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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

CAMBRIA county has new Court
House. 1t was dedicated last week
with great enthusiasm, Robert 5. John
son being the orator of the occasion.
1t is claimed to be the finest structure
of the kind in the Commonwealth.
Good for Cambria.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

A RESPECTABLE old lady of Lewis
town, widow of Peter Marks, commit
ted suicide on Friday last. She was
in her sixtieth year, and was supposed
to be in the enjoyment of good health.
No cause is assigned for the rash act
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

THE Independents, or half-breeds
have majority of one on the one-leg
issue raised by the stalwarts. Duff
and Merrick are both one-legged
veterans.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

THE Independent candidates are
all lifelong opponents of the Democ-
Tacy, and very earnest in deprocating
Democratic ascendency in the State.
But they want share Of the offices
now monopolized by the stalwarts, and
have no objection to steal some of our
cherished principles to use a. bait to
catch Democratic votes. The Demo
crats may applaud ell their efforts TO
get the offices away from the stalwarts,
and IL 1t will add to their happiness,
allow them to chain Don Cameron in
the lunatic asylum and drown Boss
Quay in the Delaware, but they cannot
afford to desert their guns and their
principles to swim in Republican pud-
dies this year.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER is
said to have announced his purpose,
as the determination of the Admins
tration, to prosecute the star route
thieves. If the Attorney General will
prosecute these cases with vigor and
in good faith, he may regain some of
the credit he lost by his foolish parti-
san raid on Democratic election offices
of South Carolina, in which he met
with inglorious failure.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

CAMERON declares his purpose to
smash all tariff bills and "kick up the
devil" generally, if the business men
do not rally to the support of his
management and dictation of the par
ty machinery. lie is the Boss, as we'll as
a smasher, and will not tolerate inter-
ference in his ranch. "Shoot the de.
serters" is the order, and Senator
Mitchell, John Stewart, and other
"halfbreeds' will do we'll to be
warned. The lion is aroused and
thirsts for blood.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

THE Hon. PERsIFER +. SMITH, the
senior member of the Chester county
bar, died suddenly of heart disease in
the court house in West Chester on
Thursday last. Mr.. Smith was seven
ty-four years of age, a man of fine at
tainments and quite prominent in his
profession. lie represented Chester
county in the Legislature in 1862 and
1864.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

PROFESSOR BAIRD of the Smith
sonian Institution, has asked Congress
to appropriate $4,000 for the fish
exposition to be held in London in
1883. His application is favorably
received by the foreign affairs commit.
tee, who it is said will report a bill
favorably.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01


THE deadlock in the House on the
contested case Of Mackcy ". Dibble
from South Carolina is nos in full
tide. The Democrats are coutcuding
for a principle just and proper in
itself, requiring the investigation Of n
palpable and outrageous fraud before
the case IS brought up for considcra
ton upon its merits on the report Of
the majority of the committee. The
Republicans decline TO consider the
evidence Of fraud perpetrated by the
contestant, aud insist upon unseating
the sitting member, and seating Mack
ey with his smirched record before
any other business is transacted, with
out regard to right or fairness in the
case. This is the main question
upon which the parties have locked
horns, but there are Others equally
important involving grave legal ques.
tions that ought 10 be and no doubt will
be raised on final consideration of the
rights of the parties. At the present
both parties express a determination
to test the endurance of each other to
the utmost. The Democrats offer to
proceed in the transaction ofany other
business of the session. but will refuse
to the end to seat Mackey unless the
frauds alleged are Investigated in a
proper manner by the committee.
They are right, and deserve comnlen-
dation.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

GES. w. :. HAScocK and Gen.
William Franklin have been on n
visit to Judge J. 5. Black. at his resi-
dence in York. It IS not difficult TO
imagine what royal greeting these
distinguished soldiers would receive
from the no less distinguished and
eminent statesman.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

5. 7. sHueERr VAN oRMeR, Editors,
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

EITHER Boss Quay, Tom Cooper or
Christ Magee would be proper men to
supply the vacancy on the machine
Republican ticket BY selecting one
of these representative stalwarts for
Congress-at-large, Senator Cameron
could measure the extent of his per-
sonal popularity in Pennsylvania.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01
.The Geatre gemptrat.

