Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-18
NO. 49,.
GENERAL NEWS.


Thirty.eight hundred and sixty eni.
grants arrived at Castle Garden last
week.
Last week 10000 worth Of butter
was shipped from New York TO England.
The traiiic is steadily on the increase.
William Nckim, for many years
wcll.known banker OF Baltimore. and
head OF the house OF McKim a Co, died
on lhnrsday morning Of paralysis, aged
sevcnty-one years.
An increase Of twenty-five cents per
ton 10 the puddlers and six and one
quarter per cent. to all other skilled Ia.
Dor has been granted by the Susauehan.
ma Rolling Mil Company at Columbia.
This IS the second increase within two
months.
woman who lost her husband and
child by yellow fever in Memphis. last
year, crossed the river 10 Arkansas in a
skill when the outbreak OF the disease
occurred this year. Everywhere she ar.
Piled for food she WAS chased off by
armed men. Her troubles have made
her insane.
Mrs. Sprsgue has dismissed her car.
riage, but retained Thomas Handy AS
her servant and Is going 10 New York.
She wiIl take European steamer when
her own property is placed legally with
= trustee. She avoids Governor
Spfague and Rhode Island 10 retain her
three daughters.
4 Yankee who had never paid more
than p cents TO see an exhibition went
10 New York theatre one night 10 see
the Forty Thieyes." The ticket seller
charged him IS cents for ticket. Pass
ing the pas,ebord back, he quietly re.
marked: Keep it. mister: / don't
want 70 see the other thirty.nine," and
out hc walked.
An indication Of the revival Of rail.
road manufactur ng industries appears
in the fact that = gentleman acting ns
agent for a southwestern railroad re.
Gently wrote TO all the rolling mills in
the East asking for bids for 5000 tons
OF rails, and not one OF the mills would
bid. Each and all declared that they
were full OF orders for months ahead.
some OF them until February next. and
they could not consider his offer at all
He says this was the tenor Of the repl es
received from every rolling mill east of
Chicago.
Growing in the meadows here and
there on the marshes st Moncton. Ont.
there Is a sweet hay that would startle
Western hay field. The perfume il
eKhales Is very sweet and very lasting.
Little ornamental and work baskets are
woven from 1t, and il retains its per.
fume for years. You can smell this
sweet hay when you drive past the
meadows, and il is enough 10 make Won
wish you were horse. TO be fed on such
ambrosial hay as this. IL is perfume
not altogether unlike, although much
sweeter than sweet clover, but grows in
much sweeter places.
Nineteen new cases. twelve white
and seven colored, were reported TO the
Board of Health at Memphis on Mon.
day. Eight deaths have occurred since
Sunday night, among them Timothy
keete, oerrett Devorica and Nancy
Pulner. Dan Sullivan, well.known
steamboat clerk, died Monday after.
noon after the regular report of the day
had been signed. Donations to the
Howard Association Monday aggregated
$lj. Twenty nurses were assigned to
duty by them. Rev. Father William
Walsh has so far convalesoed that he il
able TO be at his post again. Advices
received 10y the National Board of
Health Monday, report two new cases
OF yellow fever at Concordia. Miss, since
Sunday, and ten new cases at Carson's
Landing, Miss. This place is sixty
miles below Helena.
In London letter TO the New York
.Ssn Mr.. Charles A. Dana gives interest.
ing particulars relative 10 the crops in
Europe, from which we gather that the
prospect il even worse than has hitherto
been supposed. Incessant rains. from
the commencement Of the season. have
produced most disastrous results, es.
pecially in the British Islands. The
best of the crops in most favored locali.
ties are below the average. In many
places the scarcity will be such as TO
produce great suffering. As TO the
great cereal wheat, il is poorest Of all
in England and Ireland, where the
yield can not pay more than halt its
cost. In France there will be. perhaps.
about three quarters Of good average.
The same il true Of Western Switzer-
land, Southern Germany and Holland.
But the United Kingdom will have TO
seek for It's supplies elsewhere. In Rus
sia, on the other hand, an immense
wheat crop is reported.
The fiftieth marriage anniversary Of
Mr.. and Mira Charles Francis Adams
occurred on Wednesday Of last week.
IL is an interesting and very unusual
fact that three golden weddings Of sue
cessive generations Of the Same family
should have been observed in the same
house. That Of President John Adams
and his wife was celebrated on the 25th
of October, 1914. That Of their son.
President John Quincy Adams, and his
wife, on the 26ih Of July, lS47. The
third has just taken place. It will be
noticed that the intervals between these
occasions were respectively thirty three
and thirty two years almost exactly the
lifetime OF = generation. Al the time
Of their golden weddings President
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