Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-01-20

FLoRlpA wants more Swedes, and Is
taking means of alluring them thither.
IT rs rumoured in ST. Paul that Riel,
Of Red river notoriety, has been poi
soned.
THE accrued interest on the Pacific
Railroad bonds. 10 January, amounts TO
over $S,o00,o00. r4nus
A PRIVATE telegram from S. Paul says
that Senator Window Of Minnesota viii
get the long term.
A YEANoSrRR sues neighhOr for $40, :
900 because he brought malignant small
pox into his family,
A PRUssIAN column recently lost SOC
men by drowning in an attempt TO cross
the Lore on the ice.
THERE are 1900 bushels of potatoes
stored nj Poultney, \. y, awaiting 4
rise in the city markets,
THERE viii be fifty-three Sabbaths IN
the year 1871, the first and last days OF
the year hefng Sundays
FnTY-NTNE newspapers in towns and
cities ON the Pacific coast have perished
during the present year.
TEE machine for making ginger snaps
lately invented, has a capacity for max
ing 500 snaps per minute.
In Sheffield, England. il is proposed
10 severly punish all pawnhrokers who
take pledges from children.
No more killing or selling OF quail in
New York State from January /, until
the Goth day of October next.
THE 4ArtisGn, from Philadelphia FOR
Bremen threw overheard 900 casks oi
petroleum during the voyage.
in the Maine Legislature Chas. Bnf,
fam is President Of the Senate, and E.
r. Smith Speaker OF the House.
THE United States Treasury viii sell
81, ,000,0 900 of coin and purchase S5, 0oo,'
900 of bonds the present month.
liz the Delaware Legislature Charles
Gooding was elected Speaker of the SEN
ate and Sewell G. Biggs OF rhe House.
The Boston city common council has
appropriated S75, coo for the erection of o
soldiers monument ON Boston common.
CINCINNATI has built twenty-eight
steam vessels during the year Just past.
with an aggregate tonnage Of l,64S
tons.
AN attempt will be made in the Penn
sylvania Legislature this year TO pass an
act for the revision OF the State consti-
tuition.
II is reported that the Prussian cayElry
has become almost useless since Tie re-
cent SHOWS and frost. as the horses are
smooth-shod.
TIE official returns to the Secretary of
State of Indiana, show that the average
Democratic majority ON the State ticket
at the late election was :, 1854
A CATALoGUE of the University of De-
seret contains the names Of fifty-six of
Brigham Young's children OF both sexes,
who are pupils in the institution.
The State of Maine is paying about
three-quarters of n million of dollars
annually to support the common
schools, which is about So scholar.
New counterfeit $40 bills on the Far
mers' and Manufacturers National Bank
of Ponghkeepsie, are in circulation in
Pittsburg, Penn. ;, and Philadelphia.
THE Duke of Aosta, King of Spain,
}as landed at Cartagena. He was re-
ceived with enthusiasm by the people,
and departed soon afterward for Madrid.
THE ice-boat chesapeake" used for
breaking up the ice i'll the harbor of
Baltimore, burst her boiler q few days
ago, killing one man and wounding sew
eral others.
IT is stated that the French prisoners
coLf1ed in the fortresses near the Rhine,
conspired to revolt and escape on Christ
mas Eve, but the project was discovered
and defeated.
A proclamation mas been issued by the
Prussian Government placing under
blockade al the ports of France now
occupied or hereafter occupied by the
German forces.
TIE Senate Committee on Guber-
material Votes of Maine reports that
Sidney Perham has 4,901 votes, and
Charles W. Roberts 45, 1888, and there
were 80 scattering.
The United States steamer " Saranac, +"
which left Honolulu, s. l., for San Fran
cisco four months ago has not been heard
from since, and there is much anxiety
concerning her fate.
THE West Wisconsin Railroad Com
pany was one of the first to pay its
january interest in full. Such prompt
ness is worthy of note in these days of
Railroad reputation.
The stoppage Of distilleries is common
the country over. Illinois whiskey fac
tories are nearly all idle, as are those OF
Kentucky. One year ago that branch OF
the business was brisk.
ORDERS have been sent to Fort Scott,
Kansas, to remove settlers from the Mi
ami Indian reservation. This includes
about 1900 acre. of land, on which
8, 3,000to 1000 settlers have made valuable
improvements.
The statistics of the wool trade OF San
Francisco for 1870 show aggregate re-
ceipts of about twenty million pounds.
The average price has been about twenty
cents, making the wool clip for the year
worth "a, 100000.
MARSHAL PIim, Of Spain, who was as
has died from the effect OF bis
wounds. His death has produced pro-
found sensation of grief, and great in
dignation is manifested everywhere
against his assassins.
KING Victor Emmanuel has entered
the city of Rome, His reception was
most enthusiastic. The city was illumi-
mated. The King appeared on the bal
cony of the Quirinal Palace, and was
cheered by an immense assemblage.
A LETTER from an officer at the Ger
man headquarters has been published in
London, II states that the project of q
war upon Great Britain was planned out
as exactly that Of war against France,
long before the present struggle begun.
Tg1 intensely cold weather causes
fearful mortality among the German
wounded, Nearly all the occupants Of
fifty-six carriages filed with soldiers
wounded IN the assault on Belfort, we're
frozen to death before the train reached
Chatenois.
The NEW SPANISH Ministry has been
completed as follows: Serrano, Presi-
dent of the Council Martas, Minister
of Foreign Affairs. Montero Rios,
Minister Of Justice. Beranger, Minis
ter of Marine. Segasta, Minister of the
Interior UIloa, Minister of Public
Works Ayala, Minister Of the Colonies.
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BR1cHAM YoUNo,--A correspondent