{EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE Ok PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL.” 4 TERAS : $1.50 per Annum. ——— i A——" VOL 10. BELLEFONTE. PA.. THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1885. NO. 21. The Gazette's Night-mare. The Centre Democrat, There are two things that will . « | disturb a man's sleep and deprive Terns, $1.50 Per Annum ia Advance, him of that rest which nature in- ; tended should restore the wear and A heavy supper either FRANK E.BIBLE, Editor tear of daily toil. uneasy causes will produce land an conscience, | of these two | what is familiarly called night-mare, 1888, Democratic County Committee. N. Wonca RB. M. Magee taaneses Vs oo: NMOL, we L. Meek wal. W. McCormick. Abe Weber samuel W elser, M. Butler. RE Munson cull A, Faulknor Jackson Gorton 4. CO Bmith Cornelius Hazel, wotenry LL. Baruhart T.¥ Adams ww Andrew Felper W filam Hipple LAeorge Roan, David Beicklay, Bellefonte Jentre Hallo. Howard Boro ... Millheim Boro... Milesburg Boro... . of (Jaz elle, is ill the at editorial brother His conscience and case, last week a horrible night-mare visited him Philipsburg and the resultis found paper. A in Centre | county is what he most dreads as it for Unionville Bore Beuner U9 Dem Boggs twp EP... do twp 8 P... do twp N.?P Burnside twp... College twp... Curtin DWP immmircamsenmine ! Ferguson twp, | STO wen. W. Miller do twp, x Poin cisirnsessss. Sami. Harpster Gregg twp. N. Pose wo. William Lose do tep, 8. P, werssessew William Hanna Haines twp. B. Po.vrciniininn John © Orudor do twp w— Caivin Weaver Hall Meon tWD....cmsnmmmsiesssnd . Hl Griflla, Harris top..eiiin C. Mey Howard TWD users D Johnsto Huston twy - ve snneens WilHam UU, bevin Liberty twp. Paul. W Herr Marian twp... BORAT John 8. Hoy Miles twp «J. Gramley Patton WD once i Potter twp N. P do twp. 8. P... Porm WP ouviisrrrianns Huloes twp, B on the first page ol his re-united democracy candidace Feidler indid his Mr. a will be fatal to Leg self Jr the siature f Hp as On and after June 1st the sub-|_.. rent; scription price of the Centre DEN- | Democrat in Centre co anxious to sl his party this aughter his i Mr. Feidler into the Night-maresaretrouble- they OCRAT will be reduced from $1.50 per year to $1.00 payab'e in ad. |¥ear to pu . ._ (legislature. .wance. All accounts in arrears im sl come the There some things and when . 1 wT ad © . 3 : excess of §3.00 will be. settled on ito Feidler they are always in the same basis if paid within sixty On papers going outside the state no reduction | more chestnuts out of the fire for you, and if you are so terribly | averse to rings why “go running the county, shape of a united democracy. days from this notice. is no use friend, we will pull no ia the price wi'l be made. - for” Re- and not . . . {the ring that is Tue celebration of the Centenni- g al of the Presbyterian General Assembly in Philadeiphia. which b gan on Thursday last week | . R y . . sheriff. Nor can Democrats disor was worthy of such a great historic | brodd a " gis 2s other occasion. Eminent Divines and |Z, | Feidler who of laymen from all parts of the coun- | _ "~~ "°° ‘ | 1 { Sheriff Cooke. time for teok part in the exercises. find ni he | he Gagzett id { acvion comes the Gazelle Mod. rator, Mr. Joseph T. Smith, of | : | every Democrat alert, and ready to Baltimore emphasized one great | i. a { do battle for the festure of Presbyterianism when | : ._. _ | be they whom they may. wken he said: “Presbyterianism 4 — and Republicanism in their funda-| Tue Democratic State Conven mental relalations are one—all the peaple are sovereigns; their rulers are chosen by election. The church inculcates the duty of good citizenship. Our church recognizes the brotherhood of man. It makes the man responsible to God alone, and elevates and expands the popu- lar mind. Wherever Presbyteri- anism goes it plants schools and colleges, and is the advance guard.” publican party of the disre.- | that foisted on the people a putable character like our present of ganize their party to elect the apologist When the will is party candidates terday was noted for the large number «of prominent and repre: gathered there to endorse in em. Uaited States and his policy. utterances voice the sentiment of Pean-ylvania Democrats, on the | great questions of the day and place the party in Pennsylvania once more in harmony with the national ——— democracy. RS an It is reported from Maine that a great maay stores have been built recently on the boundsry line be- tween that state and Canada, one counter in each store being in the United States and another on Brit Their proprieiors are Rr. Raxoarr complains of the Mills Tariff bill because it pro- poses to make free of duty the