Terms s1.5O per Annum, in Advance
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

Thursday Morning, June, l, 1882.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01

IT is announced that Philadelphia
business man is to succeed Marshall
ON the machine ticket for Congressman
at-large. John Wanamaker is among
those named and will probably be
the man. The Boss when in Philadel.
phia the other day, it is said, called
upon him and offered the prize, and
urged it acceptance.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-01
GENERAL NEWS.

The Casey farm at Deer Park, Long
Island, has just been purchased BY
Ulysses S. Grant.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
The Early Icelander.

Iceland was settled by the well-to-do Northern warriors who came from the land of song and legend. The Morse settler was a solitary man, or at least he lived in his lonely homestead with no society but that of his household and de- dendents. ''Hc had time to mediate on the deeds of the national heroes and of his own arcestors--time to turn some of his intense energy into the form of poems and histories. and to repeat them to others, who learned them by heart from his lips. His son, very likely, went to Norway; half warrior, half poet, he lived while in the King $ Court, had his strong imagination yet further ex- cited by change and wanderings, and returned to Iceland-which then, as now, had for her sons an irresistible at- traction-able to tell better story and chant better poem than before. And so the light was kindled, and spread from homestead to homestead, and a class of men rose up, the poets or skalds, who could repeat the s;r.s, word for. word, for hours together" Nor had these poetic warriors to draw solely on their "reminiscences, or on the old Scan dinavian sources for inspiration. On the contrary, as we have said, the most spirited of the sages, which have been immortalized by the intensity of their dramatic realism, were the reproduction of personal experiences or the events of family history. The acts of the drama, with their bloody scenes, might have passed within arrow flight of the authors window; while the flames from the farm he had once rebuilt had thrown their ruddy glare on the water of his own ford. There was little difficulty in re- viving the impressions which left their indelible mark on the memory. And we may remember that the wariike Ice landic settler had double character. At home he was peaceful cattle owner and cultivator of the soil, fairly ohsery- ant of the national laws, and a kindly neighbor, except under provocation. Abroad he was one of those remorse- less rea-rovers who were bracketed with famines and fire in the litanies of the suffering coast Christians. Professional robber as he was, many wild deed might haunt him in the seclusion of his family circle and the gloom of the north ern winter. He was still probably half heather at heart, though he had been held over the baptismal font. and vowed devotion to the White Christ. Black
 Ooods Magazine.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
Experiments on the Eve.

That sensations of light may be pro- duced by mechanical irritation of the nerve of the eye is now shown to be the case, by observations recently made by Schmidt-Kimpler. on person from whom an eye had been removed not long before. A blunt instrument was placed against that part of the orbit in which the stump of the nerve was situ- ated, and the observations were made in a room almost completely dark. Of six persons, in two, pressure on this spot always caused a flash of light on the side of the enucleated eye, and some of them averred that the sensation exactly resembled that which he had before ex- perienced when the eye-ball was gal vanized; the same patients experienced similar sensation when the stump of the nerve was galvanized. The negative result of other cases is explained by the more complete atrophy of the nerve, or greater reaction of the stump.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
All About a Shoe Peg

It is Imaginable to see how little it takes to raise crowd-or start a story-in city street.
 Never you mind me-" said bent over old man, when asked what had happened to him.
 "How did he get hurt?" asked man out of breath.
 Ibid the horse step on him?" queried a colored man, with spectacles on.
 "Where did the dog bite him? Did they shoot the dog? Was it big dog? Has he got wife? Did they live to- gether?" ratIled woman made up a good deal like Widow Bedott
 Come and see the man in ft," speak ed out boot black, as he called the rest of the brigade.
 Look out! he's going to shootr' yell led big man with red whiskers; and the crowd blew away like dust when the old man slid his hand into his pocket as if for shooting iron.
 Then he straightened himself and started off on his own individual busi- ness, muttering something about "What |. the mischief it was to them if he wanted to sit down and take peg out of his shoe"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
How Much a Million Dollars Weighs.

