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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09
anxious TO have II called regularly on
the exchanges.

A committee Of Presbyterians well
known in philanthropic work, with Mr..
William Il. Dodge al their head, have
presented memorial to Congress ask
ing for ample appropriations for the
education Of Indian children, and for
the passage Of law providing for the
settlement of Indians in severalty, their
lands to be held by them in fee simple.
The committee say "If the city of
Philadelphia, with its 100000 people.
can easily educate it's los, 600 children.
how much more eaFily can the nation,
with its 80, 900, 900 Of people undertake
to educate It's 30, 900 Indian children =
The memorial further points ont what
has heretofore been accomplished in
this direction, and refers particularly
to the training schools at Hampton,
Carlisle and Forest Grove, in which the
education Of Indian children has al
ready shown gratifying results The
committee suggest to Congress "the
authorization Of the establishment OF
other similar schools at military posts
which have been or may be vacated in
different parts Of the country"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09

Dennie Dunlap was a three card
monte man attached to a circus. A
greenhorn whom be had swindled out
Of 5000, a. Assumption, La, complained
to n justice. who not only issued q war
rant but went to the tent TO serve it.
Dcnnie was operating another victim,
and he quietly offered the justice s2C
not TO interrupt him for ten Minutes
This proposition was declined. The1
the gambler angrily dew revolver,
but the justice Cred quickest, killing
him instantly aud coolly recovered the
$500 from hiH pockets. The gambling
privilege OF thA. circus is nov for sale
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09
MisiIetoe.

Apropos OF an article on mistletoe
which appeared in The Pau Mall Ga
ssttc. correspondent writes: To those
who have not looked into the matter 1t
will be q surprise to learn that English
mistle'oe is rarer on oak trees than on
other trees. But it may be of some TO-
terest to state that in other parts Of the
world oak trees are a very favoritc
abode for this curious parasite. When
some years ago was travelling in early
April through Arcadia. on my war TO
visit tLe famous temple al Bassn, We
passed on a rugged mountain side
through what was evidently the rem
nsnt of an ancient oak forest. The
trees were but dwarfs compared with
our British oak. and they we're very
thinly scattered. But on every tree
grew one or more big bunches of mis-
tletoe. II vas of a beautiful pale
green, vcrging toward yellow, and very
picturesque Il looked among tho bare
gnarled branches.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09

The census Office has commissioned 8
representative TO collect information
regarding the water supply and the
sewerage systems of the larger cities ia
the country, with a view to gaining
light on the problems connected with
the rate of mortality in the different
cities AID the diseases which chiefly
prevail. This investigation is in keep
ing with modern progress, which aims
at getting at the root OF everything
with scientific e1actness. Thus far
three cities have been examined-Phila.
delphia, Chicago and Cincinnati. The
latter prides itself upon the fact that
moro water flows through lis sewers
than in either Of the other places
named.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09

One Of the strangcst incidents of the
Vienna theater fire came to light in the
rescue OF a young artillery private after
three days and nights Of peculiar suf-
fering. He endeavored TO escape from
the burning bnilding 10y stage door,
but owing to some mishap fell through
broken trap into a deep cellar. Here
the poor fellow remained for seventy.
two hours without sleep or food, and
from the constant pouring Of water into
the cellar from the engines came near
being drowned. His cries we're az last
heard by an inspecting fireman, who
took him out of tho water, which wai
up around his chest.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09

Mr. Jackson, q young American who
has become the favorite friend of the
king of Wurtemberg, has ceased to be
citizen Of the republic, having sworn
allegiance to the country wherein he
has come to high honor. He has lately
been made a baron and priyy coun-
cillor, and his breast is covered with
decorations bestowed upon him by the
Austrian emperor, by his royal friend
and by the king of Saxony. A CORE.
spondeut of tho Boston Herald says that
the father Of this youth, who is botl
modest and intelligent, was a relative
Of Stonewall Jackson.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09

