F. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. YRQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER ETATE OR VP KEMUARIOR, RELIGIOUSR « JB POLITICAL. —Jeflorsor TERMS: $150 per Annum, in Advanes- VOL 1. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1885. * The Centre Democrat, Terms 81.50 por Annumin Advance FRANK E BIBLE, Editor DEMOCRATIC TATE FOR STATE TREASURER, CONRAD B DAY DEMOCRATI( COUNTY TIC COMMISSIONER, RHONE FOR JUS JON R CORONER Dr. H K. HOY Vice Presipext Hexoricks is prepar ing an address, which he will deliver in Indianapolis to the surviving members of the Indiana Constitutional Conven tion of 1851. - millions bushels Two thousand corn is the crop of 1885. Seven milli The stand a shrinkage in wheat producti bales of cotton also country « loxa leads all the other States in with 297.000.0000 bushels. - the Harrisburg P 5 Years changes Ww. P [he paper is to hands on five leassa, Hastings is the lessee, and be enlarged improved he pre in Vari us minor sent ed particulars —A—— ANOTHER WAL oud the pl sce of the between \feh An 13sia has avowed her pury and understanding reached land and Ru R by Balgaria on Roumania, and the probabilities are strong thatTurkey will attempt to assert her sovereignty in the revolting provinces, The annexation o R pable violation of the treaty of umenia by Bulgaria would be a pal Berlin I'he sigaatory powers of the treaty are all agreed there should be s conference to consider the matter, but events march much faster sometimes than statesmen, and it is not unlikely Russia in stand- ing by Bulgaria will soon be embroiled in a war with Turkey. that point it will be the beginning of the end of the Turk in Earope.— Ex, Tur editor of the Drmocrar don't deny that he refused to sign every pa If affairs per presented to him asking the ap- pointment of Democrats to place, that his first effort to get any one in a posi tion under the Democratic sdministra- tion, was for an out-and-out Republican, Since these facts are out, he hasn't near so much to say about collector Staple’s appointments, — Watchman. The Watchman editor has a way of “settling our hash” that is truly par- alyzing. us up like an attack of colic, and what rl | | | thumb s¢ again it will be reach | | | } | The above little squib doubled | a nice point he makes against us, Why | when we read it we just shat up like a jack-knife. It is known to our friends all over the We don't deny anything. county, and to some who are not our friends, that for a long time we refused to sign any petitions, and we are sorry did not stick petition we signed was refused that we to it, as every Does the editor of the Watchman want us to \ fall into his bad habits? Oh! no, and does he want us to deny that we wrote a letter in the interests of a gentleman whose brother is a republican? and per haps the gentleman is himself. Oh no Even If we did the man editor would eateh us in a lie, ty, with him. Now we are going to confess our sins and those of Mr, Meek too, W, lid write a letter in the interests of the same sentleman that Mr. Meek did. And we did it knowing that if the appointment were made it would be an honor and credit to the consular service, We did it knowing also that, to that gentle- man's friends the democratic party of this distriot was indebted for the elec tion of Mr Curtin, Will we deny that we won't do that Wate and we would be on a par, as to vera | pages it means nothin The Other Ox Gored. It appears that the minority stock holders of the SouthPennsylvania Road have “put their foot in 1.7 in the big kick on the railroad dea! and would like to back out and take just what the offered them, but the case has got beyond the Pennsylvanian Company have control of either the big or little swind- And the Pennsylvania through the legal suthor lers in the concern, Slate ol ities will take care of the interests of no the people, I'he Courts will, le that ! the doubt decir the deal IL) in violation constitution, and therefore wil a void, and the decision on the bill in 1 wil equity | compe iy the struct Hnpany i road or company charter lhe have a that Railroad higher regard for the px that create them and grants their pe ple I'he South and 1 the will be Lhe Pennsyl pe RDYDOUY, pie w get little sympathy Lt ull their whining