Centre Hall reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, February 26, 1869, Image 1

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Fredrick Kurtz,
CENPRE HALL
Machine Works.
CENTRE HALL CENTRE CO. PA.
Having enlarged our New FouNDRY and
MACHINE Suors and AGRICULTURAL
Works. Stocked with all new and lates
improved Machinery at Centre Hall, an-
nouncete the public that they are now re
t) receive orders for anyt
of business,
Shaftings,
Pullies,
Hangers,
IRON & BRASS
CASTINGS
of every description made and fitted up for
MILLS,
FORGES,
FURNACES,
FACTORIES,
TANNERIES,
&C., &C.
We alse manufacture the celebrated
KEYSTONE
HARVESTER.
which now stands unrivalled.
This Reaper has advantages overall other
Reapers now manufactured. One adyan-
tags we elaim for it, is the lever power, by
which we gain one hundred per cent over
other machines. Another advantage is the
hoisting and lowering apparatus, whereb,
the driver has under his complete contro
of the machine; in eoming to a spot of lod zx.
Editor.
l l OWE SEWING MACHINE,
Geo. Fairer, at Bellefonte, sells the cele
no superior in the market,
store and sea it. It has received
als at all fairs. They are the ol
lished machines in the world.
July3'68 tf.
TINWARE! TINWARE!
J. REIBER,
yrize med-
Potter township, that he is now prepared
to furnish upon shortest notice, and
i cheap as elsewhere, oy ery artic
| of Tin and Sheetiron Ware.
STOVE-PIPE§ SPOUTING,
| ways, on hand buckets, cups, dippers, dish-
|
All kinds of repairing done. He has al-
| OS, TA de
SILVERPLATING.
Give him a call,
aplO oR 1v,
durable style.
| gos Nre reasonable,
| procs BUGGIES!
'D
J. D. Murgay,
Centre Hall, Pa., Manufacturer of all
| kinds of Buggies, would respectfully inform
| the ¢itinens of Centre county, that he hason
hand
NEW BUGGIES
| with and without top, and which will be
sonditble credit given.
Two Horse Wagans, Spring Wagons &e.,
made to order, and warranted to give satis
| faction in every respect.
| All kinds of repairing done in short no-
Cee, Call und see his stock of Buggies bes
| for purchasthg elsewhere,
aplU' 68 tf.
| Just NATIONAL BANK OF
| Bellefonte, Pa.
(LATE HUMES, Mc ALLISTER, HALE
& CO.)
E.C. Humes, Pres't. - J. P. Harris, Cush
This Bank is now organized for the }
pose of Banking under the laws of the
ted States.
i Hale & Co. will be paid at maturity, ana
| Checks of deposits at sight as usual on pre-
- he ~ . 3 - -
sentation at the counter of the said First Na-
tional Bank. . :
Particular attention given tothe purchase
and sale of Government Securities.
E. C. HUMES,
aply 68, President.
} Scicnce on the
H. GUTELIUS,
Adrance.
~
/.
who is permanently located in Aarons-
Dr. Neff, and who has been practicing
yet not
test the
zr-Teeth
may22 68 1yv
cordially invite all who have as
given him = call, to do so, and
truthfulness of this assertion.
Extracted without pain.
J.
DD. SHUGERT,
Cashier.
HENRY BROCKERHOFF,
President.
1
J}
ENTRE COUNTY BANKING CO.
(LATE MILLIKEN HOOVER & CO.)
RECEIVE DEPOSITS,
And Allow Interest,
Discount Notes,
pons.
RVIS & ALEXANDER,
up 168,
apl0'68. :
DAM HOY—ATTORNEY AT-LAW
Office on High Street,
aplO 68 tf.
W. Hl. LARIMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bellefonte, Pa.
Pa.
ed grain, the driver can changze the cut of
he machine in an instant, without stopping
the team, varying the stuble from 1 to 14
inehes at the autside of the machine, as well
as on the inside, Itis constructed of fret
«ites material; and built by first class nia-
chanics. We warrant it second to none.
All kinds of Horsepowers and Threshing
Machines, Hay and Grain Rakes, latest im-
roved. All Finds of Repairing done. Dif
erant kinds of
PLOWS
AND
PLOW CASTING.
eTh Celebrated Heckendorn Economica
low which has given entire satisfaction.
We employ the best Patternmakers, our
i Plans, Specifieations and Draw-
ings furnished for all work done by us,
24 We hope by strict attention to bus’.
ness to receive a share of public patronage
TINWARE!
The Company announce to the citizens of
Potter township, that they are now Prop
ed to furnish upon short notice, and as low
as elsewhere, every article in the line of
TIN AND SHEETIRON WARE.
