3 he Centre Democrat, uBmYe A\ Circulatio = 'ATEHOOD Facts About the Territories which Are Clamoring for Admission. ALWAYS A PARTISAN MATTER Present Candidates Have Larger Popu- lation Than Most of the States Had When They Were Brought in- to the Union. Special interest attaches to the propos- ed admission to Statehood of Oklahoma, New Nexico, Arizona and Indian Terri. tory, because they are the last remain. ing Territories of the United proper. The various grounds of alleged opposition to their admission, or some of them, are more or less conjectural. Thirty-two States | . | Western States, with 36,350 square miles, States have joined the | Union since the adoption of the Federal | Constitution. Most singularly, there have been contests over the admission of a large majority of them, in some in. | stances resulting in long delays. sistent obstructions were interposed and Per. | much log-rolling required to bring in | several of the States. As bearing upon the present cases be. | | assuming that Vermont belouged not to fore Congress the following tabulation will be of interest, HISTORY OF FORMER ADMISSIONS. Year of adm Gross area App'x pop miles, at admis'n 4 WY rx 40,40 5.000 42.060 41.00 Fi in, Territory, Vermont Kentucky Tennessee , Ohto ...... Louisiana Indiana Mississippi Lilinois Alabama Maine Missouri Is'n, sq. J Florida .... lowa.... Wisconsin California Minnesota, Oregon Kansas West Virginia Nevada Nebraska Colorado ..... North Dakota South Dakota, Montana Washington Idaho... Wyoming Utah S48 19%) iT. Is® 4.970 AREA AND POPULATION Similar data concerning the four can- didates for admission now compare as follows with the foregoing. Gross Approx Area lmnate 3. miles 5. Bow Arizona ...... LE) Indian Territory . £24 (ni New Mexico 7 122.540 » ph. Oklahoma... Twin 30.08 ¢ Territory If admitted separately, Indian Terri- tory will be geographically the smallest of all the new Western States, while Oklahoma is oniy a fraction larger than Indiana. Bat there are ten of the older states smaller than Indian Territory, and both Oklahoma and Iodian Terri tory have a far greater population than any of the Territories at the date of ad- mission. Illinois was taker in when it contained no more thas 40,000 people, The first state to join the original 13 colonies was Vermont, 112 years ago, and the last one admitted was Utah, which came in more than a century later. The admission of both was strongly antagonized, that of Vermont success. fully for 15 years by New York. Both New York and New Hampshire claimed Vermont, thes known as the “New Hampshire grants,” and the latter had to pay New York $30,000 for a release, The Mormou question, particularly polygamy, for some time stood inexora bly in the path of Utah, and is even yet sometimes a stumbling block to the ad- mission of its representatives, OBSTRUCTION ALWAYS PARTISAN, Bat the exigencies of political parties, immediate and remote, have generally been the underlying cause of obstructive tactics, through questions of population | | James Guuosallus party, two deer ; Long and geographical delimitations often entered into them. have A new state carries with it enormous ] relative weight in any distribution of the balance of power in the Senate, in which all the states are equal, irrespective of population. Nevada, with a gradually diminishing popalation of ouly 42.000, re- : : | and one wounded buck found dead ; 995 square miles, the average being 65,- 500 square miles per State. But, ex- cluding the freak State of Texas, an empire of 265,000 square miles, the aver- age was only 51,000 square miles. The evident policy in that period was to make the new States approximately uniform in size, Excluding West Virginia, an accident, 14 States have come in since 1850, cover. ing an aggregate of 1,343,335 square miles, nearly half the whole Union's con- tiguous area. As to size, uniformity has been entirely ignored. The smallest is Washington, with 69,180 square miles ; the largest, California, embodying 158,- | 360 square miles. The average area of the 14 later States is 95 200 square miles, nearly double that of the earlier period. Indiana, the smallest of all the new is larger than five New Eagland States, | with little Delaware thrown in. THE DIVISION OF OLD COLONIES. While no territoriailly small State like some of those along the Atlantic seaboard | has been permitted to come in west of the old 13 Colonies since the formation of the Union, two New England States, having together considerably less area than Missouri, have