The Centre 1] oer F.E.&G. DP, BIBLE, Proprietors. (EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTION TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL MATES AN ~Jeflersoy RRA od TERRS : $1.50 per Annum. in Adva 4 _VoL§. BEL LE FONTE, PA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1887, NO.8. The Centre Democrat, Tormsil. 50 per Anmumin , Advance A . ————— FRANK E.BIBLE, - Editor, 1887. Democratic County Committees. Bollefunte Howard oh Milesburg Boro... Miltheim Boro... 1 Philipsburg Nx Unionville Boro. Benner 1WP..ow Gregg iis” Haines: twp, x P do Ww. P. Half Moon twp... Spring twp... Taylor twp... Walker twp .. Worth twp word Union EWP... coe iccncsvasmrmense Chinrion MoGarvey. JAMES A McCLAIN. Chairman H, Y.Snrmm, Secretary. Tue Union League Club of Chica go, went into hysterics because some of its members proposed to invite Jas. Russel Lowell to their banquet. Lowell is considered a mugwump. EE —— a — Aww legislation in Pennsylvania is the work of the third house, which takes its cue from the wishes of the Republican bosses. We suggest a con stitutional amendment giving to the Republican eaucus some legal status, as it is pow it is an illigilimate star chamber arrangement all powerful in- deed, in formulating legislation, but devoid of legal character. ————— Tue Harrisburg Patriot ‘strongly endorses the movement on foot by the friends of the late Postmaster Bogert of Wilkes Barre to have his widow appointed to fill the vacancy cwused by ber hushand’s death. In this we heartily join. the local difficulties which are brew- ing in political circles there and be an excellent appointment. Give the position to the lady. ane ii Ju —— Tre “deadly car stove’ is just now furpishing the editorial brain with material for Jong winded editorials, which enable the general public to see just how little the average editor knows about the matter. It is an easy matter to condemn the car stove but the fellow who has found a practi- cal substitute for it has not yet turned up. Let the good work of condem. nation go on until some fellow with less gab bat more inventive genius than the editor, solves the problem. The railroad companies will quickly catch on tothe Fight thing. Tar Daily News 4 says : “The Cex- TRE Democrat has placed itself among those “cranky” newspapers who advocate high license,” Well the Dexocrat may be “cranky” on shat question, but it does not hold out to the people of the state the prospect of prohibition that does not prohibit and which the Republican party as a party will belp to vote down, should it ever come before the people which we doubt, nor does the DEM orAT believe ia the third house which legis- Intes for our lepislatare, we are ovp- posed to Republionn caucus legislation. User the head 1 of “a traly great railroad” the Daily News of Thursday last gobbles up body, soul and breech. es one of our editorials. While Bailey does not appropriate the article, and claim it ns his property he fails to give credit to the paper in which it first appeared, but theo our young friend may not read the Cexrre Dex. OCRAT. We don't object to having our editorials copied by our contem-- - porary’s but it makes us Jeel cheap to sev sume other fellow get the credit for them. Now Bailey when you use | U aay fur bs work ies eis : Te »i It would settle some of Theories. There arc as many plans for the amelioration of the troubles of labor as there are philanthropic, sod theor- etic gentlemen seeking profit through the laborer’s cause, From the imme- diate “divide up” of Henry George and Dr. Mctilyon, to the “fencing in” of the great republic of another apostle of reform all theories have been discussed. The last project is to prohibit certain kinds of immigration for a period of years. This latter very un-American, yet the principle is already in force against the Chinese, and seems to be working all right. The protection theory which is applied to our imports and which creates and fosters great monopolies if carried a step further, might be made to pro- tect American labor. But all these plans are absurd when we consider the millions ot fer tile acres unoccupied, and untilled which would respond kindly to the husbandmans labor, the rich unde- veloped lands of the south and west capable of suppgrting treble the pop- ulation of the entire American contj- nent, affords an outlet to the vast army of unemployed and restless labor of our great cities. Theorists ride their steeds without saddle or bridle, until thrown headlong into a ditch of their own digging. Their followers find themselves in the same ditch. Nothing practicable is ever offéred, the laws of supply and demand are ignored and legislation is called in to do for labor what labor can only do for itselr. The fewer restrictions thrown about the trade and commerce of the world and the less governments interfere with the natural rights of individuals the nearer will man atigin to perfect | happiness. Each individual have an open and free market for his | labor, whether he be American or for | cigner, Neither organized nor organized labor have a right to dictate to any man whether he work or not, receive. is should or what There is between organized capital and organized labor a wast army of bread winners out numbering never “strike” against their em; or “lock out” their