Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-02-05
STATE NEWS.
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The Allentown Rolling Mill paid off
on Saturday, and it took $50, 900 to do it.
4 Pennsylvania school teacher thinks
that pupils ought to have great hearty
laugh every day.
There are filty.one furnaces in blast
in the Lehigh Valley. with an annual ca.
pacity of over 100000 tons of pig iron.
The official report of the production
Of anthracite coal for the year 1879
makes the total quantity 26, l42, $50 tons.
The Puddlers Of the Penn Rolling
Mil at Lancaster have received an in.
crease Of fifty.cents ton for pudding
Preparations are actively going on at
the Philadelphia and Reading shops, in
the latter city, 10 build 1000 freight
cars.
Pittsburg papers report that the lamp
chimney manufacturers have all the or
ders they can fill for some time to
come
The peach trees down in Delaware
are yielding to the siren advances of
January's hot-house sun and show signs
Of budding.
Alexander Gibson, known as the
Lumber King OF New Brunswick, has
sent by cable from st. John a donation
of 5000 to the Irish relief fund.
Abraham Pennypacker, Chester coun-
ty, while ploughing, discovered thou.
sands OF grasshoppers. On taking some
OF them home they became quite lively.
The citizens of Bradford held meet
ing on Wednesday evening of last week
and subscribed SIS, 900 toward Building
a plank road from that city to Coleville.
The road is TO cost when completed
$4,000.
On Saturday night, while Mr.. Butler,
OF Pittsburg was out visiting with his
family, a man with blackened face sur
prised young woman left in charge of
the house. and after gagging her, secur-
ed about 5000 which was in trunk.
A terrific wind storm set in at Albany,
y. Y, on Monday morning, and lasted
all day doing considerable damage TO
property. The tin roofs on a number of
the houses were torn up. The weather
at night was very cold and the wind
somewhat abated.
The State Board of Agriculture at its
recent meeting resolved that until mil.
lers are willing TO give quality a greater
! preference in price. our farmers are
justified in raising such kinds of wheat
as their experience demonstrates will
yield the greatest number of bushesl.
The Catasauqua Manufacturing Com.
pany has just advanced the wages of its
puddlers 25 cents per ton and added 5
cents per day 10 the wages of the other
employees. IL the price of iron remains
| firm the wages of the men will receive
another increase in about two weeks.
Pittsburg papers report that a new
oil well near Reynoldsville, Jefferson
county, is yielding about $50 barrels a
| day. This discovery has created an ex-
element throughoutthe oil region, as
il is new territory, and this first find
there argues well for prolific sources of
oil.
About $3.50 were collected in the
Catholic churches of Bradford, on Sun.
land. 1t is proposed to hold relief
meetings there, and = number of
wealthy citizens have pledged them.
selves TO give 81, 900 each.
A correspondent of the Oil City Der.
rick. who has investigated the new oil
we'll near Reynoldsville, Jefferson coun-
ty, which was said to be gushing 100
barrels day, says that it is not yielding
a pint day, and horde of speculators
who came down upon hearing the news
TO buy up territory have left disgusted.
An eloping couple from Coatesville
arrived in Columbia on Tuesday, and
were arrested upon information from
the former place. The girl was nearly
six feet in height, and the man about
four feet and five inches. They were
released when the female gave up .
coat and hat she had taken from Coates.
vile.
A general strike of the ore miners EN-
ployed on "The Flats" took place Mon
day morning at East Texas, Pa This
is the largest mining district in Lehigh
county. They demand an increase oi
thirty.five cents per day. The present
rate of wages paid is ninety cents
Fifteen mines are now idle.
In regard TO the dispatch from Scran.
ton, to the effect that Samuel j. Tilden
Is about to marry Miss Ranck, of Lewis.
burg, Mr.. Tilden says the report is n
true as about nine-tenths Of the state.
ments concerning him daily published
this il not at all. He presumes that
the authors Of the rumor have acted on
the maxim Of equity and jurisprudencs
that what ought 10 have been done has
in fact been done. But unfortunately
he never had the pleasure Of knowing
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