® have began to exact fulfillment of a » not to have a platform. They can’t EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OK POLITIC AL,''=Jeflerson, TERMS : $1.50 per Annum, in Advanee- “BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, JULY 5, 15%, NO. 30. @he Centre Democrat, Terms $1.50 per Amnumin Advano Editor J RANK E, BIBLE, THE DEAD SOLDIER. | The death of General Grant, though | ing of sorrow in every American heart. | Since 1864 he has been the grand, central figure among all the great | and illustrious men of his day. Cool, calm, deliberate and taciturn, the na- tion watched anxiously every move of the great, silent soldier from Don- elson to Appomattex. When the na- tion called him to its chief magistracy, the watchful eyes of his fellow citizens were upon him. There were many misgivings as to the propriety of plac- ing a great soldier at the head of the government and particularly a man whom the people knew so little about, He was only known as the most suc ate smoker and a man who abeolutely | refused to talk. The duties of the | Executive he performed with an hon- | esty of purpose which his bitterest | enemies never doubted. The faults | and failures of his administration | must be charged to his subordinates. | In the selection of his military house- | hold, he never made a mistake. In| civil affairs he was without the slight- | est preparation himself, and his | cabinet was little better than a nest of ward politicians. It is surprising therefore, not that bis career “in civil life should as brilliant as it was; but that it was not a complete failure. After he laid aside his robe of office and took his trip around the world the eyes of his people followed him dnd each ovation paid to the hero of Donelson by the pations of the Old World stirred the pride of Americans everywhere. No | American, dead or alive, occupied a larger space in the world’s history than did Gen. Grant. It is utter folly to impeach his reputation as one of the greatest military men of his age, Only the blindness cod prejudice of intense partisanship will do that. That the dead man has been slandered and maligned in the heat of political cam- paigus is the penalty which greatness pays to the most disgusting feature of of politics, personal warfare on pri- vate character. It is the one thing which every American statesman from the time of Washington, down, has shared with him. In his business troubles, brought on through no fault of his, unless his belief in every man’s honesty and integrity were a fault, he had the sympathy of the people. In his last and long illness the fheart of this great nation warmed to him as it never did to man before. His name is graven high im the theon of American greatness. His victories are those of an united and gratefal nation. Time cannot efface nor the grave cover up a nation’s gratitude. The great soldier, muster- ed out at Mt, McGregor, is another bond that binds in indissoluble union the greatest nation of the world, and mutely appeals to people for a nobler aod better standard by which to judge our public men than the bitter parti- sanship of the press, and the invective of political orators. ee LC tb tk ett Party Pledges. The democratic party pledged its- self to reform in the Civil Bervice and there should be no “bucking” against it ; the pledges should be re- deemed to the very lester. People we party’s contracts, the same as thoy would those of an individaal, If plat. forms are made only to be broken as they have been in the past, it is better he broken with impunity, and it won't be healthy for our party to try it. The declarations of President Cleveland, the pledges made on the stump, and re iia ; | cals” and “offensive partisans.” - long expected, inspires a genuine feel- | be | by tise press must bo sedosmod. The | off lier eggs, badly. anxious office-seeker who complains of the slowness of the administration in turning the rascals out, might do well to take an inventory of stock and determine whether he “fills the bill.” | If every man was measured by his | own standard, the incompetents | would soon out number both “ras. | But | the standard in use at Washington is the Cleveland scale, and many light | weights have dangled in the air only | to be rejected: Stand up to the | plighted faith of the party. Recom- | mend none but competent | deserving men. Be assured | Cleveland will make no bad appoint. | ments if he knows it. | recommends and The man who an incompetent man, | knowing him to be such, stultifies | himself, goes back on his party, and | cheats the administration. Give the | administration time and the rascals Vis = 1 | will be turned out. Give the admin. | | istration time and no rascals