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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-26
Education In Greece.
ma. Da,Id.ou In National Review for June.

1hpInas Davidson IN NAbohhi Review tf June
In spite Of poverty, and though they
have little or no notion of how to rear
their children, parents are most anx-
ious that they should receive "a good
education, and are ready 10 make
large sacrifices for that end. In this
they are vigorously seconded by the
children themselves. In no country
are children and young people so eager
TO learn as in Greece. 1t might be
the paradise Of the schoolmastcr. The
hardships that young Greeks will un-
dergO in order to obtain an education
are often touching 10 relate. Perhaps
q fourth Of all the students in the
University Of Athens at this moment,
and they number about fourteen hun
dred, are young men who earn their
daily bread a. house servants. have
before me n score Of newspapers with
advertisements like the following: "A
young man Of good character wishes
10 find II family in which he MAJ serve,
with opportunity TO attend three lee
turcs at the University" The great
majority Of the Athenian students are
poor beyond belief. Many Of them
have not decent clothes, and come 10
the lectures without ncck-tie. or col
lars. How they obtain books ! have
never been able Dp discover. 1t j. a
pity that 20 much endurance and self
denial should, for the most part, lead
tO so little result ~ it usually doe.
There is no place iu Greece for half
Of the young men educated at the
University. Many Il graduate has 10
spend his life in menial position, hi,
education doing little more than help
ing Ia render him discontcntcd. Some
Of the cab-drivcr- in Athens are men
who have passed with credit through
the University. And, after all. these
are better off than the proudcr ones.
who prefer to -tarvc n. Lawyers or doc
tors. In Athens alone. whose popuia-
tion j, about sixty thousand souls the
PirTu- included }. there are about five
hundred lawyer the majority of them
starving and intriguing in favor of
some political champion, from whom,
when hc come. 10 power, they expect
to obtain some miserable government
Office with a yearly salary Of two or
three hundred dollar. Thus the alb
joci political condition Of Greece turn.
even the best yjrtue- of her citizens
into a curse.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-26
What Is Put Into Letter Boxes.

from the Boston Herald.
The carriers who collect the mail
from street boxes sometimes find queer
deposits therein. Loose silver coins
and loose postage stamps are among
the principal discoveries, while n car
rier the other day brought in bank
book containing sS5 in bills, which he
had taken from lamp-post box. The
most remarkable instance of absent
mindedness in this direction was the
case, not long since, of young man
who daily carries two leathcrn bags
one for mail and the other for money.
etc. He deliberately, in a fit of alb.
straction, walked up to the box in the
Boston post office, and emptied the
contents of one bag, containing several
bank books and bills and checks.
amounting to thousands of dollars,
into the mail box, and did not discov.
er his blunder until he went into the
bank and handed the receiving teller
bunch of letters. That young mans
face, it is said, grew SO pale as TO
frighten every one who saw him rush
ing through the streets, eyes distended
and heart humping in his wretched
bosom. He was made happier aud
n wiser man on receiving, ut the bust
ness Office, the bank books and money,
in place of which he gladly rendered
his bundle of mail matter.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-26
''Old Hickory's" Death Bed.


FROM Tho CincinnAil Commercial
Mrs. Wilcox was present at Gener.
al Jacksons death, one bright and
beautiful Sunday morning in June of
lS45, and she describes it as n scene
never to be forgotten. lie babe them
all adieu in the tendcrcst terms and
enjoincd them, old and young, white
and black, TO meet him in heaven. All
were in tears, and when he had breath
cd his last the outburst of grief was ir.
repressibe. The congregation at the
little Presbyterian church on the plan
tation. which the General Had built to
crafty his deceased wife, the morning
service over, came hocking to the man
sion as his eyes were closing and added
their bewailment to the general sorrow.
Shortly after this mournful event Mrs.
w. encountered an old servant in the
kitchen who was sobbing "A though
her heart would break. "Olc missus
is gone" she brokenly said to the child,
"and now ole massas gone; days all
gone, and dey was our best fren's.
And old massa, not satisfied teachin
us how to live, has now teached US how
to die" The poor, unlettered crca-
ture did not know she was paraphras.
ing one of the most beautiful passages
in Tickell's elegy upon the Death of
Addison"
He taught ne hos 20 live, and inh tno high
The price for knowieigeJ taught Hs hos 20 die.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-26

