TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, in Advan — — ™~ “ . OT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION RELIGIO 0 2 Mee F. E. & @G. Pr. BIBLE, Proprietors. EQUAL AND EXA ’ ’ I0US OR POLITICAL, Jefferson. oh BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDA Y, MARCH 2, 1885. TE ———————————————————————t—n——————— ——————— 13. NO. The Cabinet Ladies. UHE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS, do. Well, I will tell you. You just go home by the first train. Take your papers with you, Then, if you HOW THEY APPAR IN want an office, really you might send | my your name and your post office ad dress to the President. VOL 1. | x ties . . appointment yet made the spoilsman | Some districts contain populations of | | more tha The Centre Democrat, { has been left on the outside. No man In this year of grace, when civil | 0 a hundred thousand while ET in Pe ylvania stands higher with . . . : | others are less than half that size, Teorms81.50 per Annumin Advane ¥ Pennsy : . | H 8 | {service reform is an accomplished | ‘his party than Malcom Hay, aod no | To ; Go : party { fact, and business methods are applied | particular. Bauer, | man could Sil ghe position TIO, age | to the affairs of state, when individ. | ceptably. Ifthe expression of approv- | Kaiser WiLLiam was eighty eight al in our town is a criterion, then lexmisted from the years old on last Sunday. Billy is | there is general rejoicing throughout | in good health and may live many | the length and breadth of the state, years yet. We just went out and took | not because one of her sons hag been “zwei glass larger” and had it charged | called to a high position but because of the eminent fitness of the one selec ted. | backward, civll service reform is now THE EARLY DAYS OF The bill is deceptive iu another NEW ADMINISTRATION. FRANK E, BIBLE, For instance, in order to make it appear that concessions have Then wait to | Mrs. Manning is F the queen bee {In the new Cabinet, She is ual responsibility for public trust is : bride { been made to the democrats, Dauphin 8 ¢ brine and | : : | and Lebanon counties are made into , | brought to Mr, Manus Eg some | one district, Washington with | 288enLis ements | 1¢ character of | : \ : : . ory | : ‘ a essential elements in the characte | delusive, The first section of the bill | the biggest delegation and the longest : : ' 14] A Bie appointee, it would be well to | : . ; y Jed pp tee, ? 4 ends its force after the next decenial | string of papers that was ever made.’ I Cl : | In both Dauphin and Leb: [every Democrat is in the premises, | : wy emocral I | Anon counties new senators were elect. ed last fall whose terms of office will see if lightning doesn’t strike you. You stand a better chance that way than you would in office holder | although not a very young woman, and personal honesty and fitness are made wealth But thas concession is aud a special position, She is nder, graceful figure, bas good | an : : rad : . | tures, lig v0 hair and 4 great an- | top and consider what the duty of CCDBUA. T——A——— | { up to the old man. 9 manpe A Warning To Winter {mation - i Mr. Cleveland will taka no step | 3 " Cos ci thorough soci women and Hox. Epwarp D. Crark, of Miss. | Mr. Cleveland's administration can Bes assistant secre- { equal 10 the demands of { be materially assisted in minor details TREES TO BE rLANTED ON THE 16 of the newly appointed tary of the interor died of pneumonia on Monday. Mr. Clark was just con- valescent, and took a relapse which terminated fatally. Some of Pennsylvania's soldiers were shot in the neck while in Wash ington, and as a matter of cour:ze, dis graced their uniforms. Col. Hastings settled any disposition towards black: guardism on the part of the 5th Regt. Let the affair be investigated and the guilty punished. Ox March 6th the statement of the United States treasurer showed 8158, 000,000 silver dollars and bullion and one hundred gilver certificates outstanding. The coinage of the eighty three cent dol- lar goes on at the rate of over two million dollars per month. The sil- ver certificate which is a mere make- shift is the natural outcome of the legalized fraud committed by the government in coining & dollar which lacks 17 cents of being the dollar of the “daddies.” The forty six million dollars in the treasury which are not represented by silver certificates, were the government to go into the mark. ets to purchase ballion, would act’ ually buy thirty eight million one hundred and eighty thousand dollor® worth of bullion. When a government debases its own coin, and