Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-19
GENERAL NEWS.

Houtzdale is to have $1,000 school
house.
The State Sunday.school Convention
will be held in Lancaster on the 18th,
] 9Th and l4th of October.
During the month of July there were
2S2 deaths from yellow fever and l,0l7
deaths from all diseases in Havana, out
of an officially estimated population Of
l9j. .437.
Richard and Lewis James, both col.
ored, were arrested Friday at Marion,
$. c., a. accomplices in the murder of
ID. NJ. Harrel, a respectable white citi-
zen, at that place some days ago.
Five boys while playing in field
near Mahanoy City found number Of
old coins, mostly English, with dates
that run back 200 years. Ii is surmised
that they belonged TO a peddler who
was murdered there few years ago.
Stephen Richardson. colored, who
killed his mother.in.law and attempted
to kill his wife and fatherin.law, in
Wilmington, y. c., on the night Of
July 10 last, was Friday convicted. OF
murder in the Criminal Court and SEN
fenced to be hanged on the Sd day OF
September.
Charles Albrecht, saddler, living at
College Point, l.. l., while walking on
the track on Thursday evening was
struck by the 1885 train from Flushing
for Whitestone, when near the latter
station, and sustained injuries which
will probably prove fatal.
The Hagerstown Division of the Shen
andoah Valley Railroad, running from
Hagerstown, Md, to Shepherdstown
W. Va, was completed at II 30 4. ".
Friday. The first train which passed
over the track contained large excur.
sion party through from Harrisburg,
Pa, to Charlestown, W. Va.
Miss Agnes Reid McClung, lady of
considerable prominence in Virginia,
died at Augusta Seminary, Staunton, of
which school she was the principal, on
Tuesday night OF last week. She was q
niece of the late DIR. Archibald Alexan.
der, of Princeton, and a cousin of Dr.
Henry Alexander, of Union Theologi.
cal Seminary.
A manuscript of the Gospels, written
on purple parchment in silver ink, and
adorned with miniatures, was recently
discovered in Calabria by o. Won Geb-
hardt and A. Harnack. A set of re.
productions Of the miniatures has Just
been published at Leipsic, and cor.
rection OF the text Is promised. The
Ms. contains st. Matthew and st. Mark.
The discoverers would fix as early a
date as the end of the fifth century OF
beginning of the sixth for both the
miniatures and the text--a claim which
is not likely TO pass unchallenged.
Elias Polk, the colored carriage driver
of President Polk, still lives at Nash.
vile, aged IS years. As far back as 1918,
when he was l3 years old, Elias held
General Jackson's stirrup on the occa-
sion of Old Hickory's visit to Mr.. Polk
at the latter's mansion in Tennessee.
Elias had been "a Democrat from con.
viction" since 1884. having imbibed his
partisanship from listening to the priv.
ate conversations of Calhoun and Polk.
And" says Elias, ''many . narrow es-
cape from the fury of the ignorant mig.
gahs have had for voting and speaking
my sentiments so freely"
Milo A. Boynton, Of Grand Haven,
Mich, who was arrested in New York
last week, for attempting to pass one
$500 and one $1,000 South Carolina
State bond at the Office of James Walsh,
banker Of No. 10 Wall street. was
held at the Toombs in $1,000 on Wed.
nesday. Chas. Kerrison. Of No. 1l3
East Fourteenth street, identified the
$500 bond as his property. 1t was stol-
en-, he said, from the Bank of Camden,
s. c., in 1865, at the same time that
Sl12, 500 worth of securities were stolen
from the bank by some members of an
Ohio regiment of Sherman's army, then
on lie march to the sea. Mayor John
+. Wheaton, OF Savannah, Ca, said that
he received some time ago letter from
Boynton, stating that he had the bonds
and asking how they could be disposed
Of. lie wrote back that the bonds were
stolen. The prisoner said he got the
bonds from Michigan widow, who said
they we're worth 30 cents on the dollar.
She said that her brother, who was :
surgeon IN the army, gave them to her
fifteen years ago
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