Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-04-06
STATE NEWS.

How do you like your new home, Is
now a leading question in this state.
State Superintendent Iigbee believes
that music should be taught in the pub
lie schools.
+. II. Weed, a prominent banker and
lumberman, of Williamsport, died sud.
denly on Saturday, at the age of 63
years.
William Carney cut Frank France
four times in the breast, intlicting fatal
wounds, in a Pittsburgh saloon on
Saturday night, during quarrel.
Two Norristown physicians have sue.
cessfully removed bullet from the
shoulder of a cat. The feline was under
the influence of ether during the opera
ton.
All but sixty.three shares Of the stock
for street railway in Johnstown have
been taken. 1t is expected that ap.
plications will be made for the charter
in few days
William Favor, IA prominent citizen
OF Buchsyille, Lehigh county, attempted
suicide on Saturday by shooting him.
self through the head. No cause is as.
signed for the act.
During playful encounter at Union.
town on Friday. between Frank Stray.
horn and Edward Sanders, the former
was killed by blow from a brick
thrown by the latter.
An Erie slate roofing firm have taken
the contract to cover all the depots OF
the New York, Chicago and the ST.
Louis Railroad between Buffalo, New
York, and Bellevue, Ohio.
4 meeting was held at Bird in. Hand,
Lancaster county, Tuesday evening, to
organize fox hunting club. 4. J. Cas-
satt and other prominent citizens are
interested in the scheme.
4 man was driven out Of the Harris.
burg market on Saturday because he
had smallpox in his family at home and
his presence as huckster endangered
the health of the community.
Jacob +. Qullman, prominent mcr.
chant Of Norristown, died on Sunday.
lie was a Deputy Grand Master of Free
Mnsous and President Of the Mont.
gomery Hose and Steam Fire Engine
Company.
The open season for fishing in Penn.
sylyauia waters is: For trout aud sal.
mon, April ! to August black bass,
pickerel or pike, June TO January !:
salmon trout and lake trout, Jandary
to October /.
John Baldwin, a crippled pedler, oI
Stony Creek township, Cambria county,
sho, and instantly killed an unknown
tramp who demanded his money on
Thursday last while driving in the
neighborhood of Pleasautylle, Bed
county.
The second annual convention Of the
State Constitutional Amendment As.
sociation will be held in Huntingdon on
Tuesday and Wednesday, May Q and 10.
The call. which Is signed by TX Chief
Justice Agnew. invites all auxiliary Con.
s,ituli0nAl Amendment Associations,
Women's Christisn Temperance Unions
Temples of Honor, Royal Templars and
other temperance societies to send dele.
gates.
Mr.. Gowen has stated that he intends
meeting all the unpaid interest on the
general mortgage bonds Of the Phila.
delphia and Reading Railroad Company
on the lat of July next The amount
Of interest due at that time will be near.
ly s2.0O0000. II is understood that the
deferred income bonds will be regularly
dealt in at the stock Exchange here.
after.
Harrisburg, il appears, has default
ing tax collector. In settling the tax
duplicate on the let Of April for the past
year, the account Of Jacob A. Faunce. a
collector for the Sixth ward. was found
TO be short about 5000. Faunce has
been tax collector since 1877, and his
peculAtions have extended up to the
present time. His mode OF procedure
was to cover his deficiencies for a past
year by collection on the next. The
defalcAtion vas discovered owing to his
eyesight becoming impaired and he be
ing unable to further attend to the
work. lie Is at present a member Of
Council, was re elected in February, and
has always been considered n trustWor
thy citizen.
On Saturday, FIVE boys we're playing