Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-10-06

TEE British wheat crop is disastrously
deficient
MoxEY ON call in New York last week,
9 a per cent.
THR National Guard Of France has
been disbanded.
THE knights Tempiars in the United
States number $4,000.
The defalcation of paymaster Hodge
amounts 10 nearly one million dollars.
Ar Menononec, Wis, four scamen go-
ing ashore in yawl boat were drowned.
ACCORDING 70 French prophet. the
earth is TO destroyed by delage very
soon.
SOME 10000 sailors attended the Sea-
mans Mission meetings in New York,
last year.
TlrIzRs are los Lodges OF Good Tenn
plars in New Jersey With membership
of $4,000
THERE has been severe earthquake
along the entire western coast of South
America.
A SERIOUS disturbance is expected in
Jamaica. unless the homo government
interfereS,
Tm London Tgpass elitorially deplores
the continuance of antagonism between
labor and capital
CoNdRESs, il is said, is 10 be regularly
beseigei at its next session by the
women's rights advocates.
TIrR grain prospects throughout the
French departments are far better than
what is generally supposed.
Mayor HAM, OF New York, has re-
moved Comptroller Connolly, and Of
fered the position 10 Gen. Mcclellan.
TIE postal money-order system be-
tween the United States aud Great
Britain went into operation October 2.
All the union torpedoes in New York
are being hRnted up and thrown into
the river. Several boxes have met this
fate.
DAVID Burns, of Newark, y. j., while
drunk, mistook the area for the porch of
his house, and sitting over, broke his
neck.
A LITTLE boy aged seven years, be-
longing 10 the strong woman Of 0'Brien's
Menagerie, died of starvation NJ Storm
vile, n. Y.
The latest reported bala nees in the
IT,. :. Treasury were : Coin, SO, $685.
97s; currency, S6,0l5,S 1856 certificates,
Sl5,S4S,500
CoMPrRoLLER CoNNEILT, of New York,
has appointed A. II. Green deputy, and
thrown ali the affairs of tine Office into
Green's hands.
HoN. SIDNEY Fl. STUART, former City
Judge of New York, and counsel for the
murderer Foster, died OF typhoid fever
at his residence.
TRE London Labor League has de-
nounced the introduction of foreigners
into English workshops rs dangerous
political precedent.
The Russia squadron with the Grand
Duke Alexis, has reached England, en-
ronte To this country. The Grand
Duke viii arrive about October 10th.
Go1DsMrru MAID trotted the first heat
at Minneapolis, Wis. in 2ISl second
heat in 2:lTt. The third heat was made
in l:2l. Her time at Milwaukee, second
heat, was 2:l7.
MAJOR HoDaE the defaulter, was ap-
pointed Paymaster in the regular army
January II, 1867, having previously
served as Additional Paymaster in the
volunteer service.
THE Committee OF Reception for the
Duke Alexis, in New York. numbers
three hundred well known gentlemen,
and each Of them are 10 subscribe 500
70 defray expenses.
EIeHTEES months imprisonment with
hard lAber is the penalty imposed by the
English court upon Clark, the American
who forged bonds in the name Of Cole,
banker, of Lyons and New York.
4 CORRESPONDENT telegraphs that he
trayersed the Mont Gents tunnel in thir-
ty-eight minutes that the air in the
tunnel is excellent and the rails perfectly
level, and that the entire work has been
admirably done
HENRY .. WRIGHT, n conductor, Of
Bridgewater, Mass, was arrested an a
charge Of manslaughter, for causing the
death of Mrs Catharine Butterworth,
who was killed while leaving his train
after il had started
THE Court-martial at Marseilles SEN
fenced the agent of the Internationalists,
u. Pavy, 10 term Of Imprisonment, and
N. Paynis and large number TO be
shot, for passing over TO the insurgents
on the 4th Of April,
IT is said that new description Of
lava is being thrown from the crater of
Yesuvius slnce the last eruption, consist
ing of erystalized salt This beautiful
phenomenon has hitherto been unknown
in volcanic natural history.
A MAMMOTH cheese, weighing 5000
pounds, the product Of one DAYS milk
ing Of 2, 200 cows, yielding 80, 1O5 pounds
Of milk, manufactured in Erie County,
y. Y, was deposited for exhibition in
the international Exhibition, Buffalo.
= TIE entire congregation of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion church in
Newark, n. j., embracing about three
hundred members, with their pastor.
Rev. j. L. Sweares, have voted unani-
mously to go over to the Methodist Epis-
copal church
PROFESSOR DENNIS II. MAHAS, of West
Point, renowned as an eminent military
engineer, whose works have become
standard in military circles the world
over, committed suicide by jumping from
the steamboat Mary Powell into the river
of Verplanek's Point
The caisson for the New York side Of
the great East River bridge has been
towed from the Atlantic Dock 10 the
foot Of Roosevelt street, where il will be
sunk. The company hope to have the !
mud scooped ont and the New York /
foundations laid by the 1st Of December |
JOHN KELLY, II years old, employed
in Flint Works, at Trenton, N. j., while |
walking along the second story OF the |
factory, stumbled and fell through a
hole in the floor into the flint cracker
below. He was run into the wheels and /
his body passed out into the water be- /
low, literally ground up.