Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-11-17
NO. 46.
GENERAL NEWS.

1t is reported in Washington that
George &. Gorham will be appointed
assistant secretary Of the treasury.
The London Econoaisf says: 'Virginia
funded bonds have fallen because Of
the success Of the Readjustment party
at the recent elections"
Charlotte Miner. n Canadian. died in
the almshouse in Fall River. Massachu.
sets, Monday morning at the alleged
age Of l07 year,.
There are ten iron steamers in process
Of conjunction in the ship yards Of
John Roach, at Chester. There are
fifteen hundred hands employed.
Frederick Douglass writes hand
like copperplste. lie has become very
stout According to Private Dalzell his
property is valued at more than $l00,
600.
I'd. Partridge. cOlored, in Americus,
Ga, on Wednesday whipped his step
daughter, Belle Holmes, TO death. The
flesh was beaten from the body. The
citizens threaten To lynch him.
1t is understood in Washington that
an additional case OF embezzlemen;,
amounting TO so 600, has been found
against Captain ilowgate and the mat.
ter will toe laid before the grand jury.
The steamer Bohemia brought 10
New York on the ljih inst. among its
passengers one hundred and sixty of
the prosecuted Jews, who were the first
that emigrated 10 Spain during last
summer.
Some twenty-five persons we're pois-
oned at New Orleans, on Tuesday last,
10y eating cream cakes purchased at
confectionery. The poison was verdi
girls, which in some way become mixed
IN the cakes.
The crops Of Pennsylvania for the
year 1881 are estimated by the State
Board OF Agriculture as follows: Corn
| 30. $50 600 bushels; wheat. 1910 600
| bushels; potatoes. 0.03l go bushels
tobacco, ., ,02G 600 pounds.
note from Mrs. Lucretia r. Garfield
has been issued through the American
/ Legation at London expressing her
| heartfelt thanks for the resolutions, ad.
| dresses and letters from the various cor.
/ porations, societies and persons through.
out Great Britain and Ireland.
II is stated that more than $50 dele.
gates have been already elected TO the
national tariff convention to meet in
| New York on the 29ih inst, snd that
more than o. 900 coo 600 Of capital in.
vested in manufactures will be repre-.
sented in the convention.
The Pittsburg Chronicle of Saturday
stated that within the past week nearly
one hundred and fifty freight cars load.
ed with freight consigned 10 that city
over the Pennsylyanis railroad were
tracked between that city and Derry
because of the company's inability TO
forward them
The defalcations brought TO light in
the Cuban Treasury Department at Ha.
vana by the discovery of the stolen tax
documents amount 20 about Sl0000.-
000 This sum represents about ten
years groundrent on real estate belong.
| ing TO the government and valued, ac-
cording to the recovered documents, at
S20O00,Oo0.
The State capitol Of Texas was entire
ly destroyed by an inceudiary FIRE on
the 9th inst. The majority of the State
archives we're saved, but the ba;tlefiags
Of the old republic, the seals Of foreign
nations and the library were destroyed,
together with the monument commem.
Grating the massacre of the Alamo,
which stood in the portico of the build
ing.
The documents seized in Easland in
connection with the arrest of Tobin, the
Fenian. relate to the establishment by
force Of arms Of the Irish Republic.
They reveal the existence Of an exten.
sive organization known as the Royal
Irish Republican Society," with num4r-
Gus members. The books, rules and
list OF members Of the society are like
ly to throw light on the existence Of
similar organizations elsewhere.
Advices from Kansas City say that
Santa Fe trains have been delayed BY a
snow storm for nearly thirty.six hours.
II has been showing hard in Western
Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico.
From Lakin west to Pueblo there are
from six TO ten inches Of snow, while
from La Junta west there are from eigh.
teen TO twenty inches. The cuts are
full Of snow and q strong wind is drift.
ing it badly. This l. the heaviest snow
storm in New Mexico and Colorado that
the Santa Fe railroad has ever encoun-
tered.