The Centre 4 Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 189. NO. 5 ————————— Cle Custer Bewoceat, EDITOR CHAS. R. KURTZ. - I ———————. c—— TERMS OF SU BSCRIPTION. Kogular Price When Pald in Advanee $10 When subscriptions are not paid inside of three goars $2.00 will be charged. Editori: al. .“" Favii, what has become of your | hanks? SExATOR Faulkner, ginia, says that his twelve hour's speech sgainst the Force bill was a mere bagatelle, which did not exhaust him a bit. The only way to account for this | is to remember that he has gone through still more terrible strains, Ile has been umpire at & base ball game and once acted as judge at « baby show. Tue Daily News and Gazette are try- ing to make their readers believe that the two furnaces stopped from the evil (?) results of last fall's great democrat. | ic victory. They evidently miss thei pull on the county printing farming the people to put them ** swim’ three years hence. the voters properly informed. GATES, of the News, has lately given additional evidence political matters by his ments on the deputy sheriffship. will but hold himself until Mr. makes his appointment think he would show better sense. doubt whatever that the sheriff's ap- | pointee will, when prove | satisfactory to all concerned. eriticisms are not in order! until then. -— _- absurd com. If he we announced, Frou the way Postmaster Feidler praises the republican administrs tion, | $1.50 per year, | of West Vir. | and are | in the | When that | time arrives the DEmMocrAT will keep | of his ignorance of | | Ishler | We have no | At least | A COUNTY DETECTIVE, POINTED. There is ne Necessity for Such an Officer, Exoept tor Special furposes-Should not be a Permanent GfMelal. Miuny of the taxpayers canuot under. stand why the Commissioners of Centre county pay over 3240 each year to a man | serving in the capacity of county «de | tective. llis.duties were never clearly | or satisfactorily defined und no one ever {saw what rendered the | people for such an expenditure, As oun | taxpaye rs must earn every dollar by the Servives were toil of their hands and the sweat of their | [ brow hey are not | their tax-mouey misapplied or dered upon useless figureheads, drawing | annual stipends of hundreds of dollars | from the county treasury This paper advocated a always \y | measure or movement which would cut down county expenses, reduce the rate burden- | ed and oppressed farmers of this county, held that the Detective should There is 1 of taxation and relieve the tax For this reason we have office of ( De ‘onnty abolished, 0 Nee H officer hanging t aa abou {| House, “‘Keeping-ready” | rants and subpoenas for feeives the There Bellef to per frees regular are plenty mte form such ing fort | costs the taxpayers 8240 per year. Then the f Co { Live ready anyth he “being position of has developed from a * | pointment “when necessary’ manent position even if unnecessary. To show that we on safe Dige st an officer are advancing | ground we quote from Purdon's | | upon the appointment of such President Harrison and the entire cabi- | i; pet, in his paper he must be in standing with the postal department at Washington, and is afraid he will not be allowed to serve out his term. on your taffy Jimmy, Harrison Wanamaker like it, only dose of soft soap for a change. > and | THERE is no monkey business about | Gov. Pattison. He is still after the Harrisburg and Philadelphia papers who published the infamous article headed “Tarn on the Light.” Hé did not bring suit against them for News. campaign thunder but to teack them a | good wholesome lesson. We don’t believe sorts of libelous matter against candi- dates—and especially when there is no foundation for them and are malicious | attacks to injure a man’s character, eis . Tue prospective candidates for the spring election are looming up in great shape and the pleasant smiles cast upon the editor of a newspaper for a puff. would wreck a freight train. But after the thing is over the same chappies will walk a square out of your road to avoid paying for tickets and other job work ordered. “We've been there before— many a time.” Some fellows imagine that a newspaper is run entirely on wind and everything is done on a gratis basis. If this strikes anyone we hope he will profit thereby. - Tue Collins Furnace closed down on account of the recent advance in treight rates over the Penns R. R. The Centre Iron Company closed up on ac- count of gross mismanagement and bad financiering. The Nail Works stopped! last June on account of a dispute with mea-~four months before the election ~but are in full operation this week, The axe factory is running at full cap- acity. The Glass works are in oppera tion. The large lime kilns are giving employment to hundreds of men. The Universal Manufacturing company is increasing its capacity and other works about Bellefonte appear to be in full operation, Now if the democratic victory was the cause of it, as the pubiican papers say, things don’t look 80 bad. The furnaces shut down for reasons, which every honest man will admit, were not brought about by the late election. Mismanagement, and the extortion of the