Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-10-07
GENERAL NEWS.

alarmed at tne increase oil dlphtDeri9.
Mr. Lorillard's two.year.old filly Paw.
Paw died At New Market, England, a
few days ago.
There seems TO be no abatement oil
malarial fever along the Schuylkill and
Delaware rivers.
The receipts OF the Lehigh County
Fair, just closed. were $7,19S. Last
year they were $j,43G.
1t is claimed that n gold rock has
been discovered in Littlestown, Adams
county, yielding $500 to a ton.
The steamship Arizona, which arrived
in New York on Monday from Liver.
pool, brought $49S, 900 in specie.
The early sown buckwheat is said to
have been almost If not entirely ruined
by the hot August and September sun.
The reports that Germany is negotiat.
ing with Spain for the purchase OF San.
Ia Cruz de Agadir, Morocco, are untrue.
Baptist pastors at New York on Mon.
day, designated November | as a day
OF prayer for the good of the country.
The first regularly educated female
physician is said TO be Mrs. Alexander,
who settled in Boston some fifty years
ago.
A branch of the Irish Land League
was organized at Buffalo on Monday
and the Rev. L. Cronin elected presi.
dent.
There were thirty three mine acc.
dents in the middle district of Luzerne
during September. Three of them were
fatal.
The limestone taken out OF cuts
along the Lehigh and Lackawanna rail.
road Is now being used for furnace pur.
poses.
Fanny Davenport pays $2,400 to
Anna Dickinson for her new play, and
$50 night for every performance after
it has run three weeks.
The Western penitentiary at ALE.
gheny s to be enlarged by the addition
Of wing and proposals for furnishing
four million bricks for the work have
been advertised for.
Joseph Morehouse, fireman on the
New Jersey Central railroad. was bitten
toy pet dog three weeks ago. On
Friday last he was taken with all the
symptoms of hydrophobia. His death
is inomentarily expected.
Captain Jesse Balingsly. Mexican
war veteran, died at McDade, Texas, on
Monday in the 10th yenr OF his age
He commanded a company in the bat.
tie of San Jacinto. and was member
OF the first Texas Legislature.
The Cambria iron company fred their
| four hundredth coke oven near Con.
nelsville, Fayette county, last week
This makes grand total of FIVE hun.
dred ovens under the control Of the
Cambria Iron Company in the coke
region.
Sunday morning an aged lady named
Jenkins, residing at Minersville. Pa,
attempted suicide by cutting her throat.
infiicting injuries which physicians say
will prove fatal. She has been an in.
valid for some time and it is supposed
committed the act while in fit of de.
spondency.
Miss Elizabeth Waite. a sister of
Waite. the Brsttleboro, tNt) defaulter,
was sent 10 an asy lum for the insanc c last
Monday. 1t is supposed her insanity
is due TO loss of $4,000 which she and
another sister sustained by Waite's ap.
preparation of a life insurance fund
which had been left them by will.
Nancy Haywood had murdered a wo.
man at Manitowoc, Wis, and was sent
to Jail on suspicion but her denial OF
guilt had been persistent, and there was
hardly any evidence against her. Her
mother visited her in prison, held a
crucitix up before her, and called on
her in the name Of the Virgin Mary to
tell the truth. The girl thereupon con-
iessed the crime.
A private despatch announces that
the tourist party with Judge Dono
Of the New York Supreme Court,
while returning from the Yosemite, in
a six horse coach, were capsized near
Milton, California. Father Troynor had
leg broken, and his death followed
its amputation. Judge Donohue and
his wife and Mr.. Walton sustained
slight injuries. The other members of
the party were not hurt.
A despatch from Minneapolis says
In the aggregate the wheat in Minneso-
Ia and Dakota has turned out better
than was expected three weeks ago
when a heavy rain overlook the har
vesters. The Minnesota crop is but lit.
tie short of an average and Dakota is
fully up to the average, turning out
from twenty TO thirty bushels 10 the
acre, and mostly grading No. /. In
some localities the yield is thirty five
bushels TO the acre. The Northern
Pacific railroad Is employing its entire
freighting capacity to remove the
grain.
A remarkable event in the history of
surgery took place in Philadelphia re-
Gently. Mrs. Burnell, dwarf thirty.two
years of age and only forty.two inches
in height, was about TO become moth.
er, and IL was considered impossible for
her TO give birth to child in the usual
manner. Accordingly, the treatment
known as the Cesarean operation, after
Lyster's method, was resorted TO by
DR.. Richards, assisted by eleven other