A. q meeting Of the National Asso
cia ion for the Protection OF the Insane
and the Prevention Of Insanity, held in
New York, DIR. @. F. Dana, in paper
read by him, gave the following inter
csiing facts: There are at present in
the United States about $1,000 insane
people, or ono 70 777 Of the popula.
tion. Twenty years Ego the ratio vas
one 70 1910; in 1875. one TO 953. The
ratio in England is one TO ESQ. By
sections the ratio is: In New England.
one to 5SS; Middle States, one 10 COO;
Western States, one to $50; Southern
States, one to 1,lo0. The ratio to
which We may look forward in the fl-
ture il, in New England, one 20 500;
West, one to GOO; South, one 10 500.
In 1851 there were seventy-fouF State
and thirty.four pirate ssylums. The
cost of maintaining them was Sl2, 600, =
coo year, The needs Of the insane
are want OF room in Asylnms, sepafa
ton Of acute and chronic patients and
epileptics, improvement in the laws Of
commitment, more Amusement and
work for patients and a separation of
State asylums from political influence.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09

Concerning the growth of the iron
interest in this country, it appears from
the report tina. in 1870 the total num-
Der Of hands employed ia the various
iron and steel works of the country,
and in the mining and other operations
in direct connection with those works,
W. ~. $50. IN 1sSe Il was l40,97s,
an increase of mors than eighty-one
per cent. OF the total number of
hands, 72,037 in 1870 and 133. .2Os in
1880 were males over sixteen years of
ago. Women's aud girls labor is
scarcely used at all. for obvious reasons,
only sisty-six being engaged in the
work in 1880 and eighty-two in 1870
The total amount paid in wages was
s40,514,9Sl in 1870. against s55, 476, ,7S5
in 1850. As we have said. the average
prices OF skilled and uDskilled labor for
1870 are lacking. In 1880, however,
skilled mecha0ics received on the av.
erage S2.59 day. aad ordinary laborprs
got sl.2A the highest wages paid being
IN the Pacific States. where the mills
are few. an the lowest in North Caro-
lima. where the labor was largely that Of
colored men. In the Eastern States
the average for skilled mechanics was
sa7O day, and for unakilled vorkmcn
sL2l; In the Western States 81. 20 and
sl3i. respectively, against $3.50 and
Si.75 In tho Pacific States.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-02-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

More railroads were built in the
United States last year than ever be-
fore. About 1900 miles OF track werc
laid on 25S different roads. Texas leads
with / l,411 miles, and Colorado follows
with 500 miles; Iowa, Dakota and Ohio
have added over 400 miles each to
their railway system, while Vermont
constructed only two miles, and Rhode
Island but one mile and half.
According to German economist
the income of the world is s13, 500, ,OOO,-
900; debt, $40. $4,000, 600; taxes,
$4,000. 10000; capital, 1856, ,612, 900, 900.
Sweden has the smallest debt, or $50.
600, 900; France the largest, or 50, ,140,.
600. 900. The United States has the
largest income and England the most
capital. Italy is the heaviest taxed,
paying thirty'fye per cent. Of its in.
come for taxes, 10 the average fifteen
per cent OF other nations.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22
How IL Feels TO Freeze.

That there is at least sufficient latent heat
in the snow to prevent death from freezing
while entirely surrounded by it, Frank White
of this city, who returned . day or two ago
from : long trip in the indian country, is
willing 10 testify. Ia the course Of his home
ward journey Mr.. White had an experience
which ell the mineral wealth of Leadville
would not tempt him to repeat. L was on
the Grand River, where the snow had re-
Gently fallen to . great depth. The weather
was somewhat murkey whom he started to
return, but he relied upon \ tolersble good
prairie and that unknown quality, termed
good luck, to get back before the snow had
fallen to any great depth. In both Of these
be was sadly deceived as the freezing fakes
which began to fall on the second day cut
soon obliterated everything save the most
bold and readily recognized landmarks.
On the fourth day he WAS lost n tbs storm
and ct last found shelter IN z little lump Of
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22
THE RIV PRESS.

