THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1£96. a= Ghe Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ ED. & PROP TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Begular Price BE paid In ADVANCE $1.50 per year, $1.00 " CLUI RATES: The CENTRE DEMOCKAT one year | and Stbnes-aweek World one year § Tae CENTRE DEMOCRAT one and Phila. Weekly Times one for $1.75 year i for $1.45 DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE, 18506. J C Harper. Jos, Wise, “ w “ Geo Harman. @entre Hall, Jono Dauberman, Jr Howard Boro, W I Gardne MRlesburg, Homar Carr Miliheim, J W Stover... Ondenville, W H Earon . Fleming South Philipsburg, 8 T Johnston... Phil'psburg PRilipsburg, 1st ward, il D Rumberger * nd * J A Walton, " rd Dr FK Whit Benner, uprecinet, RB “" . , M Henderson ... Fil Boggs, n preciact, Bellefonte, n ward «Bellefonte - 5 oi — " , Centre Hall . Howard Milesburg Millheim Jo ile Bellefonte gar Burnside, Wim Hipple Qoblege, © precinet, 1 J Dreese “» Ww " Jno Corrigan Curtin, Nathan J MceCloskey Perguson, ¢ precinet, W H Fry ahi w Jacob Harpster d@regg, n precinet, Jas P Go - e M Ja ) “- ow ‘ \ Haines, w precinet, 8 - e Jol Half Moon, David J Gates Harris. Charles A Fron Howard twp, A M But Bastion, Danfel Straw Biberty, W H Gardner Marion, Michael Zeigler Miles, e precinet - Wm s ward Julian Penn, Christ Patter, n precinet “ . . Bash, n precin “wg ! Smow Shoe, ¢ prog - “ Cw Spring, n prec “- 8 “- w be Tater, Allen Hoovy . Samuel Emer 43 J. JACKSON Secretary Re ANNOUNCEMENTS the Democratic We aren Bumpise I candidate | te the decision vention We are author GH. Leyva ate for the nom decision of the We are authorized facom L., KUNKI Hf didate for the nomin We usages and de eounty convention REC We are authorized to AR ALEXANDER offlee of Recorder he geages and t eounty conventi fq We are authorized Fraaklin Bowersox aeandidats for the wb ject tothe gsag meraiie county cot We are autho Maen Kouarz alles of County and regulat vention We are more | | the | ion of the two brauches * 1 sun, more has been | more to be se | ing months. | foute, wehard | In the last issue of the Howard Hor- net an interesting article appears re- viewing the financial condition of our county. The following concluding par- agraph, from such a republican paper, will bear reprinting: “The Hornet can assert, without suc- cessful contradiction, that the finances of Centre county are in as good, if not bet ter, condition than auy other county in the state. which evidences the fact that our county officers who control them have faithfully performed their duties and are entitled to the thanks of the people.’ This is a frank statement from the’ Homet which deserves to be compli= mented for its honesty in this matter, Yes, Brother Dunham, we heartily agree with you, our county officials have done | i | the largest filibustering expedition that exceedingly well, EN - For Presbyterians. Presbyterians in this city and else- where will be pleased to learn that the committee appointed by the last general raise $1,000,000 as a fitting memorial of of the church, One hundred thousand dollars and a similar sum 18 in sight, making ured in the three remain General Beaver, is a member of the committee, Nearly $900 For Dog Bites day, jury award- of Georgetown, William Mover’ ‘Ars ago HOA s were badly | - Li juor Licenses, Tuesday March twenty-fifth anniversary of the reun. | | government, aided in the seizure and took 8 1 . { the filibusters ashore | have already received half of that large | { ing off Bedloe's Island, only $300,000 | | marshal that he must A GREAT LOSS T0 CUBA. The Capture of the Bermuda and Her Arms and Ammunition, THE LEADERS HELD FOR TRIAL General Garcia and His Fellow Patriots Will be Brought Before the United States Court on March 3--Spanish Sples in the Cuban Camp. NEw Yong, Feb. 26.—By the seizure of the steamer Bermuda, flying the British flag, shortly before midnight on Monday has been fitted out in the interests of the Cuban revolutionists came to grief The steam lighter J. 8, T. Stranahan, which was londed with arms and amnmuni- | tion, was also seized, as wero the tugs Mo { Caldin Brothers and Willlam J. MeCaldin, { which had carried about sixty Cuban fill assembly of the Presbyterian church to busters aboard the Bermuda. United States marshals and Pinkerton detectives, the latter in the employ of the Spanish Marshals have been placed aboard the Bermuda, which is ly and her engines have been disconnected, thus rendering her hors du combat for the time being Marshal McCarthy authorized a state ment made by Deputy Kennedy, showing how the capture was made, and that authorities were acting under orders