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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-03

ly. Money is drawn ifS
sums, from the banks and from Ml
other legitimate business, TO supply
the "margins, or to carry the stocks
actually purchased and held by spec
ulators.
Exporting being at = stsndstill,
the inflow Of foreign money we should
have is nearly stopped, and Euro
pean buyers are seeking cheaper sup
plies In all other parts of the world.
The high speculative prices are
greatly diminishing the consumption,
and this alone must, ere long, bring
about q decline. The laboring classes
are compelled to pay much higher
rates for their food, the advances
mainly going into the hands of the
spectators. Labor must therefore
advance, and this in turn increases
the cost of manufactures and of all
products OF labor.
or course every spcculator, large
and small, erpects 10 sell out before
any great decline shall come, and the
shrewder ones will do so, leaving the
great mass TO bear the brunt of the
loss.
Clear-heaiesi business men nov
greatly fear that In the future, per-
haps the very near future, crash
will come that will derange the whole
business of the country.
To the oft-repeated question from
our readers: "Shall We sell now, or
hold on ~ we can only answer, that
a good general rule is 10 sell when
ever ready; get the money; pay up
debts, and keep in as snug and safe
condition as possible. To sell, or
hold on for change Of prices, IL to
speculate on great uncertainty. One
half OF the speculatoFs.who make :
business of studying the prospects,
viz, the sellers for future delivery
believe prices will fail. The other
half OF them---the buyers--believe
grain. etc, will 90 higher, from nat
ural causes, or thas they can acoFneFp
the supplies, and put up the rates.
The outlook would seem TO be that,
while speculative influences may sus-
tain or even advance prices tempora-
rIIy, there can hardly be a demand
for ali the grain, etc. Consumers at
home and abroad viii necessarily
curtail their purchases very mateFi-
ally. md these HIGH rates will cell
oug supplies from ether sources not
usually drawn upon.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-03

Every farmer in his annual experience
ftscorers something Of ratue. Write IL aud
send II 10 the "AgrieuituraL Editor Of the
DEMOCRAT, Beilefonte, Penn'a," that other
farmers may haze the benefit Of IT, Let
communications be timely, and Be sure that
they are brief and 'eett pointed.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-03
Sheep vs.. Artificial Fertilizers.

From the Live siosk Journal
No man can rightfully lay claim 70
absolute ownership OF the soil. 1t is
his in trust, only, and should be turn
ed over TO those coming after him as
rich in those properties which con-
tribute to life and happiness as when
he received it from those who pre-
ceded him. "Thou shalt not steal"
is not alone thu1dered through the
statutes of the State; IL is written on
every page of Natures great volume
whispered by every breeze, breath
ed by every blade OF grass, rising
like Incense from every foot of soil.
r The "graDd larceny" of which so
any farmers are guilty who take
ON the soil more than they allow IL
get back, ia not alone n mistake
Is wholly .saasaessary. Nature
~ o. crops, and then
persistent feeding TO
as will insure a fair
ital and labor, while
lcavisz farm all that needs TO
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-03
Prices OF Grain.

The interests of all producers are
greatly affected by the prices obtain
ed for their products. Just now
grain farmers are enjoying "boom'
in prices which will go far to CON-
pensate them for the shortage of
crops occasioned by the drouth. The
question "Shall we sell now, or hold
on 2" is, of course, prompted by the
uncertainty as TO whether prices will
advance or recede. This introduces
speculative feature into the mark.
citing of his produce which Is alto
gether outside of the legitimate busi-
ness Of the farmer. Upon this sub
ject the veteran editor, ORANGE JUDD,
now, as for many years, the chief
spirit of the American AgrieuLurist,
has this to say:
Never before, in this country, or
in any other, has there been anything
at all comparable 10 the present spec.
ulation, rather Gambling in Wheat,
Corn, and Oats, and in Hog Pro-
ducts. This gambling spirit has
taken possession OF large masses OF
people, and extends from the great
dealers who handle or bet on tens OF
millions of bushels down through
all ranks, to the hotel waiter who
puts up his weeks wages as n "mar.
gin" on the purchase of single hun.
dred bushels.
So great is the present rage Of this
kind of speculation that on some
days sales reach tens of millions OF
bushels. On one day (0ct. u the
deliveries of grain, on previous
contracts, we're reported at 80, ,00O, 200
bushels in Chicago alone
This speculation has demoralized
the whole trade. The "bulls" have
run mp prices so high as 10 nearly
stop exports. On Oct. ! the "visible
supply" OF wheat, that is, wheat in
the elevators and storehouses and in
transit, amounted TO IL, ,203,64s bush.
els. Last year at the same time there
we're only 37,099,745 bushels, show.
ing more available wheat now than
one year ago, though prices are fully
40 per cent. higher. Nearly the same
Of corn, the "visible supply" being
nearer 2T,629,l72 bushels last ",
2s,2s9,29s bushels.
The increased PRICE,
largely bysspeculaiio !
rates prevail. l.
almost all other busiSss
ly. Money is drawn ff@
sums, from the banks and from MI
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04
SsasCEE,E,kNEAys.

