Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-16
GENERAL NEWS.

In anticipation of heavy demand
during the session Of the Legislature
peanut vender of Harrisburg has order.
ed 1000 bushels of this popular escu-
lent.
Speaking of what it terms the "Elec.
toral idiocy" the Pittsburg Lea,ier says
The Indiana blunder was not the only
one made. One of our Pennsylvania
Electors, Pinchet, lost 5000 votes by a
similar one. Why not throw overheard
this cumbersome, antiquated, ridiculous
and dangerous machinery without more
ado and elect our Presidents on the
straightforward, common sense princi.
pie OF voting far them and not for other
people?'
A remarkable accident occurred at
the Pennsylvania railroad crossing in
Chrlstiana the other day Two children,
who were driving one.horse team,
started across the track just AS an east.
ward bound express train, two hours
late, shot by. The train struck the
horses head and cut the blinds from
the bride. but strange TO say the horse
got up when the train had passed and
logged along.
The United States have 2i.77 miles Of
railroad TO every l0.GG0 inhabitants.
This is eight times as much AS Europe,
which has 3.29 miles to the 10000. The
/ European idea is that traffic must 90
/ before railroads, but in this country the
idea Is that railroads ought to be push.
ed forward in order to open new sec.
tions to population and thus create
/ traffic. Outside of trade demands,
railroads are built in Europe exclusively
! Tor strategic purposes-soEnething never
| done in the United States. Here we
/ find apparently superfiuous roads laid
! down sometimes in the furtherance Of
/ combinations and rivalries of interests,
! but otherwise all our roads are run on
lines and parallels supposed TO be con.
! duciye TO the extension Of commerce.
Among :he undeyeloped resources OF
! the Pacific slope may be mentioned the
! timber lands OF Washington Territory.
These laEds, ~ 10000 acres, bords
/ PugIt sound, aud are traversed by .e
/ logging streams. The timber, princi.
palls pine and fir, is equal to any which
/ grows elsewhere, the soil from which it
/ springs being Of great depth and rich.
ness, and kept moist by rainfall which
continues during ten months of the
year. OGe stick is represented to have
been hewed which was l24 feet long.
| squaring II inches at the small end,
and without sap. The average height OF
l'he srees j. 200 feet, while many-stpn..
300 feet tall, measuring II feet through
at the butt. 1t is to be hoped that bet
! ter care will be taken OF this magnii.
cent belt of forest than has been taken
! Of the timber lands of Maine and Mich.
| lcan. This territory has also ! 900.
600 acres OF grazing prairie, where a
nutritious bunch grass keeps green
/ tive.sixths Of the year. and 100000
acres of wheat lands, which yield from
80 to 50 hushels per acre. The catch OF
salmon last year was 40 900 600 pounds.
! Who would care 20 go to the frost.
/ nlpped, wind.swept bottom lands of
| Manitoba, when he can settle in Wash.
lngton Territory, where it rains as
much a. 1t does in Ireland, while the
/ influence OF high latitude and frost is
quelled by the balmy touches of the
kuro Siwo current-the gulf Stream of
the Pacific?