Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-03-11
STATE NEWS.

4 large furniture factory is being bull.
in Lock Haven.
Horse stealing is unpleasantly f,s.
quent in Monroe county.
An Albiro muskrat, with perfec,v
white fur and pink eyes. was killed =,
Port Carbon, on Thursday.
A Petrolia school teacher attemn,.d
to correct one of the larger girls. and
after lively tussle lost handful n
whiskers.
fire at Petrolia, Butler county IN
Friday morning, destroyed five buiiI,
ings, causing loss Of $2j 900, which +,
partly covered by insurance.
A man named John Raymond -
Harrisburg, while travelling between
Pittsburg and Altoona, on Thursdsr
afternoon, lost 500 in currency and
81 800 in drafts.
Cyrus j. Pinkerton, one Of The hes,
known lawyers in fremont SchuylklI
county, has become insane from iljr...
and has been removed TO an asylum =,
Harrisburg.
Hon. {. B. Brockaway, pronir.,,.
citizen and lawyer of Columbia count
died at Bloomsbury few DAYS ago. H.
was a member of the State Lepi.la,n,s
Of 1873 and 1874.
An explosion of fire damp took rlacs
at shaft No. ! East Nanticoke. One
man was killed and eight men are .iilI
in the mines and are supposed 10 have
been killed by the foul air.
A man of Union Mills, Erie copn,y
who was disappointed in a love st,a.,
has not spoken to woman for twenty
years. lie is a miser, and ayerts M,
head when he meets one of the orro.
site sex.
An orphan boy named Swa,zisrce,
employed in the family Of a Mr. bale. a,
Nhippenvllle, Cambria county. blew On,
his brains on wednesday afternoon. Va
reason for the act is known. Itvs.
| probably because of his name.
The salary OF Thos. A. Scott pre,.
densDf the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany, is sd, 300. But then be superyj.e.
and directs the business of over uo
miles Of railway and canal. beside. H..
large coal properties Of the COMPANY.
Andrew Hopkins, ESQ, died at Wash.
ington Friday morning. lie was one a
/
and connected at different times with
other papers. lie was a brother o. .
Hon. james II. Hopkins, of PittsJurg.
There lives near Newport. Perry cour.
! ty, a lady who has attained the age q
one hundred and FIVE years, and who ),
laid to be almost a. sprirhtly a. a maid.
en- of twenty. She make a foil hand in
the house work, such as washing. !Ion.
ing, baking, sweeping, etc.
| There will soon be sent out from the
State hatchery, , at Cory, between iDlu0J
and 100000 brook trout for stocking the
streams in Western pennsylvania. Fl.h
Commissioner Benjamin l.. Hewitt. al
| Hollidaysburg, or Robert Dai7ell. box
422. Pittsburg, will give all the iniorma.
iion desired.
A correspondent Of the Reoord write
from LewIsburg that a violent wind
storm passed over that place on Friday
afternoon, unrooting the main building
of the college and the Uniyersty Acad.
emy. TImbers were hurled long de.
tance and the campus strewn with de.
bris.
The coal miners have been on a strike
at Osceola. Clesrfeld county, for two
weeks. The operators and miners held
a meeting on Sunday, but the result Of
IL has not been made public. The prot.
abilities are that work will not be re-
sumed before the lst OF April. There
has been no trouble as yet. The strike
OF coal miners in the Houtzdale district
is in full blast, but no serious trouble
has occurred. They will probably re.
sumo work soon.
A Ere occurred at Reeds Station four
miles south of the town of Indiana, on
Friday night, involving the destruction
Of one OF the finest houses in Indiana
county, owned by Mr.. A. l.. McAlliste-.
The flames caught in the rear portion
of the structure and, as a high wind
was prevailing at the time, it WAS soon
reduced TO ashes. The contents Of the
building were also consumed, as the
flames spread 80 rapidly as 10 allow
barely time for the family 10 escape
with their lives. The loss which Mr.,
McAllister sustains will reach about
$4,000.
Judge White, of Allegheny county,
charged the jury in the case of kenns,
of Pittsburg, that license for a tavern
was no good for selling liquor in a tent
on picnic ground. The jury thought
otherwise and brought in verdict Of
not guilty. besides putting the cost on
the prosecutor. The Judge informed
the twelve men, alleged to be good and
true, that their verdict was no good,
that he wouldn't have his construction
of the Law ignored in any such style.
His manner was 50 emphatic that the
jurors would not have been surprised at
being ordered TO hand in their resigna-
tions. The verdict was laid aside.
The following are the postal changes
in Pennsylvania for the week ending
saturday: Established--Arthurs, Clar.
ion county, Elisha Mix, postmasteri
Cordelia. Lancaster county, w. V. Nc.
Hose, postmaster; Craley, York county,