Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-03-10
Summary Of News.

assembly.
When does chair dislike you When
il can't bear you
A RESIDENT Of Wisconsin committed
micida because he was afraid he might
have hydrophohia some time or other.
Arizona adviccs are filed with Indian
outrages. Col. Woolsey is preparing 10
lead party 100 men against the Indians
in Pima County.
TuR southern officers who have enlist
cd in the service of Viceroy of Egypt are
reported TO be greatly dissatisfied with
their new position.
THE families of +. r, Pitkin and Les
ter Deway of East Windsor, Conn, were
poisoned by arsenic packages OF prize
candy, sent 10 them by mail
PENNSYLVANIA thinks il can claim the
Democratic nomination for President,
and presents the names Of Gen. Hancock
and Chief Justice Thompson.
SEVERAL shocks OF earthquake were
felt at Santiago de Cuba, but no damage
was done. Shocks OF earthquake were
felt at Trinidad de Cuba last week.
Ir is rumored that negotiations are
pending between the Court of Rome and
the Roman Catholic party IN Brussels
for the transfer of the Holy See to Bel
gum.
A MOVEMENT is in progress looking to-
ward union Of all the Roman Catholic
temperance societies in Massachusetts,, foT
a better FORMULATION of the temperance
principles.
THRrY-FouR Republican members oi
the Indiana Senate resigned in one day tc
prevent further legislation ON the sub
ject Of redistrieting the State, urged 10y
she Democrats
The French soldiers who surrendered
20 the Swiss troops on entering that
country. have been sent under guard tC
the Eastern Cantons, TO prevent thciI
escape INTO France.
The Cotton Brokers Association OF
Mobile have adopted the New-orleans
system of brokerage that Is, one-hali
per cent from the buyer, and one-quart-
er per cent from the seller.
THE British ship Zoe, from Boston,
bound TO Paris, with provisions con-
tributed by American citizens, was
wrecked. ON Bell Rock, near Halifax.
The vessel and cargo are total loss.
TIE will of Louis Bernard, who died
OF pneumonia In New York. bequeaths
10 the American Society for the Prevent
ion of Cruelty % Animals OF the City OF
New-Yor Sl0O, 600 in bonds and real
estate.
A STATE labor convention OF about
thirty delegates was held in New Haven
Conn, recently. 1t adopted platform
appointed State Committee, and put OF
record Its demand that class legislation
solely in the interest of capital, 81 .,
cease.
THE friends OF temperance in Yer
mont and New-Hampshire complain
that intoxicating liquors are constantly
smuggled into those States from Canada
The liquor comes out in tin writing
desks, attractive both inside and out
1 find ready market.
IL THE United States Capitol there j.
an aggregate of 6SS spittoons, Of whicl
I4S belong 10 the hall of the House o
Representatives and 43 to the Senate
Chamber, while 497 are distributed
through the committee rooms and along
the corridors and galleries.
IT costs about three hundred and
seventy five thousand dollars n year to
"run" one of our crack naval frigates
after the snug sum of two million dollars
has been swallowed in her construction.
Fully manned and oficered she carries
six hundred and fifty souls
A SUIT brought to recover insurance on
a propeller which exploded her boilers q,
Buffalo, in May, 1869, has been decided
in the United States Court, at Detroit. in
favor of the insurance company. the de
fence having shown that the boilers had
heen defective for over two years, and
the plaintiff admitted the fact
4 NEw BEDFORD merchant detected q
prominent citizen in the act OF stealing
from his store. Having missed mum.
Der of articles OF value during the pas;
year, the merchant thought il n good
chance 10 get square, and therefore pre-
sented bill of S115, which the ere
spectacle citizen paid rather than be
exposed
THE ship Southern Right OF Rich
mond, Me-, has arrived at Savannah,
from Liverpool, with a portion of her
crew suffering from the smallpox.
Three died during the passage, and
three were removed to the hospital on
her arrival, where one has since died.
The disease is described as being of un-
usal malignity.
Mr.. Alvord has introduced into the
New York State Legislature bill pre-
venting members of the Legislature
from accepting the obligation of passes
from railroad corporations by giving
members and certain others officers a
legal right to free transportation on rail-
roads and in steamboats, and other
vehicles belonging to companies in the
State.
A MOTHER in Massachusetts, had n
school-teacher arrested the other day for
excessive punishment of her ten-year old
boy. The poor little thing had been
struck about the face, she said, with n
ferule, leaving ugly bruises, and there
was the lad with two black and blue
scars reaching far down on each cheek
The Justice called the boy to him, and
tenderly touched the scars to see if the
face was sore, when 10 the marks came
of wherever the fingers came in contact
with them.
THE consumption Of cocoa in the
United States has largely increased since
its great use in confectionery. Many Of
the most popular confections, ice creams,
etc, are now made Of this article. The
imports at Boston vary from 1900 to l2,-
600 bags annually-never so small as last
year, 2, ,3l5 bags--nearly all from Surinam.
The largest chocolate manufacturers are
near Boston, but buy most of their sup
plies In New York. The Surinam cocoa is
considered the best, but is received in very
limited quantities, afew bags Der annum
only. In 1866. 13, 900 bags Of cocoa were
received at the port.
A PORTLAND papa is publishing what
purports to be extracts from diary kept
by Hawthorne, when boy of ten years,
while he was spending some time in
Maine. This is a paragraph This
morning the bucket got off the chain,
and dropped back into the well. I want
ed TO go down on the stones and get il.
Mother would not consent, for fear the
well might cave in, but hired Samuel
Shane to go down. In the goodness of
her heart, she thought the son Of old
Mrs. Shane not quite so valuable Us the
son of the Widow Hawthorne. God
bless her for all her love for me, though
it may be somewhat selfish"
THE MOST beautiful girl in the United
States lives near Lincoln, Ill Her hair
ia of that necnliar hne that q field Of rine