oudig ith s of hi 8% th fored "dep d, 0 rmati 2 bu ch pielatig y dee repor liberaf legislg it. ot rep. §, erat. sube re be ns Md ave | . Hon nent 8aCtiod , toget it om to co + fatn XD 1887. ADA is 8g > Bell ckerhd for at jreats § val ope; bu i, ring t ne of 1} he sometimes bites off even “more a WE. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprictors, “" y » Ea EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICK TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER ETATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OK rorivical,” TERMS : $1.50 ver Annu. VOL 9. 4) NO. 50 The Centre Democrat, ni FRANK E BIBLE, - Editor, Creveraxn is bound to redeem | his pledge of '84, and the Republi | cans don't like it. —— A —— . Tue Crown Prince of Germany, | facturers of Wool" issued Septem | 4 : of | ber 6, 1887, is recovering from his attack throat disease, and his recovery. is | were in 1886, 44,750,314 { the United States assured. Joba G. Whittier has completed his four score years. It is the wish of | all thet the Quaker poet may add | another score 10 the years already lived, gp AMD AI 5 17 is said that there are owenty- | raw state. : {subject of the tariff presented these | interesting i Switzer, chief | statistics, on “Wool and the BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER i Mer. James G. McSpargan of | Lancaster county who is overseer | | of the State Grange of the Patrons Terms, $1 50 Per Annom in Advance. | of Husbandry, in his report on the |over West Chester figures on the wool | | question: | William F. bureau From the report of of the of | Manu- | that there sheep it we learn The wool clip | ! pro- That is | The value to $43,000,000. this pounds, ducers was the sum total of interest we are asked to protect as far as it re | What has it cost us to . we : seven red-heads in the present | do it? Let ussee. We imported Congress. Certalnly the remain- | 114,404,173 pounds of raw ler don't have much trouble to trike a match. — -> i | | wool in 1886. tured home consumption were $44, 587,509¢ Dutvion the same $27, Imports of wool manufac- Acai the war-cloud seems to | 278,528 at an average duty on wool- _ envelop almost the whole of Europe; | but as usual, the wiser and cooler heads will rob it of ite destructive elements before it breaks with ruine ous violence over those mighty empires. etc i —————— ALL is not lovely in the great or- gauization of the Knights of Labor sod unless the Executive Board gives to the order ao itemized statement of their expeoditures there will be trouble. Vast quantities of money go | inte their hands each year for certain purpose but they have absolutely refused to account for a single dollar. The men whose hard earnings have been pouring into the treasury of the Executive Board now wast to koow how the money has been expended and it is right aod proper that should. they | me d— It is rather amusing to see how the Republican papers in every sec- n of the country give their ideas, vhich vary with each other and are ever found to harmonize. * The pers in Philadelphia shriek free le at the president's message and attempt to frighten people, while the Republican papers of Chicogo in- the message and urge the ublican party for its own safety | tand up and face the music, and leem its pledges made in 1884, e the tariff and relieve the peo- of burdensome taxation. York and in other states. The Re- iblican party will have a wide fitch to straddle in evading this sue and in attempting to do this, e liable to fall into the pit which ey have been diging as political rave during the last fifteen years. itm tp sci men Me Braixg after all, is not 0 wk as he is painted. We hasten his defense, says the New York Herald. Helis the poor man's friend 1 spite of appearances. He has noticed that miners, car- penters,iron workers and other brow weaters, that they all-~but why do + hesitate at such marvelous news? iat they all—*chew.” He honors the act of chewing. [le thinks that mortals never touch the profound. est enjoyment unless they do chew. Watch the poor fellu wat the plough, and note the eager: with which than he can chaw'’ and then expec: torates his soul along the opening HIrrow. With that picture before him, Mr. mous statesman, trembles with gens crogity way down to his boots and whistles through three thousand miles of cable, “Take the duty off tobacco and give the laborer a free chaw!” WIJ you give him clieaper clothing, Ms Blairer Never! Will you give hin cheper timer for his house, cheaper walls, | | anything else? Never! A free “chaw” for the poor man, but fter price for everything. | have the total | consumer, £146,169,872, er and better than { for ] foreign w o0ls | article that produces the best quali- | importance The manufactures | en goods of 67.29 per cent product of our wool | (consumed almost exclusively here) i $267,252,013, would cost us without the above duty, 159,973,987, a dif- ference against the of $107,478,027. Add to this $27,255, 528, the duty on the above import consumer ed goods, and $11,440,417 the duty on the imported raw wool, and we to the to protect $45,- 000,000 to the producers of the raw excess cost an interest which amounts to | WOOL On this same wool question the | Reading Telegram says that hat | : , { makers in