Stove-Pipe
and Spouting.
All kinds of repairing done. They hav
always on hand
BUCKETS,
C
3
DISHES, &C.
All erders by mail promptly attended to
CENTRE HALL MPG COM'P
apl088of.
Office with the District Attorney, in the
Court House, may 15°68,
F TR. P.
: SOrvices,
apl7 OR tf,
| Gu McMANUS,
e
Office, Centre Hall,
july 368,
D. WINGATE. D. D. 8.
DENTIST
to him.
Joan
Spring st. At home, except, perhaps, the
first two weeks of every month.
“&% Teeth extracted without pain.
Bellefonte, Pa. aplO68 tf,
) D. NEFF, M. D., Physician and
. Surgeon, Center Hall, Pa.
Offere his professional services to the citi-
zens of Potter and adjoining townships.
gery. aplO' 68 1y.
H. N. M ALLISTER, JAMES A. BEAVER,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAVW,
Bellefonte, Centre Ce., Penn'a.
Chas. H. Hale,
Attorney at Law, Bellefonte, Pa. dec
M! LLERS HOTEL
Woodward, Centre county, Pa.
Stages arrive and depart daily. This fa
brite Hotel has been refitted and furnish-
ed its new proprietor, and is now in-
evely respectone of the most pleasantcoun-
try Hotels in central Pennsylvania. The
traveling community and drovers will al-
ways find the best accommodations. Dro-
vers can at all times be accommodated with
stables and pasture for any number of cat-
tle or horses. GEO. MILLER,
july 68, tf. Proprietor.
(ONJUGAL LOVE,
.
AND THE HAPPINESS OF TRUE MARRIAGE
Essay for the Young Men son the Errors,
buses and Diseases which destroy the
Manly Powers and create impediments to
Marriage, with sure means of relief. Sent
in sealed letter envelopes free of charge
Address, Dr. J. Skillin Houghton, How-
ard Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
june, 68,1y.
ITE FISH, Herting, Mackeral, sc., a
hot) BURNSIDE & THOMAS
Faehighes market prices paid for all
kinds of country produce, at
* BURNSIDE « THOMAS.
TURKEY PRUINS, raisens, [aches
apples, oranges, lemons, a
1 kind
of foreign fruits,
Hams, bacon &c., at
BURNSIDE « THOMAS.
ia ae 1 DD NE dR Le ee
pees HOTEL, 312 & 314 Race Street,
Elie i 3d,
iladelphia.
Its central locality es it desirable for
all visiting the city on business or for pleas-
ure. . BECK, Proprietor.
(formerly of the States Union Hotel.
apl0’68 tf.
b
TERMS. —The CexTRE HaLL REPOR-
Tek 18 published weekly, at 81,60 per year
in advance; nd $200 when not paid ni
advance. Reporter, 1 month 15 cents
Advertisements are inserted at $1,50 per
i square (10 lines) for 3 weeks,
I nt nn less rate,
All Job-work, Cash, and neatly and ex-
peditiously executed, at reasonable char-
| gos,
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
"FRIDAY, FEB. 2th 1860.
*
EDITORIAL NOTES.
' not very harmonious, At a convention
and urging the administering of the test
outh to all office holders, and the enforee-
ment of the negro equality doctrine,
licans, held s mass meeting two days after
to enter their solemn unqualified protest
against the above resolutions,
thut it wus a meeting of the republican par
posed to the doctrines and policy sit forth.
radicals seem to be united, and that is to
keep power and plunder and steal ns much
| as possible from the national and state trea-
suries.
—— :
In another column we publish the pros-
| pectus of the Pittsburg Post, one of the
ie . .
| and a leading democratic organ.
will serve the people of this section with
peo)
| eastern dailies.
i O-
Johnson intends,
au fle
Eu-
}
President shortly
| he goes out of office, to make
The offer of
{ made him
it trip ter
| Tope. R’n passuge was
by one of the German
offer
of
necepted by
lines
| steamers, and the W
i
| Mr. Johnson,
n>
- {
A former Freedman's Bureau
arrested in Boston, a few days azo, on the
New
To
| Bureau. 1f every radical saint in
| England, who helped steal the public
1t robberies of
is the
of debt upon the
the interest the debt
| these thieves have heaped upon us,
upon
The Kansas lerislature has before it a
| proposition to strike the word “white from
| cal senate has refused to vote for it. So it
i -
1s
Large maj owrity voted down negro sutfrage
| force this ol
No stands it
Could there
ple.
