by the Press of the existence in this city of a band of A narchists, numbering about 1000, und connected with an interna. | tional assoeiotion of considerable pro- portions, the purposes and aims of which are “agitation for the purpose of organization ; organization for the They seek to overthrow the present system of law {by any method— dynamite, murder and nitro-glycerine, The different _g | increasing in numbers here very rapid- | Geger i» a railroad clerk, BOCIALISH IN {y. } ‘ ' to Cuscaco, Feliruary 1 CHICAGO, The moderate | Socialists held » largely atiended meet | {| were put in full bla-t on ing on the West e¢ this afternoon, f 3 3 + . » + Speeches were delivered in English and | German eouns to secure th- ing ag tution the adoption of their pr eiples, Ane | er large meeting was Lield on the North | | Side, at which the moderne Socialists {and the Anarch } ‘ discuss The and Brits te diviled the time in counseled the Nn. be 38 $ ty | | moderation tion ; Anar N 7 chists, us usual He use | which, a= one speaker re marked, would He | { make one man equal to a thousand, " favored defiance of sll law, Letter -— Harrisburg branches levy a tax for the distribu. | ; tion of printed matter when called vp- | on by the Centre] Committee nf their All} money pot assessed as for | “actual service” is supposed to be de voted to the support of the main or The Anarchists of this governed by Chief ganization, Exe. New respectively, couulry are cutive] Committees located in | York Johaon Most and Justus Schwab are and Chicago the leading spirits, Io this city the most prominent Anarchist is Anton Koberlain of i No. The Philadel. | pbiia head quarters are at No. 1153 1230 Callowhill street. Callowhill street. The seven “groups,” ” i or brauches, have as many places o meeting. The headquarters of the Central Committee that. of Branch 4. Following is a list of the sub-stations, as given by the Press is also { Braoch 1 —Meets every Sonday at | Frederick Beenhauer’s saloon, No | | 476 North Third street. is al born soldier and is set apart as the de | Napoleon at the battle of the pyramids | ils.” So they did, the ancestors of these | | you were missing a golden opportunity | Branch 2—Meets in Henry Grau's to acquire wealth, but have waited | saloon, No. 2146 North Second street, | Branch 3—Meets in Ernst Huss: saloon No, 525 Bainbridge street. | patiently on our down town contem- I porary to speak out. He does speak [| | but after you have lost three hundrep | , " ’ | thousand dollars. As Shakespear and { Nos 1131 and 1133 Catlowhil) test [Logan both would say “this is the | Branch 5—Meets in saloon of John | most unkindest cut of all.” . Let our | Schmidt, No. 147 Levering street, the support of the | Manayunk. merchants rush to A | great advertising mediom. ( Branch 6—Meets at No. 1708 Pop- {ular strect. | Tur Magisterial candidates in, Bohemian Braneh, No. 7—Meets i Philadelphia have been assessed the | in Bosek’s saloon, 1124 North Third | modest little sum of $500, each, for |sireet. | campaign expenses. They, howev er, | The Pressways it is alleged that | object to paying that amount because 500 of the members of the Philadel - | Branch 4—Meets in Foster's saloon | NRE Feb oh. DiMoorat Harnisnuno, 10h, 1 Ens, — The exciting if last week was the leg alative to] Te { Governors veto reported in my last, and the attempt of the ringsters to ses cure votes enough for the bill to make The el d House 4 i SY | tit a law notwithstanding feame on Thursday. The res in ses:10D unt solved to remain bill shonld be disposed of, and the war of words was at once renewd. After nearly a four hour session the House, become impatient of the windy battle, {80 lustily that those of the Ye wotry 11 i 3 “ : '" nd called for the question members” who had been loaded with speeches but bad not yet found an | opportunity to fire themselves off, abaodoned the attempt, and the yeas | and nays showed that the Governor's | good law and good sense had won a | victory over the greedy gang. | A bill t divide county printing be- {tween the two news papers of largest | circolation and opposite politics will | be pretty certain to meet with the op- the majority in every county. It | was introduced by Senator Hughes. | Io the House a plan to make an ap- { propriation for an unknown sum in | favor of the Normal Schools of the | state, by means of unlimitad mort. | | gages upon the school buildings to the | payment of which future State ap: { propristions shall be applied has | made its a Berks, falters the idea. | | have put in their appearonce: last | Friday the appropriation committees jehinery, of conve { dynamite, i Lis | Yo prosperity. | Nies little Junketing expeditions | visitors to that establishment are like | be their own down fall and may cost the visits of angels, few and far be | Kggland more than her Egyp:ian or tween. And the poor silver dollars |g Loo are so eagerly grasped and so hardly | squeezed by the two editors, that the | rests, Mobamed is the religion of millions The religion of very eagle squalls with pain.