C1 ¥. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. HEQUAL AND EXACT JUSYICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER BTATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOL OR POLITICAL BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER TER %S: $150 per Aunum, in Adva LJ 4A a), 1886, NT NO. 1% ' — VOi. 8. The Centre Democrat, ed CTorms3l. 50 per Annumin Advance 2 FRANK E BIBI Editor E, Oxg of the base ball clu visited (‘nba returned without a Cuban dueca Bull-fightiog is a } Cabans than base ball. - ox U for 225 for trying to « Ta MAS Bi NT earned earnest | handsome fi ugly as sin. Coope prize in a beauty show, tical prizes are around Thomas never will draw a blank. - CHESTER A. ARTHUR, ex- President of the United States, dence in New York after an illo ss of nearly two years. Mr. Arthur's death was unexpected to the pablicand to his family as his health had apg 4 died at his resi arently Fx President Arthur was not among the beast men who have presided over the Hestines of the nation, nor did he leave the impress of individuality on the"policy of his admisistration. Yet he made a8 good adluinistration was in the main, pretty | clean. He never had the confidence or sympathy of the Garfield Republi been improving for some time President, and his cans and coming into the presidency as he did there was at fist a feeling of distrust among all Ziasses, but with I the fairness whisk has ever character Pou ine Aerican, all were disposed to let him work out his way unembar rassed by party or factional opposition, By this coolness and conservatism he commanded the confidence and good will of his fellow citizens, and his ad. ministration was fair and creditable. His social qualities made him one of | the most agreeable of hosts, and kind ness of heart endeared who came in contact with him. Polit ically he was stalwart and and par tinain the Republicanism bot that was the resalt of his teachings of his | school of polities. President Arihar wis a fair man, a lover of his country and her institutions, His death will be re&Zretted all over ths jand, him to those bie | dling clothes. | Kg ! Whats in a Nam Nothing has so much retarded a wise and judicious reform of the tarifl laws of the United States as the night | mare phrases “Free trade” and “pr The system ‘ : » tection to American labor, nomenclature of the revenue (which both great political parties condemned in their platforms, by de- manding a revisien of « xigting laws : \: stands & stumbling | ) ' CK In the ‘Dr and hie ustrics mr d mente of his better it is fo he will be cor his goods to this country pav i 018 goods Lo th country pays no im The who brings forsign American roods port duty. into the country pays no import duty out of ne his poeket. The consumer pays all t duty. No ove will deny that fact ment benef enue for the va importer | “Rev reform” is a very vague and ur ing as there are three kinds ket. There certain thi of that article in the mar is the “revenue reform’ licans and its twin sist J. Randall th tire reform of the I What is needed is a of Samuel 1] moeratic party fair and honest way, | + ant mission | he is Mr. Randall's choice. Mr. Democratic party of the state if Randall d the Mr. WAr be well for Randall's paper w mld Cease is on Senator Wallace fare and allow gh {the party to get t gether and fight {the enemy instead The theory of “protection” which was | } @ | originally advanced by Clay was even in his day a burden on the great mass | of the people, but American industry was then in its infancy and needed some fostering care. Certainly Ameri ! ~ . » » can industry is now out of its swad If with our cheap coal our oil our natural gas and our near ness to the raw materials of manufac | working in the direction tare we still require a high tariff to | “protect” “American industry and American labor” when will we be able to stand om our own feet ? If protection protected there would some sense in the venerable old cry. | line, | invest, f quarreling with — a — Ax Engineer Corps is said to be of Bellef doubtless locating the Bellefonte and nie Eastern Railroad, for which a charter | was granted about a month ago the State Department. With all our railroads we are still off the main line, and people must come in and gO out | of town backwards. We are bound to grow in epite of our want of a main Our resources are so great that capital cannet find a better place to The Bellefonte and Eastern may be just what we want a main (line, any way let it come, we will not The duty on steel rails puts into the | | day has gone by with the rising iron | metropolis of Central Pennsylvania. | pocket of one single individual in this | State $5,000 per day or $1,500,000 for a year of