An ill.naturcd man being seen TO
blush, il was asked what the cause
was. "Oh" said witty lady, "the
cross old creature happened TO smile
and feels ashamed Of il"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-26

THE Railroad Gdsette says that the
world appears to be provided with
works sufficient to produce about thrice
as much iron in year as the world
has ever consumed in a year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12

on broken-down omnibus horses to prod
him with spears, the foot.performers
in italian costumes throw the darts into
his shoulder. This is an exciting feat,
but bulls have a way Of lowering their
heads and taking their time before toss
ing, and it is in this instant that the
performer throws his darts and sklps
over the barrier. It is a question OF
nerve and suppleness reduced into Sec
onds. The pain of the wound sends the
bull capering around the arena, and
other agile dart hrowers have their
chance. In the meantime red capes and
scarfs are thrown before his eyes to e1-
cite him. After the bull has been wor-
ried bv the dart-throwers and cape.dan-
glers the horsemen attack him. The
duty of the horseman is to throw a dart
about four feet long into the bulls neck
and so manage his horse as to keep him
from harm. Horses are trained to these
experiences just as in the West they are
trained to hunt buffalo, and it is q dis
grace for q cavalier to allow his horse to
come to harm. AS q closing act, some
daring fellows attack the bull, Jump
over his horns, seize his tail and over
power him. This done, and the bull
thoroughly beaten, o half dozen trained
oxen with bells around their necks are
driven in. The bull welcomes them as
friends and goes out in their company.
The darts are removed, and the sore
parts rubbed with salt and vinegar. 1t
is not often that a bull goes twice into
the ring. he learns the trick the first
time, and if called upon for a second
performance stolidly takes his place in
the corner, and watches his enemies
skip around without budging.-New
York Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12
The Water Mill,

Listen to the water mill all the livelong day
How the cresking Of the wheel wears the hours
away;
Languidly, the water gliaos useless on and
stin,
Never coming back again to the water mill;
And a proverh haunts my mind as the spell is
cast,
"The niill will never grind with the water that
has passed."
Take the lesson to yourself, loving heart and
true,
Golden years are passing by-youth is passing
Try to make the most Of life, lose no honest
way;
All that you can call your own lies in this-
to-day,
Power, intellect and strength may not, cannot
last,
The mill will never grind with the water that
has passed.
Oh! the wasted hours Of life that have fitted
by;
Oh the good we might have done-lost with
out . sigh,
Love, that We might once have saved with but
a single word,
Thoughts conceived but never penned-perish-
ing unheard.
Take the lesson to your heart, take, oh! hold
it fast,
The mill will never grind with the water that
has passed.
The late General Nc alum.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12
Narrow Escape OF Mill Operatives.