Penta. R. R. stopped the two furnaces, These papers must imagine their readers a lot of poor deluded ar their own class, to say that the late | democratic victory stopped the two furnaces, But in their desperation and insvitable process of dissolution as a party, these organs, like a drowning man will grasp at a straw, which, in their deloded state of mind, has the bouyancy of a saw log. The loenl organs should preach woman's rights, insteae of republicaniom, nt which they would succeed. bad : Smear in newspapers publishing all | re. | quart er WHENEVER sal | te wney may deem It Nee MES ARY t | ofcer it a special detectis should be to assist in obtains o as shall be direc ted by the : attorne ¥ w the commonwealth in all er t cases and perform such other duties as the court may direct, “ ha ons county give them a | “when attorney int an of Here the of. Maik the reading of the clause ever said court and may deem it district necessary to ap ficer as Hp al detective.” | fice is defined as a “special” | Now the wi al {| regular and much less pe dete wd special does not mean t. The ’ in mi nen is clear and dist of the | special to mean eternal. | Then the reading*is clear other point. It gives the district ney the right to say whether he such an assistant or not, and further to him is delegated the right to make the appointment “whenever''—the not say it isto be always, or perpetual, but ~aaid court and district-attorney may deem it essary, | language the disposition upon an ittor ness act regular “whenever” nec. The court simply can exercise the right of approval or disapproval in the appointment. Then the they may, not shall or must the office is not a regular one; it is only optional. The act only grants a privi lege which can be exercised “whenaver"' it is deemed necessary. The present detective, Capt, Mullen, was appointed Sept. 12, 1885, by District Attorney Heinle. When the “said” District Attorney's (Hein. le’s) official term expired his county de- tective’s term expired also, for an offi. cer has no authuriiy to appoint special assistants for his successor. The suc cessor has that righe granted according to the act of assembly. District Attorney J. C. Meyer never appointed Amos Mullen as county de. tective. There is no record to show that fact. As proof, the orders to the commissioners for the county detectives salary are still made upon the appoint. ment of Sep. 12, 1885, by Helunle, as cau | be seen at any time in the Coms. office. Mr. Meyer never made this appoint. ment, but further, in April, 1888, he requested that the office be abolished He has no need for such an official. He san have all writs served by the loeal officers about the county and in this way can save the excessive mileage in traveling to and fro to Vellefonte, Mr. Meyer wants the office abolished because it is na waste of the people's hard enrnad tax money. This special officer, when erie needs to Le ferreted down, al. ways demands expenses, which makes the office cost the people not less than » hundred dollars more each year, Mr. Meyer says that ull the special detective work necessary in a year could be done by special officers for less than one fourth that sum, Now the present incumbent, Capt. Amos Mullen, is not deemed necessary by Mr. Meyer. He was never appointed | act Therefore Bays Amos ther his removal was asked for by Mr, HOW AND WHEN HEIS AP- | squan- | does | Meyer, nnd worst of all he is drawing { his salury as the appointee of Wm. C, | Heinle, the former District Attorney. | honor another order upon the county | { for the salary of that office. Let the court try to force this item of expense { upon the people one year more and the | sentiment of the taxpavers will assert | | itself. It is merely a matter of favorit. ism to Capt. kept in vogue, Clearfield, Blair, Daup hb. inand most of the counties of the state | will not permit such a standing outrage, | yea even open-handed legalized robbery | of the people’s money, and it should be abolished in county as well, We can devote sum to a more de- serving cause, Centre that -—— BORO ELEC TIONS. in favor of seeing | The Borough election will take place on the 17th day of Feb.. 1801, It will be an election of great importance to all tax of this borough. A tax of 85 mills is now in force in this borough and the county be compelled to levy 2 mills more for coun. ty will make continuation of two over. and for the debt them in the face, levy 2 mills more. tax col. weil to levy 4 pavers commissioners will edness, which 37 The thi indebt mills, seers in borough that is now staring will compell them to The continuation of the present the Mit compel the school board to which will 5 Nore, then make the mileage, in this borough, 47 mills, [ say the vot. and wisely; them irrespec. We often hear what difference does it muke wominate and elect—whether he is competent to fill the office or not. But I sas are 47 mills star- in the face is mild not ng in the borough. ers JOH wet promptly nominate men and elect tive of political parties, volers say, whom we 1 when there not time to act more it be than It just over. Ole 8 much to Keep two as one, that we all understand. years ago we