Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-06-09
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dozen years ago the same man was a
street car conductor ia the city Of san
| Francisco.
Mics Hattie SOlace SAKE, the only re-.
manning daughter Of the poet, John g.
SAKE, died IN Brooklyn last Friday
| night. Her father Is now fizty.Gvs
years Of age and broken down with
grief and i'll health.
| 4 robbery Of between 10000 and
| 100000 in bonds from the Enc Couz.
| ty Savings Bank, at Buffalo, y. Y, has
Just come 10 light. The bonds were
| taken from the treasurer desk, where
they had been placed without any sus-
| picIon OF danger after a number Of
coupons had been cut from them. SeY.
| eral Of the stolen bonds have been
traced 10 Baltimore.
Among the distinguished persons now
| IN the government employ at the Indian
| agencies, AT salaries ranging from s. 10
| $40 month, are Abraham Lincoln, a
! teamster; Ulysses Grant, an interpfc-
| ter; John Adams, "a farmer; Enoch Ar.
| den, laborer; George Washington and
| Andrew Jackson, interpreter Daniel
| Webster captain; James X. Polk,
! sergeant, and Tom Benton, a carpenter.
| Those who think that our great men
are disappearing will notice that they
have only gone West
The case OF marriage Of Chipaman
named Lee Chin, TO Mrs. Eva II. Lee, a
white woman, is attracting much atten.
| ton at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory.
| The statutes Of Wyoming forbid such
intermarriage and the couple went 10
| Denver TO have the ceremony perform.
| ed, the Colorado laws permitting il. Mr..
| and Mrs. Lee Chin have been indicted
| for miscegenation. The Chinese Con.
| sui at Denver, under direction of the
| Chinese AMBASSADOR at Washington,
| has become interested in behalf Of his
| couutryman and will contest the case in
| the courts.
| The recent announcement in the
/ New York Chamber OF Commerce by
| Colonel Fred. A. Conkling that New
| ] oTk sugar reiiucr had paid 500, 600 to
q member Of the Committee on Ways
| and Means in the last Cong to pre-
| vent legislation on the sugar question
has caused a sensation IN New York
commercial circles. The Timss says:
The statement appears 10 be generally
credited, and reputable gentlemen are
20 be found who say they saw the
| check The committee adopted bill
| by a vote OF 7 10 G which provided
for specific instead Of an ad valorem
duty, but the bill was never reported.
The votes against the bill in committee
were Messrs. Wood Chairman, Gar.
field, Kelley, Conger, Frye ana Dun.
nell.
An organization OF the ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers has been effected at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. with Col. J. =. Cooke.
president; Mr.. j. ". Key. Capt J.
Caldwell, vice presidents Mai. G. G.
Conner, secretary. Nearly every ex-
Confederate soldier in the vicinity has
become a member. The purpose Of the
organization Is 90 tender reception to
the Army OF the Cumberland, which
will have a reunion in Chattanooga,
next September. 1t is intended TO have
present the most important and promi-
nent Of living Confederate generals.
President Garfield and party, who
have been cruising in Virginia waters
on the United States steamer Dispatch,
visited Fort Monroe on last Sunday
morning. witnessed guard mounting
and inspected the troops. In the after
noon they visited the Soldiers Home.
near Hampton. then the Hampton
I Normal School, and next the National
I Cemetery, after which they attended
services in the Bethesda Chapel, at the
| school, after which the President made
n short address to the students. At
T. v. the party sailed for Washington.
The yards Of each vessle of the fort,
/ including the German school ship,
Nymphe, were manned and three cheers
were given as the Dispatch passed them.
On May 81, Queen Victoria attained
| her sixty-secoua hsithday, an age which
! has been exceeded by eleven only of
the sovereigns Of England, dating from
/ the Norman conquest--namely. Henry
| l., who attained sixty seven years;
| Henry I'LL, sixty FIVE years Edward
l., sixty seven years Edward H., sixty.
five years; Queen Elizabeth. sixty
years: James H., sixty eight years
George J.. sixty-seven years; George H.,
seventy-seven years: George ILL.,. eighty
two years George ", sixty. eight years,
and William ~, seventy.two years.
On the Goth Of June she will have
| reigned forty.iour years, period which
has been exceeded by four English sov.
ereigns only-namely, Henry ILL.,. who
reigned fifty six years Edward ILL.,,
who reigned for fifty years Queen
Elizabeth, who reifned for forty.fye
years, and George ILL.,, sixty years.
Col. p. Penn Gaskell Hall, U. S. A., a
member of General Hancock's stan. Is
somewhat indignant over the appoint.
ment OF George Lieb Harrison, sugar
merchant Of Philadelphia. 10 so to Eng.
land FOR the remains of William Penn.
Colonel Hall is the nearest and oldest
descendant OF Penn living in America,
was born here, and thinks that by vir.
tue Of his position as an army officer,
he would be n representative Of the
family and the nation. lie has been in
correspondence with English members
of the family, and by letter recently
received he learns that Peter Penn Gas.
kell, of ShaIagerry, Ireland, who in.