; s - 4 F. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Propriet Ors. UEQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. Jefferson. TERMS : $1.50 per Avnum, in Advirer- VOL 17. BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1885. NO. 25, The Centre Democrat. Terms 81.50 por Anmumin Advano FRANK E BIBLE, Editor Marraew StaNLey Quay pulled four out of the eight plums, out of McDevitt's Lancaster pudding. Chriss Magee’s little boy is getting badly left, RE - Tae greatest trouble President Cleveland has experienced in making appointments from the south has been to £nd a man who has not either | killed somebody, or “shot off” his | own mouth, Tue Daily News is about the Bellefonte post « fice ; keep cool, Baily, you'll see a copper-head sticking out of the post-office window | before a great while. —-_ Iv Tae Baltimore and Ohio road | wants fo get into must purchase the councilmanic lunk- heads who are in the employ of its rival. No argument'advanced by the attorneys of that company will be as strong as “boodle.” - GENERAL GRANT is growing weak- | er but not suffering any great pain: | The old soldier is going to the coun. try where he may fight it out “if it takes all summer.” He has completed | bis book, and no further literary la- bors need impair his health. He has made a gallant fight for life, and pev- | er a complaint has he uttered. It not likely that his trip to the country will benefit him permavently, as the disease is bound to prove fatal. - Gov. PATTISON very wisely deter mined pot to call an extra-session. The last “extra” sickened everybody and entailed an expense of thcusands of dollars on the state, and the present legislature just appropriated $27,000 to paying salaries to clerks to the last house and senate. The bill was ve. toed by the governor and passed over his head. This bill is the salary steal of iwo years ago, which was attempted under the guise of a “contingent fund.” ways means a steal for the employes sbout the capitol and seems to be a sort of “addition, division and si lence” legislation. No “extra sesh” in ours, if you please, Governor. - Turose of sur Republican contem- | poraries who are kicking because the late congressional gerrymander did not become a law, should kick and sweat over the twelve Republicans in the house who bad the manhood to stand up to their henest convictions. It could not be expected that Demo- crats would pass ever the gover- nors veto a bill that unjustly deprived them of from five to seven districts When our opponents sink their nar- row partisanship #9 far as to give the # Democratic voters their proportionate representation in the Congress of the nation they will find Democratic leg- islators ready and willing to join | } i k \ tr hands with them. The late appor a great rival corporation like the B. | tionment was so maaifestly unfair that it failed to secure enough sup- | port from the Republican members to pass it over the veto. A MARYLAND judge has sentenced a wife-beater to pay five dollars fine, ne hundred days in jail and “twen. ty lashes well laid on.” head is Jevel ; “twenty lashes well laid on” would be a pleasant sen- tence coming from a Pennsylvania judge, and the moral effect of such a That judge's sentence would be felt all over the | wife-beater | commonweslth, The #ould come home and lie down on the -® floor like a lamb andl listen to the peaceful slumbers of his wife, scarcely | breathing, lest he might awake her. still troubled ! Philadelphia it | 18 | CLUVERIUS, convicted of the der of Fannie Lillian Madison, by a Richmond jury, has applied for a new tial. The evidence was entirely cii- | cuamstantial and in many respects very slim, but the murder was so shocking be {and as Cluverius was the only person think some one had to convicted, The su indicted, it found him guilty. 1 a tt its details that the jury seemed to case will bear a re-hearing or pension of sentence, to await farther { developments. Justice cannot sutier by delay, as the man charged with the crime is convicted, but haste in matter may send an innocent man to | a felon's grave. The evidence in the Madison case was not nearly so | h against Cluverius 3 } i h . \ i Cramer case against the Malley boys, yet io the latter the the Malleys the benefit of the doubt. The of the jury gave | Jennie Cramer murder is one | great mysteries of modern crime and will, perhaps always remain so; al though public opinion has pretty gen lerally pronounced the Malleys guilty. remain The Richmond case as 1 may e (rami great a mystery as r mu der, but it will be in haste slowly justice to make 3 trial may develope stronger eviden it Pub- the on which to base a conviction or may acquit Cluverius entirely. lic opinion is not as confident of guilt of Cluverius the that convicted him. as was On the jury princi ple that it is better that ten guilty men escapg than that one innocent life be taken, a new trial will be . y. . y evidence is a dangerous thing, and in { more satisfact Circumstantis | nocent lives have sacrificed to it, yet | itis often as strong and positive in its links that Perhaps fifty per cent. of all | various