Mir E. B. Elliott. the Government Actuary, has computed the weight of million dollars in gold and silver coin as follows:
 The standard gold dollar of the Unit ed States contains of gold of nine- tenths fneness 25.S grains, and the standard silver dollar contains of silver of nine-tenths fineness 412.5 grains. One million standard gold dollars, conse- quently weighs g, 8O0.O00 or 53, 75O ounces troy, or 4,579 1-6 pounds troy, of 5,760 grains each, or 3, 6S5, ,61 pounds avoirdupois of 1000 grains each, or l, 843-1. 900 short tons of 1000 pounds avoirdupois each, or 645-1 ,000 "long" tons of 2,200 pounds avoirdupois each. One million standard silver dollars weigh 412.500,000 grains, or 859, 1875 ounces troy, or 1,614.58 pounds troy, or S,92S.57 pounds ayoirdupois, or 29 464-100 short tons of 1000 pounds avoirdupois each, or26 307-1. GOO 'long" tons of 2.249 pounds avoirdupois each. In round numbers the following table represents the weight of million dol lars in the coins named:
 Description of coin Tons Standard gold coin. n......................... s5 Standard silver coiu-...... ................ l635 Subsidy silver coin. p................r........ 25 Minor coin, five cent nickel. 100
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
Curious Facts.

It is said that alcohol equal to that made from grain can be produced from acorns.
 Lockjaw, induced by drinking too freely of ice water while overloaded, killed boy at Ottawa.
 A Florida man gathered in one day 800 watermelons from his field, the average weight of which was forty pounds.
 The last week of June was the first week for nearly three years that death from smallpox had not occurred in London.
 In the excitement of landing twen- ty-five pound salmon at Seabock, w. T., a Boston man lost his gold watch.
 A large gray rat is seen regularly every morning walking wire across a street in Rock Island. Ill. The wire leads from dry. goods store to res taurant.
 A house was left standing right side up in the center of corn-held by one of the Iowa tornadoes, and nobody in the neighborhood knew whose it was.
 Indians will not cook in their wig wams, because they have theory that would collect in their clothing, and draw the lightning.
 It IS stated that block of creosoted pine, in use in the street pavement in Galveston for seven years, was recently examined and found to have lost but an eighth of an inch.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
The Sunfower.
Its Value for Oil, as Febrifuge, and as an orna
 ment.

4ts fdiue Oll, dh eDrlluEeJ auC aB du OIud-
 ment.
 Since the sunfower has become fash- ionable, people have taken to cultivat- ing it. AS they want some other excuse than catholicism therefor, they will no doubt be pleased to learn something of the practical utility of the flower. The blossoms will feed the bees, and its seeds are the most excellent food for poultry in Winter. on account of the oil they contain, while the leaves are said to make good fodder if dried in the sun, cut up fine and mixed with bran, for milch cows. In England large quanti- ties of sunfiowers are raised solely for the purpose of feeding stock and hens.
 In Russia the sunfower is extensively cultivated for the oil the seeds contain. The oil is palatable, clear and flavor less, and it is used for adulterating olive oil. being exported from St. Petersburg to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Next to poppy seed oil, sunfiower oil burns the ciearest and longest, so that the peasants apply it to household pur- poses. From the stalks of the plants they also make good quality of pot ash, and the residue of the seeds, after the oil is extracted, is made into oil cake for feeding the stock. Sheep, pigs, rab- bits and all sorts of poultry will also fatten rapidly upon the oil cake, and will eat the seeds with as good a relish, as they eat corn.
 The sunfower will grow anywhere, and it is an excellent plant to absorb bad air and prevent malarial disease. It should, therefore, be planted about pig pens, barn yards and hen roosts, and serve double purpose. The seeds should be planted twelve inches apart and when ten or twelve inches high earth them up like corn hills, and they will ask no further attention at your hands. Each plant will produce at the lowest estimate one thousand seeds. The center flower often produces that amount, and the lateral flowers several hundred. Six pounds of seed will plant an acre, and it can be planted after the crop of early potatoes has been harvest ed.
 Enc oil extracted from the seeds is | most excellent for making the incest kind of toilet soap, and if the stalks are treated like flax they will produce a silky, fine fiber, which, it is said, the Gh1l1ese use to adulterate their silk a2annfaetures. They, raise large quan- tilsaa oI sunfowers, and with them orig fn3fed <ha double varieties. The stalls can also be.ased in manufacturing pa- per. In Kew Mexico and some other sections ef tAe Hestern country the sum- flower groyxs 5ls Senous to the soil, and thousands 6f fxquare miles are covered with luxuriant growth of what is, it appears, really valuable stalk.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
An Unsatisfactory Will.