A fire in the Atlantic mill, at Cohoes,
N. Y, destroyed that structure and q
part Of North's block adjacent, causing
a loss of about $50, 600. About one
hundred operatives, mostly women, were
in the mill when the fire was dis
covered, and their efforts to escape re-
suited in q panic, which for q time
threatened q serious loss OF life. The
hands in the picker-room, which is in
the basement of the mill, escaped by a
rear door, but those in the upper de-
partments were unable, on account of
the flames and smoke, to descend by
the main stairway, and were obliged to
seek safety by the way OF the roof.
The frightened crowd clambered up
the stairs in a desperate effort to reach
the skylight. On reaching it the open
ing proved to be 80 small as to allow
only one person to pass through at O
time. Those waiting below shouted for
help, their cries thrilling the thousands
of people in the street, of whom many
we're anxiously inquiring for relatives
and friends known to be in the burning
building. The struggle on the stairs was
a mad fight for life. The women, almost
~suffocated by smoke and panic-stricken
by the roar of the flames below, madly
pushed and struggled at the contracted
opening. Some fell in swoons, and
others put their heads out OF windows
and g~esticulated imploringly to the
crowd in the street below. At length
almost all reached the roof, the last half
dozen climbing the stairs through the
flames. One boy was fatally burned,
and another, who jumped from a third
story window after vainly trying to
reach the roof, was severely injured.
After they reached the roof they made
their way to other buildings and passed
down to the street.
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portion of the proceeds Of the sale Of certif-
Gates Of deposit provided for In said act as may
be necessary, not exceeding $40, 900 900, for
the payment Of claims for arrears OF pensions.
Mr.. Atkins called attention to the fact that the
Houge had already passed q bill a%ppropristing
$26, 900, 900 for the payment Of arrears OF PEN
sions, and Mr.. Monroe replied that his bill Was
to provide the ways and means. MIR. Monroe's
motion was defeated by 1875 to 116. 1.-The
House went into committee Of the whole on
the legislative appropriation bill, the pending
amendment being the one repeating the law
creating supervisors Of elections. A long de-
bate took place, at the conclusion OF which the
amendment was adopted by 143 to 8, the Re-
publicans abstaining from voting. The bill
was then passed-yeas, 143; nays, ILL., Ad-
journed. ~
The national censu0 bill was passed without
q division. The bill provides that the enum-
Grafton shall begin on the first Monday IN
June, 1880, and the returns shall be forwarded
to the supervisors OF or before the LIST OF July
following; and in any city having over lO,O0U
inhabitants the enumeration shall DO taken
within two weeks from the first Monday in June.
The President, by and with the consent OF the
Senate, is to have the appointment OF the super.
visors Of the census, whose number is limited
to $50, and who are to receive q compensation
of $500 each. The sum Of $751; 900, 600 (S25O,
600 Of which is appropriated By. the billy ls
limited as the maximum cost OF the census.
After discussing the sugar bill and the internal
revenue bill, the House adjourned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12
An Explosions Fatal Work.

Seventeen persons were killed aud
twenty-five more or less severely IN
jurei by q terrific explosion on Ell Do
RADIO street, Stockton, Gal. The tele.
graphic account says that a crowd OF
more than two hundred people had as
sembled to witness the trial of q new
propeller pump set in Stockton slough
and run by a threshing engine. When
the explosion occurred those who stood
near were FRUSTRATED. The body of the
engineer was blown q distance of $50
feet through the crowd. The dead lay
prostratein every direction, some falling
into the slough from the bridge. Ten
or twelve bodies lay in n heap at the
northwest corner of the bridge. Others
were strewn, dead and dying, on the
street, blown from fifty to 100 feet. The
heads of some were blown to pieces.
Others were blown to the ground with
such force as to break every bone in
their bodies. Faces, hands and whole
persons were steamed in dirt, smoke and
cinders. The wounded were promptly
cared for, and the dead were left undis-
turbed until the excitement OF the
moment had subsided, when they
were removed to the coroner's office.
The explosion was the result of reckless.
ness on the part of the engineer. The
steam-gauge refused to work, and after
the engineer had attempted to fix it and
failed he screwed down the safety-valve
and went on with his work. The K
plosion occurred about fifteen minutes
afterward. Tho killed are: ]. M.
Kirkpatrick, merchant John Uriell.
James Curry, blacksmith Geo. w
Foltz, carpenter; Willard Folsom, VIM.
Allen, the sporting man; Michael Gro
nell, q. B. Bishop, Jr., student; Robert
B. Johnson, Jas. Cosgrove, laborer;
Chaa. Creanor, W. @. Taylor, b. s..
Colmes, a farmer; Foo Fee, a China
man; Thomas Sedgwick, j. F. Avery,
engineer in charge of the engine; Mil.
ton Hart. The wounded number
twenty-six, three of whom are not likely
to recover. Many were blown a consid-
cradle distance and escaped uninjured:
The body of the engine, weighing $500
pounds, was blown over the telegraph
vii es and landed on the plaza.
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was repulsed by the government troops, who
lost thirty-ive in killed and ninety odd wound
ed and missing. There are three pretenders
to the presidency Of the island.
After being forty-two days out, and no It'd
ings having been received from her, the Brit
ish steamship Zanzibar, from New York, bound
for Glasgow, was given up as lost. The Zan-
zibar carried complement Of thirty-six officers
and crew, but nc passengers, and with her
cargo was valued at $40o 900.
During q violent storm o. Prince Edward
island a Presbyterian church at Souris, a o.
tholio church at Cardigan Road, and several
other buildings we're blown down.
A rise in the river Loire is causing disas.
trous foundations.
Many Of the striking dock laborers at Liver
pool have resumed work at reduced prices. at
q meeting Of the striking weavers at Ashton
uuder-Lyne, to the number Of 5000, it was de"
cided, with only four dissentient voices. to
continue the strike until they are reduced to
starvation.
The work of burning infected houses in the
Russian plague districts has commenced.
@. r. Urinary, cashier Of the Exchange
bank, OF Montreal. stole $1,000 Of the insti-
tution's funds and fled.
At Sienna, Italy, an earthquake shock over
threw two churches and killed a number OF
persons. including two priests.
Tremendous storms are reported in the
south Of France, where hundreds OF people
have been thrown on public charity by the de-
struction and inundation OF their houses. IN
Spain the tempest lasted four days, with much
damage and lose OF life. Various villages and
farms in the Navarro and Asturias we're de-
stroyed. A bark was wrecked at Corurna, and
thirty persons we're drowned.
Senior Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, ex-president
Of Paraguay, was set upon by FIVE assassins IN
the streets Of Asuncion the capital OF the
country-and stabbed to death.
Charles Peace, the notorious English burglar
and murderer, was hanged at Leeds, England.
His many crimes and escapes from the clutches
of the law would fill a volume. and he was con-
sidered one Of the most remarkable CRIMINALS
of the age. Just before his execution he con-
fessed that he had murdered o Manchester
policeman in 1876, for which crime another
man is undergoing imprisonment for life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12
A Safe Companion.

