Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-15
GENERAL NEWS.

been burning for $50 hours without so
much as a flicker of weakness.
General Grant will probably sail for
Havana on the steamer Admiral next
week, and may visit Nassau before 90.
ing to Havana.
A widow in Buffalo has won three re.
volvers, sword cane and pair of
dumb.bells in late raffles, and is now
ready for marriage proposals.
The Russian budget for the year 1880
shows AN exact balance between the
incoms and expenditure of the Empire,
each being 100000 600 roublee.
Algernon Sartoris, the English sonin.
law OF General Grant, has arrived in
this country, but Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartorls does not accompany him.
An order received by New York
iewelry firm is from an English lady in
that city for a bangle of beaten gold set
with every known precious stone, to
cost $4,000.
South Carolina seems to be fast re.
turning TO the pious ways of other days.
The Legislature just adjourned sat ex-
actly thirty days and passed over two
hundred bills and joint resolutions. 1t
cost the State less than $4,000.
The Cincinnati E,tg,firer has it from
New York that General Grant will 90
| TO Australia and New Zealand before
/ his return to the United States. He
will not be back before the Republican
/ National Convention shall have met
and decided.
Senator Houston, of Alabama. re.
Z L..
| life for over forty years. He served
eighteen years in the lower house of
| Congress before the war, and since the
/ war was Governor OF his State and at
the time of his death L. S. Senator.
w. II. Preece, the English electrician
ridicules the news Of Edison's latest sue
cess, and Charles Bright writes to the
London Times to say that Edison hasn't
solved the problem. But meanwhile
the London gas companies are reducing
their rates.
The Senate in executive session, on
Monday, confirmed the following nomi-
nations George b. Corkhill, to be Unit.
/ ed States Attorney for the District of
! Columbia United States ATTORNEYS
Charles ;. Varien, for the District of
Nevada John K. Valentine, for the
Eastern District OF Pennsylvania.
.Xbea +. j.. White. lswyeF, eare ~.
chael kineaiy, brother of the bar. the
lie direct in st. Louis court room last
Friday, kinealy threw an ink stand at
him with such bad aim, that Judge
Wickham was obliged 10 adjourn the
court to wash the ink drops from his
face. Before adiournine, however. the
Judge took great pleasure in fining
both lawyers fifty dollars each.
ave were shown on Christmas Day,
by Mr.. Robert Ware SAYS the Colum.
ous Va Enquirer, IA box of fully ripe
and matured strawberries, which he
gathered on his place about a mile from
The city. They we're grown in the
open air, and he represents that the
vines were full of blooms and Young
strawberries. and if the cold does NOT
come and kill them large quantities
can be gathered in n few DAYS. They
received only the ordinary cultivation
and attention"
One of the aged men of the throne
who shook hands with Mr.. Hayes on
New Years perpetrated Joke that
was all the better for being uninten.
tional. Said the venerable party, as he
grasped Mr.. Hayes tired hand and be.
gan the pump handle motion IL have
voted at all the Presidential elections
for more than half a century, and of all
the candidates have voted for you are
the only one who was elected" Mr..
Hayes "smole ghasily spile' rs the
ancient moved on, unconscious of the
sting he had given.
There was christening in Baltimore
on New Years day that was not \
christening. Methodist preacher
went by request TO the house Of acouain.
tances to baptise child in the presence
Of few invited friends. The ceremony
proceeded smoothly until the parents
were asked to name their child, when il
was discovered that the house was di.
vided against itself. the mother giving
one name and the father another. Nei.
ther would yield, and the clergyman
extricated himself from an embarrass.
ing situation by postponing the cere-
mony.
A Boston lady, whose husband was
frequently visited by nightmare, was
one night awakened by a noise and To
her horror saw her husband sitting up
in bed saying in q whisper. "Now l
uhave him, he can't escape r. and point.
ing his pistol at an imaginary burglar.
Ills finger was on the trigger and he
was aiming direct for the baby's head
in the cradle. Quick as lightning, his
wife said in q low tone: "Too low aim
higher |" lie raised the pistol. she
snatched it from his hand, and the
danger was past.
There is grain "lock.upn at Chicago.
The elevators of the city, with capaci.
ty Of l6. 10000 bushels, are almost full.
and the railroads are refusing transpor.
tation of grain to that market for want
Of storage capacity there. For this con
dition OF affairs the only explanation is
that the grain syndicate, Of which James
X. Keene Is the representative, have by
constant purchase forced the market