A mevyt 9 » " ITRTICR ho rw EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. © TERMS: $81.00 Per Annum. BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13 s 1888. he Centre Dowocvat,| DEMOCRATIC VETERANS, | ormwoswomsssonsero er ——— te Terms, $1.00 Per Aunum in Advance, BR. KURTZ. - - - CHAS. R. _ EDITOR. EDITOR. CARELESS OFFICIALS, Last week the land case of the Tyrone Mining Company vs. James Cross was opened onWednesday morning and con- tinned to Saturday evening. drawn on this case reached a verdict at nine o'clock Saturday evening and were discharged. They had been drawn Wed. and were on duty for six days and naturally were anxious to reach their homes. Immagine their surprise when they applied at the Commission. The jury i { NOT ANTAGONISTIC ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC i | The New Organization Will in noe Way Con I filet With the Old Association but Wil be I Parely avd Openly Politieni-- What is Said, — i The movement at Indianapolis, Ind.. i : . » started by Adjutant General Koonts { and a few associate democratic veterans, | looking to the withdrawal of the demo- cratic members from the Grand Army of { the Republic, and the formation of a | i new benevolent soldiers’ organization or { order, is given entirely different color. | Ing by statements directly from Adju- | tant General Koontz, who seems to be { the fountain-head of the movement, Very little information has heretofore { been obtained from the Adjutant Gen- | eral by the local press correspondents, { Mr. Koontz stated in an interview, that TO THE GRAND | Now that Dakota is quite certain to | be admitted to the Union as two States | there is some interest taken even out { side this wheat producing Territory as {to what Dakota amounts to. The { Dakotans assert, and back their assor- { tions with big figures, that it amounts to a great deal First as to Territory. It 149,100 square miles, a greater area than the States of New York, Pennsylvania, { New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia together. 1t measures 430 i miles from its northern to its southern { border and 570 miles from east to west, contains { Out of this immense area must be de. : - : { ducted 37 000 square miles devoted to { Indian reservations and an unknown i { area of arid territory known as the “bad | lands." The Territory contains 610 | rivers and streams and 790 lakes and | ponds, or about one acre of water to ers office for their fees with which 10 | the new organization isnot antagonistic | €very hundred acres of land. pay tp their hotel bills, ete., and found all the Commissioners gone and along with them the Commissioners clerk. The Treasurers office was likewise closed and no provision had been made for mileage and regular fees, Under this condition of affairs Pro thonotary Schaeffer and at his own risk and from his came own exchequer advanced the necessary amounts which aggregated over two hundred dollars. This negligence on the part of a Re. publican board of Commissioners and Treasurer is another reminder of the | manner in which these offices are being | conducted by the present incumbents. The public suffers constantly from their | negligence and inability—a thing never said of the former officials, Wolf and Greist. Such gross negligence never ocenrred under Democratic control of these of- fice, When jurors were out late on Saturday evenings arrangements were always made beforehand by the Com. missioners for prompt payment as soon #8 released, or they remained in their offices, as a public officer should and is under obligations to do and see that every juror is paid who applies at a rea. _ sonable time. In this case how different * every | Commissioner, Clerk and Treasurer were . gone and offices closed. No arrangements * had been made, and the twelve jurymen, many of whom had hotel bills for the week and other necessary expenses stand. | ing unpaid, would have been unable to Jeave town under the circumstances pd not the Prothonotary advanced the Ce amounts from hisown pocket. Twelve jurymen were inconvenienced for the sake of one man, the great finan. cer of Centre county and high “cock-a- lorum” in the commissioners office. He might have remained at the office until § p. mn. Satarday evening but that _ would have kept him in town over night and taken another “bowl of soup” at Blackford's in the morning. This is another case of the high-hand. ed “Reform enacted by the unerring(¥) Republican officers. It is the kind of Reform” a little of which goes a great and the public has more than it 7 th a pension equal to full pay during of office and hire a competent busi. foreward | i . . tothe G. A, R. He claims that all | newspaper statements to the contrary {are inerror upon this point ; neverthe- { less the point is a new one hereat home. | The Adjutant General emphatically de- | clares they are not fighting the G. A. R. | The constitution and by-laws of the | new organization are not yet fortheom- {ing to the public. A meeting with seme fifty demoeratie veterans was held Adjutant which time (reneral executive : { presided over by | Koontz, at committee was appointed by an | with instruction {tion of subordinate posts the state. The new clubs are purely and openly political. 