Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-07-20
GENERAL NEWS.


A thirteen.year old Louisiana girl has
growing upon her face brown beard,
two inches long and very heavy, except
upon the upper lip.
A sunhower was sent TO the Office of
the cambridge County (Ga.) Democrat
last week which measured forty.two
inches in circumference and fourteen
in diameter.
The Eleventh Congressional district
Of Texas is larger than the combined
States of Alabama and Mississippi. The
candidate will make a big run who gets
all over it before election day.
The Greenhackers Of the third Dis.
trict of Iowa. have nominated Rev. Ros.
well Foster for Congress. He is of Re-
publican antecedants and an able man.
The ex Confederate soldiers OF Mis-
souri, will hold their annual reunion in
Sedal!a August 18th, and $1,000 or 20,
coo are expected to be present.
A Baltimore street car company has
just had $1,000 added to s"conscience
fund" by one man, but no particulars
are given.
The London Duly telegraph got wind
Of the meeting of twenty thousand Dun
| kards in Iowa, which the cable trans.
| formed into twenty thousand drunk.
ards, and forthwith, rushed into hys-
terical editorial on the honor of such a
spectacle Plainly, the newspaper men
don't know all about verything.
A new revolutionary society has been
| formed in Russia. The members of the
society are to be associated with the
people and industriously inculcate rev.
olutionary ideas, but are to attempt
no revolution without orders from their
leaders. One of the revolutionary meas.
ures TO be advised is refusal to pay
taxes.
An old elm stands near the depot in
Fair street, Kingston, n. Y, which is
a Gayorite building place for birds.
More than 200 nests have been counted
among its branches this season, and the
| birds fill the old tree with their song.
It is the admiration of every visitor
Many go to hear the singing of the birds
in the morning.
SENATOR LOGAN said to a Chicago
Tribune reporter on Monday, in regard
to his position in the Senatorial CON
tost in Illinois: "This Senatorial oues.
ton is a thing | don't intend to have
anything to do with. That is Il matter
for the people TO decide. and not for
me; and no human being will ever
know that | have any preference, II
have any
There We're ninty.nine failures in the
United States reported to Bradstreets
during the past week, a decrease of fifty
four from the preceding week and fifty
four more than the corresponding week
last year. New England had If. de.
crease II; Middle States 2l decrease l3;
Southern States II, increase - Western
States 81, docrease l3; California and
Territories l3, decrease Is; Canada :,
decrease 6.
Little Rock Ark, July-A woman and
two children were found starved to
death in lonely section of Van Buren
county. In the mountains. 1t is heliev.
ed the woman fell sick, and the children
being too young to secure aid for her,
perished miserahly A third child was
still alive, aad bad gnawed piece Of
flesh from The arm of one Of her dead
sisters. 1t died soon after the discovery
was made.
The largest flower in the world is now
being exhibited at the Berlin Botanical
Garden. 1t is known to scientific peo-
pie as the Ratliesia Alnoldi and is
over yard in diameter, and weighs
about fourteen pounds. The Rafliesia
Arnold is found only in Java and Su.
matra.
Said an Austin teacher 10 one Of his
highest pupils;
"li yoer father gave you basket Of
peaches 10 divide between yourself and
little brother, and there were forty
peaches in the basket, after you had
taken your share what would he left p
MY little brother would be left,
for I'd take all the peaches. That's the
kind Of Congressman I'm going to be
when grow up"