Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-07-24
GENERAL NEWS.


i.OO0 residence at Peoria. III.
Harry Palmer, Of the firm Of Jsrret
% Palmer, died IN London on Sunday.
Chastine Cox, the murderer Of Mrs.
HUI. will be hung on the 10Th Of Au.
gust.
Susan y. Anthony says that the nights
wcr" made for cats, bats aud bad hus.
bands.
Flood, the California millionaire, il TO
have Stable built at Mcnlo Park at a
cost Of $1,000.
Sir kImaid Thornton is to viit New.
port next month, as the guest Of the
French Minister.
The California Democratic State Cen.
trail Committee have voted 10 retain Dr.
Glenn as nominee for Governor.
4 reunion Of soldiers Of the North.
vest will be held at Aurora, H., on
August 20. y and -.
President McCosh has the most clc-
giant mansion of any college prcsiden,-
the gift Of the Philadelphia Stuarts
4 furious storm of wind and rain yis.
tied the Eastern portion OF Massachu.
sa't, last week, doing great damage.
General William f. Barry, Colonel Of
the second Maryland artillery, aud in
command At Fort McIlenry, died in
Baltimore, Friday.
~ the so coo Op0in rcfundinp ceriiG
Gates issued by the United States Treas.
ury S31.2.1. .UJJ have been converted iu.
To four per cent. Lond-.'
Tho Rev. William Cooper Mead. =.
D., IL. b.. rector of 1t. Pauls church.
Nor"alk, Connecticut, died suddenly
on Thursday evening.
John Garlic, injured an the llth AT
Baltimore hy boiler oKplO. ION. died on
Saturday. Joseph Michael. another
victim, viii probably die.
Anthony Xlbri.kic. an eccentric gen.
'lcmsn Of Morrisauia. New York, worth
Slu.uHoU9V, was run over by the cars
and killed one day last week.
Called honds are coming in 80 fast
that the Treasury j. unable 70 keep
work ur. There will nsequcuily be
much de:ay on making settlements.
Snyder Brothers. distillcry at Milton,
Kentucky, opposite Madison. Indiana,
was burned un saturday. Loss. SEA. eco
uoinsuranc". The warehouse was saved.
Richard Grcyaa, an Irish coachman
of Philadelphia. arrived "a, Long Branch
ou Saturday night and was drowned At
noon sunday uhle bathing. The body
wa- recovered.
The steamer g. T. Glyphant struck
. rock early Sunday morning IN STAN.
ford Conn harbor and sank. The
boat was advertised to make an cxcur.
zion TO Cauey island on that day.
4 FIRE broke out at Scahright near
Long Branch, at 2lj Last Faiday nom
ing. II destroyed two blocks of stdNA
and cottages IN the business district.
None of the hotels or principal cot.
faccs were injured. The total loss Is
about 10000, and insurance about
$1,000
Early Monday morning fire destroy.
cd Hempy & Co.'S new planning mill at
Cleveland, Ohio. Loss, $1,000: insur.
ed g. $1,000. 1t j. supposed TO be the
workof an inccndary. Two ircmcn
we're injured, and it Is feared one fatal
ly, by falling walls.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett was culo.
gized in Paris on Saturday night last,
by ". Louis Simonin, the engineer and
traveller. at a meeting Of the Socite
Georraphique. Tuc sailing Of the Arc.
tic exploring steamer Jeanette was
the immediate occasion which called
forth the euloPy.
The steamer State of Virginia, from
New York for Glasgow. went ashore at
Sable Island, Halifax, at 7.4j =. N. on
the l2,h instant. -Four ladies and Eve
children are reported lost in the suri
while landing. Tho vessel had seventy.
four passengers. one hundred and four
head of cattle and general cargo.
sixty head OF cattle were saved.
Saturday evening four ice houses half
filled with ice. owned by Scott, Quinn
& Morris. situated on Van Rensselaer,
island, at the upper end OF the city of
Albany. y. y, were totally destroyed
by an incendiary fire. Each building
was thirty feet wide by two hundred in
length. The loss - estimated at Sl5..
600; partially insured.
Governor Mcclellan has recently
made from his home on Orange Noun.
tain pleasure tour through the north.
ern counties OF New Jersey, driving by
way OF Schooleys Mountain, Hacketts-
town and Hope to the Delaware Water
Gap. The party consisted Of the Gov.
ernor, his wife. his son and his daugh.
ter, the former driving barouche and
HE children phaeton.
The late William Allen had an ex.
tremely powerful voice--so powerful,
indeed, that it gained for him the sobti.
quet of Earthquake Allen" when a
youth and apprenticed TO John Thur.
man, the saddler, Allen was tall. erect
fellow. and persistent worker, study.
ing with his book before him on his
work bench.
An incendiary FIRE AT Oneida, n. ",
Monday morning. destroyed nine build
ings. The principal losers are the
Joseph Roberts knitting mills, $4,000
insurance, 81 600. Oneida Gas ligh,
Company, loses $1,000; insurance. e..