This is a trying season for invalids,
particularly those suffering OF liable to
suffer from Biliousness, Kidney Com
plants and Constipation Of the Bowels,
and to women subject to the diseases
and weaknesses peculiar to their sex.
Indications OF sickness should at once
be attended to. Fatal disease may be
caused by allowing thebowels to become
constipated, and the system remain in a
disordered condition. An ounce of pre-
vention is worth a pound of cure, is an
old and truthful saying. Therefore We
advise all who are troubled with com
plants now so common-indigestion,
disordered liver, want Of appetite, con
~stipation of the bowels and a ieverish
state OF the skin, to take without delay
DR.. K~ennedy's FAvORlTE REMEDY.
It only costs n dollar a bottle. Posi- L.
lively there is no medicine SC. harmless
and yet 80 decisive in its action. PEG
pie leaving home OF this season of the
year should not fail to take a bottle of
this medicine with them. It has IN al
most instantaneous effect, relieving the
person OF headache in o few minutes, and
will rapidly cleanse thelivero OF surround.
ing bile; and this excellent medicine is
for sale by all our druggists.
@When inquiring Of your druggist
for this new medicine, avoid MISTAKES
by remembering the name, DR.. David
KEsNEDY's FAvORITE REMEDY, and
the PRICE, which is only ONE DOL
LAR a bottle, and that the Dr.. g address
is Rondout, N. Y.-[Ed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12
Bull Fights In Portugal.

There is quite as much parade in the
Portuguese as in the Spanish bull ring,
but the purpose of the show is to fight
the bull and not to slay him. The
horsemen ride good horses, not aban.
doned beasts-horses trained to fight
bulls, and not simply to be gored and
torn. The foot performers are of two
classes-those who throw darts, and an
other class of lively, active young men
who seize the bull by main force and
play antics, over him. Sometimes color
cred gentlemen offer themselves as toss
ing material for the bull, and then the
fun is screaming. The performers are
quantity dressed is costumes of past
generations; the dart throwers' a nat
ty costume, like italian opera singers,
short and embroidered velvet jackets,
breeches gaudily tinted, white stockings
and red sashes. When the bull comes
paving and prancing into the arena, in
stead Of iron and leather-clsd horsemen
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12
CnriOsities of Agriculture,

