VOL IL BELLEFONTE, PA, BR THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, aba 1880. @enive Mp Ld PIgLy at. CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price . $1.50 per year When Pald in Advance £1.00 When subscriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged, These terms will be strictly every case adhiered to In Taniry reform was not squashed by | Harrisons election as many would de- sire. - Tue constitutional amendment for the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors in Pennsylvania will likely be submitted to the people by the present legislature Prohibition or no prohi- bition will be the issue and the vote may take place this coming summer. an A Lock HAVEN exchange requests | that all those desiring the office of Post- master in that city under the new admin- istration Please hold up their hands. dekiik dank An Addn Addn R. EE eka ad ] Jerusalem! W hat alot of em. He can'tgive it to all o’you. When they make their applications, Quay's hand will be thumbs down.” - Thomas A. Ee Yison, and Jchn 802 both inventors, the former of age and the, latter age, are great physical contrasts, ison never takes any exercise. Erics- Ed- Edison is almost totally deaf, and pale of face and stoops. all his organs in their early perfection, is ruddy of face and straight as an ar- | row. -— Tue liguor men insist that business is outlawed the state must com. | pensate them for their losses. As they only hold their licenses by from year to year, and court of the United States traffic without reference to the conse. quences to those engaged in it, chances for compensation nobody. It is an attempted diversion which will not devert. -— Over 1000 delegates have their intention of attending the Reform Convention to be held in Chicago on February 19, 20, 21, 1889, of the convention is to bring about an signified organization of those who pay, against | , the proceeds of pro- | There will be anend | those who pocket tective taxation. of unfair diseriminations the the voters of the country stall undere stand how few are benefited and how many are robbed. The interest taken in the Chicago movement shows that the | result of the election has not in the least abated the popular feeling. -_— REPRESENTATIVE Pron, of Som. erset, intends introducing a bill at this | session of the legislature to dignify the | office of district attorney by removing the temptation of fees and allowing that official, in leu of them, a good salary. Mr, Pugh thinks such an act would pro. while it elevate the mote the interests of justice, would at the same time the standard of the office. representative favors the passage of a bill reducing the charges of court sten. | ographers, who, he says, are being paid | too much under existing legislation, TrouT of the Lewistown Free Press, Deputy Revenue Collector, at a salary | of $1,000 per annum: Lesher of the Selinsgrove Times, U, 8S. Mail clerk at £1,000 per annum ; Eicholtz, of the Sun. bury Democrat, Post Master at $1800 per annum ; Lumbard, of the Selinsgrove Tribune, Assistant Transcribing Clerk at #700 for this legislative session, and Schoch, of the MifMlinburg Telegraph Assistant Sargeant-at Arms at the last session Of the legislature, is not such a bad showing for the newspaper frater. nity in that neck o' the woods, Feidler is still out in the cold. Ture New York Voice, the leading Prohibition organ in the country, adds a drop to the brimming cup of political campaigning rascality by showing that its stolen mailing lists were purchased and paid for by the Republican National Committee. The thieves not only got money for their stolen plunder, but the promise of further reward in the shape of office. If the receiver be as bad as he thief, it isnot easy to see why Messrs, Clarkson, Quay and Dudley should escape their share in the shame of this exposure. We will have fallen upon : ‘evil times, indeed if such transactions, 2 years | just double that | - 8 | Ericsson has a gymnasium fitted up in his house and takes regular exercise every day, | is : Ericsson has | if their | sufferance | as the supreme | has decided | that the State may outlaw the liquor | the | will alarm | @ { to the people for their ratification or re- Tariff | The object | moment | ‘ i : {and in the State, whose party platforms | 1 NEW AND VITALISSUE. PROHIBITION OR NO PROHIBITION IN PENNSYLVANIA, The Prohibition Proves Amendments will Likely Present Legisdature What NH Means-A Grave Issue, the Hitherto the question of absolute pro- hibition of the manufacture and sale of all intoxicating Hanors ns a beverage in Pennsylvanin, has heen generally regard- | ed as one of the many side issues which | rise and perish in the swift mutations of our free political system : but to-day the Prohibition questipn is practically face to face with the People and must soon command their sober consideration and decision. The Legislatnre of 1887 passed hw an overwhelming majority in lution proposing the submission to the { people of a Prohibition amendment to the Constitution : Joint resolution proposing an amend- ment to the Constitution of this Com. monwealth : Sec. 