Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-12-22
The Gea!se S9slaotrat.
GENERAL NEWS.
B FoNTE, PA,

One of the ineide0iai moFhis o' '"o
Spe.kership contest Is that u Is hard
to b al the machine managers al their
own game.
The report Of Msyor King, OF Phiia'
daluh5a shows the. funded debt Oi the
city to he SOS 7S7 $40 4l. The value OF
taxable property, s543,I69 l2s
Hon. :. s. Cox, who has recently re-
tnrn.d from - taur of Europe and
the HOLY Land. was serenaded by hls
friends in New York last week.
The Sioux Indians who did not sur.
render with Sitting Bull, have come in.
They are very poor and will have TO be
fed this winter or they will starve.
The President on Friday last nomi.
mated Hon. j. c. Bancroft Davis, OF
New York, for Assistant Secretary OF
State, and large number OF postmast'
ers.
The application made for new trial
and change of venue in the case OF the
Fayette county Mollie Maguires, has
been refused and the trial will proceed
at Uniontown.
An American Jew at st. Petersburg.
performing in a circus. has received or
ders to QUIT the capital, simply on ac
count OF protesting the Hebrew faith.
He has protested.
The condition of the cotton crop, rs
reported TO the Department OF Agri'
culture, ia lower than at any season
since 1866. The total crop is estimated
at about 100000 bales.
The total coal tonnage Of all the car.
rying companies for the month OF No
vember was . 727, ,S6S tons. being an in
crease OF 235,2 tons as compared with
the same month last year.
The forthcoming annual report of
the Missouri Immigration Society it is
said will show the additions TO the
population OF the State during the
past twelve months by immigration TO
be ever 100000 families.
A New Jersey preacher who recently
oficiated at funeral, said that II the
dead brother WAS saved il was "by the
skin OF his teeth" He was severely
criticised for uttering this Bible truth
on the melancholy occasion.
In Philadelphia they are preparing
to erect a memorial church to Thomas
A. Scott. Il Is to be huilt by subscrip
tions from the friends and co-laborers
of Mr.. Scott. The site selected is Thir.
ty filth and Spring Garden street.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office has ordered the sale of
about FIVE thousand acres of public
lands living near Toledo, on Lake Erie.
The sale will take place on February l3
next, at the Land Office, in Washington.
A mulatto woman named Fanny
Crawford has just returned In her farm
in Mississippi with fifty negroes. from
Sumter county, Alabama. This year.
about closing time. shs worked 300
hands on her farm, which she manages
herself.
The empire of Japan raised 3s,900,0 900
bushels OF wheat this year. all winter
wheat. The only improvements in
wheat culture and separation over the
practice Of semi civilized nations were
introduced into Japan hundred years
ago by the HolIanders.
The exports of breadstufEs for No
vember were valued at $22053 l9S,
against $lS.025. $50 for the same month
last year. The totnl exports for the
eleven months ending November 30
were $257 ,23l .04j. against S2l0 S74, 800
for the same period of last year.
Cincinnati has had serious accident
by line Of an electric light getting on
telephone wire and sending in q dis.
charge which melted down the tele-
phone instrument, set fire TO the var.
nish aud woodwork, and left the clerk,
whose ear was at the telephone, stun.
ned.
Since the disclosures concerning the
corrupt practices in the Philadeiphia
tax Office we're made j. c. Crump, late
chief clerk, refunded to the Central
Soup Society $500 wFongfuIly exacted
for taxes. II is said that the money to
make this payment was loaned him by
ex.Tax Receiver Smith.
Mr.. Randall. Mr.. Carlisle, Mr.. Cox
and the other Democratic parliamenta-
rians, says the New York World, must
regard Speaker Keifer with the same
appFecialive interest with which in the
good old davs q den Of veteran lions
greeted the advent in the amphitheatFe
of portly martyr. He Is ''meat for
them
NNEuA VI ANCH AOhHg ~ hHt
champion Of Presidential widows. Hav.
ing accomplished The endowment Of
the widow Garfield, satisfactorily, he
now proposes to have Congress enlarge
the pension of $1,000 paid the widow
Lincoln to $4,000, or As much more as
the finances of the Government will
allow.
A Pittsburg inspector has brought 10
light new fraud. Il appears that one
barrel Of genuine oysters can be 80 In.
creased 10 bulk by proper admixture
of lime and wxteF that 1t will sell for
two barrels. The Pittsburg dealers
have not hesitated 20 add to their prof.
its by this scandsIous device. They
are to he prosecuted.
Mrs. Lincoln writes her friends that
she has completely lost the use Of her
eyes. Her letters are written by an ~.
tendant. She does not say what caused