18 to press to organiza hroughout to be ee { of commissioners and everybody is sorry i { for it. —-— LIBEL LAWS In a paper prepared for the National { Editorial Association, Mr. W. H. Brear. the Detroit Jowrna { compares the libel laws of the several jen » of i | States and makes some suggestions of | amendment. All the States of the | Union punish libel as a crime and recog | nize it as an actionable offence in civil suits for damages. ! { Judges decided both the law and the | facts in regard to a writing charged to | the chair, | Centre county has a Republican board | I carefully But the law of libel | | has made great progress since English | | Next as to population. This is placed | | at not less than 600,000 and increasing [rapidiy. Then as to products, 30,000,000 bushels, or more than that of any State already in the Union, while | the crop of corn and oats were nearly in | the same proportion. On the strength | of these figures the peopleof the Terri. tory claim they have been defrauded of their just rights in not being admitted to i Statehood years ago Just now the merriest war is | names by which the two coming States be North | Dakota, say the Dakotans. but outsiders North a: i States, and suggest Dakota ns the name ch i shall known. and Sout) sid) Wd Sout j object to any more | of the Southern and Lincoln as tha To this pro Dakotans The name of Dakota when plied to wheat has a market value the i world over, and the farmers of North { Dokota are not sure that Lincoln wheat though grown on Dakota soil. the | Northern {the North phasis, Mate, SAN ap would sell as well under old n al ry ame other names, | i i two Dakotas are soon to ; the sisterhood of States, and two : { ander : Iw add prosperous and progressive State twill be : . —— DEFEATED DEMOCRACY'S DITY. { be libelous, leaving to juries only to de. | | termine whether a {be found guilty of provisions to protect the freedom of the press from prosecutions when publica tions are made from “good motives” or may be proper for public information ; but afew of the States have neither constitutional nor statutory provisions on the subject, and punish the offence of libel under the common law, If barratry, or the practice of inciting lawsuits, should be punished as a crime in all the States, Mr. Brearley thinks one-half the evil which the newspapers suffer from libel prosecutions would be removed. He also suggests that a party libeled should give the publisher a written statement of his case at least three days before bringing suit, and that a retraction or explanation should be given weight in mitigation of damages Wherever juries are judges of the law and the facts this and all other matters pleaded in mitigation of the offense of libel are taken into consideration. It may be doubted whether any sub- stantial improvement could be made in the libel laws of Pennsylvania for the protection of publishers or the public. The Constitution of Pennsylvania de. clares that there shall be no convietion for publications “relating to the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity :”" and no eonvietion for pulr lishing *‘any other matter proper for public investigation or information where the fact that such publication was maliciously or negligently made shall be established to the satisfaction of the Jury.” At the same time, in all indict. ments for libel the Constitution of the State gives the jury the right to deter. mine the law and the facts, What stronger guarantee against frivolous prosecutions for libel could a responsible publisher desire than this ? Most of the States have constitutiona] | defendant should | the publication. | In defeat, as in triumph, the Den { eratic party has a mission to fulfil. 