workmen, is worthy of his hire,” this great clas which the other two ought to if they do not. In the sirikes o facturer they wre as much the suffers as the other (wo classes, They have no theories to advance, and no ghiev- ances to remedy except through the law of the land, to whose majesty alone they appeal. In this clase are found the farmer and farm laborer, the carpenter, the blacksmith, the day laborer and all the various tradesmen and mechanics of the rural districts. If the example of the people of the rural districts and small towns were followed; if labor were less given to listening to the impossible theories of | demogogues, and more to the practi- there would be fewer causes of com- pluint. The laborer bas a right to sell his labor for the highest price, the | as cheap us ho can; between these two extremes is a noiut at which the both get jusiice. It is the point of compromise the golden mean; it is the rule of common sense; all the theories that Heory George and his disciples could spin out in a thousand years would vever adjust the difficulty. Common seuse and justice must pre vail between man and man, Iv the Philadelphia Democrats are ever to get any sense knocked {nto them the defeat of Boodler Keim the Republican Democratic candidate for mayor should be the lesson to do it, Mr. Keim is not a whit worse than capital shall | wages he shall | by millions the other two classes, who | loyers | who | act on the principle that “the laborer | of our population bas some #ghts | Boect | work- | man and the "lock outs”of the manu. | cal teaching aod experience of ages, | employer has a right to get his labor | ment. In a city which casts 80,000 Democratic votes it is a sad commen- tary on the party leadership to take upa Republican as a Democratic candidate for anything. The party in Philadelphia is not even a factor in State or National elections because of the corrupt leaders who control its uominations and sell its votes. What the Quaker eity Democrats need is a Democratic paper which is always Democratic and always honest. Dee manding the nomination of the best men inthe party for office and an honest support of the ticket when nominated, a paper not under the control of corrupt so called leaders and not identified with any of the petty factions which divide and weak: en the party and make it the play- thing of the bosses. Honest leadership ander the present condition of affairs is out of the question. Their fights have more ghan a local effect and are each year carried into our state con- ventions and the average Philadelphia politician considers convention day as his wash day and proceeds to cleanse his dirty linen in the face of the rural democracy. There is a lack of politi. cal honesty about Philadelphia Demo- crats which is patent to everyone and which demoralizes the party through out the state. Tue contest over the Jersey senator ship still continues and with little hope of an early settlement. Gov, Abbett the Democratic candidate who is the choice of the Democratic people of the state, snd who has the support of all the Democratic members except speaker Baird and two kickers, ir one of the ablest men in the state and de- serving of the support he is receiving. | The Democrats have a majority on ljoint ballot and were it not for | the traitors who were elected by { Democratic votes as Democrats Abbett woul a w be the Senator. It will be a wise thing in the future for the of New Jersey and indeed of » be sure they do not nomi. liose fealty to party can be | shaken by the bribe of a speakership, ready to sacrifice party gratify personal feelings Abbett nor General Sewell his competitor are being op- | posed on any but the lowest personal rounds. Both men are above re | proach sod represent in a marked de’ { Demoerat any state nate men w tor who an interests to | Neither Gov. {gree the best elements of their respec- | tive parties. As a sample of political | Judas, Baird the Democratic speaker elected by the Republicans and two labor Representatives, is gilt edged. He is still voting for his prohibition candidate, doubtless afraid to carry out the bargain that put him in the speakers chair. The Jersey case is another argument for the election of Senator by popular vote. > -> Ware our Bepators and Represen. tatives are voting away the peoples money by the millions for a new navy {and for const defences it might be ! worth while to find out how mavy of | the gentlemen are interested in iron or steele manufactories. For instance | the senior Senator from Pennsylvania | might possibly be interested in some ‘of the steel and iron plants in this ‘state, We jost want to koow how much to credit to patriotism and how | much to self interest, employer and employe cad agree and | - Nasuvirng, Teno, Feb, 17.