Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-10-09
GENERAL NEWS.

lnYo5dgation shows that Anna Null.
gan, an aged New York beggsr, has
more than g 900 10 her credit in the
savings banks Of that city.
Miss Lille George, of Cincinnati, aged
eighteen, attempted suicide on Sunday
becahse of the death of Fred ". PERI
man, her betrothed.
Hon. Il. y. Lewis, member Of Con-
gress from the Tuskaloo=a district has
been unanimously elected president Of
the tniversity Of Alabama, aud has &C.
cepted.
Grant didn't like "Pinafore" when he
saw II or heard IL, for the frat time, in
San Francisco the other evening. lie
thought CotfsiH HeJe said so do the
Caseys, the Corbins and the Dents"
1t is stated that Judge Drummond
will retire from the United States Cir.
cult .iudReship in Chicago, ILL.,, January
]. He has reached ripe old age, and
has been United States Judge for
twenty.nine years.
A San Francisco dispatch tells Of an
accident at the TiOgA Mine. Nine men
were being lowered down shaft. 800
feet in depth, when the engineer lost
control aud the men all fell 10 the
bottom and were fatally injured.
The Post Office Department has de-
cided that lctte addressed 10 lottery
companies 0 10 individuals, when adj.
dressed 10 them as Arcnts for such com.
panies, are unmalable per So. and that
Postmasters should refuse TO register
letters when 70 addressed
The Pennsylvania railroad is turning
out some beautiful passenger coaches,
upholstered in the Eastlake style. The
seats are low and covered with blue
plush, the windows broad and furnished
with double blinds, and the chandeliers
very handsome.
Mrs. Dickerman and Mrs. Baldwin,
sisters. at New Haven, Conn, hrve both
died from poison administered by the
latter first TO her sister and afierward
10 herself. The Coroner's Jury on sun.
day found in acco darce with the above
facts and returned verdict that Mrs.
Baldwin was temporarily delanged.
Secretary Sherman sent William II.
Vanderbilt a check for $4,000 on
Wednesday and o1e Of about the same
value 10 Colonel j. C. Flood. Both
these modest fellows own 5000 600
worth OF four per cent. bonds, and the
checks served as reminders that the
quarterly interest was due.
II General Fremont doesn't earn his
| salary as Governor Of Arizona his WIFE
does for him. Mrs. Fremont hs~-6r-rs -
lied several classes in history among tho
grown sons and daughlers OF moor set
tiers, and Is fast wjgfIing the semi.civiI.
ized over froIg-ihe ways Of barbsrism
into WHICH they otherwise might drift,
15v. Blackburn, OF Kentucky, has
! fardoned fourteen. year-old boy. sen
tenced TO the Penitentisry for house
breaking, upon the ground that he has
determined not TO allow any child 10 go
inside the State prison to be further
contaminated II there is reasonable
ground upon which it can be prevented.
lie favors resort TO reformatory insti.
iutions for erring youth.
Congressman Wellborn and General
W. II. Hamman, ex-Greenback candi.
date for Governor of Texas. met at
Dallas on Tuesday, TO discuss Jointly in
public the political questions Of the
day. From hard words they fell 10
hard blows. They clinched and rolled
along the ground, suggesting 10 the
hilarious crowd a selfpropelline street
sweeper. The strange thing about the
affair is that being in Texas the honora-
ble gentle nen should have substituted
the artificial fist for that natural weap.
on, TIE pistol.
Under the provisions of the circular
Of the Secretary Of the Treasury Of
September l9 last, in regard to the ship
ment Of gold coin TO parties desiring IL,
there has been sent out from the Mint
gold to the amount Of sl7l ,0J0. In ad.
dition TO this the Sub. .Treasurers are all
supplied with gold, aud are paying it
out freely on current obligations, and
the Treasures checks for called bonds
redeemed are being paid by the Asss-
tant Treasurer in New York in cold
through the clearing house.
AT the McIIenry House, Meadville.
Pa, there is q parrot which il source
Of great annoyance to train men.
When it sees a freight train coming it
will yell al the top of its voice, switch
of switch off ~ The enunciation is
40 distinct that IL not unfreqently hap.
pens tina. the train will be switched 10
avoid q supposed danger. The same
bird, when IL sees passenger train, will
yell, "All aboard y and thereby cause
a scamper among the passengers, who.
after sitting in the cars for ten or fifteen
minutes, will discover they have been
sold.
Four young la1ies were sitting on
the porch Of William II. Speaksmen's
residence, in Wallace township, Chester
county, the other afternoon, when there
assailed their cars deafsning explo-
sion, as of heavily charged gun. Then,
instantaneously a small ball Of FIRE
passed through one Of the pAnes of
glass In = window, making q round,
wellshaped hole. Through an opposite
open door it took its way into an ad.
joining room, and there. apparently, in
the shape of large, fiery ball, stood
still for several seconds ct n distance OF
ahntsl lssn feet frnfa tho E1nnw n,,d tt.a..