Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

Pit'sburg milk dealers are forming
combination 70 advance the price OF
milk
/ The expenditures during October
last on the Brooklyn bridge were Sll2..
[ 9sI.jl.
For street cleaning purposes in New
York during October $il,2lG.CG were
/ expended.
The steamship Main, which arrived
at New York from Europe, on Thursday,
brought 100000 gold coin
| Colonel james Duffy, Of Marietta. is
/ the most successful farmer and tobacco
/ planter on the Susquehanna river.
/ The knights Templar denomination
at Richmond, Va, last Thursday after.
, noon, was most successful affair
/ The venerable Peter Hay died al his
residence in Philadelphia Saturday
morning, in the glst year Of his age
/ Paul Boyton has responded fayorably
10 the recent challenge Of Captain
I Webb To swim race in their respective
swimming dresses.
A colorcd man was recently attacked
4 by sparrow hawk that had been con.
fined IN room at Chichester, Delaware
county, and severely injured.
Associate Judge Joseph Light. Of
Lebanon county, died last Thursday
morning. The Court was adjourned
for the week IN respect TO his memory.
i Miiiin county hunter recently kill.
cd "A he thought one turkey, but upon
Investigation found three. lie thinks
they were in "A line and two OF them
were hidden from view.
The Lehigh and Delaware division
canal company are going TO try steam
on their canals between MAuch Chunk
and Philadelphia. and are now building
AN experimental boat.
Details Of the damage done by the
gale which visited the southern portion
OF Ohio at eleven O'Clock Friday morn
ing. show that property valued at about
I s. 900 was destroyed.
/ Robert A. Farnsworth, prominent
citizen OF Sunbury, committed suicide
I last Thursday morning by hanging
himself in the earret of his residence.
Y lie had been sick for some time, and
was not in his right mind
There has been recently found in tho
/ Miami rlyef magnificent pearl weigh
/ ing I64 grains. II has an agatized
groundwork, with the iridescence shin.
/ ing through, and a. il is the only one Of
/ the kind known lts value can scarcely
/ be estimated
4 white swan. measuring j6J inches
I from the tip OF the toes TO the end Of
! the beak, and s. inches across the
wings, and weighing lll pounds, was
shot on the Ten Mile creek, Washing
4 ton county, on Wednesday, Of last
week. 1t viii be presented 10 tho
/ Sportsmen's Club Of Pittsburg.
The Pittsburg Chronicle says: The
I general manager Of one Of the Indian
apolis roads has contracted with the
Z Edgar Thomson steel works for several
/ thousand tons OF steel rails, to be deliv-
cred as early as May next, at eco per
ton, this being the lowest figure the
steel works company would agree 10
furnish them at.
Theodore c. Nermilye, a well known
/ New York lawyer and prominent res.
ident of New Brighton. Staten Island,
was thrown from carriage near his
home on Thursday evening and instant.
\ ly killed. lie was a man Of middle age.
and has a son in the legal business in
! New York. He was q member of As
sembly from Richmond county in 1860.
The Pittsburg coal men are delight
/ ed with the recent behavior Of the Al.
/ legheny river and other tributaries TO
/ the Ohio. These show a tendency 10
swell, and upon their getting up TO the
necessary height depends the success of
/ floating to market about :, 600 coo BUSH
els Of coal lying in boats at Pittsbure and
vicinity. Louisville and other points to
which this coal goes have empty bins,
and offer greatly advanced figures for
1t. This increases the desire TO get IL
off, and therefore the rivers cannot rise
'too rapidly to suit the coal people Of
Western Pennsylvania.
Articles were agreed by Hanlan and
Courtney Thursday night, by which they
are TO row 5.mile race, y miles out
and return in their best boats for SC 900
offered by the Hop Btters Manufac-
turing Company, said race to be rowed
on the Potomac, near Washington, on
Tuesday, December 2, between . and Z
=. NJ, subject TO postponement by the
referee on account Of weather, each
party to deposit $500 with the referee
within five days from this date, party
starting at the word Ego" to get the
money II the other party does not start
but II both start or fail 20 start, money
to be returned to both parties. Blaikie
is TO be referee.
Frederick Douglass, Jr., OF Washing.
ton, has written an article in the New
York Adpooatc in opposition 10 the ne
gro exodus. lie says IL is an attempt
to stop up one hole By boring another
| lie wants TO know s'if the nortborn
door is thrown open 30 wide 10 the col.
ored emigrant, why are our colored
professional men compelled 10 seek
practice away from the North 2" "If."
he continues, "there is so much milk
and honey in the North and West in
the way OF employment, how can you
account for the presence of so many
Northern colored people seeking homes