had but one and our poor debit of #6,000 was paid. We have already fact t two borough in debt, and we should nomiuate and elect a man for tax collector who is not afraid 10 collect. discovered the » heb overseers acting put and who will pay over the I have always advocated the a man who Cann busi et manage THNS SHC» cessfully is not to manage Weallknow im this borough was in four. the business of the thie teen vears ago. | was then el of the town well the fact that no credit and was on the ves ruptcy worth cond iti nier COLT th then h we of bank. Borough orders ouly dollar and you get cashed for that, Borough orders were laying on market thai were drawing interest for X 5 cet the its On could not them at the rate of six per cent Soon As any person would get a borough order he would run to the treasurs: and | get him to accept it. They then draw interest, from date The together, would al the rate of siX per cent their beads politics, done to bring us out trouble, tax irrespective of of the financial It was then that the taxpayers laid polities aside and appointed and elected republicans and democrats office and the result was that the over. sear debt was paid off and the millage reduced to 5 mills, If we are not care. ful this spring as to whoin we elect, we will again have the same trouble we had fourteen years ago. CITIZEN. .——— - Ox Monday evening there was con siderable merriment in the House of Representatives, at Harrisburg, in the presentation of a grand medal to the | Hon. J. H. Holt, by a number of mem. | bers of the House for his “home remedies” for many which the change of water, diet, ete. cause. The Hon. J. 1. Holt will here after be entitled to the credit of M., D.., to his name, Mr, Holt is not only do. ing good service as a legislator for his constituents, but is doing good service to the members of the house as well, .-—— Tur Old Soldier” racket Is the latest scheme used to keep a useless office in | force. According to the Daily News, Capt. office, even if it unnecessary, simply be. canse he is an old soldier. Rather thin argument. Accordingly every old sol. dier, able to make a living by honest toil, should stop work and draw #240 from the county for imaginary services rendered, the late war deserve all the eredit that valuable diseases "oan be extended, but we do despise par- "thes who want to live off the public be { cause they wore soldiers. There is a by the present District Attorney, fur. | grave distinetion between the patriot "and the eternal parasite. . "ne tacit | I'he commissioners should refuse to | Mullen that this office is | ? | speaker, and his candidacy A reinemier | ad | Years | and just as | payers then put | and said something must be | to | financial | Mullen should be retained in that The real, genuine soldiers of | THE COUNTRY ROAD LAW, It Provides for the Appropriation of 8 Mill. lon Dellars for Roads, The country road law which will be presented in the house this week will | | provide for the appropriation of about a | | million of dollars by the state to the buflding of permanent roads, ted to the townships in a manner simi. lar to the distribution of the public | school appropriation. This is to be giv. 'en with the hope thai townships will | | contribute from their local taxation ad. | | ditional money for permanent macada. | { mizing. For this purpose the bill will | probably permit townships to borrow money up to the constitutional debt | The township is made the unit | limit. and its treasurer will receive the state money. In each township three super. visors are to be chosen who will serve without pay. They in turn employ a foreman or several foreman at say #1.50 per day, to oversee the gangs of road laborers. In each county an enginee will be elected to pass upon the road work in all the townships. It is further reported the bill provides that all taxes must be paid in money, then abolishing the system of working out taxes, Ow. ing to the revision not vet full text of the | yet. ill public for some days -— Mr Kerr for Clerk. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin is authority the statement that Chairman Kerr, of the democratic state committee, will be a candidate for clerk of the next house, He says “A strong argument Mr. favor is that he comes from a section of country which has no candidate for | can fore, not interfere with the election of that officer. Then the office of clerk to | the house of representatives has been held by Pennsylvania almost since the founding of the Government, and there is now no reason for departing from the time honored custom. The present clerk, ex-Congressinan McPherson, is a Peng ivanian, and he has had the of. fice for many years when the house has been in control of the republicans. Now that Pennsylvania hasgone demo. cratic in a vear that the democrats car. ried Lhe lower House of Congress, it is the friends of Mr, Kerr that 1183 114 is more than ever entitled { ¢, and above all men in the » should be elected. The Fifty. ngress would be repaying but of the debt the majority of the staunchest in the country.” well deserves this compli. veut of his selection, in BIT Ot I 1% one ment, avin tne » the next House is to be SURELY lated, .