he our ” a, \ afl. EH ——— “ E. &G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors, A ———— a —— " . " "EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL, TERRS : $1.50 per Annum, | 8 BEL L EFONTE, P. A. THURSDAY. Lid, Chaka E B 1, 1887. - NO. 47 The Centre Brnoaat, Terms, 8 50 Per a in Advance, ! FRANK E. BIBLE, Editor, A town in North-Western Oho is | i blessed by having a Minister of the | gosple who has been a sailor, asong and | | ‘dance man, anwsctor, an athlete, a box- | er, a gambler, a soldier, a drankard ard many other things. He hails | Trom England, is about forty years old, is married aad prides himself in tell. ting the sbove, He hasn't as yet stat- wd weather he ever stole a horse or | “skipped” with another man's wife. oe A AI. A “cles sweep” of all democrats |< about the Court House including Bartram Galbraith whe for beon twenty four years has janitor and | Court erier, is contemplated by the republicans. Nothing but that will satisfy'the hungry orowd knocking at the Court House door. It is puzzling ques repubd the can header a tion for 's, as they the:democrats whos ted with them and if they put out all will: look they ifyin as though i fice: were after instead of "(7) the c—— i — WILK EsBARRE, —<Andrew Ried, aa alleged Pinkerton the agains Was ar ¥ i lemocratic psaty “pur 25. Novemb er 28 detective, who wes a witness for prosecution ia the arson «James H. Ocr on Suturday, case rested this afteruoon, with perjury. Reid. when on stand, testified that Oor, at the Uwe she ad- msters goode, | moved them around 20 as to have a | largequantity of silks counted twice. Tem wituesses testified that | Beid was sot at soy dime | while the apprajement wai being made. | Tn default of $1300 bail Reid committed for trial. - charged the were appraising his over | present was M=r. American living in Paris recently Thouas Porter, a young | Frenchmen Pot- fought a duel with a which resuited fatally to Mr. ter. The weapons used were pistols | and what puzzles that Ms Potter did not kill his man instesd of furnishing the the Is is.a great pity for the young man but it puts marksmanship below par and all lovers of pistol in this country will feel correspondingly unhappy. Had Mr. Potter been the successful maa he would have been lionmized by the American colony in Panis and his picture | would have graced the papers. As it is, Mr. have a first class funeral, Frenchman will wear the laurels We suggest that either Bogardus or Carver wipe out the disgrace «with rifles at sixty yards. us is corpse for funeral, American practice Potter will and the C———_— WB A——— Ex-Governor St. John, of Kansas, passed through Kansas City this morning en route to Chicago, He said to the World correspondent : “lam on my way to conference of the leaders of the Prohibition par- ty from all parts of the United States, to be’held on November 30 The purpose of the meeting is to determine upon a place for holding the Naional Convention for the nomination of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. I do net anticipate any great contest in the Convention, as the general drift of opinion seems to be that General Clinton B Fisk, of New Jersey, will capture the nomination, Cleveland and Blaine will lead the ranks of the Democrats and Repub- licans respectfully nest year, the only contingency to prevent it be ing that of death. There is a lot of rot appearing in the pewspapers about the impossibility of Blaine's nomination, his declination, ete. | tell you Blaine wants the nomina- tion, the Republicans want him to p- i sensible man in | prejudios did not rom away with | been more persevering in its misrepre- | sensations of | tariff reduction thea the Times but i tell the truth be €oes it io geod style wish to retain | "Hn the line illustrated | MoOlure's " Summereauit. — Alec McClure just takes one colamn Laud a hiutle better, in the Philadelphia | Limes to tell the people of the state that he has been lying about the’ | tariff policy of the Democratic party | {and that ® will advance vo measure | ¢ in the next congress tenfiing Lo injure | or destroy American maoufacturing industries or to decrease the wages of labor. This fact every the country whose | i i A merioan his |! | common sense knew. No paper hes Democratic policy ‘en sn me letter the galleat Col. takes back | alld hie has said ioeix months and to | tented soother eflost in | vision and be Thet there will be of taciff re I OX the line tax re- | Tedly duction there can no doubt, as | {'both parties are squarely pledged Co it | but neither party will attempt 10 in. | {jure the business or industrial interests The the of the county se doing so. Dem- ocratic policy is squarely dn the fan equitable revision of erests of tarifl duties acknowledged by all to be unjust, unequal and berdensome. The free list will be enlarged aud the tariff on necessaries reduced, on luxur ies and articles which come in ruinous competition with the tarill will not be disturbed. How | either party can honestly get ROL hay e 1 to be'found Paris, the ' that well