cotton wood trees, the thickness of whose
The night had turned intensely and bitterly
cold, and to his dismay be found that in his
tramp bis match safe had fallen from his
pocket and was not to be found. For an IN
Zen death awaited him, for he knew well
to spend that night where be stood or even
10 tarry there motionless any further length
of time would surely be fatal. Already the
colored lights that are a sure forerunner of
death by freezing began to flicker beyond
bis eyes, and he felt that he must take des-
perate chances for existence.
1t was then that it occurred to him that he
had read somewhere of the latent heat in
the snow, and the list resort of freezing
men. He did not stop long for deliberation
but begun with benumbed fingers to bur-
row in the huge white bank before him. In
considerable magnitude, and drawing his
blanket tightly around him, be creps in. At
ter a short time his body began to grow
more comfortable and his hands regain their
sense of feeling, Then he grew sleepy, but
he dared not close his eyes, fearing that it
was the stupor of freezing that he felt. At
last, without knowing it, be feel asleep and
did not awake until the next morning. He
had passed as comfortable a night as if he
bad had a roof over his head, and save for
bis FROST bitten finger tips, which had been
exposed, he was unipjured by bis night 10
the o He resumed the. tramp early the
next morning, and towards the close of the
afternoon was much relieved to strike the
camp of a party of surveyors .-LeadviNe
Chronicle
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22

t'You are right, madam; | did swerve q
little that Tins. Now Sweetheart is 4 good
name. Out in California they think Sweet
heart can take the pole from anything that
looks through a bride. Now, if you had
twins, you might call one Sweetheart and
the other one Darling put the tallest one
on the off side, and by checking the near one
up a little higher nobody could see the diff
ference between them. Of course, if they
were not gated alike or you had to put a
kicking strap on one of'em, it might be that
-"
'Let me tell you again, sir, said the lady,
'that l am not naming q horse. Perhaps
this gentleman" turning to the literary edi-
tor, ''could give me the information / de-
sire"
Certainly, madam" replied that person.
You should name your little treasure Cecil
the name has such a sweet, dreamy, aristo-
cratic sound"
''Of course, l should" said the notified
parent, and | am exceedingly obliged for
your suggestion'-and she departed.
"You seemed to lose your saooir ~uiore,'
said the literary editor to the horse reporter.
eyes" replied the young man, '.she car
ried me to a double break at the turn, but l
should have settled pretty quick and come
down the homestretch very fast. If she
hadn't hurried me so much in scoring I'd
have picked out a daisy name for that lily of
hers"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22

The pall-bearers at the funeral of the late
Clarkson N. Potter were his seven brothers,
who laid mis- coffin into the grave and cover
ed it with earth with their own hands.
Rev. George G. Min, pastor of Unity
Church, Chicago, formerly presided over by
Rev. DIR. Collyer, announced from the pulpi,
that he had abandoned his belief in the Deity
and in the Immortality of man. Consterna-
ton among the congregation resulted.
In England a boy had the smallpox the
other week, no doctor was called in, but an
elder of the sect the father belonging to, at
several times laid his hand on the boys head.
tLaying on of hands" did not succeed, the
boy died, and the father was committed to
Jail, charged with manslaughter. That is
how England deals with ''cranks."
One of the male opponents of the Gaines
borough hat, who rushed into print in a New
York paper denouncing that article, has
stirred up a foeman worthy of his steel in
the same paper. She admits that the hat
has a tendency to obscure the vision of gen.
tlemen, but she contends that the prevalent
cause Of such obscurity is their going out to
see a man between the acts.
Gen. Grant, when asked the other evening
were was the sword he wore at Lees surren-
der, answered, the New York correspondent
of the Boston TraveUer says: Il didn't have
any on. I seldom wore q sword. | did wear
one at the battle of Shiloh, and it saved my
life. A ball struck 1t and broke the scab-
bard, which dropped On the field. believe
Mrs. Grant has the blade. She is better at
saving things than I am"
The Governor General of Canada in his
recent address to the City Council of Ottawa,
made al observation that has aroused much
enthusiasm among the young Canadians.
Abiding to the future of Canada, he said:
The possibility of a national existence for
Canada is, I think, distinctly recognized"
The Club Rationale of Montreal has made
this declaration its watcbword, and has
asked for its adoption as the leading plank
in the platform of the Liberal party.
Olive Logan, in a London letter to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, says: : really think
q change has come over the heart of the
Princess Louise. By the expression of her
face I should say she loves and appreciates
her husband as she never did before; while
he, on the other hand, has had his ideas i'm
mensely enlarged by his %sojourn in America,
and finds that the whole of life is not cen
tered in the particular degree of latitude
wherein the maps say Great Britain lies"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22

