Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-05-25
GENERAL NEWS.

The English police are still going it
blind IN the search for the mJrdeTers Of
Lord Cayendish and Under Secretary
Burke.
Thousands Of bushels of coffee poison.
ed by arsenic have been carted away
from the wrecked steamer Pliny of
Long Branch.
The Francklyn cottage, at Eiberon,
Long Branch, where President Garfield
died, has been rented to Agustus
Smith, Of New York.
The agrarisn outrsges in Ireland for
the first quarter Of the year are recorded
at l,4l7, including six murders for
which no convictions have been made.
A Massachusetts, member of Congress
| thinks the best thing for Mr. Blaine to
do is 10 ''lie fallow for year or two"
| We believe better advice than that
would be not to lie at all.
| 1t is wise man who knows when the
people have had enough of him. Tx.
Governor Fenton, Of New York, may
| be added 10 the list. lie refuses to be
a candidate for Governor.
DR.. Euston Buckner Of Greenville,
Miss, was a slave to opium. While un.
der the influence OF the drug, he wan.
| dered into a neighbor's house, and was
killed in the dark as a burglar.
The Washington Post, which has re
Gently spoken with more or less authori.
/ ty as to Mr. Blsine's purposes, says that
| Mr. Blaine authorizes the statement
that he is not candidate for Congress
or for any other political position.
The quibbles Of certain theorists
! about vaccination, and their assertion
that il does not protect, find an EN-
phaiic refutation in the fact that all the
unvaccinated employees in a large man.
ufacturing establishment in Cincinnati
have been attacked by smallpox.
| 4 rich lumberman in Northern Mich.
/ igan has salted small lake and plan.
/ ted il with oysters. Salt costs very lit
! tie st Saginaw, and a. the lake has no
outlet il is not difficult 10 keep the
water salt. He expects TO raise as fine
oysters as can be found on any OF the
bays Of the coast.
The "crown jewels" of France are at
last TO be sold, the only reservations
being the historic and artistic rarities.
/ 4 ne lEbGtFAes u ~ erAlInANfQ. VIII
amount to about 100000 francs, or
about g., 400, 600, and the iund will be
devoted TO works Of public utility or TO
a relief project for sick, aged and dis.
abled work people.
| The fellows in Georgia who roll the
term Bourbon so tTippingly upon their
tongues do not understond its signiE.
canoe. In the first place a Bourbon is
a gentleman. The record does not exist
TO show that he ever denied friend,
deserted a principle or disgraced his
blood.-M1o5n Telegraph.
The proprietor Of the New York
Herald announces that, with or without
the action Of Congress or Of the public.
care will be taken Of the widow and
orphan of De Long, and not Of them
alone but Of every widow and every
| orphan of the men who have sailed
with the Jeanette and have perished."
The l07th anniversary Of the Decla.
ration of Independence by the people
OF Meoklenburg county on the Goth of
May, l7T5, was celebrated at Charleston,
y. c., on May 20, with great eclat. The
occasion was honored by a number of
distinguished guests from the Federal
Capitol, notably by Senator Vance, who
made the welcome speech Senator
| Ransom, who read the Declaration, and
Senator Bayard, OF Delaware, who was
the orator Of the occasion.
The Grand Jury Of the Criminal Court
Of Washington, on May %. returned
new presentments against General Thos.
$. Brady, John w. Dorsey, Montfort c.
Rerdell Henry NJ. Turner, J. r. Miner.
J. NJ. Peck, and Harvey NJ. Vale,
charging them with oonspirine TO de.
fraud the United Safes in connection
with the awards of Star Route con.
tracts. The indictments cover LOG close
ly.written foolscap pages, and IL il
thought by the prosecuting officers that
they close up several loopholes which
were left open in the old indictments.
Senator Malone is reapins full har.
vest OF contempt from his fellow citizens
for voting against removing the disAbih.
ties OF DIR. Tebhs, the page OF the
late Confederate Senate. Robert Man
sell. Readjuster and until recently a
strong supporter Of Malone, writes to
the Alexandria Gasotte that there can
be mo Imaginable excuse for eneral
Mahone'f unnatural and detestable
treaohery 10 his old friends and com.
panions In arms.m That Tebbs vote
will prove bad business for Malone.
TnK New York San presents short
statistical table showing The amount Of
money wasted on the ships OF Connect.
cut, Pennsylvania, Java, Colossus, Mass.
achusetts and Oregon. These ehips
| were has4sa Hffnnu vaaFn apn anh a.
still on the stocks in the Brooklyn,
Charlestown and Kittery Navy Yards.
The total amount Of money expended
upon them already Is $q,ls4,674. A
committee OF Congress has reported
that they are unfinished, rotten and
worthless" As the lSzm concludes, mot
one OF the six keels has ever touched
water O ever will touch water" With
this experience in creating : navy, It II
not strange that Congress should hesi.
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