I dies] states, a more bra-
he
Viauny and bry poceriey!
t)
lieality of the
1
alten
Lzen
TT} Yar
file are
{ing to even a tenth part of their reckless
waste of the taxes,
minder for such republicans who affect to
be honest and talk of the purity of their
party, we give the statistics below, showing
Hou e of Representatives, in 1863. and the
same under radical rule in 1868;
1863.
Auditor General's Report, page On.
Clerks and Assistant Clerks........ 83,320
Transcribing Clerks... ioiueenn. 8,681
Seargeant at Arms, Doorkeeper
and Mossengers 7.933
Pesters a0 Folersm eee 8445
Postinaster RIS
Assistant Postmaster................. 655
Marshall of the Rotunda Ccrorisusss 267
Wm. F. Jones, Fireman 300
Daniel Best, Fireman 500
Jacob Zeigler, nm’t pid Pa 00
Paid Women 200
(x)
(x)
6)
(0)
20
00
00)
x)
x)
(x)
TOE] coos ccnisiinnianniiniine arin nn 21,620 00
1868,
Auditor General's Report, page 111,
| sane items,
| Clerks and Assistant Clerks......
Transcribing Clerks................. I
Sergeant at Arms, Doorkeeper
and MesSSsOngers uv wun...
PASTERS and FOLDERS......
Postmaster... OR NER ey
Assistant Postmasters.,.............
Marshall of the Rotunda
Daniel Best, Fireman
Jas. Freeborn
Wm. Snoddy
J. L. Selfridge paid Pages........
Paid Women
F4 844
7,697
80)
a0)
27.291 90
37,723
O00
933
804
6)
{&
TIN)
700
3.288
660
00
(x)
10
00
00
i.
00
00
otal.....ooreirinsrnrnniinisiinisioninns 386,303 80)
Taxpayers of Centre county, compare
these items and see what a vast difference
between the expenditures under democra-
tic and those under radical rule,
lan
A very irritable man, having heen
disappointed in his boots as promised,
threttened to eat the shoemiker, but
compromised by drinking a cobbler.
en lt me
A novelist descaibed his hero as
making lovo “like two bonded ware
houses in flames on a dark, windy night
and the fire alarm out of repair.”
ceil
“>
To ascertain the number of children
in a street—beat a drum. To ascer-
tain the number of loafers—start a dog
fight.
SS
al} Fp
Ca
UpiRLY
HALL
RE-ENACTED.
The Louisville Courier says truly
that the moral of the late congression-
al disturbance was written many hun-
lish and French legislative history.
| It is brief and simple. The two houses
of Congress engage in a scheme to chop
succeed of course. Then they turn to
to a standing committe, Having thus
practically destroyed the two co-ordi-
nate branchee of the government, the
magistracy and judiciary, and lodged
the entire authority of the Btate in
another, The House makes an issue
with the Senate, and, as the lower body
outnumbers the higher, it will have no
it sees fit to push its issue to a direct
Larchy which 18 the vestibule of mon-
archy, and that is the direction of Rad
1ealisin
* 9 &
The Suez Canal.
“
| pletion of the railway which is to con-
|nect the opposite coasts of the North
American continent, we shall probably
have to record the triumph of another
and
the
i ( . .
| great work of human ingenuity
perseverance, which 1s to unite
project of cutting a ship canal through
the hundeed mi
the continents of Africa and Asia 1s as
old as the age of the
neariy twenty five centuries nro, a
Ni.e
| the of it
about sixty miles, eut by the labor
| channel was finished from the
Gulf of Suez, two-thirds
of
It was repeatedly choked up
At last, over
wis
and repeatedly re pened.
a thousand years ago, it
The
siened a new canal, but
finally
abandoned. first
was deterred
port of his encineers, who de-
cided that the level of the Meaediterran-
ean was 30 feet below the level of the
Red Sea.
for the two bodies of water have ex act-
when
than
lv the same mean level; and
this fact was ascertained, mora
The cut-
tings have now been going on under the
undertaking disappeared.
centleman, M. de Lesseps, for nearly
voars more will see the end of them.
cept as a feeder, but the canal runs in
At cach end an
| ning the one three and the other five
a permanent depth of water sufficient
| . ‘
| for large ships, and also at the Medi
| terranean end to protect the canal from
| long and 100 yards wide, and when
| 50 miles have been excavated to the
full width and opened to the sea, and
| forty enormous dredging machines float
Lon it, digging out the channel to the
required depth. The remaining 50
| miles are in various stages of progress;
' but
led: and not long since a French war
a navigable passage has been open-
vessel passed through on the way to
Madagascar. This was not the
of Suez. During the Abyssinian war
British gunboats took the same route
and as early indeed as August, 1865,
a vessel of some sort,—probably of
through. The complete success of M.