To make a will which shall give satis- faction to all the heirs is no easy mat ter. It does seem as if a man should be allowed to do what he chooses with his own property, as long as he does not in jure society; but interested parties very frequently think differently, and only a wholesome fear of the penalty of the law keeps many selfish person from following the example of the widow in the following incident.
 A farmers will was presented for pro- bate Git was in old days) to an arch deacon during his visitation. He found a name scratched out. The widow step- ped forward and explained: ''I tells you how he be, sir. When we comes to look into the will, we sees f50 left to John Wheeler. What's he got to dc with masters money?' says I. So 1 gets a knife and scratches him out. and that is just how he be, sir. ."-Mozley's Ca ford "Reminiscences.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
Writing Poetry Under Difficulties.

Scene: A young poetess engaged in writing an impassioned poem. Illus band standing in an unsympathizing at titude, endeavoring to make himself heard:
 Poetess: ''Tell mo, my heart, whence springs this bitter tear?"
 Husband: i've asked you for my slippers twice, my dear"
 Poetess lin provoked prose]: ''Oh! they're somewhere, Charles; do look for them yourself, and let me writer'
 ''Tell me, my heart, whence springs this bitter tear?''
 Husband: Il tell you what, Jane, bacon's scarce this yearr'
 Poetess [angrily]: "Oh! Charles, I wish you would save your bacon. and let me write. You keep putting the rhyme out of my head"
 Husband [pathetically]: "Ah! my dear, wish l could do thatr'
 Poetess: Tell me, my heart, whence springs this bitter tear?''
 One of the children coughs violently in bed.
 Husband [distractedly: Poor Tom my's got the whooping-cough, I fearr'
 Poetess Throwing down her pen in desperation, exclaims]: Well; wish you were all anywhere but here!'
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
Tomato Catsup-Tomato Sauce.

The basis of tomato catsup, or ketch-- up, is thc pulp of ripe tomatoes. Many defer making catsnp until late in the season, when the cool nights cause the fruit to ripen slowly, and it may be it is gathered hurriedly for fear of frost. The late fruit does not yield so rich pulp as that gathered in its prime. The fruit should have all green portions cut out. and be stewed gently until thor oughly cooked. The pulp is then to be separated from the skins by rubbing through a wire sieve, so fine as to oretain the seeds. The liquor thus obtained is to be evaporated to thick pulp over slow fire, and should be stirred to pre- vent scorching. The degree of fevapora- ton will depend upon how thick it is desired to have the catsup. We prefer to make it so that it will just pour freely from the bottle. We ob- serve 10 raralar rule in ilavor;ag. Use sufficient salt. Season with cloves, aI- spice and mace, bruised and tied in cloth, and boiled in the pulp; add small quantity of powdered cayenne.- Some add the spices ground fine, direct ly to the pulp. A clove or garlic, bruis- ed and tied in a cloth, to be boiled with the spices, imparts delicious favor.- Some evaporate the pulp to greater thickness than is needed, and then thin with vinegar or with wine.
 An excellent and useful tomato sauce may be made by preparing the pulp. and putting it in small bottles while hot, corked securely and sealed; if desired, the sauce may be salted before bottling. but this is not essential. To add to soups, stews. sauces, and made dishes. a sauce thus prepared is an excellent substitute for the fresh fruit. It should be put in small bottles. containing as much as will be wanted at once, as it will not keep long after opening g.-Anaer- ican Agriculturist.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23