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the { Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in { General Assembly met, that the follow- | ing amendment is proposed to the Con. i stitution of the Commonwealth | Pennsylvania, in accordance with | Eighteenth Article thereof, AMENDMENT. There shall { said Constitution to be { Article XIX, as follows : ARTICLE XIX. The manufacture. sale or keeping for sale of intoxicating liquor to be used as a beverage is hereby prohibited, and any violation of this prohibition shall be a misdemeanor punished as shall be pro vided by law. designated sale of intoxieating liquor for other par- poses than as a beverage may be alowed {in such mapner only as may be pre- i seribed by law. | shall, at the first session suc seoling the | adoption of this article of the Constitu- | tion, enact laws with adequate penalties for its enforcement. pass the foregoing proposed Prohibition amendment by a large majority in both i branches, and that it will be submitted jection at a special election to be held early in the summer. The Legislature is required to declare when the election shall be held, and there are two power ful considerations which are likely to decide in favor of an early day. the special supporters of Prohibition are united in demanding a special election to free the issue from all political com and second, the leaders of in the Legislature plications ; | the majority party { unanimously declared for submitting | such amendment in 1887 and 1888, regan! | it as good polities to have the question | finally disposed of before the State Con. | vention shall meet, and thus avoid the necessity of making a party deliverance on the question. These are potent rea: { sons ; they are quite likely to prevail in about the 1st of June next. The issue is a very grave one, It | volves sentiment, society and interest, { and it is one that should be most dis- | The same | | plain and simple one ; but it brings up [for sober consideration the practical questions of the best methods of pro | tecting society and of the protection due | toproperty. Asa sentimental issue it | has but one side to it ; as a moral issue looking to the sanctity and enforcement of law and as a practical issue looking to | the rights ot property, it is many sided, It would be a onesided sentimental issue to demand that all men and women shall be religious ;: but it would be sub- versive of both law and morals to make such ‘a mandate from the sovereign power, because it would fall in enforce. ment and bring both law and religion into contempt. The first question that the people of Pennsylvania should most carefully consider and decide is whether Prohibi- tion will prohibit. Has it done so in other States ? Has it lessened the evil of intemperance and strengthened the popular sanctity for law ? If so, are the people of this Stats uh well prepared for the enforcement of Prohibition as the people of other States in which it has been tried ? It has revolutionized strong majority parties in Rhode Island, Kansas and Towa will it do so in Penn. sylvauia ? If Prohibition shall beaccept- ed, will it escape the maelstrom of poli ties ? or will it rise supreme over parties | well considered before | shall posses of | the | be an additional article ) {at once if The manufacture, sale or keeping for | ' alone, The General Assembly | ; | American population numbered It is no longer in any measure doubtful | that the present Legislature will again | | tenth that of impul Ww Lo Seek stronger First, | { that the especially, {ample of the Chinese and not | permanent residents, the Legislature, and it is safe to assume | | that the people of Pennsylvania will be : called to accept or reject Prohibition in operation as soon as possible, in i of. agitation as a means of crowding their I ity of a terrible agent, and the fluence | | the oid Jaw could be oftener brought of the citizens effort ? Theseare questions snd poten effort Thessars questions | aspect, and each voter should calmly in- quire into them and be fully persuaded in his own mind before the heat of the bitter contest, that is now inevitable, shall inflame passion and prejudice. Another question directly involved in the coming struggle relates to the rights of property, There are tens of millions of dollars now invested in property, un- der the laws, which from time immem- orial have legalized the manufacture and sale of stimulating drinks, which would be rendered measnrably valueless by the adoption of Prohibition. In many instances, it wonld amount not merely to greatly impaired value, but to confis- cation, It will be answered from the | sentimental side of the dispute that in- dividual interests cannot hinder the | public welfare, and the sentiment is ab” NE mA i stractly true ; but when the laws have both branches, the following joint reso- | uniformly legalized and protected such | property what would be the measure of | justice to those who may be | property in