A German workman in a gypsum
stone quarry travelled across a meadow
in going to and returning from his
work. A clergyman of the name of
Myer, who saw this field every day, OBJ
served the greater luxuriance OF grass
on each side of this path than in other
parts of the field. This simple obser-
walton laid the foundation for the ex-
tensive use of plaster as a fertilizer for
the last hundred years. -LOndon Coun.
try.
ga pretty fellow you are to instruct
the public on rural matters, when you
can't supply your own table with vege-
tables, or raise a good head of celery to
save your neck |" A faithful report of
domestic conversations on this point
between agricultural editors and their
wives would be very funny-to the pub
lic--Christian Union.
Why is it that barley straw as litter
causes lice? Cannot some one give an
Ineligible reason? l have cudgeled
nv brains in vain. MARK Lane Er-
press.
Major Campbell Brown, Of Maury
county, a noted sheep-breeder in Ten
nessee, was telling me some evidences
of sagacity, as shown by his shepherd
dogs. On one occasion two of his dogs
noticed three strange cattle in among
his herd of Jerseys. Without an order
from any one, these dogs started for the
intruders and attempted to drive them
out. Finding it impossible to get the
three together, they drove them one at
a time to the gate, and then attracted
attention by barking until some one
CAME to open the gate and let them out.
He also stated that he had been amused
ct noticing the name in which one of
his dogs would attack a strange mule.
He would steal up behind him, bite him
on the pastern joint, and drop on his
belly, thus avoiding the certain KICK
Forest ana Stream.
An unknown thief in Chesterfield sent
a letter to the man whose poultry house
he had depleted, saying: "Mr. Britt j
must not forget to tell you that the
Black Hen was very tough We could
neither roast nor boil it it was a disap-
pointment as I had asked a friend to
come to dinner and with Pulling at the
old Black hen he Loosened all his Front
teeth the cock was very good and ten.
der "-She6feld Telegraph.
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Terrible Details of RussIa's vlsitation-
Whole Towns Lnid Wnste-Exit from
Russia Cut OF.
A private letter from st. Petersburg,
received in New York, gives the follow
ing graphic details of the terrible plague
which is raging in many districts OF
Russia:
81 have a sad story to tell. You
have probably heard some reports about
the epidemic prevailing in Russia. 1t
is o most fearful disease, brought here
by the soldiers from the East. 1t has
spread in the southern provinces OF
Russia ct a rapid rate. Thousands upon
thousands have died with it within the
last five days. The victims when taken
live only about two hours, and turn
black all over. All the physicians Or
dered TO the care of the sick have died
within twenty-four hours after their
arrival. The corpses are burned, and so
are the houses in which the people die.
Whole towns have been laid waste dur.
ing the last few days. The government
has placed q Gordon of soldiers around
the infected provinces so that the people
cannot get out and spread the disease.
Any who attempt to leave Of break
through the Gordon are shot dead on the
spot.
"The people are beginning to feel
uneasy all owe the empire. The gov
eminent, of course, does not allow the
news to get out. All reports are sup
pressed, bat the worst Of all is that no.
body can get out of the empire. The
Austrian and German governments have
placed q double Gordon of soldiers along
all the frontiers, preventing all persons
from entering their territory from Rus
STA. All persons from Russia by rail
road are stopped at the frontier and de-
tanned twenty days in quarantine, their
baggage and clothing %disinfected, and if
they prove all right after the lapse Of
twenty days, they are permitted to cross
the border. During the twenty days
quarantine people are housed in large
sheds and barns, without any accommo-
dations or comforts. OF course, q
knowledge OF this fact keeps people
from travelling. There is no possibility
of slipping out anywhere.
"May God grant that the disease
sblack pest, as they call it here-may
in some wa be checked. I believe the
government is doing all in It's power to
prevent the disease from spending; but
if it is not stayed soon then the victims
may fall by the thousands daily. It is
much worse than the yellow fever was
in the South last summer. 1t was
brought by q Tartar soldier a month
ago, who, on leaving the Turkish terri.
tory, pulled off from a dead Turk on the
battlefield O handsome silk shawl, which
he tied around his body. On arriving
in his native town he presented the
shawl to his sweetheart, a girl of nine
teen years. She tied it around her body
and danced about for JOY in a room in
which were some twenty-five people. In
two hours she died, and five hours after
the introduction of the shawl into the
room the whole party of twenty-five had
died. All turned black. In three days
the whole town, containing LOO people,
had died, with the exception of forty
three persons, who had fled in time.
From this town the pest began spread
ing all over the country.