The miners of the Connellsville, Pa, coke
region, have struck for an advance of five
cents per wagon for mining coal, and ten cents
for drawing coke. The strike is quite extern
sive, affecting several thousand men. Nearly
all of the works have suspended.
Two boys under IA years of age, employed
III telegraph Office at Williamsburg, were
arrested at New York Wednesday while ne
gotiating for passage ON the steamer to
California. They had SIG between them.
Among the deaths at New York March
1st was Rose Burke, wife of John Hannigan,
formerly OF California.
The Assistant Treasurer at New York has
been directed to receive proposals on Wednes-
day, the 9th, for the purchase Of 50, 900, 900 of
5 or per cent. bonds of 1881, called or I'M
called.
Gladstone made his appearance in the
English House of Commons yesterday and
was loudly chesred.
A telegram from Chile announces that DIR.
Francisco Calderon has been elected Pro-
visional President of Peru. Peace negotia-
lions will probably now be resumed.
Cover of the Bank of England will repre-
sent England at the Monetary Conference.
Adolphe Laurent jeanne, the French ge-
ographer, is dead.
DR.. Carver American, aud Mr.. Scott, Ea-
glish. marksmen, viii compete at Westmin-
ster, Eng. for $500, the match beginning on
the 9th instant and lasting ten days.
The plague has appeared at Djsfflr. in
Mesopotamia. and four persons have died of i.
At Paris it is understood that new issue
of 1.030,000,000 francs, in three-per-cent
rentes at go, will be made on the oath of
March.
A new German monthly steamship line be-
tween Montreal and Antwerp will be es.ab-
lished the coming summer.
General Kasnakoff, Governor General of
Western Siberia, has been relieved from his
post. General Mestchernoff will succeed
him. An inquiry into the Siberian admins
tration has been decided upon at st. Peters
burp
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04
THE EVIL OF "MAc a1NE" POLITICS.

The present confu sed state Of city poll
tics in Sacramento to-day is the result of
an attempt to entrap the rank and file of a
party into the Endorsement of nomination
forced upon them by "machine " manipu-
lation. Politicians do not appear to gather
much wisdom from experience. Republi-
cans, at least, are the last men in the world
to submit to be dragooned if they know it.
Let them once see that trap has been set
for them, and they refuse to walk into it.
Efforts to pre-arrange the party machinery
in the interest of particular candidate are
always the most eyasperating and offensive
political tricks that can be played, for they
involve the extinction of the individuality
Of the voters, and the selling of them out
in advance of the election. Party machin-
cry has often enough been abused in this
way, but men are less inclined to put up
with such schemes than they were former
ly. Party ties sit very loosely. Most men
nowadays think enough to be sure that
they will vote in accordance with their
convictions. 1t is no longer sufficient
for few wire-pullers to arrange
primaries and announce an election test,
to carry Conventions. Men resent packed
Conventions and elastic tests, and will
not be bound by them. They insist that
all candidates shall take their chances
fairly and openly before Conventions
chosen without pre-arrangement and
collision. They insist also that primaries
shall be closed against voters of the oppo.
sition party, and they require that candi-
dates who want Democratic votes should
ask them frankly of Democrats, but that
Republicans should not be trieked into
indorsing men who rely upon their oppo-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04

