F.E. & G. P, BIBLE, Proprietors. “EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OK POLITIC AL." ~Jeflerson TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, in Advares. VOL 7. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 9. 1885, NO. 1.5 The Centre Democrat, Terms 81.50 per Annumin Advance FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor YALec,” McCLure, knocked Muy. or Smith out in the first round with suck vigorous language and forei and ble argument that we feel like patting him on the back. “Goin Alee;” we'll hold your clothes. a — Maren winds, Ap cemper snows and ril showers De May is the combination: of weather, the sun, fellow of the head of that department Why him of the government is giving us don’t the president remove cause and put ina Democrat? He — A — Hox Samuern J. RaNpaLL is t= covering from his late illuess. Randall Congress and is killing himself by is the hardest worker his incessant work Few public men devoted their entire time and atten tion to the affairs of the people as Mr. Randall has, but there must be a limit even to his powers of endurauce and he may reach it before he is aware of it. - Wz see the name of our genial friend, J. N. Casanova of Philipsburg, | mentioned for the Consulship at Havana, Mr. Casanova was consul under President Buchanan. Mr. Casanova, being a native of Cuba, and having large interest in the Queen of the Antilles it is quite natural that his preference should run in that di- rection. We hope he may get the position as he is well fitted to fill it with credit to himself and his ad pt- ea country. Success friend. - THERE are 80 many fellows sta nd- ing around pro testing that they“don’t want aaything” under the new administration that the thing is be, coming monotonous. We “dont want” a five thousand dollar consul ship or anything of that kind, bat if the President is going to force it on us, for the good of the service and, because we are a patriot we will sub mit. A “marked” copy of this issue with the above declination has been forwarded to the President. Rev Dr. Hionee has been re-ap- pointed Supt. of Public schools by Gov. Pattison. We suppose that the Dr, has made a creditable head for the schools, or Gov. not have re-appointed Pattison would him. important and really burdensome position, the duties are very onerous. The reports from that department | are a8 interesting in character and variety of contents as a patent office report. These books should be issued twice a year, — A] A— Two years ago, Attorney General Brewster recommended President shine | for | Mr. | in! The | office of State Superintendent is a very CENTRAL AMERICA, The capacity for sell government displayed by th: Spanish American people is simply wonderful, if one is | lutions which cecur daily; There is American States who at some period | of his life bas not developed the latent talent of great statesmanship, and who his own has started a revolution on ho k { nation which seems to be inborn with | Central Americans has been devom’s | nated their “incapacity for self gove n, ment” and the term has heen applied This ndant: of } is AK ross the to all Intin nations, desc { Spanish “Dons” who settled t rid. cccupation outrage on the Rl secC- {tion of the New w In a country { where the chief of the male population is government and where each fellow takes his hand at a ‘ss *» { “revolution” at least ofice a year the capacity for he but the sisters government cannot doubted: trouble with our { republican on the South is {that they are too much governed, [ The crop of statsemen is too large for | healthy homeconsumption there are too many of them to the square acre. Bar rios recognized this fact, and that he was growing too large for the confines {of this territory and his natural de- | sire to “spread himself” increased as | | be grew, annexation became an act of | self preservation to him and he | his machinery to work to accomplish | his object. The population of Guate as great as that of all the | Central American States and Bar | rious can put into the field at least | forty or fifty thousands troops. Th | tonomy goaranteed the Spanish Amer. {ican Republican under the doctrine |or principle of their not bein g subject | for future conquest or colonization by | foreign powers, which is familiarly {known as the “Monroe doctrine” will | perhaps not apply in this case, and {any ioterferance on the part of the | United Btates with Barrios plans mala is | would have to be under the provisions | of some treaty or Tor the protection | of the lives and property of Ameri {ean citizens. Mexico is interested in | the preservation of the Autovomy of | each of these little republics, and