governed and controlled undes | any American products | away | Iv the French republic stands the racket it is now going through, it another in will doulstless have breathing Republics spell, modern times in Europe have not been a success and are regarded i out in the cabinet shop of Guickert & Co. destroyed the building and contents, their did elements | a fa feelings of jealousy by nei It hyp BL tS Poti ighbors, France swithin her calculated to destroy a Republic she could protect &erself against outside enemies, but with Orleanists Bonapartists, red R Right Lefts, is and al the i great like in in Rn city French danger, Republic is It is t, but reverthele very.rave an aston- ishingr fa $a the Ws which $ syste | € mn wernment democracy until the French and } § he ree h people Portugal crimens Vy, Spain, have t periment Lime Should y 1 } i ort failed wig «L10 Lice if- | great mass of peoplesnd | power H * the Republic with any on the continent - She Wanted a Man and Got One | from its solemn pledge to the people | : i | 1s hard to see, and neither can go { the cowatry On the same Col McClure's article is worthy | preservation by Demoerate because it | will be less than 8 month entil he will | take a new dack and will be hoidiog |! | Demoerats up as free traders. The | ight between Carlisle and Raodall | { and Carlisles much talked of deter { i i | i : | edged by ‘McClure to be false. | ing 10 couwinee the country that | feud was really in existenee. largely from that party, no complaints [could be made of its uofairvess, as liean, and & high protectionist; bat misrepresentation every day. Some body in Washington put & bug do | Alec's ear and he bas tarned a most beautiful and graceful sommersauit | The nightmare of free trade which has disturbed Ins peaceful and virtuous | slumbers bas been dispelled. Like | the Scotch Presbyterian minister who | always closed his prayer with “Oh Lord aniif it be thy good pleasure | ha’ mercy om the poor deil” we have felt that Alec, bad as he was might | be saved, but unless he is “taken off” | suddenly, he won't stick. Oh Lord, | bave mercy on Alec McClure and | take him while his angel's win,» are | in pin feathers—take him now. ————-————" Fielden and Schwab Wives. Bee Their Jovigr, Ill, Nov, 26,~Fielden and Schwab, the Anarchists, were for the first time visited by their wives at the prison yesterday. The visit was ro ceived in the waiting room. Both prisoners donned citizens’ clothing, a8 is the custom when convicts re eeive relatives. Both men exhibited oousiderable emotion. The meeting was nffecting, but not demonstrative, i —— Yale Wins from Hacvard. New York, Nov. 24—Admociated Press]. ~It is estimated that between fifteen snd twenty thousand people witvessed the foot ball game at the pols grounds this afternoon between Yale and Harvard for the college championship, The game resulted in a victory fur Yale, after a hard old pledge, of |* winatios to punish Randall is acknowl. | Yet! Alec is the one man who bse been try- | the | If the | | Philadelphia Times were noteo large- | ly read by Democrats and its support | Alec is aud always bas been a Repab. | | i : 3 {aged | ed. wa Paln d couple, offi ling , a color marched into ¢ Ru ¢ last evening, need the ] the. 4 | Nookin g Jacks ¥ in by the hand proa hing the rather bewildered Justice she produced an looking paper that proved to be a and began chewing “Mister | u marriage license, hrusting it {into his hands, apron as she said Ise | yeah sLrings » been mig lonesum dis las’ I i.1 dun cotched di bet Ly ap’ I'se wanted a man a heap oe gEt married. and Dis is ber cum to si s heah ni r, | we'se gwine to get {de fust time dat | ¢ {a place as dis heah, and we wants | vou to fix the ratifaxtions | Justice Russell's eyes opened i wide, but he took in the situation the ceremony, after | down the street hand in hand each casting terrible big sheep's eyes at the other. — — IIL, Nov. 27.—~Three children of C. O. White, Lillie 12, George aged and Charles aged 8, were playing with their sleds on thin ice on Rock | creck when Charles broke through: | George ran to his assistance and in | his efforts to rescue the drow ning boy he also went under the ice. Their sister Lillie then made a | frantic attempt to save her two | brothers and all three were drown- The bodies were recovered after being in the water about an hour. : do a MorrisoN, 2 _y 15, tif lita— Tis Boston Post thinks that Alex: ander K. McClure is not omniscient and that Alec's letter from Wash- ington to his paper might just as easily have been written in the quiet of his sanctum in Philadelphia The democratic administration is not naming its political executor yet. The Post man evidentlyjdon't know the great Pennsylvania re- former and authority on poker. What Alec. knows would make a very large book, what he don't know would keep his presses run. ning for a Century. or————— The depot at this place is constant. ly flooded by loafers, so that it is almown nn impossibility for a person to get to the ticket window in the gentleman's waiting