Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-01-13
GENERAL NEWS,

There were go births. ~ marriages
aud rs deaths ia New York city last
week.
/ Saturday, the anniversary Of the bat.
/ tie OF Sew Orleans, Was celebrated in
that city by the firing of -aiutes.
John Gilston run away from ais ps.
/ rents, at Upland, Delaware county.
when young man. Last week he re-.
turned, after An absence OF forty years.
/ TO lind OF all his relatives only one
/ brother alive
The Mountain City Flour Mil and
/ 1000 bushels of wheat, al Cumberland.
Nd, were burned on Saturday night.
/ several small dwellings adjacent 10 the
mill were also burned. Loss on mill
and machinery about So 100.
+ Mrs. Thomas Cohen, an aged colored
woman, Of Doyleetown. was burned ,o
/ death a few days ago. She had been
confined TO her bed for some time and
II j. thought that the bed clothes
caught hre from stove in the room.
/ At a Washington hotel the other
night the members Of delegation Of
Otoe Indians blew out the pas in their
rooms when they retired. A hall.boy
snuiicd the air, sounded the alarm and
the poor Los were rescued in time TO
save them from suifocation.
Abraham and Joseph Buzzard. Diller
/ CIat X and Henry Hover, known as the
leaders o! band OF robbers having
Their headquarters in the mountains
near kphrata, Lancaster county, were
arrested on Saturday after "A desperate
resistance and lodged in Jail
Mr. Charles Rous, a member of the
Corn and Flour Exchange OF Baltimore.
VINO suspended business in 1879 for
about $4,000, and compromised with
his creditors for 30 cents on the dollar.
on last Saturday sent check TO each OF
has creditors, paying in full, with e per
cent. interest, the deficit OF the suspen.
sion.
There arrived at the Lehich Valley
depot at Allentown on TUESDAY morn.
ING Of last week, from up the country.
a trunk decorated with crane. ON a
piece OF Iaper was this inscription
This man paid his board bill. God
oless him The trunk caused consid.
crable comment, and there was a great
deal Of speculation as to what it might
contain
The dead body of Charles Ruhe. tray.
cling sal.sman for J.. Whitman. 4 Chicago
cltar dealer, was found on Saturday
morning near the Michigan Central
Railroad track, mile west Of Kalama.
200. Michigan. 1t j. supposed that he
Tell from an early morning train and
was injured. lie had apparently drag.
god himself about. and probably lived
-everal hours after he was hurt.
Among the wealthy citizens Of Phila.
delphla, who have died during the
prescnt year, eight left personal estates
"ach valued at over half million
do'lHrA a. follows: Wm. Adsm.on
$50, i1l92' Adoiph f. Borie. Sll4O..
55Ias; George ". !. DeEenne. si-7..
-tN.P5; VIM. Elliot, $S75.sGq 80: John
J.. Fox. Se5NO1257; Mary Shields.
>3,iHaU2s; samuel :. White. Ssg7..
o5i73; Jo.hua Jeaues, $4,000.
Landlords are in Ireland what the
carpet barrer. were to the South" " said
Father Ryan, the poet. priest" in an
address IN Baltimore on Tuesday night
and the lrish people will rid them.
selves oi Their opPressors as the South
rid itself OF the carpet bagcers." In
conclusion Father Ryan said pointing
to hIs head Agitation here must be
clear; Ito his mouth here il must
oe prudenti' Ito his heart and here
tender and impulsive, which, if follow.
ed wall crown your efforts with sue.
cess" "
Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather of
the great president of that name. wa.
Killed toy Indians on Linkhorn's Run.
as the stream in Kentucky was then
called. His blood ran into the stream.
which ever since has borns his name
lie was found with the strings of his
powderh horn wound around his neck
This Powder.horn passed from one
neighbor TO another, and finally fell
into the hands OF Mr.. Brown, who
forwarded II TO the Lincoln Memorial
ASSOCIATION at Springfield. ILL., IL bore
The owners name and an eagle with
spread wings carved in bold relief.
Mr.. 9. W. Strubbe, Of Cincinnati. who
has been in Georgia and North and
south Carolina for the past eight months
experimenting some mining affairs.
was IN that city last week. He had
among the evidences OF his absence \
huge sapphire, in its native state, lust as
dug from the mines, valued AT $4,000.
lie i going TO send il 10 Tiffany, in
New York, to be cut. The mines from
which this valuable gem was obtained
are located in the State of Georgia and
are owned by Cincinnati parties. One
sapphire found some months ago Is val.
ued at about $4,000.
Prince Hannibal Brown died near
: Warrenton, Va, the other day, aged
about hundred years. Hannibal was
stolen from the coast Of Africa in $50
and brought in a slave ship 10 this
country. He always held that his faith.
er was an African king. When he was
a boy he had several slaves ss personal
attendants. Being set free soon after
his arrival in this country he learned
the blacksmithing trade and became =
skillful woTkmen. He accumulated