Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-12-11
GENERAL NEWS.

= l'I'H AlIfhl illll VIII bF AH once
established at Grafton, Mas.
one firm in Reading have tanned
&DO)J sheep, goat aud calf skins this
year.
a wild cat Of immense ,ilc was killed
near WhIskcy Run, Delaware county,
on IhuT-day night.
The Polish rc-idcni- in New York,
on Saturday, celebrated the Anniversary
Of Count Iolaski'- heroic death at -.
yaunah in I779.
4 hat factory that will have a uroduc.
inr capacity oi - 10 100 dorm hats
per day viii be- ru; IN operation IN
Reading th.- wrek
Ira q. Garfield, aged seycnty.one
year, ia" head 81 the principle iewelry
firm IN Baltimore, Nd. died suddenly
Of apop!"zy IN his store on saturday
The committee % arrange for the re-
c"ptIOn Of General Grant in Piti.hurg
have sclect"i Hon. Daniel Agucw, ez-
Chief Ju.i.e" Of the Supreme Court. to
deliver the addFc-- ot welcome.
The store Of Frank Codes al Liver
more, We-tmore,aud county, was de.
-'roycd by FIRE on wednesday night of
la-i week. causing lose o! :. 900, upon
which there va. an insurance Of 80 OJ1.
Bishop mgsDu preached a, PottzyilIe
on "Wednesday night upon the occasion
~! the celebration Of the semi ccnten-
MIA! Anniversary Of the F.r-i Methodist
church o' that place.
There j. a temperance revival at Eas-
Ton which has enlisted the liyclicst in.
tcre.t LaiIes engaged IN the cause
vested A large number Of saloons IN the
interest oi temperance Friday after
moor.
The Bradford Eg reports that salt
water 90 large quantities has been
found IN the southern part of Mex ean
county. It, presence indicates bad ter
Ttory for the o.! operator, and has con.
a"mucd tLuusaud- % acres that were
hitherto regarded a. good
The town poorhousc In Colchester.
Conn, vas destroyed by tire on ~atur-
lay. All the inmate except Maggie
Jones. an liiotie girl, c.caped She
was once taken out. but rushed back
into the lu..d.nr and was burned 10
death.
The sales Of prov ions at Chicago last
week were unprecedented. SOS 600 bar
Tels Of me-- pork, $1,000 tIerces OF lard
aud $1,000 600 pounds oi meats having
/ been ai-Io-rl Of. These sales are
equivalent % asi.UlyUpl pound. Of pro-
duoo. valued % $-g,pJUpJO.
/ The Tttsture Cumrr-1L Ga.lvs saws ::
The employees Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad are looking for an increase of
wages shortly. Since the panic set in
they have been reduced 20 per cent.
he fret prize va, an unconditional re.
ducjlou. but the second. which took ef.
feet some months ago. was made un.
I der the promise that the lu per cent.
would be restored as soon - the receipts
Of the company warranted such action.
In South Bethlehem, on Wednesday
night Of last week, a young man named
/ William locum heard some one trying
TO break into the house. lie took
position at the head Of the stairway.
aud soon aftcrward heard some one ap-
preaching. He called 10 him several
times, and receiving no answer fred IN
that direction. 1t proved TO be young
Gocum', brother, who was walking in
his sleep, and is so badly wounded that
he cannot recover.
An Oh City dispatch says: The Bufa.
10 express, which left Pittsburg on Fri
day evening at ) o'clock, on the Ale
rheny Valley Railroad, ran into a land
slide two miles below that place, and
the engine waaAr-rned into the river
and eight coal cars were crushed. The
passengers IN the rear cars escaped
without injury. The fireman, Arthur
simpson. Of Pttshurr, was crushed in
the wreck. and at last accounts the
body had not been extricated. The
track was cleared in time 10 prevent
any detention Of trains.
Yesterday afternoon a floor in the
grain and flour mills Of Ellis Packard
at Brockton, Mass, gave way under a
heavy mass oi wheat resting upon it,
and precipitated three men into tho
cellar, who were smothered by 5000
bushels Of wheat falling upon them.
The dead bodies were subsequently,
gotten out. The uniortunates we're c.
Nourse, miller, thirty.two years Of age.
who leaves a wife and one child Dennis
Reardon, thirty years Of age, wife and
two children, and Dennis Lyme \, thirty.
five years of age, wife and two child
ron