im- ported pmistings and statuary of the railway millionaire and coal baron. He seems to forget that his protictiomist friends of the | ish territory. Uvoin League of Philadelphian pe. titi ned Congress for a repeal of | Americans, the duty un painting« and statuary, | Canadians. while opposing any reduction of | d that no blankets, { about, it is that and salt. But it may be said in fa- might be prevailed on to mistake vor of free paintings that the duty | on such objects is ive, and British When they officers goods to satis are they are revenue duties on lot hing, coal presumed an American purchaser for a Cana- not protec li tle to versa. there | dian customer, and vice clrcumstances would be no embarrassment fe't be the agents. and contributes very the | Under such revenues while it directly discourag. of custom cause of absence expenpiture of money for the pro- | ductions of human art genius by | sort is no new thing. It is only one | Smuggling of this house i i es cultivation of the arts. The liberal | our rallw.y millionaires and coal | of a hundred wavs in whicl h dubita- | barons is not only innoce. t but | ble article« cross the line, free of | praiseworthy. The Mills all, while | duty. In fact, the ease in which’ not making war upon the arts by [goods are taken free from one | A heavy supperseldom troubles our | tion which met in Harrisburg yes- | sentative men of the party who | phatic 1erms the President of the | Its | thus able to sell American goods to Canada. Many eminent meno in both countries de- sire to tear down the commercial | barrier between the two. It should | be torn down, by all means, or else | repaired so that the existing army | of smugglers might no longer creep | through with ease and safe ty. —— Why They Howl. Representative Si ott, in hisgreat speech of last Friday, bit hard blows | in many directions, and there is, as of course, a tremendous The protection organs of a matter outcry. Pennsylvania, especially those Pittsburg, are fairly foaming # the We in mouth with rage. do not blame t their pain. not hem for crying out [weir wounds are deep and are valuable of made markable and tions to the literature revenue reform that has been in re- cent It cause it presents many interesting years is remarkable be- facts in small space, and in such y understood by It iis an unanswerr readil f ’ way as to be the valuable because ble plea for tariff reform Cr A——— Wiru all the for masses of the people is pportunities that geting Mr it is strange that the truth oO exist news rom Blaine cannot be it conclude that but sick of the condiuon Pen safer ling discovery, is, perhaps, ts he is well enough in body, | 4 thinks mentally when he temptation offered him to serve his | party again as a candidate and the terrible results that would fellow | It would make any man’s heart lose its courage. | — HON. JACOB ZEIGLER | Death of the Veteran Democratic Editor on Saturday. BurrLer, May 20.—At 10 o'clock yesterday morning “Uncle Jake” | Zeigler died at the age of 75 years. His death was seemingly painless He was the veteran editor of the | Butler Herald, designer of the cele- | brated Credit Mobilier bill, a Demo- | erat who served two terms state legislature as the representa- in the tive of a republican district, was ‘clerk of the state house and senate and presiding offices of the state conveation which in 1877 nominat- ed Turnkey for supreme judge and | his vote decided the nomination. “Uncle Jake, ' was born at Gettys burg on September 19, 1813. In 1831, he ran away from Of this incident he wrote : from August, home “Having thrown my clothes the attic window I quietly descend. | ed the stairs. The night was warm. No one can fully my feelings. If ever there was son who loved his mother it L. appreciate a was ‘With tears in my eyes I simply said ‘Good-bye, dear mother,” and turn” ed into darknes with but $1.12 | my pocket. ‘and quite footsore when 1 arrived | on August 21, 1831. Upon enteriog the village he saw | will be free. of | a | in| I was almost pennile.s | high duties, proposes to relieve la. bor and industry of their excessive burdens Mr. Randall, however, will have an opportunity to move a restoration of the duty an paintings and statuary when the bill shall come under consideration in detail for the purpose of amendment. country to the other is rapidly some roguish girls one of whom transforming a large portion of the | afterwards became his wife. He inhabit .nts of ce tain sections into | engaged with the editors of the smugglers. The amount of smug- | Butler Repository, and this agree. gling at various points along the ment was written with chalk on the line is enormous. Tail ra, in some 'office door : ‘September 1831, American cities, do not thrive