a day, | tion of theenacted laws or declared pub- lic policy of the State ? This is a feature | of the { intelligent judgment ; st ripped of without any infrac- issue that calls for sincere and and, it partisan s the field, — Times, ——— THE SWARMING IMMIGRANTS should be strife phases of the great issue, $ 1} talk restricting immigra- about AS If the Times only tion, as is remarked by i : : A served to stimulate the rush of foreign. The | ers to the United States last year. steamship agents cirenlated the report thet the ports might soon be closed to | immigrants and that they should come | they want to themselves shut out entirely. They did come, 383.000 landing at New York an increase of 21,000 over the im. did not migrants arrivals of 1887, Germany in spite of official efforts to discourage immigration. 77 NN, Ireland furnished 44.000, which, sideration of the fact that the population | is only a little more than one the still Next of Ireland Germany, shows that a mew home 18 in Ireland than elsewhere, to the Germans and Irish the Seandin avian contingent tant having SIRE LL landed and sought | in the west immigra Austro-Hunga as these three The least desirable from Russia, untries 5 it and 97.000 of the new arriy al days of cheap contra not over yet. How many will become permanent reside | country it would be hard to ! bly a large percentage of them | main long enough to accumulate a few | { hundred dollars each and | to spend their money. return home The Hungarians, are disposed to follow the ex- become The experience of the past cates that if the restriction of Immigra- tion is to be talked about it should be put | as mere talk only increases the evil complained | The steamship companies use the ! passionately considered by every voter. i vessels at every trip, and will continue ) 7 : : If it were a mere question of effacing | to do so until the | the admitted evils which resalt from the | restrictive law is actually passed and | liquor traffic, the issue would be a very | talk ceases or some | enforeed, .— The appearance of a comet in the sky {has from time immemorial been con. | : sidered the certain fore runner of wars and disturbances, the longer the tail the greater the arbance or war. The Blaine comet has a very long tail, correspondingly long and bitter, ending only with the destruction of the com- batants, But as the combatants are all in the republican party, there need be nogreat grief ovre their annihilation. It is understood that Senator Hiscock was the bearer of Blaine’s ultimatum to Harrison ; it not only demanded that Blaine should sit at the head of the cabi- net table, as Secretary of State, but he should have the naming of atleast two other members of the cabinet. Harrison has not yet given his answer, and the sudden appearance of the Blaine comet at Washington and the marshalling of the various planets into a brilliant con stellation, is all for the purpese of ime pressing the Harrison sun with the im. mense power for good or for evil which is wielded by the comet. Whether the comet shall destroy the sun or the sun the comet, is a matter of indifference to the democratic observers gathered in like all other | find | furnished the largest quota | The German additionsto | wi 1 a § (OU year indi | 1 w resaged is likely to be wd and the war | papers. Sensation may in certain in- | RA AL AB A SOAR OS BS OEY CORRUPT ELECTION. There seems to be an honest among the honest men of all parti do something to wipe ont the shame the late election, and to prevent the u due use of money to corrupt the decision of the people at the ballot box, Hon. Fre- mont Cole, who was chosen speaker of the New York Assembly by the votes of Republicans, electrified that body by declaring that “never before in the his. tory of our politics, since our patriot so fmportant, nnblushing and corrupt a part in the election or the Government In many sections of the are becoming officials the people didates for office. “Tastead of ability they seek for avail. ability. Inplace of a captain strong brain they crown the leader with the long purse, In lieu of honesty they tolerate dishonesty. In a position that | inteligent | with a honored by some represntative should be {and clear-headed American manhood they are often allowed to put an unserupulous | | delegate of political trickery porate greed. “No Government, stoutly however fondely che Loo and Cor. however | established, virished | can Jong sustain the strain of conditions | It will not do for this Leg. hesitating or must like these, | tslature to take any | tionary It the purest and noblest reac. in of steps, march { with impulse | our rapidly moving civilization. do our share towards making the Leg- | islature of 1886 memorable and honor- able advancement. There is no dearth | of opportunity; there should be no lack of incentive.” | These strong words aro made stronger | by the fact that they were uttered by a Rrepublican. That party won its vie- i tory it sa most en- couraging circumstance when the victors with money; and are ready to reform an