Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-01-20

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I Delaware has III debt of &l. tSB2, 900 laAH
Il investments amounting tc @5BT $50.
II IsfItis n criminal offence in illinois tc
!. oall q man ~ . mutt1n-headeA pagan.
The Norwegian Lutherana in the Uni-
ted States now number 2b0 congrega
faonsss sss3n4ltHsm!f -
Il is estimated that there are 20 Is
IYaslfte congregations m the United
/ States 9y
"a The CHRISTIANS in DsmnseuB ere again
suffering persecution and general mas
sacre IS feared.
wrestling rnatcil between butcher
andla bear In Go be Sunday feature
in San Francisco,
Pplitenesu IL like an air. cnnhicn--
there may be nothing i'm IN. but ~ eases
or ioltu wonderfully. Hm
4 romnn III Detroit the other dAy
vent to church, leaving four little chill
dren with only box OF matches 10 play
With.
wHd cats are NO plenty in Alabama
tfnt dogs come home without nny hide
10 speak Of
An English bishop once said -" Our
eiFia are poorly cdlcated and our boys
never find il ont 3
.. At KinQston, NO., fhare Is . boy who
has no ears, and bis mother haa 20 box
the top Of his heBd.
Somebody pasted 100 three cent stamps
on q small letter and dropped 1t into the
/ fFfesf.agrfa FarnEf~ftftifsfa
(. The receipts OF q minstrel show In
Michigan one evening were Only eight
cents, whereupon the leader killed him
self.
Annnn who stole another mans hMt
even when his name wnB written on Ik
was 1t oh On the ground that DO %ha
collecting autograpy.
A Mississippi Judge announced that
he would not hold the December Term
Of his Court. as be had important private
! business to attend 10.
The Chicago papers say there are more
people out Of employment IN that necsaon
now than there have been at any TINE
during the last eight years
The Kentucky Supreme Court has
settled the fact fhata dog remaining on
| a neiuhber's premises may be killed with
impunity or suitable meanR
In an obituary notice OF On elderly
citizen az village I'm Maine, ID in stated
that he had killed fortE-seTen bears with
! In the limits OF the town.
The T. i. Treasurer has received
note from New York, siEnad " Honesty,
inclosing $40, TO supply an omission i'm
the payment OF internal revenue taxes
Bun lighting in an amusement of some
parts Of China, ms wen nE of SDain, but
/ i'm the former country they match bull
against bun, instead of man against
brute.
A man who been Governor OF Maine
ss accommodated" i stranger ON the cars
with $3.50 the other day, "unh he could
get n check for s.. 900 cashed-" That
/ Ex-G Governor has lost his faith in human
nature. 1N ia
A Quaker Indian agent who hns re-
centlT visited the Cherokees. Ehoctavs.
and Other tribes, gives it ns his opinion
that the Indian females can he elevated,
and adds that "hoop-skirts arc more
useful in family than war-whpcps.
California. looking back over To 1870,
reioires that ii has seen during the year
the shipwrtt uf tine FIRST bale uf home
raised six the raising Ut thn first suc-
cessfni crop Of cotton, and the first sue
cess I'm the manufacture of beet sugar
A Chicago boy, being asked III he had
mother, said he didnt know, as he
hadn't been home since morning, and
VIXEN he left his father and mother we're
auarrellinu. with odds in favor Of kis
father, as he bad the haschet IN hs
hand.
at a wedding recently, when the off,
eating priest asked the lady, = Wilt thou
have this. man to be thy welded hus-
hand 2, she dropped the prettiest cour-
tAsy. ana. with modesty which lent her
beauty and additional grace, replied, ''H
you please. a iatle
A lady In Bath, Ne, has Just had re-
turned TO her by the Pcst-ofice Depart
ment letter which Hhe mailed eight
years and six months ago. Az Eag cover
ed, with post-marks, but ~ was dlfhcult
20 trace out iEs jcurneyings.
An eifght mile ri.le through the heart
or the Alps, i'm utter Darkness or dark
ness % neErly utter that it viii be dark
ness visible, viii be rather d gloomy and
hdisaurnenbla iearney, hut thousands OF
people from al parts of the world VIII 60
and experience it, just so soon as It VIII
be available. -s itA
! i An Indiana man was sent 10 the peni-
tentiary about year ago, and his wife
got a decree of divorce, for which she
owed aelcosss. On Friday the husband
made his appearance, saw hia ex-wife,
made M. with her, and went to get
marriage license. He couldn't get 1t
unless he paid the cost OF the old
1 divorce. "a aaa9N 1sfl Nt
- TIE clippeF-ships FroEic and Glory Qf
| Che Seas lett San Francisco ON Che same
kdRy; ume for Liverpool and the other Tor
GDrk, were I'm eAch others company fcr
4 six weeks, then separated. and reached
their destinations on the same day, the
Efoisc arriving but six hours before her
! competitor. .5
1 tPahpSers Throughout the Eastern States
fhre scomphitlg on the drouth, and the
IkNAwieh AFssraiseF explains that the diff
Il ference between last Winter and this Is,
that was plenty of water then but
inc, cold weather to freeze It, and now
there is plenty of cold weather but no
/ water: for il 20 freeze.
Capt. Trave1s, of Rochester, has made
a wager OF S25 that he win, at the dis
tance of thirty-six feet, with q pistol
i shoot from The top of wine-bottle q
lccYk oriqwhich rs placed bullet, drop
IIpinr the bnllet i'm tine bottle and not
breaking the hpttle. He has twelve shots,
and engages to perform tho feat four
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THf INCOME TAX. An examination Of
the ncome-tax returns OF the United
States for the last year develops many
curious facts. i, A New York paper gives
o resume OF these, among which 1t In
I stated that the whole amount OF income
tax, exclusive Of the tax from corrcia-
tions, was 500, ,025, ,p6S. SO. Of this
amount seven States paid the sum OF
1915, ,SS7, 328. So and nearly oneithird OF
the whole amount was paid by Aew
York. In nineteen States the amount
4 collected was less than $76, 900.
i A Losr CmD.--A child about four
years ct age, who was abandoned by "a
wandering party of gypsieg, Last Summer,
.w O+4nSra Il 1arrrtr Ohio has since bean