Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-12-18

mains were sent home in charge of the
usual Congressional committee, accom-
panied by his widow, who remained with
him in his lost moment.
Men coming here from the active
pursuits of home life. To sit in close,
overheated rooms, to drop all exercise
and outdoor habits, and to eat the high.
ly seasoned food of our hotels, neccs.
sarily must suffer physical prostratlon
i'm some form, and il is no wonder that
many constitutions -uccumh. Even
with the Infamous tide swamps which
the causeway of the Long Bridge has
spread out in hundreds of acres OF
extent, right before III, and which fill
the city with malarial influence, yet
such is the perfection of our sewerage
and our streets, that the general health
of Washington among people of fair by.
gienic habits, is as good as any other
city.
The exodus of negroes from North
Carolina to Indiana continues to pour
into our mid-t, penniless, half naked,
hungry people, who are huddled prom
iscously, men, women, children and
dogs, into an old building, and kept
there as so many animals, until ship.
ment can be effected through contribu
tions OF funds. II there be anything
supcrlatively devilish it is the action Of
those who seduce the negro, 10y lies,
from his comfortable home in his native
country into this exodus. \ stop should
be put to it. A negro has full right to
change his locality when pecunarily
able to do so, but no set of scoundrcls
has legal right to send women and
children out into yagrancy, as il being
done by these williams in North Caro-.
lima.
Among the many superb statues
which adorn the public parks and
squares of the National Capitol, there
have none yet been reared to any OF
the great and accomplished iurists Of
America, whose games and learning
stand out in our legal literature and on
the pages of history as great as those OF
Erskin, Eldon or Coke. II is gratifying,
therefore, To see that q bill has Just been
introduced in the Senate appropriating x
$4,000 for the erection Of statue OF
ex Chief Justice. Marshall, of the Unit.
ed States Supreme Court, in Judiciary
Square, Washington City. Whether it
will pass, depends on the Congressional
appreciation of America most eminent
jurist and greatest Chief Justice.
Apropos of the War Department, in
tearing down the old War Department
building this fall, 1t was discovered that
the foundation was not of stone. The
bricks were laid on the ground in q bed
Of mortar, and the place Of corner.
stone was taken by mortar imbedded
brick. This curious piece of masonry
mas been fixed in gla-s case, and is
kept in the office OF the Chief Clerk of
the Department.
Writing Of the mutations Of time re.
minds US that one OF Washington's old
farms, part OF the Mt. Vernon estate,
is advertised to be sold at auction in
that sleepy old town Of Alexandra, on
the 18th inst. Washington had five
farms, all lying adjacent to each other
on the Potomac. Tho "Union Farm.
containing 92S acres; "Pogue Run
Farm, containing 80 acres Muddy.
hole Farm containing i76 acres !:
River Farm, containing ! ,2O7 acres,
and the small Mansion House hrSAx
where his beautiful home and, ~leS
tomb look down from lovely slope on
the broad river below il. What portion
Of this large estate again changes title
the lucid description Of the auctionecr
does not indicate.
The joint committee Of the library
have under consideration a proposition
to purchase the sword worn by General
Washington when he resigned his com.
mission at Annapolis. The sword is
offered for sale to the Government by
Mr.. II. II. Lewis, Of Maryland, who
has come into possession of it, by in.
heritance, through Major Lewis, ne.
phew Of General Washington. The
action of the committee will inspire our
Jealous antiquarians to resurrect car.
load of old hatchets with which George
cut the cherry tree.
A subscription list is being circulated
in the House of Representatives in aid
of the INDECENT districts of Ireland.
About seventy.fve members have con.