be- | Jacob Zeigler came to learn the | customers know how to get cheap land McClelland. He agrees to stay | clothing from two years and six months when he During that time we agree to furnish him with vituals, | clothing and lodging.” He served { his time, and in 1842 McLaughlin land he issued the first copy of the | Democratic Herald of which he was | editor at the time of his death, He was author of a book of parli- of | Handbook is said to be a « opy wi h He read address in the | mentary law, which Bmull's additions Washington's court house Birthday, ag pears farewell here on Washington's that being his last public His old-time of free-hearted early ance mansion was the scene hospital- ity during Butler's He will be history, a most interesting host and ed at the He was MID was miss next editorial excursion, ly regard ed by Req Congressional] Conferces On motion the {o i : tions We, appointed by the Democratic stand- were adopte the undersigned delegates and to commitices at of May, represe«n- ing committees of Clearfield Centre, haviag met according direction of DuBois, on the 16th day 1855, said and failing to meet tatives of the other counties of the district, have unanimously adopted the following : Whereas, By act | dated May 19th, re-apportioned into Congressional of Assembly the State was 1887, districts, and of } the 28th district, as now existing, com- | posed of the of Clarion, | Forest, Elk, Clearfield and Centre, Wiikkeas, Because this counties is without rules or regulations gov. |erning the nominations of Congress | ional candidates : Therefore be it Resolved that in own judg- | ment it is expedient that a meeting | of the Representatives from all the counties, composing the 28th Dis- trict, should be had at some con" venient place within the District, at {earliest convenient date, for the purpose of formulating some sys. tem of rules or regulations to gov- ern Congressional nominations, and recommending the adoption of the same by the several counties of the District. In pursuance of this we request the standing committees of the counties of Clarion, Forest and Elk to appoint three delegates from {each to meet us at Ridgway, Pa, {on Thursday the 31st day of May, | 1888, at 7 o'clock p. m, to take such action in this matter as may in their judgment, meet the approv. {al and serve the best interests of | the Democratic party of the Dis. trict, Resolved, that the be | directed to forward a copy of these our Seq retary procee dings to the the Democratic standing Commit. tees of the several comnties and to each Democratic newspaper of the District with the request that they | be published. Jno. H. Woopwann, Wun. Wor, Delegates of Centre county. Sam’ G. Kuntz, SINCLETON BLL, ! James Keng, ! Delegates of Clearfield county" A CALIFORNIA Judge “has decide ed that there are no illegitimate children, and awarded to one Rich. ard Jessup an illegitimate son of the late Gresham P, Jessup, $100, 000 worth of property belonging to the father at the time of his decease. At the last term of court there were cause the men who should be theie | printing business with McLaughlin in this fifteen infants want or sixteen of number the evil seems to be growing. What effect the appreciation of the Cali fo nia dec sion might have on this phase of crime we do not know but we are incl ned to believe that the responsibility for the care and { education of the chili during its infancy and youth coupled with the fact that it was to inherit equal- ly with those born in lawful wed lock, would have a good effect. The mother as an out- cast from society burden. d with the expense of the offspring, the child inh rits from its mother, but no responsibility at. taches to the father beyond the period of in support fixed by th no more mate to hi injustice and cruelty about this he Calif ne extent ancestor, large, but paternal was unu-ually a rule becomes and 1s and care fame and the 1 her Bay court Ihe father JAYS to his Lliegin nie tention ban [here gorou aii Ove iy ANOTHER SUICIDE EA & § SO od « Ag AR young siding near Osceola sent a ball crash ing through her brain and pat an end to her life, a on to note the suicide of a young iady in Philipsburg. Sadie E. Sharpe, alias Grace Good d now we are called man, (the daughter of James Sharpe who had traveled Centre County from end Ww end delighting bis audiences as a ventriloquist) came into Philips | and | burg on Monday of last week, tigether with anothr girl named Li zzie [Saughensy, who went under thesobriquet of Pearl Austin took vp their abode for one night at the Potter House and afterward domiciled at the wellknown house of Sarah A, Batler, where she died at her own hand by ‘taking poisen about nine o.clock | Tuesday night. No evidence