Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-08-11
GENERAL NEWS,


1t takes coach and four to drag
Sarah Bcrnhardt through Scotland. II
must be terribly rough country.
Horatio Seymour has written to Secre.
tary Blaine suggesting that an invita-
ton similar TO that to the French La.
/ fayettes be extended 10 the German
Steubens to visit Yorktown. II is "A
thoughtful and appropriate suggestion.
Senator Ben II. Hill. of Georgia, has
gone to one of the Virginia Springs
He is reported TO he getting along we'll
since the operation upon his tongue.
and can talk with very slight impedi
ment.
George AlRescheim, of Washington
county, Oregon. shot his daughter a few
days ago in fit OF passion. inflicting a
painful though not dangerous wound
lie then fled to the woods and commit.
ted suicide.
Mr.. Oryillc Grant, brother of cx Pres.
ident Grant, and who for some time
past has been an inmate Of the State
Asylum for the Insane at Morris Plains,
died on sunday His remains were
taken to Elizabeth for interment
Specials from Charleston. and Lincoln.
H., report the appearance Of strange
mslady affecting the eyesight Of COWS.
and resulting in blindness. Stockmen
disagree as TO the cause of the disease.
which Is spreading rapidly and causing
consternation among owners.
The opening Of the Denver and Rio
ftTun1a RatlFA.a1 80 =.
western Colorado, was celebrated there
on Friday. The extension juskfnished
is two hundred miles long. e&nning AT
Alamosa, on the Rio Grand iver, and
terminating in the Aminz Na,ey. I
The verdict Of the - v;,,aker
court martial will NO oe ,adeoublic
until it has been All !oNeh the presi
dent, and Genera 80, I'm aes 10 in
innate what itsS Se 'H\ny an
nouncement thss--Sag sn n'1 there
fore merely surmise.
In heavy storm at Rochester. y. Y,
on Saturday, hail stones Of the average
size Of marbles fell Eight quarts Of
stones were gathered from a canvass six
feet square. Some were picked up
measuring from three TO four aud one.
half inches in circumference.
Too much work and too little food
have thrown Baltimore girl into a
strange condition of hysteria and epi.
lepsy. During several weeks she has
lain unconscious Of her surroundings.
but iancying that she sees her dead
parents, to whom she talks rapturously.
The wealthiest Georgia negro, Henry
Todd, gained his start toward fortune
by owning slaves. lie was once slave
himself, and his freedom was given to
him by his master; but he quickly over.
came any scruples which he may have
entertained, and, at the outbreak Of the
war, owned twenty men.
The friction of the machinery set fire
to the Lake Erie and Western Railroad
Company elevator one mile from Ere.
mont Ohio. on last Thursday evening,
and IT was entirely DESTROYED. The ele.
vator was valued at $4,000. Higbee &
Co, lose $4,000 worth Of grain partial.
ly insured.
On last Friday a bow named Henry
Metz had his head cut of on the track Of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany's railroad. He was gathering coal
cinders and was warned off by the az.
preaching locomotive. In spirit OF
mischief he attempted TO cross the
track, but was knocked down, the
wheels passing over his neck.
A gentleman in Bottsford, Ca, has
perfected a machine in which he be.
lieves he has discovered perpetual mo
ton. For long time he has refused
TO talk about it, but Of late he has
shown his machine to only two gentle.
men. II has been running now coniin.
uously for FIVE years next April, with.
out stop or breakage. lie expects to
srply for a patent.
Nennor says we may expect great
change in the weather about the time
the new comet is in it's perihelon. when
it will be also nearest the earth. This
will occur on the Goth Of the present
month. During the time from the l5th
TO the Goth Of the present month. in.
stead Of being burned up rs we might
expect, he says we shall be nearly frozen
by frosts and strong, cold noriherly
winds.
DIR. Tanner, the faster, now an Erie
county physician, is making arrange
men,s with DIR. Green Dean, Of the
United States Medical College. New
York, for fast Of three months mime.
tyiive dayal, 10 be held at New York
as soon Hs the arrangements can be
completed. All the details and watch.
ing are to be provided by New York
physicians. lie stipulates only that
| : air must be highly charged with