>» F. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. YEQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ON, RELIGIOUK ©] VOL 1. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1885. OLITICAL, Jefferson TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in Advance NO. 23. The Centre Democrat, Terms 81 .50 per Annumin Advance FRANK E. BIBLE, - Editor a . a T. C. HierLg, Esq., of Lock Haven War Commandry We ns has been elected Grand Senior den of the State Grand at the conclave in Allentown. congratulate Mr. Hipple as well the order for it is a position he will fill with honor and credit. - - Tue President has appointed Wen- dell A. Anderson of Wisconsin, to be Consul} General at Montreal, and the following gentleman to be consuls of the Uvited States: William 8S. Crowell of Ohio, at Amog; William D. Warner, of at Cologne; D. Lynch Pringle, of South Carolina at Tegweigalpa, Honduras. i ——— Tur appointment of Mr. George W. Julian to the Sarveyor-General- ship of New Mexico is one of the best that could have Mr. Julian is a man of great force of character and stainless integrity, who South Carolina, been made. during his Congressional career made the public land question his hobby, and battled early and late to save the | soil for the settler. No better man could be sent to New Mexico—that veritable den of land-thieves. - - SexaTorR EpMUNDS, whose reputa- tion as a jurist is recognized by Ameri- cans has been called to England to house of Lords enlighten the points of American law. This is an unusual, buat deserved compliment to | American lawyers. The Lords should have called in old red Thurman also, as he is the peer of any | . . 3 » . | American jurist and with Edmunds, | team. | would have made England is the birth place of the grandest code of laws that ever exist- ed, and American law with the excep- tion of that in force in Lou isiana, is a strong modeled on the English common law. Edmunds will give the Lords some points, we doubt not. Tue contract Tor furnishing postage stamps for the next four years has been awarded to the American Bank Note Company of New York, the price to be paid being $101,516.82 per annum, for ordinary stamps, which will be printed by steam, and $2,442,738 for postage due sod other issues of stamps,a total of $103,959,61 per annum. The oext lowest bid was that of the Bureau of engraving and printing, $114,13639. Four billion stamps will be needed, or 3,194,888 for each working day, must be printed during the pext four years. The Holyoke envelope company, of Holy- oke, Mass., was awarded the contract for supplying the official envelopes needed duriag the next fiscal year at a saving of $42,437 over last year. Hap the Democratic Senators been as anxious to secure a just and fair apportionment of compact and contig. uous territory and as nearly equal as may be in population, as they were to secure senatorial and congressional districts for themselves, the necessity for the governor's veto would not have existed. But each fellow was looking after a “solid” Senatorial or Congres. sional for himself, and paid no atten~ tion to contiguity or compactness o territory or equality of population. All apportionments are the result in some degree of logrolling, and it is | not to be expected that a perfectly fair division of territory or population can be made. Personal ambition loses sight of the constitutional requis ites, and the statesman fixes up a dis- trict for himself and goes on the stump and declaims against the unfair. ness of his opponents in depriving his Carty of its just proportioh of districts. In making an apportionment the Senate resolves itself into a mutual »Denefit association and each fellow knows that he is to have either a Sen~ atorial, Congressional or Judicial dis- trict, providing the governor does not interpose his yelo, on | bandanna | Tue “rosy checked” editor of the Philipsburg Ledger devotes a column and a half of gush to the Democrat's on the soldiers’ hill. As a Harry had rewained quite a reputation editorial indigent burial Yeomie” writer, but as a writer of sympathetic buncomb and flowery nonsense he gets away g up. Better stick to the “homic vein” brother, it is your forte. All your silly “war” twaddle about ‘ governors, ‘grandest and lovliest” cemeteries, « ‘gravd army posts” &c, will not get | that soldier pau pt Yr, away with the fact one will be buried as a and badge of his pavperism will be head while his wealthier, but not more hon- grave stones at his and feet free If the state marked the graves of all her orable comrade in arms will be rom such iovidious distinction. soldiers, alike, and without regard to condition in life, as the government penisons them, there would be less objection. an energetic republican takes occasion Pattison and while to asszail Governor over our shoulders, Ost nsibly run ning an “independent” paper never misses & chance to hit the Democratic party from beneath his independant | cloak. The wishy-washy article in last week's Ledge r expe ted a school girl, but hardly of our frien: might be Harry. As a spread-eagle Decoration day speech it is nauseous. homeopathic doses. — A —— Soldiers as Office-Holders. THE EXPERIENCE OF A DEMOCRATI( SOLDIER AS GRAPHICALLY HIMSELF. RE~ LATED BY Having observed lately that the Republican press almost unanimously | | condemn the administration of | dent Cleveland for removing from of- | fice those Republicans who served in | the army or navy during the war, | would respectfully ask if this has us ually been the course pursned by these organs, and if Presidents Grant, | Hays, Garfield or Arthur were ever called to account or even eritisized for doing exactly the same thing that President Cleveland is assailed for? 1 als0 learn that a self.constituted dele. gation of the G. A. R. has visited the : President and Sec etary Manning to urge the retention in office | how offensive their partisanship—of | men who Leld office for more than twenty years and who have come to the office hold as their personal property. Was no matter lock upon they the | the | The Ledger man who is | Try | again, but give your buncomb in | that they were framed in a judicial veto of the Legislative ! time he dec Presi. | brilliant army record tions in the Mint and who were treated in the a No Republican about the removal of from committees visit interest, because | forts were certainly fruitless, for n has held a gov ment position in this city sine Democratic soldier dent Johnson's term expired. J. P. 1 Pritaperrura, May 28 —A—— The Apportionment Vetoes Pitt Post tallow ino 1 1 lonowing editorial, te From the sburg we the iching on Governor Pattison’s veto of the appor- tionment bills, It will be read with interest : Pattison’s the two App rtionment bills is Governor action what tHose familiar with their Pid partisanship, by which many thous practically I) disfranchised ands of mocrats were and left without a voi in choosing their representatives i the Legislature and in Congress, ex pected it would be, Prompted by & stern sense of justice and right bound by oath to see that the tution is obs rved, he has re val. The show a thorough study of th h throughout give either his appr subject and give evidence and impartial spirit. He opens his and Senatorial bill by objecting to the time at whicl it should passed have been | lares should be imme ly after each United States de census,” } i the failure to do so at the last sessing and therefore the Constitution for five years has been a dead letter. The Constitutional objection relative to “compact and contiguous territory" is next taken up and handled in almost every dist ] rict, the Senatoral being fl considered. “The pre taken,” he save, “ar autions not not difficult of ascertainment and their reasonableness The Fourth E ghth Philad Iphia districts d contain the therefore the needs no defense.” and necessary ropuiation apportionment of that city is unconstitutional and unjust He adds that in a number of instances counties are formed and given a Sen ator with less than a ratio of popula tion, and the principal laid down in the Constitution is entirely lost sight of dis- triets in which this is done, and then of. He mentions a number adds : | any exertion ever made or even a sin- | gle voice raised in behalf of a Demo | cratic soldier when a change of ad ministration came? No taken as a matter of course. | Was Mayor Smith Mayor | Stokely ever urged or even asked to | retain any one of the many Demo | cratic soldiers that Mayor K ! - » Fox had appointed to sir! It was or ing or the police { force? Or, was President Grant ever advised by the press or G. A. R. or anybody else to retain a soldier, no | matter how good his war record may have been or how well qualified he | | was for the office he held, if he hap- pened to vote the Democratic ticket? If such a proceeding did transpire I | have no recollection of it. The writer was appointed to a position in the post President Johnson and remained there | until the 15th of April, 1869, or just six weeks after the inauguration of | President Grant, when I was | discharged solely for being a Demo- erat. | Ihad served as a non-commissioned officer in the army and I was twice wounded in action. There were also employed in the office at least twenty others, gallant Union soldiers, most of them had been wounded in action, yet every man of them, in less than sixty days after General Grant became President, was discharged without cause, unless being a Democrat was It would be an unnecessary and tire some work to further analyze this bill and point out its violation of the Constitutional rule. The districts con forming to the law are largely in the minority. It may well be asked what purpose has induced the violation? It | 18 sufficient explanation to say that in Philadelphia the result has been to create seven out of eight districts safely Republican in the political faith of their votes, and only one Dem ocratic. Throughout the whole Stats it will be found that the net result of the violation of the law is invariably to the advantage of the Republicans and against the interest of Democratic | constituencies, The complete result of | all this inequality and violation of law is an apportionment with about two | thirds of the districts safely Repub- {lican, I would gladly, if possible, | avoid the political reftsence, but the | facts require it, and justice to the office during the administration of | party which has distinguished me | | with the honor,makes it a pre-eminent duty, which requires no apology. The Governor's objections to the Representative portion of the bill are no less forcible thar