room. A town that furnishes a raflrond company with as much buwi- ness as Bellefonte, osrtainly ought to have a good depot, snd have it kept in hve it, and he will git." New York v fought battle, by a score of 17 to 8, LE order, | Sixty men were employed | building. | off from the stairway by the i { jumped from the windows | top floor to the street, epublicans, ts and isms | | Thrice | the telephone wires fact | . | have never been in 1 | dashed | of the i blocking the official } her | | of i | heavy debt { county labored was i i ] | and losing their presence | qualifications, {and, with the best grace imaginable | its main support 18 from Democrats | performed and they ace treated to abuse and | whic h the smiling couple walked | by year until it was some time ago | wiped A Pittsburg Horror. 28.—Fire broke Pirrssurc, Nov. this afternoon and entirely the cut in Four of them were flames mind the of of John Dedig had both thighs an broken and wi Louis and William Shrimp caught his jaw 11 die The Mistake of a Detective Not a Grand | Trunk Detective, propensities, many years ago noted for his story hunting the telling was for two station roblLers Midl and It alls and he had a county constabi up in : district. was winter, { and The { tive a horse and cutter with him 3 : the detec hot. ant fue rit 1} 54 il scent bec ame that the ah 2 ad of hi i, al H 0e werc C 50 disc overed ives only a few miles e telegraphed {to giving 1 driving in acutter ’ i to a constable in next town Lt tWO men In a cutier, as they ugly John Deving jumped to the and escaped with bruises ladder the firemen were raising and but slightly injured. While working about the fire, Hugh Bracker a fireman fell 1 Ewe ly hurt as se tory building and v Th iC 14 loss Ham night ON st 1 o'cl st 8 about the sed switch tender at we end middie inevard O run two ireight train around them. 4 ! Tye 1d SAA 0 up curve around this curve freight, which was laying on i middle track, demolishing the cabin freight tr and the of the beef train along with the ain engine $ four of 3 cars, and three tracks completely for {1 five 53 yi or $x hour In one « were four valuable horses B » cel, promiscuon sly which was killed. wine flour ete, were scattered oveg the track. I —— A J] Grest Bag for | J. Griest Centre defeat o ssioner In county 1s a poor piece of buisness ir fora third of the commis- Centre ue he was a candidate but there is no doubt best the He is a mam i term, { fact that he was the | sioner who ever sat in county Court House, ability* of firstclass buisness and mainly under under bis management and direc -we say this without any paragement to his under tion dis- associates—the which Centre reduced year out altogether, and Mr. Griest will turn the office over to his Republican successor with a clean sheet and a goodly sum in the treasury. Such a man should have been kept in office another term, if only to show the people's appreciation of his labors, But it is said that “a prophet is not witl - out honor save in his own couatry,” and the time is not yet matured for the people to fully realize the im- portance to them of Mr. Griest's unselfish devotion to their interests Already, however, his defeat is be- gining to be regretted and the rash- ness which accomplished it deplor- ed, It will be only a short time until Mr. Griest's great work will estimated at its full importance. — Clinton Democral, Arraxta, Ga, Nov. 26.—Bands of Women surrounded the polls this morning when the vote on the sale of liquor was about to com- mence. As the first votes were deposited the women tuned up on familiar Methodist hymns. White women importuned colored voters to oppose the sale, Lucch, served by Prohibition ladies was plentiful at the polls and other places but the voters took their lunch and voted against their entertainers. The official vote of the county puts the anti-Prohibition at 1,122 out of a total vote of 500. There are 16 precincts in the coun. fell i ted | equally was | from the £ # . *{iound It is | arrec: i pe fi Jil Now it hi: aj inion. : ‘ vd that cription api G Lo himself and his 11 wou comj anion, provi led the detective 's } i user black beard was clipped | getting dusk and very It wa they neared the i short 14 wr 1 1 o i Oi as town, angi vere- {the wk the | itd 4 ’ 5 aA he quietly st 1 a few moments led the cutter and | approached to The detective ywd wanted, party d what the got mad . k ASK C Cri and | h at their stu- beck he ~ when told rand undert:s to the gang. In minutes Ww | knocked diter being wet snow afew as down and mauled about in the he himself and his companion little 7 by 9 lockup for the The night was exceedingly {cold and the prisoners were alfaost {frozen to death | They were in the | night when morning | came taken before a followed the egraphing magistrate, explanations | and they were released but de | tective ever since in tel a y 16 ’ iA Hd description more careful that does not tally with himself Chinaman’'s Moral Led ger A good Chinaman, after his day's work, opens his moral ledger, the | Rev. Dr. Du, Bose ioforms