iniquity by which in con- ! they have profited. CRIME AND ELECTRICITY. is played out” to a certam of of Hine, ble epidemic @ opening » newfangled in werimental calling. a state of innocen- dynamic erutioners might, jae of their es i sr lves Into tade, may lve had something to do with the murderous revelry ol New York's moining. This is, hu il, The New York murderer of [ the has an abiding faith in the The method of his taking off is the last thing which is like. Iy ion of his imagination, We must wait, and observe the effect of death upon the | homdeidal mind before philosophizing | upon the moral infinence upon crime | in general. The statute errs in providing { that no account of the details of execu: tion by electricity shall be published in ywever., tf telligent ty aw's del b gain My HRS lof the now engine | the newspapers, aws, but they get the news, jand the prince ipal one, we imagine, of { the advocates of the new methods of ex. ecution, was, through the instrumental- lof its dramatic associations, terror into the heartsof men and women | | whose passions are uncontrolled by moral sense. The highest authorities have | testified that hanging is, if pleasuae can be associated with moral dissolution, rather a pleasant form of death. Noth. ! ing in this regard is to be gainad by ex. | ecution from electricity. What, then, remains ? Its moral effect. That effect | must be brought home to the imagina- i | stances do harm. Facts are great moral teachers, The first execution under the new law will be watched with profound interest, and reported with scientific ACCUTALY. PENNSYLVANIA bis the “Keystone State,” but that does not make her a model, politically. Daniel Dougherty was in Pittsburg the other day and a newspaper man interviewed him on the subject of Pennsylvania politics, and the following interesting opinion was elici. ted: “The remarks that should be made 0:2 that subject are not for a drawing room. lama native of Pennsylvania and proud of the State, with the excep. tion of her polities. She is an empire of wealth and of industry, butpolitically She is an eyesore, Inthe Senate of the United States she Is silent. Fb was in Somerset a Linh lived who could fathers established the Union and con- |} secrated it to freedom, has money played | county ja SWEAR AND PAY FOR IT. i LANCASTER UST DO THAT Is WHA PEOVLE Big Oaths Mun Into Jail and Cause the People to Marzle Their Mouths, An Idd stat ue sustained, costs a man 67 cents every time he yamn®’ in the saintly city of Lan. yr refers in disrespectful terns gtanic Majesty. A man has ked up in the Lancaster r three days for refus- ing to pay educated to | re sidents of Lancaster the naming only of affluent men as can- | { their tongues when | loose | strains his native impetuosity of, | fetus) Newspapers obey the | i (ne object, to strike | | tion of the eriminal classes by the news | three big oaths which heswore not long | State | ago, and the conseqence is that the male with profane ing a death-lock on wey are in publig ts to proclivities are ke { When a Lancasterite now he goes down in the seat the dark, damp wa | under his breath. THE LAW A CENTURY Alderman A. K. Spurrier, i ter, decided that the old act | bly of April, 1794, OLD. of Assem- relative to profane- and ¢ This “If any person of the of {16 vears or upwards shall profanely curse or swear by the name of God, Christ Jesus or the Holy Ghost, every person there of shall forfeit and pay the sum of 67 cents for every such profane curse or and in « be or she shall or to the said forfeiture, or goods and chattels cannot be found whereof to levy the same by distress, he or she shall be committed to the House of Correction of the proper county not exceeding twenty-four hours for every | ness must ¢hall be sustained. law says ARG age so offending, being convicted, oath: ase refuse neglect pay such offense.” This is one of many laws on the stat. utebooks which may be said to have and, in fact the existence of such a law is un. become obsolete through disuse, known to most persons THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. The present case therefore has excit. only in the also througout stir, not but ed considerable city of Lancaster, the county. BB. of the lew old residents who had not forgotten the of the law of 1794, Alderman Spurrer warrent against Jon. Reilly, was one existance so be went to week and swore out Lipply, of three profane oaths, Lipply was arrested and taken before | Alderman Spurrier, but positively re. fused to)pay $2.01, the total cost of three | oaths at 67 cents per oath. » he was sent to the Lancaster three days, ene for each oath. He spent | one day in jail, and then, on Friday last: was taken out writ of corpus before Judge Livingston, Presi. | dent Judge of the county. The Judge ! refused to interfere with the sentence, and Lipply sas compelled to spend Fri- | day and Saturday in jail. PUBLIC OPINION DIVIDED, a Fredirick the utterance on a The affair has created great excite. {ment in Lancaster. The religious por- tion of the community | fair