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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-12-22

What is known in California as the
debris question" has finally got into the
courts, and iniunctions and counter in.
functions are being exchanged, to the
manifest profit Of the lawyers. The
mines Of the bill country bordering on
the Sacramento valley are worked by
washing out vast quantities Of sand,
clay and gravel. The debris chokes
the streams flowing into the Sacramen-
10. The country is frequently iuun-
dated, and extensive tracts Of arabic
land are covered with silt, to the de-
struCtion Of all agriculture. The farm
ers have procured an order issued from
one Of the courts directing the sheriff
of Nevada county to shut of the water
of certain mines, the owners of which
had been previously enioined from
prosecuting their work. Another court
has issued temporary injunction re-
straining the sheriff from shutting OF
the water. At this point the matter
rests, and il is difficult to see how any
solution OF the question can be arrived
at 50 long as the prosecution OF the
two industries appear to be incompati-
bic with each other.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-12-22

The editor OF Nature says that many
Arctic authorities are Of opinion that the
days Of great and expensive national
Polar expeditions are passed, and that the
money thus spent would be put to much
better use by being devoted TO the car
rying on Of a continuous series Of OBJ
servations. At various points around
the Arctic area observations will be es-
tablished AZ near as practicable 10 the
pole, where continuous series Of OBJ
seryations viii be taken, according 60 .
common prearranged plan. These OBJ
servations viii be connected with mete-
orology in all its departments, with ter
regtrial magnetism, the aurora borealis,
atmospheric electricity, the movements
Of the ice, biology, combined with geo
graphical exploration where practicable.
Aftsr year or two Of such observations
We may then b. able TO compare and Co
ordinate Polar conditions with those
which prevail in regions further south.
A vast array of data must necessarily be
accumulated that cannot but be turned
to valuable account by science"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-12-22

n reference . she seceni great do
mana t. Confederate bon9a. i ! aaalsd
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-12-22

Calcutta was recently throRa into q
state Of intense excitement by the ar
rival of the great Moulvi Haiz Ahmed.
who Is credited with the possession Of
miraculous powers enabling him to
cure al diseases which flesh Is heir TO.
His process Is very simple. Tao pco.
pie assemble with earthen pots Of water;
he passes among them and breathes
upon the water, and forthwith i is i'm.
pregnated with curative properties.
Enormous crowds follow the man
wherever he goes. and nos only Him.
docs asst Siohammedans, but Owes Jhris.
tians Of III classes join the ranks. He
is in cay circumstances. aud exAals no
foe Or fewarl 81 any kind FOR Aia sor-
vices: his personal character i above
reproaeh. aud his ial IS always
usnsl II favor OF law a 4 order. IIs is
9 Mohammeaan nreaeher anl great
authority upon points d Moaammeaan
doctrine.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-12-22

The New York Hour says that "Sid-
ney Dillon, one of jar Gould's partners,
is about to build the costliest and most
ornate private residence on this cont.
nent. 1t il TO be erected at the corner
OF Fifth avenue and Seventy-sixth
street, and the house, with the grounds
surrounding It, will cover thirteen full
city lote, four of which will be on Fifth
avenue"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-12-22

The city Of Klingenberg, in Lower
Franconia in Germany, not only inn
poses no municipal tax, but every voter
receives an annual dividend from the
city treasury OF sum ranging from
s22.50 to s25. The city recently cele-
brated the Sedan anniversary by giving
every citizen fifty cents, with fifty cents
extra 70 every soldier Of the war with
France.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
A PoSt-Omce Site.

A bill was introduced in the Senate
Wednesday last to authorize the taking
of square No. 459 for public use, presuma-
BILE for a city post-office. If this bill is
intended, as it no doubt is, to locate the
city post-oflice at its present site for all
time to come, we must at the proper time
protest against its passage. 1t is now
about a year since the city post-ofice was
moved to its present location, and we
have had time to test its convenience
We believe the popular verdict would be
that it is too far down town. The loca-
ton of the new building, if one is to be
built, should be above Seventh street.
The District above that line has much the
largest mailing interest. Included in this
section are all the Departments. Some
of these-the State, Treasury, and
War and Navy, and the several
incidental bureaus-are now very
much inconvenienced by their great
distance from the post-office. 1t also in
eludes the business houses on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, the larger hotels, the bust
ness houses and offices on Fifteenth
street and thereabouts, the West End
and last, but not least,
Georgetown. Evidently the post-office
should be moved up street. Just where
it should be located we leave for future
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
The Funding Bill.

