Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-02-02

Last week we had such an unusual
and full assortment Of weather that al
classes and conditions ought to have
been able to suit themselves, and yet
people were unhappy and disposed to
grumble. On Monday 1t was intensely
cold and fierce storm prevailed al
day. Tuesday and Wednesday, still
cold but quiet. Thursday morning the
earth was covered with the smoothest
coat of ice ever seen in this section,
Many felt it severely. Friday, mild,
with a bright, sunny afternoon. Sat
urday-a beautiful white snow but 1t
didn't last long and soon turned tc
mud.
On Tuesday last an cight-inch snow
fell and yesterday at the time OF our
writing everybody seemed to be out en-
! joying the good sleighing.
The tall slim spire on the Luther
al church at Centre Hall, succumbed
to the fierce storm of Sunday the 22nd
January. At about O'Clock in the
afternoon it came down with a tremen'
dous crash, and the violence OF the
wind was so great that the spire was
carried over the roof without touching
it, except at the caves, where about
twelve feet of the cornice is badly shat
tered. The spre broke just above the
belfoy, leaving about - to ID feet to
stand The part that came down
measures about sc feet. The entire
height of steeple from the ground was
1870 feet. The church was built some
seven years ago, and withstood many
storms in that time, but the hurricane
on tn at Sunday exceeded everything in
that line ever experienced in Centre
Hall.
We lay before our readers this week,
in the form of supplement, the an
nual cE,nty statement as prepared and
authOriz. dby the county commissioners.
OuI inv IllN
one issued to-day, are TO follow. 1t is
the most comprehensive and Satisfacto.
ry financial exhibit ever published by
any board of commissioners of Centre
county, and will be placed into thehands
of every taxpayer Of the county as
nearly as possible, by the several papers
The board deserve much credit for lib
erality and business tact, III effecting
an arrangement with the newspaper by
which all parties and classes that are
taxed for public expenses, may have
the aDnual county account in u con-
venient form: the more So, because this
supplement system, now used in Cen
tre county for the first time, enables all
the papers TO give their readers the us
ual amount and variety of reading mat
ter, which, under the old system would
be croWd(dout for four weeks in sue
ceession.
We will have some comments to make
on the statement itself, next week.
The following, which we clip from
the Bellefonte Republican, proves but
too plainly that there is no love wasted
between brother NtCn and the tax
man of that town. True, tax collect
ors are grasping, heartIess sett as q
rule, and a not very popular class OF
officials, but they are a necessary evil
that can not be dispensed with as the
world goes, and the lest way is to hu-
NOR them and keep their good will rs
much as possible. Really, we wonder
why Tuten is so mad over the tax chap:
There goes Man. He wears glasses
and carries bundle of Papers in his
Hand. These are tax Receipts, and
the man is a Tax Collector. His name
is William Jones. though some mean
people call him Billy Skin Flint. He
chews Plug Tobacco, and don't care
much for Public Opinion. He is going
over to Cheapside to collect a mans
Taxes. He is a Brave Man and if the
man don't pay him he will nail his
name on Shade Tree, 81 the people
will know all about it. The Collector
doesn't teach Sunday-school class and
was never tripped up by his Conscience.
He will grow old some time and die.
Wouldn't you like t. be G Hector