three hundred days it puts into the pockets of the men he | employs, on an average the sum, mag nificent indeed of $1.80 per day or 8540 | ollars per vear. There are ous i i dollars per year. There are a thou and | ooking, inequalities and burdens in onr sys tem of raising revenue and should which could he remedied but there stands that night mare “Free trade” | dent living, and that is R. and the great monstrosity called pro | of unsavory memory, tection” barring the way to an adjust | i | i get excited over a new railroad, that LAD AY—s Witar the 400,000 Dsmocrats of Pennsylvania need isaleadir. There [is a vacaney in that position wnd the man who sizes up ean have i for the — — Tue death of ex President Chester A. Arthar, leaves but one ex-Presi B. Hayes “The good die first.” at | PRESIDENT ARTHUR His Death Thur His Home in y {ay Mor: » ning New York 125 Lexingt } been ailing for rom A strok« bi and par A small he brain had burst, I he right side had ensued. the moment tl hope efforts 10 discove ry was made all was known vain, but no were spared bring the patient back to tka leas and speech WsCious ness, They were all al failures Mr. Arthur less all day. He knew what was going lay motion on about him, for he squeezed his doctor’s hand and put out his tongue partly when asked to do so, but he | never spoke or gave any other sign of consciousness, Last night at 6 o'clock the enfeebled respiration and other signs of physical pulse, more dificult | | failure indicated to the watchful eyes of his physicians that the end was drawing near. A change for the | and children gathered at his bedside. Dr. William A Valentine, Dr. Peters and Sarrogate Rollins stayed with them during the night. Mr. Knevals went home at midnight. strength ebbed out slowly and with it | bis life. Tt was five o'clock when the | end came, He had been entirely senseless for hours and died without a | ! struggle. The faneral took place on Monday Lon Fifth avenue the Rev. Parker Mor gan officiating. Mr, Arthur was not | a member of any church but his wife | formerly attended that church, Oune | of the distictive features of the ex: | pressdent’s character was his strong ogalty to her memory. Mr. Arthur's worse came on rapidly, and his sisters | Mr, Arthur's | from the church of the Heavenly Rest | Carriage and payin had on He rs and the engineers began work at once ed him they Carringe, tarned to this city staking out a location for a railroad. heir first stake between the if the Beech Creek track. and are apparently working towards Belle fonte. The men are very reticent and disel ! who or w they are work. hat thei ject 18, That locati of a new railroad is plain enough to the people of Mill Hall, but company is haviog the work done, or what where the other extreme of the road is to be lo cated, has not yet been made known. Lock Haven Erpress. — — IT is reported that W. U. Hensel contemplates starting a Democratic daily in Philadelphia. There is no young Democrat in the State better qualified to run a great journal than Mr. Hensel, and we hope rumor may be right this time. As an editor we have unlimited faith in Mr. ‘a8 a chairman our faith ain't as big as a mustard seed, —— Tax editor of the Philadelphia Times is in Washington this week and to paper that | traders” have been chastened by the { result of the late election and are not | nearly so arrogant as they were. [the brilliant Colonel would look | through other than Randall spectacles { be might see things in a different light. | . . writes his Hensel i the “free | If 17.—~The sn here Monday nig ow he as Og nearly ty-eight hours and shows no signs Ihe not been moving in either St. Paul or of abatement. street have CAs lay, and trains on all three to Minneapolis {to the railroads Are hours While the the six storm seemed to be it 1s A ioux Falls special says more snow late, general yat the northwest, most violent in Southern Dakota. Q has fallen than during the entire sea- son last winter. The wind is blowing a heavy gale from the north, and is drifting very badly. Trains on nearly all the The temperature i= at zero, and falling. There is also a turbance. abalone. roads are strong electrical dis Other points state that the storm 1s no less severe, —_—-—— A Case of Small Pox in Pittsburgh Prrrsnvran, November 22.—A case of small-pox, the first of the year, | was reported to the board of health | this evening. The afllicted person is a middleaged man named Frank Green, of Van Braam street. There are four persons in the family but as | yet none of them have developed any | symptoms of the diseases. The patient | Was at once removed to the municipal | | hospital, RE —. «Subscribe for the Dexocrar,
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