Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-07-24
GENERAL NEWS.

$4,000 residence at Peoria, III.
Harry Palmer Of the firm Of J.rret
d Palmer, died IN London on Sunday.
Chaslinc Cox. the murderer of Mrs.
Hull, will be hung on the 10Th Of Au.
gust.
Susan y. Anthony says that the nights
wer" made for cats, bats and bad hus.
bands.
Flood, the California millionaire, il TO
have stable built at Mculo Park at a
cost Of $1,000
SIR Edward Thornton il 10 visit New
port next month, as the guest Of the
French Minister.
The California Democratic State Cen.
tfal Committee have voted 10 retain Dr..
hI"nu a. nominee for Governor.
/ 4 reunion Of soldiers Of the North.
west Will hc held at Aurora, H., on
August 20 - aud -.
President McCosh has the most clc.
CANT mansion ofnpy college presidont-
the gift Of the Philadelphia Stuarts.
i furious storm Of wind and rain yis.
Ited Ia" Eastern portion Of MAssachu-
setl. last week, doing great damage.
General William +. Barry. Colonel Of
the second Maryland artillery. and in
command AT Fort MclIenry, died in
Baltimore. Friday.
Of the go 600 oO0i in refundinr ccr,iG.
Gates issued by the United States Treas.
ury $i22I1 .UDO have been converted in.
to four per cent. bondz.
Tho Rev. William Cooper Mead. y.
D., IL. D., rector Of 1t. Fauls church.
Norwalk, Connecticut, died suddenly
on Thursday evening.
John Garlic, injured on tho ilth at
Baltimore hy boiler "Eplo.io ion. died on
Saturday. Joseph Michael, another
victim, viii probably die.
Anthony Zlbri.kic. IN eccentric gen.
'icman of Morrisanis. New York. worth
sluuJoVJO, was run over by tho cars
and killed one day last week
Called bonds are coming in 50 fast
that the Treasury Il unable IN keep
work W. There will consequently be
much delay on making -cttlcments.
Snyder Brothers. diuillcry at Milton,
Kentucky. opposite Madison. Indiana.
Ha- burned on saturday. Loss. $50 900 :
uoInsuranc". The warehouse was saved
Richard Grcyaa. an Irish coschnan
Of Philadelphia. arrived a; Long Branch
on Saturday VI tht and wa. drowned At
noon sunday while bathing Tho body
was recovered.
The steamer q. 7. oiyphant struck
a rock early sunday morning IN STAN.
ford Conn hsrbor and -auk. The
boat wa. advertIsed to make an cxcur.
sion TO Coney island on that day.
4 FIRE broke out at Scahricht. near
Long Branch, at 2lj last Faiday morn.
ing. II destroyed two blocks of stosA
and cottages IN the business district.
None Of tn" hotels or principal cot
iares were injured. Tho total loss Is
about 10000, and insurance about
$4,000.
Early Monday morning a FIRE destroy.
ed Hempy & Co.'S new planning mill at
Cleveland, Ohio. loss. $2O. uJ0: insur.
ed 9, $1,000 1t. is supposed to be the
worFof an inccndiary. Two frcmcn
we're injured, and it is feared one fatal
ly, by falling walls.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett was culo.
eized in Paris on Saturday night last.
by VI. Louis Simonin, the engineer and
traveller, at meeting Of the Socite
Georraphiquc. Tue sailing Of the Arc.
tic exploring steamer Jeaunette was
the immediate occasion which called
forth the culofy.
The steamer State Of Virginia. from
New York for Glasgow. went ashore at
Sable Island, Halifax. at 7.4j +. n. on
the l2ih instant. -Four ladies and five
children are reported lost in the surf
while landing. The vessel had seventy.
four passengers, one hundred and four
head Of cattle and general cargo.
Sixty head of cattle were saved.
Saturday evening four ice houses half
filled with ice, owned by Scott, Quinn
4 Morris, situated on Van Rensselaer,
island, at the upper end OF the city Of
Albany, \. y, were totally destroyed
by an inccndiary fire. Each building
was thirty feet wide by two hundred in
length. The loss is estimated at Sl5..
600; partially insured.
Governor Mcclellan has recently
made from his home on Orange Noun.
tain pleasure tour through the north.
eru counties OF New Jersey, driving by
way of Schooley's Mountain. Hacketts
town and Hope TO the Delaware Water
Gap. The party consisted Of the Gov.
ernor, his wife, his son and his daueh.
ter, the former driving barouche and
HE children n phaeton.
The late William Allen had an ex.
tremely powerful voice--so powerful,
indeed, that il gained for him The sobri
quet of Earthquake Allen" When a
youth and apprenticed to John Thur.
man, the saddler, Allen was a tall. erect
fellow, and persistent worker, study.
ing with his book before him on his
work bench.
An incendiary FIRE AZ Oneida. n. Y.
Monday morning. destroyed nine build.
ings. Tho principal losers are the
Joseph Roberts knitting mills, $4,000
insurance, S27 900. Oneida Gas liehi
Company, loses $1,000; insurance, e.,
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