[A * CE & (i. P. Bl BLE, Proprietors. HEQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER ETATE OR PERSU ABION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL “rBieri TER nS: BL50 per Avnun, in Adva BELLEFONTE, PA.. THURSDAY. APRII ol / 4 o- 8, 1887. NO. 17 The Centre Democrat, Cormsdl.h0 per Annumin Advance FRANK E, BIBLE, Editor, 1887. Democratic County Commatiee, N. Wain SW . Ww. Ww HY Btitzer, Bdwirs Brown ww dames Schofield «A Weber wd U Witherite, woek A Frank, wD JI Meyer, 3G teen in ger Heory Lebiman WA J Gralistn A J Greist, ro THOMAS J Bellefonte r 3 Howard Boro Beuner ald Bogs? 1*Ps a Milligan W ¥ wold L Harvey, 1 VV. Dough Riker, «Hiram Grove, Josiah CO. Roseman, William Be Kas, are WW Keter, Wallan T Bailey, Haknos yp, BP de Ww. Pp Half Hoon twp. Harris twp Howard Twi Huston twp Laborty twp. eu ne contd OAR GanvestoN, Tex., April cial weather bulletins reg , Tains again yesterday in western graziog districts, also Indian Territory. No raias sre 3 ed south of the parallel E Southern Texas, embrac aht v he wt or drou in tern, + entire cottor belt, The coas Hundreds of cisterns are em rem | } t u Counties ares rain. in this ¢ity, and a water {amine threatened. ing shi there to its desliauation over wania raliroads, Erie : } Of the the good effects > advoested an Ws nually by abou » MEN suflrage is t 1 2 a half dozen “strong with Susan As a matter the minded” female eranks Antheay at their head. of fact the women who make country respeetéd at home and abroad | by attending to their duties as wives | and mothers take little or no stock in the quacking of old maiden ducks | like Susag, bat occasionally even a Adacky like Susan can attract the at- teation of such wise bodies as our legislatures. The highest duty of an American woman ought to be to give tg the nation sons sod daughters, When Susan B. Anthony bas done that she will not need to advocate “women su firage.” Arpok Day grows slowly but sare. ly into good graces of the people of our state. Like Decoration Day it comes in the gladeome spring time, and will warm itself in the affections of the children. Onee rooted in their hearts, like the sturdy oak it will flourish and grow for centuries. The necessities for arbor eultare are begin. ning to mavifest themselves to people east us well as west, Our hill sides and mountains are fust being denud of even the scrubby pine. Thousands of cords of wood are being used each year for the wanafacture of paper, and this industry is more destructive of our forests than the lomber opera. tions of the past, as it takes not only the grown tree but the sapling, Leav. ‘ing nothing but the uedergrowth, In the not distant future Arbor Day will “mena the re<plauting of oar hillsldes and mountain tops. LY The '"Tramp'’ Newspaper. We have on several occassions pointed out to our readers the danger. ous character of the so-called Sunday { € Ek] Fhe Law I+ | alized paper which has attained a wide cir- culation throughout the state, ing as it does in the scandals, gossip | and crimes of the week it swpplies no | legitimate waut as a newspaper, but caters to, and creates a low standard i of morality, breeds a familiarity with {erime, blunts the sense of honor of | man and boy and puts at a discount | the chastity of the girl or woman who | rewds its filthy columns. Not satisfied | with the acteal record of crimes com- mitted during the week, it invades the and en. idle MIMOr on 81 innocent i The occurrence of last week senctity of the home circle {dd deavors to fasten a vile but and respecte | family. {13 but in harmony with the character + {oi the “Tramp” paper that {every neighborhood and sows the | lightening seeds of immorality in i. how ever pure, no man streets with out the dark maoy a househol No woman however upright ” i: | walks ou shadow of a vile lew, slimy toad of a nt thrown across their i the y voady at all time | pathway, ready as i Limes Corre spon Ie | pen in the magi I oo » " | fair fame o 1d } id be some There way of protecting the . \ ‘i. I our best citiz ns. t shou £1 241 | youth of both sexes from y insidious son that each week is being Jad mtemperance against tha wil | moral poi | infused into their veins, as is of | which we find the ladies ¢ : 2 i the, curse $ | battling valiantly it is not more dan- { gerous to the happiness of the home cir { cle than is the disgusting immoral lit- I's sbure of the tramp Sunday paper. The torts of the social purity society and Order society, the WW, U . 