Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-08-25
STATE NEWS.

Prospecting for gold is still contin.
ued on the Smith Mountain, Lebanon
county.
At the Jackson 4 Woodin Works at
Berwik, Columbia county, there are
1900 hands employed.
One hundred hands were discharged
from tho shops of the Delaware, Lack.
awanna and Western Railroad Company
at Scranton, on account of lack of
orders.
Carolina and Mary Clark, employed
as servants in the Rush House, Pitts.
burg. have just been notified that an
uncle died in California and left them
500 600.
Mrs. Mary Reynolds. of Titusville,
was arrested last week for the alleged
murder of her 5.year.old son, who was
deaf and dumb. The child mysterious.
ly disappeared last November.
DR.. Leander Roth and Nathaniel
Wagner, of North Codorus township,
York county, have been held to bail for
attempting TO insure Jacob s. Bailey, "A
consumptive, by making false represen.
tations.
Twenty five box cars containing lis
imported Percheron stations and brood
mares, passed through Harrisburg en-
route to Bloomington, H., where they
will be put on stock farms by the i'm.
porters.
Messrs. II. d. II Snyder & Son have
purchased nearly II acres OF land near
Driitwood, Cameron county, upon which
they will erect tannerv. They al.
ready have contracts for 100000 hides
per year.
While attending the G. A. Il. post
meeting at Gettysburg, a Western man
discovered his own grave in the GENE,
terry, the headstoue of which bore his
name and the company and regiment in
which he had served during the war.
The Harrisburg Tiegrdyh says that a
new vigorous temperance crusade is be.
ing organized for the entire State, and
will be begun in Harrisburg early in
September. II is simply fight against
liquor and has no political niiiliatlon.
Mr.. Davis Beaumont, Easttown, Ches.
ter county, caught an opossum one
night, and imprisoned her IN chest
The next morning there were eighteen
opossoms in the chest, seventeen OF
them having been born during the
night.
Mrs Elizabeth White, Of South Al.
ington, Lackawanna county, who is u
years old, has thirteen children. eighty.
two grand children. one hundred and
sixty-one great grandchildren, eight
great great. grandchildren She Is very
.pry and insists on doing her own
work.
A family Of German immigrants pass
ed through Harrisburg last week con
sisting Of father, mother. nine children,
forty grandchildren and eleven great
grandchildren. Enough Of them were
married to make the entire party mum.
her ninety five. They were bound Tor
Northern Iowa.
Charles Granger, r well known color
ell character Of York, Pa. died on the
lst inst. According TO his papers of
manumission. brought from Virginia
forty.three years ago, he was at the
time OF his death los years old. His
remains were followed TO the grave by
several hundred people, among whom
were some Of the beet citizens.
Mr.. J. y. Locke, of Wellsboro. made
an important discovery one morning
last week. Going to perform the morn.
ing duties on his farm earlier than
usual, he was surprised to find a hog
milking one Of his cows. The bovine
stood quite still and appeared to enjoy
4 bn unf fhaV 4 y.uwfy.,,.
ed by human hands. This served TO
explain why the COW had been giving
only limited supply of milk.
Small pox in the most yirulent form
has broken out IN Bloomsbury. Colum.
bia county, having been carried thither
by gang Of laborers on the new rail.
road. One OF the labors died and his
kept his disease a secret
and now there are FIVE deaths reported
and twenty five prostrated with the dis.
ease. Great excitement prevails and
energetic measures will be taken TO
keep the disease from spreading further
The Milton drgts records the follow.
ing serious accident: "On Monday, the
! l5th inst, q young man by the name of
Abraham Reader fell into a steam sepa.
rator at the farm of Robert Russell, in
Delaware township. His foot and ankle
we're instantly torn off, and had it not
been for his brother, who ierked him
out. he would have been torn into
threads. His leg was amputated below
the knee, and at last accounts he was
doing we'll. The young man IL fifteen
years old and a son of Samuel Reader.
Drs. Harley, Hunter and Van Valzah
we're the attending physicians.
The title to Bedford Springs, that
famous resort Of local statesmen, il to
be made a source of litigation. Ii is nj
present held by the Anderson heirs.
from whom G.. w. Mulln. Of Philadel.
phia, proposed purchasing it. Mr.. Mul.
lin has been served with n notice re.
Gently by W. II. Wertz, of Mt. Pleasant.
who claims that the title 10 the proper
ty is vested in the heirs Of Henry wertz,
Sr., and refers him to the records of
Bedford county. Lawyers who have
examined the title in the possession of
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