us. Here | are a few of the items which he can | write down to his credit: | because be paid bis father's debts. | 100 because when he was rich he | married a deformed (ugly?) girl to | whom he was betrothed when poor. | For lending an umbrella it was only 1 poiug; for haviog saved the lives of 100 insects, 1 point; for having picked up & grain of rice, 1 point; for not having eaten beef or dog for one year, 5 points; for having destroyed immor- al books, 300 points. Now, per contra: To have loved his wife is to dock hin- self not less than 100 points. To have seen immoral theatrical figures agniost him #8 10 poiots. If be got drunk that was 5 points to the bad. Becausp he drowned a baby only 50 points, If he issued counterfeit money that would have made him lose 100 points. To dig up a worm in winteris 1 point more to the bad. Heo might split his sides when he saw an ugly person and be charged 5 points, Brriows Fats, Vi, Nov. 27.— Parties who have been mining iron sod managese in South Walling. ford for several months past have struck ata depth of 600 feet the most extensive deposit ever found in this section. The iron is in so pure a stwte that it is shipped as it comes out of the earth to Bessemer. where, after being mixed with other metal, it is said to form the best quality of steel, The deposit shows that at some lime in iy running together of the metal, Jeuving it five tomy impurity, The bachelor waylosd a Tile full - Joy, but you can't conviaos any old BO Ten points | | — ty, of which six are in this city. SNA touts Journal of Education. | tain, Lo would deem the plans i {gina | IC | commend, "8 Views Oi { ton, Fort Foot | hills upon the { driver's bora { thence | frequented {daily drives. is ope that cannot fail served | toattend to some buisness | which could ns - —————————— Washington Later, The Mount Vernon Association has wonderfully improved the old Wash~ ington homestead during the past few months, and it is pow aunounerd that establish a for the ommodation of the thousands of visi t has beens decidod to laily line of cosches ac. National Capital, who ibject of their visit in- ors to the t from their the 1 be coaches 8, omplete were they to omi a pilgrimage to the tomb of Father of their Country. which are constructed for will be of boss affairs, nor will they in any mao- now belog this use, none Your ole form of for ner resetnble the stereoty ped road conveyances commonly used bu CONVEYIDE pussengers, t will be i 1al he genuine four-ip-haud 18iiy-ho coaches, with seats #0 arranged as to sfiord the mmaoding view of the sur- Pro a ably tourist a © g couniry, nn ur ¥ intere sting that 28) foun i by more beautiful $4 could be i than Mi: Wi aCh route { unt lard : 3 eu # . wilich will be [01I0W( weing i Long t of Ar- mestead of én i} ’ Po ue Waouseia mark the resting pis dead; thence seit P) Pots { waich is render- shore Mae, over inca ry ” und evs wy associations, { Fort Washing- | historic ed joleresting sod the forest crowned Ma vilapd awakening shore, he in tre. ts of Aris; echoes the quiet and gras-grown of Alexa: “> turnpike onc Washington in bis Traly the historic old city out by the old by the enterprise with Ucoess Lo meet popular approval, and its is insured iu advance. Thanksgiving was very quietly ob- Washington. The rain part of mn which fell duriog the early the day prevented ihe consummation { of many plansthat bad been arranged, | and had the eflect of keeping | one in-doors who were not called out every- engagement + be neglected. It has been proposed to have a grand re | view of the National Guard of the Dis rict of Columbia, but the display was omitted on account of the rain, and the streets in consequence wore a | dall and uninviting appearance hard- | ly in keeping with the occasion. The President avd Mrs. Cleveland attended sereice at the Nioth Street Presbyterian Church in the morning, and in the afternoon they drove out to Oak View, where a sumptuous dinner was enjoyed by a party of invited friends. Secretary Whitney, who is fast recovering from his recent indis- position, as usual manifested his gener- osity by distributing 700 turkeys among the clerks and employees of his department. Probably, however, there was not in the whole city a more hearty thanksgiving, or a grester amount of good feeling expressed in acts of kind. ness, than at the Central Union Miss. ion rooms, on Pennsylvania avenue, where 1,500 of the needy-poor were supplied with an excellent dinner. It has been ansouuced that the President has tendered the office of commissioner of the General Lacd Office to Judge John F. Phillips, of Kaosas City, and there is a great during the week, Now that Thanks. giving day has passed and buta few days remain before the opening sess ion, they will come in rapidly. There is nothing new ln the situation with reference to the coming contest over the organization of the House, Most of the candidates are here, but the tar- dives of the newly-elected members jim areiving Jewves. amerything woos.
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