will be | | put in. Stand by your party pledges. | cessful general of his age, an inveter- | > w— Anti-Monopoly. About the gravest question that is now engaging the attention of the people of Pennsylvania is the giant | monopoly that is violating her consti- tution by obtaining control of com: | peting and parallel lines of railroad. | The capacity of the Penna. R. R., to | absorb smaller corporations is unlim- | lited. Bhe has steadily refused to ac- | cept the provisions of the new consti | tution, and has as persistently violated defeated { them. Her creatures | | the legislature, and now that she bas | divide with of © the state, master of the What are the people of the state to do? Their constitution is set | aside or openly violated. } i | which would {the traffic {is absolutely | situation, i | lature is owned by that corporation, | and some of their courts are about in | the same condition. | legislature of last fall is responsible | for the defeat of the anti-discrimina- | tion bill, as it has been responsible for | all the vicious legislation of the past | twenty years, which has made that | corporation so potent in the state. No |p | can convention against the men who | defeated the Wallace bill. It | absurd for the people of this common- wealth to look to the republican (a party for relief from the monopolies : | : i that are strangling her industries and | | psuperizing her labor. They must look to the party that is of the people | and by the people. In the success of | the democratic party only, can we ex- | pect protection from the greed and avarice of monopolies. We need but : | one plank in our platform this fall, | and that is ANTI-MONOPOLY, a good, square man to stand on it, and | ripe for a political revolt. None are Lare so blind as not to see at whose feet the great state of Pennsylvania will soon lie. Are you opposed to all kinds of monopolies that steal away the rights, crush out the independen ce and violate the magna charta of the people of this great state 7 Then vote with your democratic neighbor. Gradually and insiduously the cank- er worm of monopoly is gnawing at the vitals of the state. Anybody who can trace the history of the great mon- opolies which have grown so powerful and “arrogant, will find the starting point a small dot in the great circle which widens and extends its boun- daries year by year. What relief can you expect from the party which has contributed to and fostered their growth ! Vote with the party that is opposed to monopolies of all kinds, Vote and indentify yourself with the anti-monopoly party, Tur idea of Gen. Blair editing a Democratic paper will cause a broad grin all over the county. Rumor is Mr. | the probabilities of his death and limit of life left the sick man. the | | anti-discrimination bill last winter in | { obtained control of two lines of road | her | she | Their legis- | The republican | rotest is uttered by the last republi- | an aggressive campaign, The people are | | ASHES TO ASHES. | BARTH'S GREATEST HERO 18 TAKEN BY DEATH. General Grant Passes Away of Shadows~The Peacelul of Iustrious Man-The Land Ending of the Life an Last Sad Scene The Tomb to be in Central Park, New York—Funeral August 8th. Mt. McG recor, July 23—General Grant breathed his last at 8:08 o'clock | this morning. The lethargic condi- tion in which he had lain the greater part of the time since the exhaustion of Monday, and which yesterday con- | vinced the physicians that death was | near, deepened as the afternoon wore | by, and the successive intervals of | scarcely-preceptible rally grew further and further apart. A few o'clock Dre. Shardy and Sands stood on the cot- minutes before 8 Douglass, tage veranda, conversing on the con- dition of their patient and discussing | Mrs, Sartoris and Stemographer Dawson were conversing a little distance away when Henry, the nurse, stepped hastily | upon the piazza and spoke quietly to the ‘physicians. He told them he thought the General was very near to | death. | The medical men hastily eatered | the room where the sick man was iying | and approached his side. Instantly | upon scanning the patient's face Dr. Douglass ordered the family to be | summoned to the bedside. Haste was made, and Mrs. Grant, Mr. Jesse | Grant and wife, U. 8. Grant, Jr., and wife, and Mrs. Colonel Grant | were quickly beside the doctors at the {sick man's cot. Mrs, Sartoris and Mrs. Dawson had followed the doctor iin from the piazza, and the entire family were present except Colonel Fred. Grant, A hasty summons was sent for him, room while the messenger was search" ing for him. self at the head of the bed, with his left arm resting upon the pillow above | the head of the general, who was | breathing rapidly and with slightly gasping respirations. Mrs. Grant, calm, but with intense ' agitation bravely suppressed, took a seat close by the bedside. She leaned slightly upon the cot, resting upon { her right elbow, and gazed with tear- | blinded eyes into the general's face. She found there, however, no token | of recognition, for the sick man was | peacefully and painlessly passing into | another life. | hind her mother, and leaning over | | her shoulder, so witnessed the close {of a life in which she had constituted | a strong element of pride. Directly | behind Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sartoris i » : | { and at a little distance removed, stood Drs. Douglass, Shardy, and Sands as spectators of a closing life their efforts and counsel had so prolonged. On the opposite of the bed from his mother and directly before her sat Jesse Grant and U. 8, Grant, Jr., and near the corner of the cot, on the same side as Jesse, and near to each, was M. N. E. Dawson, the general's stenographer and confidential secre tary. At the foot of the bed and gaz- ing directly down into the general's face were Mrs. Col. Fred. Grant, Mrs, U, 8. Grant, Jr, and Mrs. Jesse Grant, while somewhat removed from the family circle, Henry, the nurse, and Harrison Tyrrell, the general's body servant were respectively watch. ing the closing life of the patient and master, The members of the group had been summoned not a moment sooner than was prudent. The doctors noted on entering the room and pressing to the bedside, that already the purplish tinge, which is one of nature's signals of final dissolution, had settled be- neath his fioger-nails. The hand that Dr. Dong'ass lifted was fast growing colder than it had been through the | night. The pulse had fluttered be- | left the death bed they conversed feel wo" ——————————————— to set my hand and caused the seal of he United States to be sffixed, Into the | | yond the point where the physicians | could distinguish it from the pulse | beats in his own fluger-tips. The res. | piration was very rapid and was a suc- | cession of shallow, panting inhalatione. But, happily, the approaching end | was becoming clear of the rattling | fullness of the throat and lungs and as the respirations grew quicker and | more rapid at the close they also be. {came less labored and almost noise |less. This fact was, in its results, a | comfort to the watchers by the bed ingly of the latter hours of General | “Done at the city of Washingion this Graot’s life, The pulse first had indi. | twenty third day of July, A. D. one { last to succumb. | conscience tenacity began to { Grant at that hour. cated failure, and the intellect wane after midnight last night, though a circumstance at 3 o'clock indicated cognizance, “Do you want avything, | Fred whis But milk they gurgled in his throat and were ejected father 7" questioned Cononel “Water,” hoskily. and pered the when (ieneral, offered water was | Its clearness and |! | side, tb whom was spared the scene of and that one word of response was last utterance of General Grant. Within tw f General { agonizing or other | death. than a peaceful enty minutes after the n ' . 2 J damth vi Carl G The wife al st constantly stroked death Grant, Karl Ger the | bardt, a Hartford sculptor, who has | dying general, and at times, as the [ the face, forehead and hands of been making a study here of the gen. . » R | "og . sha Tr . | passionate longing to prevent the €Tal, Was summ nd to the itiage 10 make a plaster mask of the dead man’s : face. He was! The following was ternoon by Colonel Grant: event so near would rise within her ‘ Si. 3 t ohiv anon ifs | Mrs. Grant pressed both his hands, ghly successful. i . . . waload: thi ( {and leaning forward, tenderly kissed received this al | the face of the sinking man. Colonel | Fred. Grant sat silently, but with evi- Execurive Maxsion, Waisman thousand eight hundred and eighty five, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and tenth. [Signed] Grover CLEVELAND, “By the president : “TT, F. Bavaro, Becretary o/ State,” The white bouse has been handsome | {ly draped, the emblems of mourning | being equal to those on the building at | the time of the desth of President Gar- | field. They are over and around win- dows and doors facing north, and the | great pillars of a portico at north en- trance are all covered with black, M1 McGrecor, July 24.