that city declare that “lf the tariff were removed from wool { we could make these goods cheap- the forei machinery In gners, we have superior and a better class of workmen. | that event we would consume three ko.» 3 jtimes as much domestic wool as wi now do, as it is the mixture of with our domestic hats made. The of the latter 1s apparent when it is stated that of the twenty-seven hat firms in Read- ing, the members of all but four ty of wool ever statement Republicans. is —— are Segxator J. Doxarp CAMERON; Blaine, the magnetic and wagnani) to Don's J Even | the political head of Clan Cameron, s the tone of the Press in New begins td lem up as a formidable rival to Jas. G. Blaine as the next | Republican candidate for Presi dent. The Cameron literary bureau is already in operation and Don. will be systematically and judiciously “boomed” for the nomi nation. It isone of the remarkable facts in the career of Cameron pere Rud ‘Cafméron fils that in thelr long careers as office holders neither of them ever received a position direct: ly through the suffrages of their Mellow citizens. Neither Cameron would set himself up to be knocked down by the voter. Don's’ friends have been working his chances quietly and as Blaine set his foot in it so beautifully in taking issue with the President on his message the Cameron crowd saw their chance and they have opened fire ot the plumed knight. The Cam- eron forces are well in hand and the Chief and his friend Quay are a match. politically for any twe men Blaine can find. The anti-Blaine sentiment of the Country Will drop w | \ and e plumed meron fires tical, watch “i, but that he must pay the monoplists’ | may yet | for the same year was 235,000,000 | pathy | ; . | hood N £ | lates to the producer of wool in its | 0od-of North Walnut | schoo! and was talking to two little | West Chester's Horro:. A black cloud to hang yesterday. the seemed Everybody was depressed by work of death and the pr old town. was the death tally and five badly injured by the frightful boil- er explosion at the electric light | destruction in Seven Isperous were ion nn Fhdav ates ihe . . . ; 4 i 4 station on Friday aftermoon. While | agsisted Superintendent Embree |i: that they will meet with opposi- | hand were incidents of human sym A great crowd of people had al- ready gathered to look at the scene dawn of neighbar- and of choas when the gray yesterday broke. The street on her. her satch | of books. died a year ago and she was her father's housekeeper although’but a child and a regular attendant school. hurricane it. The whole north end of the electric Chestrint looked as if a of destréetiou had swept over light building was a mass of bricks, mortar and timber, which were spread over the streets and into neighboring yards with lavish con- On every side of a lofty smokestack rods, huge beams, trailing wires, crum- bled mortar, twisted girders, jutting planks and piles of broken bricks and boards were spread as if blown fusion iron tangled o the winds by dynamite HOW SUPERINTENDENT EMBREE DIED. The eighty-horse power boiler al- which caused the trouble was most hidden under the ruins. Only a short time ago the new ninety- five-foot high brick smokestack was finished and the rear of the boiler was at the base of the big chimney. Superintendent Embree was back of the brick smokestack with most of the workmen unload- ing a new boiler from the railroad siding when hissing steam spouted a roar and the great up, there was bricks burving | En bre . ! ! en 1 he terrific | for had blown the boiler through the base of the chimney. As crashed to the earth the walls and roof were blown to all sides, Ihe air was filled with flving bricks iron and timber. Planks and bricks were hurled for several squares and the explosion was heard in the neighboring towns and All the borough of West Chester from the highest to the lowest tried to assist in the work When day disappeared held torches others labored hamlets of rescue. men and boys and lanterns while through the night in search of the ruins. It was almost midnight when the body of Davis O. Taylor, the Clerk of the Court of Chester county, was found beneath piles of bricks and timber, near the middle of Chestnut street. He had just called to see his friend, Mr. Embree when the boiler exploded, and he was blown through the east wall into the street and crushed to death by the falling walls. He was only recognized by his watch, which had stopped at 4.15 p. m. This was the moment of the explosion. BEGOING TO BE KILLED, When Seward Schofield, a gray haired laborer was taken out of the ruins he was found to be horribly scalded on the body and legs. My God, he cried to the crowd of rescuers, Kill me men. As he was being carried to a neighboring coal office where the dead and wounded were he begged aman with an axe to kill him. Schofield lived through the night, but died at 7 o'clock in the morn. ing. The silver watch of John Bradley one of the colored laborers was still running when his mangled body was dug out of the debris. One of the saddert incidents was the death of little Hettie Jones. She was on her way home from | which face the soth Congress is | | the lto the ground. Her death was in- 'stantaneous. She was found lying | in a pool of blood with the plank