The advocates of higher rate of in
terest than three per cent. in the fund
ing bill are undoubtedly sincere in their
expressions of fear that so low a rate as
three per cent. will render impossible a
sale of bonds at par The friends of the
low rate are even charged with being un-
der the influence of those who desire to
defeat refunding in the interest of the
holders of bonds now bearing a higher
rate. OF course failure to provide for a
bond that could be f1Oated would bring
great discredit upon us. 1t would display
miscalculation of resources which no
Nation can afford. But the advocates of
the low rate charge that there are sinis-
ter motives at work to secure higher
rate. They say that under cover of dread
that refunding will be defeated by three
per cent. bond, they are bent upon de-
feating refunding by defeating legisla-
ton.
We shall make no attempt to argue
which side, if either, is correct as to the
purposes of the other. We simply reiter-
ate our previously expressed opinion that
a three per cent. bond, running con-
siderable time, will sell at par, and have
positive information that single house
in New York has already pledges of sub
scriptions for one-third of the amount to
be funded at that rate of interest, and
without condition as to the length of
time.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
The Transfer Nuisance.

L
| a subcommittee of the House has now
under consideration plans for overcoming
the difficulties attending the transfer of
passengers from one line of street-cars to
another. Suggestions are therefore sup
posed to bein order. The public is very
familiar with this subject and very much
interested in it. AS it is now conducted
there is probably not one passenger day
who does not object to it and some OBJ
ject so particularly and earnestly as to
give cause for the belief that we never
can become distinguished as moral
people under the pressure of such
a torment. And yet, on the other hand,
we have no doubt the street-car COM
panies are trying to do all they can to ac-
commOdate the people consistent with
the idea of protecting their own interests,
this latter being naturally matter ofthe
first consideration with them. As the
custom formerly prevailed, the companies
claim to have lost money by the transfer
system. Passengers would take the trans
fer tickets, and, instead of using them on
the connecting car, would go to market
or attend to other matters of business,
and then return to the transfer station
and use the tickets for another and
distinct trip. In other words, the ticket
purchased for a continuous ride, was used
for a broken or double trip. 1t was also
claimed that transfers were given away,
and afterward sold on the streets by boys
and others. Since the new system went
into effect it is claimed that the transfers
have decreased from an issue of eight or
nine thousand to five to seven thousand
each day, showing the great extent of
loss to which the companies were sub
jected. So on each side there seems
to be substantial reasons for in
sisting on the different claims
of parties to the issue. First, the public
that it should not be compelled to submit
to the annoyance of the transfer plan.
Second, the comDanies-that they should
not be subjected to loss. Now, as a way
out of the difficulty, THE REPUBLICAN sug-
gests this plan as a possible basis of COM
promise: Suppose new series of tickets
be issued at five cents each, these tickets,
or five-cent fare, emitting the passenger
to transfer at any time the same day, the
tickets now sold at six for twenty-five
cents emitting the passenger to a straight
ride only The result would be, probably,
that a passenger would not give away
his transfer, as it would then have posi-
tive value, while the COMPANY would be
reimbursed for whatever loss they might
have by the extra amount collected for
transfer tickets at the additional price.
1t would cost the public a trifle more,
but this would hardly be the subject of
complaint, since the inconvenience of ap-
plying to transfer agent could thus be
avoided
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
CoIored Cabinet Officer.