——— Anthracite Coal Production are taken from the mines and mining ion, recently issued il! { the Interior: anthracite Pennsylvania during wtion of { CLs ID dar CR TL year 1889, was 40.665 152 pounds, valued at | 865.718 165, market, The number of d during the year 15580, by all colleries was { 1904, The suspension of mining, during | periods aggregating one third of | | the year was caused mainly by the in. ability of the market to absorb a larger (product. The number of persons em. | ployed during the year, including the in luding average about | superintendents, engineers, and clerical | | force, was 125,220. The total amount | paid in wages to all classes during the year was 830,152,124, y .——— Information Wanted | Clarence W. Bowen, Secretary of the | { Committee on the Centennial of Wash. | |Ington’s Inauguration, 251 Droadway, | New York, information regard. | ing the portraits of Thomas Fitzsimons, | Thomas Hartley and Thomas Scott, ] le wires | Members of Congress from Pennsylva. | These portraits, for the Memorial | | nia. | Volume, ave particnlarly desired, complete the list of portraits of the Pennsylvania delegation in Congress at | the time of Washington's Inanguration, -— For two years past a large number of | tickets for borough elections were print. lod at this office for which we never | could find anyone to settle for same. So that no one will be disappointed we any in time, bring your boodle with our presses go. All democrats nro not born with wings, «A Lock Haven consumptive recent. ly treated with Dr, Koch's lymph is re ported recovering. This it ' is said by legislators who have talked to | the farmers of the bill will be distribu. | T | President of the being com- | plete, the commission will not make the | for | Kerr's | there. | the calen. | tons of | the mines ac | all sizes sent to ays worked to | your order for tickets if you want to see | DISTRICT INSTITUTE. | SUCCESSFUL GA’ CATHERINGAT REBERSBURG. Ivan Topless Ably Discussed by Tesnchers snd Others—Proceedings of Institute... Elst of Tonchers, | The teachers of the district composed | of the townships of Miles, Haines, Penn | | and Gregg, and Millheim borough, met | | in District Institute in the Evangelical { church, Rebersburg, Pa. | ing, Jan. 30, 1501, After choir and prayer by Rev. | Reformed church, Prof. C. L. Gramley | was chosen president and J. F secretary. Ex.Co. Supt. Heury Meyer | delivered the address of welcome. | gave the teachers a hearty welcome and | briefly gave a history of the early educa- | tional facilities of Rebersburg, and in glowing terms the future | prospects of the teacher. This was fol. { lowed by music. D. F. Fortney, Esq., Bellefonte school board, | and a prominent politician, was next in. { troduced by the chairman. {two hours Mr. Fortney spoke { “* Duties of School Directors.” Friday even. music by the | portrayed For nearly on the He paid special attention to the subject of venti. lation in the establishment in the | townships. to the direc. tors he gave a short talk to the teache in which be advocated the introduct of supplementary reading schools and urg our schools and favored graded schools After his talk of T'S ed the necessity of dis. cussing current events by th His | the approbation of all present | BATURDAY A. NM. Institute opened on Saturday morning ¢ teachers in the schools. address received SESSION, | at 9 o'clock a. m., by singing and prayer. This wes then followed by a : | Mrs, Alice Wolf, the of | “Punishment,” another by Miss Carrie | Secl irist, subject “How to hold the at. { tention of little One Cyrus Grove on paper on subiect children.” “How to improve memory” and one by C. E. Rover “Primary Work.” All these were ably discussed by the t others the on 1 topics cachers and | AFTERNOON SESSION. Promptly at 1.30 p. m., institute was opened by singing. The first work of the afternoon was a paper read by J. F. Garthoff on teach Modern Geography.” The chnirman appointed Prof. Krise, W. E. Keen andldaSmull, As 4 committee on Prof Neff, Principal of Spring Mills gram. mar school gave a talk “Physical | Geography.” This was followed by a paper by Hon. W. K. Alexander of Millheim Pa., Practical Teaching.” Next was » talk on “Patriotism in | our schools,” by W., E. Keen: next was {an able address by Dr. Bright, of | Rebersburg, on “Pure Air. { terspersed all these exercises. The | various subjects were ably and “How 10 resolutions, on on™ "” | present and others. After adopting the | { resolutions, and music, and the pro. | nouncing of the benediction by | Rearick Institute adjourned sine die. » J. FF. a6 —- Spring Milis Miss Laura Runkle has returned from Philadelphia, where she has been stay- ing with her brother, Dr. Runkle, since { last Fall, | Several of our young folks attended { the convention at Tusseyville this week, | Rev. Black, of Boalsburg, preached | for Rev. Isenberg three evenings last | week. The people of this community were all pleased with him. A sled load, containing six of Gregg townships’ teachers, went to Rebersburg last Saturday to attend the teacher's institute held at that place. The party | consisted of