\ ;) / \ J / n D wy A re \ fii A ~ Ao oi 5 4 EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER ESTATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL, ediflors u TERMS : L560 per Annun. in Advages- ¥. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. VOL 7. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1885, 8 NO. 8, The Centve Democrat, Terms 81.50 per Annum in Advance FRANK E BIBLE, Editor, Tae Twentieth Jistriet under the proposed republican gerrymander, will look,geographically, like a gourd with the little end well up toward the northern tier. - ST VALENTINES day bas come and gone, but the wemory of “Samivel Weiler,’ lingers fresh and green to the readers of “Pick-wick papers’” “spell it with a V Samivel, spell it with a vo - Tae man who sent the “bull parp” to Cleveland may get a cabinet port. folio yet. Now this suspense all comes of the president-elect being a bachelor. [fhe wes married his wife would have “oiven away’ the cabinet = month 2go, Frou the way Walehmai blubbers one would suppese that editors were the cl mee pa F INGO o head proc a men who aways Democratic tick Watch- the gentle the from the senior editor man. But as neither of men ware there, we will spare further comment. -— Here's our Cabinet, and if Presi. to little changes it will be satisfactory dent Cleveland desire: make any to us: Sec'y of State, Alen G. Thurman Secretary of Treasuty, Thos. F. Bay- ard; Secretary of War, Geo, B. Mc Ciellan; Secretary of Navy, Lamar Secretary of Laterior, W. A. Wallace Attorney General, Qarland, Mester Gen., Gorman. — Parrisor has the politicians but he wi Gov. disappointed II not disap Thi either, as « poiat the peaple of the state. 8 is uot a good year for jobs wr magisterial bill friends have found wit. The Gov. has a habit of vetoiag steels that strikes the 26 about right. The magisterial bill average voler wae just as mach of a steal contingent fund kill of two years ago wes, The magisterial bill was an at tempt to put four huogry Republicans i the contingent fund bill mond into office an was intended to put pocket ei i 1 | ot i mi tL nd neipad | He w times of distress antl Ipek of work th adminletration is sure to the United States senate, | torpeys iu the st Post | Sengtor Wallace. In all the names mentioned for a | Qur dear brother is treading on dun. | portfolio under the pew administra. | gerous ground, We dont like to mention these little events of the past, but our duty to history, and our desire that tion none wonld be more acceptaole to the Democrats than Senator Wallace. For over twen- the knowledged leaders of the Demoarat. of Pennsylvania ty vears he has been one of ace ic party of the nation, an 1 when he debaters 10 ranked aba as one of the readiest ablest men of that body, As a political | leader he has no equal in Peonsylvan- He is one of the most brilliant at. and in. ate A man ol res Ys Much of the hene markable executive abilit aud un doubted honesty. ficial legislation of our lias of his hand. The state re ceived the impres | bord would gad not Honies pr rform then Ther om for sporismen sod poi narasites, He would cscry out | Cleve land doctrine of * " rust,” he hut Gisappoivt the public t PI office Whatever prominence his candidacy might secker pot the people has acquired in the last two weeks it has not beeg the result of his persotizl It is that strongly efforts. said ex speaker landall favors Senstor Wallace for a Cabinet posizicn. Jd be cabinet Raudall th House, Peansyl. Wallace in and and Curtin in the felt tration of affairs as her wealth, popu. vania would be in the adminis lation and industrial interests should C— A, —— A New Republican Organ Under the above capt Ty SAYS “Rumor n Ww the » . Y new i be started i into the effect ! . which imputes methods bordering on i . ' bribery to the worthy ex memb.r the erring shall reform e ympelt us to | give a gentle reminder, Gen, Hartranft, says that ‘Davis bas | for mentioning these “little locideuts Mere trifles you know, bill, wants of the pe ple. a lay it will reach the vitals system of discriminations tha: has Excuse us ——— Wi have received the full text of It is very full and will meet the If it becomes | of rail. road monopolies avd crush out the | fostered giant corporations like the standard Oil Company until the legis. latures and governors of at least two justrume pr 1) I been at the tates have heen mere their bands. The oil Pennsylvania have of th ndard company for and hund re statesman, l ref r. The ma ill should 1} 0 who voles agai hy enemy marked constituents as he 15 a1 welfare of the state. —— — Tus Philispsburg Ledger is 1 much given to political editorials, but occasionally wand sirapge In the rosy cheek” scribe leciures the sate ers off inte pastures inst weeks issue of North Carolina for peasiosing her pled confederate soldiers; and says kili gration they just want to levy & state “if they want to northern immi tax to pension confederate soldiers.” Well as the state of North Cas HDA 18 out of debt she can levy taxes enough Idier bur. to pension every conlederate s J ) within her borders and then not 1» den her people a tenth as much asPen: sylvanians are in helping to keep up 1,8 H a lot of