Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-15
GENERAL NEWS.

Fentlon.
There is at present quite an exodus
OF the young men of Halifax, y. S., to
the United States.
IL is reported that frost last week
ruined the peach crop Of Delaware on
the lower peninsula.
Mike Mckee. a well known character
in Oil City, committed suicide on Friday
by taking hydrate of chloral.
The Delaware peach crop last year was
100000 baskets, and the Wilmington
Eccn,ng says there is reason To believe
that this year il will reach 1000, 900
baskets.
The st. Louis Young Mems Christian
Association has purchased, for the pur-
poses Of their organization, the Union
Methodist Church.
On Friday the sales at the Oil Ex-
change, in OIL City, aggregated | 100000
barrels, which, according TO the Derrick
was the largest days business ever &C.
complished there.
The April elections have badly used
up the Greenback party in Michigan.
Indeed the spring elections everywhere
have indicated that the Green enbackers
have nearly ceased to be factor in pol.
itics.
James X. Dodge, who died recently
in New York was nephew of Washing
ton Irving, whom he closely resembled
both in personal appearance and in that
beauty of character which rendered the
the author an object of universal esteem.
The suit OF James A. Whslen, at New
York. against General Phil Sheridan,
for 1920 900, the value of the personal
property on the Killone plantation in
Louisiana, from which he was rejected
by General Sheridan's military order
has been appealed to the L. S. Supreme
Court.
Governor Collquitt, Of Georgia, recent.
ly asked q gas company to reduce an
excessive bill for gas for the Georgia
State House. The gas company refused
and the Government has ordered the
gas TO be shut of, and directed the pur.
chase OF eight lamps for the use of offices
OF the government.
The strike in the Allentown rail mill
continues. The heaters say they were
promised an increase, and they are
merely contending for what they con.
slider is due them. IL is understood
that the Glen rolling mill, lately leased
by the Allentown rolling mill company,
will not start up until the strike in the
mill ceases.
Certain California capitalists have
succeeded in evading the operation of
the anti Chinese law. The Oakland iute
grain sack factory, when told that all
corporations must discharge Chinese
hands, complied with the law and gave
up its corporation charter, but started
a week afterward as a private company,
with $50 Chinamen-the old hands.
The arrival of emigrants at New
York during the month of March was
2l,6jS. This is l5,943 in excess Of the
number arriving during the same month
of last year. The excess OF immigra.
ton for this year may be accounted for
by the continued depression OF bust
ness abroad and the failure of crops.
England furnishes 3,j9l, Ireland 4,007,
Germany and Austria 1854, Sweden,
Norway and Denmark 3,0GS, and other
countries, 5000.
Judge Henderson of the Dauphin
county court, filed an opinion on Mon
day last sustaining the Auditor General
in his appraisement of Pennsylvania
railroad shares at their average value,
from the lst TO the 18th Of November.
1879. The company had made the ap.
praisement at the average during the
entire year. The difference in the ap.
praiseinent is eleven dollars a share, and
the whole amount involved is $40. 600.
As il is a test case the decision will put
into the treasury $4,000 in dispute.
The old and unsightly Monongahela
suspension bridge at Pittsburg is at last
TO give place 10 a more modern struct-
ure fifteen feet higher. The present
bridge was built in lS45, Immediately
after the great fire which destroyed the
previous structure. When the coal in.
terests became prominent ii was discov-
cred that the structure was too close to
the water to allow ordinary tow. boats TO
pass under, and the coal men have long
mathematical it as nuisance.
About ii o'clock Sunday forenoon
FIRE was discovered on the roof OF the
old McClintock Hotel, Petroleum. Gen.
tire, seven miles north Of Oil City, sup.
posed TO have originated from a desec-
tive nue. The town being wholly un.
provided with fire apparatus and q
strong wind blowing from the southeast
at the time, the flames spread rapidly
through the heart of the town. destroy
ing nearly all of what remained OF
what was af ono TINA ON a of tha iaadin o.
towns of the oil country.
Saturday afternoon the Harrisburg
Car Shop Company's planning mill was
destroyed by fire. A high wind made
IL spread rapidly from buildingto build
ing. The fire was first discovered on
the corner of the roof over the engine.
lt is supposed that spark ignited n
quantity of shavings on the roof, and
at that particular time while the men
were either in the mill or at their homes
eating their dinner, 1t was unnoticed
until too late.