will go fo 4 toppir RS B same proceedings be until settled Pennsylvania let when they ing the rews be tightened, go into railroad black ma hemes wi lside Keystone State, — — F'nere is an ocons ional individual who is & blow at the editor or owner of the mper stopped. He forgets that he is the one injured rather than the editor so long as he denies himself a paper (hat gives him all the news in precisely the shape he wants it. The editor most invariably gives full value for the al money paid him. There are rare in stances where a newspaper isn't worth what is asked for it the newspaper goes hungering for many a day and at last dies of starvation ale the stop-my-paper healthy, developed, prosperous newspaper with in such cases such newspapers well means something ; to a a living conscience and unpurchaseable g. ur expe. lence has been that for every subscribe led bys wtion we have made two | who has become offer de We | Course no m clar think this prove the rule, ( en reaaer and above Bat pa} th editor likes to lo Wl an editor who 3 better intelligent reader every r ean the we the paper If makes a good ord to lose a reader sn afford to | paper a Ia n reader « the new @ says the wrong thing in the wrong way wrile the editor and tell him 0; y« him of MAY of way. But don't imagine you'll convert an editor by mvinee his error that telling him you don't want his paper | any longer ; ho would be a scamp whose service would be useless to you if he | were influenced in that manner, Spi Wl. Valley —] — Tuexe is a vacancy in the Illinois | Congressional delegation caused by the death of Reuben Ellwood, elected for the Fifth district last fall. The Repub- lican convention on Tuesday nomina- ted Mr. A. J, Hopkins for the vacaney. v i | Mr. Meek wrote a letter in the interests | Two counties bolted, and have called of the same gentleman that we did? | nother convention, The reason of the Not for the world, Mr. Meek for once | bolt is that Hopkins last year charged got into good company, and he shall have eredit for it. Mr. Meek dictated the appointment of Mr, Mullen, a repub- lican and a gentleman, we will not deny that, although Mr, Meck does, Our glass house iv all smashed to pieces, ain't it. Now please don’t fosist on us denying anything. £2,000 for his support of the doecensed | Congressman, besides a written pledge he should be nominated the next term, A thrifty man, Mr Hopkine, from all necoun ts, — Fost, « Hopkins ought to “divy"” with the fellows in the bolting counties, They way be as “thrifty” aa Hopkine Tammany be showed her teeth in the New Y As was lo expected, Tammany ork con vention of last week, and nothing but the pru lence and wise counsel of Demy nN . Heo who are not Democrats for ollice d the from a Wate rlo y defeat, Tammar y's crats only, sav party io H position to throw the Civil Service form pledge [the na to the dogs Clevelands administration, w fested the red | IODA/RL conven handicup president As mani in eption given Bourke solution of that Hall an I, by its I'he gre fa purer Mr. C Cochran's re by the spoil sien retainers in the convention, at battle for supremacy o democracy, be fought out in levelands ite He wisely refrained from A — ublicans Against Quay Quays candidacy er [here have been indiy iu ad protests in abundance, from such men Reg st Judge Pearson, ex- resentative Mapes and Charles E. Wolfe, but the dispatch correspon dent at Philade iphia notes an organized movement foot among the Republicans of Philadelphia of the It 1a stated io that paper on to defeat the election Pardon Broker, A thorough organization is on foot and within five or six days a mass meet ing of Republicans will called (in Philadelphia) and the bolt will be form- ally inaugurated a committee of professional and business be For three weeks men have been busily engaged in ascer- taining the views of Independent have o-operation sgainst publicans, and they claim to re ceived assurance of « the Republican candidate on all sides. not alone in Philadelphia, but in other large cities and throughout districts, the rural Among the Philadelphia Re publieans who have joined the anti Quay movement are Francis R Field, Rudolph William Arrott, Joel J Alex H Warren, Heoves John Blakenburg. . Bailey, William Brockie, ius H y Morgan, General Mapes, » D. MeCreary, Hampton 1. ( Lae (reorge |} AT son, Joseph Parrish, George H. } and Lincoln | atle Eyre, Most of these gentlemen were nent in the Commit red, and their e weight They be JUnys S LAL nor onei matorial and tl ns in the bud, by him of the power of the State Rien . hice, wield with utter unserupulousness and great eun LTreasur er's which he would ning. — Post - Franvvr Freionr Discrimination | Take, as an instance, a freight-bill of | the Pennsylvania railroad company, dated September 4, 1885, charging 48 cents per 100 pounds, or $9.60 per ton, for carrying thirty bags of timothy seed to Philadelphia was 10 cents per hun- deed pounds, or $2 per ton. Marietta is eighty-nine miles nearer Chicago. there paid in this instance £7.00 a ton more for the freight, Of course a line should be drawn between earload lots and others which are less than earload lots, but there ean be no justification for a distinetion which makes Marietta pay almost five times as much as Phila. lolphin for a shorter haul, «Ph i Ke bot. i. i vedelphin from Chicago to Marietta, Pa., while the | rate on that date for grain from Chicago | than Philadelphia is, but a purchaser | Centre County Iron, Centre County, Peansylvauin me of the princi) al seat f the United | Alves roads of this State were provisions of the Constitu Pennsylvania ind ask for a tariff to ur eet the pig meta mild be made a in Centre the Cleveland district of as che than A ip or neaper producing it 1] this it the present prie none of the American rot Bellefonte, +} \ in the Nitian ore beds that er on raw near Head AVETRge Ove Bellefonte reach only 60 vantages poss ase by Cent become strikingly apparent, the The report soning ; Il, has a page of tion on this sut Hlowing estimate al thi and ymparison with other districts, making a ton of met may close provide « 1} i" fittingly chapter They wl all probably fall hort of obtained in fursace the results but have nevertheless been made ilations and { the the usual basis of such cal are presen be 1 without ynmens for judgment of those h vork., Continuing, the reportsay Mr. nter wl . inser in ui Abraham Valentine, under 17, for a ton of pig-iron metal from a good pr and supposing railroad con date of July makes the following estimate coke furnace ducing seventy-five tons a day, nections with ore banks, latter the together with plant, owned by the operating company ke nne v 1 141 Lh mak ng caar wl metal ore cold blast and | ton of Yeo / nd is Jopened up t W.HR. A get it as cheap, if 1 now get coke deliver the arough B, C, ( when Clearfield 3 and 8 we should certainly the figures given are not too low, You can throw in $1.25 per ton for extras, | | their indignation, and it is not surpris- | and still make iron for $10 per ton. In farther illustration of this teresting subject, | present a further | estimate, made on September 1883, under similar circumstances, and com piled by Messrs. Cox & Howe, of the Montour Steel and Iron Company ; Robert and Abraham Valentine and Beaver, of Bellefonte, The | figures for ore only were furnished by the Messrs. Valentine : Ore, Nittany Valley hematite, 45.50 per sent from. 2 14 tons ab $1 30. 8 Coka, 1 14 tons, at $304 (X13 Limestone, 1-3 ton, at 30... 2 Labor at farnsee aun 1.50 Missellansonn, general Popairs, ste 1M Rinking fand, for chilled furnace, breakage, ste i] Interest al Opar cont © I———————— ——— Lid in a» —ay | General lo It was not very long ago that thé cost of ore delivered at Pittsburg was great. of than Contre county could, with a | coko furnaces, turn out a ton of pig-iron, | When these figures have been come practice, | on | not cheaper, so that | pared with the greater of pig-iron production in other places the query will naturally arixe Why have no the advantage sdof? Why | wt? To these ing of Bellefonte been avail- ins this opportunity been rie LHe Answer is ead ly made that a la * coke lurnace wit upon the most ipproved juires about eighteen mont , and eannot be ies than I'he lvan A) Rails nj i Pennsy ompany ward this locality h ndus +» been | nanopoly that cl ing f ton for carry York, while the ing the riven these and rates to local sh pper 1 50 per cent. wried that one establishment have been located at Bellef wd railroad rates been fair was transferred fo Williamsport, the gh two points to their common con stituting the profits of the Williamsport liflerences frei the markets in ts from The discriminations of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company have been a seri enterprise. us drawback to the growth of Centre county. Agriculture has been repressed by exacting more for carrying the grain of Nittany Valley to market than the Pennsylvania Railroad company charged fre Western m Chicago and points of eompetition, natural development of the county has been retarded and the people of this and been heavily taxed by the payments for iron surrounding States have n excess of the amounts they would have paid had Centre county been giv- en that just treatment which the State Constitution every shis ] The people guarantees to per and to every locality of Bellefonte have for a long time been natural her sect me. aware of the al advantages gre they possessed over of and knowing, also, of the diseriminat he Dem: Railroad ( ed theo adverse railroad syly ‘DIA pany, they ea await Beech Creek Road ity | leprived of their only hope—compes ming of the into their vicin be iddenly tion—as would result from the absorp- tion of the Beech Creek by the North Road, ern Central ing that all their prominent men, led | by General Beaver and ex-Judge Orvis, | recently held a public meeting to de- |“ : I mides, nounce the oppression which had hung over the industries of the town like a pall, - ALA A A———— «It has been discovered that priso- ners in the county jail have been too well treated by the county and hereaf- ter more striot rules are to be enforced, It is said that the fare is to be reduced, When prisoners become too fond of be: ing in jail they should be made to work upon the streets, Criminals are sent to Jail for punishment, not pleasure. — Clearfield Democrat, " ssn ; The mining outlook for the Michigan {iron country is better than it haa been for some timo past, ‘walk The | for Sumerset naturally excites | Interesting Notes Frade is pick idly through out and New Engl Fhe daily de al Montreal rur In all works order to ke orders ep ng turn up Jai CE and Work “lee Lime, every deparlment be- ts full capacity rity samples of so-called purchased in Chicago three, upon investiga he Lhe ar- genuine and hauled into the 0 RKO NET Cumber] have ROners w Mr. C. A. Foot performed the feat of ig upon the placid waters of the Wis+ahichon above the railroad bridge yesterday to the great admiration of a erowd of 200 or 300 people who had gathered to see him. He used “marine which looked unlike miniature scows made of Indian rubber some four feet long, and skimmed sue thoes,’ not ! . . | cessfully over about a quarter of a mile of the Wissahickon's surface. The per formance occupied over an hour, and elicited the hearty applause of the wo- men and children, who formed a very large proportion of the spectators. The cers who left Pittsburg on Thursday little party of United ofY county on a moonshine hunt returned Saturday. As was stated in Saturday's Trisuxe they found one llicit distillery in Middle Creek town- ship. This was totally destroyed and hundred gallons of good liquor poured d { themoun yw the side « nathan Hochstetter, the oper- factory, escaped 1 has not } moonshine ! an AI Candidate Day's Canvass Ww AM nr, Pa. September 23. h candidates for State Treasurer are tered at the Park Hotel here to-day, and th evening, the oocasion of a so cial eall of Candidate Day and Chair- man Hensel at Quay's room, witnessed a levee of local politicians regardless of party, who engaged and participated in the friendly chafog between both Quay stopped off to see United States Marshal Rutan and District Ate torney Stone, who are attending Fed. eral court here, on his way to the Tioga county fair Day aod Hensel held the third of their conferences with the coun- ty chairmen, State Committee men and other parly workers from a dozen counties of Central Pennsylvania to-day. The conference was quite as full as that at Mauch Chunk yesterday, lasting over two hours, and some sixty persons par- ticipated. The Democratic prospects from everywhere were favorably report ed and large gaing upon last yoar pre. dicted, BL —————— A AI wu Norfolk, Pleated snd University shirts, «~Carman’s,
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