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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-22
A Case OF Flesh Grating.

Frank Leavitt, OF Oakland, was 20.
verely scalded by the overturning Of
locomotive, OF which he was engineer,
near Leadville, Col, on the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad. 1t became neces-
sary TO cut out q piece of the flesh Of
tho under side of his thigh some ten
inches in length and four or five in
breadth. In order to repair this loss
three of Mr.. Leavitt's friends offered
themselves to the surgeons knife and
pieces Of their flesh were cut Off and
grated on to the wound. Mr.. Leayitt
was found seated in an easy chair by
the window. after the accident" he
said, 81 was taken to South Pueblo,
which is about ten miles from Lead.
vile. For about four days felt little
or no pain. Then the scalded places
began to hurt ,,frightfully, and the doc
tors found il necessary to cut out q
large piece Of my thigh. Yes, the wound
in places went clear into the bone, leav-
ing a large hole. DR.. Craven and DIR.
Christie, who were attending me. said
that it was necessary TO graft tho open
wound with new fesh and skin in order
to build it up. You see, small hole
will naturally ill up and skin over with
out help, but this was too large to get
along without some help. The doctors
would have taken some of the flesh Of
my arm and used ii but that was in
fevcrish condition at the line, and
three Of my friends who worked with
me offered to allow the doctors to uEe
them TO help me out. The surgeons
took hold of the mans arm with q
pincers and pinched mp little piece Of
skin and flesh not much bigger than a
dime, as you may say, and then just
slit II of with a knife. They cut of
from those three men twenty-seyen of
these small pieces altogether, but Of
course not at the same time. No, it
didn't hurt the men particularly. These
small pieces OF skin and flesh were taken
and laid on separately on the would
each one to act as kind Of center, you
know, for the new skin and flesh 10
build up around. OF course, they
wouldn't begin to fill up the wound,
but each piece acted like 4 graft and
began to grow ont toward the others
until the intervening spaces were filled
up. 1t took quite long time TO getall
the gratis on. Some five or six we're
put on at one time and it took them
about three days to unite. Scme of
them did not unite ai all, but fell off at
the first dressing. No, couldn't tell
exactly when the pieces became part
of me, for couldn't touch them because
Of the dressing and bandsge. The pieces
were Just laid on the wound and bound
firmly on with a bandage smeared with
some healing mixture or salve. When
they didn't fall Off on the third day,
when they came to dress the wound
there they we're and there they stayed,
and that was all knew about IL. The
place will never be filled up quite level,
but II is perfectly sound and whole
now. although little raw and sore, OF
course, and am able TO walk about
with n c7utch, and I expect to be able
to go to work in about three months as
welras ever. / was seyenty-eight days
in bed.-Sdn Francisco Call.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-22
RasAlsa Nes~s.

Crinoline is surely gaining ground.
0mhre silk toilets arc still in vogue.
Gosling green is a new shade Of
that colpz.
Authenticated girls have come into
fzshion again.
Dark bronze green toilets are exceed.
ingly fashionable.
Bright oriental striped surah iamach
used foE tsinming.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-22

Forty miles Of paper are used to print
each issHe Of LloyFs Nssaspgper. the
circulation Of which il 10000 cupiaa
weakly. Its 20ooth number was recent.
: Issued.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-22
Lesson for Young Housekecpers.

How can you tell young fowl from
an old one?
"By the teeth" I"
By the teeth : But fowls have no
teeth |"
"I know they haven't, but I have r
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-22

4 New York tramp goes around with
; lorg hollow reed. and when he linds
any milk behind anybody's grating he
puts IN his reed and drinks his III.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
Cotton and silk.

The census reports contain many in
teresting facts as to the manufacture of
cotton and silk in this country. Of the
10000 900 bales of cotton produced at
the South, 1,5S6,4S1 bales-consider-
ably more than one-fourth of the whole
product-are manufactured in cotton
fabrics Of various kinds in the United
States. Of these fabrics thirty-six per
cent. are made in Massachusetts and
twenty-four per cent. in the other New
England States, making together sixty
per cent. of the American product to be
credited to New England. Magnificent
results have attended the ventures in
cotton manufacturing at the South. Old
mills have been extended and many new
mills are being constructed. Mr.. Walker,
superintendent of the census, thinks
that the figures of 1890 will show a Won
derful development of the business at
the South, particularly in Georgia. At
present Isl, 62S persons are employed
in this single industry in the United
States. Silk manufacture is of com
paratively recent date in this country,
yet there were last year 1888 factories,
having an invested capital of $1S,S99, :
300, and producing annually $34, 410,-
416 of silk goods. The total wages
paid was So, 107, S35. These two indus
tries make, according to the superin-
tendent of the census, very gratifying
returns and show good healthy
growth,
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
Foreign News
1898, 1,195.81

