Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-15
GENERAL-NEWS-

The population OF Erie is 2S ,5G5, q gain
of 5000. fh
The population of Allegheny il esti
mated at $4,000.
Fl. The grapes in Chester county are be.
ing attacked by a very destructive
worm.
James Stone is q Louisville man, 103
years old, who says he has been married.
eleven times.
Adam and Eve are the names of a
Chicago man and wife. They were
born on the same day. .s4
The census returns show the poppla-
tion OF San Francisco to be 233,06G, in.
Guiding 20,j40 Chinese.
During the last six months the Bald.
win locomotive works have built 2j4
new and rebuilt II old locomotives.
1t cost man in Washington county
S25 for killing five squirrels out of sea-
son. The game laws are rigidly en-.
forced. ,
II is complained of by people in the
rural districts that circuses now have
travelling with them regularly Organized
hordes of pickpockets. ..
A Pitisburg woman became excited
over her child choking on crust of
bread and gave an alarm that called
out the fire department.
II is thought that the reunion OF the
Pennsylvania Reserves, which takes
place in Harrisburg today. will be at.
tended by fully 500 persons.
Eugene j. Higgins, prominent
wholesale liquor. dealer of Norfolk, Va,
died Saturday morning from an over.
dose OF laudanum administered by him.
SELF
Johnny Cain, a fair.baired, blue eyed
little boy of New Orleans, has been stol-
en-, and although 81 900 has been offer.
ed for his return, no traces Of him have
been discovered.
Shindle Cohen Young, private tele.
graph operator at Sunbury, went 10
Danville with the firemen and his dead
body has been found in the river with
marks of foul play on it.
Grant is progressing admirably. He
can now make a speech as long as lone
of William NJ. Evarts' best sentences.
The Kansas air and the nomination of
Hancock seem TO have braced him up.
In Centre township, Berks county,
the enumerator found a husband and
wife each OF the same age to the hour
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Ilaryer, residing in
Centreville, each being % years OF age.
The people of Allentown have sus.
cribed $3l 900 toward getting the
Phnnix silk Manufacturing Company
10 locate in that city. The work of
erecting the mills will be commenced
soon.
Henry NJ. Keim, President OF the
Americus Club, at Reading. will be a
candidate for the Democratic Congress.
sional nomination in the Eighth district.
The, Reading Edgie announces that Hon.
Hester Clyiner will again be candidate
| for nomination.
On Friday last a gentleman named
Shatfer, who resided short distance
from Mount Union, in Huntingdon
county. while en- route from his home
to that place, in company with his
wife, was seized with hemorrhage and
Immediately expired.
A Chester county enumerator found
| in North Coventry q person called
Michael Thirtyacre, and on inquiry
found that the bearer of this strange
title was a founding and had been
found in thirtyracre field, and that
those who took charge OF hirn had given
him that name.
In Troy. n. Y, on Friday night, Mrs.
Michael English, forty years old, at.
| en,,,r4aI 80
She was buried on Sunday. Saturday
night Armenia Langes, nineteen years
OF age. tried the same experiment She
was buried on Tuesday.
On Tuesday of last week Mr.. John
Shuman, of Juniata township, Perry
| county, went out 10 cradle. In getting
over the fence with the cradle on his
shoulder, he fell, and in so doing he
grasped the scythe. cutting the hand
across the palm so badly rs TO make it
necessary 10 amputate the hand.
The complete census returns give
northampton county a population of
70.3l4, an increase OF S,702 in ten years.
The oldest inhabitant is Mrs. Mary
Reiss, of SAucon township. who will be
l0s on December "a, 1880. Her eye
sight. hearing and social qualities are
still very good and at present she is Wis.
iting a relative in Bethlehem, Pa.
A terrible rain storm prevailed near
Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday night
OF last week, and twenty miles west of
Des Moines took the form OF a water.
spout. At Vanmeter the town was sub.
merged, three feet and forty rods Of the
embankment of the Chicago and Rock
Island road washed away. The Pacific
express which left Chicago was on side
track, at that place, awaiting repairs of
the road. At Winterset the Chicago
and Rock Island round.house was de-
molished. The ccrn is crushed to the
earth and twisted, causing serious dam.
age it Is feared TO the crop. The worst
effects of the storm are westward
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