Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-08-07
GENERAL NEWS.


An Artic expedition will leave Eng.
land next spring.
A $4,000 fire occurred on Sunday at
Hamilton. Maine.
1t has already cost England S22,5OO..
600 to fight the Zulus.
IL is said that there is work enough at
DAnyille for all the idle men.
4 rattlesnAke, twenty years old, was
killed near Lewistown the other day.
A chapel to the memory Of the late
Prince Imperial will be erected in Paris.
James Madison Porter. n distinguish.
cd Mason, died at Easton, Pa. on Satur.
day.
The largest number Of cxrursionists
ever in Long Branch WAS there last
Sunday.
II L. J. Boardman is the Democratic
Congressional nominee for the Fifth
Iowa district.
Geraldine" another Of Lorillard's
horses, won the Leyan stakes at a race
in London last week.
Bishop O'Brien, Of Kingston. died
suddenly Friday morning at the st.
Louis Hotel in Quebec.
The sash and blind factory Of 4. $.
Turner Il Co, Elmira. was burned on
Thursday OF last week.
A Williamsport firm has an order 20
manufacture fifty thousand toy pianc
for the New York market.
Patrick Moran fell thirty feet al
wanda the other day and broks
neck. lie viii fall no more.
The two boys who left W. -
on the eth OF June in a 4, 11oat for
Niagara have arrived safsl AT Erie.
A twelve year old girl named Ryan,
Of Wilkesbarre. went out after berries
one day last week and did not return.
On Thursday evening last Miss Fannie
Davenport, the ifcss, was married TO
Mr.. EdwaI - we, OF New York city.
The va y ployes OF the Catas.
auque Manufacturing Company, Lehieh
county, have been increased FIVE per
cent.
Five persons were drowned by the
capsizing of a pleasure boat on the st.
Lawrence near Clayton, y. Y, ON
Thursday OF last week.
The c ncinnati Cotton Exchange don't
want the place of meeting of the Nat
ional Cotton Exchange TO be changed
from st. Louis to New York.
On Friday night, at Chicago, William
Fitzpatrick and Edward Ryan, two
wharf laborers. while fighting fell into
the river and were drowned.
Mrs. Eliza HAldeman, of Harrisburg.
who is eighty.three years old, recently
went to picnic and climbed 10 the top
OF mountain TO view the scenery.
A man fishing in the Connestoga at
Lancaster caught a wild duck, which. il
is supposed. was swimming under water
in search Of food, and swallowed the
bait.
Mrs. Mary Rice, OF Saucon township.
Lehigh county, is one hundred and
seven years of age, and responded with
speech when serenaded a few DAYS ago
by the Bethlehem band.
Mrs. Dennis Mccarthy, Of Pittsburgh.
during storm on Thursday last, was
standing in her door holding an infant
when she was struck 10y lightning and
instantly killed, while the child was
unhurt.
A man In Williamsport has Just in.
vented q combination OF an organ, sec.
retary, bedstead and dressing table. If
Q few more similar inventions arc made
II will not be necessary 10 have more
than one article Of furniture in house.
Hon. Morris 7. Jackson, an old mem.
Der of the bar Of Columbia county, and
formerly Representative In the Legis-
lature from that county, died on Wed.
nesday, the 23d ult, at Berwick, where
he was bora and reared, In the esd year
Of his life.
The County Committee Of Greenback.
ers for Allegheny county have agreed
to coalesce with the Democrats. Gen.
eral William Biakely will be their can.
didate for Judge OF the Court Of Com.
men Pleas No, 2,