visible and walked off. The Governor then
sent a stern warning around to all the clubs
and casinos Of Madrid, threatening the occu-
pants with penal servitude unless gambling
was stopped. Strange to say, public opinion
quite approves of the repression.
Disorder i'm Parts of the Turkish Domin.
ion.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 3d.-Disturbanc
are reported from various parts Of the Turk
ish Dominion, such as fighting with Arabs in
Yemap, and difficulties between the Druses
and Pasha Hauran. The Greek Government
protested against the imprisonment of some
siahsin the ' OTTO district which refusedtopay
the tax for exemption from military service.
At Siseova riots have begun against the mu.
nieipality and the Bulgarian Ministry. The
military fired on the mob, and two persons
were killed. Further bloodshed is antici-
pated.
Authors and Publishers and the London
Board OF Trade.
LONDON, March 3d-The President of the
Board of Trade, receiving a deputation of
British authors aud publishers, said that he
quite saw the force of the arguments in favor
of an extension of the time allowed for regis
tratlon from three months to six months !;
also the reasons why authors excepted to the
modification suggested by the Board of
Trade-the provision requiring that the
manufacturers of books to be in the country
of their publication should be confined to the
United States but the other modification,
concerning the free admission of American
reprints published with the authors consent,
seemed to him to exclusively concern manu-
featured books.
The Tariff Question in Germany.
BERLIN, March 3d.-Severely as the Ger
man shipowners suffer from the protective
tariff, they have just declared, at meeting
at Dantzig, that the proposition to help them
by an import upon foreign ships trading in
German harbors is not acceptable. They say
they prefer competing in the great markets
of the world to being allowed special advaR-
tages at home.
M0rmODs in Mexico.
New York, March 3d.-The Worlds City
of Mexico correspondent saws: The Mormous,
who perhaps anticipate difficulties with the
new regime about to be inaugurated at home
and here, are again endeavoring to procure
lands for large colony of the Saints. So far
the Mexican Government has taken no action
in the matter, but may when Congress as
sembles.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04
THE LEGISLATURE.

The Legislature which has decided to
adjourn to-day has accomplished less than
any similar body that ever met here, but
had it passed the appropriation Act we are
by no means certain that the people would
not regard its peculiar sluggishness as
welcome and highly satisfactory change.
Indeed when we consider that some eight
hundred bills have been introduced during
the session, of which less than tenth part
have become laws, it is impossible not to
feel that the circumstances which delayed
action upon this great mass of legislation
were benefeent. AS a rule two.thirds of
all the legislation had at an ordinary ses.
sion is either superfuous or vicious. The
State is plagued to death with crude, I'M
digested, stupid amendments to the Codes,
or it is worried and robbed by crafty
changes in the law which only open the
door to thieves. If the public were con-
suited directly in the matter we be-
lieve that they would be in favor
of quadrennial or even septennial
legislatures. At present there is
much more to apprehend from too
much than from too little government, and
if fifty per cent. of the laws now on the
statute book were cancelled, litigation
would be simplifed and made cheaper, and
Justice would be rendered more accessible.
AS it is all our constant w-making does
not secure to us protection from the worst
of crimes, and while We are fairly smoth-
cred under deluge OF amendments to the
Codes we cannot get murderer convicted
| from one end of the State to the other,
even upon the plainest and strongest evil
dence The truth is that too much of our
legislation is merely the tinkering of law
yers, who seek to gain points of their own,
or to make practice more convenient, and
while shoals of these petty changes are
being introduced the really weighty con-
Germs of life are thrust aside. We shall
not, therefore, find fault with the present
Legislature for having done less than any
of its predecessors.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04

