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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-26
Gov. Hendricks I'm New York.
WHAT PART rur TARIFF WILL PLAY ~ TUE
NEXT CAMPAIGN.

WHAT FART TnE TARIFF WILL PLAY ~ THE
NEXT CAMPAIGN.
NEw YoRK, April lex Governor
Hendricks, of Indiana, who has just re
turned from Florida, was met to-day at
the st. Denis hotel. by reporter of the
Mail and Express, with whom he chatted
in his usual, easy fashion. Don't ask
me about the Presidency" he protested,
"because | am not a candidate and any
thing in regard to the various gentle
men who are named is of a personal
nature. | am here on business only.
OF the issues OF the next campaign,
however, Mr.. Hendricks said
"There is no doubt that the question
of tariff will enter, but do not think
it will be very important issue. In
Indiana majority of the people hold
that wo should have tariff forrcvenue.
with due regard TO the interests of the
manufacturers. The question depends
greatly on how the interests Of the
country are affected by tho new act.
Should it be found to be beneficial it
would go far towards settling the ques.
ton, and it is not probable that, in
that case, the tariff question would en-.
ter into the campaign issues or be dis.
cussed in the next Congress.
as not the Democratic party greatly
divided on the tariff ?'
The leaders appear to bo much more
divided on that subject than they really
are.
ais there not large free trade cle.
ment in the party p
"Somc Of the leaders are termed free
traders, but 10 far as ! can learn there
is not one among them who is in favor
of absolutely abolishing duties aud col.
lecting 10y direct taxation. | do not
think there will be 20 much difference
OF opinion among Democrats ~ haz
been supposed The tariff is question
Of business. ! know Of no Democrat
who advocates horizontal tariff that
is to say, total abolition Of revenue
duties There has to be a great deal Of
Judgment exercised in the arrangement
Of taxation on different articles.
"What, in general terms, then, il the
position Of the Democracy on the
tarlh?'
THAT is broad question. I can
only say this in reply Taxation for
protection is not going to bc received
by the Democratic party.
"Will not this issue have a bearing on
the contest for the next ~peakership o.
at may be advanced 10y some Of tho
candidates should j; be understood
that Mr. Carlisle is in favor Of wiping
out all internal taxation, it will lose
him the votes OF Indiana.
"Are you in favor Of reduction Of
the revenue
"I hold that taxation ought to be re
duced, for the revenue il in excess of
the proper expenditures Of the Govern.
ment. Congress has reduced the in.
ternal revenue, and /, ought to be re.
duced Indeed stated in the last
campaign that tho revenue should bc
reduced one hundred millions Of dol.
lars
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-26

THE Elmira GasS,n and Fee Prai
states that Corning hopes to be a coal
centre by the opening up Of the new
railroad connection 10 Clearfield and
Centre counties in Pennsylvania. The
principal object Of the road is 10 fur.
nish a good coal supply to the New
York Central railway. The road is ex.
pected to be open by the first Of July.
The length from Wiliamsport to Stone.
dale is sixty.fv miles, the Corning,
Cowanesque and Antrim is thirty Eve
miles to Corning, the Syracuse, Geneva
and Corning road is seventy.two miles,
making total distance Of l72 miles
from Lyons to williamsport. The road
offices are to be located in the Fall
Brook depot, at Corning, II is expected.
Corning will also be the oenteripg point
of all the divisions. The Syracuse, Ge'
neva and Corning road is to be double.
tracked this summer.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-26
The Navy Department Worried.

WssHNcroS, April l9.-The New
Department has for some time been in
a disturbed state over the alleged in.
tontion Of E.Licutcnant Commander
Gorriure to bid for the new steel crujs.
er-, one or more. The three yards Of
Roach, Haywood d Hollingsworth and
Cramp, before Corrinfe entered the ship
building world. were quite sure OF divi.
ding the contracts between them. His
appearance has up'et plans long exist.
ing, in which the department seems 10
be concerned ordinarily it would he
supposed that the government would
see an advantage in competition. Not
50, however the prospect Of competi-
ton has created at the department =
sensation, as though somebody was to
be injured. There was a report that an
offer had been made to put Gorringe
into the pool, which il denied.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-26

sas"They who cry loudest are not al.
ways the most hurt" Kidney Wort
does its work like the Gcod Samaritan,
quickly. unostentatiously hut with great
thoroughness. A New Hampshire lady
writes Mother has been afflicted for
years with kidney disease. Lsst Spring
she was very III and had an alarming
pain and numbness in one aide. Kid.
ney. Wort proved a great blessing and
haa completely cured her"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-26
Eighteen NihIlists Convicted
sIT or THEH srNTTScTD 10 DEATH All
TUE uTHERy TO IoNG IurKIsONHTSTs.