On Easter day revolutionary proclamations
from the Land and Liberty party were found
inclosed in Easter eggs, distributed in the
streets of Moscow, Russia. The proclamation
urges the peasantry to seize lands and refuse TO
pay taxes or serve in the army.
A LIVERPOOL dispatch declares that the foot
and mouth disease was discovered among
American cattle landed by British steamer
from Portland, Ne.
THE British steamer Tararua, of Melbourne,
has been wrecked on the reefs off Otago, New
Zealand. Eighty persons were drowned The
steamer ran between Australian, Tasmanian
and New Zealand ports. carrying passengers
and cargo.
Much commotion has been caused in English
upper circles by the elopement of the Earl of
Shrewsbury with Mrs. Miller Mundy, of we'll
known family in Derbyshire. A relative of the
woman followed the clipping pair to the CONT
nent, caught up with them at Strasburg and
administered a severe thrashing to the earl
Mrs. Miller-Mundy is seven years older than
her lover, who is the great prize of the day in
the English matrimonial market, being i'm
The lady was brought back to England.
The greater part of Krasnoyarsk, the second
important town in Siberia, has been DESTROYED
by fire.
JOHN DILLON, the well-known Irish league
agitator and member of the British parliament
for the county Tipperary, was arrested by gov
eminent officers while ON his way to Dublin.
charged with melting the people to riot and tc
resisting processes.
The city of Dublin has been proclaimed un-
der the coercion act in order to allow the police
to search for hidden arms.
CABLE dispatch represents serious state
of affairs in the west of Ireland The dispatch
degrees Of atrocity have been committed and
that bands of armed men scour the country
and terrorize the inhabitants unchecked.
THE recent report of the death of King John,
of Abyssinia, proves to have been unfounded.
/ Two hundred persons were injured in riots
against the Jews at Elizabetbgrad.
OWING to the discovery of his completely in
Nihilist intrigues the Grand Duke Nicholas
cousin to the car, has been imprisoned in the
fortress at Dunaburg. There was very affect
ing scene when the mother of the royal criminal
took leave of him forever
A MURDER of surprising horror is reported
from Vienna. A bootmaker named Veigl kill
ed his wife and four children and afterward cut
them up in pieces.
BARK believed to have on board Mr. Suter
the Englishman recently captured by brigands
near Salonica, Greece, and for whose release
$4,000 was demanded, was chased by Turk
ish gunboat and finally sunk.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
NEWS EP1TOME.
East and Middle.