The battle for liberty is not yet won.
The color line in most of the Southern
States still divides those who have from
those who have not rights which all feel
bound to respect The baleful influence
of slavery still controls nearly all the re-
gion from which chattel slavery has been
expelled. We have scotched the snake,
not killedit Constitutional amendments
and laws for their enforcement which it
was hoped would put an end to the bar
barism of white tyranny over blacks are
laughed to scorn. They are not even an
impediment to those whose injustice they
were meant to overbear. The advocates
of an exclusively white mans govern
ment" make no concealment of their
purposes, which can deceive any one not
desiring to be deceived.
The Southern Democratic papers are as
full of assertions that those of the whites
who are Democrats shall rule, regardless
of majorities, as they are of the pretense
that the blacks are allowed to vote. The
men who invent the devices and lead in
the plans by which the black vote shall
be neutralized are loudest in pretensions
that the whole South accepts the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments Those
who adhere to the old Bourbon Demo
cratic organization are as bitter and unre-
lenting in their hostility to the right of
the black man to vote as they are hypo-
critical in their professions to the con-
trary. The exceptions to this rule do not
change the rule.
A valued personal friend, a resident of
Virginia, of the regular Democratic party,
demonstrated with us a day or two ago
against this view. He declared our infor-
nation to be wrong. We know he was
honest in this opinion. But as against
his testimony we have hundreds of in
stances of Democrats who admit to US
that the negro will not be allowed share
of political power, and that the Southern
people (meaning always the Bourbons
only cannot be expected to sub
NIT to negro suffrage and all
its consequences. They will allow
negroes to vote, now that they can
do the counting; but in order to recap
ture the Southern State governments
after reconstruction, and control their
election machinery, they resorted to
methods that created reign of terror in
the South as terrible as the mind of man
can conceive. We are often called upon
to observe the absence of violence in the
South. But this quiet only prevails so
long as the negro sleeps quietly on his
rights The least movement on his part
in the last election brought his enemies
to their old work.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17

WAR against grog-shops and rum-holes still goes
onin Washington 1t isa disgrace to the Nation that
therummies should not long since have been utterly
routed and kicked out of the field. We shall have
the reputation abroad of being drunken nation,
when in our very Capital we cannot control the re-
tail trade in rum. The honored name of Washing
ton ought to be dropped, and that substituted
should be RUmUHLe. 'Tis a rum thing" is this
war at the CAPITALIZATION Trarelcr.
"The retail trade in rum is controlled
by a license system in the National Cap
ital far exceeding in stringency the laws
governing the sale of liquor in Boston,
and the statistics will probably show that
there is less drunkenness in Washington
according to population than in the
"Athens of America" The statement OF
the usually truthful Trdreler is unfair, and
calculated to mislead those who are not
aware of the real facts in the case.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
Praise from. Sir Hubert.

Charles A. Dana beams upon Mr.. Conger in the
New York Sun: The translation to the Senate of
Mr.. Conger, of Michigan, depriveS the Republicans
in the House of their ablest and safest leader. a
thoroughgoing partisan, alert and eager in the
cause, his reputation man and legislator is
that of the purest Conger's name is open to no
to him. and this doubt is the secret of his power
among his associates. We observe that the Demo-
cratic newspapers generally describe Mr.. Conger
as of acrid temper, but nothing could be further
from the truth. He is one of the most genial of
men, and his humor is simply overfowing. No
gentleman ever attained his prominence III the
House, compelled as such person is to go about
stopping everybOdy's schemes and trampling
everybodys toes, who had more devoted friends
than this acrid Representative from Michigan. He
is savage enough in fighting Democrats as Demo-
Gratis, or thieves thieves; but off his Congress
siOnal legs he is as full of human kindness, fun,
and anecdote as Bob IngeTsoll himself"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
Insf HiS Tnrnnnn

Wade Hampton seems to have lost his temper
permanently. He took offenSe at something which
that time-honored organ of Southern chivalry the
Charleston Mercury, published about him, and sent
back his copy Of the paper and requested that no
wrote him letter of remonstrance Hampton re-
Piled a. beg to say that regard your letter as
an impertinence and your paper a nuisance -
This reused the wrath of the editor, and he re-
sponded in a letter accusing Hampton of trying to
kick down the ladder which raised him to his ele-
waited position asserting his right Democrat in
good standing to critcise the acts of the party's
Servants and closing with the information that his
address was Charleston, s. c. 1t is a very pretty
quarrel, and must "perpeX" if it does not
almost discourage" the late advocate of the prin-
ciples of Lee and Jackson.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
The Chinese ouestton.