the curtailment of Barrio’s power. With Central America united under Bar | rio’s, she would be constantly mena ced, a system of border warfare would be inaugurated by her restless ne igh bor that would be very demoral zing | and expensive, The central americans are as rest]ess leanoes; and and eruptive as their vi Jarrios may be dep sed] when in the by heighth of power y some revolutionist who calls for a new counter deal, Arthur to remove Postmaster Pearson | if New York, for good cause, Now the Republicans want President Cleveland to retain him. We want no rejected stones of the corner. Doylestoren Democrat, We got the “rejected” corner stone “Allee same” ago John Sherman said Chester A. Less thao six years Arthur was not fit for collector of the | Portof Xew York yet the Republicans electad him Vice President. Rem- ember the seriptural corne stone, friend Davis, —— A] ———— Frawce is just now undergoing a cabinet revolution at home and a sound drubbing ia China, to the in~ tense disgust of her people. The fall of the Ferry ministry is the result of of Pennsylvania turned its attention to Temperance Hygiene, and in a fit of grotesque in- sanity passed Mrs, Hunts bill mak- ing Temperance Hygiene one of the branches of the common school studies | As a donation to Mrs Hunt this was | very nice, but as the donation comes out of the pockets of the poor in shape | of money for that lady's work on tem- | ber of studies in the common school intellectual capacity of a mule would | to judge of it by the number of revo- | not a citizen of any one of the central | By some this talent for governing a | put ean | or in the colleges of the couutry. The | constant increase of studies has almost | destroyed the Common School idea | [and its usefulness is being seriously | impaired. But there is another feature | {in the bill just passed that is worthy the attention of our people, and that is the neat little job that has just been | engineered through, although it was attacked Mrs. Hunt exposed and vigorousiy by Hon. John A. Woodward. who by the way lectured in the Court | House. not long since on the subject of temperance is the author of a book oa Temperonce Hygiene and we be lieve the hed, The sands of dollars into her only work of the kind pul lis thou It on the peo passage of the bill puts Po Ket, 18 simply a gross outrage ple of this Stat I and the lady's tem perance sentiments are not as the pro motive The been duped by a nounced as mercenary which drives her to the tW. 0.1.0 clever business woman, into striking rostrum have the ¢ ommon school System of this stat ’ a bl hich it will be | Anybody 1 the knows that one of the WwW fr Mn w Dg In w h ) has of greatest rallying taught ir schools this Stats draw backs to the public schools is the great of This bill another, and study number studies, adds useless £4] list. All the temperance works ever writ- | ten, scientific or otherwise have not effected alcoholic drinkers in the least | and Mrs. Huot'sBooks, will not prove {an exception. Perhaps if the W.(. T. U. would devote more attention to | the home training | the necessity, if there is any, of Mrs, | Hunts book, could be obviated. The | first duty of a mother is to her own { children, then if she has more leisure [time than her household duties take up, she could devotes few hours to | the care of her neighbors children We speak thus plainly of the temper- ance Iadies because they were the lobbyists that eagineered the bill | through, and because they have been | duped. Of the members who voted | for the bill, little can be said, some | | of their children voted through ignorance of the jwants and needs of the public schools, others to please the ladies, and others still Hon. Joo. A. Woodward | made a gallant fight against the bill | and deserves the gratitude of every | poor man in the state. | He fought against a measure which was to add the burden of another book | as 8 joke. to the poor man and another study to the already crowded list of common school studies. A few more straws like Mrs Hunts book , and (he back of the public } i school camel will break. — a — Tw to have erroneous ideas got hoid of the large maj ty who are £1 forward for office. Ons that public positions ¢ the reward of party worker conceit is demoralizing to rganization as it is prejudicial It | been so assiduously fostered by the healthy public sentiment. has | Republican party and so {presistently practiced that a great many Demo. ke it as a matter of course | and are surprised that the administra | tion should not first fill, the offices and } | Crats a : i ire i A ( A merican Eagle. perance, it is not the most pleasant | then inquire into the necessity for # thing for the latter to contemplate | ‘MoM. Wetrust to see it take the | . 