3 it the vindi | today it succumbs, tomorrow et renew the struggle U cation of its principles, ¥ SCum \ century’ against all partisan vicissitudes, The political organization based upon the doctrines of Thomas Jefferson is much a part of our nationality that while the one lives the other must sur. vive, The National Democracy, having en- dured its ordeal of twenty years of polit. ical inferiority, can again step into the back ground without loss of hope or courage. We must again be content to bide our time and await the hour of our second and, perhaps, then complete and lasting rehabilitation. If there is no rose color in the party's immediate pros. pect, there are glimpses of light and tokens of good promise in the not far distant future. Meanwhile, let the party itself to the task of indoctrinating the people with its principles, Democracy is old enough in the politics of this country to have learned hgw to profit by the lessons of defeat. Nodoult, with a supreme confidence in the justice of its cause, the party from the outset of the late Presidential campaign was too sanguine and neglected observance of some of those conditions of success that depend more upon good generalship that upon the strength of principles or even the superiority of numbers. There was Tuesday 6th a popular vole and there is today a preponderating popular senti. ment in favor of Democratic supremacy in the conduct of National affairs, That it is a sentiment not conclusively available under the formula of a Presi dential election permits nevertheless the party's recognition that it has a strong hold upon the hearts and intelligence of the people. In the face of the political results of Tuesday 6th the fact remains that the nation, as & whole, and apart from its division into States having sep. arate volees in the Electoral College,” iv soundly Democratic. Now that the election 80 is over, let us The | wheat crop of last year was upwards of | over the } iii) ne, | Whether as North and South Dakota or | owever, the | If | has shown those principles to be immu- | H I i table, and possessed of a vitality proof | WILLCONTEST THE JUDGES IP | Last week Hon. 8, J. MeCermick {and Addison Candor, of Williamsport, | presented a petition to Attorney Gen- { eral Kirkpatrick asking for s commis { sion to investigate alleged frauds in the | election of John G. Metzger, who was { declared elected president fudge of the | Twenty-ninth judicial district at the re. { cent election by fourty-four majority, The attorney general will present the | petition tothe governor who is required { by law to appoint three nearest judges to | conduet the contest, The commission {will of John Rockfeller, of Northumberland connty ;: Bucher, of | Unionand Mayer, of Clinton, consist -—— DONT DO IT YOUNG MEN! From the Pittsburgh Times we learn | what we might safely suppose was th, | fact, to wit: that persons in great num. bers ave preparing to apply for office un- {der the new administration. This is Unquestionably there { will be many changes, but these are very ew offices that are worth as much as ome other employment would be. It is used to be. The pay of a few offices are equal to what most of the | incumbents could earn at other employ ment. not good news, not as it Few men ever came out of office as well aswhen they went ¢} Virtual. thrown ir iii. @ir years have been AWay or ong continuance in offices units one r employment. In certain ime holding nd unhits men for business pur. | : : he days of office holding are on they surely ; will be, I Some expect, thos who He o Aly Young Ii. We y 14 3 tend to apply for office my don't do gt Stel » v 3 it HIER Lo Lhe business you are in. you i The of Be 4 i 4 Lin must be filled, it is true, and v will be; but the majority of thos who getinto them, when their time is up- before, will say it vi ii Wis a mistake to There i b neither : entre county 1d to busin It is ering a reward of #100 for amurderer, 3 week after “i ’ . DUNNING BY MEANS OF A PONT AL CARD €X- 1 perience of the polities of our country | before Commissioner MeCind. gh. It is the first action tim new net of Congress forbidd. tog Lhe use of postal cards as means of notifying creditorsof their debts. C. R. Bushifield, a grocer sent postal cands to Frank Small, asking him to pay his grocery bill or the bill would be put in the bands of the baddebt collector. The suit was brought by Government Inspector W. W. Caraway, at the in stance of Small, and charges Bushfield with useing the mails to injure the char. acter of the respondent. A SexsinLe girl will not keep a Jot of cosmetics and drugs on her toilet table, but there are a few articles she should always have in a convenient { place. She should have an army of | glassstopped bottles containing alcohol, alum, camphor, borax, ammonia and glycerine or vaseline. A little