the foregoing. Its total and flagrant disregard of the Constitution is pointed out, and the desire for partisan gain which over rides all clse made evident. He! shows that in a majority of the districts of the State no attempt is made to bring them up to the measure of the | law; that in Republican counties dis. | triots are created which lack the num. | ber of voters prescribed by the Con i | stitution, while Democratic counties many « ar evidently unial And un) wl must decline to give it my approval It 15 LO De i to me at 8o lat regretiea it | LY any xine month d lig enc Orainary mt case the Lo new bill obviating th As it is, most en ample Lime ut. [ indulge t this important inir apportionment, may acted before final a jour y of t } The Governor's vi sional A pportionme in an nnfairy Unialirness, it has been wholly dis regard fiiteen districts falling below the re juirements of the law. Concluding the Governor BAYS: been exhausted in Dem Dn. NX five of ‘a $3 lis n and one This together DArrow of the Democratic wards of that city, making a district excessive Democratic majority and leaving the rest of the city free to be divided into five equally certain Reubplican districts. For what other purpose can such inequalities and distortions have been devised, except to give five Congressmen to the 100,000 Republicans of that city aud but one Congressman to the 715,000 Democratic votes, All Democrats and those Republi cans who possess a spirit of fairness, ly Republic Dem has been done by massing into the Third district in a strip along the Delaware, seven ratic. of and the stand taken by Governor Pattison. It 18 well that we have a Chief Exe and wish to see the Constitution the laws enforced, will endorse cutive who has the moral to the shameless abuse of the people's rights It is doubt. ful whether they will be passed over their vetoes. But if they are, Gover- Pattison and the members of the Legislature will find satisfaction knowing that they done all they could to prevent its pas. courage enter a stern protest against embodied in these bills. nor Democratic in sage, —A— Treasure Hiddenin A Bureau A few days ago N. P. March, of Maddison, purchased an old bureau at an auction at South Orange, N. J. It bad been stored in a barn for many years. The bureau was started at 10 cents and firally knocked down to Mr. Marsh for 35 cents. Believing it | 10 be worthless, he declined to take it home, but was twitted so about it that | he finally removed it. In overturn- ing the bureau he discovered a false bottom, and a close inspection reveal. ed hidden treasure. Ho found a set of solid silver forks and knives, a number of articles of jewelry, an old fashioned gold watch and chain, and $178,18 cents in silver and gold. — yonuse aud I koow Democrats with 656 Jeli without the number of repre | Pivladeiphia Record, : the subje ct. { “Does old Curtin say that the Emperor | | | himself up to the authorities at Carlisle, REPORT from London says there | swing belief that troubles ig for Germany Zanzibar, and England, The used by Ling g Compii- the ex { " | German Lo | said onched upon Zanzibar terri tory in their anxiety to secure avail- | able to have diverted large Lhis means of India rubber, &c., trading posts, and by quantities ivory, gum copal, which formerly came from the interior to Zanzibar and Pemba, causing great loss and annoyance to the native and Arab traders, hands | the trafic through whose formerly passed. The lat- | ] ter appealed to the Sultun of Zanzibar ’ who address d a prot mn the sub. ject t other » Germany, England ana Fu pean powers . ’ e encroach on « continued, how- and the 8 n made reprisals | Hing three ndred of his tr Ops | Matthews te seize the The but companys chief trading post. capture was peacefully effected, the company sent an urgent demand | the German Government for a force to compel the restoration of the property, which it claims to own un- | der valid chief ra treaties with various native This has resuited in an « German squadron under com- | mand of Admiral Knorr to proceed to | the Zanzibar coast and investigat he val demonstration h : Sultan is uneasy over this na which is to be made | id has warned Eog- | or 1 ®. 3 possibly be come demand the 1 treaty bl | i ons | | | | | | ! ga assumed by Greal Britain when she assumed a protectorate over Zanzibar { gets your note and you are 1 3 3 ral column ‘urtin's exper ence as min lussia, veslerday Andy has thousauds of friends wi ve to hear most anything good sbout him, we republish the fol Wher Curtin came minister Russia and called upon the the expressed great regret, He asked him if » bid him fare well Emperor he would not consent to remain longer Mr. Curtin replied that health would and that not permit his persona! inter. ests demanded his return, The Empe- ror in his anxiety to bave him stay of fered him the use of one his lLavidia, in the sonthern part of Russia, | during the winteg, so that he could es- cape the severe season in St. Peters- Mr however burg Curtin insisted upon going, When the Emperor saw that his decision was not to be changed, be said of friendship.” that under the laws of this country he could receive nothing. then said, “I bave a portrait of myself | had But I want to give painted by Bonnat, | it for the Empress, it to you to be the property of yourself