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Choice Flower and Garden Seeds.
Peaches, &c,

NEW SORTS, BY MAIL.
Plants OF the newest and finest improv>
cd sorts, carefully packed and prepaid by
mail Nv collection Of Strawberries took
. be first premium FOR the best Collection
al the great show Of the Mass Horticul.
tural Society, in Boston. grow over 100
varieties, the most complete collection IN
the country, including all the new, large
American and imported kinds Priced
descriptive Catalogues, gratis By mail.
Also, Bulbs, Fruit Trees. Roses, Ever,
greens, Choice Flower, Garden. Tree,
Evergreen, Herb. or Fruit Seeds 20 packs
ots Of either for 81 O0, BY mail
G. G. The True Cape Cod Cranberry
G. best sort for Upland, Lowland, or
Garden. by mail, prepait. Sl.O0 per 100.
50 % per 100. Wholesale Catalogue to|
the trade. Agents Wanted.
B. NJ WATSON. Old Colony Nurseries
md Seed Warehouse, Plymouth, Mass
Established 1872 Smar
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According to an official statement Of
the Servian War Minister, the Serviang
lost 5000 killed and.20,OO wounded dur
ing the late war.
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BLAINE AGAINST IA YES .SOUTI
ERN POLICY

Hayes send off is not at all a pleasant
one. He evidently will not be allowed
to enjoy the fraud by the fellows who
committed it. Blaine, Morton, and
other radical chiefs are on tile war path
against Hayes southern policy and are
doing their best TO bulldoze him out Of
it. Blaine raved the second day Of the
session, and on next day spoke again.
The sensation Of his speech was his
reading telegram from Chamberlain Of
South Carolina TO Corbin, who is claim
ing seat in the Senate, in which
Chamberlain states he had received
through private messenger a letter
from Stanley Matthews and Evarts urg-
ing him to step down and out, so as TO
give place to the Hampton Government
and yield up his rights for the good of
the country" This expressed the secret
tactics of Hayes advisers, and gave
Blainean opportunity for the most scath-
ing denunciationi of Matthews and
Eyarts. 1t could be seen at a glance lie
was carrying the Republican Senators
with him. His close was emphatic and
threatening, declaring az long as he had
strength to move or speak, he would not !
abate a jot OF earnestness in the caGae he |
had espoused. At one point Of DIS /
speech be said lie threw down the gage
of battle to any friend or defender of
Evarts and Matthews, and dared him TO !
take itup. This was understood to mean /
HAYES Just as much as Eyarts. !
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15

The Fennsylyauja'radsca pressure 'o
have pou Cameron retained rs Sec'y o'
War. has come 20 nothing. The Came
r5us get nothins-Penusylvania breech-
Is find no lodsmen. in = cabinet chair,
Simon can now pout, ana Don hang his
snout, and daddy and son can swear That
Hayes has queer ways.
Il was Don who forced Hayes nom,-
nation at Cincinnati and now Richard
Thompson, Of Terre Haut is SecN Of
War. The Camerous by this t.mo may
think, like great many others, that
HAYES is q fraud after all.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15
CoETINA SENTENCED TO DEATH.
SALE
There will be sold 81 Public Sale, on
Thursday, April. 9th.

AHtIt VIII DC Holu ht ubllt SAFE, on
Thursday, April, 9th,
at Sinking Creek Mills, tho following
property Of Peter Rubol, Of Peter iwr.
dec a.. 10 wi;
2GOOD HORSES. one . horse wagon.
;hree Hogs twenty shares OF stock iu
tho l.. G. Il :. {. railroad company.
one 2.horse sled, ! Buggy. / double SET,
Harness. Flyneiis. Check lines. Saddle
and Bride, Plow, Doublctrcc. old Iron.
Sausage Machine and StuEcr, Oak and
Pine Lumber, WLuat, Ryc, Corn. Oats.
Buckwhcat, Mixture and Corn in the ear
by the bushcl and variety OF articles too
10 mention. Sale 20 commence
AT o'clock, p. m, when terms will be
made known by
S. p. RUBEL,
J. c. RUBEL.
A, LUkENBACH,
mario 9t Executors
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15

