Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-03-18
GENERAL NEWS.

Mr. tnHfles >. Gafnell sailed Tor Eng.
land last Thursday afternoon.
Sunday is day which large number
OF people of Johnstown devote to drunk.
enness.
Grant leaves the CITY of Mexico today
for Galveston. and will go thence to San
Antonio and Leadville.
Horace Binney, formerly Of Boston
and Philadelphia, died suddenly at
Newport, II. l., on Wednesday night of
last week.
Tammany will send 300 delegates to
Cincinnati upon the occasion of the
meeting of the Democratic National
| Convention.
The Wisconsin Democratic Conven.
ton to select delegates to the Cincinna-
ii Convention. will meet at Madison, on
the 18th of May.
The town council of Chambersburg
enumerates geese among the "animals"
not allowed 10 run at large in the
streets of that ancient borough.
Another man having been found
under the bed, the Buffalo Courier calls
out to the young ladies of its city with
great violence. Look before you sleep"
The subject of public buildings in
Laokawanna county is becoming one Of
trial and tribulation, which all comes
from the desire to organize new coun-
ties.
Hon. John B. Hawley has resigned
his position as Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury in order to prosecute his
canvass for the nomination for Cover.
nor of Illinois.
A disease known as black measles
is prevailing TO an alarming extent in
several of the counties near Peters.
burg, Virginia. During the past few
days a number Of sudden deaths have
resulted from it.
Mayor Kslloch is TO be impeached
for using riotous and incendiary Ian
guage. lie has lost great opportuni.
ty. The trial will soon take place.
Kearney will also be tried for using vul.
gar language and threats to kill.
On Friday when Judge Shope, at
Lewistown, ILL.,, sentenced Frank Bar.
rett TO seven and n half years in Jail for
burglary, the latter hurled and inkstand
at the Judge, hitting him on the
shoulder and severly bruising il. lie
was secured and roned.
A freight train on the Sciota Valley
| Railroad struck a horse at IIoptown
last Sunday morning and the engine
with nine cars was thrown from the
| track. The fireman was horribly man.
gled and cannot survive, and Lawrence
| W. Berry was instantly killed.
a conhaRration, resulting in the
burning TO death of Mrs. David Griffing,
widow lady of consid erable wealth
and social distinction in Central New
York occurred in Norwich. y. Y, Satur.
day morning. The fire broke out in
Mrs. Grifiing's handsome homestead.
A story comes from Howell county,
Mo-, Of the strangulation of two girls by
their uncle, in order To steal some mon.
ey which the father had received as
pension and divided between them,
and the discovery OF the deed by a
lodger in the house, who shot the muir
derer.
The National Assembly Rooms at
New York on Saturday, would not &C.
commodate the throng in attendance
upon the mass meeting of pianomakers
who were interested in the great lock.
orit ordered by the New York Manufac.
turer's Association for Monday. There
were 1000 present.
The crematory at Washington, Pa,
promises TO become profitable invest
ment. The manager says he has appli-
cations from hundred persons in va.
rious parts OF the country who express
a desire to be incinerated there after
death. The charge is thirty five dol.
lars. No discount on children.
John McDermott sentenced to the
Sing Sing Prison, New York, for life in
1873, and who was known as "Praying
john" from his devout and religious
demeanor, attempted suicide on Satur
day by thrusting his head into the fur.
mace of the mess room. lie sustained
such injuries as will probably result in
death.
Miss Florence Saymark, of Elizabeth
City, \. c., had arranged to elope with
Jonathan Ivy, a young lawyer. Her
father got wind of the affair one night
and went to lvy's Office and shot him in
the shoulder. A servant informed Miss
Seymark of the affair, and she fed from
her room in her night clothes and join.
ed her lover, and in this garb was mar.
ried before her father discovered her
absence.
A break has occurred in the levee
near the New Orleans barracks. 1t is
being closed and the levee strengthen.
ed. The river is very high, causing ap-
prehension that the levecs will not
withstand the strain on them. crev.
Use thirty feet wide is reported on q
levee on Bayou La Fourche, FIVE miles
below Lockport. The State engineer
will send men and material tomorrow
to close it.
The Chicago Times publishes n com.
prehensive report from eleven States in
the Northwest concerning the winter
wheat crop. of which the following is
its analysis; Taken altogether. the es.
innate is q safe one that the increased