Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-11-27

In January the Lehigh Valley Rail.
road pay its employees in gold.
A Clarion county man amupcs him.
self with two large pet rattlesnakes.
George Leininger, OF Wolmelsdorf,
Berks county, recently shot a aix.pound
rabbit.
Rev. 4. S. Leinbach, Of Reading. has
LAO communicates in the Reformed
churches under his charge.
Tom Moorhcnd, formerly of Mt. Tn.
ion, has sold seven.eights of his inter.
est i'll a mine near Leadyillc, Colorado,
for 10000.
Mr.. Frank Sgeft, of Leven Valley,
York county, saw II hawk swoop down
upon arabbit. lie took good aim and
killed both.
Rat traps set at the mouth of the
BinRamon street sewer. Reading, caught
rs many as IA whcelbarrow load of rats
in one night.
4 West Chester girl is reported to be
dying from an arsenlcal poisoning. the
arsenic having been absorbed from a
tooth filed by a dentist.
Ht Is'bdHbu auAH HulAfiutliR TOM
pany has a contract to build 100 cars for
the st. Louis, Kansas City and North.
ern Railroad Company.
A Sunbury woman values her jaw at
$1,000 at least she has sued dentist
for that amount OF damages for dislo
eating it in pulling "a tooth.
Tho reports from Pittsburgh are that
. l.. Fs.F H. =
is impossible TO furnish enough cars
to keep It from accumulating.
Mr. Joseph Nanormer. Of White
township, Cambria county. has contract.
ed with a Williamsport firm 10 furnish
them with 100000 feet of lumber.
4 "bar" story comes from Mexican
county. Charles Seaman and Michael
Marsh, of Bradford, while after deer.
came across a 100 pound bear. 1t took
two rife balls to Kill him.
1t is understood that a number Of
citizens Of Allegheny county are arrang.
ing for the erection of "a hoe factory at
MouongahcIa City, 10 have capacity
OF twelve hundred hoes per day.
Mr.. aud Mrs. james G. Mar.hall. Of
Erie, celebrated their golden wedding
st that place on "Wednesday Of last
week. Mr. Mar.hall j. one of the old
est and most prominent lawyers IN Eric
county.
Hon. Samuel Marshail. one Of the
Associate Judges Of Butler county. has
been taken. t. the insane ass lum at
Harrisburg Tor treatment. His insanity
- caused by violent fail received about
a year ago.
The employees Of the iron works at
taiasauqua have received four FIVE per
cent. advances on their wages during
the year. An advance was made during
each Of th" months 81 August, Seytcm-
Der, October and Noycubcr.
4 daring attempt was made to rob
the bank at PcnnhurF, Montgomery
county, Saturday morning. The large
safe was shaken hy two explosions of
powder. but the burglars were irigh,en.
81 oil before they could obtain ans val.
uables.
Dilworth. Porter 4 Co. Il rit,sture
have stopped their pudding furnaces.
heoaus" they now use old rails for the
manufacture Of spikes instead of pig
iron. In consequence Of this sixty
men are thrown out Of employment
4 button has been found at Womcls
dorf. Berks county. by Mr. Jonathan
Ialslcy, which has the initials 81 George
Washington on one side and the word.
Long live our President form a
wreath around them. ON the other
side are the initials OF thirteen original
StAte+.
The Fittsburg bsp8sl says that an
idea of the life IN the iron trade there
at this time can be gathered from the
fact that the consumption IN that neigh.
borhoOd il over 1900 tons per week
and that actual sales o, over 81. go tons
have been reported within the past
three weeks.
jacop and !. Albert IIuntzinger. the
imprisoned ex.hankers OF Pottsyiile,
who have been undergoing a two years
sentence in the Berks County Jail. were
set at liberty on Saturday evening. hav.
ing received Communication pardon
from Governor lIoyt. There are Il bills
Of indictment against the Huntzingers
IN Sohuylkil county.
&Als iAtHif bNtE~s Fesluln% near
Campbellstown, Lebanon county. has in
his possession ten bundles Of rye straw
that were cut with a sickle sixty years
ago by Rev. Samuel Hershey. now Of
Mount Joy township. The straw, old
rs 1t Is, is in perfect state of preserva.
ton. This is particularly curiosity in
this age Of reapers and mowers
Simon Cameron says that the imme.
diatc cause of Zach. Chambers death
was ovcr.exertion in the campaign. II
Is wonderfully strange that man who
ran away from Bull Run should actual.
ly kill himself trying to keep the coun.
try from falling into the hands of the
" Rebels" fourteen years after the close
of the war. II will be Blaines turn to
have "sun stroke" next.
7. X. Bargar. the confidential clerk
Of MI. John Jermyn, one of the wealth.
lest coal operators in this region. was
arrested on charge of having syste.
matieally embezzled at various times
large sums of his EMPLOYERS money.