Lem rat, §. E. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. HEQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL wdeBeriuy TERRS : $1.50 per Annum, in Adva pA VOL 9. ——— NO. 20 The Centre Demosrat, ‘ormsSl.50 por Annumin Advane® FRANK E, BIBLE, Editor, 1887, ounty Commaitiee, ER pemoecratie C ) N. Wow HY Bitzer, 3 3 Ls WwW. Biward Brown, Jr, Bellefonte tv Bdwaed Braun. Howard Boro. A Welber ) ori Mitesburg Boro A © Witherite, NR EN Milinetm Boro... welt 3 Brunk ves G Herlinger, Monry Lehman, vein XJ Graham, AJ Grea, Thomas J. Fraser, Philipsburg { : " Unionville Boro. von Benner Hp ase % twp, 9 Boggs 2 J w.p do B.P Baraside twp... College twp... Curtin Wp. Rw ght = ge 3 P. A Frank Boverswox, R.Br serene Hiram Grove, re eens douink © Roseman, William KE, Keen, Seorge W Keister, William T Bailey, ~Faok B Wieland Howard twp John Glenn, reeves William Irwin, ton ho ge rensanenses Willinm H Gardner, Marion twp Pw aedobn Ishin, Milew EWP. ocrivrrioise + sospasld N Corman, Patton twp. wd © Bokley Wm H Kreamor, ¥ A Poreman, «WW W Royer, wsdnoob M Carr, Ton B. Howe, Millignn Walker, { L Harvey, Anson VV. Dougherty, John 1 Williams, David Brickley, Henry Krebs, Haines twp, BP y w.P Half Moon twp Harris twp. Potter twp, N. P, wAndrow J. Lucas, cednmes Redding, conve Wiking Woods, wee Wm Calderwood, wendolin H Beck, vowel 4 Wondering, cCharios MoGarvey, Union LWP. em anivssien JAMES A Spring PW. won Taylor (Whe ww MoCLAIN Chalrman H, Y.8nrm, Secretary. Tur Legislature has passed a bill providing for the aquisition of turn. pikes and highways and assessing damages suffered by companies operat ing the same upon the county. We have not seen the text of the bill, but we hope it will resco the case. The turnpike is not a “relic of barbarism” but it is a not ungentle remivnaer of an age which should only live io tra dition. The turopike in its day, was to the country what the canal was thirty years ago and what the rail road is now. Now they are simply a burden on the people, they are no better kept than the ordinary town. ship road. At the entrance to Belle- foute from the Bald Eagle Valley and on the south from Peons Valley and the western ead of Nittany Valley, stand two*toll gates like highwaymen, and for the privilege of driving over bad roads, demand tribute. A tariff is laid on every vehicle coming into town from Penns Valley from the up- per end of Nitisoy and from Bald Eagle. Is it not about time that these barriers to trade were broken down. What excuse is there for two toll gates within three miles of each other, on a highway which should be public ? The turnpikes of the county have been abandoved by the com- panies except in the immediate vicini- ty of towns and where people were forced by necessity to use them. Where it would have been benificial to the traveling public, it has been abaodoned becaose of its being ex- pensive, Ifthe legislatare has provid- ed a means of ridding the State of these excrescences, it has done sa wise thing When the turnpike was an institution the country was sparsely settled and stage conches were the only means of public conveyance. With the advent of railroads the necessity for the turnpike ceased to exist, and the turnpike should have reverted to the people as indeed it did every place that it did not pay the company. In some of the eastern counties, Dots bly, Lancaster, Chester and Delaware, the pablic highways are in better con- dition now than ever they were in the palmy days of turapikes. Bapervis- ors now build and repair roads with the iden of making them permanent. Improved rad machivery has come into use, and road making is dove sei- entifieslly. Q "wr. Wanex the Penvsylvania Railroad some years ago began the system of laadscap: gardening that has made travel over ita maio line doriog the spring, summer and auttmn mouths sad | ge soll are unuounced to in nature rejoiced over the embellish ments of art, and the combined efforts of nature and art wrought “a thing of beauty” which was to be “a joy for- ever.” The practical hard horse seuse of the management which grad- ed and sodded the steep slopes of the cut” which put a terrace here and a stone wall there, saw a saving of thousands of dollars each year to the ¢ ympany. “Slides” trom the meltivg of winter snows or the violence of spring rains would be a thing of the past and so they were. No stock- holder grumbles now at the flower beds, the terraces, the stone walls and all the little extra touches put on for beauty. The system adopted by the great railroad has instilled a love of the beautiful in ths people living along its line and flower beds, lawas, terraces and grass plots are the rale, tis a wise system and one that has paid large interest on the money ex- pended. It might even be followed by Supervisors of roads in many places where there is a yearly “wash- out” or “slide” Yet tax-payers would brand a man as a lunatic who would attempt such a thing. Be- tween the ornamental and the useful there is entire harmony, it is only man who is out of tune and nothing but stubborn facts, knocked into him by experience, will convince him that the beautiful useful may be united. and r * » Ix the great hurry which has always characteaized Americans and every- thing American, may be found the cause of many of the defects of our civilization, certainly much of dyspepsia and “night mare.” Just why we ean'tlive slow instead of “fast” is bard to determine. We have