been reconstructed into four, viz : Massachusettes and Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont This is New York, but New Hampshire, But there was no sinister purpose of sectionalism behind these creation. sKen- tucky, with 40,400 square miles, admitted about the time Vermont came in, did not ask to be divided, whereas New Hamp- shire and Vermont did. So, afterward, did Maine and Massachusetts It large geographically it is not owing to the later States are abnormally local i tiled, intrigue, bat is chiefly the result of pride, sparse population whea adm avd to natural demarcations or arbitrary Con- gress when creating the earlier territorial ones unwillingly established by government out of the almost nuknown Iudian country of the plains and moun. tains. Omnginal territorial outlines have clearly had a determining influence on the final shape and size of the new States, A CHOICE HUNTING GROUND. The "Scootac region continues to be the favorite hanting ground the deer season in the 'Sootac region, which may be considered to embrace the bunting grounds the Beech Creek and the Susquehanna river, shows that this season was the most successful for many years past This may be ac. counted for by the fact that more hunters were in the woods this year, While this record may not be complete, it is founded on the reports from all available sources The following persons killed deer: G. W. Bitner party, two ; Jos. H. Hab bard party, four; Richard Coffey, one buck ; Geo Weaver, four deer and three bear; K. D. Packer party, one deer: Thos. Miller and Ellery Gummo, one deer and ome bear ; Samuel Batchelor, one deer ; Will Sanderson, one deer : W I. Harter and W. B. Strunk party, five deer ; George Berryhill, one buck : Geo Heverly, three bears; David Robb and Thos Lingle, three bears; Svow Shoe party on Panther run, four deer ; Clyde DeChant, two deer ; Pottstown party, one buck; Adam Lutz, one deer; Geo FP. Keagle party, two deer ; Edward Zerbe, one buck ; George Riggles, bear; 8 A Wilt, one deer; fireman on dinkey en gine at Twin run, one doe; Charles Soyder and party of Mill Hall, three deer ; Bellefonte party at Eddy Lick, one deer; Dorman party, two deer, Wm. Potts and Lingle brothers, eight deer; Bradiey Herr, one doe : Jackson. ville party, one deer and one bear: Caldwell brothers, four deer; David Jones and R. Berryhill party, one deer ; A resame of between brothers of Renovo, two deer: Alex Shoemaker and party, one doe killed | Charles Heikle and party, two deer ; | Chas. A. Bittner and party threedeer ; L. mains as potent in the Senate as Penn- | sylvania, with now approximately 7,000, « 000, and increasing rapidly, Yet it is improbable that the admis slon of any Western State has been ob- Structed through jealous sectional feel Ing. Nevertheless, two very significant | facts are to be noted : Pirst—-Usdoubtedly there have been f in constant and effective oppo. sition to the construction of geograph- ly small Commonwealths out of our original and acquired territory, 1 Second—A distinct characteristic of the ir admissions is that far greater geo. y cal area, as well as greater popu. have been required of the suing by Congress, UNIFORMITY IN S128 I1GNORKD Up to 1848, 15 new States had been re out of our Western and Southern an aggregate of ofa, 8. Tripp, one buck ; FP. A. O'Connell one six-pronged buck ; total 68 deer and 12 bears. Will Now Go for the Property Owners. | A verdict of §2 800 has just been given | against the borough of Pottsville in a | damage suit caused by a defective pave. | ment, The plaintiff was a woman who | sustalved injuries by a fall, aod at the | last meeting of council the city actorney | was ordered to institute a silt against | the owner of the property on whose side. walk the injury occurred, to recover the judgment, costs and expenses, The wise owner of a horse will keep the animal roughed at this season, The other fellow will put it off until a falling takes place and some Injury results to horses and rig. ~To cure a cough or cold In one-day take Krumrine's Compound Syrup of tar, 25 cents, uf, | Dunlop, John (forge, | Ferguson, James | Fetzer, Weaver (wea | Flegal, Valentine | and lot, Mlilesborough, [OUR HISTORICAL REVIEW A Famous Wolf Hunt In Clinton County , 1819 THE RESULT A SURPRISE Townships then in the Upper Bald Eagle—A List of Resident Tax- ables then in that Township Many Familiar Names. Wolves, once so numerous in Centre | | county, driven by banger, would attack human beings and domestic animals. They