Mr.. Hayes, who was not elected, IN ms
inaugural recommends constitutional
amendment fixing the presidential term
at six years, and torhiddinE arc>Cleciion,
II the Reporter had been consulted, 1t
would have suggested that he also re-
commend an amendmeu. 10 opr1ventauy
one aai slscioi 10 have even one
term.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15

---Schurz and Key owed their coaG..
nation to the woes of democratic senators.
Verify Hayes is stabbed in his own
house.
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The attention 90 Palestine explorers is
called 20 'the information given Ca ;le
historical book - the Mu,cahees II, chap.
g. verses -, vAuIeia We arc told lha. i'm
mciia.ely before the Babylonish capiiy5.
~ the prophet Jeremiah Was instructed 10
deposit In Noun, Noba the mos. valuable
treasures which the temple c3aa ned
namely the Tahe-rac'e. lhe Sacred Al.
gnd doubtless. The Tables % Stone. -
which ,he Ark Wat merely ,hc receptacle
~ which was written .ba lAS ~ th, Ten
Commandments, traced there original v.
we arc told, by the fuEeE % God himself
They were Do that mountain said TO bs
concealed. and Il tha; historical book is 10
bc relied on. we ma.l credit The fact iiat
;hcsc sacred treasures are there sL
Would q. DC. be worth ihccxp'orc-. While
20 seek for those In the place specified ?
The discovery of them would throw grca,
light Upon the Old Tcstamcn. and tie laa
guHge 10 which the Tables were written. 4"
COETINA SENTENCED TO DEATH.
Ma,amoras, March G.-Thc military
court before which General Cor,.na was
tried have found him guilty Of kiinap-
ping, the penalty attached 90 which. In
Me4ico i. death The Galjng or .hc Court
has been sent 10 General Caua'cs, Com.
manier Of Northern Mexico, for his action.
/: is believed that the finding of the m.I.-
,ary cour. viii be approved and ;hs; Cor
tina will be executed in fcw days In
consequence Of his arrest quiet prevails on
tho frontier and commerce IS gradually re-
yiyinE, Telegraphie communication With
the city Of Mckee is being speedily rcs,os.
cd and the mails rc,establi,hcd.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15

CRANE luABE AND UPRIGHT

"issA& -s tNAAE AMI Il lEA8ahA
Frou le Il. Etgsn, Grm Regan s
Garter, p1 ihefs Daily aud WCekiy Tti-
huno. JoaU 8u City. NO, sgior receiving
= 500 las1 nebt, says:
Piano reached ia good condition. ]
nm sell pleased with i Ithall voa rep
resent ID o. bb
From Z Baldridge, Bennington Fur.
oaca, Pa. after receiving a 500 piano.
Beatty received 90 inst. an a.. X,
and comes fully up 20 your approximation,
and exceeds our expectations While !
ton't profess tp be judge IN the matter,
Mrs u. docs, aid pronouncea it nf very
sweel tone and isvtry much pleased wiih
Bees Inducements ever nHefed Money
refunded upon return Of Piano and freight
charges paid ~ me ID. II. Beatty both
ways funaatisinciofy. after a test trial OF
ave days Pianas warranted for siK years.
Agents wanted. Send tor Gaia ogue Ad-
dross. ID. r BEATTY,
WaHhinglnn, New Jersey
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DUBLIC SALE.

L
The undcrs Encd will offer the follow.
ing property at Public Sale, on
Wednesday, March, 2Slh, at II m
viz: Horses, Colts Cows. Sheep. .
tour.horsc WaRons, tvu.hor.o Wagon.
Cart and Gears, Bob,slcd. Sclfrake Hub.
bard Reaper and Mower. Now Champion
Mower, Hay Rake, ? Drills, Hay Ladders.
CornplHnter, Centre Hall Horsepower,
Machine and Shaker, Fannir, mill.
Plows, Harrows Cultiyators, Tug harness.
Buggy harness, Plow gears, Wagon Sad,
de, Flynctts Hay fork rope and pullics,
Cow chains, Forks. Halt0rs, Sc. a long
credit will be given. AND. GREGG,
mars MA RIGA RET GREGG.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15

Mr.. Key. Hayes Post Master General"
led a Confederate regiment during the
late war, and was Democratic Senator
appointed TO Oil Andrew johnson S va
cancv; but at the late session Of Congress
he was the first 70 make 4 speeoA '7'n'
the Democratic side looking 20 southern
pacitication through Cancellation "' an"
co-operauon with the incoming H'pahh'
can administration.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15