and your family." “If you me in my official capacity,” Curtin, “it will have to go the state de partment.” The Emperor said “I do | not intend it for any department. Give | me your home &ddress and ! will send ! it to you after you have retired from of- | ficial life." Some month after, Mr, Cur | tin received notice from the command- ling officer of a Russian war vessel at the { port of New York that he had a pack, age for him. The picture was brought | from New York to Philadelphia and ex hibited at Earl's, where it attracted a! | change this ar One day Simon " tangement. Cameron, Curtin's most vigorous enemy | | came into the Gallery, great deal of attention, the picture a moment, then said gave him that picture 1 Earle, “Yeu," said i he either stole it, or bad a poor copy #0 44 10 use it bere at home for politionl effect.” After this pleasant remark of Cameron's, the autograph letter of the Emperor Alexander conveying the por. trait to Mr, Curtin as a mark of his os- teom and freendship was exhibited along side of the Jioture, It is one of the best of the celobrated painter's plo mercantile are | | Re | applic rder |, | ufsctured { has signed the bill making it 1 4 | has entered | Dumber of wing from | palaces in | “I desire to give you a testimonial | The minister replied ] | Organizations The Emperor | intended | : members and widowed He looked at | | three weeks ago, whom he suspected of “Well, I'll bet,” he said “that | { Nolen Renovo has a building boom and car penilers are scarce, It is said Dauphin county farmers are plowir 44 After up myriads of locusts, July lst, postage rates wil reduced to two cents per ounce, The Dunkard meeting at Mexico, Pa, | wrgely attended, last week, was quite The amount of the bond required to be given by $100,000, collecter FE. A. Bigler is Twenty barrels of corn have been stolen from one man, near Chambers- burg, recently. has been fixed Methodist all over the country. Sunday, June 14, for Children’s Day in churches J. E. Echholtz, editor of the Sunbury Der ter at the above place. rat, hus been appointed post-mas* West Chester, Pa. is booming, not a good mechanic in that place, says the i, being out of employment. uly 7th, 8th, and 9th, next, the hold in Harrisburg, Thos. Kiofek was blown to pieces while On J State Teacher's Association will 1 its 31st annual session Let dynamite alone of Saxton, experimenting with the deadly stuff, on Thursday. Forest county will be rather dry dur next twelve months, as sll the licenses have 1} fused by the Court, In a skating race at Chambersburg 24 Wm. Bleckle 1674 miles ; averaging a trifle less ut week, in hours, than 7 miles per hour, Oleomargarine dare not now be man- , lawfully, as the Governor Aa crimin offense to sell or make the same. There are still some fools alive. Ben Burt, of New Brunswick, comtemplates lowing Odlum’s example and will ump from the Brooklyn bridge shortly The Pennsylvania Railroad Company the warfare in rates, and | sell tickets fromNew York toChicago for £15.00, and from Philadelphia to Chica- go for $13.75. | Another sharp swindler about, en | leavoring te ge! signatures for machin he He ick for | ery, which irofesses to sell, | sir {he amount Shippensqurg is troubled with fire. bugs fire Inst week, and a short time f An $2,000 occurred there previous, a stables and other buildings | were burned. | A planing mill, saw mill, large flour- | ing mill and engine house were destroy- ed by fire at Mecersburg, Pa., on Tues- | day of last week, Loss, $12,000; insur. | ance, $2,000 | The coal operators in the Mononghs | hela district, fearing an over product- | ion and consequent lowering of prices, | have concluded to suspend operation { from June to August. The four-story brown-stone residence of General Grant, which was presented | to him by a committee of Philadelphia | citizens, after the close of the civil war, | was sold at auction on Tuesday of last | week, | A call has been issued for the reunion { and encampment of the representative of the soldiers of the | United States in Fairmount Park, Phil- | adelphia, from June 28th to July 6th, Competition drills for handsome prizes will be one of the features, As shown by the recent report the to. { tal membership of 0 > give it to | Pp the I. 0. O. F.. in said Mr | this state is 81,317. The total expen- ditures during the year for relief of families, ete. were $4,448,000, An incresse in the amount of assets during the year of $85,008.03 was made, Gov. Pattison has been sustained by the Supreme Court in the mandamus proceedings instituted by Judge Reeder, of Northampton county, the court hold ing that under the new constitution Judge oldest in commission, is Presi dent Judge, and that the voters cannol Daniel Cleaver, who shot and killed Wm, Martin, near Leesburg, about improper intimacy with his wife, gave one day last week. Cleaver has the sympathy of the community in which | the deed was committed. Another cashier gone wrong, J. N, Day, who handles the money for Mar tin & Runyon, a stock exchange firm of New York, has confessed the theft of several thousand, but & member of the firm says it will roach £50,000, He was in the employ of the firm for 2) tures and in itself iy an © cot of : kj "a yours, bul we his guoss Day has about
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers