The Centre Semocrat, THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT is pub- hed every Lhursday morning, at Bellefonte Centre on Pa TERME-~Cash in advance If not paid in advance...... A LIVE PAPER- whole people. rayments made within three months will be con idered in advance, devoted to theinterosta of the No paper will be discontinued until arrearages are | Pa id exoopt at option of publishers Papersgoing out of the county must be paid fos advance Any person procuring us ton o present a copy free of charge, Our extensive circulation mak: = this paper an un- | asualiy reliably snd profitable median or advertising We have the mostample facilities for JOB WORK | Books, Tracts, and are prepared to print all kinds of in the Rengrammes, Posters, Commercial printing &¢ Mtosistyle ana st the lowest possilile rates, Alladvertisements for a less term than threemonths cents per line for the first three insertions, and d allne for each additional {nsertion. 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J Grins, Jno. Worr, Jno. Hespenson, Com missioners’ Clerk, G, W, Ruxsxsess, Sheriff, W, Mites Warxes, Deputy Sheriff, Wx. Duxexay, Prothonotary, W, B, Maxeia, Treasarer, Cuas. Smirn, Register and Clerk Orphans’ Con Recorder, Prawx EB. Brass, District Attorney, W, C. Hania, Coroner, Dr. H. K. Hor, Ouanty Detective, Cap't A. Morran, art, J. A. MoCrans, PR CHURCHES, MM. B. Church Howard and Spring Streets, K. Foster, Pastor, Services avery Sunday at ow. and Tr. x. Sunday School at 2-30 pr. x Meeting Wednesday at 7-30 p.m, St. John's Protestant Eplec Allegh streets, Rev. J. RB R. Robinsor Borvices every FBunday at 1030 A. x. and Prayer Meeting Wednesday and Priday even Yt. John's Rom , East y pi P. McArdle Past % and se rvic and Tr x Reformed, Linn and Spring streets, Rov Long. Pastor, Serv very Sunday at and 7 FM, Nesting Wedn an, Fast Hi Service 16.30 a and Rector ~ pal Church, Lam? Tr Inge. oot, Rev 130.4. wu. on Cathol Nr r. Maw at J. ¥. De oe Sunday Sehowl oaday even Luther th, Wast High very fn: Hireot -A. MM. EB Chore vices fay n and Hig at d max fBpring ~o8 Sunday a fr 1 LODGES, | XA sey fn - ¥ M.. meet M1, moat Be and forurt) posite the Bush Ball every Tuesday ov Ampm ndays nt N 2. n f on fl month in 1a 1 Xo. 270.0 n Bush Ar I No. 141 evening fonts | 'E aile Logan Branch Junior Order U. A OH on i fourth sets in Har Friday eve A Town Swept Away. Gavrvesron Tex, Oct, of Sabine Pass, at the mouth of Sabine river, the dividing line between entirely washed away by storm Of Tnesday night. Over lives are ,eported to be lost out of a | ‘total popula ion of 200. Alltelegraph- | ic communicaty "0 With the town is cut off. Sabine Pass, * 60 miles up the cout from Galveston #0d 23 miles south of Beaumont, the 0UDtYy Seat of Jeflerson county. It is tho, '$ht that the bar in front of the town ill pre- vent any tugs from landing, ana the owners of the tugs here regard it a useless to attempt to enter the treach- ous channel since the storm. Beavmonte, Tex. Oct. 14. ~This | town is in a state of excitement over news received from Sabine Pass, The wires are all down and the news of a terrible loss of life and destruction of property by high water was obtained from citizens of Sabine Pass, who ar. rived here on an engine. The waters began to invade the town from the gulf and the lake together about 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and rose with unprecedented rapidity. Houses began to yield and waves began to tarn them over on their sides and tops: The names of over 50 human vic. tims of the storm are known. Among them some of the leading families of B( ) ash subscribers will | for before in | : South Pennsylvania Railroad case. | decrees of the Dauphin county court, of them, doubtless, drowned without any one now living, knowing anything of it. It is feared that whole families in different places have been swept | away without leaving a vestige «f | their fate. It is said that the situa- tion during the latter part of the after. noon, beggared description. The | manifestation of terror and agony | by the people looking face to face at | desth and realizing that there was no escape, the dying cries of women au. | dible but rendered almost noiseless by the roar of the mad sea, the hoarse | voices of the palid men trying to save those near to them, all combined made a scene too horrible to be described, The damage to property is very great, A relief party has left here for the scene of the disaster, —A— Simonton Sustained. Pirrsnurcn, Oct, urt to-day rendered a decision in the It was a per curiam opinion affirming the 19,—~The Supreme co and putting the costs on the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, the appellants. The decision blow to the Railroad WAS A severe claims of the Pennsylvania Five distinct appeals were involved, and rd platform in its reference to the labor | question, is very pointed, demanding | those reforms that have brea advocated | for years by the labor organizotions o! this Commonwealth, p irpose of intimidating the wage vork- time when capital was in a position to tread upon oppressed labor, and, whut is more, by the votes of Republican Legis latures, It is very well for{the diciples of the dominent party in this State to proclaim but it would be far better for them to give us friends for the working classes, than mere Rew single something more practical words, The last Legislature was publican, but there was not a |abor measure of any importance ed by that body, Further, the candidates of the Demo- aes cratic party have been outspoken in favor of every labor reform demanded in their party platform, while the Re- publicans have conticued the old time ery that their purty is the “only friend of labor.” If the Republican managers counteract the with which the candidates of the Demoorscy desire to favor are being received among the working people they pronounce in favor of the repeal of the Conspiracy Laws and such other measures that do not bear equally upon capital and Labor; against con- embraced those of the Pennsylvania Rev. M | Prayer | | the control 14.—The town | the | and Northern Central Companies con- | cerning the lease of the Beech Creek ; he Bedford a Jridgeport, and the Pennsylvania Com nd | | and the Pennsylvania, t pany, as to the lease of the South Penn- | sylvania. In all these cases the decision The decision of the Supreme Court sustains | that of Judge Simonton, of the lower court was sustained, of the Dau- | instance of Attorney-General Cassidy, a perliminary injunction restraining the | transfer of a majority of the the South Penn Company to the N { ompany, stock in vorth- The latter is the representative of the Penn sylvania Railroad from Harrisburg to The dex forbids { the transfer of the of the | K v | stock of Beech Clear ern Central Railway Baltimore, sion also majority the Creek, { field and Southwestern | | Company to the Bedford and Bridge- | port Railroad Company, a small branch i > Company | line controlled the Pennsylvania the hands of the ! Railroad This leaves | South Penn Road in the | originators of scheme, and, although is nominally with the \ AD | derbilts, generally | it i is supposed #5 really with the minority, which favors mn of the road, Pirrasvra, Oct Wai seen Lh the compieli IS. ~Dr. Hostetter 1 io ralerepce to ~ LB the the South Pann case. { the decision of remo He sa ening il aes going East this ev that a meeting of the minor f the bers o | syndicate would -n rrow He had no dm interest w i | sumed on the road as He also said tl} lieve Mr. Andrew ( | with him, ing minority, and tha re v ROOD atl hie had Ale — a — | The Knights and the Foliticians Things must be getting rate of the | lican party in the State when } r des perate with the managers « Repub hey i stoop so low as to charge that the w ” pro | sition candidate for Governor uttered attributed to him | of | such remarks as they | about the Knights Labor vote Every intelligent workingman can | readily see the purposes of the party th and it was hardly necessary for | to this false- organs in giving publicity hood, | Mr. Black to telegraph a denial of the | | To uisana and Texas, is reported to be the terific | charge, It will be admitted, no doubt, even | by his political enemies, that the Demo. cratic candidate is gifted with at least | an ordinary amount of intelligence— sufficient, at all events, to deter him from making any such statement about | the labor vote. even if he believed that his party would receive a large propor- tion of that vote. But is not a man or set of men within the boundaries of the State of Pennsylvania that ean ever hope to control the vote of the | Knights of Labor as a body-—not even the head of the Order himself. The son for the dissemination of this nod by the Republican organs is to all, and, there false, manifest from if we can judge "press ons the eo heard in the where the matter has “fect will be ocon- ded. In times found that ive the meeting rooms been discussed, its | trary to what was inte. gone by the party wansgen It wad An easy mater to deo workingmen of this State Around. tion times, but sines the gia, t *tride’ made in organization and edu. “HOU among the masses the chances for de ception have been lessened, and they are beginning to think for themselyes, We do not place much faith in party platforms as a rule, but any laboring man who closely studies the platforms ©! tho two great perti a in this Sate will not have much trouble in deciding which of the two favors most the wishes leo the place. There are others, and many ’ of the wageworkers. The Democratic : . 14 vi phin County Court, in granting, at the Adam Lofink’s saloon, Railroad | be viet and contract labor; against the em | ployment of children under fourteen | years of age, and all other reforms | enumerated in the platform of the op- | position party. — The Toesin, Labor Organ cer —— tf — A Young Man's Buicide. A man about 25 years of age entered at No, 235 South | Twelf th street, shortly after ten o'clock | last night, and, ordering a drink of of the tables He drank the liquor and then quietly took out a revolver, whisky, sat down at one placed it against his temple and fired, He died ten minutes later and the body was remor- od to the Fifth district pelice station- h use, which said I have killed myself. No one blame but me. My father's address is No.433 Westminster street, Providence. R.L—-W. W. Gorhan. Wire Chief of Police. Benjamin Childs, widence {1 sak the press not to m Any favorabl nments as | | tian father and mother, syropsthy f I was once A newspaper m A letter was found upo Pr : "8 14 ake ha oe « ve iT. an myself, Whil ha Were exam:nng his sobhb papers man who ing v ntly, entered the room s declared that she was the d« I'l wife, oy were married in lone year ago, | ner u 4 elt support hi and | by bee Atle a I welfth m wae | leave thy last Ap 4 id shoot oOuree, Aan next heard | ~ in a saloon The y, the recognized organ , will contain in its | 1880 ’ | hon i M net | Aso | author 1879 morrow with the Amalgamated H. #lore interviews Da of and Ah rd, president . Laborers’ and William ih nation, Hines, bill substance i ©“ Of ol company say that the circular letter in which they in sent out by thirty-three Bellefonte workingmen | eannot be approved by organized inbor | that an unceasing battle has been waged for the swindling and oppressive company store {system and the recent decision of the | Supreme Court declaring the company act years against insulving, store of 1851 unconstitutional, makes it imperatively that shall stand united against store orders of any kind. DeCessary the workingmen They say that Powderly’s opposition in com- pany stores correctly voices the opinion of laboring men. x This cut belongs to Greens new ad whizh will appear next week. | Pennsylvania has upon her statute | books many laws enancied solely for the | ers—laws that were placed there al a! n him, | is to a Chris | whom [I have | | was | 12 | ut Gorhan was unable to | | he left | y | ys News | j the An Old Farmer Robbed Richard Elder is an aged furmer who resides with his wife and dungh ~ «r about a mile ongthis side or Ash- On Tues portion of A. this ye Furnace, lay lust he l sold a large | Messrs, his farm 10 Bmith city. the sule, John of | mouey secured by and John The which was | Lioudean, several thousand dollars, he deporited ¥ v in bank here and set out for Lome, aut a late hour be was Arriving these called io th a loud rappiog. rear door of the house When he openwl door, a crowd of wn, by seven io Dug ~ ber, pushed their way and, into the room, surrounding the manded the money he had gotten for his land. The farmer's affirmation that he had the possession was received not money in his with angry proving ineffectual, the limbs of the quaking old man, and gave Lim the choice of delivering up the money or In the robbers, the room with a jeers., Threats the ruffing bound being strung up by the neck. meantime, of who one the had been scarchiog house, returned to the bag of money, which jingled as though it contained a considerable amount of coin. The men, rupposing they had | rea ly the | startled man, de- | : taken the sole A y | ren which has tions, It is prove id se sold by wonderful a ) Or i Thi and ¢ we receive direct from only by the | the ]1 sell 8 4 ARS water is highty rece the H bottles Green's orl: | 34 ithe mmend NATURE S REMEDIES, or the following celebrated watfrs THF FARMVILLE LITHIA WATER, remedy in Kidney and Liver affe tlle mn. EXCELSIOR SARATOGA WATER. i pring in black-tin-lined reser BLACK BARREN WATER. ed disea I keep al id Freidri in Kidney or pamphlets Humyadi ar Py fi Pharmacy AND The Old Reliable | secured the coveted prize, departed Mrs. Elder came to the assistance of her now pros- trated loosened the cords which bound his limbs. There is no clue to the robbers who commit. ted the deed. The bag secured by them contained 850 in sil- ver.— Altoona and were seen nO more. | husband, and cowardly Times. - Hit Stewart, bridg near Birmingham to-day, Pa. w NTINGDON, «Oet, 13 years, ~ Alexander aged f WAS Crossing a e on the Peonsylvanis railroad, when Le was struck by a hand ear containing ten thr wigh i He instant. the de | men and knocked he brid; vie { into the Jur ala river, Wik ly killed, Two sons cased | were on Lhe car, THE GROWTH OF NEBRASKA Union Pacific completed in May, un- | I The Railroad was 1869. Two vears ad | before—in 1867 Nebraska was RT: Missouri In of the 8 Was ons abiacent to Ith of Lhe latte, popuiation tale nt Settlement 4 then be me general and prosperous | over the eastern helf of State, nr nn to subd n its wesler y Pa ined 8 firm hold ong | y ~ | lines of railway In Ju in eld culty ob » had already F 1 0 wt i yf " 10 as the | meridian, ti | | 1 of Nebraska had mn increased to 140 645, Ng i | farm products, the small grains, corn, | hay, cattle and hogs, was in propor thicker eastern tionate ratio. Agriculture, ing in the central and 4 tions, was steadily In 1885 | uplands in conquering | ward, lon the the vicinity Byduey first broke ground for farms in Cheyenne C The prodocts of the first year were corn yielding aunty. from 35 to 40 bushels per acre, oats producing from ) to 40 bushels, from 100 to 150 bushels, and wheat yielding from IS a9 Bo potatoes averaging to 20 bushels to the acre: there were other varieties of fieldand root crops, the tame grasses, and irees of equally This on the a single degree east of the meridian of Denver. encouraging growth. kW103d meridian, bat Subseribe for the Paw WRAT, BROWNS» IRON “4 Ae YBITTERS 2 WILL CURE." 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