Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-11
STATE NEWS.

| secretary quay mas sold his Beaver
residence and will make Philadel hia
his home.
Cnrrolltown, Cambria county, can trot
out more children than any town twice
its size in the State.
Lafayette College has received the
insurance on Pardee Hall and its con.
tents, amounting TO $l20,sO049.
State Senator jackson, who has been
dangerously i'll at his residence in Suli.
van county, is rapidly recovering.
The Williamspoft Banncr is Of the
| opinion that Candidate Barr will get
over 1000 majority in Lycoming county.
So many laboiers are sick at Marshall
furnace, Newport, that some difficulty
is experienced in managing the in.
dustry.
Mr.. Barr will speak at big picnic to
be given by the Democrats at Pine
Grove Park, Cumberland county, on the
l7th inst.
A fight between rival gas companies
is going on at Lancaster and the price
| OF the Illuminating yapor is down to
$l.S0 per thousand feet.
In 1870 there were GlO academies.
seminaries and private schools, with SIS
teachers, and q ,sl5 pupils, bes.d put.
lie schools. in Pennsylvania.
Daniel Wagner, residing on the Balls.
baugh farm in Swatara township.
Dauphin county, raised 100 bushels OF
early rose, peerless and other potatoes
two acre patch.
The latest information received at
Rcadinr states that the condition of
Judge Warren Woodward, who il i'll at
his country rcsidencc in New York
State, has in no way improved.
Ar. Joseph Guinter, Of Des Moine.,
Iowa, Is Visiting in this State, gathering
relics for an exhibition to take place at
his home. lie captured an old Cones.
toga wagon ia Lycoming county.
Professor Leslie has addressed com.
munication TO the Monongahela RcpuJ.
hcan stating that to make a complete
geological survey of the sixty seven
counties Of Pennsylvania would cost
$4,000.
The Board Of Pardons have been ap.
piled TO for the pardon Of John O'Neill
and Peter McManus. under sentence Of
death at Sunbury for numbering Core
ncr licsser The papers were received
this morning.
During August 2iO wells were com.
pleted IN the oil regions, - less than
IN July. Three dry holes were sound.
The total production of new wells com.
plcted in July was 1890 and Of new
wells completed in August. 6,4ql, de.
crease Of ggS.
The village OF liuntcrstown, near
Gettysburg, was visited last week by
tornado, which demolished church
and damaged a number Of other build.
ings. The storm cloud was funnel.
shaped, moved irrcgularly, and covered
path about sixty feet wide.
The biggest popular demonstration
Philadelphia has witnessed for some
time has just been made against the
removal OF the permanent exhibition.
If this meeting be a correct expression
Of public opinion the proposition OF the
park commissioners is not very popular
with the people Of Philadelphia.
Mr.. O. T. Phillips, Of Wallace, Ches.
ter county, one night last week, took
from a chimney swarm OF bees that
came on the first Sunday in June. The
flue was full Of honey, stopping the
drauRht entirely. There were about
two and onehalf feet Of solid comb
and thirty pounds of honey.
The Reformed Synod in the United
States assetE bled in st. Johns Church,
at Lebanon, on Wednesday evening OF
last week. The opening sermon was
preached by the Rev. DR.. II. A. Bonn.
berger, President of Ursinus College.
An interesting incident OF Thursdays
session was an address by the Rev. Mr..
Gring, one of the oldes, ministers in the
| Reformed Church.
The Democrats of Miflin county met
Last Saturday and put in nomination
the following ticket: Associate Judge.
Felix Norton Coroner, Thomas
Mayes Director Of the Poor, Albert
| Horning, and Jury Commissioner, Il.
r. worrall. Since the convention Mr..
/ Mayes has withdrawn from the nomina.
ton for coroner, and the name of Mr..
William r. McCay has been substituted.
Henry Gilkey, who has a cobbler's
shop in = slab shanty near Pine Grove,
| Pike county, quarreled with William
| Bross few mornings since about a job
Of work the former had done for the
latter. Gilkey seized a gun to make
Bross quit his premises, when the
weapon was discharged, and a stranger
standing near by was so badly wounded
that he cannot recover. Gilkey es.
| capped.
The Miners' Journal says that the coal
product Of the Schuylkill region for the
week ending August 80 was lsi,576
tons as against lI7,2 ,2ll tons for the week
previous and l56,646 tons for the cor.
responding week Of last year. The
total product was 5TS,4s6 tons, against
ST2,626 tons for the same week OF last
year, an increase of 20j,Sl0 tons. The
product for the year so far foots up 10
| l6,632, ,40i tone, against l0,35S,9l4 tons
for the corresponding period of last
year, an increase of 6,273, ,4S7 tons.
The court records in the cases of the
| ak I,abauon fnurriarare Charlie D<aws