Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-01-15
STATE NEWS.

The new iron steamship Louisiana
left Chester on Saturday morning, on
her trial trip for New York. She is
owned by the Cromwell Steamship Com.
psny. and will ply between New York
and New Orleans.
A Pittsburg firm has made $l50,000
by the recent rise in iron, and Mr.. John
Scott. President OF the Allegheny Val.
lev Railroad, has cleared 100000 on
1900 shares of Pennsylvania Railroad
stock, which he bought previous to the
rise.
Captain c. l.. Pierce, young lawyer
Of Erie, formerly clerk of court, was
cboked to death at dinner last week
while trying to swallow large mouth.
full of meat. A bottle of brandy was
found in his pocket, and it is supposed
he had been drinking.
Billy Long, of DuBois, Clearfield
county, is one Of the oldest hunters and
trappers in the State. He has passed
his S6th year, and has searched the
woods for game since boyhood. He
has killed thousands of deer, hundreds
Of bears and wolves and scores OF PAN
thers in his day. He still wears mecca
SINS and dresses in buckskins.
Superintendent Wickersham is now
preparing and will this week issue war
rants to school districts in the State
covering the year ended June, 1879, for
one million OF dollars, the amount due
them from the State for that period.
According to the superintendent esti-
mate the Commonwealth owes the
schools about $2,500.0O0.
A COW belonging to Mitchell Baker,
Thornbury, Chester county, showed
signs of indisposition. Her owner had
heard that coal oil was a good bouvine
appetizer, and so administered quart
Of that fluid inwardly. The medicine
took immediate effect and killed the
animal in three minutes. The COW WAS
one Mr. Baker valued highly.
One OF William Penn's parlor chairs,
described in the "History of Bucks
county" elaborately carved, with high
straight back, has passed from Lanborne
10 Germantown, and now only three
more remain in the former place. The
large, handsome arm chair belonging 10
this set was presented TO the Friends
Asylum, at Frankford, about seventy
five years ago.
Daniel Fahey, assistant engineer in
Anderson Il Co.'S steel mill, Pittsburg,
met horrible death on Saturday. He
was oiling machinery, and, being caught
in the betting, was drawn down into a
PIT and squeezed between the driving
wheel and the bottom Of the pit, the
space not being more than eight inches.
lie was literally disembowelled, and
lived but a few moments after the ac-
tident
The jury at Williamsport in the case
agslnst Peter Herdic and Horace L.
Taylor brought ina verdict OF guilty on
Saturday. The charge was conspiracy
to deiFaud creditors in connection with
the operations of the banking house of
IL. h. Taylor Il Co., which suspended a
couple OF years ago. Motion was made
ior new trial, bail given and the
nearing on the motion put down for
March.
IN account of the financial success of
the State Agricultural Fair held in the
Permanent Exhibition Building, last
september, at Philadelphia, the mana.
gers Of the State Agricultural Society
nave decided to hold this years fair in
the Exhibition Building in September
next. The fair will begin on the 9th CT
mat month and continue for two weeks.
from $4,000 to $4,000 will be distrib.
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