Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-03-02
GENERAL NEWS.

/ bftn ulfcoF'ftu IN VI iuhtOu county,
! Mss.
The wheat crop in all the Southern
States presents au unusually promising
appearance
The llouse Naval Affairs and Appro.
| priations Committee will visit the uu.
completed monitors Mt League lslsnd
aud elsewhere this week.
The Star route prosecutions are being
! pushed IN dead earnest Few have
been tried and none convicted, but two
attorneys for the prosecution have just
been paid 5000 apiece.
Reports from Helena aud adjacent
/ places confirm the former tales OF wide.
spread Disaster from the Hoods Several
lives nave been lost and terrible want
! prevails Elsewhere the worst il over.
The Mexican government has begun
! the construction OF telegraph isue
/ from Ohxaca south 10 Tchuantepec. and
north to the Vera Cruz railroad. "evi.
! IDENTIFY tor service in the event Of war
with Guatemala"
John Il. Mclean. the editor Of the
/ Cincinnati EgYarcr. contributed $3.50
| TO forward the religious revival now
going on IN that city. The gift has
teen accepted with thankfuluess not
unmlxed with surprise.
The F2ori1 Union says the camellis
fIaponica grows IN great perfection Of
Tallahassee. The trees sometimes meas.
ure eight inches IN diameter. attain a
height Of from fifteen To twenty feet.
and frequently have 200 full bloom
|Jaron,cA on them at time.
4 California man il said to have de
vlsed an application o. weights and
/ cIcckwoTk as motive for working "a
I pump. 1t is claimed that "A mach ne
will not cost one third a. much as
wind null, Is nolseless, more eudurabie
and always under control.
! 4 Dispatch from Cape Race, received
at 81. John, Newfoundland, says that a
large sheet OF ice has passed westward
/ ot the Cape, on which we're d,scernrd
an anchor, seaman's chest. gaff. sov
| cral pieces OF rope, and what appeared
to be the recumbent body OF "A man.
| Fifiy.lhree editors of weekly Repub.
lean papers in this State, met in New
/ York, on the 23d, quietly for the pur.
/ pose OF forming an association for their
mutual benefit and for the purpose oi
securing concert OF action in State and
/ local conventions.
Mrs. Sarah Reed. a female fcnd who
with her son dubbed John King. a coal
miner, to death. was arrested at SANDY.
vile. O., on Friday, and lodged in jail
at New Philadelphia. Her brutal son,
who was an aecomplice in the cold.
I blooded murder, has left for parts un.
/ known.
The Louisville C1uier Journal saws
that a recent wedding in that city was
attended by the brides mother. daugh.
ter and Rrandchild, representing four
+ generations. Who can say, in the face
Of such fact, that Louisville is not
healthy city!
There is already great difficulty in
securing farm hands IN Virginia, many
Of the colored laborers being engaged
in building railroads and working In
the mines which are being rapidly
opened in various sections of the State.
A herd of 1900 sheep has reached
Nebraska from Washington Territory.
+ The journey has occupied two years.
! The trail from Washington Territory TO
/ the Missouri river is said to be the long
est and hardest known to stock men.
4 company of Pittsburg and Con.
nellsvtlle capitalists has purchased over
G0O0 acres OF coal and other mineral
lands, together with II farms and .
town lots and the Crsina and Norfolk
railroad. which connects with the Balti-
more.
An Indian woman Vt GridIey, Cal,
gave birth TO four children. all boys, the
other day. She went 10 Chico with the
pappooses, and had a rousing reception
by the abOrignes there, who held a big
poEwow in her honor. The little red.
skins have ell received high sounding
names.
The Pennsylvania railroad conn any
has nearly completed negotiations for
the purchase Of the Union railroad,
which runs from the Union depot to the
Canton wharves in the city of Bslti-
more. 1t will complete the links of the
through line of the Pennsylvania rails
road between New York aud Washing.
ton.
Flipper's Court.martial finding il still
in the hands of the Judge Advocate
General, and whitiaker's case also
moulders in some pigeou.hole. Had
these fellows been white men their
cases would have been disposed of long
since, but nov it begins to he doubtful
that they will be dismissed the service
at all.
The Congressional Committee having
In charge the allowance of claims upon
the Treasury growing out of the assas.
sinalion of General Garfield can do
little iudioious suubbing with great sat.
isfsction TO the country. There are
claims that deserve attention and these
are not unduly pressed but We hear of
others which can only arouse indignant
remembrance - philadelphia Record
The Scientific Ima ieaH thinks that
after all The recent talk about tho in.
crease Of insanity In this country il Is
encouraging to learn that wc are not so
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