SIX or THTH FTNTTNcTu 10 DEATH kNu
THE oTHERs To toNG IurRIs0NpTSTs.
81. PETERsBuKG, April l9-The trial
Of eighteen prominent Nihilsts ended
here today and resulted in the couvio
ton Of all the prisoners. Six were con.
denim ed to death, two for life long ser.
vitude and the remainder to terms of
imprisonment ranging from fifteen to
twenty years. Those sentenced to suf
fer capital punishment are Bogonovitch
who laid a mine in Little Garden street
for tho purpose OF blowing up the czar ;
Saveli Zlotoposky. implicated in the
Hartmann attack on the late emperor
in 1879 Michael Gratchefsky, one Of
the assassins of the czar TeIalof. a par
ticipator in the attempt to blow up the
imperial train at tAlexsndroisky in lSsl'
Klimenas, an escaped political prisoner
who was subsequently arrested with
Gratchefsky, and a retired naval officer
named Boutsevitch. The two sentenced
to imprisonment for life are Stevano.
witch, who escaped from prison at kieff,
where he had been confined on = charge
Of having organized the revolt of thir.
teen districts or pheasAuts at Tchigrin,
and Smirnitskaya, priests daughter.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-26
Contract Prison Labor.

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son contract labor by the New York
Assembly and the avowed purpose OF
certain labor reformers to put such a
measure through our own legislature
brings this subject before the public for
consideration on its merits, il it has
any. II is iavorite theme with Ger.
tain class, and the people who are easi.
ly caught and carried AWAY by clamor
may be led by the mere force of noise
to suppose that great injustice is being
done to labor by tho present system.
There are but three possible methods
of supporting the criminals who are
compelled to be confined for the pro.
lection Of society. Their labor can be
leased to the highest bidder, the State
can erect and sustain manufactures in
order to give them employment, or they
can be supported in idleness by the tax
payers. one of these three methods
must be adopted. In some OF the South.
ern States the first method is pursued
and the convicts are employed on the
roads, in quarties and on public works.
in most of the Northern States the sec
ond method has been found best. Ex
perience has shown that the ordinary
prison officials have no aptitude or train
ing to make them successful managers
Of manufacturing establishments. Hence
it has been found necessary to contract
the prison labor to practical msnuiac.
turers, who give their time and atten.
ton to the business for the profit there
is in it. by this method the prisons in
most instances have become selfsup.
porting.
The labor reformers propose to abol
ish the contract system. II this is done
the prisoners must be maintained in
idleness at the Taxpayers expense or
the prison authorities must superintend
the prison manufactures a. best they
can, and if they fail to make the prison
self-surporting the tax payers make up
the deficiency. II by this method the
prisoners are made seifsurporting the
labor reformers will have gained moth
ing, because the product of prison labor
will be in the market for what It will
bring, Just the same as uuder the con
tract system. Practically speaking,
therefore, there is no middle ground
between the present system and sup.
porting the criminals in idleness. II
the men who do work for their living
are benevolent enough to support
thieves and other blacklcgs in idleness
Just to please lot of fellows who work
with their noisy tongues chiefly. there
is nothing further to be said on the
subject
A reference to the figures, however,
will show how empty is the claim that
the great mass Of lAborers are injured
by the competition OF prison labor. In
1850 the total number OF conycts in the
United States undergoing confinement
at labor was about 5000. The lsborers
employed in the manufactures alone at
the same time numbered two and three
quarter millions, while the total nun.
Der Of persons pursuing gaiuful employ.
ments at the time was between eight
and nine millions. II the eight or niae
millions OF free-handed and willing
workers cannot stand the competition
Of the paitry 5000 criminals who only
work because they are compelled to,
their case is deserving OF sympathy in.
deed.-PiiI. Tmrt.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-26
Senator Cameron's Tip Abroad.

WhsHfScroy, Apr! 23.-Senator Cam
eron arrived bere on Saturday from
Harrisburg, where lie hss been engaged
in private business natter. The sena.
tor will leave for Europe, with hIg iarni
ly, next month and be il hard ~ work
arranging his private AFFAIR." before start.
ing upon the vacation.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-26
Flooding u Burning Mine.