no peculiarities of climate, not possessed by our own English, Irish, or German ancestors. We cannot lay it to our superior intelligence or edu. cation because both teach us that we live too fast and per consequence die too early, our to much of our literature and srt, and has caused hundreds to die at the top who otherwise would have worn out at a ripe old age. In every business trade and professsion are to be seen the victims of pervous prostration. “Twenty minutes for dioner” at a railroad station means not only a din- per but the afterdioner cigar half smoked. Twenty minutes is ample time for a meal, but twenty hours in a day is herdly enough time in which to transact the oruinary business of the day. Six per cent. is a snails space io the sccumulation of wealth. Sixty, one hundred and one thousand are moderate. The hope of a compe- teoce animates no man, it is the amass- ing of millions that urges him on. Not satisfied with burning the candle at both ends he melts it away in the middle. Into twenty years is crowd. ed the tials, the pleasures aod the work of fifty years. When he dies be dies fast, but hard. We peed an air brake oo all the time, ; The Chicago Strike. Caicaco, May 13 —Fifteen hun- dred bricklayers and almost as many carpenters, hod carriers and other workmen employed on buildings were reported idle this morniog, with fresh scowssions hourly. To-morrow, it |, said, the Bricklayers Union will go through the formality of ordering » strike and will call off the few men ab work at present. Thirtysix men at work for Joseph Downey on a depot at Indisoapolis have been called in and are expected in town to-morrow, The architects and real estate dealers have called mectings, at which com. mittes will be appointed to confer and er -operaie with a committee to be appointed hy the builder to morrow morning for the purpose of indorsiog any scion taken by the members of the Builders and Traders tixchange. a — ee a De. McGryxs and Robert G. Ine quer Caring for Pennsylvania Randolph Keim, the correspondent of the Philadelphia Times, bas just got through with his gemismonthly in- terview with Hoo. Samuel J. Randall. The public will be rejoiced to know that Samuel's big toe is in a healthy conditionfand that the candle append- age of the Democratic party of Penn. sylvania is able to wag itself. Mr. Randall has “found that the inter Siate commerce act is hurting ship- pers more than the railroads” which is doubtless a matter of gratulation to him as well as the railroads. What will bring joy the hearts of the broken, defeated snd crushed Democrats of the State is the fact that Mr. Raadall has said to the friends of the President thal be will take the pariy under his sheltering wing in Peonsylvaola. All the ad- ministration bas to do is to look after New York. Oar Sam is good at “taking care of matters in Penvsylva- pis. With the aid of Benator Camer- on he has “taken care” of a congress {onal district for himself, which in late years has been the rock on which the party ship husaooually been wrecked. ‘I have said to Lhe friends of the | President that they should look after New York ; that scecan take care of our Lo matters in Pennsylvania.” What comfort in those words! how rejoiced the President must feel! Since Mr. Randall and his friends have given their entire atieotion to “taking care of’ Penvsylvania, there have been three elections, Blaioe carried the Siate by 51.000. Quay by 40.000 and Beaver by about the same majority. The last Democratic ticket nominated, was dictated by Mr. This “fast” living has giv- | en a fleeting or temporary character | Randall, and was put up to be knock- | ed down, and the price so far as Sam- wel was concerned was his congress. { ional district. The night before the | Democratic convention Mr. Randall is said to bave been closeted with Matt Quay, Tom Cooper, D. H. Hast {ings and W. U, Hensel, and the little conference did not break up until the | “wee sma hours.” The result of that conference was the defeat of Senator Wallace in the Democratic Conven- tion the pext day. It was aa open secret that Quay, Cooper and Hast- iongi feared Wallace, And the bat- teries of the Press were early opened on him, Randolph Keim was sent for aod ordered to interview Scot who was still smarting over his defeat al the Pittsburgh Convention. The interview appeared in the Times aod with a majestic wave of the hand Col. McClure laid Wallace on the shelf as not being available. The work was finished at the conference at Harris barg and Mr. Randall again “took care of Pennsylvania,” He has been taking care of her ever since. Twice bas Mr. Randall's district been saved to him by the Republicans. Why? not because he was a Democrat, but because as a breeder of strife in Con- gress he is of more use to thew than a Republican would be. And becnase in State politics he is powerfal for evil as hie was at the last election and be- cause his cohorts in Philadelphia can always be counted on to throttle any independent move in local affairs Yes, Randall, will “take care of mat- ters in Pennsylvania.” i A Wi Dean Big: ~The granting of » £500,000 patch, mn du outgrown cap itol building, now vautageousiy located, —. be discreditable to our state a3 by a multitade of thoughtfal waillng for each other to and enter a public pro- test ints the o Sidyon use of the a that unincumbered selection of and labor invest wents and the abandonment of old es- tablishments, for a more suitable Joes. ity to conform with the advance of trade, ete, The above is taken from the Lock Haven Eepres snl is sotuslly the brain product of a Lock Haver man. ssi speak at a | men worm fence ambula- | | gyrations, the tions, the graceful swan-like carves of the neck and the all-doubled-up ap pearance of others we attributed to an excessive indulgence in the “ardent.” jut after reading the above we have concluded that the peculiarities just mentioned are due to a p'ethora of ideas, and a habit they bave of “ignoring business methods that gov ern unincumbered selection of capital and labor investments.” Selah!?7! Second instalment next week. FR — WAI Mrs Grant Il New York, May 13.—The friends of Mig. U. 8. Grant will be surprised to learn that the widow of the great Geoeral has been near death's door for some days, Her ail- ment was of such a malignant char- acter as to necesssitate the much immediate removal from her house on Sixty-sixth street of all her grandchildren, who were with her at the time. Mrs. Grant was out riding Thursday week and prolonged her ride longer than usual. When she complained of feeling cold. Nothing serious was thought of the matter up- til next day, when her symptoms be came #0 alarming that the family physician of Mrs, U, Grant, Jr., was called. on 8S. Mrs. Grant's symptoms became so marked that on Sunday the doctor attack of diphtheria. Mrs. Fred Grant was at home at the time with her children. Colonel Grant immediately sent them to Morristown N. J. Jesse Grant and his family are visiting his brother” Buck,"in Westchester county. Mrs. Dent has been in constant at- tendance upon her sister and bas not left her since herilluess. Colonel Grant bas also remsined with his mother. This afternoon Mew. Grant ‘wey ‘pei. nounced out of danger and on the fair road 10 recovery. Her week's illness very much and Dr. Castle was has weakeved her reduced ber in flesh, the house. He declined discuss Mrs. Grant's condition, but said that the crisis bad been passed and that the lady was now convalescent. She will not, however, be able to leave her room for some time, Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman, Mrs. Grant's furmer pastor, is in town stay- ing at the Murray Hill Hotel. Mrs. Sartorie— Nellie Grant—is in London with her husband and family, but is expected 10 return to this country in August, to Bcaxrox, Pa. May 16.—There will be nine hundred delegates at the an. ual session oi the Grand Lodge of Odd Follows of Pennsylvanis in the Acad- emy of Music in this city to-morrow morning. A special train of four cars containing the delegates from Pitts burg and other places arrived at 9:20 this evening. To-morrow aflernoon there will be a parade in which sever- al thousands Odd Follows of this re- gion will be in line. The annual session of the Encamp- ment was held today. The officers reported that the encampments are in a flourishiog condition and laid stress on attruciions which the Patrisrchs Militants’ suxiliary held out to young men desiring to join a semi-military orgasization. The new grand officers of the encampment were installed as follows : Patriarch, John Levergood, of Lancaster ; High Priest, Raoben Shedman, of Philadelphia; Senior Warden, M. D. Wiley, Allegheny Scribe J. B. Nicholds, Philadelphia ; Treasurer, John 8. Heis, Philadel- phin ; Junior Warren, Amos H. Hall, Philadelphia; Representative to Sau Lodge, H: Monk Pinte Tur Republicans are just now castiog an anchor to the “windward” Dr. Castle, | pronounced her suffering from a severe | seen by a reporter ashe was leaving | for a cendidate for President. The | BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1887, The High License Bill. Hargispeua, May 12. ~The high li- cense bill has passed both houses, The first section prohibits the sale of intoxionting | quors ui retail without li- | Conse, i The second section requires appli” eants 10 be of te nperste nabs and Gil = eof al i zens of the United States, the s EAPRler quanity tban a quart, The third section vides that only i courts shall grant licenses, and requires | them to fix & time when the applica tions shall be heard, with a proviso that granted later than June 30 of this sear. The forth tions to be filed three weeks before the hearing that applicants pay the clerks of courts 85 for publishing tue lst of granted to sell in grocery stores. The same section provides usry of each year return under oatb, together with the taxes, all licensed and unlicened houses to the clerks of the have the courts, list printed, the mercantile appraiser 10 recieve $2.50 for every li- cant, | be if naturalized, when naturalized, desired to licensed, the birth name of the owner of the premises, and place o must sho® that the place is necessary for the accommodation of the public that the spplicant is not in any mn- ner pecaniarily interested in the profit of business conducted in any other licens- | ed place in the county ; that the applic i ! cant is the only person pecuniarily |n terested in the business so asked to be licensed, The applicant must also state whether the license has been re- voked during the past year, Two bondsman must be reputable freeholders and give secur o; in $2,000 each and shall not be engaged ia the manufacture of intoxiesting liquor The petitioner must verify the pet tion by sffidavit, fuse a license if it is shorn that the li- of stangers or travelers, or that the