Giveadam Jones secured the floor to announce
men of considerable note. had made personal an
plicatiOn to him for membership in the club
The time had now arrived when the club must face
and he hoped it would he settled at this meeting
The question being open to debate, nearly all the
old members had a word to say. Waydown Bebee
man was a col0red man, there was something wrong
about his eyes. Pickles Smith didn't feel like
voting against any good man, but no applicant
who wore pig-tail down his back could get vote
from him. Rev. Penstock presumed that Cinnamon
had souls, but it was better for them to join some
society where the proceedings were conducted in
their native language. Samuel Shin, Colonel Root,
Deacon Dodger, Veracity Johnson, Welcome smith,
and Others, spoke in favor of admitting John, "
but, a call of the ayes and nays, majority of 16
was shown in favor of keeping him out There
being further business before the club, the meet
ing adjourned for one week.-Ffee Press.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
DR.. RItss. not Dr.. Carnoehan.

10 INC EdH0r of 1he NutoiG' ReptE6icdR:
In your notice of the formidable surgical opera
ton performed by DR.. John NJ. Carnochan, of New
York, upon Major A. D. Banks of this city, you
have slightly dilated upon the facts. Dr. Car
nochan was sent to the bedside of Major Banks by
an intimate personal friend-resdent of New
York-whO determined to contribute the expert
ence and skill of his own physici an toward the
com fort and recovery of his old friend and class
mate The result of this visit was a consultation
with DR.. Bliss Major Banks attending physician,
Drs. Elliott and Reyburn, of this city, and DIR.
Cabell, of Virginia. An operation was advised
and performed by DR.. Bliss the gentlemen COM
prsing the council sustaining the views of the at
tending surgeon and witnessing Incorporation
JUSTICE.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17

PROFESSOR NORDENSKJoLD intends to
start on a new Arctic expedition in the summer of
1882 He is now having ship built for this pur-
pose.
CoFFEY, a Peoria youth of nineteen
years, has been adjudged to pay Mrs. Mary A
Thomas SIS for blighted affections. Mrs. Thomas
is fifty and grandmother
THE house in which Davy Crockett
once lived, at Lawrenceburg, Tenn, is still
standing. Dave is dead; bat, unfortunately, the
play which takes his name snot
KENwARD PHILIP is getting great deal
of gratuitous advertising in his new employment
Having gone into the undertaking business, he
should select "Aemento Morey" as his trademark
SECRETARY SHERMAN passed through
| Cleveland Saturday afternoon, and went TO Men,
tor, where he is Garfield's guest Senator Allison,
| of Iowa, is in Cleveland, and was at Mentor on
Monday.
THE colored Republicans of Nashville
have adopted resolutions demanding q share of
offices, and recommending John NJ. Langston for
Garfelds Cabinet, and have appointed delega-
| ton to go to Mentor.
| GENERAL ARTHUR is a man of warm
temperament, with rich, black eyes, fascinating
address, and is such figure as might have been
Hamiltons, Fishes, Tlghams, and Humphreys of
the Revolution.-Gdh.
| SENATOR MALONE, of Virginia, has a
fine library in his home at Petersburg, and many
valuable pictures, and has scholarly and artistic
tastes of his own. He is mentioned as possessing
an iron will, though he has only weight of nine
| ty-one pounds to support it.
| CoNGREssMAN-ELECT J. HYATT SMITH
apologies in letter to the Times for defeating
Hon. s. B. Chittenden. He says he has voted for
| Mr. Chittenden twice, and would have voted for
him at the last election if he had voted at all
praises Mr.. Chittenden's financial record hopes he
himself may be successful, and finally asks God
| to bless Hon. S. B. Chittenden.
Miss CLARA BARTON, the Florence Night
ingale of America, has prepared and circulated a
pamphlet explaining the Red Cross of Geneva"
the articles of the convention for the ameliora-
ton of the condition of the wounded armies in the
field, signed at Geneva the 22d of August, 1864
Miss Barton is living at Danvlle \. Y, and is
the American representative of the Geneva Inter
national Convention for the relief of the suffering
| by war, pestilence, famine and other national
calamities.
Mr.. A. J. DREXEL gave reception at
Philadelphia Saturday night to the Saturday Club,
| at which $50 gentlemen were present General
Grant, General Hawley of Connecticut, Generals
Webb and Bailey of New York, General Robert E.
Patterson, George W. Childs, James l. Claghorn,
| and nearly every Philadelphian of prominence
were present. No speeches were made. The men
of both parties met on neutral grounds The occa-
sion brought together many political opponents,
but the reception had no political significance
whatoVpr
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
UNSPOKEN LOVE,