puts the im press of a dollar on eighty three cents of silver, it can have little ground of complaint if the private citizen brands as a dollar, fifty cents worth of silver. Under the law the government is com pelled to purchase two millions of silver bullion each month and coin the same. This law was passed by the silver men in order to make a market for that product. As well might the iron men ask the govern- ment to purchase two million dollars worth of iron each month and store it away, or the farmer to insist that two million dollar's worth of wheat might be purchased each month in order to create a market for those products. A man having bull ion worth a dollar in gold will not sell it, or give it in exchange for eigh- ty~three cents worth of silver even if | it bears the impress, or certificate of | the United States that it is a hundred cant dollar. He can sell his bullion in the foreign markets and get one hundred cents for it. The legend “In God we trust” will not even pass cur. rent eighty three cents for a dollar, and E Pluribus Unum ‘only stands for eighty three cents, with the gentle remainder that “In God We Trust” for the other seventeen. Every silver dollar coined at the mint now is a counterfeit, with a lie stamped on its face. There is eighty three cents worth of silver and seventeen cents worth of promise in it. ————— ——————— MALCOLM HAY, To say that the appointment of MalconHay to be First AssistantPost master General was a surprise, is put. ting it mild. It is a thunder clap from the clear sky of reform that ®choes and re-echoes through the val. ’ leys and among the hills of Pennsyi- vania and startles from his fancied security, the incompetent importuning office seeker with his “backing” of prominent party men. If Cleveland's abolicy was outlined in his Cabinet, the bold independence of his later J Sppointments doubly emphasizes his design of filling subordinate positions p with broad and liberal men, In every and twelve millions of | | firmly established, and no man can [survive who does not accept its provis ions, as usalterable. Mr Hay realiz es this in its fullest measure, cants for official position will axe in his hands will hew to the line. though friends get hart by the chips. — a — LESSONS OF THE FIRE. night's fire will, no doubt, the of to important points Friday open eyes our b ‘dads” several over which they have control. fire marshal Ist. There should be a or chief of the fire legal and acknowledged head to whom all will authority all will recognize and obey. department, some look for direction and whose 2d. That the fire aparatus is entirely inadequate to the needs of our growing town and should be increased by the addition of a Hook and Ladder truck. There is no way of getting on top of a building from the outside, and the want of hooks and axes was felt by those en- gaged in fighting the flames, 3rd. The reservoir is entirely tosmall, the supply of water that should always be on hand for an emergency like that on Friday should be twice as large, 4th. Frame stables, paint shops and frame buildings in the business part of town, like those in the rear of the business houses on Allegheny street should not be erected. Some means of of protection, should be adopted or we are liablejto a repetition of Friday's fire st any time. There are many fire traps be built, much higher on buildings of that class, that it is not even a matter of economy to build them, the greater, The first fire was beyond doubt the work of an incendiary. Mrs. Brocker- hoft's stable boy locked the stable up at six o'clock, after having fed and cared Rates of Insurance are so and risk is much wards. It was not dark at six o'clock and he had no light in the stable, Two hours afterwards it was on fire. Our police force should be uniformed and their presence would be more effec tive, and havea tendency to’keep down the growing disorders, not because uniform, bul | the people is represented because the majesty of in thi | tinctive mark of authority, Let of the pe the legal po | them but let its presence | the distinctive guardians Wo only with Ww ers be vi A uniform of an oRicer Again let the « | trous fire be rigin of 8 disas f possible therewitl determined i { There is a mystery connected | that should be solved, bugs” in town we are at their mercy, If we have “fire A hundred dollars ap; ropriated to detee- tive service might save thousands dollars. Had the fire occurred two hours later there is no telling where it would have ended. These are some of the points that the experience of Friday night suggests as worthy the considers- tions of our borough fathers, — A —— NOMINATIONS, Wasmixaoroy, March 23—Presi- dent Cleveland this morning sent the following nominations to the Senate. Minister to England, Edward J. Phelps, of Vermont; Minister to France, Gov. Robert McLane, of Maryland; Minister to Germany, Geo H. Pendleton, of Ohio; Minister to Mexico, Henry J. Jackson, of Geor- gia. ————_ i ———. UNANIMOUS, A resolution looking to the final adjournment of the legislature on the 23rd of April was introduced in the house yesterday, Its prompt passage would meet with the approval of the whole state.