32s . ‘ oF O : . { who swears like a sailor, and fights | The disposition to increase the num. | Othe r course and lop off every supers |" . : J Pace like a soldier, be is a combination of (fluous place. As a mere matter of | gy . GENERAL GRANTSCONDITION, | There has been a change for the | worse in Gen. Grant's condition.and the [ indications are that he will He Tuesday, which left not sur { vive many hours, had a serious hemorrhage on him very weak. At 10.30 on luesduy Before he night he was resting easily, this paper reaches our subseribors will in all probability be dead, Twe NTY | Lee gave up the field of great Years His ward Appamatox and soldiers of wodern of b I, thie alter jour Years one as conqueror, quered, On the Ol A ppomat 'X | WAS cemented a indisolute W) hie have ela ps d ince non of t tial [oe 8 Nati twenty ¢ history of tl cleeps, beneath the se ed Virgiaia d thousands of th i» witnessed the wer of are no The ndrous , Lhe silent surres brother . ' more, figure o that w soldier { the north, been fighting a m Any ever cont util Mi South Death long since fastened his victim, but the stern strong willed, soldier contests every inch of ground hopelessly it is true, but with a cheer- At ined his fulness that is almost miraculous this writing he may have voble adversary of the Soath, or he may be dictating some cheerful greeting to the people of this great | country. There is no hope for Gene | ral Grant, nothing short of 8 miracle {can save his life. The cancer still con- tinues its ravages, and long ago got ! | We ean expect his death at any mo- {mecs. He clings to life with the {same tenacity and dogged persever auce that characterized his campaign over twealy years ago. There is not 8 heart in that does pot | beat in sympathy for the great sol 'dier. All the short-comings of his civil life are swallowed up in his in America tense sufferings; and the cheerful, he come back like the dove to the ark, and all the world is at peace with the victor of Appamat- | “let us have peace” that | years ago, has | | Lox. - Just why we should grumble at the New York Post office appointment we dont know, ns we get no mail at that office. However we are so accus towed to “fight th yinistration’ that it has become nature’ | as this is eur administration a right to say what we please and we're ttodoit. W 3 pile it on so thick. Dem A rats than those fi Iwump Rep 1h Al masters 11 would gladly have furnished New York with a dozen the half shell . C—O . Four hundred marines embarked from New York for Panama last week to protect the property of non comba Ww tants and keep the revolutionists from plucking the tail feathers of the A marine is a terraqueous biped course should be curbed, and a |PATty policy it will give ten votes old Tar abd old soldier that is danger. member of the Assembly with the from right thinking people by such bo 30 Ton wi th. —— SuLLivaxy was knocked out of time beyond the control of the Doctors! uttered | fmercy. PROTECT THE MINER. Again humanity is startled by fn terrible mine disaster in the Schuy!- kill region, and ten lives are sacrificed to the cupidity or careless) esx of mine owners. Ten women ure made widows and ehildren fatherless There i something appalling in the fie jency | | ] (teach rive al Our | sABters, an for legisls IW makers should tury attention from h bery and iq! In of their fellow pelled to delve cing 0 the or nothing and at the Corporation « 1 h i Mine In tors and co npanies I'he Fhich results indifference of tl mines is simply total disregard for 1 week, gives away and buries alive anf 1k below There the law, forced this #« it belongs and justice the the | minors will be held rtanates at ither deficiency provisions are not eqn - the responsibility rt of murder bx placed wh meted out tc of our It is an outrageous piece of villiany that criminals and lives more sacred allows men to work in mines which are in the condition of this Shenaq- doah mine. It is time to call a halt somewhere hold responsible, | Where is the mine inspector of that | district? Did he warn the company | that their mine was unsafe? Op whose head is the blood of the ten | men at the botton of the pit? Against | whom does the cries of the widows and | orphans ascend to Heaven? There is a great wrong somewhere | and ite perpetrators should be dis | covered. Protect the miners. ——— TEMPERANCE CRANKS. and some bo ly Of all the cranks that have | blighte 1 the earth by their presence, | 4 | the temperance crank is the most per- { sisteutly annoying, and tireless in the hobby ngation pursuit of his absurd Last week Ww the D wen the pr Grant's life lepended