Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-03-24

CoRpELA WADE Intellectually trie,
suicide for the nineteenth time in Gin
cinnati.
NEw BEnFoRD, Mass, has a servant
girl who has lived in one family sixty
one years.
A YOUNG lady in Indiana was frozer
10 death while out sleigh-riding with 1
young man.
The House Of Representatives failed
% pass the hill TO increase soldiers pen
sions 20 per cent
THE young Queen Of Greece has ia,
reputation of being one Of the best
women in Europe
4 BILL providing for State Consti
tUtiQnal Convention is before the New
jersey Legislature,
4 MUscATRSR brewers pet goat licked
of 500 worth Of revenue stamps from
lager beer barrels
a CHINESE agents offers 10 deliver
Cinnamon in Tennessee at the rate OF
1850 a hundred.
NrNaY 1000 bales Of cotton are Re,
ceieed az the port II Boston every bnsi'
ness day in the year.
ALI the French volunteer force viii
be Immediately dishanded, and the troops
allowed 10 return home
MExIcANs and Apaches are said 10 be
riyalling each other In killing and plum.
dering on the Arizona frontier.
IT is officially announced tina. n com,
mercinl treaty between Italy and the
United States has been signed
4 MUsKnAr made hole through the
dam Of Wisconsin farmers trout pond,
and thirteen hundred escaped there
from.
RICHARD MnLEr and Peter Tullen wer,
instantly killed in the bridge tunnel al
Hannibal, No, 10y q premature explosion
81 blast
APABrr Of six from a United States
Coast Survey vessel at Appalachicola,
Fla. we've drowned by the capsizing OF
IA small boat
VERMONT fears "A short crop Of hay,
because of the severe cold this winter.
without the usual quantity Of snow to
protect the grass lands
Henry BASrr, an itinerant circus
clown. recently nan AWAY with the young
daughter lonly l3l Of respectable citi.
zen, from Michigan village.
THE schooner Aptos was blown ont 10
sea from san Francisco during the late
gale. and is supposed 10 have ioundcred.
There we're six mon on board.
DAVID BUTLER. Governor Of the State
OF Nebraska, has been impeached l,y the
House Of Representative 81 that State
for malfcasancc in office, 10y q vote Of S3
10 O.
M. THEIRS declines 20 make treaty
OF commerce with Germany on the
ground that il is necessary for France tu
initiate the United States, and restore
the equilibrium 10y high tariffs.
REroRrs from southern Kansas state
that there is likely to bo n repetition oi
the reign Of terror that existed there last
Fall, which eliminated in the hanging Of
six or eight alleged horse thieves.
Ir is rumored that Napoleon is negoti-
ating for an estate in Bohemia, 10 which
he viii retire. though from preparations
making NJ Chisclhurst il II believed that
he win rejoin the Empress there and re-
main some time in England.
THE Chinese indulged in n pitched
battle on Jackson street, san Francisco.
Knives and iron bars were freely used.
They were finally dispersed by means of
a shower Of tricks hurled from the neigh
boring roofs 10y mutual friends of the
contestants. Several have been arrested.
THE Journal des Debates chidcs the
Parisians for their frivohtY during the
occupation. Over the couch Of stang-
led France, it pronounces the words
"silence" and patience. IL urges
earnest preparation, 50 that our children
may be able to pronounce the third
word" yengeance.
ApvTcEs from ST Joseph, Mich, the
center Of the great peach region, say
that the prospects Of the coming fruit
crop are good The injury to peach buds
during the severe weather in December
aud January was not serious. The Craw-
fords were injured somewhat, but other
varieties are in good condition.
THE GRAND-JuRY at Washington has
found n true bin against Christopher G..
Bowen. late member of Congress from
South Carolina, for bigamy in marrying
\. Petigrn King. in August lRst while
Mrs. Frances Hicks Bowen, whom he al
legged TO have married in 1852, was living
in Augusta, Ga.
THE FOLLOWING is an exhibit of TIE
iron production in the Western States.
The latest full returns are for 1869, in
which year the West produced 273, 600
tons OF pig iron of all kinds. against
l30. 900 in 1859. IL is believed that the
product for 1871 win not he less than
600, 900 tons. In railroad iron there was
produced in 1860 100, 600 tons, of which
amount illinois is credited with $1,000
tons
A POLISH ADvENTURER. Adalbert De-
browsld, who has been convicted of theft
swindling, and forgery, again and again,
has given. and is still giving. the Russian
Government much trouble 10 keep him
in confinement. Debrowsli, has escal,-
ed from Warsaw, Cracow, 81. Peters
burg. and Moscow, and recently broke
ont Of a strong and closely-gunrded cell
nt Odessa, and got safely TO Constantine
ple.
ROCHESTER, is distracted, through the
columns OF its papers, over arithmetical
problems. Here is one propounded :
If one hundred yards of cord be wound
in single coll upon an upright post nm
inch in diameter, what time will it take
a man to unwind it, he holding one end
in his hand and travelling in n circle
whose radius is the unwound cord, sup
posing he walks four miles an hour aud
what is the length of ground walked
over.
DISAPPOINTED Magdalena Bay colonists
continue to arrive Mt San Francisco.
They report that no progress whatever
has been made toward actual settlement
at that place, and that unless immediate
provision be made for the departure of
the colonists on their arrival at New
York, they viii suffer terribly. The
Company employ the most desperate
means to get 900 men settled there by
the first of May, TO enable them 10 Calm
damages from Mexico for the non-fulfill-
ment Of the contract.