The Centre Democrat, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT is pub- fehied ovory Lhursday morning, nt Bellefonte, Contre qounty, Pa, TERMS Cash in advance oi It pot paid in advance A LIVE PAPER whole people Payments made within three months will be dered {n advance, No paper will be discontinued nuti] arrearages are id except at option of publish : : apers going cut of the county must be p aid for in devoted to the interests of the one distances of four to twelve miles over badd Io roads found the streams their natural | roads. time, howerer, rail- | route, supplanted the rafis and mar keted our products with greater cer. tainly. In the competition of recent years, not only in price but quality of iron, tho lean fossil ores are cert y not profitable to wk alone, an i must ow large beds of rich hematite: muce, my porson proenring us tem cash subseribers will wnt a copy free of charge. ur extensive cliroulation makes this paper an un wily relinble and profitable medivnm for advertising oy » the mo t ample facilities for JOB WORK | Jare prepared to print all kinds of Books, Tracts, wrammes, Posters, Comer inl printing &c. in the st atyle ana at the lowest possible rates AN advertisements for a lews term than three 20 cents por line for the first three jusertiona and O gonts a line for each additional insertior Bp wodces one-half mors Editorir] notices 15 cents per line, Locat Nortwons 10 er Hine A Kberal discount fs made the quarter, half year, ¢ 1, ns foll months ents | persons advertistog by i wa * SPA - $5 8x5 512 “10 1 15 2 Ooe och (or 12 Hoes this typ Two laches : : Three inches 14 Quarter column (or & inches 13 Bl alf column tor 10 : One column 20 {nchos 88 1 Wh 3 x inches pL II or ial | command attention, as also bitin in this Lo be ous coal or coke as fuel, aud view of the case we are likely benefited, The Bellefonte Buffalo Railroad, now entirely graded and Run and upon which the ties were all delivered last fall, connecting this place with the State Agricultural College by way of the Buffulo Run valley (which is geologically understood as a continua- tion of Little Nittany valley), passes about fourteen Foreign advertisements must be paid for before in sw ertion, except on yearly ntracts, wi Fayments in advance will be required Povivical Noriers, 16 cents per Hine Nothing inserted for less than 0 oents Bosingss Notioss, in the editorial per lune, each insertion half-yearl) eh insertion on mn columns, 10 cents Democratic Uounty Committee, — 1885- PIsTRICY Follefonte N. W “ SW ww Floward Bore Mileshurg Milthein Fhilipebarg Ist W “ nd W Jrd W Bor “ Tolonrille Benner Twp Boggs W. P “ KP Burnside Tw College * Curtin Fergnson EP WwW. r Gregg 8. P “ N.P Hain EP “- ww. r Halfmoon Harris... Howard Tw; Hoston Twg Liberty * Marion Miles Paton * Peon Potter N P “ R/p Pp NP Faow Shoe N Foash PF Rn Pp John Ew pring —- bd C Wood Taylor “re Li POOR Walke Jas J Gramiey Worth seiniormssnss eK Wilkia GC W Rrvnzroge RM Secretar 4 inton Reckwit fue H Stover, ™ Centre County Iron Ores BELLEFONTE (ORRESPONDEN] HE PHILADELPHIA TIMES DE- SCRIBES OUR IRON AXD (0A INTERERT, 128 A correspoudent writing from Belle fonte to the Philadelphia Times, under date of February 17th, gives the fl- lowing interesting sketch concerning “Mr. McClure's entertainiog letters the car county very Ti 122 from points of travel through the Soathern States have been especially interesting to our iron manufactures here as de. script ive of the past and present con that dition aud future prospects of industry. Some of them were at an early day engaged in the business in East they agree with him in the Teunessece and Georgia, and sdvanta, ges possessed at any places for cheap production, when cuterprise and capi tal have afforded them improved ap. pliances and But have we State loealitics containing almost in exhaustible beds of the finest hematite cheap transportation not within our own yres, lower in phosphorous thao those | South, with coal and limestone just as accessible and cheaply tor like reasons given by you mined, that remain to day practically unnoticed and un developed, The prominent and large iron ore | out