18 engaged in i ghti : T, U. or some it be directed to “ramp resis, | leader. E in Pennsylvania, fn De mat If t whether za Pinkson ea ri- Blaine 8 {don’t get the Peonsylvania contingent { Don can’t bag the y tl wie game lor Sherman, } 3 | Beaver is biock in the | way of 1oy political double shuffle on {the part of the bosses, and while | may vot be a candidate for the nomi- stumbling pation his name comes up at all times when '88 is mentioned, aud he seems te have active, energetic and fearless friends who are pushing him for the nomination. sylvania has been a hewer of wood { and drawer of water for the Rebubli- ] ] ] ] J time that the great state which has not in twenty-five years wavered in party, and which has given ber lee toral vote to every Republican can- didate from Lincoln to Blaine should be recognized by the nomination of sevts the younger and broader Repuo- lieanism of the present, is the crea. ture of no ring or clique, sod is neith er & tatooed aan” wer a polities skeleton. It is the youug men who are booming the governsr and among them are found some of the ablest of the young leaders of that party in the state. At any rate Dou is not going to pocket Pennsylvania and tase the delegation to the next Convention for John Sherman without a fight. C—O 550 was a time Dol waoy years ago, when the Bandey newspaper was looked up. Ou ne un organ oJ teriog to base passions; it lacked in news, its litera ture was generally of a low standard, and social scurrilicy was one of iis lending, features, Ministers tured their reiigious batteries upon it, of families and it’ lived by the exclusive puttonage of those who Deal | invades | They claim that Peun- | can party long enough that it is about | her allegiance to the Republican | one of ber sons. That Beaver repre | admired vulgar literature, But a new era soon dawned. Bespectable journalists discovered the fact that the field was not properly occupied; the country was increasing in popu- lation, and inventive genius had so of news that the public demand was for something fresh every morning; { mews of one day was stale the next, | for the country was fast becoming | beneath the ocean, upon lightening | wings, daily came to us the doings of { nations abroad. Then it was that | respectable Sunday journalism step ped in apd trampled out of sight { scurrilous she ts that lived by black mailing—that rejected decent litera- re to attack the character of the private citizen. As a result, no long er denunciations are hurled from the : bi yrejudice has bes i dis 1 i ulpit; public f armed, and the Sunday pablication | finds its way to the fireside of the best | families of the land. Itis to-day an indispensible factor of an advanced | civilization—(he great family journal { of the week —a fixed insti ution, considered of as much importance as the week-day publications. For this a the metiopolitan journais ap TCAs £ iny double aud treble the on ot her day hy Wi . and column Community e uri sil BLiat the respectable ns fdvent ol it has forced ing publications N 100K the v journalism: wind po iu exerting a venelicient ind it) ins ave is from a “Sunday” paper i urrility” its tow $0 constiinied as ree themselves to believe vile @ ry circulated aboot their neighbors, even against the hardest and most stubborn facts. The love of scandal and gossip being far more palatable to them ti With han truth. castinsoch a mould itis folly to argue t people It is only when the hot iron of a bitter experience has burned into their hearts that a sense of justice is awakened, and they appeal for the fairness and | charity they have withheld from |others. These people can be found on our streets to-day and they denom- | inate the vindication of 8 mans honor and reputation in our courts as a “fix up,” yet it takes jast such people to | make earth lower than Heaven and [give the wicked a fortaste of hell, | They are the rabble who shout crucify him ! erucify him! |" New York, Apil 18.—Eagene | Conoor,who was one of the employes ‘of Haoan & Son, the manufacturing *hoemakers whose men refos d to obey ‘the order to strike imucd by the | Knights of Labor, cut his throat this | morning at a hotel at Park Row and *velt street. Conver went with the few men who struck, bat afterward reiarned to work. He had been re peatedly threatend by the Knights, as | was also his wife, aod this preyed on | his mind and led 1 the suicide. - —— Wasiuinaron, April 17.—~Chief Justice David K. Carter, of the Sup- reme Court of the District of Colam- | bia, died at 10 o'clock last night of | cancer of the stomach. He was born | in Jefferson county, New York, in 1812. {Chief Justive Cartter was appointed from Obio by President Lincoln iu 1862 w the position which he vacated by his death, ¥ i i srranged for the quick transmission | a | | net work of electric wires, while from the | ana | | Gardner's Grab Game, | Cuicaco, April 21.—It is stated | here to-day that the post office antori- | ties have stopped the delivery of reg- { istered mail to T. 8, Gardver and sev- | the Al {eral publications by name of | Farm Journal, Farming Or {d. i] Farmer's yum, and It is also said that the department | has determined upon the urrest and { prosecution of Giardoer on the grounds | that his publications are »a swindle fon the public and a fraud on the | United States mail service," for fifty Coty t 1s claimed that Gardper has i some time been receiving Over | registered letters per day, each : - % - { taining a postal order from £5 10 81 {and has sent over 250 000 circulars | and specimen copie # of his paper with in three months nd el the kee L849 pes iE. 3. | nr partment in the ice decid l ! “egah that the Mica. of the i ed, SO 13 time