La Vol. I5 BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDY, FEBRUARY 9, | 893. at, The Centre Demon CHAS. R. KURTZ, - =- =~ EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. » . Ke Regular Price $1.50 per year. When Paid in Advance $1.00 When subscriptions are not paid insid yoars $2.00 w 111 be charged. Democratic County Committee for 1803 COMMITTEEMEN wel. A. Schaeffer cesdacob L. Runkle we DE.MOA KIXK i. D. Foreman DISTRICTS. tellefonte, N W RT Bell 8 Waciraen —— W Woimnssnsnsiame Centre Hall boro... Howard boro Milesburg boro... Millthelm boro... Philipsburg, 1st W... At 20d Woon " rd W South Philipsburg Unionville boro Benner LWP ccmerescon - John Hoffman sats E MGrels Daniel Heckman weds W Brown G H Leyman wees 3€0 Noll ws Oscar Holt Danlel J ve I'FI Burnside... College, EP Ferguson, E P.. “ WF. XP. EP. ‘ WP... Haines, E Poa " wr weed H Miller . ! Rossman Gregg, Y eofthree | av | cause he is unable to mark, the OUR ELECTION LAWS. CHANGES SUGGESTED BY BAKER. Senator Baker Thinks Improvements Can Be Made—Gov, Pattison’s Recommend. tion to be taken up-—Simplify the mark ing. In his message to | Governor Pattison approved the Baker the legislature, | ballot law, but recommended that cer. | tain changes be made. In | with his suggestions, Senator Baker, the | father of the bill, { amendments in the senate, accordance has offered several one of which ' | changes very materially the “disability” { paragraph. It reads as follows : If any | voter, before receiving his ballot, de- | clares to the judge of election that he | cannot read it, or that for any physical judge | shall require him in of { manifest physical disability, to make | oath or affirmation to the fact, stating shall permit him | to select one qualified elector of the dis. (¢ xcept Cuses | it specifically and then | trict as a helper, who shall be permitted Franklin Dietz . OO H Nason Henry Weaver James Martin niah Brumgart Austin Gramiey trick 8 NP SP Snow Shoe, E Rush, {to enter a voting compartment with [| { him, [| . on oath or affirmation | attempt to influence th The said helper shall first declare he vote of he | will not disci + that will not e said voter, but will only give him t 1elp he may desire, and that he lose the contents of the ballot to any one ex. 1 10 i | cept when required 80 tO « | proceeding. The inspector in Ti R | the votin 1 | case note thereon, PJs alk r——— . oh Worth... - W.G. RUNKLE, Secretary Fodite rial. Tae full name of the Populist Gov- mosthenes weesesnll oF WY r J.C. MEYER Chairman ernor of Kansas is Loraine D Lewelling. It is a wonder that with such a name was ever born. -— a man Ix the recent election there were not | as many votes polled state of Nevada as in the 26th ward of Phila. delphia. “What constitutes a State?’ Not very much, when in the far West in the the country is bracing up and confidence in bus hort , and -— Tine money market throughout being restored. know that in time Cleveland will be financial business is ness men a very president \ confidence in circles will be increased, - SexAaTor HERRING bill, introduced in the senate, providing that the polls at elections shall close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, may become a law, it meets with considerable favor. as are only two states which keep the polls | open as late as Pennsylvania. - - ] Ex-Goverxor Joux M. THAYER, | of Nebraska, is reduced to such poverty | that he is glad to be sheltered by a poor | soldier in the suburbs of Lineoln. All of his old time political friends have de- serted him. and poverty bring about great changes. The charity of this good old soldier is worthy of emulation, - A bill was recently introduced in the Minnesota legislature declaring it to be | unlawful for any person ‘‘to manufact. ure or sell or offer for sale, or use or | permit the manufacture, sale or use of | any hoopskirt or hoopskirts, or anything like thereunto within the limits of Min. nesota.” This law, like many others, if passed, would whoop things up pretty lively among the skirts of the fair sex. | Whoop skirts are coming and nothing | short of a miracle can check the edicts of fashion. - A PETITION is being circulated at this place which urges the legislature | to pass an act allowing counties that vote for the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of liquor, within their limits to have the same. That is, Centre county could vote for or against granting license, and the courts would be com. pelled to act then according