Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-03-17

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Presidency III lSI2.
HENRY c. RoRrNsoS, has been nomi-
mated for State Senator by the Republi-
cans of Hartford, Conn.
FRENCH Assembly voted the ratification
Of the preliminary conditions Of peace
by 546 yeas, against I07 nays.
THE Y. :. Treasurer holds in trust for
national bank circulation SS52, 5T5, 600,
and for public deposits Sl5, ,SSa, 500.
The British schooners Investigator and
Grace were seized at Eastport, Me-, for
violation Of the Coasting laws.
MARTHA CLARK, factory operative in
Manchester, n. h, aged -, was fatally
burned by the upsetting of Kerosene
lamp
DAVID CLARK. Of Hartford, Connect
cut, has given more than S6o, 600 since
the war to promote education at the
South.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Minatitlan, Mexico, on the
Tth ult, and tidal wave foot high fol-
lowed.
JOAN w. SrEDMAS, of Norwich, has
been nominated for Congress by the
Democrats OF the third District of Con-
necticut.
ENGLAND demanded n fresh inquiry
into the Marathan massacres, especially
into the conduct of the officials previous
ly acquitted.
A BILL before the Illinois Legislature
aholishes the Grand Jury system, and
imposes the duties upon the States
attorneys.
THE President has approved the act
granting pensions to soldiers and sailors
OF the War of 1912, and the widows of
deceased soldiers,
SOME OF the railroads of Illinois have
paid more this Winter tu clear the snow
from their tracks than they originally
paid for grading.
Dispatches from various parts of Ire
land received, report that several acts OF
agrarianism have occurred in which few
persons were killed.
A FRENCH Colonel and his servant,
who escaped from Grandeny, Prussia,
were promptly sent back by the Russian
authorities 10 the frontier.
THE monthly statement of the Public
Debt shows a reduction, during the past
month, of S7,3l7, 800, and since March
1, 1869, of s2O4, TO, ,413.
An Eastport, Ne, dispatch saws the
revenue cutter Vigilant, Capt Freeman,
seized the British schooner Martha Ann
for violating the coasting laws.
NJ GRoMoFF, the immensely wealthy
lumber merchant of ST. Petersburg, died
two years ago, and left DO, 600, 900 roubles
TO his heirs, who it is said, have already
expended the whole Of it.
Ir is announced that the triumphal en-
try of the Germans into Berlin has been
delayed two months as the whole of Ger
many viii observe Six weeks of mourn
ing for the victims of the war.
FoUR married women of Podbizca, in
Bohemia, were convicted in December
last, of having poisoned their husbands
at party which one Of them had given
for that purpose. They were sentenced
TO penal servitude for life.
THE amount OF deposits in the various
savings banks of New Jersey is go, 009,-
1S7. 90, and the number OF depositors
about 60,0O0. The securities and in
vestments amount 10 $40, 773, 0S3. A., and
there is cash surplus of S795, ,522 OF.
SOCIAL circles in Syracuse are excited
by the strange story of the elopment of
a married woman, heretofore of good l
standing in that city, with Baltimore
man, whose acquaintance she made by
answering an advertisement for a CORES
pondent.
A Rural CIUB" has been founded
by some New Workers interested in agri-
culture and horticulture. IL will en-
deayor 10 supply want not supplied by
the Farmers Club of the American
Institute, and which has long been felt
to exist. The president is Mr.. Horace
Greeley.
A YOUNG man in Middlebury, Nd,
whose store had been robbed. nicely
fixed spring gun for the benefit Of the
burglars, should they return but, un-
happily, meeting an old customer on his
way home, who wished to get something
from the store, he went back and
the next morning.
An advertising scheme was gotten up
in New York, not long since, BY parties
who guaranteed to circulate 10, 900 copies
of the style agreed upon. Five adver-
tisers were found who took the entire
space offered. Fifteen copies OF the
paper were printed. and the bona fde
circulation was exactly five copies-one
to each advertiser.
A BRIDEGROOM IN Monroe, Wis, dis
charged gun into q crowd of boys who
had came to serenade Kim R2d his bride,
and learned the next morning that he
had instantly killed one of his new
brother-in-law' beside seriously wound
ing two other persons. He gave himself
up TO the Police, and claims that he
thought that the gun was not loaded,
and only intended TO freighten the boys.
EVERETT l.. WKDoEwooD, was arrested
at Alden, Wis, as one Of the robbers
of the United States Express Company,
on the Missouri and Pacific Railroad
last Fall. He was brakemen on the
train at the time OF the robbery. He
was arrested at the house Of his father
where he has been living since the rob-
berry. He had loaned his father S2, 000
He is about twenty years Of age, and lis
now in jail
An old man and two women are dig
ging for hidden treasure in Pennsyl-
yania village, at spot pointed out by
one Of the women as the very place
where a subterranean cavern In located,
in which liz hidden an immense amount
ofsilYer coin, amounting TO about "a ,00O,-
600. The woman says that over 500
spirits guard the treasure, and that con-
sequently she does not want TO be pres
ent when the money is reached
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