— Hazelton Plain Speaker, The resolution above referred to, was introduced by Hon, Jno, A, Wood: ward of this county, The | test of party service applied 10 appli | they ¢ xpect the President to apply to B'V€ | his appointments way to that of fitness and the official | in town like that, whice bas just gone | up in the flames, and no wore should | for the stock, and was not back after | | govern ment, | { | | | | facie evidence of the competency of | fact and the {on the administration the responsibil 1OW1y 3: 11 | tor Bi ais of | and those who are pressing it claim if the great body of the people will ap- | ply the same rules to applicants for office and their petitions that they ap ply to their private business, and that Every petition rep for you that is fit When certify to reseuts that the applicant the position he desires, sign that paper you } : ’ : ; : | the individual applying. If you think roug 1} & | the man is unfit for the position you should refuse to sign, you have n> right to shirk your duty, or to put | It people, an injury both to the service ity for failure. is unfair to the | | | and to the individual and an injustice to The though a fool, can see the class of of men that must come to the front in the | vew administration. The ward “work- | er” aod the gin mill politician are man | yourself, wayfaring | | order to carry out the policy of things of the past, aud the sooner they are forgotten the better, for the party. ployment under the Government that you would not employ in equally res- ponsible positions in your own private business. There is an individual re- sponsibility resting on every Demo- crat in the land that it would be cow- We should stand up to the rack fodder or no fodder, our Recommend no man for em- ardly to shirk, duty is plain. It is an honest hearty support of the president and his ad- visors in their efforts at to this every man is pledged who endorse ed the Democratic platform or voted for itscandidate. Backed bythe moral support of the people, with his clear cut ideas of government and his past executive experience, President Cleveland will make a record which will for all time, be a model of good reform, We must size up to the new departure, — A — "FAIR APPROTIONMENT BILL. department has prima | continue until within years of | the time that the bill expires by limi i Neither of legislated therefore two these out the men of seeming Can office tation, be | and ad | concession 18 made 80 remote a8 to be [almost valueless, Notwithstanding | the obvious violation of the constitu. | tion and the | bill, it will no doubt be passed. the governor can dispose of it in But the ed that he will not submit to such an outrage on the law of the organic state as this bill contemplates. A ————————. NOTWITHSTANDING the low prices { 1 i | lower than ever before known—in. stead of there being an increase in the arrivals of immigrants at New York, the number since the first of the year has been more than a third less than in the corresponding period of 1884, which showed a considerable falling off as compared with 1883, The de crease is most marked in German im- migration, and the prospects is that it will continue during the ordinarily busy season for the steamships bring- ing emigrants, which is now beginning. The continental steamship lines are engaged in a war over rates for emi. grants which has resulted in bringing the charge down t an extraordinari. ly low figure. The small price of seven dollars is charged for passage in some cases. Meantime land travel here is very cheap, and the Pennsylvania Railroad has reduced its rate from New York to Chicago for imigrants to one dollar. It is plain enough why the foreigners refuse to take advantage of the exceptionally low rates, which enable them to cross the ocean and get as far west as Chicago for a sum #0 small that #7en the very poor can raise the money. They are warned not to come by the reports sent back : © | by their countymen already here, | who tell their friends ia Europe that the labor