Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-03-25
STATE NEWS.

Fanced the price OF lumber.
There is demand for carpenter. in
the northern part Of the State.
Forty thousand railroad ties b,vo
been cut in Monroe county this winter
Nearly fifty two years ago the frs,
preizel was baked in Lancaster county,
There is a grand total Of about G.OOo
| coke ovens in the western part Of this
State.
There are seventeen female appli.
caDts for census enumeratOrs ia Mont.
gomery county.
Four rolling mills and twenty three
blast furnaces IN the Shenango Valley
are in operation.
Lancaster is in love with the Belgian
block, and proposes to pave many Of
her streets with it.
man who has lost $4,000 on spec.
ulalion is now working as q street
cleaner in Pittsburg.
Miss Jane Proudft. OF williamson.
Is said 10 have fine blonde beard.
eight inches in length.
In 1875 the poor OF Fayette county
cost $50 600; in 1877. $4,000; in ISIS,
$4,000; in 1879, $lS.0OO.
There fs silver brick in the Bradford
Oil Exchange, sent from Arizona. that
weighs 20 pounds.
A vein Of iron ore has been found
near Franklin, Mercer county, that ban,
out G5 per cent. Of pure iron.
Nearly all the judges are holding
special terms Of court in the western
| and northern part Of the State.
1t is almost impossible TO rent house
in Altoona, and it is expected there
will be much building this season.
| Miss Kneiss, Of Redbank township.
I Armstrong county. aged u year.
weighs two hundred and thrtyslx
/ pounds.
/ II is estimated that one.tenth Of the
/ children under years old died Of dlph.
/ liberia since the first OF last November
4 in this State.
The Ninth regiment will visit Scran.
ton in April TO attend the grand fair to
be given at that time, and will take
part in the parade.
( Girsrd College contains SO orphans.
The college has up TO this time educst.
ed 3i5i orphans, a number Of whom
have gained distinction in life
large eagle has been DESTROYING
lambs for the farmers OF Carroll town.
ship, Cambria county. II i. SAID to be
the largest ever seen in that section.
Frederick A. Rhue. OF the firm Of
Rhue Brothers, at AlIentoRn. one Of
the largest tobacco houses in that rsrt
OF the State, died suddenly on SUNDAY
morning.
The following gentlemen were guest.
Of ex Senator Cameron at Donegal. Ian.
caster county. on Saturday: United
States Senators Thurman, Eimund.,
Anthony, J. ID. Cameron and Governor
Hoyt.
After on interval of ten years the
annual @ nclaye of the Grand Com
mandery, Knights Templar, OF the State
OF Pennsylvania. will be held at Vii.
Transport. beginning Tuesday, May
18th, and continuing three days.
There are about 5000 justices Of the
peace in the State. To whom commits
sions must be issued dating from the
6rst Monday in Nav. The State will
realize about $4,000 from the officers
in the shape Of fees for their commits.
sions.
A Harrisburg dispatch says that the
Montour Iron and Steel Company. cap.
ital stock Of 100000. divided into 400
shares. was chartered at the State De.
partment last Thursday. A great deal
of the stock is held by the Ph,laiel.
phia and Reading Coal and Iroa Com.
pany.
Gertrude Logan. of Mill Hall, Gin.
ton county, saved her father from q
long imprisonment for selling liquor
without license by presenting the case
to the Governor in such clear and
comprehensive statement that the hne
was remitted.
Hon. J. p. Wickersham. Superinten.
dent of Public Instruction, suggests 10
school boards the propriety of passing
resolutions requiring all teachers 10
in their employ TO hold, near the close
of the school term. public exsmina.
ton or review of the work gone over
during the term.
The 5000 regulation overcoats order.
ed by AdjutAnt General Latta to be
manufactured are nearly completed.
The ordnance stores are now ready for
distribution, and il will not be many
days before the National Guard OF
Pennsylvania will be for the first time
in the history Of the State thoroughly
uniformed and equipped.
The saw mill of Fredericks & Kream-
re, at Farrandsville. Clinton county, was
burned down Thursday afternoon. J..
Speaker, foreman, was severely burned
in attempting To get out a tool chest.
lie jumped into the mill dam TO extin.
guish the FIRE in his clothes, and a com.
panion went TO rescue the sufferer, and
both narrowly escaped drowning.
Jonathan Meyer, farmer, living on
South Mountain, opposite RObesonia,
Rorks ons.ntv vpkil~ afTyinU noet holes.