Misses. Annie Grove, Mary | | Guise, Carrie Secrist and Messrs. Neff, | Royer and Krise. Miss Stella Krise ac. companied the party. They report hav. ing had a good time and speak in terms | of the highest praise of the generous | hospitality of the Rebersburg people, who entertained all the teachers free. a Tur State Senate passed a resolution | urging Cameron and Quay to use all | their influence for the passage and en. actment of the Force election bill, Gov, Pattison very fttingly returned the resolutions without his disapproval and | ‘accompanied the same with a few | pointed remarks to the great injustice of the measure and the dangerous ten. dencies of taking looal self go vernment {from the people, wi — Twentieth Anniversary, Last Monday evening o large number of relatives and friends gathered at the {home of Mr. Erastus Robb, Beaver | street, to celebrate their wedding anni- versaty. An ologant supper was served and a nomber of handsome presents were giver as tokens of appreciation. Brown, of the ! He | by | by | Musie in- | sSOme. | | times warmly discussed by the teachers | Rev. | APVARENTAL REMONSTRANCY An Unusual Incident in the Adams County License Court, A rether remarkable incident hay. pened in Gettysburg in connection with the annual session of the License Court of Adams county. Among the appl cants was Aaron Schlasser, and among {the remonstrances was one agalast granting him a license, which was signed by his mother and father, who fervent. {ly prayed that the Judge should refuse his application. As Schlasser was 357 years of age the Judge decided that he { was perfectly competent to care for him- ! self and granted him a license. .— LESSONS OF THE FIGURES. Garthoff The lessons of the figures of the late elections are inspiring to democrats {On the Congressional vote the | erats have a majority of 500876 over the total republican vote and a major. ity over all opposition of 268.550 voles The opposition includes the republicans, the farmers, the prohibition, the indep endents, and the labor parties. The republicans are in a minority i the nation to the tune of 1 331,202 count. ing all other parties against them. The present Congress has a republican ma- jority of 24 in the House of tatives, will have a demo. the house of 157, in the 17 northern States the vole t short of the Presi. And these r vole the gains 1p 2 000, ery one of the 17 1860 the demo. The demo. ng majority without These young ranks who demoerat- sisted of unre. The demo. demo- Represen. The next cratic majority in If fell only 7 per cer of popula the democratic party In 1888 they carried ev states referred to and is crals carried 12 of them. | erats have the House dental vole 188K, in slates on Lhe Was over a safe worl of Rem - je souther Alives n vole. f a | thousands of volers in democratic were kept out by t} ic party in Cong generated rebel e ory the | cratic party has a g south Through the medium of the series of winter tours, under the personally con H ducted system of the Pennsylvania { Railroad company, Jacksonville and { points even more southern, are reached in hours, whileen route the traveler is enjoying the come forts and delights of a home. Alreally one of the tours has and four ve. main to be run from New York to Jack low February 54 asf 34 and 17. Tourists will Pullman Palace cars in charge of a Tourist Agent and Chaperon. The round trip rate, including Pall man accommodations and meals = | route in dining car attached to the | train, is 50.00 from New York, ¥S from Philadelph'a, Baltimore, aml | Washington. i Tours to the Sann) comparatively few gone, nville, as fol 17th. March travel in —— Jonx Wanamaker pays Manley Gil. lam $10,000 per year to look after his | advertising. Mr. Wanamaker pols $5,000 per year as Postmaster General. | -— | — Knows it all—editor of t the “That™ | column. ~Mr. W. A. Ogden, of Hecla, was caller at our office on Monday. | ~The Hon. Samuel Gilliland, of Ouk Hall, attended court this week and puill | our office a short visit. north sd Ground «A cold bluster from the in on Wednesday maging. hog-day predicted it. ~Qur streets are in a miserable, Githy condition since the recent thaw. Ok, that some more beautiful snow will fll and cover it up. Mr. J. P. Lucas, merchast of Moshannon was in town on Tuesday st- | tending to business, He reports busi. ness brisk in that portion of our coum —Miss Kate Young, died at Tw home near Pine Grove Mills on Mes day; age fifty years, Funeral seryioss occurred on Wednesday in the M. EK, | church. «A number of communications were recived this week that had to be omit aside on account of being late. The CextTiE DEMOCRAT goes to press Wednesday afternoons, «The first thander storm of the ses. | son occurred last Thursday night. The sky was frequently agiow with vivid flashes of lightning, accompanied hy | eavy poals of thunder, ~Francey Speer expects to son his private character shown up in tks issue of the Dexociat, We once poluled the columns of this paper with such an article, but hereafter will never im pose upon the patience of our readers with another. You are a small ehickos; :
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