Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-02-24
Summary Of News.

Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr, its Com
modore.
Ara late auction in Greenville, Orange
Co, n. Y, cows averaged $40 per head
and hay s29 ton , =
Com nights have put u stop TO gate
sparkling II she don't ask You to come
Iihlnbw,g you had better quit
~ A coMPANr has been organised 10 con
bStgvcs y railway from Fredericton, n. H.,
20 River du Loup. Quebec.
E ANgw- w-HAArsmRs man, who reoently
had ane OF his great toes frozen. chop
ped ~ OF with o nlallet and ehisel
A PHrripElrlflA papor suggests that
the best possible use 10 which we can put
Alaska is u nake4t a penal colony
rGsrS railway wagons. laden with pro-
rsarnnser. "Loadon gifts TO Paris. "
!. Tns Commercial Bank Of ST. John,
N. B,y was recentlv rahhed by burglars
who seemed q large amount OF money.
TuE ladies giNe as reason for mar
rying fss money, that they now seldom
find tnIything else iaa man worth hay-
ina, 80 "a s-'s
Nm Hour. A'Cllicag6 artist, was bad
1y. sealed by. the explosion OF dough
nut which NAs plaeidly' simmering IN o
kettle of lard.
FHE Emigration Companies say that
the influx oi foreigners into the west
during the next spring ard summer viii
he almost Unparalleled
THE House Pacific Railroad Commit
tee. il is understood. viii report l. favor
of the Southern Pacific Railroad bill
passed by the Senate last July.
Tux Episcopal Church has at present
30 diocesan and . missionary bishops,
with 22a.OO0 comnlullicants, The con-
tritmtions hast year amounted to -, 0U2, =
ia -
A Halifax, n. s. telegram says the
proceeding against the schOoners Nick
erson, Wonson and Franklin are closed,
and the vessels win be promptly con-
demned.v
GES. VansWyck, member OF Congress
from the XIth n. " District, treated
the children of the public schools of Mid.
dletown, to the number Of over 1000, TO
a grand sleigh-riie.
- THERE are new 66. 00a French soldiers
in Switzerland The men are very bad
III clad, .aaId the Swiss government has
asked the French authorities 10 send
clothing for their use,
Another call ON the German Landwher
for men between the ages Of q and 81
has hnen issued. From the new reserve
Sll, ,000 men will be ready 10 march into
France at short notice,
= A S4S FRASCTsco man who brought
suit for 500, goo for damages done his
property by the great nitro o-glyeerine
explosion in April. 1866, has been award
ed 81. .7S7. o. and interest
THE rinderpest has appeared in West
chester, w. Y. Twenty cattle belonging
30 Mr. Wallace OF Groton Falls, and
some stock Of Mr.. Hynard OF Somers,
are suffering from the disease.
AT the meeting of the Conferences in
London, Russia is slid 10 have fully
gained her oh;ect-an her pretensions
being acknowledged, she yielding moth
ing. Turkey obtails no guarantees
j TaE aloacester 'fishirfg schooner Edith
Wofsers Is supposed to have been lost
on the Western Banks, with her crew,
consisting OF twelve IN all, threeof whom
leave wiisbws. aud two nine children
,THE Apache Indians in Arizona are
growing bplaer, and make daily raids
into the Pimo aud Gila reservations.
which hitherto had been considered free.
More trooPsare HTgently called for.
MoEAulE or adjustable horse shoes
have become fixed fact, "iand CON-
pany iui Chicopee, Mass, are engaged in
their utannfacsure. This shoe can be
taken OF nc night, or when the horse is
pot at work, and Pun on again when
wanted. as easy as a pais nf boots.
TEE fadtPsasg1lSesB BslSs. has Telegram
from Lyons 'Nhrch suys that Gen. Gre
mer, with one Of the divisions Of the
French Army OF the East, has effected a
retreat from PoRtsrEer to Gex, but was
obliged TO spike and abandon forty guns
to the Prlssians
THE Pr6bi6tory State Central Com
miitee Of Massachusetts, has adopted
resolution in favor OF adopting woman
suffrage as pant of their political plat
form, and appointed a committee to nr-
ange for arconvention of the party TO
consider the subject
GoLD to the amount OF S15, in the
gizzard of hen, is a matter tnat is
agitatlng the denizens OF Belmont, Wis
consin, Just now, a man having recently
made discovery, Of that startling char
acter. The mortality OF hens is said TO
be very great in that locality since the
discovery was made <J-tt
A Sr. LOUIS woman complained TO the
Police, on Monday, that another woman
had won away the love OF her husband
by the use Of certain love-powder, and
that, althotghshe had tried the efficacy
of the same powder, thereby involving
30 herself an expense OF s., she had been
unable to win il back again.
THE Pennsylvania Secretary OF State
gives the septennial enumeration of all
counties, except Fulton, showing the ag-
eregate Of taxable persons 10 be S56, ,697;
OF deaf and dumb persons, COZ, and of
blind persons, 761. Philadelphia has
15S, ,622 taxable persons. So deaf and
dumb persons, and 276 blind persons.
THE annual meeting Of the New York
State Agricultural Society, was held at
Albany. The annual reports were sub
mitted. The Treasurer's report shows n
Valance OF $50, ,252 64 Ofiicers for the
ensuing year, with NJ. Richard Church,
cf AHeghany, as President, were elected.
and after debate on several que stions OF
minor Importance the meeting adj
iourned. fsA.ss -
Is the Supreme Court for the District
of Columhia, Chief,Justice Carter an
nounces that by rsAson of n divided
Court, three eoncmTing in the opinion,
the Judgment Of the Court below, in the
case OF Carolile Brorn against the
Washington, .Alexandria and George
town Railroad, Company, for $3.50
damages for plaintiff; by forcible ejec-
tion from Q car at Alaxandrfa, in March,
on account Of color, was affirmed I b (.
!. A rGBuLAR statement. compiled by
Mr. Joseph Ninno, Jr.y of the Bnrean
of Statistics, shows that since 1856 the
relativps of British Tonnage entered az
american ports, and American tonnage
entered at British ports, have entirely
changed that instead Of the latter being
doublethe former, as priDrito 1861, the
former is now double the ht er. The
change Is asctibed 10 the schnnges effect
ed by steanI aud iron. both in the yehi-
cles and modes Of commerce
MR, THOMAS A. HnPNE, the wounded
express messenger at Albany, is rapidly