was ad | duced to show why she did it but it is { scppose she became ashamed of the | life she had beeo living for some time, although now about only twenty years of age. Letters were found on her person | hr Lo alter ber course of life and re turn to her home. Possibly the re ceipt of the letters found oo the per conscience and induced her to com’ mit the dreadful deed, J. C. Barclay, Esq., Coroner for Clearfield county, held an inquest on the body the next day. The following were the list of jurors: Philip Shimel, Samuel Barto, N. H. Wilbure, B. P. Swartz, Levi Yingling and D. B, Delong, and after a full enquiry acid administered by her own hands. Thus ends the career of a possible useful life, who instead of devoting which at last she was ashamed. | blame? DEAD. ——————— received from her sistsr persuading | son might have caused remorse of | | eapt came to the verdict that she came to | charge of a church fair. ber death by an overdose of earbolic | require such high powers of speech to herself to the many acts of which | woman only is capable, lived a life of | dents of Lock Haven Clinton County, Is! | died last woek one day afler a brief there not some one else partly to | | illness at the residence of Mrs, Mary B. Chairman of | AUDITOR GENERAL NORRIS | yjni ! i Auditor General A. Wilson Nor. | birth SMALL BEGINNINGS Sime Great Men Who Started af the Bottom of the Ladder. Renator Vance was a hotel clerk, Secretary Bayard was a clerk in New York, Tom Reed, of Maine, ter in Lhe navy. Wes & paymas- Judge Kelley, father of the house, Was & Jeweler Leland Standford was a country law- yer in Wisconsin, Senetor Dawes was a school teache and country editor, of Vermont, Senslor Morrill, kept n couniry grocery siore, Senator Cullom was famous ss a corn- in early days in {ilinois. of Nevada, husker mined in Californias, “bought his time" ears old and ran a saw thought shed rian, onc« nd poe ec Hj Brief N tes fellec a ft. i io fence tree was recently Mo A bi Pike County, g OAK It made 9 posts and nine cords of stove wood. Gates are to be put up at the Harris i ticket to pass sin ah be burg passenger on, | holders only will alowed through them. A raid on tramps at Eckert’s fardhoe, in Reading, a few days ago, resulted in the arrest of fificen, who were commit- ted to jail. Thivgs have changed. Now the who do pot dance sre most often oblig: ed to pay the fiddler, The woman who is always thresten- ing tog is one who, as a ru'e, pare, men ive another a piece of her mind has no mind to Soldiers mark time with their feef, his foot on a time for the young man to leave the front gate, The ambition to be a millionsire isa | low one. Ifa man wants to be rich | before he does good, he is apt to get out of the notion of goodness. Edison announces that he bas perfec. {ted the phonograph. A New York | Herald reporter who visited his labora- | tory at Llewellyn reports that it will ure the music of a bras band upon a wax cylinder, and give it out any pumber of times in the original tones and volume, People may have serious reasons Lo regret that the great invens tor bas lived so long. A Boston woman whose tongue was ampulated because of cancer, has by perseveresoe again regeined enough control over her vocal organs left to | enable her to act on commitee having It does not When a veteran uses young man it is | fit one for this position; but the patrons of the fair, if they wish to escape with | any oash at all, ought to have their tongues in the slickest kind of order, Asa Wilson one of the oldest resi- Irvin, Bald Eagle and East Park sweet. Mr. Wilson enjoyed good health up to ina few days of his death, and was | unusually sctive for one of bis advane- ed age, having celebrated his 90th day on the 4th of last March, (ris, died at his residence in Phila. | | Deceased was well known to many per- about three weeks. His death is attributed to a geneal breaking down of the system. General Nor. ris when he entered the army was a strong, robust young man, but his capture at Gettsburg and sub. sequent incarceration for twenty mouths in rebel prisons told on him in after life and way be the original cause of his death. Gen- eral Norris was born in Lewistown, to | Mifflin County Pa, in 1842, and was therefore at the time of his death 4% years old, delphia on Tuesddy morning, at 71 sons in that city and county, who will o'clock, after a lingering illness of | regret to hear of his death. A citizen of Rockland, Maine, msde | n bargain with a butcher to kill and sell his fat cow on commission, The butcher took the cow, and the first of fer he received for the meat was from the owner, who did not reognize the that be'd bought bis own beef it hitoself,
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