from Secretary Olney, at Washington. The at torney general, however, instructed the have positive proof 1 gh taking upon sus he of a filibustering expedit} any action. He was not to act picion Upon the receipt of this order a reve outter ren] kept on the Bermuds sonstant Wis engn and a sharp in silver, and was in fou was i A | §- conn Spanish soles and Gonzalez, a ted with the ( mated that t *A NEW INDUSTRY. Five Dollars a Day For Falling In Front of Trolley Cars, _A small colored hoy who wore neither shoes nor stockings, and who had on fewer clothes than would be required to build an Asbury Park bathing suit, was busy people at the corner of Thirteenth | and Filbert streets yesterday afternoon. | His hat was a little bigger than a dollar { bill, and a half smoked cigarette droop- | ed from one corner of his mouth. His ! self assurance was by long odds the most prominent part of him. | He walked along the south side of | Filbert street to Thirteenth, and started | | blithely across Thirteenth street. whis tling *‘Sweet Marie'' between puffs. A car of the Thirteenth and Fifteenth street line came whizzing along, and by the time it got to within a few feet of the boy the motorman had gone mad ringing his bell. The boy looked up sud- denly, dropped his cigarette, turned to run one way, stopped, turned half around in an apparent frenzy of fright and then the rapidly moving car struck him. A fat policeman started for an ambu lance call on a dead run, more of people on the sidewalks their eves when the boy disappeared ing apparently under the they opened youngster was sitting calmly on the of the fender, J k to see if t wheels of the car had run over his cigs rotte There were had hoped and a score or closed them a second W king ba people trolley accid with real disap; The motorm at the 1 ¥. journey, an an inconspicuous feature of a crowd of | and his most skillful falconers. | of allotting the prizes, according to the Falecoury In Asia. The exhibition at Tashkent in 1891 included a department of the chase, in which the most distinguished falcon | teams of Turkestan figured prominently. The khan of Khiva was an exhibitor and was represented by his best birds Instead most usual plan, to the best looking birds, matches were instituted and the relative merit of the competing birds was determined by the test of what they could do. I had an opportunity on this occasion to make a thorough study of | the technical details of a sport which I had already practiced under different cirenmstances Such large birds as trained for falconry in are used for the c the eagle are Turkestan and apture of foxes, ga- zelles, antelopes, and even, it is said, deer. They are so heavy that the er is not able to carry them on his aru alone and has to support them on a wooden prop, the base of which is at- tached to his saddle. According to the Arabian the trainipg of the fale first accomplished by an inhabitant Mosul, but the training of the eagle has been practiced by the Mongols from 4 fale tradit n to hunt Chinese and an antiquity much m period, and winced an into d na OUR ADOPTED POPULATION, Mere Than Can Hendily Assimulute With Americanism ls Detrimental If the figures be correct that 212,771 steerage passengers left this country last year for their native places in Ene rope, and that only 814,467 European fmmigrants arrived here, leaving the net gain in population from abroad but 1,606 for the year, there is no need for any American repining on that account, Even if a great part of the aliens whe left us last year under pressure of the bad times prevalent in this country should find it to their in to stay away permanently, there would not be any sense in our iffering depression for that reason It is not an immigration of # r thousand year. We ha had 670,000 another atvantageous such a vast to our pop ' teront lesirable that we should have seven hundred foreign 1 i an advantag:« BAN foreign DOr States. or or tion, Iti ists in Austral We w tion wer We are ine be a perhaps tharos | G42 544 be BH Firm Believer Until His Death in the Confederacy’s Lost Cause. ilHam Jones f the pro one Geomce [1 to he usages eomaty co EDITORIAL. The naming dential candidat mg*opic for pol months G. H acandidate for swerving democrat It looks asth be a thing Corbett f Of Lhe 1 Tie 2 and pelled to go to daflerences It is amusing to defunct ‘"hog-combine aver one another Qnay’s canvass. | the most cager of the lot way of politics. ' rushing heads to get under Sena ur Dan seemed That is - Burping Burien, of Howard tow ship, is one of the new sheriff. His announcement this issue. Mr. Butler fellow and will make the momination. No matter what the result