Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-03
GENERAL NEWS.

4 stone pitcher used by John Brown
during his imprisonment in Charles.
town, Va, was sold at auction in Balti.
more on Wednesday for s..
London, with population Of $500.
wv manages TO get along with a fire
department Of 400 men, and still clings
10 the old fashioned hand engine.
Last Friday Governor Hawkins mes.
sage was presented TO the Tennessee
Legislature. The debt Of the State is
over S2G,jOOpO, including interest.
The Governor believes the best interests
OF the State will be subseryed Nv a
speedy adjustment.
Vanderbilt, the elder, gave Nashville,
Tenn, university, and in Nashville
no" the people have a regular Wander.
bilt fever They have a Vanderbilt
shirt factory Vanderbilt barber
shop Vanderbilt corn cutter" and
more 10 come.
Sheridan G. Matthews. IG wears of
age, was iearfully mAngled by cars last
Thursday, at Carbondale, while on his
way home from work. lie was employ-
ed on a level Of the Delaware and Hud-
son Gravity road and at quitting time
attempted to board a moving train and
fell under the wheels. His escape from
instant death was miraculous.
4 man and woman were married AT
the cantonmcnt on the Bad Lands. in
Dakota, on the 10th, Rev. Mr. Stevens,
oi Bismark, officiating by telegraph.
Two citizens witnessed the parties re-
spending 10 the ministers questions
from one end Of the wire. while a news.
paper correspondent and others saw
the minister do his duty at the other
Major Ben Pcrley Poore, the father
OF the reporters gallery, went 10 Wash
lngton IN 1877. He was born in George
town, and was very young when he
beean IN the National Legislature TO
report the news of the capital for a
New York newspaper. He has lived in
Washington almost constantly since.
lie has very distinct recollection Of
every Inauguration from the time Of
John Quincy Adams.
General Sherman, Grand Marshal of
the inaugural ceremonies OF General
Garfield, has issued "A circular detailing
the programme TO be observed by the
military escort Of the president.elect
he First Division will be commanded
by Breyet Efigadier General Ayres the
Second by Major General Hartranft
the Third by Major General Fletcher,
and the Fourth by Major General Field.
The legislature Of Tennessee on the
18th accepted an invitation to attend
the Inauguration.
The Census Office announces the fol.
lowing approximate distribution OF the
total population Of the country among
the several classes Males, 2J,j2O.5s2
females. 23,G32.2s4: natives of the
United States, i3,47j SOC; foreign born.
90. $50; whites, 43,S0i ,S77 colored,
e,31l, Indians and halfbreeds not
IN tribal relations on reservations under
the care 81 the Government, 65.122;
Chinese, l05,i63; other Asiastics. 255.
The numbeEpf colored persons to each
10000 whites Is 5,l53, against l4,52s
IN 1870. The number OF females TO
every 100000 males is q6,5lo, against
N,sOl IN $50. The number Of foreign
born persons to every 100 600 natives is
1859, against l6,s7j in 1870.
When the Ocean City people saw
some strange object far out at sea. the
other morning, they got out their glass.
es and went down to the beach. They
discovered that the object was an inn.
mense ice field, which appeared TO be
drifting nearer and nearer. On the
following day the foe, which was from
three TO four feet thick and which
stretched out 10 sea three miles, drifted
to the shore. The roar Of the surf was
hushed for several hours, when the
mass was partly broken up. Hundreds
OF people from the surrounding country
witnessed the novel sight
The liabilities of Mount ST Marv's
College Emmittsburg, Maryland, are
stated at Sl65,000 to 5000, 600. and the
assets at $4,000 TO 100000. The prin.
cipal creditors are Mrs. Anna P. Mar.
shall. FIRST mortgage, $1,000; First Ma.
i'onal bank Of Hanover, Pa, $4,000
and $4,000 of paper discounted for the
colleges Gettysburg Pa Bank, 5000;
FIRST National bank of Frederick, 5000;
Liitletown Pa Bank, $2,400. There
are over one hundred creditors. but
very little Of the Indebtedness il in
baltimore. Captain James McSherry.
a lawyer, OF Frederick, Is the receiver.
A special from Emmiltsburg saws that
the graduating class Of the college has
rebelled, left the institution and lodged
at hotel in the adjacent village. Rev.
Father Hin, the President, will return
to Brooklyn.
The Ames Manufacturing Company
of Chicopee, has taken a long stride
toward a return 10 the old apprentice
system. The Company has been very
much troubled 60 get skilled help, and
also by having men leave after they
have learned enough to begin to be use.
ful. II has now adopted plan some
thing like the former system. only the
term OF service is not more than three
or four years. instead Of seven. und ap-
plications come in by scores. The men
sign = contract 20 stay 10 the end OF
the term, and the company will teach
them the different branches Of the
business, 50 that when they 30 out they
Will be masters Of the trade, instead Of
knowing how to run but one machine