Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-02-10
Summary Of News.

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BARON Gerolt, tho German Minister,
denies that Germany wants 10 buy San
Domingo,
The total amoun. appropriated 10y the
United States army bill is little over
So, ,000, 900.
A MAN has been sent to prison for
nine months in Vermont for sending
threatening letters.
ONLY two citizens Of Now-Orleans pay
tax on over a quarter Of u million dol
lars worth OF real estate
THE State Prison at Albany, n, Y,
now contains l,00S convicts, the largest
number since its establishment,
TFR deepest excavation in the United
States is said 20 be copper mine near
Lake Superior. II is 1900 feet deep.
Only thr,e of party Of Cuban flh-
busters that recently landed ON that
island remain alive, says Havana tele-
gran.
ALKxANpER CAUIpwEII. of Leaven-
worth. Kansas, has been elected hy the
Legislature of that State United States
Senator.
REnpY the blacksmith Of New York is
in trouble again, having shot and killed
a Philadelphia rough, named Haggerty
in a saloon row,
A Gordon has been drawn around Paris,
and no person is allowed 10 enter or
leave without permit from the German
authorities.
The apache Indians, in Arizona, are
committing depredations about Tucson
and PRESTON, killing whites and driving
OFF their cattle.
L. CCsHMAN, formerly clergyman Of
Portland, Maine, Si years old, hung
himself in his cellar, having beeA slight
ly deranged for two years.
Mn Bliss, of the firm Of Morton,
Bliss & Co, has been elected President
OF the Union Pacific Railroad Company,
in place of Oliver Ames, resigned
THE New-Jersey Legislature, elected
Frederick I. FrelinghuySen Senator,
by o joint vote of A., against 81 for Gov.
Randolph, the Democratic nominee,
IT is believed that sufficient rain has
already fallen 10 secure an abundant
wheat crop in California, and the far
mers are sowing as rapidly as possible.
SENATOR Ross, of Kansas, has been
expelled from the Lawrence Typograph-
ical Union for setting up type ON news
paper whose compoSitors were on a
strike.
A GUN was tested successfully at Wool
wich, England, the other day with a
charge of $50 pounds Of powder The
quality Of powder used is said 10 be un-
precedented
THE billiard match in Boston between
Dion and Daniels, for $500, three
ball French carom game, 500 points up,
was won by Dion. The score stood
Dion 500, Daniels l3l.
A CANADIAN paper asserts that the toll
on the bridge over Niagara Falls to Goat
Island was so high before 1t was doubled
that none but wedding parties and sim
pletons ever crossed it.
A TELEGRAM fron Victoria reports
that the terms of union of British Co
lnmbia with the Dominion were accept
ed by the Legislative Council on the
18th inst, by unanimous vote.
THE Pennsylvania Republican State
is to be held in Harrisburg
ON the 10th OF March. II viii nominate
candidates for Auditor and Surveyor
10 be elected in October.
MRs. Mary Ann Anderson was shot
dead by Peter Hesberg, seaman, in
Baltimore, because she refused to marry
him. Hesberg then shot himself
through the head and died instantly.
TEE receipts from brandy distilled
from spples, grapes, and peaches IN the
months Of July, August, September, and
October, 1870, were S65S, sic, an increase
Of 1921, ,662 over the same months of
1869.
RICHARD Ficken, who seriously wound
ed boy who rang his door bell. in No
yember, IN Harrisburg, Penn. has been
pardoned by Gov Geary, Ficken hav-
ing paid the father Of the boy $4,000
for injuries sustained.
During severe gale at the Western
Fishing Banks, Capt John Powers, Of
the schooner Yosemite, Capt Jeffrey, of
the schooner Fl. A. Jackson. and John
one Of his crew, all Of Glouces-
ter, Mass, were drowned
A PARTY of New-York gentlemen are
said to have paid S65, 900 for the young
trottisg horse BiacL1ord, in Scott COun-
ty, Kentucky. He made one race in
public as q three-year old, in which he
is said to have scored 2:31.
LETTERS from persons who went 10
with the colonizing expedi-
ton known rs the Lower California
Company, represent the country as
worthless, having no production for sus-
tanning life, and no fresh water.
COMMISSIONER Pleasanton informed a
delegation of tobacco dealers that the
changes in the regulations re-
quiriDg the affixing of the export stamp
to packages OF tobacco intended for ex-
portation, are not to be enforced at pres
emit.
MORE OF the last detachment OF fill
busters landed in Cuba have been killed,
Varela, their guide. Some
reports state thAL the ulllbuSJerS came
from Key West There is n general
opinion that the capture OF the remain
der OF the detachment is certain.
THE Pope communicating by telegraph
with the King OF Prussia, requested his
Majesty to secure his the Pope's) de-
parture from Rome with due honor, in
case he should conclude to leave the
city. King William replied affirma-
lively, and telegraphed TO King Victor
10 that effect
The CHINESE custom Of substitution
in death penalhes,-it is said, was en-
ployed in the punishment Of the Tein.
tsin assassins. The Chinese arrested
few Of the meaner criminals, carefully
allowed all the rest 10 escape, and filed
up the list of victems with substitutes,
who we're quite ready TO suffer decapi-
tation in consideration OF about $3.50
apiece paid 10 their families.
A FARMFR cut down n tree which stood