Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-06-15
NO. "a.
STATE NEWS.

ing laid on Fifth avenue, Pittsburg.
Postmaster Whitner, Of Reading, has
received official notification Of his selec.
tion.
There are l79 business establishments
in Pottsvlie, besides taverns and eating
houses.
Capitalists are in Erie with a view TO
locating factory, which will give en-.
ployment to 800 hands.
Seventeen thousand tons of iron ore
are being taken out Of the Cornwall hills,
at Lebanon, every month.
Work on the proposed buildings of
the Hollar Lock and Safe Works at
York, has been inaugurated.
The II months old child of Cyrus
Maurer fell into cesspool at Reading
on Tuesday and was suffocated.
Somebody soAped the Lehigh Valley
railroad tracks at Hazleton and detain.
ed large picnic excursion train.
A Berks county sportsman has dis.
covered that the recent heavy rains
have destroyed the young broods Of
woodcock.
The annual diocesan convention of
the Episcopal church of Central Penn.
sylyaniA will begin at Mauch Chunk
next Tuesday.
A man named +. George was instant.
ly killed by q freight train on the lie.
high and Susquehanna railroad, near
Allentown, Tuesday.
A gray eagle, measuring seven feet
from tip 10 tip Of wings, was killed in
Butler township, Adams county, recent.
ly, by Henry Deatrick.
The last smallpox patient in South
Bethlehem was discharged Tuesday.
During the prevalence OF the disease
there ll9 persons died.
The estimated expense Of the govern
ment Of Pottsville for the fiscal year en-
ding April !, 1883, is s27, 10000. The
tax rate will be six mills on the dollar.
Alta recent meeting OF the DunkArds
OF Western Pennsylvania, the proposi.
ton to relinquish the ancient and ps
culisr dress Of the sect was voted down.
A split in the denomination was the re.
suit.
A Chester pigeon. .fancier challenges
any competitor in the same town to a
homing match from Baltimore, viii.
mington, New York or Philadelphia for
from $40 to so q side.
Martin Kelly, the sbsconding treasur.
er of lodge Of the Amalgamated asso.
ciation in Pittsburgh, has been discov-
cred in Wisconsin. The amount Of his
deialcation is about 5000.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Compa
ny have purchased the property Of the
Butler Coal Company at Pittsion. for.
merly occupied by their Goa! shutes.
With the intention of erecting a new
freight and passenger depot
4 force Of forty men have been put
TO work track laying on the Nazareth
Railroad, at Pen Argyll, Lehigh county.
II is expected they will reach Nazareth
by July 4 and that The road will he
ready for business by August l.
A reward of one thousand dollars 10
offered by the Queen Fire insurance
company for the arrest and conviction
Of the party or parties who set FIRE to
the barn Of Mrs. g. Dawson Coleman at
Lebanon on the night Of May 26.
The Cambria County Bar Association
has elected r. L. Johnston, president.
John p. Linton, vice president; W. II.
Rose, treasurer. and A. V. Baker, secre.
tary. The association has two rooms in
the new Court House. we'll furnished.
The bill against Professor Samuel
jackson, pyrotechnist, and William
Van Horn. his assistant, for involuntary
manslaughier. growing out OF the Ches.
Ter explosion casualty. was ignored by
the grand jury Of Delaware county yes.
terdsy.
A negro boy At Richmond, this state,
lied TO his mother and hoped God
would parAlyse his tongue Il he was not
telling the truth" lie was attacked
with fits, is now unable 20 speak, and
superstitious negro preacher Of thaa
place claims that the Id was ssssraek
dumb for lying"
Lewis L. Hachman. postmaster Il
shenkel's Church, Chester county, has
had hearing on charge preferred
acafnMa hItn - Miss EtYns~n r~a.m g.