worthless internal revenue offi- cers and United States marshalls. Bes I it relict } : Many deaths) LA | as and legislative regulation seems to bs | constituting those claims, Senator Wallace's anti disorimination | election. boas of being elected. , vole, ( | ger percentage than | sale, Hartranft and Davis to the mention of the name of Gen, W. W. H. Davis of Doylestown, in con nection with the office of Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, now held by : | peculiar claims, and then alludes 10 his defeat for Congressman at Large and his consequent disappointment a | Geveral Davis bas peculiar claims it is true, but they are not due tu dis- appointment growing out of the late There was no such disap. pointment. He bad no expectation | and sec pted the nomination, ovly after much persua {sion and as a mere matter of patrioism to his party. There was a certain vot that did not go either to Gleveland or P bons eneral Davis got Blaine in Gen eYer } WORUSEe ie Demo he h ey erve Was a cral, and for no other reason, refused the promotion to whi General officer nnder whom he earnestly rec nded him, came out of the service of thre and three months duration, beginning with the beginning aod ending with the ending of the Rebellion, with the senior colonel’s He is af Hart: an ft, commission of the ar abler man (yen and be is pot apd and pever has been suspeetec of con | nection with any such infamous politic al deals and trades as disgraced Gen. Hartranft's last gubernatorial candide- ey and much of his administration as roor. “Of recent the Republican ri red consp H asly } } (rove years,” say “be (Gen. Hartranfi) ' et The truth i been figure a conspicus 1s g about every Republican machinat in Philadelphia and at Harrisburg | years past, and has been restraine during the last few months solels the corruption intimidation and pur ‘Representative Tue Scranton Republican, refer ring {n'u's {thing he was called to have lost nona since le ed Denveras, He is the steward, thes dinates in the fairs They should, therefore the from Pennsylvania he can implicitly years | Oxy our exchanges remarks of Curtin, Pennsylva- Great War Governor” we when he fought under the Republican banner appears his shrewdoess joined the ranks of the wick Talking of the Cabi- | uel 10 be selcoted by Governor Clave {lond, Mr, Curtis says it is the Presi- | deot’s “poliuical fumily;” he, not they ig to be responsi ic to he gountry for the good or evil of his administration are his subor, af. household, management o the the fF.xeceutive Ps | 01 be, declares COMMONS NE Hepresentative such statesman as confide inD——statess | en whose wisdom and lutegrily ure own, and wh nfiide ! AY Tea up posiii | Lient thus far Ox Monday word was received town of the death of Howard it H burg, Saturday bight v, at Lhe Lloyd use, in Deen In b it gather anything reliable. ramors coboerning death we unable t It hat he left a letter addressed to some have been is said ch may throw some light on the sad affair, and until! the given to the public all else mere surmise. The sad death, however, remains mong none an ur scquaintancss we koew | t , sonial and mo e geniag ana Howard, He had 3 n wi | ject of rauch unsolicited attention, One of the Boys. Governor Cartin, who | (quite 4 con spicucus fignre here, either | cle, 4 al the theatre last night, being the ob r in Congress or the social cit reated a sensaticen HH. | has been anxious to see Henry Irving, and told Mrs, Curtin and their ter, Mrs. Wilson, Glau plu, would “They need not ere uldd wl The Houve stayed in ses- to go and he meet them there gn get a sent and be all right,” ae a peal for him. No, no; | WO he suid, they paris ¥ sion ona the River and Harbor bill until it was quite late snd by the time the Governor reached the theatre there wan standing room only and very little of He wedged himself in slong one he side aisle and happened in front men who were perched upon a One of them touched hime er and told him to stand were glad to rush Lithe seen this of the boys himself {dis o k his n the m e, and for the { the evenit bo w during l intently the private a he old War Governor, wl Gee le to avoid the attention ested = a ‘oman Barded ome in the only remedy, of the Wat aiman © risinly forgets his past enon editor [he bill provi les of volers, of the which gra ul frauds have been more glaringly prac. chas for an examining commitiee appointed | ment | by the governor from twenty names | to be proposed by the pharmaceatical | | association of Pennsylvania, and also There is no depart gardloss aoncace nsels lly stripped the thes from her body more theo its fair ehar partis , is me Her | and arms bleeding, the lips were bitten through, and handfuls of hair was torn from her | head. Te girl bad come to life, and place last summer he has the following { bad evidently made a fearful struggle to of abn . wnds were torn and . : government in tory. and mar The immense fortunes a by a certain ol The wealth of the wobility and the squalor aad povckty of the lower lated : membaors TALES history, or be would keep quiet of office-holding, aod giving away party secrets. There | I have been admitted during the vear class woglishi : q glishmen, on