Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-04-24

of Patton township, occurred last Satur.
day. He was II years Of age.
--"over the Ocean" Mt Reynolds Hall
Saturday evening, at 8 o'clock. Nearly
all the reserved seats have been sold
The Rev. DR.. Knight, of Lancaster,
will preach for Rev. John Hewitt in the
Episcopal church Sunday morning next.
The Bellcfontc paper mill is again in
firm are =. Il. and +. w. Crider and Geo.
| Valentine.
We see II stated once again that this
world will come to an end on the lth day
of next July. Well, if we arc able TO ccle-
brate another Fourth Of July, We do not
care whether school keeps any longer or
not.
The new goods which Mr.. ]. II. BAu-
land, of the "Bee Hive" dry-goods store,
purchased last week, have arrived, and the
clerks are now engaged IN putting them in
position. They are handsome and cheaper
! than ever.
A lecture will be delivered in the VI.
+. church, on the 3Oth Of this month, by
the Rev. w. w. Campbell, Of Unionyillc.
"Suns, Moons and Stars" is the suggestive
| title Of the gcntcman's delivcrancc, and
the merits of the lecture are doubtless he
/ high as are the subjects of which he treat
AS will be seen in j. H. Baulnnd's ad-
vertisemcnt, he will open his second grand
/ invoice Of goods next week. Ho directs
the attention Of the ladies especially to hi.
black and colorcd silks, napkins, toweIng,
table linen and domestic goods Of every de-
scrptipn. His goods were purchased in
New York, and consist Of the very latest
novelties.
Mr.. J. Irwin Ilagerman discovered,
on Tuesday, piece OF charcoal which he
says was coHled almost a century ago. lie
| found it amongst the ruins Of the old stone
building on high street which is now being
demolished, and IL must have been there
since the days whom charcoal was manu-
fac,urcd on that spot.
The Ladies' Missionary Society Of the
Episcopal church is requested TO NEE, this
afternoon at the residence Of Mrs. +. =.
Blair, for the purpose Of sewing the carpet
rags which have been collected towards the
Y. NJ. c. a. carpet. They are requested
to meet at , O'Clock =. " instead Of 80,
as formerly, so that there will be more
time to devote to this purpose.
Forward became with pompous tread,
With head erect and an air wcll-bred
Twas easily seen the clothes he wore
Had been purchased at Newmans cloth
ing store.
"Oh, - said each girl with heavy sigh,
"How heartily wish iha,I
Had n beau who always wore
Clothes purchased at Newman, Jr., store"
The Williamsport Banner gravcly in
quires whn, shall be done this spring with
the old rotten Nicholson pavement in that
city? Well, as the aforesaid Nicholson
was one Of the big enterprises of Peter,
and largely helped to swell the city debt,
the creditors might be pleased II you would
set your heads together and pay for it.
Where 500 dollars can be raised in these
days of a walking match, few thousand.
might be collected to pay n debt.
Misses Irsie Roush and Naomi ] Gram
ley, of Rebersburg, are ready to challenge
any person in Centre county to a spelling
contest If 1t Is any encouragement to
those accepting the challenge, we would
mention that Miss Roush has the record Of
spelling eight hundred words without one
mistake and that Miss Gramlcy, in sim
liar trial, only missed three in seventeen
hundred and Rebersburg young ladies
are subject to bad sp>iis, when they enter
a contest.
In that interesting book called "Thad-
deus Of Warsaw, 1t is related that while
Thaddeus was resting in London Park,
some impudent scoundrel, admiring the
elegant Gt Of the garments Thaddeus wore,
impertinently asked him where he pur-
chased them. "Where got my sword,
sir, answered Thaddeus with dignity and
walked away. 1t was never certainly
known where Tbaddcus did get his clothes,
but ten chances to one he purchased them
at J. Newman, Jr's., Eagle Clothing Hall
on Allegheny street.
--Thieve. are ye, operating in the sur.
rounding country. On recent night the
mill Of Mr.. Ertle, in Penn township, was
robbed Of some Aour-the thieves, no
doubt, thinking that this white substance
would best cover their dark deed. Mrs.
Slower, who resides near MilIheim, had
compassion on stranger and entertained
him over night. In the morning sho found
10 her grief that she had entertained an