are kvown here no more. The | following incident will be of interest to the reader, the territory at beg a part of Centre county In the fall of 1819 the inhabitants of Lamar (now in Clinton county) and ad- joining one time townships, having been very much annoyed by the depredations of wolves, determined to rally the entire fighting force of the community and ex. terminate their enemies, Accordingly a day was appointed for a general bunt, When the time arrived the Kreatest en- | thusiasm prevailed ; every man for miles around, who was able to beat arms (clubs and pitchforks), was promptly on band with his weapon on his shoulder and vengeance in his All assembled bone and under cient the eff were heart, sinew, and determined leaders, formed into a huge circle of several miles in diameter, with its cer at the farm of Samuel Brown, signal, ivance toward which, at a given all steadily and bravels iug the game before them As the d every man in wh pitchfork, for a to certain dest: nm centre or Ek WES nears ine prepared his flint | ther weapon, Ck musket, or deadly ouslaughter, The game, fright. ened at the near approach of such an ached - array of fearless warriors, crouched in Alex fer Maha tliZen abject fear, AD i, well Known lock LH right and « uckshot or 1 of the present owns ips © Benver, Uaibn, Snow Shoe. and Barn side, asd all of Boggs boundary, and exoemt a Mrip along its castern the fol. lowing is a copy of the taxables resid in the township Achison, John Ackiey, J Adams Ki and lot) Alexander Alexander (hatter, Be Allender Allender Armstrong. Dante) Beard George Green Boadie, Benjimin and lot, Bean, Henry : Benner, Philp (forge grist and sawmill Biggs, Alexander Bogus, Alexander saw miil on Buffalo Run Boggs. Robert Ee Boggs, Robert, 8¢ (Spring Creek Bowes, Franels Bradley in 1s Foster, William meph died in July ¥ hard Hug! five lots, Gallagher house Fe Joseph Ww elonte fonte, tavern-keeper Henry Gordon, Robert Graham, John Green, James (ho and lot lam Gates Alexander James Jee tavern keeper) Joseph house Milesborough, avern keeper) Green, Thomas and lot Hall, John (house and lot, Bellefonte. black. smith Harbison Harris Hartshorne, tanner Hinton, W Hildebrand, Samue Holt, John Hoover, John Hoover, Martin Houser, Jacob and saw mill Huey. Robert Kean, John Kinear, Henry Kinear, Thomas (trade. ) Kyler, Conrad and lot, weaver Kline, Nicholas yer.) Knox, Galbraith Lee, William and lot, shoemaker) MoClain, Charles, MoClelland, Themas (house and lot), MeOord, John and lot) MoCormiek, Samuel (saw. mill in 1800. MeDonald, John, MeKee, Adam (one house, two lots, and distillery). MeKee, George (trade and lot distillery). MeKerrighan, Widow (house and two lots), MeMineny, Patriek, Rookey, Juoob died 1510 Roberts, Edward, Beott, John, Shark, John, Shark, Jasob house John James Benjamin Danie! (4 ed lam BeMington, Isaac (ear peater) Burns, Robert, ( Burris, James Carey, Richard ver Caskey, John Coleman, Bartholo mew (house and lot, miller Connelly, Isaac, Raq (one slave, Connelly, William. Creos, Adam (weaver Curtin, Roland (house, three lots, store) Davidson Allexander Dunlop, Col, James (hou @ and lot, Belle. fonte.) trade wen (house wea (house arst and sawmill; far nace is first taxed in LH Emmenheiser, John Evans, Thomas (major), ver) Fleming, Jane, widow house and two lots ) Foster, James (house MeMullen, William (trade, house and lot), Malone, Richs rd Martin, John, (house Simpson, Nathaniel ana lot), Smith, James, Nr, Miles, Evan (house and (still), lot, tatlor,) Swlth, James, Jr, Miles, James, Ktephens , Leonard Miles, Richard (one house and lot, black grist and saw mill, smith). Miles, Capt. Samuel Loots, John. (house and lot) Thomas, Thomas, Miles, James Little, Treaster, Michael, shoemaker, house and Turner, Laniel, forge, Miles, Willlam, house and lot and siave, Neal, William, ear. penter, (house | _ BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 ron. Parsons, Davia, Parsons, Isaac, Parsons, Thomas, Patterson, Samuel, house and lot, weaver, Petriken, William. house and lot, tailor, Belletonte, Pettit, Willlam house and lot, Bellefonte Pixler, Henry, trade. Ramsay, James Reamy, Conrad. Resides, James Riddle, Willlam, house and lot, mason, Belle. | forte. Wallace, Robert, coop er, Watters, William, Coo) er, Welch Joseph, William, George, house and lot, earpenter. Willlams, Jolin. Williams, Joseph, tan yard, Williams, Joseph, fere. man, Williams, Capt. Joshua, Wilson, Willtam. Witherite, Miochae!, Woods, John, cooper Young, William, saw mill in 18m