market is Ibe Harrisburg Patriot speaking | The | the intro. of the apportionment bill, says finall apportionment bill | by Mr, I. ker in January. The bill has been drage ng lowly until this nd, said during the debate, has senate yesterday pass d . senatorial due 1 ro along week, a ena been nos quest times at the It 1 ZORA. poned three re. of the author. was pressed Whether | yesterday with great the precipitancy was caused by a de- sire to conceal from the public the fact that no bill is wanted, or in order | to take advantage of the absence of! | Benators Wallace and Hall to force 80 | of these men look up to Is |outrageous a measure through the [children of Israel did to Moses. After | senate, is not known. In either event | the act was discreditable, The bill pretends to be based on | the vote cast for Garfield in 1880, | that it will create thirty-one republi. can and nineteen democratic districts, As a matter of fact, however, the dem: ocrats can hope to get no more than eighteen districts if the bill is passed and the probabilities are that less than that number could be secured. Politically, therefore, it is an unfair measure. But to accomplish the pol. itical results desired other elements of unfairness are introduced, For example, as Senator Henninger clear ly demonstrated yesterday, the dis tricts are not nearly as even in popu- Iation as may be. On the contrary they are unjust in their unevenness, over supplied tbat trade is dull, and that st present prices for grain the profits of agricul I make difference therefore that the steamshin ture are small. will companies have reached an agree. ment to discontinue their low rates | within a month.— Pittsburg Post - A Washington correspondent heard i the Assistant Sergeants at Arms of House. He isa roaring Democrat, and has a great following in Ohio. All the a discourse from Isaac Hill. one o AAC As the 4th of March [sane Hill had fully five thousand people who wrote to him that they were ready to come to Washington, Said Hill his hopeful Ohio friend : "You don’t seem to understand this new deal. You have come on here with enough papers to stretch from the Treasury to the Capitol in a straight string, you want me to present those papers fr you, you fool. Do you think I am going to ruin you? Didn't you know that papers don’t count with this ad- ministration? The more a man puts in one of them the worse he is off, And you want me to got up a delega tion for you, too. Well, you are from the backwoods. If I just wanted to lay you out completely, I would go out to the White House with a dele- to gation. You ask me what you shall end and it may be confidently assert. | f steerage passage across the ocean— | 1:44} } tiie NEXT MONTH, FROST OR NO PROBST Harrisnura, March 23.—Govern. | or Pattison this afternoon, in response [ture that he sppoint a day to be | known as “Arbor Day” in Pennsyl- | vania and recommend by procloma- | | bery in public school grounds aud | along public highways, designated | Thursday, April 16th, as a day to be | observed, and issued a proclamation | relative thereto. Init he BAYS : { aid in the systematic encouragment | of tree planting throughout our vari- | ous communities, to awaken and cul | tivate among the young a taste for the | study of nature and some knowledge | of the necessity, profit and delight of agricultural pursuits ; to arouse public ing and perpetuating to a proper de- gree the forests of the state, that we may escape the threatening peril of their wanton destraction, and to car ry out the comcurrent resolution of the general assembly I recommend that the people of the commor wealth do on the day named, plant trees along the streets, by the roadsides, in parks and commons, around public build. ings and in waste places; that they distribute information in regard to trees, shrubbery and forests and that they encourage tree planting in every way possible.” Hundreds of nn People Starving. AWFUL SUFFERING IN THE BACK COUN" TIES oF WEST vIRGINIA, CnarLesroN, W., Va. March 23. —Reports of great suffering in several of the back counties among the peo: ple and stock, for a want of food have come to your correspondent, but not until to day were the reports confirm l. A geotlemen who has traveled | through Baxton, Gilmer and Calhoun le unties says a few day's travel in the counties named has proven that the | destitution and sufferimg are indescri’ {able . In many localities people are on f tock is no better off the we rge de ath by the ol thau animals dying for The and ect e subsisting pie, want { food. suffering is in great isan Jackson e In sor