-<The arrest of Elisha Greig, last night, re. vealed a plot to commit arson and murder. The residence of Jesse E. Nolan, a farmer was burned down on Sunday night, and tho inmates, Miss Mattie Orment and Mrs, Hamlet, barely escaped cremation, Greig confessed to setting the house on fire, and said he had been hired to do it by a farmer neighbor, Jim Bal- The Mount Holly Tragedy. It is now over a week since Mary C. Anderson was found on the road- side, two miles from Mount Holly, with a bullet in her brain, and she still lives, with a chance for recovery, while the interest in the tragedy of which she was the victim increases instead of abating. After a night of restlessness, attributed to constantly lying in one position, she was allowed to vest on her right side yesterday morning with encouraging results. She slept soundly during the morning appeared comfortable and awoke in cheerful spirits, When Dr Brown, the attending physician, called she was wide awake, bright and conscious and she snswered his questions wilh a grateful smile. The doctor was well pleased with the progress of the case, but issued a rigid order against the visitors who have been making a run on the Avderson home since the girl's removal there, About 2 o'clock in the afternoon Will Pool, whom rumor hasendeavor- to connect with the tragedy, in order, if possible, to litt the burden of suspi- clon from Barclay Peak, called to see the wounded girl. He was not admit. ted to the sick room, but spent some time at the house. Mrs. Anderson said after he left: “There is not the slightest ground for suspicion that Will Pool had anything to do with the shooting, and the reports that have been circulated to the effect that Mary mentioned his name ars false. The story that she said that the man who fired the pistol had a basket on his arm is also without a shadow of truth. What she did say in one of her delirious moments was: “Take him away ; he’s got something under his arm.” " Mary talked so clearly with her mother yesterday about the shooting that it was thought advisable to again summon Prosecutor Hendrickson to her bedside, but the messenger who went for him reported that he was attending court in Trenton. He will probably be called to-day. Mrs. Anderson was more firmly convineed yesterday than ever that Barclay Peak was guilty and did net hesitate to say that she wanted to see the full penalty of his crimes meted out to him. She said to the Times reporter ; “There is not a word of truth in the reports that Mary called for Barclay Peak and has manifested great affec tion for him since being picked up on the roadside,” Another story intended to divert attention from Barclay Peak and, if possible, mystify the case, was that in regard to a ring worn by Mary Ander. son on the night of the tragedy, which was claimed the next day by a young man named Rossel who lives in Mount Holly. Mary had worked for Rossel’s mother Thanksgiving week, and found the rimg which had been lost. Fhe playfully said at the time she would keep it, and that was how it happened to be on her finger. Ros- sel is married and his mother is one of Mary Anderson's warmest friends, calling to see her almost daily since the shooting. None of the stories or theories set afloat to account for the ball in Mary Anderson's brain upon any other hypothesis than that Barzlay Peak fired it from his sevenshooter with deadly intent accomplish that pur pose. One after another they are ex- ploded by the officers of the law in their investigations, and suspicion fastens its grip more firmly on the infatuated cousin confioed in the Mount Holly jail. It was reported lust evening that the suicide theory had been abandoned altogether as a line of defense for Peak, but that his friends still insisted they would be An Appeal for Help. Lyons, Mich., Feb, 17.—The peo- ple of Lyons, who have for a weik fought flood and ice with 1.2 despera- tion of & garrison amsiled beseiging foe, are now brought face to face with terrible privation and their sufferings esl for speedy relief, if a worse cal amity than has already befallen them is not averted. The whole popula- tion has been turned out of house snd home; every place of business is sub- merged, the industries of the town have been completely suspended and many of them utterly destroyed. Some buildings have been undermined by water, and maoy that remain will be ruined even should the water of the Grand River return to its old bed, which is very uncertain. Driven from their shops and houses, the peo- ple have taken refuge on higher ground and seeking to save sueh rem- nants of their property as they can reach at the imminent peril of their lives, Their condition is desperate aod pitifal. It would be difficult to immagine a more miserable plight for A community to bein, in this incle- ment season and hitter climate. Two days ago the water rushed eight and ten feet deep through the town, the current being fifteen miles an hour. It is not so deep to day, but the veloci ty of the stream remains unchecked. Famine threatens the stricken people, yet only a stone's throw away stands the ruins of the Gothic mill and its precious product of flour, Driven by the exigencies of the occasion, two men risked their lives yesterday in a skiff and succeeded in obtaining a few bags of flour from the mill. The stocks of the grocery and provision stores, or so much of them as can be reached, are exhausted and food scarce. The men are working valiant- ly to save goods and other property, If the ice gorge above should move nothing could prevent the total de- struction of the town. An effort was to blow up the gorge with dyvamite, but so far only with poor success. The gorge is twenty feet high and men cannot loosen more than eighty rbds in a day. Atthis rate it will take ten days before the town can get relief. The State Legislature at Lansing yesterday passed a joint reso- lution appointing a committee to come here and report with reference to ‘an appropristion for the sufferers, Zeigler Sentenced. Hustixapox Pa., February 18.