with delight, and say they wish into action, but most denounce the revival of an obsolete law, land think itan outrage that a citizen should have been deprived of his liber. ty for three days on such a charge. Sev. | eral old residents of Lancaster say that {they have heard of the law being en- forced in one or two widely scattered | instances, but so many years back that the memory of the oldest inhabitant | cannot recall them definitely. A ti NO UNION. “wT Huge efforts have been made during the past four years to reconcile and unite the Northern and Southern Pres- byterians. But the African is the wedge by which the union cannot be restored, The Conference Committees of the the Presybyterian church that were at. tempting to effect organic union have found their task impossible on account of the refusal of the Sothern Commit. tee to admit the colored man upon full terms of equality in matters of Church membership and government. The Convention of colored Catholics which was recently held in Washington shows that the Roman Catholic Church has succeeded in solving the question, and the interest which is now being taken e of OF cents apiece for | would be, and swears | | the {agent selling of Lancas. | last | | far invented are impefect. habeas | regard the af* | Nothern and Southern Assemblies of | manifests great love for the Llask and becom indigraut) at his Souu brother for not embracing African, where he [8 more numer than the whites. It is a good © sometimes to have a fellow change p ions and take a look at the other sid Why not send a wember of thos thusasatic Vermonters, where thes not see a negro once a yeph, down "ve where they would melt two Alri to one Caucasian, ag see how ser ils would loose all g¥Cir marble prow religion , and haps would be the man to eng@Ee in a rebellion before md other wise equalize he other fellow. -——— ANEW SWINDLE. ¥ . self wi We clip the following from a 1 | Have n paper so that Centre county | me rs may be ready for him when | comes around : One day last week a man stoppe residence of a farmer in Pine { i» township and represented himself as » a choice varity of i» wheat for next season's seeding. AS he had shown the merits of his new ved the unsuspecting farmer was preva! upon to invest in three bushels of w hed at 3.50 per bushel, agreeing to gve3 note in payment, Just as the fn act of signing tha son came in the room and sus 18 father signing a paper for Tis stranger. asked : “Father, what are 1+ : signing there #7 “Why, I am onder Why, 4 some seed for next year and am giving thisgentleman my note for it.” “hw son looked at the note and discover that it was so arranged to raise 1h figure 6 to 60, and the price according. He tore the note in pieces and open the door, telling the stranger to take was in the WAR | walk on double quick time, or he wo - assist him with the toe of his boot. #7 man left in short order and has not bes seen in that neighborhoodsinee. Ttw: learned that he had accomplices in 1} business and one of the gang #as ye ognized as being a Lock Haven man. It seems strange that after the expe ence many men have had with th» traveling fakes in vears past, that thes | should now be a field for them to wows | in. Persons should be very cautions how they deal with these fellows, par. ticularly in regard to signing papers BL JIT CES -———— HEATING CARSEBY STEAM. charging him with | The Pennsylvania railroad compan | has adopted the Martin system of steam | heating on cars of the Nothern Central | railway, despensing with car stoves, a the law of New York state requires. county jail for An officer of the company said: “Tis | system of heating cars by steam thus While the | may help to preserve the property of the | railroads useing them, inasmuch asthe: | would not set fire to cars when an ace, | dent occurs, yet they do not adequately | protect the passengsrs. In case of an | accident the passengers would be in | danger of being scalded to death by | escaping steam. The Pennsylvania | railroad is still experimenting with all systems of heating to devise something! | its own which will unite the best qual. | ities of all.” lf pi— THE HARRISBURG PATRIOR on——— All the News From the State Capital. The Daily Patriot, containing full Associated Press news and attractive special matter, will be sent by mail any address at the following rates : Ha per year ; 82.50 for six months ; $1.25 fer three months : or 45tcents per month, cash with the order. The Harrisburg Weekly Patriot, a large double sheet, with latest nows to date of publication, literary, agricul. tural, scientific and miscellaneous rend ing, will be sent by mail to mmy sub. scriber at the rate of $1.00 per snus, cash with the order, Address : Patriot Publishing Co., 33 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa., or the Jutsu of this paper. Adjutant General Hastings was in town several days this week and Tiseap. pearance evidently was for some par pose, as a large number of Republics from over the county were in town at
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