~0p Mon. day the remains of General Grant will be placed in a casket, and the near friends will be permitted to view the remains. The disposition of the cot- ‘tage in which General Grant died rests with Joseph W. Drexell, and | the associated press is suthorized to announce that the cotiage will never tof a hero | watching dent feeling, though his bearing was that of a soldier son at the deathbed father, U. 8. Grant, ) r | was deeply moved, but Jesse bore the scene steadily. The ladies, with wet cheeks, were silent, while | 5 as befitted the dignity of a life such as was closing before them. The morning had passed five min- utes beyond 8 o'clock and there was Tox, July 23—Colonel F. D. Grant: : : : I will send : ; Pg Ay again be occupied by any family or will send a representative this after- | : af noon to New York, b ariog & ietier to Mr. Drexell will in due Mrs. Grant and an order to confer | time present it to the state or nation- with you in respect to the funersl cer- | al The house will be emonies. Grover Creve: | presented intact with all the present The family of General Grant have belongings, furniture and fixtures, as been constantly in rec ipt of messages | a gift tothe nation or cotrmonwealth, of sympathy since the snoouncement| It has been finally decic d to bury of the General's death was sent out | General Grant in Central Park, New | York. At 3:30 this afternoon Mr. Turner, Mayor Grace's chief clerk, pers ‘ne g yverment. D. ANI v this morning, but he entered the sick The colonel seated him- | Mrs. Sartoris came be | { not one of the strained, waiting watch: | | ers but who could mark the nearness | of the life-tide to its final ebbing. | | Dr. Douglass noted t be nearness of | the supreme monjent and quietly ap- | proached the bedside and bent over it, |and while he did so the sorrow of the gray-haired physician seemed closely | | allied with that of the family. Dr. | Shrady also drew near—it was seven | minutes after 8 o'clock, and the eyes | mation the citizens of Washington had | of the general were ocloting. His | of the death of the distinguished man, | breathing grew more hushed as the | last functions of the heart and | were hastened, to the closing A be on the firm and stroog-lined face, and it | many private ones were placed in like | was reflected as a closing comfort in Wasnrsoron, July 99 >. on the of of death He immediately dent was informed (General Grant. di- rected that the flag on the white house should be placed at balf mast. The lowering of the flag was the first inti. 4 lungs the it through the night. of peace ful ex- A few minutes after the white house | ex-president’s life. flag was placed at balf-mast, the flags | pression seemed to baildings and deepening in | on all the public position, the bells of the city were | the sad hearts that beat quickly un A minute more passed and was closing as the general drew adezper breath. There was an exhalation like that of relieved of long and anxious tension. The members of the tolled and citizens hearing them read. While the bells tolled President Cleveland Mrs. der the stress of loving suspense, ily recognized their meaning, sent the following dispatch to one | Grant at Mt. McGregor “Accept this expression of my heart. felt sympathy in this great affliction. pation im- group were your | pelled a step nearer the bed, and each h Wir f f The people of the mourn with you and would reach, if they could, with kindly com fort, the depth of sorrow which is yours alone and which only the pity if God can heal.” | waited to note the next respiration. | But it did not come then, It There was absolute stiliness never came, {in the room and a hush of expectant No sound broke the still ness save the singing the pines outside the cottage and the measured throbbing of the engine that | SuFpense. The Thursday meeting of the cabi- birds net was called for 1. o'clock mn instead of 12, the usual hour, to take action The on the death of the ex-president. ~Shortly | after 8 otlock this morning the presi- | although they had been anticipating | | received a message which determined the question of General Grant's bur- ial place in favor of Central Park, | New York. As soon as this message was received, Mr. Turner repaired at ouce to the cottage where a confer. lence was held. At the close of the conference Colonel Grant assured the | mayor's representative that be and his family had formally accepted the tender of a burial place for General Grant and Mrs, Grant in Central park in the city of New York, and the family would now proceed with all [the funeral arrangements with refer- above conclusion, The mayor's messenger then telegraphed to Mayor Grace the result of his mie- sion. Mr. W. J. Arkell hes arranged | the following time table for the remov- al of the remains from Mt McGregor Tuesday, August 4th: Leave Mt. McGregor at 1 p. m., August; 4 ar- rive at Saratoga at 2 p. m; leave Sar. atoga at 2.30; arrive inAlbany at 4:30; lave Albany at 12 o'clock noon, Wednesday, August 5th, and arrive