Single Beatty, Willam, clerk | Bowels, David | Bowels, William Calahan, Patrick, ta!) | OF Freemen Low, Jawes, trade Lowrey McKee, maker MaNee ly Mackey Marson, ¥ Mendenhall Dowling, Samuel eol house and Her Miles, Enos Fetzer Miles Geor John G. clerk John, shoe John, mason Colvin, Matthew, tall or Coulter, William, Robert, ost Michael Graham, Francis Graham ge Jeshar john Barris, William, Dr Huey, John, carpen ter Hutehinson, James smite nson Hutchinson carpenter ton, John Dav i, who remem? >» machine ex Ametican and showed a conceale k instead busted all [ fleecing the unm suddenly disappeared from the new pastures. Whenever a W comes around talking perpetual mo he ou his upper a the con. clusion is sare that either has a “shingle loose" ory. or be is a smart guy looking for sackers - Is Now a Quiet Place. The Jersey Shore Herald in voting the opening of the shops at Oak Grove, Clin. ton county's mew railroad town says The engine house in the Third ward, which has been in constant use ever since the completion of the Beech Creek rail. road, is deserted. The repairing of en Rines in this building was begun in 18% and up until the present, thousands of ocomotives have been turned out with some practically The shop had a record amount and the size of the work accom minor repairs, others rebuilt for the plished with the limited amount of floor space Saturday was moving day at the shops and nearly all the tools were put aboard cars and taken to the Oak Grove works. The stationary engine and several lathes were left and the former will be used to run the planing mill, which with the car shop will still be operated this side of the | Creek, Latest From the Oil Well. | The Lock Haven Express, says: Dr. | Hicks came in Monday morsing from the well and brought encouraging news, The todls which have been lying useless | | at the bottom of the well for several | | weeks are now in such a position that | they can be removed at any time the effort is made. Dr. Hicks says drilling | will be resumed this week and the | ammo farm well will be “drilled in" i [in a few days. The new derrick on the Salmon farm, be states, will be practi. | cally completed and he expects to have | the drills in operation in both wells with. in the next few days. The sand that | was tapped in the first well when the tools were lost is yielding oil, but to what extent will not be known exactly until the tools are removed. It is quite likely that the next ten days will see some im. portant developements at the Gummo farm, Ice Nearly Three Inches Thick. The ice on the river at Lock Haven on Wednesday was nearly three inches and is strong enough to permit pedestrians to walk over it, Jolin Long, of Spring Mills, died Sun. day morning at the bome of his daughter, Mrs. Michael Grenoble at Lamar. APPOINTMENTS MADE THIS WEEK County Commissioners Select a Clerk. A. Slotman G. W. REESE GOT A PLUM Sheriff H. S. Taylor Retains the Same | for the Present—A Great | Many Applicants Disappointed by | Force the Commissioners On Monday John G. Bailey, the new | member of the County Commissioners Board, was in town for the purpose of the other member, Abraham V. consulting with republican to appointments under that department, For Clerk applications, Commissioners’ there were probably twenty some of which were redicuiously incompetent being unable to write a legible hand or words few spell ordinary Evidently realize that this position means not only some education, but in addition We think Am man, who has been filling the experience and jotelligence. the board ac wisely in selecting brose Slo position of deputy recorder, who is Com petent in every way For Solicitor, nearly all the republican atiorneys in the town were after the job Aud this position dropped into of Harry the r 0 iA ’ who ne Sheriff Taylors’ Appointment for sever Sheriff and Harry Ja 2 In t} rogre with iittle $s way the work of the « or no inter ton and Capt. Taylor will have time calch on to his job. Jerry Condo, an old soldier and one who has had experience as an officer in prisons, has been sex ured look after the Mr. a of Spring Mills. Messrs, |. Kennedy Jobn son, and John Bower will be the Saerifl’s to act as turnkey and will prison Condo is resident atlorneys Sheriff Brungart has rented the house Dr. Bush, move in about formerly occupied Bishop Javuary 1 by on street and will st Keese Appointed. On Monday G. W. Reese, of this place, was appointed Deputy Revenue Collector for this district, the position formerly held by Dr. Jobn Harter, of