of an witness, as | | i stantial evidence; but great care has t v always been taken that it should strong and conclusive, — A AI— Tae State Senate voted £35000 to the circulation of the *‘school Jour- nal” We where 85000 can | do as little good te the State or ite i don’t kaow of a place | venerable old rat hole the “Pennsyl | vania school journal”. The fact that, 'that journal hes to be subsidized should have been evidence enough to the dullest man lin the legislature, that its circu | lation has to be forced on our tea shers | A live paper devoted to the interests | of & profession does not require a sub lsidy to get it into the hands of the | people. It builds up its subscription list on its merits, and wins its way io- to public confidence by its ability to (supply a want. Just why the legislature | should appropriate $5000 to the edi- tor of the school journal we can’t see | — a — | We can understand why the Penn- [eylvania R. R. Company are making lsuch strenuous efforts to keep the | Baltimore & Ohio road out of Phila- city who is not either an employee or stock-holder should desire to keep out L& OV. we can not see, Philadelphia is {oot killed up with rival railroads | | { Her great competing lines of railroad | reaching out into the vast west and | bringing to her wharves and ware {houses its grain and products, are yet a thing of the future. They are | to be created aud one of the avenues {of trade over whose three thousand miles of railroad, vast trains of freight ‘would be hauled, now knocks at the door of Quaker city for admission Tur additional railroad facilities s0 long hoped for by Bellefonte, seems [now assured The Jellefonte Nittany (and Lemont railroad is fast nearing | completion, and work is progressing mur | | private, the ! eve. | convictions for murder are on cireum- | be | delphia, but why any citizen of that | | aud Guachita Rivers | division commander, was killed : | RESPECTFULLY DECLINED. We have made it a rule of life nev- | er to angage in a controversy with a blackguard. This rule of private life we must apply to the conduct of | We have as much con-| tempt for the journalistic our paper, blackguard as for any other, and the Ledger editor has written himself in our cata- | As logue of bla kguards, publie, and we can take no further notice of him. We must decline to adver. tise his paper gratuitously or other- wige, for the same reason that we re- | Police Gazelle | wont and destructive of fuse to advertise the It is ind f a community. —— — Parn: viz: "HE lites have evidently Conserva in Parliament; but if the rial benefit from The hands Any mal sharp, in the N and be {2 atl his ne DOWEr may “a ne to lreland; us or partisan abuse of it parties, That party under the leaders apd Increase { th ill disgust all ¥ Ireland's troubles, liberal ad reforms the ip of (3} re favorable to not questioned, but the Pp sition to get control | them to | thm abi doubt induced ons to the Parnellites aid in over. M:. 1 Riles couvsideration of their thr WIDE the cabinet. If Parnell hold nrom: pr can his conservative to their overthrow in Mr. land had a warmer Grladstone, Tw a Prien than has in Salisbury. — | A LIFE VICTIM OF PERSECUTION. | The subject of the following notice | which we clip from the Washington Herald, is the son of a grand-daugh- ter of the late John Duslop of this be placed to place with many relatives still resid. | feet of where bh | ing here in the most respectable cir | | family feud existing in Lousiana half century ago, should still be urged as | & barrier to his honorable aspirations | Driven boy, this { young man has managed to exist and lin the service of his country. from home when a mere hood creditable to soy one under more favorable circumstances. No one acquainted with Mr. Jones per sonally, can question the fact that he is a polished gentleman liberally edu cated, with capacity and integrity to render intelligent service in foreign ports : I noticed that last week all the New York papers except ove, bad { something to say about Mr. Cuthbert Jones, of Lousisna, mainly because | he was reported to be the new Consul to Callao. He was denounced as a murderer and an assassin, and all the | rest, to There are two sides this | question, however, Nearly century ago there lived in the parish | of Catahona, La. two planters, the first named Jones and the second Lid. (dell, They owned nearly the entire valuable portion of the parish between them. A difference of opinion oceur- red between them that ended in a pis | tol-and-knife fight, in which Mr. Jones was badly wounded. The fued grew until every gentleman on the Black | in was either | sentiment or in person on one side or H | the other, 8 : Gen. St. John Liddell, who was a Early in January, 1870 | well-known Confederate brigade and on | | “ | board the steamer St. Marys, at a | | ! : ; The lash is a powerful medicine, but | °" the Buffalo Run Bellefonte and | landing on Black river, by Mr. Jones should never be administered in hom: | 4 pathic doses. “Twenty lashes well {and Bald Eagle road. When these | two roads are completed we will have aid on” is an ordinary