In her little hand she held | 1neui ol a Arthur Hoopes, a youth who | there were s: nes i . } aftr sr arrcewlv escane lt ne sad scenes wm the homes | after school hours narrowly escaped | ou at every polut iran Vhe gigaulic , | of the dead and the dying, on every | death, He was in the boiler house | and was badly scalded but made his | way to the engine room and saved | his life. He says he heard the vio- | lent blowing off of steam. | Restrict Immigration. Among the grave questions | that of foreign immigration, and | best method to restrict, the in- | flux of an undesirable and hetero- genous population which has al- ready given us great trouble and from which we may expect still There can be no objection sober more to the immigration of the industrious and law abiding class of foreigners who come here to better their condition and to take themselves the privileges and duties of American Citizenship. But the | pauper and criminal of Europe have no business here nor can we have any use for them. The Nihilist, Communist, and Anarchist is another element of discord and danger and should be absolutely prohibited from landing on our The man who comes to upon classes shores. purpose of spreading doctrines sub- vesive of law and order should be immediately shipped back to curse his native land. For years Euro- pean governments have been ship- brick chimney scemed torise in the | ping their criminals to the air and then toppled its Bo,000'PStates ivstead of punishing them at Superintendent home and it is an actual fact United ——y BRT. i the Upited States with the avowed | Management of Diphtheria Washingtou Letter, | Ld : i 1 n TLE A ia The question us iv the establish- To the Democrat. That there is now powisl telegraph rysiem {and hus been some diphtheria about ; , | town. for the last two montns is & fact ‘ or | prowises 10 be woe of Lhe v8diUg le | Her mother |} h - . {that cannot. be denicd, In view of |eli€s in the present On res, be | | ‘this we have been & X'ousiv awning | Benate has adopled 8 resolution pro= | gil directions from ou: Physicians, giv- at | viding for the appointment of a select ling p rticalariy wha ought to be done | committee Ww cousider the question. {aud what ought po! 10 ba done in ’ : { order srevent th dines f Ihe fr eds of the measure fly real- yder to preven yo ise ase rom our towa. As they have | spreadiog over | dose notning, we hand you the follow- ing from the Sanitary Engineer tor the telegraph monojolie whose burivess | niormation of the public: will be seriously crippled should the | Government establish lines of 1s own, a skilled physician cinnot say positive- The bill that bas been introduced | provides for an appropriation of 83, |°T * 500 000 to commence operations; and should the measure become a law, work upon ithe lines will be wooi- | 0 aud he is certainly very high menced at once. | authority on this subject, diphtheria An vousually large number of bills | may exist, especial'v in the a ult io a have been introduced in the Senate | ehroic form, not greatly disturbiog during the past we.k, aod a large the health or st all events not preveni- majori y of them are old timers, whose | "7% the parson so affected from going : yi aph } | about and performing his or her usual titles bave become familiar from their |, pe f {duties and yet making the secretions discussion in the former Congresses. | from such person capable of conveying Many of the bills are of 8 private vature: while among the more import- [here sre many cases in which at first whether it is contagious d phtheria simple non-specific inflammation ¥ | with which he has to deal, apd 1his un- | perininty may coatnus for = consider. | ble time. If Dr. Jucoh's views are cor- | | the disease, | The precautions to be taken in the | mansgement of a well- parked case of diphtheria are, or should be generally kno~n; they have been published as boards and ant bills of a public nature, may be mentioned Mr. Beck's proposition to retire the Unifed States legal-tender and bank notes of large denowioations sod the issue of coin certificates Mr. Dolph's measure repealing the pre- emptivo and timber caiture laws, and a bill appropriating $126,000,000 in 11 years for the construction of fortifi- eatious and sea coast defences. It is probable that Washington will soon be provided with a rapid-transit connection with the northern and north-Western suburos, Since Presi. went Cleveland purchased this country circulars by many health through the secular and medical press, | and may be up as follows: Isolate the patient io an siry room hav- ing the least possible amount of furni- ture, specially that which is upbolst- ered, and having no carpet or curtains, Disinfect all excretions and secretions, summed and especially those from the throat nose, snd mouth, and all articles soiled Ly them prompily, while they sre wet Use clean, soft | rags for the discharges from the note and mouth, and burn If other articles I residence on the Tenoalytown road, oo 4 oo colations of chloride of there hare been extepsive improve- |... or bichlovide of mercury, under ments in that direction aod many | ihe instructions of the physician. Be valuable residences have been erected | especially careful as regards toys, pencils at a distance from