Millbeim, who died several months ago. Mr. Reese's appointment went into effect on Tuesday, and will last as long as the republicans boss the roost and George Washington R. is good. There were a whole raft of fellows after the place but G. W. seems to have given the plum tree the proper boost. Wash. is a typical politicaal roost. er, who does his share of crowing and scratching and therefore is éntitled to some of the pickings. We hope he will prosper theieby, STATE GRANGE IN SESSION, The State grange of Pennsylvania as. sembled at Clearfied on Tuesday and | will remain the balance of the week The attendance is the largest in the his. tory of the organization for the first day, there being over S00 delegates present, Worthy Master W, P. Hill, of Crawford county, presided at the opening session | and read his annua! report, which showed that daring the year 15 new granges have been organized and 8 dormant ranges resusitated, the membership in- creasing to almost 3,000, The [secretary and treasurer also re. ported for their offices for the year, ‘Already the contest for the officers-to be elected at this meeting of the organ. ization is waxing warm. For master, Jerome T. Allman of Juniata, Frank Chandler, of Chester, and Colones! Jas. Weaver of Centre, are in the field and doing their best to win. Por secretary Sister Hill, wife of the present master. 8. 8. Biyholder, of Armstrong, H, M. Gooderman of Cambria, and L. A. Tocker, of Crawford have their booms : Miller, in regard | | ed dishes in handy, | cussed, | growth VOL. 24. NO, 30,49 FACT, FUN AND FANCY. Bright Sparkling Paragraphs—Select- ed and Original. THE SANDMAN I know a man With face of tan But who is ever kind ; Whom girls and boys Leave games and toys Each eventide to find When days grow dim, Th ey wateh for him He comes to place his claim He wears the crown Of Dreaming town The sandman is his name When sparkling eyes Droop sleepy wise And busy lips grow dumb When | Nod ttle heads towards the beds We know the sandman’s come Chicago Dally News Big scandals often result from small talk. It' It's easies to jump a board bill than to amp a bill board. The work and po play shoemaker says his life is awl The stingy man may keep everything except his promises This is kissing season, and the plucky mistietoe the x It doesn’t » much pull to get through a saloon Many a by an Orienta concealed Crack in the but to cing a woman. § be saw one of that IE man That, the father ‘What is aa g man aut one of was not so ferent from the rest of mankind UNEQUAL RIGHTS IN WEDLOCK. Oue by one, under the merciless inter. pretations of modern law, the husbands of the land are being stripped of privileges and exclusive powers. In St. Louis, as recently noted, a wife was upheld who of her sleeping lord -but-not master From Portland, Me., comes now the decision that a woman who took her husband's pocket: book from beneath his pillow did that which could not be stealing. And right over in Newark, N. |], a Judge declares that no man cau stop a wife from talking, searched the pockets be it ever so much too much, so long as she confines her conversational exercises to her own home. These legal provouncements predicate a shifting of the unequal rights as between the sexes. They leave man few rights which woman is bound to respect after marrige, and they leave him also with no earthiy chance to get even. He cannot go through his wite's pocket, for, being a man, he cannot ind it. He cannot take from under the pil, low a pocketbook which no woman puts there when a whole china closet of cover. And if he cannot stop the partner of his joys and jars from talking unquestionably he will be unable to talk back. The Western Justice who recently held that a wife had a right to carry a latch. key did less to drive husbands to melan. choly than has been done by his contem- burden of | poraries In the three decisions bere dis. He gave liberty on the ome band; they suatch it on the other hand, The question arises: In view of her in privilege among interests plainly material, what does woman want of a little thing like the voting franchise, which represents to ber at best bat a form and theory? A Circular Outdoor Postoffice. Uncle Sam's rural delivery bas brought out many popular things. Al one poiat on a crossroad in Indiana a number of farmers in order to make it convenient to themselves as well as the mall carrier, bave rigged up a novel contrivance. Here sixteen farmers are served and all —
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