Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-01-06
News SUMMARY.

ALVhthn w ARNN ." hN'eNs wa" lN"A ta"h
last year.
An Illinois fire company elected lady
foreman.
THRKr women own and run boats on
the Erie canal.
KING WILLIAM has accepted the en-
/ perorship of Germany,
CArlroRSIA is building one-story
earthquake proof churches.
SoME sort of wild beast is carrying
OFF calves near Bow, \, II.
TUX viii reolaim the marshes ut
Hampden, N, H., by dykes,
A pro squash raised in Vermont has
been sold for twenty-five dollars,
SPAIN win probably soon Introduce a
tobacco loan in the london market.
THE refuge potato pomace from starch
factories is now 10 be made into paper.
DulaNa November there were 81, 720, =
5l7 feet of lumber surveyed in Bangor
A LOWELL man has built henery
large enough 10 accommodate 5000
hens.
ConMoDoRE Vim II. Gardner, another
of the veterans of the United States Navy
! il dead
4 4 NAN Was blown 10 fragments while
engaged in drying fifty pounds ot giant
powder 1t Nevada City,
Tur shoe business OF Auburn an.
East Auburn, Me, during the past YEA,
amounted TO 81, 500, 900
4 MAN in Grantham. \. H.. week ,e-
fore last tapped 10 trees and madeI0l
gallons of nice maple syrup.
WnRK in many Of the German ,oal
MINES has ceased, the miners hFing
been drafted into the army.
I 1T j. explicitly denied that Their has
+ been of late any correspondence bawecn
the Pope and the King OF Prussia
/ THE Diet of HeSse-D -Darnstadt las up
proved the Federal treaties, andgoted a
I further war credit of 3, CO.. .000 iorins.
/ PRyArE ". ID. Blair. company b,
i Fifth United States Infantry, vas frozen
to death near Denver afewda's since.
J THR cattle disease, is spreading in
Connecticut, and battling tfe skill of
stock raisers and others Immediately M
I terested.
THE Department of Agriculture of the
United States estimates tlst the corn
crop this year VIII exceed 4,Ou0, 100000
bushels.
An American naval csspdain IA et Con-
stantinople manufacturiIg torpedoeS and
other material for usein case Of need
against Russia.
In the election for President in Mexi-
co the principal candidates are Juarez,
Diaz, and Tejada, Sith the chances in
favor of the latter.
The Z. S. Hou,s Appropriation Com
mittee have agreed TO allow S5Oo, 600 to
complete the foundation of the New
York Post Ofiice.
THE election in the First Senatorial
District of Pennsylvania resulted in Il
majority of I343 for Dechert, the Dem
ocr4tic candidate.
The clert of the steamer Nick Wal,
which str1ck snag near Grand Lake
SAYS that twenty lives were lost, but
mentions no names.
Unitel States Senate postal committee
viii corcur in the House amendment to
the postal code, and try to secure It's
passage early in January.
The 250th anniversary of the Landing
of the Pilgrims was celebrated at Ply
morth, Mass, with ceremonies Of an un-
psSally imposing character.
The Car has severely reprimanded
be corporation of Moscow for petition
iag in behalf of free press, religious
tolerstion. and other reforms.
MINISTER Thornton has received in
strnctions from Mr.. Gladstone TO effect a
satisfactory arrangement of the fishery
question by treaty or otherwise.
Conn, Christy & Co, of Bloomington,
Ill, have obtained verdict of 500, 900
against the Illinois Central Railroad,
for delay in the shipments of corn.
THE North Enosburg Cvt) cheese fac
tory. the past season received the milk
Of $50 cows, amounting 20 $50, S62
pounds, and make 4S, lS9 pounds OF
cheese.
In order TO prevent further forgeries,
the bankers OF New-Orleans are recon-
mended to give up the single check
system, and supply each depositor with
q check-book.
Asa KETTLE, the blind youth who kill
ed his father and mother at Hoag's Cor
ners, persistently declares that he is not
crazy. and coolly gives il rs his opinion
that be will certainly be hanged.
THR Z. S. Medical Record records the
somewhat remarkable fact that, of the
81, ,S22 soldiers who were wounded dur
ing the rebellion, only four cases of gun
shot wound of the heart were reported
The bank of the deep cut on the Syra-
racuse and Chennango Railroad fell.
burying between fifteen and twenty of
the laborers. The bodies of three dead
were recovered, and six others, two IN
tally injured and four severely injured
were removed
TIE Chicago journals say that there
are more poor people out of employment
III that region now than there has been
before at least eight years. They will
be coming hitherward, no doubt, hoping
to better their condition But we fear
their hopes win not be realized The
streets are thronged with people willing
to work. but unable to get work 10 do.