crops of Centre county attracted | the attention of our early settlers whilst yet a forest, and are noted on { well developed out crops of iron ore, wrly | | passing many explored and working | banks, showing immense ore beds and, lin many places, the road is cu through the ores aud the mater inl used | for filling or embankments, Several | laterals or short branches have been y graded to large banks upon either side of the main line. One thereof t | } sniuahle and larg wu) reach a vaiuabic and iargeiy exp the “Martha lands, now owned region known as ore nace s. apd the ‘Svotia’ other pany, and the bapks of and Valley Mining Comp latter banks have accumulated stocks are fully equipped with machinery i ank 8 any, wh large awaiting rail shipments, and for a large daily output to sell iu the gent ral market The Pennsylvania railroad hasalso about completed und expect to operate by May 1st their branch connecting Jald this place with the t Fagle he Valley railroad at Lewishurg and Hall, tr end Tyrove Railroad at Oak th wes of versing the upper or wrn ‘Big Nittany Valley” some miles, through the pipe of Messrs. Valentine | from which branch, at a point ore and others A short distance above “] N nect an furevace. they intend to con fa ine of r ad eral n f I length, which will embr aud valuable ore beds ol | tany Valey, now ext . De blefonts 37 ale meh’ » mn f L by Messrs Valentine & | Ore Company and others, 10 | the trade. Larg { from this region to Pittsburg aod other pints vet could ed a hundred fuld with « of exhausting it 1 jected consolidat and Buffalo Kun Nittany Valley give us another petition with th Railroad, divisions of the carrying as Tes f and coke embraced ina radius twelve to eighteen miles thi whic h represent at point the common centre, Limestone of the finest quali- ty for fluxing is here in great abund ance to be had for the quarrying for | it although large quantities are annu- ally shipped to Johnstown, Pittsburg and other | other points for that pur, i poses, cleaning and preparing ores for use | ! . . | we have made substantial progress surveys made under the direction of | and valuable and interesting approve Charles Lukivs in 1773. 1797 iron was manufactured in a ernde way Colonel Samuel Miles, on the present site of Milesburg Iron Works. The Danlaps, from Path Val As early as ley, Franklin county, arrived in 1773 | similar iron in 1789, at the present location of Valentine & Co's works, and Boggs & Curtin were in operation in 1810, ut what is Eagle Works, In every instance the works were located remote from the ores and fuel and with regard to the streams over which they marketed their products during the spring freshets by means of flats improvised for each shipment, and a mariner of note was he who safely landed thy enrgo at place designed, it being the exception and not the rule, and with now Toe ores and fuel were then, as over since and to rome extent now. hauled in wagons drawn by four or «ix mules appliances made | | ments a description of which, tog ther | { with our estimates of the cost to manu, facture the various grade or iron at readers and not your columns, with will attempt U | | : i trespassing upon | your premission » hereafter explain — —-—— ol Many of them are strong, hearty, able There are lots tramps around, who ought to be nshamed to beg, They wre not ashamed, however, and some of them demand assistance with faced impudence, rather than in sup pliant tones, There is but one way to deal with the: fellows, and that is to refuse to give him anything. It fs no charity to help them, and those who have anything to give away should be- stow it on the worthy poor of our town rather than upon the wandering veg. rants of the With action in thie respect wil (RIT road some united would be likely to give our town « wide berth f vheld Repub) eu fpurt of the Twenty-eight | Twenty-first, or fitteen miles of its | : : anare : distance through almost coutinuous |*¥* twelve | and we | Io the methods of cheaply mining, | this point, if deemed of interest to your | bodied young men, pretty well dressed, | brazen Tne Congressional Apportion. ment 12 hie en by the Lo