There will be a Judge Of the Supreme
Court, Auditor General and State
Treasurer TO elect next November
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15

El-~i,G for and against poor house
on Saturday, April q. next.
The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-15

The President has decided not 70 fill
the vacancy on the Supreme Bench at
present Among the names which have
been pressed upon him are those 81 Cir
cult Judge Dillon and Drummond, and
Caldwell. of Arkansas; Scott, Of West
Virginia; Senator Howe, Of Wisconsin,
and ex-Secre;ary Bris,ow. he delays
dlling the appointment ancra cousulta-
ton with the Chief Justice and the At
torney-General, and will not eelec, ex-
Secretary Bris;ow, owing 10 assurances
that he could not be confirmed by the
Senate.
And the reason why the senate would
refuse TO confirm Bristow is because he
vas the only true m2nin Grants cabinet
and prosecuted the whisky thieves. for
which be had to leave the cabinet.
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pCrkopol!S or hOg-,own, IS the following
figures show: Total summer packing
I,Sl5,4O2; average weight lS9.73; nrm-
Der OF hogs packed regular season, !. l.602,-
6SS; average weight 2I6IT. Total sums
mer and winter packing, 2,9lS,0SI
against 2.S90,S46 for lS-5--6
A writer in the Morning Patriot re-
c5rmends Hon. Chas. Mayer. Of this
judicial district, for supreme Judge. a
purer and abler judge could not be
found. In this district he has the conf
dence ofmen Of all parties, and he would
receive an almost unanimous vote.
We stated in last weeks Reporter that
the democratic column in the senate was
fast growing to the size OF the radical
column, and may soon bea head higher
4 World correspondent Of 5. says that
the democratic column has no. stood so
high in the United States senate for
seventeen yearsrls It stood to-day. Il cast
,
publican votes, requiring only change
Of three from the latter side 10 destroy
its political majority. If two senators
from Louisiana and one from South Car
olina are secured TO the democrats, the
republicans will have but two majority
in the body, and it is quite sure that
they cannot maintain more than three
il South Carolina is given TO them.
For all practical party purposes, how
ever, their majority is gone now, as was
shown in the vote yesterday referring
the Louisiana case, and rs will be shown
hereafter in questions arising out Of the
present complications. An examina-
ton OF the listofrepublican senators who
20 out with the Forty-finh congress
shows uumistSkably tha, after the 4th Of
March, 1879, the senate will be demo-
cratic.
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HISTORY REPEATED.

History does repeat itself In the
Joe Ritner campaign Peg Beatty and
the Stonebreakers were called into re-
qlisition by the enemies ofthe democ-
racy. In the Hayes campaign Eliza
Pinkston and Madison Wells were in
vented. Thea an election was 10 be
treated IS 'fnot held, now an election
1r7s treated as If not held.
Peg Beatty and Eliza Pinkston. let
these be the female gods of the modern
Baalim who stole the Presidency.
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BEATTY'S PARL0R
: ORGANS :.

Elegant styles. with valuable improve.
ments. New and Beautiful Solo Stops.
Over one thousand OrEnuists and NJ Musi-
clans inaorse these organs and recommend
them IS strictly hrs. class In Tone. Me-
ehanism and durability. Warranted Tor
SIX years.
Most Elegant and latest Improved
Hsye been awarded the Highest presni.
ums ia competition with oihers fsr sln. nli,-
isy, Durability. Promptn, s.. sa3 Piano
like action
Pure. sweet and ovenly balanced tone.
orchestral effects. aud instantaneous ac.
cess which msy b. had 10 the reeds.
Send for Price List Address
DANIEL " HEATTY.
MnVhfruens Nm Fa~ss--
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II is confidently reported that senator
Cameron spoke and voted against the
confirmation Of sherman in executive
session. Why one big scamp should op-
pose 4 brother rascal who had leading
hand in stealing the presidency may
puzzle some old women, bat there isnot
always honor among thieves-at leas! not
this time.
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Harness. Saddles &c
II mn MATTER OF THE ESTATE