Brooklyn; James K Hennessy, Philadel.
5hia Mrs. w. III. Randall, Buffalo; John
Hotel, st. Louis
Seventy-three through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train, to arrive in Sacra-
mento March 10th.
Railroad CollisiOn-Five Men Killed.
eTAUNToN (va.), March 3d.-A freight
train on the Cleveland and Ohio Railroad
and material train running at full speed
came together near Caldwell to-day, and
both were completely wrecked. The locomo-
tives were shattered to flinders. The two en-
gineers and two firemen were killed, and DIR.
Caldwell, of White Sulphur Springs, was also
killed. The cars were piled up four deep,
blockading the road so that no trains passed
till morning.
Relief Refused.
New YORK, March Sd.-,Judge Blatchford,
in the United States Circuit Court to-day,
rendered decision in the suits brought by the
| Direct Gable Company and the French Ca
BILE Company to restrain the consolidation of
the Western Union and other telegraph COM
panies. Judge Blatchford entirely refuses to
grant to either of the two complaints of the
| cable companies any relief whatever.
Smallpox In Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 3d-A large number of
avenue boarding house and saloon. So as not
to injure his business the proprietor was
keeping it still. He and the doctor who sup
pressed the newB will probably be arrested.
Eight Buildings Burned.
| MEMPHIS Tenn, March 3d-A fire at
Middleton, Tenn. to-day destroyed eight
buildings. Loss, Sl00,000 no insurance.
| silver and Stocks.
| New YORK, March 3d.-Silver bars, lis
money easy at Cos /; Governments strong
stocks closed strong Western Union, 1919
Quicksilver, 155; Pacific Mail, 55i Mariposa,
| AZ; Wells, Fargo 117; New York Central,
| 147a Erie, 4Ss; Panama, 210; Union Pa
cifc, 11S4; bonds, 113f; Central Pacific,
S7A; bonds, 1929; Sutro, 1.
| The New York Walking Match.
New YORK, March 4th-A. NAT mid.
night the score stood: Panchot 400 miles,
Sullivan 407, Krohne, 377, Curran 360, Cam.
pana 355, Lacouse S434. Hughes in January
last at this time had just outdone the best
previous record by scoring All miles.
Cabinet Gossip.
| New YORK, March 4th-A. M.-The T7ib-
une'S Washington special on the Cabinet says
1t is reasonably certain that Window was
droDped two days ago; that Allison was
transferred from the Interior, which he would
| not take, TO the treasury, which he would,
and that this led to more serious censidera.
ton of James for Postmaster General. II
Allison went into the Treasury, it was ar.
eued that the Conkling and Grant side should
have the Department next in patronage and
influence, and that James was a fit and
proper representative of that side, as strong
and as popular in his way as Allison. james
reached Washington on the morning train,
and went back in the afternoon.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04
FAITHFUL AMONG THE FAIFHLEss
FOUND.

