Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-05-29
GENERAL NEWS.

are crowded with orderS.
Col. John w. Forney has been secur.
oil for the Camden orator on Decoration
day.
Mr.. Jacob Label, the market clerk of
Sunbury, was arrested and fined s5.JJ
for swearing on Tuesday Of last week.
II. z. Beatty -four mills at Dayen-
port, Iowa. were burned Thursday night.
Loss. $4,000 TO 100000; one third in.
sured.
The Altoona Car Works were destroy.
ed by fire last Friday afternoon. The
original cost Of the works vas about
$50. 900.
Andrew J. Dupnell has filed notice
oi action against the New York eleyat.
ed railroad 70 forclose mortgage for
E., 10000.
st. Louis ireights 10 the seaboard
dropped TO Sc. per barrel on -four 10
New York, ljc. to Boston and l5c. per
100 on grain to New York.
The ways and means committee has
reported Fernando Woods resolution
| fixing the l0th Of June a. the date for
the adjournment Of Congress.
! Miller 4 Gross candy mauufactorv,
at 3l3 Eighth street, Northwest. wash.
| inrton, u. C., was burned Monday.
Loss on stock and building, 10000.
| Insurance. $4,000.
While John King and Walter Swan,
residents Of Lewistown, y. y, were
| crossing Niagara river in a small boat,
Monday, they were drawn into an eddy,
the boat upset and both were drowned.
Colonel J. y. Dawson died at New.
castle, Pa, Monday morning of con-
sumption. During the war he was Cap.
tain Of Company D. Sixth PennsylyAnia
/ Reserves. The funeral took place at 6
+. N. yesterday.
! The boiler in the Brookside colliery,
near fremont, Schuylkill county, Pa,
exploded Monday morning. completely
wrecking the engine house and dam.
aging the foundations Of the breaker.
The fireman was slightly injured.
The banking house o! Drexel q Co.,
Of Philadelphia, has addressed letter
to the city Controller. making an offer
to take, at four and half per cent.
interest. the whole amount Of propos.
ed loan OF 100000 TO fund the hoat-
ing debt Of that city.
1t is stated that the PHILADELPHIA and
Reading Railroad Company in taking
charge Of the North Pennsylvania road
will discharge q large number Of the
hands, intending TO work the road with
a much smaller force than that now en-
ployed.
The latest development in the Colo.
mel Dwight insurance case is "A wild story
that the man j. still alive. a corpse hav-
IN laars Ew.I -.
buried, while the real Dwight is still
alive somewhere, waiting to get his
quarter OF million insurance.
The railroad lines leading East from
Chicago have embarked on another of
their periodical wars and freight and
passenger rates are being cut unmerci.
fully. Itsnot a money making business
for the railroads, hut il is fun for people
who want TO send freight east or come
themselves.
The statement OF the business Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Of all
the lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie.
transacted during the month Of April.
1879. as compared with the business du.
ring the corresponding period last year,
shows an increase in net earnings of
$742, ,535.
The House committee on appropria-
tions to day authorized a favorable re.
port TO be made TO the House on Repre-
sentative Cannon's bill, making addi.
tional appropriations for the pay Of let.
ter carriers. The bill appropriates $l3I,.
900 for the fiscal year Of 1880 and $25,-
600 TO meet the deficiency for 1879.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
e. "A a
invited in circular of March ~. 1879,
who have applied to become United
States depositAries for the sale Of the
$40 United States refundiBg certificates
but as 10 has become apparent that the
remainder. Of the certificates unsold
will last more than six days, applica-
tions for designation hereafter received
will be declined by the department.
In the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, at Saratoga Friday, the report Of
the Board Of Church Erection came up
as the order of business. 1t gives the
gross receipts of last year rs $s7, ,45O63:
balance from last year, Sl2, ,363.74 mum.
Der of churches erected during the year
by the aid Of the board, LIS, located in
thirty. eight States and Territories, and
under the care Of eigh'y-six Presbyteries.
To enable the board 10 do its full work
Tor the current year, sl50000 will be
required.
Ex-United States District Attorney
ID. T. Corbin, who is in Charleston, $, c.,
a. counsel in the railroad cases, on trial
before Chief Justice Waite, was held TO
bail at the instance Of the Attorney
General Of the State, in a civil suit
pending against him for the recovery
of $4,000. The origin Of the suit is a
follows In 1875 the State retained
Corbin TO prosecute a claim against
phosphate mining company for phos-
phate royalty due the State. A judg.
ment for S9S,O00 wss recovered, and
Corbin paid INTO the State treasury
Se06. retaining the balance, which he
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