diny tel phiia Hannisuews, Fobruary, The con fistrie Lionient, us nptreod gressional AN por om “nate onment committe Phil eV nty tpport follows Fapst f < ’ : t ond, Pindadelphia, ] th, I ony Third, Fifth, ith, Tenth, Thi nd Philadelphia Kleve WAR ¥ bh wards wen tie I'l in, Walle 1} | tenth do Fourth, Nixth, ~ixteenth wrth 1, Fifteenth and Philadel Nine- ind 'wanly toarwh, evanth Twenty-ninth, wards; Fifth phin, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, teenth, nnd Thirty first wards the ward south of Lehigh avenue: Sixth, Philadelnhig I'wenty second, Twent third, and Twenty fifth wards and part of the Twenty ward Buck I ighth, Chester and el that eighth north of Lehigh avenuc; Seventh and Montgomery Ninth, Fenth, Monroe, FP and la | Columbia Lancaster : Northamptro, Carbou, Wauvne | J INe and veth, Hm high; Ihirteenth, Cwellth, 8 buyikill fun rhs Fo Lebanon, Northu phin coming Montour “ui Adams, | Huntingdon th, York, — — Was It Arson? U'niLaprirats, Februnt suspicion that the origin of the fire at BH ock J ign the H pital for the Insane at Almshonse was of incendiary one attendant ¢ tration of the overt We rn ried the conflagration A sex the re wid hall or more of unfortunsts met i but thie n ' ok Va'entine & Co's old i i man avoter ian-in-chiel he conflagration was | iy quiet, progress in the burned ding Rl not worth looking Liastersof insurance ¢ mn. burned at the | he r expense reh for the bodies i= the intention make the wings bed by Fhe aut the fAamoes ! 3 £2 .% § FAERIN In halitalie worities had ' tor «tf the ma aded 8) far moved evening {as to have unl ome Inmber, TI : was sll, Since the walle of the burned building | have cooled no systematic search has | be n prosecuted, The efforts of the elected officers of the been so interfered with instution lave that none of | them are willing or dare make a move oO If the Superintendent orders one thing of the Board Poor, orders the If the physician -in-chief or | some member 0 Guardians of the tras con his | asnietant another th ng, son the board thinks ought not so be done, and orders directs 1» other member of the wite the cons quence is, there On o superintendent, n physicinr chief, no directing head There are | loed, twelve phy smn n-chief, fone | fusion i= no name for it. The separs 1 tion of various elesses of lunatic patients build ngs of into the dierent wards and {is an achievement made in the faee | adverse circumstances —— A Lady's Perfect Companion Parxness Cirroninry, our new book Tells how any woman may become a mot her without suffering any pain what ever. Also how to treat and overcome, morning sickness’ swelled limbs and other evils attending pregnancy. It is reliable and highly endorsed by phy clans we the wife's (rie privates sompan war orn sm . 13 ond RUTTER hy : “ reninee conidenial (0100 i sealed envelope. Address Fura Pabticher ned ni Ll Fowas & Baltimm F MA fo, re As First, | hand | No work of | irned bodies | structure | Jorrected, Miss Anna John on, of 24 Front st cet, Columbus, Ohio, says: 1 suflered trom un aggravated form of constipation and indigestion for several months, My fam- iy physician tried all kinds of medicines and pills, but to no effect, 1 began to think ts a hopeless one, A friend of Elvira Redmond, of East Long 1 1 HY Case WwW 0.n Mors tia city), call | was MANALIN, ind seeing the con ended me to try av | had but littl 11 recom I mit en Maxa Alter | well {the that his me Lee ine, J] st us | wa would have to die, 1y dine; lude that | t me one ol your § ed a case syimnplor we, and Peruna and Maxa i I concluded red one bott n P Ra whose atl or le of Pee. and took then re e of MAaxAaLIN betore | had used the two ve strength and { the rest o ~ } rect ~The Weekly Post] Pe 7] le J nied af H ong Rigl fed feed and (Fre The Pittsburgh Weekly | Post Democy 0 tt false, ting in 1} veland snd Hendricks have beer irth of March the will inistration at Wash th great possinlities for the pro- rosperily and sdvancemaont : ouniry As Tux V Or iwenty-five yr | sults, so 1t ‘ istration sa hearty support in the | ples and policies vital to the public | fare, by reforming abuses, righti { wrongs snd ssserting