This is the way that Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps charaeterizes the State of Maine in her novel ''Doctor Zay." in the Atlantic: We alters do hev every thing wuss here than other folks,n said a passenger in the Bangor mail coach. s'Freeze and prohibition. mud and fusion. We've got one of the constitutions that takes things, like my boy. He's had the measles, n the chicken pox. and the humps, and the ncttle-rash. and fell in love with his schoolmarm, n got relig- ion, and lost the prize for elocootin'- all in one darned year."
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23

A Cincinnati society reporter has mysteriously disappeared, and foul play is suspected, although it is possible that he is hiding somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, as he was we'll supplied with railroad passes. His last article was an account of the marriage of a pork-packer's daughter, in which re- port he used the term ''swell wedding." It came out in the papers ''swin we'd ding. g."-PtilaGeIphia Nea0S.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23

"Having little fun with the old man" will cease to be common festfvity when the country as whole adopts the policy of an Alabama court that sentenced a youthful darkey parricide to fifty years 1t hard labor in the penitentiary.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23

American compositors are not the only ones who make mistakes. The London Telegraph reports Gladstone as saying that he had ''sat at the feet of the Game bird of Birmingham" instead "f the Gamaliel of Birmingham.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23

There are on file in the office of the Controller of Connecticut,in in compliance with the requirements of the State law, the names of nearly or quite 5000 de- positors in the savings bank of the State whose deposits have remained uncalled for and have not been increased other wise than by the accruing interest for twenty years past. The amounts thus unclaimed range from 8 few dollars to
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-11

cency and imbecility, and we hon
estly believe that in this county
there has not been one-haf the liq-
uor sold since the refusal to grant
license, that there was for the cor
responding period when license was
the order of the day. One-third may
be nearer the truth but to be liber
al say one-half. If this be true,
and we certainly think it is, then
prohibition has prohibited" here
to an extent that must be crafty
ing to our county commissioners
and to the people, temperate and
incorporate. We say Incorporate
because we have never yet met any
man so far down the road as to de-
sire that his sons or his friends
should follow in his footsteps. 1t
has.accomplished all and more than
was expected, and the people are
satisfied.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-11
Eureka, W. Va.

ED. FREEMAN: We desire to give
you a brief report of our immediate
neighborhood, and this new place
of business.
Owing to the inclemency Of the
weather and bad roads, business is
little slack at present. However,
the river has been in good boating
stage, and several barge loads Of
stuff went from here this winter.
The firm of Cochran Bros. are very
enthusiastic in trying to build up
an enterprising business place here
at Eureka, There is no point along
the Ohio river, (outside Of the
cities), that is better fitted for it.
The E. G. & c. r. r. Co., has re-
Gently secured the balance of the
right of way for their road from the
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-11
Prohibition in Randolph County.

The Randolph Enterprise nobly
urges forward the cause, and APP
peals to the good voters of that
county to sign the petitions to the
Legislature.
After discussing the general adj
vantages Of the proposed amend
ment, the editor, coming down to
his own county, says:
Prohibition does this for us. 1t
removes the temptation from the
youths and gives them chance to
grow up honest, industrious and
sober citizens. 1t gives a hope for
future generations. It prevents a
public exhibition of drunken indie
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-01-11

head Of Henry Camp to the Ohio
river, distance of four and one-half
miles, and has seven miles now
built. This company has a survey
of a road running from Eureka, on
the Ohio river, to the B. & O. Rail
road at CORVALLIS. This9road will
not exceed two and one-half degrees
at any point on the route, and, with
it's Lateral branches, will have &C
cess to sixty-fve thousand acres of
timber land. The distance from
the terminal points is only
eighteen miles.
The company is willing and
ready to take in more stockholders
at any time. A freight depot is ex-
pected to be established here at Eu-
reka. Will write again.