de Lessep’s scheme involves no other
problems, therefore, than time and
money ; very little time, and a great
deal of money. The rate of expendi-
ture now is above $12,500,000 a year,
and after the work is finished the keep-
ing it in order will be very costly. Be-
sides tle difficulty of protecting the
banks, exposed as they will be to driv-
ing winds and the wash of large steam-
ers, there will be another serious trouble
in the 500 tuns of sand which it is cal-
culated will be drifted into the canal
from the desert every day. These dif-
ficulties are by no means insuperable,
nor even scriously perplexing; but
they will prove expensive.
|
| gery.
|
Lan article ina late Atlantic Monthly
ments in surgery :
By the local application of a suffi-
| cient degree of cold, insensibility cnn
a man with a most exquisitely painful
ger, ean now look down, in his perfect
| senses, upon the knife as it enters his
Lown body and performs the most diffi-
cult operation without giving him the
least pain. A French surgeon has in-
the
‘“ “i . . nD . '
ecrasuer,” or crusher to perform oper-
vented an mstrument he calls
ations dangerous in surgery, on account
of the loss of blood from the smaller
It
vessels if performed with a knife,
moved, and by turnipg a screw the
chain is tightened till the parts are sep-
arated. The blunt chain so turns up
and twists the ends of the blood ves
The eye 12 now examined by an in.
which the depth of the globe of the ove
ean be readily and fully explored, and
has been written and conjectured about
The intricate passage of the
}
wrong. ’
he whole of the wind-
pipe and passages of the lungs are now
of
modern science has been throush what
the
rule of which is to save all that possibly
can be the
knife,
Perhaps one of the best results
is called “conservative” surgery,
saved from
Many of
complained of the reckless haste with
amputation
our brave soldiers
| 2 rs} : } 1. » WAI ’ » X . »
which 11 the ate war some surgeons
would cut off arms and legs on account
of trifling wounds. But one of the most
“At King's Collese it
is rare to sce an amputation ;
lately written:
in nine
out of the diseased portion of the limb)
a fallen log, and his leg broken and
twisted upon itself at right angles with
his thigh, the the
He lived,
and after weeks of suffering was taken
to
bones protruding
flesh, and no doctor near.
a hospital.
of the
limb as the old fashioned surgery would
amputating
have done, sawec off the
bones, turned the leg back to its place,
and put on an instrument to keep it of
the boy stands, runs, and jumps with
two sound legs.
CUBA...
New York, February 17.—A Cu-
vana, February 14th, says:
Two thousand men are
nal for revolt.
The
board the schooner
found
Galvanie
('uban passengers
mute the sentence to penal imprison-
‘ment. The Schooner has been declar-
| ed a legal prize, of which the British
| Consul notified his Government.
| The American Consul at Trinidad
| has joined the insurgents, The latter
| held Tumas, and have many Spanish
prisoners.
| for Spain.
The Government has news of a ri-
TI
| ber over three hundred, and the great-
| sing near Matanzas, ie rebelsn ume
est alarm prevailec.
v Director of the
Savings Bank, has been arrested, and
Senor Cnitillo,
| the police are searching for other
wanted.
& ap &
The Constitutional ame
suffrage is not likely to fair well in
ndment on
Kansas.
: arr y »
refused to strike the word “white
from the Constitution,
eee ell
A little Lewistown girl
lowed shawl pin.
mre arr tls A ———————
The New Nork Democrat says that
the latest perfume out is “the loyal
balm of a thousand niggers,” intended
to be used at the grand inauguration
ball, if it comes off.
Tale ly swal-
J
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1
WHAT SHALL WE DRINK.
——— —
From Hall's Journal of Health.
COLD wATER.
| progress of digestion, instantly arrests
it, and the process is not resumed, un-
til the water
enough to be warmed from the temper- |
ature at which it was drank, to that of |
| the stomach ; or from some forty de. |
{ grees
this the heat must be
to hundred : lo
abstracted from
the general system chilling it, Strong,
if a man in feeble health
fron the table chilly, and soon has fe-
much longer at work in digesting the
food, loses its vigor, the digestion is im-
| thus laying at the feundation of dis-
ease,
these facts is, that cold water is injuri-
In-|
jurions to the persons in feeble heath, |
If taken at all, beyond a few swallows |
ut 1 meal.
I therefore set it down, as a clearly |
Lhligl
established facet, that a elass or more of |
drank habitually at meals,
or soon after, is a pernceious practice,
even to the most healthy.
