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

in the crude state.
ORJncrs seventy-two feet long can be
distinctly seen on the surface OF the moon
tby the great telescopes OF the Earl Of
Rose and Lord Oxmanton.
4 TNHE revenue officers of San Francisco
made raid upon the Chinese and cap
tnred fourteen unlicensed cigar-makers,
\ who only worked in the night time,
A DEsrArcH nom Berlin says the war
contribution of 100, o0o, 900 francs exacted
from Paris has been apporhoned-lo0, :
900. 600 10 North Germany and ~, 600, 200
10 South Germany,
\ PRIVATE tutor in London, England,
has recently been committed 10 prison
for having snrreptitiously obtained from
u printera copy OF the questions that had
been prepared for the examination Of his
class
ACCORDING 10 q statistical report sub
naitted TO the Legislature, there were
6,69a marriages, 20, TBS births. and TO-
100 deaths recorded in New jersey du-
ring 1870, The marriage registry is in
complete
/ EVERY time a shot il fred from
krnpp's ,0O0-pounder il costs the Prus-
! sian' government 500 thalerS, and the
monster of a gun itself has cost more
than would keep IN infantry regiment
for year
TIE steamboat Judge Wheeler explod-
ed her boilers and was burnt and sunk at
Bells Landing, forty.five miles above
| VickSbnrg. There were three persons
killed, several wounded, and the entire
cargo was lost.
THRER executions-two of men and
one OF a woman--took place in Maryland
in one day. Two Of the criminals were
eolored. Mary Wallis, the woman me
grol, poisoned the children of Mrs.
Reed. John Martin, mulatto, but 81
years Of age, had committed an indecent
assault upon woman aged 50 years, and
John Howard lwhite) murdered one Nil
Ter in August last
THE Troy Press announces that there
4 is q grand hunt in contemplation. For
long time the people of Waterford and
4 IIansingburg have been In the habit of
leaving their surplus cats on the island
opposite that village. These have been
multiplied. and, from living in the
woods, have become fierce, so much so
that it is necessary 10 organize force
for their determination.
The census sreturns show 4 considerable
decrease in New England in the amount
of land reported under cultivation, owing
in part to the abandonment Of less fertile
lands constantly going on, and likewise
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stable grains and live stock, while there is
shown large increase in the crops which
are properly comprised under the classi-
I ication of vegetable, farm or garden pro-
ducts
4 THEIRS is q French journal published
at Yokohama which, during the war, up
to the present time, has hardly had
room to print accounts of all the French
victories In consequence, the crews of
I the French men-of-war in that part are
/ juhilant, and officers on board the Prus-
sian frigates Medusa and Hertha (also
there have been writing home anxiously
inquiring if there is anything left of
Germany worth saving
ISDIASA leads the van Of the corn
growing states of the west. From the
monthly report of the Department of
| Agriculture for January we learn that the
average yield per acre of corn in the
west for the year 1870 was as follows /:
Ohio, 80 bushels Indiana, 39.5; Mich
igan, 81; Wisconsin, SO; Minnesota,
SO Iowa, 80; Illinois, 35.2 Missouri,
31.4; Kansas, 2S f; Nebraska, 2e.9; Ar
kansas, 3l.S; Tennessee, 25.S; Ken
tucky, 321.
A SAs JOSH Cal, paper reports that n
well-dreSsed man has been in its vicinity
for several days searching the hollows of
the trees for treasure which he concealed
there over thirteen years ago. He has
found but one portion OF il, the balance
! having doubtless been discovered and
carried of by other parties. The man
states that in 1857 he was suddenly called
East and had not time to secure his prop
erty before the steamer started.
IS the State Prison, at Charlestown,
Mass, there is now confined one OF the
most extraordinary rogues in existence.
Beginning his career Of crime in York,
Penn, twenty years ago, while yet boy,
/ by the perpetration Of arson, and being
now less than thirty-seven years of age,
I he has filed mp the interval with series
of offences, and has figured in courts and
prisons under q multitude of dlidses, such
as no other American eulprit or male
factor has ever equaled-
THERE was brilliant wedding in the
West the other day, and all parties ac-
companied the happy couple 10 the depot
where the new husband tenderly bade
his bride farewell for the time, and she
started of on n wedding tour with her
uncle. The gentleman's business would
not permit his absence az this season of
the year without mourning possible losses
and losing important business opportuni-
ties, and he believes in attending to
business before pleasure.
CoLoRGDo reioices in being warm du-
ring most Of the days in Winter, and
finds an explanation for this happy fact
in the warm trade winds Of the Pacific,
that come straight from the equator and
the East Indies, and rush over the Rocky
Mountains so rapidly--in twenty -four
hours-that the eternal snow cannot cool
them. Such occasional cold days as
Colorado has ii attributes to the cold
winds out Of the Mackenzie River and
Hudsons Bay regions, but they are
not strong enough to effect much.
Mn. Roor, one OF the dead, by the
Hudso, River disaster was on his way TO
Buffalo, where he was TO be married as
soon as he reached there. The young
lady who was 10 have been his bride il
tnow atone OF the hotels in Poughkeepsie,
heart broken, and her mind nearly dis
tracted. The next day she begged her
friends to be allowed to see the mangled
corpse OF her intended husband before
they took him away TO be buried. They
would not let her go near the body, how
ever, and she remained in her chamber,
moaning piteously.
A WOMAN, who, with two other ser
wants, was left in charge Of one Of Pitts
fields fine residences while the family
was ON southern trip, became insane,
last week, and made general demolition,
so far as she could, Of the silver plate,
bijouteric, articles of vertu, etc. Among
the wreck which she piled in the middle
of room were many fine pictures, but
she declared that she would not believe
the witches when they said her mistress's
father was bad man, and so luckily
spared fine portrait of him. She also
had refrained from obeying their COM
mand To burn the house. but il is doubt