— Walch- man, Since the fast” to the campaign fund last fall he Watchman editor “stuck has been “flush,” and vow holds up if the Dex The ws a d the poverty of the editors OC RAT to the view of the public. Watchman man never squos ol- lar. Oh, no, he just rolls it up in cot- ton and lays it away gently, and on the We suppose that ~~ nday he puts that dollar in church collection 4 where he put the $1400 campaign fund of last fall. Lh —- —— Geseral Davis, of the Doyles. town Democrat, is mentioned for Col. lector of the Port of Philadelphia, the | nice plam General Hartranft fell into | four years ago and to which he has just been reappointed term. If President Cleveland poses to give Collector Hartranft a rest in his life-long business of office hold. | ing, General Davis would be a first class man to put into the office. He for another | pro- in India, and if a new prophet comes the | sacred banner of Mohamedan revolt, with victorious arms and unfurls [odia will shake to its very centre, Englishmen are sluggish and hard to arouse, but when onde aroused they | Mr. liis vascilliating cours2 has aroused the feel its wrath. With a great crash we look for his ministry to tamble., It will take three times as many men to do are to be feared, Gladstone by pation and he will now what one could have done a year ago. What will England do, withdraw or | fight? She dare not withdraw. In- | din hangs trembling in the balance. Vigorous, active and aggressive work in the Soudan, may yet save English interests and Gladstone's Ministry. SW AIO— The County Statement. ———— Toe County statement shows the county to be practically out of debt | with a surplus to its credit of $15,065, served gallantly in the Mexican war 59. This remarkable showing is due as well as in the civil war. But Repub. | to the business principles applied to lican administrations always passed the affairs of the county by the Board him by in honoring deservigg Union [of Commissioners. Messrs, Griest ®oldiers. A Democratic administra. | Wolte and Campbell deserve the # tion can wisely improve on this neg: | greatest credit for the condition of lect, — Pittsburgh Post. ‘the county. The Demosratic party The Post has struck the nail square | of the County is to be congratulated on (he head. Pennsylvania has no | that it has reelected two such wort hy more deserving Democrat, and as the officers. The statement is clear, and position is now filled by a soldier, his | sliows all receipts and expenditures, Shccessor should be a soldier. (en. | The balance in favoé of the county Davis is a veteran of (wo wars, a gal, | while not in cash is collectable and is ? lant officer, an honest ‘man, aud a : in striking contrast with the 80,000 glerling Democrat, No man would | dollars of indebtedness of threo y hi the office more acceptably than Le. | ago, i | it is entirely unnecessary, and as one { of the candidates puts it, “Half the i boodle will The latter | reason the shoe | pinches, Candidates don’t. object to paying the legitimate expeases of a | campaigo, but when they knew that be stolen.” is perliaps where half the fund will be stolen it is not so The duty of county and city chairmen seems to be pleasant to contribute, simply to collect money from candi- | dates, spend one third on Je gitimate work give one third to bummers and | loafers and the chairman pockets the ( other third, Weare glad to know that the fellows are beginning to kick all around. The one thing necessary to all [political organizations is that their executive officers shall accoun, | to some body for the way in which the money is expended. Another means lof defence from political pick-pocke ts is tosit down on every rooster who wants to be made chairman. Some fellows always seek the position when there is a large fund to be collected. Sit down on that fellow every time he is after the spoils, not of office but of the officer. — a — The roar of the British lion will soon be heard in the jungles of Afrio, phia branches are armed. The num, | Edgar Thomson Neel Works at | Braddock were put in full" blast Tues { day With the eXception of one or two {departments where the nmprovemenpis are not jute The Saturday in or ready, furnaces der to fest the improvements put upe o them, and they were found to 8701 shiny expeets in regard to be and no trooble is } the working Residents f of the ma of Braddock are jubilent over the good news, The toy ‘er reation was centered in thefact of the great steel works resuming opey fler long 4 ations a and WEArysorne ins( Y. About 3.500. workmen, who { have been idle for months will go to 1 the du i work; and which has prevailed in that usually ae oo F lifeless feelin tive town will disappear and give place During the past month the business men of Braddock, in con sequnee of the idle workmen, have ex. peries trans reed unusually dull times, Ther generally is confined tothe work . 1 . ng people who were emigpdoved in ithe steel works, and were CON EAU during the latter sage of the depress, ion compelled so sell almost entirely on eredit. Now that the work will start n i juart re the town, In regard to the reduce od Amalgamated i gard to pushing their claims for a settlement of the dif pri ‘it , #uid he, “that these men member of the ih. A sR tion stated last night the no steps, ou'd be taken in re culty concerning the scale Con, is necessary should go to work, and we have deemed | it best not to interfere at this time, A | great many of the men employed in the { steel works bad but little ready cash | when the works shut down, snd it be. came necessary Lo contract bills in order {to keep themselves and familfes. Now | when the opportunity presents iteels whereby relief can be offered, it has | position of the papers belonging 10 { been deemed better to defer section on | the scale question to some other time.” | The news of a resumption of work at | Braddock has occasioned a great deal of | encouragement among the iron workers in this city, and it has forcibly illustrs ted the fact that better and more pro | porous times are rapidly approaching | It is & noteworthy fact that the namber { of idle workmen in this neighborhood | has greatly decreased in the past two | | i { i } | ppearance, Mr. Green, of | weeks. There isa growing feeling that | the'worst stage of the business is passe. inall branches of trade there is a better | feeling A prominent manufecturer said | yesterday : “The iron trade is slowly | but surely improving, snd the demand ber of Anarchists in New York city is | put at 7000; in Chicago at 4000, and Pittsburg is fourth on the list, Phila. delphia being third. ANARCHIST “GROUPS IN PITTSBURGH AND CLEVELAXD, Prrrsurre, Pa., February 8.