to the wishes of the people in this district. We can see nothing objectionable in such a measure, It is very doubtful, to our mind, if it will ever receive any recogait jon at Harrisburg. The Rallrond Company's Exhibit, The Pennsylvania Railroad company will have a number of unique relics on exhibition at the World's Fair. Among the articles so far collected Is a section of rails from the Old Portage road by which the trip over the mountains was mide when the great canal was still In existence. They also have the original pencil drawing of the entrance to the old Allegheny tunnel Gallitzin, which was made in 1852, before any trains were run through it. The company has five acres of space at the falr, There will be considerable rivalry between it There | Such is life; fickle fortune | opposite the name of he voter helped, the words Helped by” { (naming the helper) on account of (stating the cause.) A public count also specifically provided for. OTHER CHANGES, ition to the wing is In add the foll by Senator Baker tha improve the present electi above amendment were also recommended t would revise and Re- ducing the vote required to be polled by law a political party to secure a place on the ito 1 for for nomination papers from one-half to 1 | per cent, but not requiring more than { 1,000 signatures, redu for of ymination and 1 papers from 30 and 49 days n {1} to 35 and 28 days respectively in official ballot from cent, per state officers; increasing the signers ing the time {filing certificates ! nomination 1 Case of state officers, o« ngressmen and legis wl | municipa and 21 | days; requiring a cross to be placed op- | posite every candidate yoted for, except | in the case of presidential elec pro viding that the booths shall be fitted up with curtains to shield the voters from observation, and reducing the number | of compartments from one to every fifty voters, as at present, to one for every | seventy-five. | lators, and for co and inty officers from 42 and 35 days to 25 tors; -— . Senator Meek 's II Senator Meek, to whom was assigned the labor of preparing Democratic ap- | portionment measures, will present to | the senate early next week congressiona) and senatorial bills representing the | views and demands of his party asso. ciates. The congressional districts are so arranged as to give the Republicans | 14 and to the Democrats 11, leaving the five remaining districts doubtful. It is | understood that these are the measures {that the Democrats will insist upon claiming that they are fair in their ar rangement as to territory, as evenly di. | vided in population as they ean be, and | as conceding to the Republicans all the | advantage to which their political pre | ponderance in the state entitles them. --- Every Dollar Counts for Something Governor Pattison is very decided in | the statement that there will be a sur- | plus and not a deficiency out of the £300,000 State appropriation Columbian Exposition. There is now remaining unexpended $170,000 of the amount appropriated, and it will cover the future expenditures to be incurred on behalf of the State's exhibit, “even to the transportation back to Pittsburg after the Fair is over,” RAYSR, that he will not sign an appropriation of | another dollar for the Fair. The Penn- sylvania Cor mission, unlike that of most of the of jer states, seems to have cut its garme ats according to the cloth and, so far as can be learned, has made clean work throughout, .—— Dis Wreek od Banks, The First National Bank of Clear | fleld, which was wrecked by William H. Dill, paid a twentyflve per cent, dividend Monday. This makes seventy five per cent, paid to the depositors by | the receiver since the crash. The | Houtzdale bank which was also sent to the wall by William H. Dill, never ex. pects to pay its duped depositors as much as fifty per cent., so states a man interested in the settlement of that for the | M'CORMICK'S TAX BILL On Tuesday Hon. John T. MecCor. mick, member of this county, introduced a bill requiring the owners of liens, mortgages or judgments to pay county and local taxes, the same as real estate, The bill provides that the holdor of real | estate must pay direct to the collector all If estate carries a mortgage, the property holder can present his tax receipt for credit on the interest of the the holder of the mortgage bear his proportionate share of the total, the to ate, tax of the full amount of taxes. real a same and must as the the amount of mortgage real est