dose; desperate five railroads running into town and diseases require larger doses to pro | puce the desired effect in the shortest (ime, | every section of the county with the { exception of the east end of Nittany Bhd can be reached by rail, who at the time happened to be ne. about sixteen or seventeen. They | were all immediately arrested, and while at Harrisonburg, the parish to acquire a respectability and man- | half a i justice might bo done, | Justice might y done got, awaiting legal action, a party of | Gen, Liddell’s friends took the Jonses | the | $uN—from theriff, who had them in custody, and shot them to death, and as they had | been disarmed they could make no | effective resistance. Cuthbert Jones escaped as by a miracle, —father and eldest He saw his | father and brother fall and die, like proud men as they were, with their | faces to their slayers. Then his ene- | mies determining not to leave one of the Joneses to tell the tale, started to | hunt up Cuthbert, tle was in a room in the second story of the building where they were all confined, and s00n they came to his biding-place. As | have said, he was entirely with. out arms or friends, To leap from the window would dash him to pieces | and to remain death in below, meant a moment more. Alongside the lower | windowsill there was a ledge just wide enoogh to get a fair finger grip Having been at a school in Germany Cuthbert Jones was a fair gymbast fur his age. The window was open While his hunt Lhe thie wore breaking in out of wn at arms two or three feet sight and hang He the ing sixty H heard the door crowd furious rushed. They immediately ti laded saw the open window and con had Fortun k, seen ¢X ept in the somehow escaped that way night blacknesss soutl pitchy dar iar es only madi ness blacker, and How he kept his ng he pard] J OWS Ark inseen, ] 0 | ] 1 Kn Ut when be | heard the descend. last of the crowd ing the stairs he moved back, and by a an awful effort got hold of the window sill and drew himself inside and fell on the floor. Can you imagine the feelings of this boy (for he was only & boy) as he lay there, hunted like a father and wolf, knowing that bis brother were lying dead within forty he was, with their ghast. ly, sightless eyes staring wide open si ti | cles of life \ e tain against the midoight sky? A “contingent fund” al. | public schools as to put it into that |©/e8 Of life who can not bat ntertain |g g ) | a profound regret that a miserable | Twelve lives have already been lost in this Cuthbert feud. Jones is no more to blame for it than terrible he is for the existence of Satan, or any (other wicked thing, for it was begun twenty years before he was born, His | father and brother sleep in bloody graves, and have gone before a Judge who can do no wrong, and he and a brother, who was a little child then, are left alone. I do not defend either side in this feud. [438 horrible. But { all those who commenced it afe in the | Silent Land. There are dead enough already, If the able editors that have been so glibly denouncing this young man-—who is only thirty years old now—as a bloody assassin had hung by the fingers with deaths black wing actually over them, as he did, 1 think they would enter:ain different views, EE Mr. Cuthbert Jones is an appli He is well qualified for that or any other He is an eleve of Germany's most famous university, Heidelberg. He speaks 1 and Italian cant for the Calloa Consulate. position in the consular seavice, ) German, French, Spanisl mother Grant appointed him Consul to Tri poli in 18 as he does his tongue. Gen, 76, when he was just twenty one, and the records of the State De partment testify how well he perform. ed his duty. He has the air, breed. | ing, and bearing of a gentleman, He | would bave been transferred to Santi- ago de Cuba as ¢ sul under Garfield if he bad not been a Democrat, and the Republican Senator from Lousi- ana bad a man of his own political | faith named instead. The writer has | no desire to take any partisan view of | this matter or defend either side. He | and was an acquaintance of Mr. Jones, | As the Northern press is entirely in. | correct in their conclusions, I have ventured to write what I have that i ‘ | he would bave the Colle etoursh Pennsylvama Day Wasmixcrox, I 8, ~Thi was 8 candidate of Ninth Pe i g ‘ : 1 ennsyivanin district i» denied on the of the gentleman and hi Mr. Hensel i« not a candidat office, that Mr. W., U7, Henve the report for Colleetor<hip the suthoriry friends, for any slthough 1} i Ninth District thould Le desire it I olject of Mr, Hensel’ ton at this time, however, was to Lie 1 AV } 0 Washing trip recom { mend Mr. McGargle the Mayor of Lan Caster, for the J Ooxitiof 5 belies the appointment will be made to McGurgle hes te elected Mayor of Lancmter, row, Yer a Republican msjori ed pointment of ¢ fire executive x-M delpliis Lo-duy Mint at that | assured som« satisfaction ocrats here, The follow of the Lor Lo lay n pecial sgent of the 1 periment al . has beer ud with great success woston g after his retention in} lace he has not met He was told by the chief of the special sgents, Martin, that {he bad better return to his duties, and Washingt RIWAYS Deen not Md tive Republican and the waste his time in lellan has & most a Fpeciac le of his trying to get out of the wet under a Democratic sdministration irnishes considerable amusment for the Penr sylvanians here, Affairs of State. Harnisnvs ine 11. The tent ard purpose of the governor to de prive the emploves and officers of the extra session of 188 and those at present session from sny compensation, | outside of that for work ! Gunning mm, fone WORE the sessions of the regul ! Was Di rectly afier the sections of the vetoed fully made manifest this m ning. general appropriation bills were paseed over his head, he sent for Attorney General Cassidy and other members of his cabinet, and fier some diséussion it | was decided to issue an injunction re [ #training the state treasurer from pay- ing certain warrants, The following { letter was accordingly sent to Auditor General Niles, Hon. J. B. Niles, Auditor General — Sir: I am directed by the governor of the commonwealth to give you notice | not to audit any account or draw any warrant for any officer or employe of the senate or house of represantatives of the regulsr session of 1883, or the regular session of this vear, for any sum or sums of money in excess of the sala- ries of such officers or employes by the acts of assembly in force when such offi cers or employes were elected or ap- | pointed, Any accounts so audited or | warrants so drawn by you in excess of | such salaries so fixed will be in viola- tion of the constitution and laws and your risk | 1m Yours Yer resy ectial \ Lewis C, Cas Attorney DY, reneral, A similar letter was sent to State [reasurer Liveey. The employes now threaten to have a mandamus issued compelling the governor to allow the bills to be paid. Hanntenvre, June 11,—In the senate this afternoon and evening all pe nding appropriations to charitable and other institutions Fhe bills regulating the movements of m ichinery propelled by steam upon public ro and to of passed, the lattes were passed, ads, relating teachers public with schools also amendments, At the evening session of the house | i tending to four years the term of mayor | in cities of the third claw; providing | that misrepresentations made in good | faith in life Insura=ce policies shall not | work a forfeit of the uss of the policies, : the OXE oy the most dangerous railroad |crorsings in the county will be at Humes' Mill where the pike crosses the Ratlroad, hill, ni , Nittany & Lemont early at the foot of the There 1 should be some for the rou hours « langerous yer poi of OBs Of iile, as i the L someth :. 4 . ¢TES, L¢ d Der us which I control; n rats shall ’ : r y leputie and two Clergs. 1 wii ose a portion the force within ; lave, and the remainder taken charge and ean venience — Tue Legislature kindly adjourned — it of ronaidarat: for the dehilitas Ous i considera 10T Lhe a (308 4 se State Treasury. ed condition of The people breath. the Treasury the way our solons appropriated the ¢ money, nearly takes ones in uld left sh If there is a dollar legislature be convened in extra session and 8 propriate it, a Cx nel in Wasmingror, June 12.—A good, true story is told of Bob Ingessoll and Sec- Bob called at the Inter the retary Lamar, ior Department and asked to ses Secrelary. “De Sec'tary is occupied, sah, with | metabers and Senstahs, only; won't see | nobody else, now, sah,” said the color- | od messenger at the door. ‘he Colonel waited for a moment, with his hands in his pockets, then he pulled out a balf-dollar and dropped it | into the janitor’s band, after giving a A mom- | ment later the messenger walked into | the Secretary's room, where a large number of Senators and members were assembled, and (addressed the Secre- | tary : “Mr. Secretary, Mr. Bob Ingersoll am at the dosh. He says he understan’s dat dis am de time when you won't ree few whispered instiuctions, any but members an’ Senatahs, and he wants to know when you receive gen. men." “Show the gentleman in Secretary, , | said the - - From official records of the United States War Department based on the losses given and the total number of men furnished by the siates and Ter. ritories during the late war it appears that : Out of every sixty-five men ove man was killed in action. Out of every fifiysix men one maa | died of wounds received in action. Out of every thirteen men one man died of disease, Out of every nine men one man died while in service Out of every fifteen men ove man was captured or reported missing Out of every ten men one man was wounded In action Out of every seven men captured one died while in captivity. - companied by his two sons, the young. | knew Gen. 8t. John Liddell very well | the following senate bill passed : Ex- | Gen, Grant's physiclans— Sands and Ler one, of whom I am writing, being | Shrady-— at a recont consultation, gave it ws their opinion that the General was tlowly and surely dying, Sands says that three months and Shardy six months, will witness the closing scenes in their illustrious patiegts career,
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