ago, tion named were pre order. Three week ap: th mum s HH} AC cordance w a regulation of the des { had pever pai A Lo- paper says the postoflice inspectors clubs except to take money. cal have evidence in hand which District | Attorney Ewing believes will secure | & conviction, the ful penalty in which cose will be a fine of £500 and eight. [ teen months imprisonment. | Gardoer's office in this city is in! | the Scott block, corner of West Van- Buren street and Hermitage avenue | where he employed twenty-five t thirty young women mailing his circu- | lars. Since the postoffice people here | have begun to make it unpleasant for | him, it is stated the has opened up in | Cincinnati, His circulars from that city are ornamented with a large pic. | tare of a fine business block at the | corner of Sixth and Vine streets. It | {is said that the postoffice athorities (sent a wan to Cincinoati 0 effect ! Gardner's arrest, bat refused to give | any in‘ormation. bg The Mighty Wind. A —— Sr. Louis, Ms. April 24.—The same destructive elements that caused sach wide-spread disaster and death in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and the ludian territory, prostrated tele- graph poles aod tangled up wires so as 10 interrupt, and in many direc. tions, completely cut off communion. tion with the world outside. The affligged localities have thus been pre. vented from making th. ir sufferings aod wants koown. The storm effect. i ourd | begom | and perhaps a full record of the kill. | ed aud wounded will never be msde. | Originating at some place on the | prairies of Eastern Kansas the funpel | shin ped twister waltzed around through Lion and Bourbon eonnties aod then crossing the live into Miss continued its Work Of dests in that counties, Twels of destruei AWRY Prog erty and sweeping | MIOVIDE hams 0i¢ life several decrees further sou It we nr hoe ; § Wen 1 nam Arkansas and the The h Lion diag territory, «14 3 festrn y : oud struck i G et § ra ea it « imple ely demolished everything in its path, and the whole country between Hume and Sprague | and for several miles north and south | one's rage. | shows evidence of the evel . | — A A— Lieut. Danenhower Dead. Axxavoris, Md, April 20.— Lieut. John W. Danenhower of Artic ex. ploration fame, was discovered at 10 | o'clock this morning dead in his Quarters at the Naval Academy with a bullet hole in bis right temple. He was found lying on the rug in front of his fireplace with a tag tied to the battoohole of his vest, on which he had written : “Send to my brother at Washington.” Although he has had mental trouble since he returned from the Artic regions, what immedi. ately led to his suicide is thought to have been the recent grounding of the Constellation on its way to Nor. folk, which be had charge of, and for which it is supposed he had a fear of being courtmartialed. His wife for. whieh the s nig Washington Letter Wasuinoron, D.C The a Buniversary of aves in the | HOMA Wore hers ted, t eolored people, and the Orste preparation had nee weather, iid nave been » by m the red people of plan ent Oontem- at the fhe ‘wched tue Bppear: dces which are to furnish Wealthy peopie irom all secs of N\ lions the country. Nor is the spirit of activity confined to private parties alone. The liberality of Congress in providing appropriations for the erec tion of Government buildings, and the improvements of pairks and public grounds has rendered jt possible to | carrying into effect many improvements long since contemplated, but which have not until now been carried out on | socount of lack of available funds. The work of clearing the site for the new Congressional Library building is nearly complete and work upon the exeava- on for the foundation will be com menced at once. The marble terrace avout the Capitol building will soon be finished, and a force of laborers have been set at work upon the foundation of the grand staircase which is to be built at the west front of the building. The new fire-proof building whioh is to be built for the Army Medioal Mas enm, and Medioal Library of the Sar goon Generals Offices will’ soon be com pleted, The bronse statue of Ex-President Jas, A, Garfield, which is to be unveiled on the 12th ot May, has been placed upon its pedestal at the Maryland Ave- hue entrance to the Capital grounds, merly Miss Sloan, of Oswego, N, Y, is visiting her parents there with her two children. The remains will be taken to Washington D. C, to-mor- row for burial. Wasmrxorox, D. C. April 26.— Mr. W. W. y the father of the Lieuteonnt, sid tomight that his son was treated for melancholia some fifteen years ago and speedily Since then there had and is considered 10 be one of the fin ost of the numerous pieces of statuary in the National Capital. H. Mavain, April 18, General Basaine, ex-Marshal of France, who has for sey= oral years resided in oxile here, was at tacked to-day by aFrenchman, who, ex eluiming “J'ai avenge ma patrie ed a ponisrd into the side of his head General considered even now the details ars not known, | &
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