assessed valuation of the At present the state collects a § and bill ul wut off Id greatly those whose property is encum- 4 mills on all mortages, | ments, This source of revenue but it judg- this relivye bered, We have { study, bu possess some very good features -— Watterson on Blaine MeCormick’s it does |} { 3 a) nil close t - . For years he squandered his varied resorces, seemingly upon t that, cheating his age of ils in spite of his love of fancy for retirement amid ships, as tragedy afte sUCCes iy § his own exit from njoyed it © i the m ed from first last, We may well bel heart he t when Was n ) RO, an- other plumed kni wter than he, ame with the summons that called him his maker. For dead, all plumes p 5 4 m of me to the bos im, » waving mi pa h b as he lies there yw, as he is borne, a very upon the shields and spears of th Peace ymrades, to ¢ grave, All wnor to the name « great American! At last the plumed knight knightly thro 1 i » ashes of a noble adversary! f a La has j g whom the ages | ] ¢ other side. - Fil assembled on t - . Young Talmage's Ethnology Dr. Talmage has a son, Dewitt, and anxious to be as witty as his father. In said : 1 know that there are those who think primeval man was a brute, killing Sunday's sermon he Youd ARE his game with a club, and that our hand | and that we used to walk about on all fours, and that if you go into the jungles of | Africa and shoot a baboon you may be killing one of the descendants of your great grandmother, That cannot When God created man he created { him like us, bone of our bone and flesh {of our flesh. He did not take a monkey { and scrape off his hair and put him in trousers and give him a pipe to smoke.” A little closer study of the Bible will inform this young humorist that God did not put man into trousers at all, | That was Satan's work and he began with the fig-leaf pattern.—N. Y. Adver- taser, is nothing but an evoluted claw, be. a -— The Kittens ea ne, Any Way | Ethel is seven years of age and lives | in an aristocratic Boston suburb. Betty is the family cat,and when she becomes | the proud mother of four orfive puff balls they usually first see the light in the | stable. The last litter appeared not long ago, {and Betty found a very comfortable {place for them in the family sleigh. | They made such a pretty sight that Eth. | el was taken out by her aunt to look at | them. “Oh, the pretty kittens,” she cried. “Whose are they?" | are Betty's new Lables,” “Oh, Auntie, that can’t be,” said the seven-year-old, with wondering surprise | in her bright blue eyes. “Do you know | that Betty isn't married.” - -—— — State Convention In the interest of the laws of Pean- sylvania bearing upon the Sabbath, a fconvention was held in Harrisburg, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p. | through and closing on the evening of | the 15th. The call for this convention | was signed by a large number of promi- | nent citizens of the state. The interest in the proper observance of the Lord's | day, from a civil standpoint, is greatly increased hy recent agitation on the the Governor | The Governor is very emphatic | { part of the advocates of open gates on | | Sunday at the Columbian Fair during effort of some of the citizens of Penn. week. { WASHINGTON LETTER | THE RISING WATERS. This is going to be silver week in| congress, and conservative democrats | will be very much disappointed if the result is not a compromise measure that to | ined the | have | also mamed | “Why remarked Aunt Emma, those | m., continuing | | the coming summer and fall, and by an | will become a law, and settle, at least | for a time, the very troublesome and very important It has been known ever to. gether that eveland que sion ince came 1] CONEress president elect for this ie purchase s tO perity of the country, the efforts of his friends in the house that Thursday and Fri this week have bee considerati 1 AnXxi put a stop to which he belie Was very TE ti congre of was through vi menace It immediate ros. lay of ssignated Andrews bill for law and amend It a number the have ir views on this question nm @ repeal « ing the Natio law, i} LIA { of changed | believed | demoerats in 1 house make re of this the passag probable by tl not thought that it hence the move. house, but it is can get through the ment to effect a be satisfactory s silver men and the same time will suspend the purchase of silver, Hill, who voted for holds 5 ~enat mpromis om tariff leg NAL The house Ways an wai favors, and tion