the supremacy the Demoeratic faith. We are { threshhold of important events and {changes. To a Democrat wh | Cleveland's election, the f interest and hope Tie Weexry Posi | abreast of tise times ir Lo the ming sdmi cy st bome and abroad b | ly discussed, generouslys ipported or can didiy criticised No year in the history of this journal promises to with matiers of interest 10 the one wh shored for these gi wo the new greeting and a ishment ars it will extend re-esiah of princi. on tare will ing w \ Democrats it Lo enter. The meeting of Congress, declaration of | the Presidential vote, the inauguration, he now Cabinet, the cuanges in the pub. | je services, the opening wp the books all h wo are ab the | will furnish the earliest intelligence, with idicions comment from the old Democratic | standpoint. Success will not hamper It any more than a quarter of a century of | doiont impaired its energies. ; The session of the Leglsiature, with » Reform Governor opposed by a Republi can majority; promises 1 be fruitful of { important issues and exciting incident, | The coming session of congress will be even more intorssting in its broader fleld. | In all ita varied dopartments, Taz | Wrexey Post will aim at excellence sand roliability. Ite literary, miscellaneous, now: and local departments will be main. tained in thoir utmost efficiency, while its markst reports will bo prepared with greater care and precision than ever be fore and made absolutely reliable, Now is the time for Democrats every. where to take hold, comest and strengthen | the party sad ita chosen roprosentatives, | by extending the circulation of Democrat ic papers. We are no longer on the de. fensive. | the American poople, and in a fow woeks it will be called on to administer the gen. oral Government. 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OC, Mingle, Boot & Shoe I aler, . LE J ¥ . Look A. C. Min¢ IANUARY 1, 188 ‘tion duc at a sweeping re rgains. ! | i | 5 er goods rom now until April 1st, | will sell all _ 4 | wint JANUARY 1. 188 out for ba | 1 | ARIE DOYS 3 poor ‘NBME "DY J XECUTORS NOTICE. Letters a Satathenisel on fie owtate of Jacob Plehbarn boon granted to the to sid estate are hereby | Majolica Pitchers, ! The greater amount of good Extraordinary BARGAINS IN IRON-STONE CHINA \ND TABLE GLASSWARE. W, H WILKIKSON, ae CHINA. GLASS, « Queensware. ALLE STREET, Bellefonte, Pa. i Iseelling ALL KINDS of Crockery and Table Glarsware at LOWER price. than ever known in Bellefonte, as the following list will show ; Best quality, Iron Stone Chi ed not Wo craze | Tea Sets (58 pieces - | Dinner pistes largest size Diuner plates—medium | Tea Plates Tareens—round Sauce dishes | Sauce Tureens——4 mm Sauce boats Cups and sau in THANY ™ na Warrant | Fruit saucers { Chamt L] | Pitcher and Basin 1X ' Covered chamber " TABLE GLASSWARE. [umblers, eac! Got lets, Fruit Bowls per Gd or sels 10 ni LED ' Cake stands Glass Sots, 4 pieces ‘ { Full Stock of Decorated Tea, Di and Chamber Sets Rest English ware. Tea & Decorate in Blue, Black, Brown or Claret. pieces §5.00-—regular price £7.00, Full assortment in Majolica and Fano Goods, &e, nnd 20¢: Bohemisn Vases height 10 inches, $1.00, and every thing else just us cheap in proportion Sa"! desire 10 say 10 every reader of this advertisement : J want your custom and in reaching out foritl am fully pre. pared to gixe you the Greatest value for your money once yet obtained. Call ‘A | and examine the goods and the price. {If 1 do not fulfill strictly all 1 claim as | to prices being LOWER than ever be fore heard, | do not ask your patronage I ean sell the lower prices can and WiLL BE Maps Respec tfully, W. H. WILKINSON, Agent ~THE- National Life Insurance CO, or MONTPELIER, Vr. Incorporated in 1848, Assets §3,000,000, Surplus $1,050,000. $1000 Bonds sold on yearly instal ments, These bonds are payable to the holder at the expiration of 20 years 1 or at previous death, or a stipulated h “" amount payable in cash at the end of any year after the first, on their sur. render, R. M. McENALLY, SpeciallA Ofcom Door North oF fom ong. ' BELLEFONTE, PA,
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