ab m. in New York. THE PUNERAL, { ence to the ut 4:50 p. In the interval from 4:30 p. m. Tuesday to noon of Wednesday, Au- gust Sth, the remains will lie in state at the capitol, and from the time of arrival at New York on Wednesday afternoon until Saturday, August 8, the body will lie in state at city hall. Public obsequies of the funeral will take place on Saturday, August Sth, | at such time as the civic authorities may arrange, and san interment will then follow in Central park. {all night bad waited by the mountain depot down the slope. following proclamation was afterward WITH NATIONAL HONORS, issued by the president : “It is all over!” quietly spoke Dr Douglass, and there came then heavi ly to each witness the realization that Then the doctors withdrew, the nurse closed the eyelids and composed the dead general's head, after which each of the family group pressed to the bed- side, one after the other, and touched | their lips upon the quiet face so late: | ly stilled. Dr. Shrady passed out up- on the piazza, and as he did #0 he | met Dr. Newman hastening up the | re. 1s ded end Dr | Lg ry 3, doin, Sle Shrady, quietly. The fact of having | tire country has witnessed with deep being absent from the side of the dy- | emotion his prolonged and patient strug. “The President of the United Siates has just received the sad tidings of the death of that illustrious citizen and ex. president of the United States, Gener al Ulysses 8, Grant, at Mt. McGregor, in the state of New York, to place he had lately been removed in the endeavor to prolong his life, In making this announcement to the peo- | ple of the United States, the president is impressed with the magnitude of the public loss of a great military leader, who was in the hour of victory magnan- imous, amid disaster serene and self. sustained; who in every station, whether as a soldier or a chief magistrate twice called 0 poner by his fellow country- men, trod unswervingly the pathway of | General Grant was dead. which | ing man and his family at the last, was a cause of sorrow and sad regret to the clergyman, who had waited all night at the cottage. He had been summoned from his breakfast a moment too late and reached the cot tage only in time to minister to the family sorrow and gaze upon the scarcely-hushed lips of the dead gen. eral, to whom Dr. Newman's love had bound him in such close ties and relations. Those who saw and koew and all who learned of the clergyman’s absence from the deathbed quickly spoke the impulse of hearty sympathy. Soon after Drs, Douglass and Shrady gle with painful disease, and has watch. ed by his couch of suffering with tear ful sympathy, The destined end hw come at last, and his spirit has relurn- od to the Creator who sent it forth. The great heart of the nation, that fol. lowed him when living with love and pride, bows now in worrow above him dead, Tenderly mindful of his many virtues, his great patriotic services, and the loss oconsioned by his death, in tes. timony of respect to the memory of Gen. eral Grant, it is ordered that the execu. tive mansion and the several depart. ments at Washington be d in morning fof a period of thirty days, and that all public business shall on the day of the funeral be suspended, and the secretaries of war aad of the navy will cause order to be issued for appropriate military and naval honors to be rendered on that iy “In witness whereof I have hereun. Wasmixarox, July 24.—President | Cleveland was tonight advised by telegram from Adjutant General Drum, who is now at Mt. McGregor, that he had delivered the Presi dent's letter to Mre, Grant, and that she and her children expressed a | desire to have General Grant buried | with national honors, Their wishes will be complied with, and the cere’ | monies will take place as indicated. | President Cleveland and members of his cabinet will attend the faneral. General Hancock will take entire | charge of the military, and to him application must be made by all mili- tary organizations desiring to take part in the obsequies. | Affection Valued at $10,000. New Yourk, July 15. Rosie Levio, wife of Leopold O, Levin, who was in Bellevue hospital suffering from a pistol shot wound inflicted by himself, has begun suit against Rosa Glaser for $10, 000. Mrs, Levin alieges that in March Rosa Glaser sel out deliberately to with- draw from her, her husband's affection and support and then when she had Lovin completely in her power, cast him ofl, prostrating him so completely that be believed there was no hope for him on this side of the grave, and at temp cd to destroy himself, —— —A grain elevator is being erected Joo. LT at and Aad & Armstrong.
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