Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09
STATE NEWS.


a Huntingdon wants an opera house.
The Carbon county Jail at Mauch
Chunk is at present without prisoner.
The Huntingdon car works made one
hundred cars during the month of Jan.
uary.
Two hundred thousand dollars has
been subscribed toward a new bank in
Lancaster.
The ailliclon Of NJ. Rouzeaud, tie
hssband of Christine Nilsson, has paraly
sis OF the brain.
A. ID. Cook, OF Eas,on. lost n raft by
the recent freshet in the Delaware which
was valued at 81, 100.
The Peoples Passenger Railway de.
pot at Pottsville was accidentally de
stroyed by fire on Monday. Loss, $4,000.
The universal heart OF man blesses
flowers. lie has wreathed them around
the cradle, the marriage alter, and the
tomb.
The $4,000 necessary to establish
National bank at Bangor has been raised.
The bank will begin business about the
first of April.
Daniel McCarly. of Columbia, Pa,
brakeman, was iolted from a freight
train near Gallagheryille last night and
instantly killed.
Major VIM. P. Elliott of Lewistown,
who is probably the Oldest printer in
the State, has just attained his eighty.
ninth birthday.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
intend charging employees one half cent
per mile. in order To curtall the number
of free passes over their road.
The Hummel mines at Nazareth,
northampton county, are estimated to
contain 200 600 tons of iron ore, which
is to be mined at 80 cents ton royalty.
The Westmoreland and Penn Gas
Coal Companies are buying up large
tracts OF coal land between Irwin Station
and West Newtown, Westmoreland
county.
Daniel McCarly, of Columbia, brake.
man on the Pennsylvania railroad, was
iolted from freight train near Gala.
gherville on Sunday night and instantly
\ killed.
John Vanderslice died in Phoenix.
willie on Saturday, aged 81 years. He
was at one time prominent as an Odd
Fellow and Mason, and he made trip
around the world.
Nearly 100000 feet Of spruce logs
are being cut near White Haven, Lu.
zerne county, for the Lehigh Valley
railroad to lie used in the construction
of docks Mt Jersey city.
!. F. Duffy. founder Of the Duffy Tool
Company at South Chicago, is in Erie,
looking for site upon which TO locate
a large factory for the manufacture OF
steel tools and tin plate.
The company in which ex Lieutenant
Governor Latta is interested has rcliu.
auishsl its option upon a large coal pro.
perty in Westmoreland county TO q
company in New York.
Messrs. Samuel Stephens and Blair
Boyles. of Altoona. have been sent by
the Western Union Telegraph Company
to build a telegraph line along a railway
route in Central America.
The last act Of Judge Hall. Of the
the name Of Lawyer ~. r. Scull. of
Somerset, stricken from tho list Of prac
tising attorneys. Judge Bier, the pres
ent incumbent. has ordered the namN
to be restored to the list.
Alta largely attended meeting of the
John Dillon Hr ,nch of the Land League,
held at Washington, II. G., on sunday
night. il was resolved to devote the
funds usually appropriated 10 parade
on St. Pltrick's dsv 10 further the cause
OF the League in Ireland
Oscar Beck with. the alleged murderer
Of Nandercook, whose body was found
cut into pieces near Austerlitz. Iolun.
hia county. y. Y, on January 10, was
caught on last Monday in the woods in
Callatin township. about 20 miles from
the scene Of the tragedy.
Mr.. Lawler. coprersmith of CORY.
has sued Mr.. Anson Porter, banker Of
that place. for libel, placing bis damages
at $4,000. An indianapolis house ask.
ed the banker about Mr. LAWYERS hu.i.
meas standing. and upon the informa.
ton furnished refused to ship that gen.
tleman certain goods.
The Detroit Free Pfsw says that n
Missouri woman has spent eight yesrs
in collecting seventeen hundred thread
spools. She and the man who writes
four or FIVE thousand words on n postal
card should marry and then commit
suicide out Of regard for the feeling. Of
their relations--if they have any
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company recently constructed large
trestie work near Braddocks, Pa. in one
night. The idea vas TO prevent the new
line proposed bv Mr. Vanderbilt and
known a. the Pittsburgh and Youet.
ioghpny. from building on that side of
the Youghiogheny river, and securing
freight traffic from the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works and McKeesport.
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