Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-04-17
GENERAL NEWS.


Herald. is in quite feeble health.
4 snoring match is 10 come off in
| Harrisburg, the man making the most
notes in given time 20 receive prize
4 young man in Salladsburg boasts
that he has kissed a girl $50 times in
six hours and three laps, and thinks he
has won the premium.
Geo. l.. |. Painter, Esq. has retired
/ from the publication Of the Muncy
L.@uHary, aud Is fucceeded by his sons,
". !. a +. y. Painter.
4 new school house il 10 be built at
/ huntington, under a contract Of Sl5..
2"5. Preparations for the building com.
lnenced last Monday.
/ The Kentucky Republican State Con.
ycntlon at Louisville last Thursday was
very largely attended. Walter Evans
was nominated for Governor.
/ band Of gypsies occupying wagons
fitted up with every convenience and
( drawn by wellfed horses driven by col.
ored hostlers recently passed through
Lancaster county.
/ Three boys were drowned in the Ohio
liver, opposite Wellsville, Ohio, on FRI.
day, by the upsetting OF a skifi'i in which
they rowed out TO enjoy the swell from
passing steamer.
/ An energetic effort will be made oy
/ publishers TO secure a diary in which
Madame BonAparte made copious notes
OF the leading events in her life. Dur.
! ing life she was offered $1,000 for these
notes 10y Boston publishing house.
/ Miss Julia Eveline Smith, of Glaston.
I bury, VI. the only survivor Of the smith
sisters, celebrated for their resistance to
taxation without representation. was
married on Wednesday last 10 Amos g.
Parker, Of New Hampshire. Both bride
and groom are IN their seth year.
Charles w. McKcough, chief steward
OF the steamer Bohemian, from Liver.
| pool, was arraigned before United
states Commission at Boston, Monday.
on the charge of smuggling small par.
! GELS of Irish whisky Edward U'Malley
was also arrested for receiving the
liquor. Both parties were held in $500
each,
Providence Savings Bank and Trust
Company, Of Providence, Pa, suspend.
ed last saturday. being unable 10 meet
its obligations after having taken adj /.
vantage OF the sixty days laws. The
liabilities are $4,000 aud the assets
$4,000, principally in notes and bonds,
OF which probably not more tEan half
can be collected.
The proposition Of the coal miners al
New Castle. Pa, that wages that have
been reduced now from Elk TO seven
J laG e.
Of work and that the remainder of the
master's demands be submitted to arbi.
tratIon has been rejected. A long and
/ truitless discussion followed this action.
Meetings were held last Saturday at
which seventeen thousand men were
present They declared their determi.
nation TO resist the masters demand.
Good Friday was observed in New
York in an appropriate manner Busi.
ness Of the Stock, Produce aud Cotton
Exchanges were entirely suspended.
while many stores and warehouses were
| closed. None Of the State Courts were
in session and very little was done
sroInd the municipal and Federal de.
partments. Services were held in all
churches, which were attended by large
congregations. In Brooklyn the Courts
and municipal departments we're also
closed and churches were filed with
worshippers.
Thursday morning last, Mr. Samuel
Stem, owner Of a large tAnnery near
| Waterford, Juniata county, was killed
on the railroad. Wednesday night in
company with Joseph Deering. q mer.
chant of Johnstown, Juniata county, he
left Philadelphia on the Pacific express,
having ticket to Harrisburg where he
intended stopping until morning, and
then going west on the way passenger
train. The supposiiion il that In the
neighborhood of Hanna street the man
was aroused from a sleep 10y the brake.
man announcing "Harrisburg," and
thinking that the train had passed the
station, plunged off al that place and
was struck by the fast line going east.
(which passes the Pacific at that point.
lie was 65 years of age.
Mr.. Charles +. Pugh, who succeeds
Mr.. q. Clinton Gardner a. General Su.
perintendent of the Pennsylvania rail
road, assumed the duties of the Office
on April !. The elevation which Mr..
Fugh has now attained through series
of promotions is an evidence of what
hard work and merit must bring 10
pass. Mr.. Pugh began railroad life a.
freight agent at Newport, Perry county,
Pa. in 1859. In three years be was
made conductor of a passenger train
running between Philadelphia and Pitts.
burg. After serving one year he was
promoted TO the responsible position Of
train dispatcher Of the Philadelphia al.
vision. Two years later found him a..
sistant traiu.master Of the same div.
sion, and six years later he was appoint.
sd general agent of the company at
Philadelphia In this last position his
satisfactory performance Of its exceed.
ingly onerous duties during the oenten.
nial year justly increased his already
established reputation. During The year
over one hundred and iifly thousand
cars were moved and more than three
millions Of passengers transported vilh.
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