Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-02-19
NO. g..
GENERAL NEWS.

ihuihbaY evening ChleI JusLlce apple
ton presiding.
Elihu B. Washburne authorizes the
Chicago Inter Ocede 10 announce that he
is not and under no circumstance will
be a candidate for the Presidency.
The Ney England Alumni Of Yale Col.
lege met at Boston, on Thursday, and
Judge John +. Putnam, OF the Class of
1897, was elected president. II was vot.
ed to have more frequent reunions here.
after
a value gold deposit, five feet in
width, has been discovered in the town.
ship-of MadOc, Ontario, near Fetterby's
mine. 1t has been opened and is now
being worked 10y capitalists from Buffalo.
The Tuttle d Whittemore Compsny's
Malleable iron Works, at Union City,
Conn, were partially destroyed by fire
Sunday morning. The loss Is estimated
at S25. 900, and the insurance at about
$4,000. About 300 hands are thrown
out of employment.
1t has been found necessary at the
! Altoona shops 10 place three more loco
motives on each track in the erecting
shops, so that repairs can be made on
! seventeen engines at one time, instead
of fourteen as heretofore. An extra
| force of men has been employed by the
company Tor the purpose of breaking up
condemned locomotives.
Mr.. John q. Whittier, replying to an
! invitation to be present at a meeting
for the relief of Irish distress, writes
Starvation cannot be argued with the
/ gaunt spectre cannot be laid by speech.
es and resolutions. We must share our
abundance of bread with the hungry.
We are great brotherhood, children
of Him whom our ancestors called the
AllFather, and it is not for us TO ask
the old question OF Cain, Am / my
brothers keeper?'
Seye. al forged notes, amounting TO
81, 100, on S. II. & J. +. Adams, promi.
nent builders Of that city, have been
discovered in one of the Baltimore
banks. The party who had them dis
counted has disappeared. He had been
largely engaged in the lumber business,
and at one time owned a number of new
buildings in the northwestern section
of the city He came to Baltimore from
the West a few years ago, and was con-
sidered a man OF much enterprise.
Our Consul at Matamoras reports that
the Society of Friends in Indiana and
New \ Iork established mission at Mat
amoras in 1872. A newspaper and va
riety OF school-books are printed by 10
and the public schools in some parts of
Mexico have adopted these books. The
Presbsterians are also doing much work
IN establishing churches in Mexico.
The people are thereby greatly improved
temporarily as we'll as spiritually and
morally.
The London correspondent of the
Liverpool Courier says Assurance is
given me that the statement Of the in
tentlon of the Baroness Burdett -Coutts
to devote G500,0O0 TO the amelioration
Of the distress in Ireland is true. Con.
tradictions of this statement have been
made in most of the London daily
papers, but the fact is incontrovertible.
The money will not be given in aims.
but will be invested in the purchase
OF land in the district OF Connemara,
County Galway, to be afterward let 10
small tenants at long leases and moder.
ate rents. A committee of Irish gentle.
men interested in agriculture is associ.
ated in the scheme"
At an adjourned meeting Of mer.
chants, held at the Linden House, St.
Louis, Saturday night, to consider the
feasibility of establishing a permanent
industrial exhibition there and in the
City of Mexico of products and manu-.
factures of each country, it was decided
TO drop this feature OF the enterprise
and organize company with a capital
stock of $50 600 and establish q COM
mercial agency at the City OF Mexico
for the transaction of business by sam.
pie, buy and sell for Others mines, min.
erals, etc, and do such other business
as promised q profitable result. A com.
mittee was appointed to effect an organ.
ization of the company and TO put the
enterprise into working order as quick.
ly as possible.
A Salt Lake dispatch 10 the Chicago
Tribune says that al recent funeral Pres.
ident Taylor spoke OF the dead as fol.
lows: "But let ms return to the Young
man. Was he ssint2 No. He was once
a saint, but he parted from the Church.
He left the faith. Did he die saintY
No. he died drunkard, and he will
find drunkard's grave. He has gone
to hell, and there Is where he deserved
TO co. With one wild shrek the
mother screamed "My God, my God,
my only son, and TO think that his only
fault should be thus made public r. and
tainteds The sister, overcome with
grief, did likewise. They were taken
home, and have since been under the
care of physician.
AT a late hour on Saturday night a
fire broke out in the Empire warehouse.
at Chicago. embracing the numbers
from 19S TO 2l0 Market street. and
spread until il destroyed large amount
of property. The warehouse was occu.
pied as = store room for seeds. drv
goods, liquors and bonded goods. The
contents OF the free warehouse were an.
tirely destroyed. fhe losses are esti.
mated as follows Wallace 4 Kingman,