the subject In referring to the encampment at this ticed, and the vilest instrument in the hands of unscrupulous leaders has | classes furnish food for agitators, and the passions of the populace are easy aroused by & comparison of conditions bas not been two yearns of his life since he became proprietor of that paper that be has not either been in {office or has been a candidate for a Money loaaed out at reinous rates of | semination. interest is of no use to the public, and | labor is never benefitted by its pres ance in 8 comm one of the ‘wealthiest towns in the State. And yet how many of the wealthiest men give employment to labor. They may keep s coachman or a servant or two but to give labor that pats bread into the mouths of twenty-five or fifty people is not in their line of business. Their wealth is of no earthly advan. tage to the community. We are reaching the conditions of (hings that drives thousands of people from Europe to out shores, 'Wenlth begets wealth in the bands of its owners, aud poverty begets discontent. che Three terms in the legislature, three | or four times, be received the nomina ity. « Bellefoote i | tes of his cuunly for senate, once asked tor a congressional nomination and just stepped out of the clerkship of theHouse,and last fall would have been a candidate for the legislature but for Senator Alexander's candidacy, and even now hopes 10 have official light. ening strike him under the new ad- ministration. If we have omitted And when he was in offtcy kis offi. Cink life wad not Nike Clomm w'fe, Ahoy icion.” londeed there Is an ih eresting little document extant for the registration of druggists. The method of selecting the committee takes the matter out of politics so that there’ean be no objection’on that score. Nearly all the states of the union have stringent laws regulating this impor. tant branch of business. The bill will not interfere with those in busi. ness at the present time, but will re. gulate the admission of others who may desire to engage in it, in the fu ture. Responsibility for mistakes can- not be #0 easily shifted from physi- cianjto druggist and vice versa. Ss — AAI. BuneLy the ern of good feellug is | any of the official teats at which the | about to dawn on Philadelphia. The Wakchman editor has either pulled or | Times and Record quote each other's attempted to pull, we beg his pardon. editorials and speak of each other as “our esteemed contemporary.” Yea verily, the MeClure lion and the Sing- erly lamb are about to lie down together, been pension agent Dudley. This department should be thoroughly |cleansed off all the tricksters and frauds who have made it a stench in the nostrils of honest men. An army of special agents was annually sent out to influence important state elections and at every Presidential el ection these heelers, rounders and political tramps | rend themselves over the country, promising, pensions to some and re- fusing them to others, holding back this man’s claim and making a speci- al case of another. All in the inter. est of the “Grand old party” A clean sweep with perhaps a fow excep: tions is demanded in the interest of honest pension service. ~ SE — A] —— Fraxom A, Drexerr the head of the great Banking Houses of Drexel] & Coo. and Drexell Morgan & Co. diod in Philadelphin on Sanday, | ment under canvas at Bellefonte to say: “The Semi Annual cocamp- Was largely attended and was a most gratify. iog success; everything was done by the comrades of Post 95 having the matter in charge, aided by the gener. ous people of Centre county, made the encampment an enjoyable one, and the days spent among the beautiful and interesting mountain scenery will long be remembered by those who partici- pated. The business cession was the largest and best held in this Depart ment at a Summer Encampment; 42 Delegates were in attendance, Dat one accident occurred to mar an unbrok. en week of pleasure, As the business session was adjourning, Comrade J, W, Reimer of Post 283 Fairmount springs slipped and fell, injuriug his spine and breaking his ribs, Ie was promptly cared for by Post 05 and at a onmp fire held that night 8500 was subscribed for the sufferer, Ho reviews the work of the year generally, Spaos will per migus to comment but briefly, o | escape. The awful affair fills the com | munity with horror, SS — A ——— — An old Landmark gone.—We are pained to announce the desth of Mr, George Breon, an old and respected citizen and farmer of Gregg township, which occurred on Sanday morning Inst. Mr. Breon was born and raised in the “Momntinns” where he spent the greatest part of his life. Of Jute, ae his health boeame impaired, he moved 10 his sone, Jasah Breon, living on Jona- than Harter,s farm, in Penn township His sickness was a protracted one, bu! he bore it with christian fortitude snd died after a yoars afliction in the bless. ed hope of a glorious immortality. He reached the high age of nearly 83 years, pHis funeral took place last Tacsday forenoon, when his remains wore inter. ed in the Georges valley cemetery. Peace to his acho, Millkeim Jowrnat, wear fof mon — - Er “New stylos in neck i al Uarmans,
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