Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-05-22
GENERAL NEWS.

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The Logan House, Altoona, is receiv.
ing two thousand dollars worth Of iu.
provements.
Pennsylvania produces G3 $40 per
cent. OF all the coal produced in The
United States.
| In 1878 Allegheny county had II 7.lO
per cent Of the pudding furnaces in
the United States.
The city Of Lock Haven has paid up
what it owes the State and the manda.
mus has been Withdrawn.
Jacob Schaefer made the unpreccnted
run OF $50 ~ game Of billiards at Chi.
cago last Thursday night.
4 reading room has been opened Mt
! L"wisburr by the ladies Of the Woman's
/ Christian Temperance Union.
/ Spiketown. Allegheny countyl 20.
cicty is terribly Austcred over triple
wedding in that place in one family.
More strangers visit the grave Of
/ Thaddeus Stevens in Lancaster than 20
to any other locality in that city. II is
Il Mecca for colorcd tourists.
So far rs known up to the present
the popular vote in Switzerland. stands
( iGG s2i FOR and rs. COZ against the r..
establishment Of capital punishment.
Mrs. Rush, young and handsome
woman, in Allegheny. became tired Of
being whipped every day by her hue.
band and eloped with another gentle.
man.
/ DR.. John McCulloch, an eminent and
well known physician, died at his resi-.
I dcnc" IN huntington on Thursday eve.
ming after long illness. His age was
. about - years.
The Solar oil Company. Limited, il
the title Of the company ORGANIZED al
/ "IliiamspoTt for the purpose OF rein
ing oil for export and manufacturing
/ iubricating oils under special patents.
Mayor stekcly, Of Philadelphia. has
in contemplation the idea OF culycrting
! the Schuylkiil river and thus reclaining
acres of ground. lie has sent commu
nIcations on the subject ito the cOun.
cils.
Among the prominent people who
sailed from New York for Europe on
Saturday were Commodore and Mrs.
/ Garrison, Lord and Lady Harris, vii.
/ liam II. Vanderbilt, and the Contc de
/ Santorcnia.
General McCandless will deliver the
Grafton at Gettysburg on Decoration
day. An excursion party from the State
Legislature will be present, and excur.
sions are expected from various points
The occasion promises to be one of in.
terest.
/ 1t is said that most Of the local papers
/ oppose the Mayor of Reading in his ef.
| forts 10 close the saloons and cigar
stores on Sunday. Strange that news
papers claiming intelligence can be
| found 10 say aught against q measure 80
manifcstly for the public good.
The Smithsonian Institute reports
that Professor Peters, Of Clinton, an
nounoes the discovery by himself Of a
planet Of the tenth magnitude in twelve
hours sixteen minutes right ascension.
six degrees forty.six minutes north dec
lination, with slow motion south.
Rev. T. II. Robinson has concluded TO
accept the Presidency OF Wilson College,
which was rendered t6 him some time
ago. lie has for many years back been
pastor of The Market Square Presbyte
rian church in Harrisburg and Is one Of
the most prominet ministers in the
bounds Of the Presbytery of Carlisle.
Saturday afternoon violent thunder
storm passed over Wilmington, Del
| Several houses were struck by light
ming, which stunned at least a dozen
persons in different parts of the town.
In two cases the parties did not recover
for some hours IL was the first thun.
der storm OF the season there and the
most violent for years.
Chief Engineer Barnes, Of the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Company, with corps
Of assistants, commenced last Friday
the survey OF a route from Malvern
station on the Pennsylvania Railroad to
West Chester. The object Of this il yet
a secret, but strong surmises are In.
dulged that IL means a virtual heading
off of the Reading Railroad Company
in its intention TO make connection
at West Chester.
At hAlfpast o'clock Sunday after.
noon the steam yacht Louisa, owned
by Mr. Charles Stenglein, with a New
York excursion party, ran on the rocks
in Little He'll Gate and upset James
! Hall, aged 80; William Adams, aged s.
| of Morrisanis, and Rosie Stenglein, aged
Is. of No. 1926 Third avenue, were
drowned John and Frederick Steng.
lein and Mrs. Adams and daughter
Sarah we're saved.
The Cape May season was inaugurated
last Saturday by the arrival OF an excur.
sion party OF representatives Of Phiia-
delphia newspapers. The principal time
of the train by'which they came from
Camden TO Cape May, eighty one miles,
is one hour and fifty eight minutes,
but the trip was made in ninety
minutes, the fastest time ever made
over the road. The run from Mount
Pleasant to Cape May, twcnty.;hree
miles, was made in twenty-five minutes.
Fire was discovered Monday morning
on the top OF one Of the breasts in the
Keystone mine, near Pottsville, which
burned through the vein and communi.