In our structures upon the San Francisco
press yesterday We unintentionally COM
mitted an act of injustice towards one of
the metropolitan journals. and it is but
right that we should repair this wrong at
the earliest opportunity. The San Fran
cisco Post has not, like its local contempo-
raries, dealt unfairly with the debris ques-
ton. On the contrary, it has opposed the
cry of the repealers. and has insisted that
the State was under obligations to protect
the Sacramento valley, and that the Drain.
age Act ought not to be repealed until at
least some equally practical method of re-
lief had been adopted. The Post, there.
fore, should not be included in the con-
demnstion which the other San Francisco
papers have earned in this connection. but
must be regarded as an honorable excep-
ton to the narrow. minded journalism
which prevails in that city at the present
time.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04
Weafher Probabilities
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 113s for As of 1907 1909 for IS of 1881
l11g Tor AS; sterling, s. s1@4 s3t; silver bars
llS.
Silver in London, 52sd consols, 90 SIG; per
cent. United States bonds, 1893 Is, 1l64; AS,
l144-
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, 90@9o1c.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at IS Sd
aos Cd for good to choice California.
Mining stocks were in fair demand at San Fran
cisco yesterday, as things now 60. Prices showed
hut little change in the general list overman was
quite active at a sharp advance, jumping from 75c
to 81 O5 Alta and Benton were little better. No
ell for Alpha, Consolidated Imperial Confidence or
Kentuck.
An old man was beaten and robbed by two men
Monday night at the MERGED pesthouse. Blankets
and other property were carried off.
Sharp practice among certain fire insurance
agents in Oregon Is attracting attention.
Elizabeth Curley, aged 10, attempted suicide at
Virginia. New, yesterday, by setting her clothing ON
fire.
The President yesterday returned to the House OF
Representatives the funding bill without his sigma
ture, accompanied with message detailing his
reasons for the veto.
Another terrific storm the worst Of the season
prevailed in the Northwest yesterday.
Governor Perkins has granted reprive Of thirty
days to All Luck, who was to have been hanged at
Nevada City next Tuesday.
The miners of the Connellsvile Pa.) coke region
are on a strike for an advance in wages.
Never in the history of Washington have such
elaborate preparations for inaugural parade and
display ben made as now.
General Hancock and staff left New York fol
Washington yesterday.
The Catholic Bishops of British Columbia protest
to the Legislature against secular education
DIR. Francisco Calderon has been elected Pro.
risional President of Peru.
The French geographer, Adolphe Laurent jeanne,
is dead.
The plague has made its appearance in Meso
potamia.
Gladstone has recovered from the effects of hii
recent accident, and yesterday reappeared in thu
House OF Commons.
Secretary Sherman resigned his portfolio yester
day, and left the Treasury Department.
Kasnakof, Governor General OF Western Siberia
has been relieved from his post.
Serious Disturbances are reported from various
parts Of the Turkish dominion.
On the ice at Whitehall, N Y, yesterday, High
land Grey trotted three heats in 215 217 and 2lSa
In a railroad collision near Caldwell, Va, yester
day, both trains were completely wrecked and fv'
men killed.
After to-day all mails from Portland, Oregon, fo
San Francisco, will be sent overland.
Harry ROLAND was frightfully injured by falling
tree in Lewis county, W. T., on the LIST instant.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04

WHERE THERE IS WEAKNESS OF THE
THROAT OK LUNGS, q cold neglected may be
all that ia required to establish lingering and
generally fatal disease. Even where there is
no special tendency to bronchial or pulmonary
trouble, a severe cold, left to take care of
itself, often plants the seeds of serious COM
plant, sure to be developed by subsequent
indiseretions. Take especial care of your
health, therefore, from the very earliest
symptoms of cough or cold, by prudently
resorting to DR.. Jayne's Expectorant, which
will soothe and strengthen the bronchial
tubes, allay inflammation, and cleanse them
and the lungs of all irritating substances.
An ounce of prevention is better than a
pound of cure.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-uSroS.I
Senate.

Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 3d-The deficiency appropria-
ton bill was reported back from the committee with
an amendment.
The Senate insisted upon its amendments to the
sundry civil bill, and conference was ordered
The Senate took up the general deficiency bill,
and the Senate Committee amendments were agreed
to as the bill was read.
An amendment offered by Coc1rell was adopted,
appropratEg $4,000 to continue the investigation
of the claims provided for by the Act OF July 4
stores furnished the United States in non-insurrec
tionary States
Hoar's amendment for three per- cent loan, with
the modification proposed by Morrill,, emhodying
the substantial features of the refundiag bill with
out the compulsory fifth section, was taken up.
Wallace and other members of the Committee OF
Appropriations raised the customary points of order
against the amendment
AT the evening session number OF private pen
sion bills were passed.
Wallace, Davis of West Virginia and Booth were
appointed conferees on the deficiency bill
The Japanese fund bill was taken up.
kirkwoods amendment to reduce the total to
$685. 0G0 rejected, and the bill passed-ayes As,
noes G.
Coke, Harris Jones of Florida Maxey, Vest and
Withers voted no. THE bill directs the payment to
the Government of Japan of 81 463 224, and out of
this fund S24S 600 prize money to the officers and
crews OF the United States ship Wyoming and the
steamer Takiang, or their egatee Representatives
Beck submitted the conference report upon the
sundry civil bill.
The thanks of the Senate were voted unanimously
TO Vice President Wheeler and several hours were
consumed in discussion OF the House bill to incor-
porate the CHI roltee and Arkansas River Railroad
Company.