the city limits. A |or other articies which may be given moist and thoroughly. receiving them ns fast as soiled, that | . | seventy five per cent of the crime | . | committed and of the tramps that it infest the country belong to the | foreign element of our population We are all willing that our county shall betheassylum for the oppressed of the world, but we must draw the line at that point. We cannot tolerate the dangerous and lawless classes of Europe to be thrown by the | thousands; within proper bounds the immigration of certain classes should be restricted by law. And upon us years before us this is a good time to begin the Legislative part of the work. A hearty welcome to the law abiding, industrious and deserv- ing of all nations, bnt no paupers, criminals, tramps or anarchists. Let congress act wisely and provide against future trouble by proper restrictions, E ————— - Hang up your siockings big and little that Santa Claus, Kris Kiogle, Bell Soickle, St. Nick or by whatever name you muy please to call him, may find and fill to overflowing with good things. Christmas celebrated by all christian people on the globe is again bere and with it comes pleasure to many and to many pain. Many little stockings will be laid away by a loving mother that would have been bung up for Santa Claus to dee ms be comes down the chimney with his bag full of toys snd candies. How care- fully will that mother guard the little treasure that once encased the feet of a loved child; no eandy, no toys, go into that little sock, no hand shall profane it by a touch, How many homes there are in this bros lend in which little socks are laid away and whose hiding and unselfish, than a mother’s love and the feeling that prompts her to preserve these little mementoes of a dear depart- od child comes up from the pure depths of & mothers heart, ensullied by con- with the experience of the past two | company bas recently been formed | the child for its amusement, of the i with the purpose of constructing san {articles used ju giving it food or drink, . . Which it is |and of the remaants of such food or dlevaiec rail-way. hich it 1s Pro- | drink. Everything that bas touched posed to have follow a route leading | through some of the principal streets | of the city, aud thence to the north- | the patient's lips, or that has been touched by anything that has touched | . : the patient's lips, is dangerous. | | When convalescence pot i western suburbs. The company has | ip ua noe has 880 +11, do . | not yield to the importunities of the applied to Congress for its incorpora- | patient to be allowed 10 see his friends tion sod it is anounced that or to go out, nor to your own feelings of will be commenced at once, if sanction: | weariness st the long continued confine- ed by Congress, ment Above all things do not, under It may be of interest to sume to the excuse of giving change of air and know how Uncle Sam gets rid of un work scene. send him off 10 some other place to complete his recovery; you might send dynamite about the country with scarcely more risk. Do not send the child back to school in less thas six weeks after the attack; about two weeks after you are satisfied that he is entirely well is a very good rule. If the [fttle life is not strong enough to withstand the attack and is cut short, do not in your grief forget the danger to other lives which the house and its contents may yet csuse. Do pot allow sympathiziog friends and playmates to enter; do not have any funeral ceremonies in the house; treat the sick-room and its contents as bring dangerously infected. In mild and doubtfal cases follow the plan above indicted as nearly as you oan, and be sure that all your care and patience will be needed if you wish to obtain security for other members of | claimed articles that pass through the | mails, They are sent to the dead letter office hero, and, if there are no marks (upon them to designate the senders, | they are laid aside until just before Christmas, when all that have accu. mulated during the year are done up in bundles and avctioned off to the highest bidder. It takes about a week to dispose of the goods and the bundles are sold at the rate of four a minute The bundles are all sold atthe rate of four a minute. The bundies are all numbered and catalogues giviog a partial deccription of their contents, are freely distributed before the sale begins, Here are a few extracts from the catalogue of the sale which is just closing: — 64. 5} yds. sash ribbon, two lady's | ‘> family and for friends. neckties and a hair pio, oT Bt raitee a Sim: 1264. Cheap reticule, damaged apron, cheap baodkerchief, 6 yde cheese cloth, box of sea shells: 3438. 1ilbs. plug tobacco, pair scissors, cheap solderin de. The opening chapters of a splendid story for the young, by the famous P, T. Barnum, appears Paper. The story describes the adventures of an American boy, whom Mr. Barnum calls “My Plucky Boy Tom.” and whom he sent to India in search of wild, fierce, and rare animale to replace those destroyed by the disas- trous fire at Bridgeport last month, The reader is thrilled by hairbreadth 2 combination cents. On Wednesday evening a was given by the citizens of Vebine g ished members of Wi
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