Injury is done in another manner ;
her fluid, dilutes the
thus wakens its pow-
food. The
of gastric juice is not lessened, but ita
water or any ot
r
gastric juice, and
er to dissolve the amount
power is deminjshed by its dilution. |
|
|
it
an equal amount of cold
ded, it may be thrust in with impunity, |
although there is as much heat in the
mass as before: but it Is more diffused. |
water
Any kind of fluid taken largely ata |
mlal, or soon after, is positively injuri- |
tients is—take but half a glass of wa-
ter at a single meal, or a single cup of |
weak coffee or tea, never increasing the
ing within an hour after eating.
[f cold drinks are injurious at meals,
cold food is for the same rea<on also
of the
disease
injurious ; thus it is that
most
some
terrible forms of are
brought on by persistence in eating
cold fond, exclusively, especially in
the winter time.
WARM DRINKS,
If cold fluids arelinjurious at meals,
we naturally conclude that warm flu-
id=, in moderation, are beneficial, and
rightly so.
It then follows, that, if we drink any-
We may safely admit, that the uni-
versal custom of a country is founded |
on common sense, being thy teaching |
of experience. Commion sense and the |
experience of the civilized world is,
that a eup of good hot coffee for break- |
fast, or a cup of good hot tea for sup- |
> p>
Punic Faith of Congress.
On Monday, when the Senate |
amendments were before the House, to |
the proposed alteration in the Con- |
offered an amendment
| which the House would not entertain |
| —the same as that offered by Mr. |
3
3
Buckalew, which was voted down n
| the Senate: —it was to provide ‘that |
the proposed amendments to the Con- |
stitution should be submitted to the |
Legislatures of the several States to be |
| elected subsequently to the action of |
Congress on the subject.” When of- |
fering his amendment, Judge W. truly |
claimed that it was the only way In |
"which the question could be fairly
' brought before the people and de
| cided by them. But this being pre-
what the Radicals are deter-
{ cisely
| mined shall not be done, they have,
land will continue to prevent its being
| done.
el ti Mf erm
Mrs. Lincoln’sincome from her hus-
band’s estate is about $7,000, which is
not enough to keep her “in a style be-
ceming the widow ofa deceased Presi-
dent.”
|
etl re re
The Democratic State Commitee
are called upon by Chairman Wal-
lace to meet at Bolton’s Hotel, Harris-
burg, on Tuesday, March 30th, at 7}
o'clock p. m.
|
Vol. 1.—No. 46.
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|
te ——, ——
Horrible Death.
Joho H. Campbell, an employee in
the Crescent Iron Works, at Wheeling,
lost his life on Tuesday, under the
following horrible circumstances: It
appears that Mr, Camplell who was
employed asa catcher in the above
establishment, ascended a pair of steps
for the purpose of get.
ting a drink of water from a small spout
which is constantly running to keep
low, whick were revolving with fright.
ortunate within their iron jews. Be-
Doctor Bageley was sent for, and up-
Tuesday evening, when death put an
end to his suffering,
OB itili
The Curreney in Circulation.
The following is the exact amount
United States notes S350,021,073
290 808,586
55,865,000
34,215,715
In ll $745,908,358
Of this sum, abont 445,000,000 are
issued be the Government. The re-
maining £300,000,000 it turns out for
to the National Banks. They
issue
privilege which the Government more
The Govern-
withdraw their circula-
tion of £300,000,000, based upon Uni-
ted States bonds, and issue $300,000,
000 of greenbacks in their place and
save, directly, £18,000,000 of interest,
which it pays annually in gold, butit
declines todoso. The party in pow-
er want the influence of the banks in
elections, and this is the view the peo-
ple take of it.
ie
One thousand barrels ot whisky
were seized on Thursday by the Reve-
nue Inspectors, on its arrival in New
York from Chicago, no brands being
on the heads, as required by the Col-
lector’s book, in addition to the usual
stamp.
“Ekal Rights.”—The jury in the
United States Court, at Richmond,
gave 81.600 damage to Robert Stevens,
a South Carolina negro, against the
Richmond and Fredricksburg Rail.
first-class ticket.
es
I ke's last trick wus to throw Mrs.
*
“I tell you whatsir,” said a Yankee
there's nothing to earry.”
Ol pee.
What is the difference between ac-
ely el
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contains all the news received by telegraph
each day's doings of the Ramp Congress,
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press,
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sheet enjoys a larger circulation than any
political paper published in the State. Each
number contains a complete compendium
of the news of the week, at home and
abroad: editorials on all leading subjects ;
poetry, stories, full market reports, and a
vast amount of useful and valuable infor-
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It is the largest, cheapest and best political
and literary paper in the West and is filled
with matter calculated to instruct and en-
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