COLONEL FREDERICK GRANT, having resigned
his commission in the army, will hereafter re-
side in New York, where he has assumed the
presidency of the projected Texas Western
harlow gauge railroad company
FIRE in Philadelphia destroyed the Girard
Point elevator at the mouth of the Schuylkill
The elevator was one of the largest in the coun-
try, and its full capacity was 650000 bushels,
although there were stored in it at the time of
the fire only sc, 900 bushels Of corn and 81. 900
bushels of wheat The total loss is about 500. >
600.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has sixty-four savings banks
with sc. 6S1 depositors owning $32. o97, 734
Two mountain settlements in Pike county,
Pa, have been destroyed by the forest fires.
ROYAL s. CARR was hanged at Windsor, Vt,
for numbering half-breed Indian whose wife
ne wished to marry. He had previously served
sentence of ten years for the murder of
married woman only fourteen years old.
ARTICLES have been filed in Albany incorpor-
ating the New York and Western Telegraph
company, with a capital of s1,5O0,OOO. The
line is to run from New York to New JERSEY.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and
Illinois, with branch from Pittsburg to
Buffalo.
JOHN W. MINTURN, member of the firm of
Grinnell, Minturn & Co., one of the best known
shlppmg houses In New York, committed sui
eide in his Office the other day by shooting
himself through the head. The act is thought
to have been done in fit of temporary in
sanity, brought about by Illness
PROFESSOR LEWIS SWIFT, director of the
Warner observatory at Rochester, N. Y, has
discovered new comet. As this is the first
comet discovered the present year, Professor
Swift secures the prize of 5000 offered last
January by H. H. Warner.
LOCOMOTIVE crashed through bridge nea1
Ringwood Junction, n. J., and fell thirty-five
feet into the water. The engineer and fireman
were killed
The house occupied by David Reese near
New Providence, Penn, caught fire, and while
Mr- Reese and his son were trying to save some
OF their effects the building suddenly collapsed
and both were burned to death.
ABOUT 1000 of the New York and BROOKLYN
bakers struck for an advance in wages, and
many OF the employers acceded to their
demands.
HERE has been heavy run on the Franklin
savings bank, of New York, by its depositors,
owing to decision of the court of appeals de-
claring that certain bonds of the bank issued
by the town of Springfort, N. Y, were void.
About s150,000 were drawn out by alarmed
depostors in three days.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Although he had examined over one
hundred hearts of children and grown
up people, DR.. Langier discovered
biood-vessels in the heart valves in
only one case, that of woman of sixty,
IN whom they We're evidently the result
OF pathological process.
Biologists say that the immense delta
OF the Mississippi was manufactured by
an ancient river of prodigious magni-
tude, which ran from Lake Michigan to
the Gulf of Mexico, and flowed about
three hundred feet below the present
land level.
Abes.t 5000 stars are visible to the
naked eye. There are $4,000, 900 stars
IN the Milky Way. Even the stars that
we call fixed are in constant motion.
Arcturus moves through space three
times as fast as the earth, but it takes
hundred years to move the eighth part
OF the apparent diameter of the moon.
As the result of his personal observa-
tons, M. Carlet states that the walking
OF insects may be represented by that
OF three men in Indian file, the fore
most and hindmost of whom keep step
with each other, while the middle one
walks IN the alternate step. The walk
ing OF arachnids can be represented by
four men in file, the even numbered
ones walking in one step, while the odd
numbered ones walk in the alternate
step.
South Africa has lately derived a very
pnnS1dQra h1o -, II,
ing, but the gain from this industry has
very recently been greatly diminished
by sort of deadly disease which pre-
walls among the young birds. Mr..
Arthur Douglas found that the NOR
tality was due to new species of worms
which subsisted on the coats of the
ostriches' stomachs, and DR.. Spencer
Cobold has named them iShouqylus
aougldsii. The cause of the production
OF these parasites is unknown, nor has
any means been thus far discovered for
destroying them.
A novel stenographic machine for
taking down speeches, sermons, ETC.,
while being delivered, has been invented
by an italian genius. The machine is
worked by kind of keyboard, similar
to that of small piano, and the steno-
graphic signs, not unlike those used in
the ordinary French shorthand, are
automatically printed on a continuous
ribbon of paper. The signs registered
represent sounds, and it is said that the
machine can be successfully used by
person unacquainted even with the Ian
guage spoken. They are being used in
the italian chamber of deputies, and
are rapidly superseding shorthand re-
porters in all France
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
The FOur.Leayed Clover.

In Germany there is a belief that the
four-leaved clover, on account of its
crossed form, is endowed with magical
virtues. The general form of the super
stition is that one who carries the clover
about him will be able to detect the
presence of evil spirits, and will be sue
cessful at play. In Bohemia it is said
that if a maiden manages to put the leaf
into the shoe of her lover without his
knowledge on going on journey, he
will return safely. The four-leaf clover
in various regions is believed to protect
one from witches and keep butter pure,
on which account it is considered a
good form for butter mold.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
SENATE SPECIAL SESSION.

Mr.. Morgan asked leave to offer a concurrent
resolution declaring that the interests of the
people OF the United States of America and the
welfare and security of tue government are Sc
involved in the subject of the construction of
ton of sea-going vessels across the isthmus
connecting North and South America, that the
government of the United States, with the
frankness which is due to all O. her peoples and
governments, hereby asserts that it will insist
that its consent is a necessary condition pre-
eedent to the execution of such a project, and
also as to the rules and regulations under
which other nations shall participate in the use
of such canals or other ways, either in peace or
in war. Mr.. Dawes objected to the resolution
on account of the fact that it needed the con-
currence of the House of Representatives, and
upon his suggestion Mr.. Morgan changed the
resolution so as to make it a Senate measure,
when it was referred to the committee on
foreign relations.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
The Sun and the Color of the Skin.