camphor and water say be used as a wash for the mouth and throat if the breath is not sweet, Powdered alum applied to a fever sore will prevent it from berom. ing very unsightly or noticeable, insect stings or eruptions on the skin are re lieved by alcohol. A few grains of alum in tepid water will relieve people whose hands perspire very freely, rendering them unpleasantly moist. A few drops of sulphuric acid in the water are also beneficial for this purpose and are also desirable for those whose feet perspire freely, We should always recommend care in the use of scented soap ; in many cases the perfume is simply a disguise for poor quality. A good glycerine or honey soap is always preferable, of course one may rely on scented soap from a high class manufacturer, but it usually costs more than it is worth, In addition to the soap for bathing, white castile should be kept for washing the hair. Oceasionally a little borax or ammonia may be used for this purpose, but it is usually too harsh in its effects, was broght i“ LL A SAeINOra- | a it If | We none seek one instead of office. | + | House and Senate A CENTURY AGO. THE FIRST INAUGURATION AND THE TWENTY SIXTH Harrisons Insuguration Will be an Interest. Ing Event. 100 Years After Washington Other Faots, Within the next five months the peo- ple of this country will have opportuni. 11108 lo witness two ceremonial occurs i jrences of national interest and | tance, arouse widespread enthusias Hnpor- mand draw together an immense concourse of { ple from all parts of the Union. Although the first of auguration of President elect will be apt to awaken regret minds of many who had hoped of administrative based on the principles which they con- | sidered the best fitted to the of the country, this will not prevent them from cheer- fully a Jor ~the ine Harrison the them in for continuance rule advance material interest cquiescing in the will of the ma- { of all com- port upi In this particular jority and uniting in s mendable measures, the Republic BH tacle ti every four years presents a mt arouses the respectful wonder of all the nati But the events—that which is Yersary y ig | ms of the globe. second of the coming the mn in to celebrate imdredth anni of the f Geo tof the | nt « nite I regret can i Hite more th people participated i Of | {f #1 the centenary of the Newise, will the whole peog i: ’ + - v ’ s¥8vie | I SPIrit i Dot in person , in elelraling of its fitting the i A ~ vation of General Washington to the he centenary A juel- | 1685 Chief Magistracy of the young nation. Eve n thi t { changes a the course of as marking - " omplished in v the coming celebration will it a des p sig the « ents : Have about nificance, day fixed for putting the machinery the new G the 4th of March, 1780, however. but wernment in Hi Was On that day, of 1 had come together, imploring the who were delaying business by their absence to present 2 tO operatic tweuly members hie Letters sent out members were themselves, but the Hous The April that day Congress counted : {it was not until April that succonded in getting a quorum. Senate's quorum was secured on 6th, and on the electoral votes, General Washington's journey from his homme at Mount Vernon to New York was necessarily slow, considering the modes of travel then in vogue, and the tine was lengthened by the charac. ter of the ovations on his way, It was, consequently, the 23d of April when he embarked from Elizabethtown, N. in a barge and crossed to the lower par of New York ; and a week later, April 30th, when be stood mn front of the Senate Chamber, on Wall street, and, after taking the oath of office, heard Chancellor Livingston's proclamation, “Long live George Washington, Presi. dent of the United States !" re-echoed from the cheering throng below. Of all the centennial observances we have had since 1876 this will, in the eyes of many, hold astrong place; amd every State will undoubtedly help to swell the pomp and enthusiasm with which it promises to be celebrated. — Reoord, -—-—— GOVERNOR BEAVER ACCEPT. Chairman Britton, of the Inaugura) Committee, received a letter from Gov. ernor Beaver of Pennsylvania accepting the committee's invitation to act as mar. shal of the inaugural parade. In this letter the Governor says: “1 appreciate the compliment convey. od in this invitation, particularly in view of the manner in which you have linked my name with that of the greatest liv. ing soldier of our country in your com. munication. I had expected to be pres rison in any event and would have been pleased and proud to accompany our di. vision of the National