.TS THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
H. OF j As. LUCAS. DECD
The auditor sppoinled a. hear ana pass
upon tho exception filed 90 the aceount al
DR.. Blair. administrator Of the d.
ceased and make report thereof. Ec.. viii
attend 20 the duties % bis appointment 81
his oihca n Belletonc on Wednesday. TIE
-eih o. March. is1l, az two O'Clock :. m.
When and where all parties interested O.
attend ifthey see proper.
y. r, FORTNEY,
2 mar Nt. Auaftn~
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.XEcUT0Ks NOTICE

-
Letters testameniory on tho estate az
samuel Huston, late of Potter trrn-
dec q, having been granted to the under
signed, al persons indebted 10 said estate
are. required 10 make immediate pNyment
and thcse having claims against The same
70 present them daily authenticated by Lac
tor settlement
JAS. p CoBURN.
I mar * pV.c,,.,-
Aaronsburg Pa.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-10-11

fire. Some were broken after petri-
faction had taken place, As there was
no mark of splintering or bruising =
What must have been the giant force
that followed their first destruction to
have dealt this further blow? The
majority OF the trees are redwood,
some few the lnaronda. and the limb
of an oak has also been found. One of
the first named is eleven feet in diam
eter, and part of the trunk still pre-
served is sixty-eight feet in length.
Another shows signs of haying been
hacked with an AK, probably made of
obsidian, as all the prehistoric imple-
ments from this locality were made of
this same substance, volcanic rock,
which appears in abundance all about.
There is no mistaking the fact that the
cutting was done before petrifaction
began, as the cuts occur at different
angles to the grain of the wood. The
deduction is inevitable that man was
in California before the birth of Mount
St. Helena even, and also that he was
of q type superior to the people who
inhabited it at the advent of the Euro
pean, for he knew how to fashion cut
ting tools.-[Cor. SanFrancisco Post.
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CALIFORNIA PETRlFIED FOR.
EST.

We started out, merry party of
twenty-five or twenty-six, one day
last week to visit that wonderful relic
OF bygone age. the petrified forest
near Calistoga. The site of the petri-
fled forest is about l ZOO fe ct above
sea level, and lies in the same trend
with the Geysers, Mount st. Helena
and the thermal springs of Calistoga.
Geologically, it is one vast tufa bed in
which the trees lie as they were
thrown, probably thousands of years
ago, by some vast convulsion of ma
ture. This tufa, 1 will say for the ben
eft of the uninltiated in scientific lore,
is . volcanic ash or ciDder; il is lava
thrown upward in frey mass and
descending with rain. 1t is gray in
color and grandular in structure
Sometimes 1t is found imbeded in the
form Of little globes or bombs. Am.
monites, found in the strata, fix the
event in the cretaceous period; the
professor inclines to the opinion that
it was pre-glacial. The trees lie at FIVE
or six different levels-on the lower
almost north and south at the highest
northeast and southwest. At the lat
ter level the trees must have been
buried under 80 or 100 feet of lava !; at
the lowest 500 feet. Their dip con-
forms to the dip of the tufa, and is at
an angle Of from thirty to forty.five
degrees. They are fragments, many
of which have been converted into
charcoal, others into Ignite, and others
into beautiful specimens of jet. Where
the heart of tree has decayed the
cavity is filled with opal-a form of
lustrous, uncrystalized silica, contain
ing water. Chalcedony, another form
of silica. but clear and Iimpid, is found
in other cavities. No top has been
petrified, and only here and there q
root. Many have been charred by
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-10-11

The Springfield Republican suggests
. fcolloquial expression for the next
edition of Webster's dictionary. 1t was
invented by an anxious father on the
occasion of an interview with the prin-
cipal of one Of the Hampden county
(Mass.) academies, where the co-edu-
cation of boys and girls still prevails.
The boy in the case had formerly been
studious and promising, and for sew.
eral months had gradually fallen of
from his previous standard, growing
SO careless and unscholarly that it be-
came q serious question whether he
would be able to pass his college en-
trance examination. It was q coinci-
dence that he had meanwhile became
conspicuous as ladies' man. The
principal having alluded TO this as a
prominent cause of the boys demoral-
ization, 'yes,' broke in the father. Il
know it; he has got all girled up
Which, The Republican thinks, is a
remarkable happy aud pregnant phrase.
II there is anything that plays the
mischief with boys and girls during
that budding, downy, and velvet peri
cd Of their teens, when they ought to
be laying solid and Premature effio.
rescence of the sexual period, which
moves boys and girls, who ought to
be kept down to study, SO perk and
prim and sidle, and play with each
others eyes, and write silly and badly
spelled notes to each other, and cat
slate pencils in private. But then il
rarely lasts long it is less harmful
than tobacco or whisky, and there il
no law 'agin' youths of that age max.
ing fools of themselves.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-10-11

A sET-uP job-a newspaper.