Climate, as affecting complexion, pre-
sents some singular diversities, and the
psychologist is puzzled with such facts
in this direction as that, at the same
distance from the equator is found the
fair Englishman, the yellow Mongol,
and the copper-colored Indian; north
of the white Russian and Finn live the
swarthy Lapp and Samoyed; north OF
the Caucases are the dark-skinned Tar
tars, south of it fair omplexioped Cir
cassians. Again, the aborigif1eJ Of
America vary less in color than the ma
tives of the old world-none of them
are as fair as the Swede, none as BLACK.
as the negro of Congo, and those living
in Brazil, on the equator, are not the
darkest. In Australia and New Guinea,
too, there are blacker men than in Bor
neo and Sumatra, though these islands
are on the equator and those are not.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Mc1r.aH has ronao.0

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT McVEAGH has rendere
an opinion declaring that the postmaster-gen-
eral is the sole arbiter in deciding what are
and what are not fraudulent lotteries, and NAV
stop letters addressed to lottery companies.
The Jeanette search vessel, the Mary and
Helen, has been renamed the Rodgers, in COM
pliment to Rear-Admiral Rodgers.
HE census statistics of the manufacture OF
glass in the United States show 1874 establish
ments, employing 23S22 men and 9,415, 500
capital, with product valued at $21, 013, 464.
In 1870 there were 154 establishments with
1857 employees and capital of s13, S26, 142,
the product being valued at SIS, 40, 507. There
were s9,112,301 paid in wages in 1880 and
1889, 10 in 1870.
The following is the national debt statement
for April:
TOTAL. DEBT.
Irllclpdl. 81, 0S0, 24S, GAS. Is
interest. .................... 1896, 241.01
Total. ................. 80, O97, S03, 689. IS
Total cash IN the treasury. 233, 731, 1875. 81
DEBT LESS CASH IN THE>TREAsURY
May z. 1881 81, S64 072, $685. Sc
April l, 1881. ................ 1873 763, 593 GO
Decrease of debt during month $500, 9OO. %
Decrease of debt since June
80. $780,. Observation-Disclosures. 1908, sol. &c
CURRENT LIABILITIES.
Interest due and unpaid $27IO. 492 7f
Debt on which interest has
ceased. :.................. 5,7O4, s65. 2t
interest thereon. ............ 730, TAO q
Gold and silver certificates. 56642' TAO 0f
United States notes held for
redemption of certificates of
deposit. neutrality-suspicious.. 1926, 900. OF
Cash balance available. 159 647, 1857. IS!
Total. ................... 1898, 731, 195. 81
AVAILABLE ASSETS,
Cash in the treasury. 1888, 731, 1875. 81
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
From Washington.

BRONZE statue of Admiral David 6. Farra-
gut in the park a. the intersection of Seven
teenth street and Connecticut avenue was I'M
yelled few days ago in presence of large
,rowd. There was procession and the houses
on the streets along the line of march were
deliberately decorated with flags and bunting.
President Garfield received the statue in the
name of the nation, and olations were delivered
by -Postmaster-Ge General Maynard and Senator
Voorhees,.
AoIlS6 COMMISSIONER HoLcoMB Of the in
terror department. reports after examining the
statutes that there are no lands in the Indian
Territory open to settlement, and that the
United States 10 bound to prevent emigration
thereto.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
West and South,