may be, that he irsists will not affect his democracy. Good boy, Burdine, ————— - candidates appears in is an aggressive a caavass for Paring the past week a number of mejmstifiable attacks have been made in the Phildadelphia papers against the Pen mae State College. In this course the the Philad. Inquirer has been the most wigious and unreasonable. It thinks that Penna. State College should be wip- od out and their appropriations transfer. reid to the University of Pennsylvania, The selfish motives of these Philadelphia jomenals will pot count for much, as their attacks are unreasonable and malicious, -— — Loganton Young Man Dead. Prank Karstetter, formerly of Logasi- wom, died in Tacomy, near Philadelphia, Thessday of last week, He was about sg years old and was a plumber by trade, Fs mother, who resides at Tusseyville, smevives him, The remains of the de. erased were taken to Centre Hall Tues. dy, and the funeral was held at 4 o'- . whale in the afternoon of that day. » | Implements in good repair | Day | 2% head Shropsh most t thie ¢ a his with cachs househeld Derr, auctions iH Selne 3 Isaae Sto farge lot of farm stock work horses ving horse, colts Shorthorn © young cattle quar threshing machine, and all Jos. 1 i vor t ( ting onsisting WEBDSESADA fonte, along t d Harter milk cows, will young cattle Y. MARCH 4-4 miles east of Bell he Jacksonville road. at I § head of horses. ¢ fresh about time of Durham bull, Chester Wh re ewes~fine § good Zdouble sleds, good new mower reaper mower combined, lot of new harness, ot L.. Nef, auet THURSDAY, MARCH 10-B. Kauffman, 1'4 mile south west of Zion, along road leading to Fleas ant Gap, at 10a. m., will sell % horses, 5 cows, 7 young cattle, 25 sheep, © Chester white sows, pigs and shoats, all kinds of implements, ete Jos. Nefl, anct o will ae be te sow, wagons, and Jos, TURSDAY, Mancn 17-Robert M. Homan “% alle west of Zion, on main road, 3 horses—one is a quiet family beast ; 2 fresh cows, brood sow and pigs, good Osborne binder, Heneh ecultiva tor, double cornplanter, hay ladders and other implements. Jos. Neff, auct. Sale at i p. m WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11-C. B. Houser, miles east of Linden Hall, at 1 p.m lot of iarm Implements, nearly all good condition, Wm. Goheen, anct SATURDAY, MARCH 14—At the residence of John Carper, 8r., Linden Hall, the following willbe soldat | p. m.: 3 horses, § cows, 2 horse wagon, plows and other farm implements. FRIDAY, MARCH 13-W.F. Hassinger. one half mile north of Zion, atl p. m., on Young driving mare, perfectly safe, good Soring wag: on, room sult, beds, Grand Perfect range cupboard, chairs, carpets, and all kinds © household goods. Jos. L, Neff, auet. BATURDAY, MAnon 2-1. 8, ¥ miies east of Jacksonville, ati wrk oolt, 3 milk cows] Sersey | brood all kinds of improved farin imple. os new, and in WRDNESDAY, MARCH Nittany, at 10a. m., w , Taper, kinds of imple auct, W KE. BATURDAY Ma Zion, at 1 p. m., wil COWS, uggy sheep, ter tools. Josesh ark fn WO. 8. Garbriek, In ne 3 fine driving horse 2 A some cindy Bow ; « B large | | $5,000, were ¢ hields late yesterday afters G Calixto Garcia was first arraigned of havin ns reaa charg laws ¥ + Cos hear vas set ng on the two complaints t at 2.000, Similar ac \ of Captains Samuel H John Brabazon. John D. Hart a speedy examination It was set for Fri tak CHRSSTR ig} asked fo day next The fifth prisoner was also charged ith violating the United States in taking part in a military enterprise against the King dom of Spain. As but one complaint against Guerra bail flxel at $1,000 and the examination adjourned until March 3 Besides the that the United States makes against the prisoners of vio lating the neutrality laws the Spanish consul general accuses them of the same offense in connsction with the expedition on board the J. W, Hawkins Benjamin J WTTA, statutes there was WAR charges Buargiars Loot a Pawn Shop, BRrooK1.YN, Feb. 26.—A pawn shop kept by Daniel C. Ferguson at Long Island City was entered by four robbers yester day and jeweiry stolen valued at about The men represented themselves as plumbers, snd sald they wanted to ex: amine the water taps in the store. Fer guson led them into the rear of the store and pointed out the taps. As he did so one of the burglars knocked him down with the butt end of a revolver. Ferguson was then bound and gagged, and the rob. bers procdeded to rifle the safe. They took all of the diamonds, watches and Jewelry of value and left the store without attracting soy attention from the outside. The police are sald to *e upon the Strack of the robbers. Don't Want a Nomination, Des Moixes, Ia, Fob. 20 Ex Governor | Boles has