ap- plicant i= not a fit subject to have li- cense. The court is also empowered to revoke the license if the holder violates any law: Section eight fixes the rate of license as follows : Cities of first, second and third classes, $500; other cities $300 ; boroughs $150, and townships $75. ln cities of the first class four 80th of the money shall be paid for the use of the city and connty and one-fifth for the use of the commonwealth ; in cities of second and third classes two-fifth shall £0 to the city, two-fifth to the county and one-fifth to the state ; in sll other cities and in boroughs, three-fifth to the city or borough, one-fifth to the county and ooe-fifth to the state; in townships one-fourth to the county'sne fourth to the state and one-halfjto the townships, the same to be applied to keeopiog up roads in repair ; places re- ceiving parts of licences shal®vear their porportionate share of the expenses at- tending the collection of the same. Section nine provides that license be lifted within ten days. Section ten provides that license shall be wsued until the applionat executes a boad to the commonwealth and a warrant of attorney to ennfess judg meht in the penal sum of $2000, Section eleven requires constables the firet week im each term of court 0 ree port licemsed and unlicensed drinking places, wilful diobedience to be follow. od by suspension from office, the impo- sition of » fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment not exoreding two yea, Section twelve requires that consts- bles to pay monthly visits to places i shall be fined not less { or imprisonment not exceeding license under previous laws shall not be section requires applica | applicants and thet no licenses shall be | that mercantile | appraisers in cities of first class in Jag- | hist of mercantile | who shall | cebse granted, to be puid by the appli- Section five requires to give the nume | and resident of the applicant, the place | Section six requires twelve signers of | the proper ward, borough or township. | Section seven requirs the eourt to re- | cense is not necesssy for the accommo- { dation of the public and entertainment | where intoxiosting liquors are sold to ts dr ——— for the sale of intoxicating | iquors with out as license, Persons having a license i convicted of violating the license laws than 8100 nor more than $500 for the first offense, and not less than $300 nor more thun £1,000 tor the second offense not exceeding §5.000 for the third offense and twelve months, Any person convicted of more than one offense shall pot again be Lieensed and the license of Bny person permitting the curtomsry visitation of | aisreputable persons or keeping a dis | orderly place may upon proof be re- voked and the game psriy shall pot | again be licensed. Section sixteen prohibits draggisis | and apothecaries from se ling intoxieat - | ! | ing liquors except upon the written | preparations containing the same mas tbe sold for scientific y Mechanical or | medics purposes, | Section sevenleen probibits sales or { election days, on Sunday, to xny minor | or person of known intemperate habits, by intoxi- cating drinks or on any pews book or order on a store or to receive from any { or a person visibly affected | person goods, wares, merchsodise or | provisions in exchaoge for liquors, ! places | where liquors are dispensed in violation Section eighteen declares {of las nuisances. The nineteenth and last seélion re- ! peals all local Jaws fixing a license rate less than provided in this bill and pro- of the provisions of this act shall be held to authorize the paces i { vides that nose { sale of intoxicating liquors in | having special prohibitory laws, i - : -_— | Allentown Chosen. Hikrisnona, May 11. ~The Democrat- ic State Committee met here to day. Chairman Sanders announced that the first business of the committee was the selection of a date for the State Conven- tion. Several dates were suggested, the 21st of September being mentioned by a number of members, P. Gray Meek thought this date would not sallow of { sufficient time 10 transact the business There ble discussion, in which the of registration, was considera. sentiment : | appeared 10 be in favor of an early con. Une member said he believed { the strength of the Democratic party { vention, | in the coming contest depended largely { upon the weekness of the Republican The present Legislature | was makiog a record which would elect | the Democratic ticket. He believed in ia late date so that the enthusiasm { would not evaporate betore the time | came for casting the ballots. A half dozen speakers ridiculed the suggestion of Mr. Meek that registration had any- thing to do with the fixing a date, That was a matter to be attended to in the several election districts, The committee finally got down to a vote upon the date for the convention, the ballot standing as follows. August 17th ~August 31. 16. September 7th— September 21, 16. The date of August 31st was fixed unanimously, The time having been settled, the re port of the committee sppointed to con- sider nnd suggest a plan to secure a more uniform system of Congressional and Senatorial nominations was read by Marrsy Rute, of Delaware county. Mr. Uttley, of Mifflin, desired to know what power this committee had to make changes of this sort. It might be a mistake to tinker with the old cus- {| esndidates,
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