WHILE playing baseball during recess at a
school in Louisville KY, four boys ranging in
years from twelve to fourteen, were struck by
lightning and killed.
An appalling disaster occurred the other
morning at Elgin, Ill. The recent food did
great damage in that vicinity and occasioned
very great inconvenience by washing away the
bridge across the Fox river which was daily
trayersed by crowds of school-children and
operatives in the factories across the river
from Elgin The city council ordered a tom
porary ferry to be established. small scow,
soventy-fve by fifteen feet, was purchased for
$50 and rugged to a wire cable. 1t made its
first trip amid the jeers of the crowd, who
doubted its adequacy for the purpose. On its
second trip the next morning, between eight
and nine, from the west side, when overloadel
and nearly buried to its edges in the whirling
stream still swelled by brooks and flooded
meadows, the scow began to flood with water
The passengers in CONSERVATION Immediately
hocked to the dry part Of the boat, clinging to
the railing, which gave way, precipitating
many of them into the river. AS the water
poured into the boat she soon sank, leaving
thirty people, many of them said to be little
girls, battling for life in the current. The
water at that point is fully fifteen feet deep and
the current at least six miles per hour. Per-
sons on the bank who witnessed the disaster at
once set about the rescue, and many persons
were picked up and drawn ashore by ropes.
Others were rescued by boats and by floating
boards About twelve persons, one-half of
them children, were drowned.
THERE are more than a thousand persons at
Yankton, Dakota, who are dependent on the
government for support, having been driven
from their homes by the floods.
THE village of Mount Moreys, Mich, has been
almost totally destroyed by fire.
Mrs. CHRISTIAN KOCH, wife of an engine
wiper at Grand Island, Neb., cut the Threats Of
her three children, aged four years, two years,
and six months respectively, and then killed
herself.
MARSHALL BAXTER, colored man. was hanged
at Charlotte, N. c., for the murder of another
colored man named Hennegan, and on the same
day John Gothard, also colored, met similar
fate at Towsontown, Nd, for the murder Of
Joseph Woods, his employer.
THE total amount of damage done by tn
floods along the Missouri river from Bismarck
Dakota, to it's mouth is estimated at 81, 000, 900
AT Detroit, Mich, NJ Frost & Co. wooden
ware works, with much lumber and other
stock, and Crone Brothers large tannery, with
large stock of hides and leather, have been
completely destroyed by fire, entailing a total
loss of s15O,O00.
THERE were S04 fires in Chicago last year,
and a total loss thereby of s1,135, SIG. There
we're 1868 permanent buildings erected in 1880.
TRAIN of the Western Pacific railroad ran
over and killed five children of family named
Nebas, near San Lorenzo, Cal.
The latest report from Sitting Bull is that
the redoubtable redskin refuses to surrender
to the United States military authorities be-
cause he believes that as soon as he gives him
self up he will be hanged.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
(Attleboro Chronicle.l
Carry the News.

Mr.. John Etzensperger, Manufacture
ing Jeweler of North Attleboro'. Mass,
lately communicated to us the following
| suffered so much with pains in my arm,
that at times I was completely helpless.
| used that incompatible remedy st.
Jacobs Oil and was completely cured as
if by magic.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07

She raised a paper rule to strike he
husband, and, as it happened, the rear
end of it grazed her chin and drew
blood, whereupon she tumbled all in g
heep in the middle of the floor and
howled piteously. But he only remarked
with the utmost composure: MY love,
it's poor rule that won't work both
wavs.n
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
detroit Post and Tribune

81 have little girl, said Mr. Henry
Dole, of this city, in conversation, ''who
was troubled with severe lameness in
her legs, pronounced by some Erysipe-
las, by others Rheumatism. I had
tried several remedies without effect,
when I was induced to apply st. Jacobs
Oil and I am happy to say that the use
of but one bottle cured her, and she is
now able to go to school again."
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
nocfars Gave Him LIN.

q Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and at
work, and cured by so simple remedy z"
" / assure you it is true that he is entirely
cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters, and
only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and
said he must dier
Well-a-day If that is so, | will go this
minute and get some for my poor George. |
know hops are good.'
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07

1t was their first night aboard the
steamer. cat last" he said, tenderly,
we are all alone out upon the deep
waters of the dark blue sea, and your
heart will always beat for me as it has
beat in the past ?" "My hearts all
right" she answered, languidly, "but
my stomach feels awful"
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07
The Greatest RIexsir,

A simple, pure, harmless remedy that cures
every time, and prevents disease by keeping
tue blood pure, stomach regular, kidneys and
liver active, is the greatest blessing ever con-
ferred upon man. Hop Bitters is that remedy,
and its proprietors are being blessed by thou
sands who have been saved and cured by it.
VIII YOU try it? See other column.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07

James t. Fields won't lecture twice
in the same necktie.-Erchonge. And
some men will not lecture twice in the
same town-if the citizens know it,
Norristolcn Herald.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-05-07

Hades, the word which takes the
place of "hell" in the new Bible, is
pronounced haydeez, and means "the
habitation of the dead, the invisible
world, or the grave"