anywhere, the of the McKinley I tariff on linen d after J ted by the reg to an has failed aM intended to d i I 'nitad Harris | that Judge Jackson | { dustry in the ¥ erator Vaca igh con { classed as a democrat. and appoin | has been nominated to { the supreme court tho | his present position on the bench « Mr. as Clevelar Mi: rong « re a i 8 4 be th sides of the Se ¥ J nate to onfirmation is certain, but » strong enough Is nit yet apparent, Lt will be WO SOme re cans will because he is him classed as a democrat, others oppose because Harrison that they would oppose any n ation he made to the Most the democrats who oppose the confirmation do so on principle: they believe the vacancy should have been left for Mr Cleveland to fill but there are others who while not opposed to Judge Jack. son personally will vote against Lis con. firmation because to vote for him would morally bind them to vote for Mr. Har. rison’s nomination to the vacancy which his confirmation would leave in the cir. cuit court, and it is considered certain that a republican would be nominated. It is ereditable to Judge Jackson that not one word has been said by anybody they had served notice on Mr VRCanov., of against his ability and personal fitness | for the honor. Contrary to precedent his nomination was referred to a com. mittee, and it will surprise very few should that committee fail to report it back to the senate. The Hawaiian commission having presented the petition of the government | they represent for annexation to the | United States, to Mr. Harrison, through the secretary of state, are now waiting | as patiently as they may for an answer, | In spite of the mystery with which the officials of the state department are try. ing to surround the matter there would {be little doubt of the character of the Answer were it not so near the close of Mr, Harrison's term. He unquestion. ably favors annexation, but may, so long as it can hardly be consummated under his administration, conclude to leave it for Mr. Cleveland and the dem. ocratic congress to arrange. That is certainly what he should do. .-——— Half Rate Tiekots for Cloergymen, The Pennsylvania Railroad Compan is supplying regularly ordained minis ters of the Gospél with clerical orders entitling the holders to Sickets at half Mies over its entire system. These | tickets are purchasable by any clergy- | man exhibiting a “clerical order,” and they may be bought at any station on | sylvania to secure the legalization of the | the Pennsylvania system, both east and sale of newspapers on that day of the West of Pittsburg, at one-half the regu- {lar rates. Under this arrangement clergymen may secure half-rates to The CextiRE DEMOCRAT and the | Chicago during the World's Fair, and New York Weekly World one year for there can be no doubt that a great many | Fears of Damage from the Great Ice Floes, RAILROAD TRACKS DEMOLISHED, The Fittsaburg and Erle Rallroad Washed Out for Over an Mile Along Alarm at Various Points the Rivers—Queenland's Great Flood Visitation, Pirrspune, Feb in the Beaver rive and in ! At on The Rock mt caused k of the Pittsh hand ud is washed out t Point broke Ch Gaming n running trae sternati dents Penn avenu of } Al dent off ee (fe Queensland's Greatest Disaster, SE, Fel ’ pal streets of th ty, has covered buildings Five hundred houses have Hund of families me left the on higger iar reds x and have sock shelter Good Old Times Despite all talk about the hardships of the farmer, he is a king compared to his father or grandfathe If hedoubts, let him ¥ i } i nt up the old gentleman's day book of forty vears Ago and note t he prices then. i A bushel of wheat w= a barrel of | ¢ | uv % of salt: ity | OW big gorge of ice | rg | for | f wiore wool wunds Water is thirty feet All gas and water pipes have been | ity is in darkness inab and the ( ) at bet ween merged ha This is the great ny, Another Freshet Feared. N. Y., Feb created alarm F mg the Rondout KIixosrox rainfall res Th among the and other places creek lest they be vis ited by another freshet, such as, upon two 00x ns, Oa great destruction pre at Eddyville, which t water terminus of the Delaware and Hud In the Esopus creek there is fre froshet. The Ulster and has leita { iA WAYYi { na as pe] to i perty is the tide son canal Also danger jammed up high Delaware railroad brid m A W008 In against the - A GRACEFUL ACT mm DEMOCRAT rday even assembled, u F. Fo to succes 1 for South republicans ! 