alone lantaand in such a the manner as to result in the shortest time hypo PupsipeNt CLEVELAND speaks in no uncertain terms as to the qualifi- cations and duties of Post Masters, They must conduct the husiness of their offices, themselves and not by The government pays them for attending to the office and expects them to do so The letter of the Presi. proxy. dent to the Altorney General, is good reading for applicants for oMoee. C— AI———— JEFF DAVIS TO GENERAL GIANT, Twelve Good Maxime diet i } 2 lHstinguishe Jemocrat, who had long ‘Even the further wegro should form ie DOGches Nobody ste Congressional oratory when When printed nobody reads nuisance 10 the mails, | more than 4.000.000" such and never read one v yourself to be drawn nm Lhe memory of has been much cen- d le sured by shallow men. uy Fawkes, | History will in the end do him justice: Before you have been long in Congress you will preceive thst one such man nowadays with better luck might do the country more service than a hundred Presiden- tial candidates or Christain states men,” “Do not be seen much in public in the company of Republicans, Outside of New England they are not, as a rule, savory. Some associations will Le toler- (ated, though known to exist, when led there is no excuse decently veiled. B for parading them in publie.” ut “Practice The Congresman rigvd economy, experience of the average shows that it is possible by judicious about £100,000 each Thus the his coun- niry stand by him.’ frugality to save ner salary, tanding by all nously newspa there yf 1. iatesmen with great find more honest as well Jas more in- You will immoral] den teresting.’ 19 i “Whatever hapj ens do not re As Cicero observes, ni! desperandum-—do not despair. You have once been a respected member of the Addison County Bar. liquish hope Resolve to regain that position, Live for the future and live down the present,” C— A AI— ii who didn't have Some individuals | conduct where it loses one of the ise | the fear of the law before their eyes, appointed place hunters, and believed that preachers — in Tonqfin. There is the: lailinds vin 9 New York, April 5.—Gen. Grent nothing so successful as success to a $F renchmen, and military success coy- ers a multitude of governmental blun- ders and excesses. Since the days of Napoleon I. the successes of French Arms have been few and far between The glory of 8 Republic is nol in conquests; but in prdserving “th liberties of its people at home, and in maintaining peaceful relations pith all the worl, vote against any increase in the num- ber of studies. The idea of the com- mon school was not to estabish a col- lege at every county cross roads, It was simply to lay the foundation of au intelligent citizenship by giving every child in the land the rudiments of an ordinary English education, and to fit him for every day life, With thd foundation already laid bythe com. mon school he could build his super structure by home study in after life have n : “| business to have chickens in their cos received Saturday, a letter of | ¢iited the lot of the First M., E. parso » KE. parso,, "by a combination of public sentiment, Another radically wrong view that law and order and the T¥mes, of Phila, prevails is the notion that a man He can now ge back to Bosting and | hy ’ A establishes his claim to a public posi. knock smitheerns out of Mrs. Sullivan fympa J to Jefferson Davis, in ge on Twelfth avenue and captur tion and proves his fitness for it by | If he would only go to Texas, what a Which Mr. Davis said : “If the pray. | fourteen choice fowls, the property of bringing himself out as a candidate | glorious furneral Bosting could have | *™ and good wishes of all those in the | Rev. Pennepacker, a fw nights a and dragooning people into signing | in a short time | South who honor aud respect General | Petter cull and got the coop also. —Al- i id biti LN Grant could avail, he would bana Zibuna, petitions in his behalf, and that no | Taz Democrats carried Michigan | | x icavail, he woul yt : body is to be considered eligible Heed “UE Lhe dread autagonist with whom he is|{ Fon Satx—A store jn good farming for | at thi late el | f 4 s election bh for Jus . | 00 . . public station who has too much a ® late ¢ eld a Ju Woe | now contending Just na triumphantly i parts BB A M Hag wy respeot to engage in this sort of basis | welf | of the Supreme Court,and Regents of ‘ er | ib as he overcame the antagonists with | office. 4 {the University, ness. Lancaster Intelligencer, on And also carried | i 0 mde " » fp many cities and (owas in Ohio. i whom he contanded twenty years ago. «Brackets for decorating. ~Garmans.
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