SoME folks find fault because the
New York Bible house is next door
to theatre. Well, isn't the theatre
next door to the bible house7
TIE fret book read, and the last
book laad aside by every child, is the
conduct Of its parents.
WHY do short men have no right to
marry2 Because marriage is rite of
Hy-men.
THOSE who blow the Goals of others
strife, may chance to have the sparks
hy in their own faces.
TIE little boy who had been taught
that John and Jack were interchange
BILE names, astonished his Sunday
school teacher by an unprovoked ref
erence to Jack the Baptist.
Boston Transcript:-"You are as
pretty a. q picture" is no longer the
correct compliment to pay lady.
Simply say, "You put me in mind of
of . chromo."
JAY GOULD, it is said, was once q
country editor. His downward course
has been rapid.
Some Savoyards recently waited on
the Pope to present a valuable book.
Every page was q bank note.
A YOUNG man in town woke up the
other night and saw q ghost in his
room. Selling his six-shOoter he ap-
preached it and found it was his col
lar standing on the floor. He calls it
. case of collar in phantom.
"IMAKE it my point, madam, to study
my own mind" said q gentleman to a
lady who had exhibited somefsurprise
at an opinion he expressed. "Indeed -
she replied, 1 didn't suppose you un-
ders TODD the use Of the microscope"
IT has been proved in Nevada and
other silver-producing States in the
West that capital devoted to agricul-
ture pays better and more regularly
than if put into gold and silver mines.
A WESTERN paper says: "Wanted,
at this Office, an editor who can please
everybody. Also, foreman who can
so arrange the paper as to allow every
mans advertisement to head the col
umn."
It might have added, "Also a wealthy
publisher. who can afford to publish
at loss, pay bills every week prompt
ly, credit subscribers as long as they
wish, and not offend them by sending
notices or bills"
SURPRISE is the essence of wit but
somehow, when q man is climbing
down q ladder in q hurry and never
finds out that one of the rounds is
gone until he tries to step on it, 1t
never seems very funny to him.
A GENTLEMAN caught a pickpocket
in the act of robbing him. "You're
not clever enough, my fine fellow, said
he, "and what dirty hand you have !"
@My hands clean enough" coolly re-
piled the rascal, ''it's your pocket"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-10-11

OFFENSIVE breath can be easily got
rid of, for from four to six drops OF
tho concentrated solution of chloride
of soda in a wineglassful of pure fresh
water, taken Immediately after the alb.
lutions of the morning are completed,
will sweeten the breath by disinfect-
ing the stomach, which, far from be-
ing injured, will be benefited by the
medicine. If necessary, this may be
repeated in the middle of the day. In
some cases the carious teeth is COM
bined with that of the stomach. If the
mouth is well rinsed with teaspoon
full of the solution of the chloride in a
tumbler of water, the bad odor Of the
teeth will be removed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-10-11

tonight, and perhaps that will do just
as well. Good night
He disappeared, and so real and
letartling was the apparition that the
noise of his boots on the floor OF the
room below was distinctly heard for
two minutes afterwards. 1t was the
most successful naturalization ever
attempted in this vicinity.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-10-11

DERSONS wanting Coal will be accommo-
i dated by leaving their orders at the Gro
Gerry Store of PARSONS & RIsDON at my Liy.
cry Stable, north ofFirst National Bank
kavenna, Feb. 10, S7. GEO. POE CO,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-10-11

A PAULDING county farmer who
had suffered annoyance from the tres.
passing of cattle upon his premises,
posted up the following motifs in self
defense:
"Notis.-If any mans or woman's
cows or oxsen gits into these here otes,
his or her tale will be cut off, as the
case may be. l am a christian man
and pay mi tackses, but d-n a man
who lets his critters run luse, say ]"