EHAuoKIs, Pa, April 23.- Every effort
to extinguish the fire which hiss been
burning in the Bear Valley mine for
the past three months. having faild
the mine is now being flooded. II will
require Elk months time 10 extiDRuish
the fire in this way and put the mine in
operation again.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25

Virgins predicts the greatest hur-
ricane that has visite | America since
1870, but he is not going to give the
public the date on which he fore.
casts that storm until after the event,
which is set down for March s.. His
reason is that he has been treated
with severity by the press. "There
are phenomena" he remarks, "asso-
ciated with the position of the plan
cts which are only known by obser,
walton SO that no one but myself
could be a competent judge" He
does not tell why we had q green
Christmas and a sunny New Years
although he had predicted that the
whole winter would be remarkable
for heavy and well-defined storms.
Virgins warning, however, remains
TO those who go to sea in a ship on
Feb. 9 and 10 and sundry days in
March. However, as Virgins says
little damage will be done on land,
the sky-scrapers need not reef Their
topgallant masts.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25

That Malone is playing OUT
there is no doubt. A Washington
correspondent in speaking of the
''boss' and his waning power says:
Mahone's power in the Senate is fast
slipping away, and the indications
now are that he and Riddlcberger,
instead of debating TO the Republi.
cans at the spring executive session
of the senate, will be thrust into the
back ground. Mahone's mind has
not been easy since the Presidents
recent snubbing which Malone in
vited by meddling with the comtem.
plated appointment of Mosby to a
District Judgeship in Virginia. Be-
fore that Washington was not large
enough for Mahone's airs. He was
going to do one thing and another to
emphasize his mastery over the AID.
ministration and the Senate, his pur.
pose with the Senate being to force
the nomination of Gorham by the
Republican caucus for the Secretary.
ship of that body. Gorham's rela
tions with Malone, the advocacy o
Readjusterism in the Republican
while Gorham was in control and thu
Senate deadlock two years ago
brought about by Malone holding
the lash over the Republican caucus
are all well remembered. Gorhan
still proclaims himself the caucu.
nominee, and Malone until very late
ly was threatened to reverse the ma
jority in the Senate by casting tn
votes Of himself and Riddleberge
with the Democrats at the spring
reorganization, unless the Republi
cans should stand by Gorham.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25

The Rev. E. R. Donehoo, q lead
ing orthodox clergyman of Pittsbarg,
pa. and pastor of the Eighth Pres
byterian Church, who is noted for
his untiring zeal in works of charity
and reform, delivered a sermon a few
Sabbaths ago, in which he inveigh-
ed against the creeds of the churches
of the present day as being tyranni-
cal. He also spoke against existing
Sunday laws, and on this subject he
said:
SIN New York business men have
been greatly exercised over an at
ten pit to enfore certain Sunday laws,
which had been enacted under far
different conditions of society, where
very different sentiments were enter
tanned in regard to the claims and
limitations Of the Sabbath. The
Puritanical ideas which found utter
ance in these recently exhumed stat
utes have long since given place to
more liberal and Christian construc-
tons Of mans duty toward the Sab
battle precepts. With the great
changes which have taken place in
our land since these laws were first
enacted, the necessities of the times
demand that a modification shall be
made in these laws which govern
the observance of the Sabbath; also,
they will soon become, as they are
now rapidly becoming, an entire
nullity. Christ clearly taught that
rational necessity, mans natural
wants and requirements, determined
the manner of Sabbath observance.
What to day is needed in this and
other States in the interest Of moral.
ity and religion is a modification Of
our Sunday laws to such a degree as
to bring them into something like
accord with the enlightened senti
ment of the present age"
The sermon has created much com
nent in religious circles in this city.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25
BIS 0 WOOD!

fglIIE SCHOOL BOARD of District
l. No. 4, Washington township, Pre-
Bile County, Ohio, will receive bids for
furnishing 120 cords of 4 foot wood or
$40 cords of 2 foot W God. The wood to
be cut from Green Beech, Sugar or
Hickory tree, and to be cut in Februa-
ry or March OF the year 1888; all to be
body wood. and to be delivered at each
school building in such quantities at
each as the Board may require, and to
be ricked up there by the deliverer,
and there measured by the committee
appointed by the Board. The ricking
up to be superintendent by the %janitor.
The delivery of wood to be completed
by November 1st, 1888.
The Board reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
The bids to be opened and contract
awarded on February 9th, 1888.
JAMES l.. QUINN, Clerk.
iaD1S-2w
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25