people ar gr 1el made of wheat ground in coffee The “ in parts isolated from towns and rail unties, ns e striker’s di strict on beans and mills, greatest suffering exists roads where supplies cannot be gotten For miles a store cannot be found, and those that are kept have scarcely enough on hands for the use of the proprietors’ families. The low state (of the wells and springs during the ¢routh last summer and fall sowed | the seeds of disease, and many people (are sick. The difficulty of getting medical aid adds terror to the situa tion. All through the section named the crops were cut short last year, and the suffering is beyond the compre: hension of those who have not travel, ed through the mountain region. The wheat crop is short and the farmers in the stricken section are unable to procure seed corn. =A colored tramp in Elk county ran away from the poor house at Ridgeway and was found in a dense woods near by where he had lived for a mohith without shelter and lived upon roasted potatoos and skunk. His feet and hands were badly frozen. Our tramps here take better care of themselves, | to the joint resolution of the legisla- | vantage to the democrats from this | 4 a | tion the planting of trees and shrul. | evident unfairness of the | To } attention to the necessity of presery- | slarvati mn. | {| Mrs. Manning will known and most Mr Vilas Manning at the Ari | and this quiet, graceful coleria, ogt who made |B] the ad qualia ist week while the oud m great | oes back to Wis and will not bring { days and regular) estab] Mrs E v | | house { the n¢ Y, Was aso ¢ at the Ar] ngton, and the visit ical M Ak a a onol, clear.) until fall, W WAr secretar her to be a ty ! eaded energet kee, whose blood is the bluest of ans i Mrs. Endi Her fes decided, | the great!Commonwealth { cott is tall and sparely bu tures are clesr cut and and | with her dark eyes she has a crown of | gray bair, that was wound and on the top of her high laid in smooth coils She had and a vigorous hand shake for a of command her were proud to tell one in sides how the head a pleasant welcome 11 ves { terday and a fund small talk at chusetts gathered in quickly All parlors and spoken Massa- | Endicott family tree ran generations be | yond that of the Adams family includ ing the “haughty Endicott” British Goy- ernor of the early colony, and known to the younger generation through the “Ballad of Cassandra Southwick,” a fay- orile declamation at school exercises. —— i — A special dispatch from McVey town, Mifflin county, is as follows: James Harris, of this place; about ten years ago swollowed a plate con. taining four artificial teeth, which lodged in his throat. A physician, to whom he applied for relief, forced them into bis stomach, which subse- quently produced injuries from which be has been suffering ever since. On Friday last, not being able to swallow and in using a stricture dilator, six- teen inches in length, it broke in the center, the lower portion of which passed into his stomach. Dr. R. M, | Johnson, who was called in, made an effort to extract the instrument, but | failed. He then took Mr. Harris to | Philadelphia the same evening to | secure for him the best surgical treat- | ment. with the physicians at Jefferson medical college and failing to get the instrument out After consulting | of the patient, Dr. Johnson procured { what he thought would be ANDY em rgency that might arise in the case, and re- turned home with Mr. Harris the fol- lowing evening. Mon day night the instrument Mr. Harris had swal. 3 lowed commenced to give him great the best instrument to meet On pain, and on Tuesday morning his ndition became very alarming. Dr. 'olinson was immediately summoned and after laboring three hours with the twelvs inch forceps, was success. fal in extracting the broken dilator from his patient's stomach. Mr. Harris was afforded instant relief, and it is thought he will recover, not- withstanding the fact that the false teeth still remain in his stomach. — Altoona Tribune. THA) A———————— IMPOSING RELIGIOUS SERVIC ES. POTTSVILLE March 22, —A religi- ous demonstration of unusual interest occurred here to day, Archibishop Ryan administered the rite of confirma- tion to some 800 persone in the Oatho- lic churches of this city. The ocea- sion was signalized by a large proces sion of uniformed Catholic headed by the Third brigade band, escorting Whe archbishop who rode in a barouche drawn by four horses. His grace will spend several days in visi ting the various parishes of this por tion of the archsdicooss,
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