Guard of Pennsyl. vania as 1 have had the honor of doing on former like oecasions, The call of the committee to assume the greater care, labor and responsibility is not tot be disregarded, and 1 therefore accep the invitation, relying on the cordial coopera tion of your committee in the discharge of the duties which the posit. fon carries with it.” sid soe pA VERE IE) A ginn who went to service for the first time, wrote to her mother that her master and mistresd were very dirty, for they washed their hands ever 80 many times a day, friends and een plump widows Tul Each of these observances will | “1 On the 27t " : Marvelous | The | of | ent at the inauguration of General Har. | i NO. a IN ADJOINING C75 %TiR& The Juniata county iii gle prisoner, has mot wu Bil Baker's Summit, Bed! 22 voters and 19 dogs. rd connty, has Croyle is the name of new yost of Bedfud postinastor, A Saxton, Bedford co iaty, sented fourteen plum; fice in Snake Spring to hi county, with J. F. Suvi : by man yes kevs {to fois [ §) house, nearfity « ave by fire oun Defective flue, Loss, $450 Mrs. Bratton, mother of Mrs, D. M Dull and Mrs. Ida MeClelland, of O fre township, Mifflin county, died on the 1.4 { inst, giving The Wharton school | Mifflin county, was dest : the 8d inst, a | 4] Mrs. John Hoffman, of Clay towns Huntingdon county, was found dead bed on the 27th ult. She was in her 2742 Year, yet | A young man who shot off a revolve in the city limits of Altoona on Sundss was fined 220 and costs vests rday by the mayor. Mrs. John died on Horning, of ‘Thursday night, Mifflintown She haa brew | suffering from mental affliction for some i time, i (reorge B. Amick | Bedford county, { 1540 hat the dent Harrison. h ult, Nolan wis knocked off the railroad track at thw curve near Longfellow, Mifflin eoums of St. Clairsville, 10 wear his insuguration of Pres iS Rong al James -t i * | and almost instantly killed, © take part, { Dogs tore up several sheep belongiver {10 Reuben Kauffman, of Union tow ship, Mifflin cnunty, the other might | The dogs were detected and killed. John Sankey and John 8. King, wi | were so badly scalded by a boiler expe near Allensville, MifMlin county. some time ago, are rapidly improving. The stock stable of the McClure Coke company at Donnelly, Westmoreland county, with nineteen mules and two horses, were burned Saturday. Loss, as sion y = 3 00, J. P. Metzler, of Somerset county ew j rently shot a wild goose that mensured | seven feet from tip to tip, and four fed | from the end of the tailto the end of | its bill, Thirty chickens were stolen fromm Amos Arnold, of Ferguson Valley, Mif- | flin county, recently, and in pay the thief left his cane in the hennery. By { his cane he is known. i A Sayearold son of John Sasssanew. | of Jersey Shore, was burned to desis | Friday evening. The child amused itself by igniting articles at the Stow its clothing was Jim 3 | and when found : | flames, Charles Selsor, of McConnell bung, Fulton county, fell off a chair the athe day and split his nose and blacked beth | his eyes. Miss Lizzie Hohman, of the | same town, fell off a ladder andl Dawls | & bone in ber forearm and fractaed = | rib. Typhoid fever is epidemic in Tuses- | rora valley, Juniata county—ome physi- | clan having thirty patients, four of | which have proved fatal. Two of these | were Aston K. and John P. Swe, sons of Jonathan Swartz, aged respect. | ively 24 and 22 years, | While Rob Hench of Elliottsheug. | Perry county, was sawing shingles, en the 1st inst. a piece of lumber caught en {the circular saw and was - hurled with | great force toward Mr, Hench striking [him over the Jeft eye, cutting a leap gash and otherwise bruising him, At an early hour Tuesday morsing | the post office at South Fork wasbeslen into by burglars, who blew open the ssi | and carried off postage stamps So She value of sbout #75. The post offies isin the store of the Argyle Coal Oompasgy. ‘Mr, DD. W. Luke is the postmaster. A scaffold gave way at the Bediosl | Springs the 4th inst, with two workmen, and one, Matthew Diehl, of Teil, was struck on the leg by a heavy plese of timber, causing a fracture snd sal. | ing of the bones above the anki. “The other escaped with a few ouls sell bruises, A sentimental young lady slo, “Wig Is it that i ig mtb ip etaabile mystery of 1 nativity, by each other on the ocean currents of existence without Teing instinetively | drawn together, Blended and beatified in the assimilated alimbic of clomid Jove ¥ It Is hecanse buiter Is thirty conta a ponnd nnd a good costs an high as 19%, ’
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