The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1871-12-22

KEpoRrs from the far West state that
many persons have been frozen W death.
Frrrnnx hdndsAa sheep have been
burned A. death In the tule lands in the
delta on The San Joaquin River
TAR U. \. Treasury Department has
suffered \ icss III about $50, 900 through
a defalcation by dishonest clerks.
TnE Labor Reform State Convention,
assembled az Concord. N. H., Nominat-
cd Samuel +. Cooper, of CroSden for
Governor.
Gov, CAMrRRfi., ol Wyoming. has sent
a message 10 the lower branch Of the
Legislature yctoing the bill rcpcalinG the
Women's suffrage act
The Senate of Louisiana elected Mr..
Pinchhack icolorodl, President by q
vote 0f II TO rs, The Constitution
makes him observation-disclosures
THE directors or the Western Union
Telegraph Company emphatically declare
their Opposition 10 President Grants
proposed postal telegraph scheme,
ApvlcEs from Havana tell terrible
tale "a the ggaef and terror oecasicned in
that unhappy place ty the hiood.thirSty
lniscreants who act under Valmaseda.
DuRINa the session OK Congress the
President win receive Scnators aud mem
Scrs OF Congress from 10 to ID o'clock
IN the forenoon, and other callers during
the afternoon. 4+s
TtS peSdns were drowned nv the
wreck al eheischooSer Achilles. "a Minas
Basin. On the Coast Of Prince Edward
Island, great damage was done by the
late gales. Ff
THE Cepe Cod fishermen. believing
chat the operation OF the treaty Of Wash
mgton win seriously damage their in
terests, passed q resolution calling upon
Congress to afford them liberal protec
ton.
IS Spain the Municipal Elections arS
over. Everywhere the Radical party
has been successful In Madrid tht
Radicals have elected seventy.tive eoun
eilmen, the Republicans twenty, and the
| Ministarialsts only five.
TKr Fijians who do not recognize tbs
sovereignty al King Ebeneaer l., recent
ly made raid on the plantations and
killed several lahorers. The whites from
L.aynkA In retaliation burned one of then
.illages and killed fifteen natives.
MAEoR UrHAM, commanding at For
Scott, Kansas. has received orders from
the War Department to remove all th'
white settlers from the Usage Reserva
ton. There are about 600 families. O
8, 500 persons ON these lands.
Is the House OF Representatives o
South Carolina, c. G. Bowen presented
his credentials as n member from Charles
ton. Objection was made that he hat
hcen convicted OF an infamous crime
Finally, he was admitted by vote OF z
| to %.
STATISTICS show that the harvest O
| 1879 was the lGrses. ever known IN Soutl
Australia colony, producing nearly 4,
D00. COO bushels, being an average yiel,
10 eleven and half bushels an acre
Wheat was o.. 5d. per bushel; four Il.
per ton.
THERE are l.000. 600 members of th'
International i'm France who pay ont
SOU per week. I'm England there arr
| Isl, 600 members, % whom 90, 600 are il
LONDON. The whole number belonging
: this society in Europe is estimated a
7,0oo,OOo
A PoKrUaEsE. accused Of shooting ans
killing q Chinaman, at Hawkinsviile
Oal, has been discharged. because th'
only witnesses were Cinnamon. who's.
testimony is not permitted against per
sons "a the Caucasian race under tht
aus Of that state.
THE weak point in Roger Tchburnei
case has been that he had not proved tina
10 r his shipwreck in the Bella in 1855
he was picked np by the Osprey. This
Kissing link was supplied by the testi
nony OF N. H. ShaIpings, who met hin
Il the time in Melbourne Harbor.
MRs. MTRA CLARK GAINES. after in
~cssantleeal warfare of over half cen
tury,. with varying fortune, met crush
ng defeat the other day, when q New
Orleans Court declared that she was al
illegitimate child OF the father fron
whom her great possessions were &
come.
GoIDDusE, the famous stallion, who's
death is announced, was fina golden
chestnut horse. ioaled in 1855. and wa
W Vermont Morgan, dam by 2ilcaadi.
oura Arabian. grandam by Importe,
Barefoot ont OF Thoroughbred mare
He stood sixteen hands high, and wa
valued ut Sc, 600.
DIR. LASKEsTER asserts that the small
Dox, which is now slowly departing fruu
London, after Staying 5000 persons, an,
manning, distiguFing and Pauperizint
100. 100 more, must have cost the metro
polls nj least EIO0, 600, tenth part o
which srn. judiciously expended, woult
have emf short the epidemic ut its com
mencement.
Or the five colored members of th
House Of Representatives there are upol
committees appointed, DeLarge, o
South Carolina, on tho Committee OF
Manufacturers Elliott, of the SAM
State, on the Committee ON Education
md Labor and Rainey, OF the sgm'
State, on the Committee ON Freedmen I
Affairs. Turner, OF Alabama, and Walls
of Florida, are not members OF any com
mittee.