—The story thai Ansachist were armed and drilling here, and that dynamite was stored in various parts of the city, In an interview with a rej the Dispatch to-night a prominent police official stated that he had reliable seems to have some foundation, wrter of 10- formation that dynamite was stored in at least one place and that a large supply of guns had lately been receiv. ed by the Pittsburg Anarchists, which he thought, had been shipped from Chicago. The parties having these arms, he mid, were foreigners—not workingmen out of employment, but | Anarchists, Herr Joseph Frick, a | prominent Socialist, to a reporter of | the same paper addmitted that the | Anarchist in this city were armed sod | that they had their regular nights for |drilling. He said there were “ten groups” and about 4000 members in Allegheny county. of both houses, or more strictly speak- | ;, growing better every day.” ing, part of both committies, took a! nice little trip in a special train to —— A bill has been introduced into the | Huntingdon to inspect the Reforma- | # Bareau of For- Legislature to create [tory in progress of erection at that place. Seargent-at-arm Patterson of the House had charge of the party, and soon the good opinion of all his guests. They report a good time a good dinner and & good reformatory. Next Friday the House judiciary ’ v general committee will visi phia to see whether or not it will be wise for the stat purchase tae House of reiage at an expense of £200,000 orto ay ne thing of more for rebuilding and refiting it be used as another reformatory * Re- form” seem to have the floor. {0 250 000 to — a — A Fight of 81 Years In 1804 Andrew Gregg, then a member of Congress, introduced a bill to adjust and pay the French spoliation claims, but it failed to pass. Philadel. | esiry. he bill provides for a Chiefof Bureau and clerks, whose daty it shall | be to collect statistics in regard to forest destruction with a view to future legis lation. Any proper legislation for pro- tecting the forests of Pe nnsyivar ia would be regarded with much satisfac. ion by the public, but there is no use for multiplying needless officers involv” The the point ed in the creation Re officers or Secretary of the [ authorized by that is Or there that great hulk of a Bureau of Internal A Dueau. Philadelphia makes clear, The Commonwealth could, law, collect all the information required on this subject. ie Affaire, Does not that buresu contain all the official ‘means and appliances | that could be provided by this proposed | Bureau of Forestry? The Bureau of In. | Since that time there have been forty- | ternal Affairs collects statistic in re- four reports made by Committees of Congress favorable to their payment, none of which, however, brought the | necessary statute, During the present session of Con- gress, Ex.Govenor Andrew Gr Curtin, who ie a grandson of po Andrew Gregg mentioned and a mem- gade to railroads, labor, wages and manufactures. Why, then, can it not be required also to gather such informa- tion and statistics as may be needed concerning the forests of the Stater This bureau contains the old Surveyor General's Officer. a department which ber of the House of Representative, | now has little work to do, and which is enrs | It's a little late, but the beast is in a passion now, and every Englishman is gouging him with a sharp stick. pr —— CrLeveLAxp, O., February 8.— F. K, Geger, of No. 62 Linden street formerly an agent of the Internation. al Workingmen's Association (Anar- chists ), says there are four groups of the Order in this city with 200 mem. bers and many sympathizers. ‘1 wo are Boheman and two German. A fifth, American, will be organized to. morrow. He says the workingmen here are ripe for a riot and that wun. less the times improve the greatest re- | volution the world has over seen will Fi i o' Th J. J. Campbell, A ssistant Postmaster at Goldsmith, Tondiana, was arrested on Thursday and committed to jail on a | charge of stealing registered letters Twenty one unopened letters were found on his person, some bearing dates of June last, dn i—. Jv is estimated at the Treasury Do- | partment that the publio debt «ate. (ment for January will show a reduc. | tion of 25.00.0000, | ovr Socialists are | from Pennsylvania, introduced a bill to pay the claims which has been Thus after eighty-one years of effort those interested in the claims are to received justice. It is a singular coin. cidence that both the first and final successful attempt for the settlement of « controversy that has covered so close to a century should have been made by grandfather and grandson — Union Leader, Governor Curtin informed us that (several Centre countians would re- Lotive remuneration for losses sustained by their uncestors, among others De, Geo. Faiclamb of Bellefonte, especially adapted for this service of collecting forest statistics. The bill to create a Bareau of Forestry only betrays the itch of office making. Instead of establishing this bureau, there are sev- eral that ought to be abolished and their work transforred to the regular departmeuts of State Governments, is — a] — Suit was begun on Wednesday in Cleveland, Ohio, against Mrs, James A, Garfield, by a woman named Thankful Tanner, for £25000, Thankful was run over by Mrs. Garfield's carriage on De. cember 22d, while in the public square, Land she now alleges that «he was gers Vicusly dnjerod. . co
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