— A. B. Zeigler, proprietor of the Franklin House, who was convicted at the December term of court for violating the liquor laws by selling to men of known intemperate habits, and whose licenses was not revoked until Monday last, was sentenced by the court to-day. After calling Mr, Zeigler before the court Judge Furst addressed him in the following lso- guage : “In the case of the common- wealth agaihst you, in whieh you are convicted of selliog liquor to men of known intemperate habits, we have examined our charge with a desire to correct any error we might find in it against you, and we have reviewed the testimony as fur as we could since the trial with a great deal of care to see whether or not the verdict was sus tained by the evidence in the cause We are satisfied in our own mind that our charge upon the law of the case was more favorable to you than the law is, and more favorable than the law as held by a great many of the judges of the quarter sessions in this commonwealth. We have no alternative, therefore, left us but to pass the sentence that the law imposes and it is a very un. pleasant duty to the ceurt. If we were governed by our own feelings or desires in the matter, we would be very loth to pass the sentence of im. prisonment upon a person of your age. But we have no power or discretion i in that branch of the case. Hw al, - is | Sb law, we ve wight as well done our eouris. If the judges will not observe their official oaths, and disregard the law, the rights of liberty and property would not be safe for an hour under their administration; and while we re gret the punishment we are compelled to impose upon you it is nob the ishment of the court, but the punish- ment of the law visited on your will- ful act, “The sentence of the court is pun- that you pay a fine of 825 to the common wealth for the use of Husntisgdon dounty and the costs of the prosecu- tion and undergo an imprisonment in the county jail fora period of ten days.” In this case the defendant intends t: apply te the supreme court for an allocatur for a writ of error to review the judgment of the lower court. In the meantime Mr, Zigler is under the custody of the soeriff. A m———————5 os vo Condensed Telegrams. ———— Boston Corbett has been declared in- sane at Topeka, Kan,, and sent to the insane asylum, The Lynchburg (Va.) Virginian, estab- lished in 1808, announced Thursday the suspension of its publication, Hon. Manning D. Force, Judge of the” Superior Court of Cincinnati, has re- signed on account of his health. Alfred Smith was convicted of mur- der in the second degree, at Cleveland, 0., in killing Jennie Wilson. Lewis Cohee, 32 vears old, living two miles from Greensboro, Md., committed suicide on Monday by hang- ing from & tree. Rey. Ethelbert Talbot, reetor of St. James’ Academy, Macon, Mo., bas ac- cepted the Episcopal Missionary Bish- opric of Wyoming and Idaho. Rev, Dr. Hilary Pfrasngle was at Latrobe, Pa, Abbot of St. Mary's to succeed to the charge of Mary's Benedictine Newark, N. J. Deputy Sheriff Upchurch was shot at Dedias, Tex., by Jim Richards, colored, on Monday while Upchurch had Rich- ards under mrrest, and a wob then hanged Richards. Sister Genevieve, a trucker enthronged as fonastery at tweniy years a nun >t has left and Saperior of the Convent of Francis de Sales, Newark, the institution and gone to her friends Her worldly 13 in Chillieothe, is Mary Hewitt, fessor E. E Dame Vander- bilt University Observatory, at Nash- ville, Tenn. bas discovered another comet, Professor Barnard thus gets another Warner prize of $100, making £1300 in all taken by him. J. R. Moflit, engineer of the steamer Alabama, while between Selma snd Montgomery, Als., on Wednesday night, went to the rear of the boat to oil the machinery and was missed a few min- utes later, It is feared that he was drowned, W. T.Brigham, a trustee under wiil of the late James Rogers, was ar- rested at his residence in Boston at the instance of J. Rodgers Rich, one of his bondsmen, upon the charge of embezz- ing $17,000. The beneficiaries are said to be aged Iadies, At a special term of the United States Circuit Court at Harrisonburg, Va, Jacob Wissler, of Shenandoah county, was appointed Receiver of the Columbia Liberty Iron Company, in that sounty, Viee Charles B. Krumbhaar sand H. H. Yard, of Philadelphia, removed. Judge Thomas M. Joseph, for several years Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Texas, has confessed that he is short in his accounts with the Grand Lodge to to the extent of $23, 18%. the entire fund belonging to the lodge. Joseph says ke lost the mdney nearly four years ago in miniog specu~ Iatiovs, Early Thursday morning the cesi- dence of Dr, George Taloott, iz Brook lyn, N. Y,, was entered by burglars, and Mrs. Kate Booth, a nurse in attendance upon Mm, Taleott, who was sick, en- countered the thieves in the hallway on the second floor, when she was seized, gaged and bound, while the bur- glars stole jewelry valued altogether at Pro Barnard, of the on Fiftieth street, New York. An in- dictment is on file in the Distriet At-
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