written a letter declining to al pry hrf od low the use of his name ss a Sie Demovtatls Domitiution fur president Mr, Boles’ friends assert that has no ambition bis law office and his farm. He did not assent to the uso of his name in 1802, so his friends sasers, > Bhi re eer Wi Conners © Ti Mr. the | 1; The Cetin IP " ( house, ! wn stairs the room « r it for her lifetime dining or middl { the one nes in his the shop d , and The ile room d and room | y third st are willed to Mrs Sands to have | for her lifetime unmolested by any one | a8 long as she paye her taxes, The back room up stairs and the kitchen down stairs go to John Silas Gordon, a grand- { son, for life, The deceased says ha wants them all to live together in peace and harmony. ~Washington Post Wi BIAS Ivy Fate of a French Spy In Madagasoar, An English correspondent writing from the seat of war in Madagascar says: ‘The commander of the Hugon pent a Sakalava with 45 francs to bribe the people at the Hova port of Ambodi- valiibe (‘*At the Bottom of the Moun- tain'’) to show him over the battery, which ison the * * * beach and mount- el * * * guns. By » mistake be ad- dressed himself to the captain of the port, who, being only in ‘‘lemba’’ at the time, was not distinguishable from any one else. Having shown the Saka- lava everything to his satisfaction, the captain had a stone tied onto the spy's neck, sent him ont to sea in a canoe and bad him thrown overboard in sight of the French man-of war's boat, which behind the bloff waiting for him. same day were shot seven envoys the French sent to steal cattle in the lain. Many spies are caught, and most them are shot." | ner of Lancashl xpence if half a £1 rtant t ind stand them { tieup ad half a day on the street selling may want a few bunches of camomile from the lane, and if none of the dysp Ik are in the hu mor for dandelion tea on that particular there is noth Zen Penny NOsegays otic towns Saturday, why, at worst ing lost but children’s time in dig ging the bundie No type of fazmer better deserves his success | none holds out a braver example to his breth ren of the south and the midlands, — Macmillan's Magazine, the roots Mountein Scenery. M. Taine, the French essayist, and a companion made a mountain ascent sev. eral yoors ago. Taine says he started off | in early morning, enveloped in a denso fog, and thus described his journey : “First Hour, ~-View of the back of my guide and the crupper of hie saddle. “Second Hour.—The view became more extensive. 1 see the left eye of my guide's horse—it is a blind one, and loses nothing therefore by the weather. “Third Hour. ~The view becomes yot more extensive. A view of two cruppers pow, and the coats of two tourists, who are a dozen feet above us. They grum- ble, and I grumble—-this consoles us a little, “Fourth Hour.-Joy and rapture! The guide promises vs at the top a view of a sea of clovds. Arrival at the summit, View of the sea of clouds. By ill Jock we aro in one of the clouds. The aspect fs that of a vapor hath when you are in it “Advantages Gained, —A reas alia wonstitution San In the summer of 1 lieutenant, Gen. Wade BUILT FROM A GREAT BOWLDER. One Mighty Erratic Stone Furnishes Ma. terial for the Building of a Church The Presbyterian Church of Waterloo, well claim to be if the unique far as the ma- goes, for it is Ia buildings terial of its constr built substantially of stone taken from one huge bowlder. The bowlder drift scattered over the earth, and very plenti- fully through the upper Mississippi Val- lev. has been put to commercial and architectural uses in all countries; but surely this church is one of the most in- teresting of all these utilizations. The stone from which the church is constructed weighed more than five millions of pounds, and was therefore abont twice as large as the bowlder from which was hewn the pedestal on which stands the statve of Peter the Great in 8t. Petersburg, though not so large as the great bowlder called Pierre de Mar- | mottos, at Monthey, in the canton of | Valais, on which a chalet was built, can mie in the worl Dunecessary Waste of Gray Matter, Cholly was waiting for his reedbirls on toast and regarding with a puzzled expression a brisk looking man with our hair who sat at the opposite side of the table. “Do you know,” he said, “I cawnt help thinking that I've seen you before somewhere?” |” “Dust try to help it, my good fellow,” the other, svothingly. ‘Waiter, me some oO beef hash. Ohieago Daily Tribune. Bn —— “And now,” said the barber, who bad inherited a fortune, ound ow. 1 can eat onlons in the morning w {dam want to!"—Indiananolis Journal .
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