The real reason why the present
Republican Legislature of Connec-
ticut declined to avail itself of the
recent dictum of Chief Justice Park
er, of that State, declaring the Dem
ocratic ballots cast at the late cleo
ton there illegal, is thus explained
in a Republican paper:
every many Of the Republican
tickets were also defective. They
had black borders and other distin-
gushing marks. These ballots must
be thrown out too, ifthe illegal Dem
ocratic ballots are rejected, and it Is
said tic former outnumbeT the lat
ter. By this operation the Repubii-
cans would probably lose their only
Congressman and the only State Of
ticer they elected"
Thus vanishes the wonderful self
denial of the Republican leaders in
Connecticut!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25

The following is an excerpt from
the message of Governor Benjamin
F. Butler, of Massachusetts, and CON
tains a world of good sense which is
as apr aren't as it is pertinent: "You
know what kind of an education the
people need and ought to have. Re-
strict the branches taught in the
primary schools by law specifically
to spelling, reading, writing, gram
mar, arithmetic, geography, history
preferably of the United States-and
require that these shall be taught
upon the same system, to the same
grade of scholars, in every common
school in the commonwealth. When
the scholar can show by an examin-
alton that he is well grounded in the
elementary English branches, then
let him be admitted TO a school OF
higher grade"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25

Germany GAG, 100000 gallons, at the
rate of some five and a half gallons
per head. The United States stand
third on the list, the average being
about two and half gallons for each
inhabitant. The consumption in
Austria amounted to $4,000, 900 gal
Ions, or at the rate of two gallons
per head. Belgium considering the
number of its inhabitants drinks
more beer than any other country in
the world. Her people swallow on
the average nine gallons of beer each
per annum, and the total amount
used last year in the country was
As, 000,0 900 gallons. France consum-
ed exactly the same quantity, but,
her population being six times that
of Belgium, each of her inhabitants
drank only about one and n half
gallons. France, in fact, drinks less
beer per head than any of the other
great nations, Russia, which con-
sumed only 100000 gallons, alone
excepted. Even in Denmark, the
consumption is at the rate of three
and a half gallons per head. The
sum spent for beer by the various
countries may be roughly computed
as follows: Great Britain $4,000.
600; Germany, 65,000,0 900; United
States, $26, 100000 Austria, $780,.
Ooo, 900; Belgium. $4,000 600.
France, $14,00O,0 900; and Russis
100000. The Belgian, therefore
may be considered as the Creates
beer-drinker; and this is as it should
be, for Belgium is the home of the
modern system of brewing. 1t shoulc
be borne in mind. howeve Ell, that since
little beer, comparatively speaking
is consumed in Scotland and Ireland
where whisky is the national" bev
erage, England, if taken withou
them, still maintains her old preem
i%nence, John Bulls family drinking
probably, at the rate of at least tel
gallons per head per annum.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25
Beer by the HaiIlfor, Gallons.

From statistics which have been
recently complied by the officials of
the United States Internal Revenue
Department., and which have been
supplied by General Max Weber,
Collector of the Third District, in
New York, it appears that during
the year 1881, $4,000, 900 gallons OF
beer were consumed in this country,
and 7SO, 600, 900 on the continent of
Europe and Great Britain and Ire
land. The total value of this beer
may be computed at not less than
$3.50, 000, 900; and ofthe whole guam
ity England, Scotland and Ireland
used as much as 2S2, 000, 900 gallons,
or nearly one third the population
drinking at the rate of eight and a
half gallons each per annum In
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25

A recent decision from the State
Commissioners of Schools, effectually
settles the mooted questions as to
whether a teacher has the right to
adjourn school for the purpose of at
tending the county institutes and,
should he do so, have school boards
the right to deduct the price of his
wages for the time spent in attend.
ing the instituted The Commission
er says: "The law authorizes teach
ers to dismiss their schools to attend
the institute if they SO desire, BIZ;
they are not entitled to wages for the
time thus employed. See section
400 revised statutes"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-01-25

Col. T. J. L. Jones's declaration that
Proctor Knott, though not a drunk
ard, is a every liberal drinker," brings
out from Knott the following reply:
81 am proud 10 know that among
those have been intimately acquaint-
ed with my private conduct through
life any insinuation that 1 have ever
been an incorporate or habitual user
ofintoxicating liquor would be spurn-
ed with indignant scorn, and l trust
it will be no disparagement to the
character of that gentleman for me to
say that my habits in that respect will
compare favorably with those of Co.
Jones himself"