Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-17
--Ay, though 30 oft deceived by hope,
Our deeds by our intents oer-topped
We still expect, as on we grope,
To come out perfect and eIOpt.

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RUNA.
We were pleased to see Mr.. j. ID.
Oliger, of Curtin township, on Tuesday.
Lawyer Ray has discovered several
uses to which umbrellas can be put, here
tofore entirely unheard Of
The soldiers appear none the worse
for their trip to Lewistown, all are con-
siderably tanned, however.
MIR. w. T. Auman, of Millheim, one
of our young teachers, and writer of
some ability, called on Saturday.
"A Bush meeting conducted by the A.
M. E. z. Church, will be held in Valen-
tines groves commencing Aug. 10th, 1882.
Our Hose companies, the Logan and
Undine, have received invitations to at
tend and participate in regulation parades
at several places.
An Ice cream festival for the benefit
of the Fillmore Methodist church will be
held at that place Friday and Saturday
25th and 2G of August.
Just what any one means by standing
around with four hundred dollars in his
hand, we can't see, but no doubt "Cap"
Mingle can tell all about it.
Our friend, Mr.. Richard Harris says
that Geo. Tate, Esq, the contractor, while
looking at the parade on Saturday could
not tell the difference between horses and
mules.
Although Edward Graham, Esq, has
been a resident of Bellefonte for forty
years, he never until last week visited or
saw the large spring that supplies the town
with water.
Our neighbor, Mr.. j. Shrom, manu-
features harness of such excellent quality
that orders are pouring in from all direc-
tions, he shipped an elegant outfit to Vir-
ginia on Tuesday.
Mr.. Samuel Levin wishes to return
his sincere thanks to the members of the
Zion band for the complimentary serenade
with which he was favored on Monday
evening, also to the Logan Hose Company.
-Ex-Gov. Curtin expects to be present
at the reunion at Rebersburg, August 25
He will address the veterans there assem-
bled; the presence of the venerable gen.
tleman will in itself be sufficient to attract
large crowd.
The library of st. Johns Lutheran
Sabbath-school, of Bellefonte, has been
augmented by the addition of 166 new,
elegantly bound volumes of choice reading
matter, and is now one of the most COM
plete libraries in this neighborhood.
"A young lady, whose name we could
not ascertain, came within an ace of shift
ing off this mortal coil at the station on
Friday evening. She attempted to cross
the track as the late evening train was
coming in, fell fat on her face directly
across the rails and was gotten away rs the
engine whizzed past.
1t Is the little things that fret and
worry US. A three-year-od may keep 8
man in perfect misery, whereas no such
trials would accompany the presence o.
his eighteen-year old sister. Did you ever
observe what tremendous amount of dis
comfort there is in q poor cigar-even If il
is small Harry Green's brands are al
right.
The 3rd annual meeting of the Punk
sutawney Agricultural Society and Driv
ing Park Association will be held on tn
Association grounds, September 26th t.
29th inclusive. The purses for trial o
speed aggregate $24OO, and the free-to-al
purse II $1,000. We should be pleased t
have some Centre county horsemen ente
the lists, and come out victorious.
OBTAINING passenger train may b
pleasant sport for s. s. Blair, but by 5
doing he caused poor Hungarian wofh
man, on his way from Snow Shoe TO Ty
rome, to miss the western bound train herr
compelling the unfortunate stranger, wh
could not speak any English, to thro
himself upon the hospitality of tho poo
authorities. Think of man thousands
miles from home, friends and kindred,
tho midst of people in every sense tota
" strange to him, and you may possibl
lbe able 70 appreciate his position.