3 inate Fine we lf sce liool Ward, the out done in doing 5 ns director ta and t a graceful thing, did nat Noi nominate a candidate against him, While the republicans have nominated te no candidate against him, every repub. lican should nevertheless vote for him This borough has never had a more efficient school director, Very much of the advancement our schools have made in recent years is due to his oversight, | { care, and thoughtful observation. Ser. vice rendered by school directors, all know are withoul compensation. When we have a director who cheerfully and intelligently performs the duties of the office it should be our pride as well as [delight to re-elect him so long as he is | willing to serve. The school board of [the borough has become efficient, and [ the schools are well managed, both in | financial matters and in matters of in. | struction, because the people of the | borough have kept the directors in of. | fice by re-electing them long enough to become thoroughly acquainted with the | schools and then be enabled to remedy | their defects. | Governor Beaver, in his address in | | the opera house before the schools last | May said, “I have looked at the school {do not remember, in all my experience, | a more efficiently organized school board than we have at present. | not think in all my knowledge of the inter. | nal working of our school government, do that I can point to a board which has | ‘more directly impressed itself upon the | schools, and the members of which have | | shown a greater regard for the welfare [of the schools and of the scholars, and { this is due very largely to the fact that it is nota political machine, Ourschool tizan polities has, to a very large ex. tent, been eliminated from it. The on. [ly way the school board or borough people is to keep them out of partisan polities,’ thing for themselves and a good thing tobe | board of Bellefonte for many years, I} board is organized for service. and par. | The . He | Brisbane and we were davs heavy | inn- | 11s. nauses particular upm } and below the urgatives which g pes. and substitu . iillous cordial whieh likewise removes malarial, stomachic apd kidney complaints rheumatism and nervousness. Asa laxative of the bowels, painless but effectual, it improves Appetite, sleep and the ability to digest, and possesses the additional advantage of a stand- | ard tonic nore '} n Bort ribs 2 this world famou ant Pp : » b : . fmm Latest novelties in Spring Clothing for Men, Boys and Children. The best suit in the market, for men, [at 810, Tailoring a specialty. MoxTeoMery & Co. Bellefonte, Pa. REY «Deed for land 1 ETOW oranges, rapes, fig Irrigated ; we plant and ear. hall we raise, if you help pay Big profits, quick returns, no ments Address CALIFORNIA WATER EXCHANGE, Dayton in wnis that will w fruit, when for the land for for the water. Axes, bn LAND (hin Lea AND Ml OOD MILLING PROPERTY FOR sA LE The Centre Hall mill. one of th ’ cations in the county, Is offered for sale ways full of work and trade can be doubled by a competent party. Only reason for oiling Dane to retire fram business, Mili can be rented for a term of years if not sold Al readily | MR RENT OR SALE. | F — | Two houses situated in Boggs township, near Milesburg, occupied at present by Frank T | Wallace, are offered for rent or sale. Reason able terms will be given. For further informa | tion address J. M. KEICHLINE, Bellefonte, Pa belrs of John Wagner, May Attorney for the dee'd D" ORCE PROCEEDINGS State of Pennsylvania, Centre counly, ss In the Court of Common "leas of Centre oo. No. 1 Januars Term, 18 Jacob Grenninger, libellant Fietta Grenninger, respondent | Divoree ALY | To Patra Gresninper, respondent You are hereby notified that the undersigned has been appointed a commissioner In the | above stated ease to take testimony, and that | he will attend to the duties of his appointment | at Bis office in Bellefonte, Pa. on Tuesday the | 27th day of February, A.D. 180, at § o'clock a. mm. when and where you may attend if you see | proper Aud. Sisaen, 1 4 Commissioner. SALE SRPHANS COURT | J —— By virtae of an order of the Opphans Court lof Sentre county, there will be exposed to SATURDAY, FERRUARY 1% 188, | public sale, at Hublersburg, on council can be run in the interest of the | mation, | delivery of doed. for the schools by not nominating $1.75, X + will avail themselves the opportunity. | aeainst Mr. Fortney. and the Baltimore and Ohio, bank's affairs, Hexuy Brows,
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