Is that love only blest
Which finds an outward voice?
Or is the love not best
That knows, but hides its choice?
Doth music breathe no love
Because it tells no name?
Do poets verses move
None but the poets fame.
Is that love only sure
Which shows to outward sight?
Or doth it best endure
That shuns to seek the light?
Sill waters run as deep
As those that hurry by;
The little flowers that sleep
Live, though they seem to die.
Then keep thy treasure still,
safe in thy secret breast.
To open is to spill;
Unspoken love is best.
Thus soul shall speak to soul,
And heart shall beat to heart,
Without the forced control
Words, idle words, impart.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
&nnffRh-

The leopard boy, who has been for some years a
standard attraction for side-shows, was exhibited
at lecture in the College of Physicians and Sur
geons in New York on Tuesday The boy stated
he was black at BIRTH and the spots began to ap-
pear when he was three years old. The lecturer
said the spots had enlarged considerably since his
examination Of three years ago, and that it was
safe to predict the process would go on til the
transformation was complete.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17
Reform Slang.

The neglected and unfed, the aspiring
but disappointed, the self-called but un-
chosen, the low rascals and the high
theorists, the bilious dyspeptics, the in
sane egotists, the educated idiots, the
apers of foreign airs, the unjust dis
charged servingmen," and all the other
mentally and morally deformed unfortu-
mates who go to make up the catalogue of
reformers in our day, have slang vocab-
ulary, which, to one ignorant of our
country and its men and affairs, would
give an impression that they were really
Every, very good" while all others
were simply "horrid." They tell of
the griefs of the "better element" of the
party, and then vary it by calling it the
"better class" They are the pets of " the
people" though of very few people, if we
may judge by results. "The machine is
these ETHEREAL people They
would all float into official regions on
wings fit for reform angels but for the
"nawsty machine" They cannot get
anybody elected to Office. The people
the country by getting the offices. They
have good machine, and right deity do
they handle it; but when it meets the
naughty machine, it is as an egg-shell
against a frigate.
If a convention is to be held, to be
composed of five hundred delegates, they
scream, and shout, and curse, and rave
against all mankind except themselves,
and predict that " the people" are at last
about to triumph over the machine"
They threaten to bolt if they are beaten,
and declare that the party shall live only
on condition of giving them the spoils in
the name Ofreform. When the delegates
are chosen by that portion of the people
who are of the Republican faith,
a small fraction of reformers is
found to have been elected. The con-
Vention, which in their hands would have
been an ecumenical council of the party.
above all appeal, Immediately degener-
ates into machine" and the majority
is all that is vile. So, in State Legisla-
ture. a few sore-headed imbeciles set up
for a monopoly of the virtue, demand the
right to dictate, and shout machine" at
the overwhelming majority which tosses
them about in q political blanket for
mere sport. 1t is Ill most laughable
comedy. Why should it excite any but
mirthful emotions?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17

"WHAT is more conducive to happiness
at home than the busy hum of the sew
ing machine?" says an exchange Well,
the claims of twenty-fve-cent chrome
in fourteen-dollar gilt frame are not to
be overlooked.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-17

"Gath" hits a certain class of free-traders a
sharp and deserved blow on their conceited pates
in the following witty paragra phi: Free trade
does not make any headway in the United States
because its partisanS lack magnanimity even in
small things. Nothing is 10 be expected anyway
from the present class of free-tradeTs in America
who are not free-traders from active interest in
business, but from desire to make it appear that
they know more about political economy than
other people