The following worthy tribute to the far
mer is from the pen of Ralph Waldo Emer-
son:
The glory Of the farmer is, that, in the d.
vison of labor, it is his part to create; all
rests at last on his primitive activity. He
stands close to Nature; he obtains from the
earth the bread and meat; the food which
was not he causes to be. The first farmer
was the first man, and all historic nobility
rests on possession and use of land. The
farmers office is precise and important, but
you must not try to paint him in rose colors.
You can not make pretty compliments to
fate and gravltation, whose minister he is.
He represents the necessities. It is the
beauty Of the great economy OF the world
that makes his comeliness. He bends to the
order of the seasons, the weather, the soil,
and crops, as the sails of the ship bend to the
wind. He represents continuous hard labor
year in and year out, and small gains. He
takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemis-
try. Nature never hurries; atom by atom,
little by little, she achieves her work. The
farmer ties himself to Mature, and acquires
that liyelong patience which belongs to her;
he must wait for his crop to grow.
His entertainments, his liberties, and his
spending must he on a farmers scale, not a
merchants. 1t were as false for farmers to
use a wholesale and MASSEY expense as for
States to use minute economy.
He has great trusts conided to him. 10
the great household of nature the farmer
stands at the door of the bread room, and
weighs each loaf. 1t is for him to say if
men shall marry or not. Early marriages
and the number of births are indissolubly
connected with an abundance of food. The
farmer is a boarded capital Of health, as the
farm is of wealth, AND it is from him that
the health and power, moral and intel
%lectual, of the cities come. The city is al
ways recruited from the country. The men
in cities who are centres Of energy, the driv-
ing wheels of trade, and the women of beau.
ty and genius-are the children and grand
children of the farmer, and are spending the
energies which their fathers hardy, silent
life accumulated in frosty furro VS..
He is a continuous benefactor. He who
digs a we'll, constructs a stone foundation,
plants an orchard, builds q durable house,
reclaims a swamp, or SO much as puts a
stone seat by the roadside, makes the land
SO far lovely and desirable, makes a fortune
which he can not carry away with him, but
which is useful to his countrYmen long af-
forwards.
II. VINO are the farmers servants 2 Geology
and chemistry, the quarry of the air, the
water of the brook, the lightning of the
clouds, the casting of the worms, the pillow
of the frost. Long before he was born the
sun of ages decomposed the rocks, mellowed
his land. soaked it with light and heat, COW
cred it with vegetable film, then with for
ests, and accumulated the sphagrum whose
decays made the peat of his meadow.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22
Naming the Baby.

SIS Beatrice d good name for a baby?"
A young woman of prepossesing appear
ance stood in the door of the editorial room
and addressed her interrogatory in q seeming
ly general manner to the gifted gentlemen
who were occupying the several corners of
the apartment.
For a moment nobody seemed to regard the
question as directed particularly at him, but
finally the trotting horse reporter removed
lis generously proportioned feet from the
desk on which they had been resting, and
allowed a witching smile to play over his
quarter-stretch features.
sHave you a baby p he asked.
"Why, certainly" replied the young wo-
man, the tone Of her voice indicating sur
prise, slightly tinged with anger.
"Well," said the personal friend of Rarus,
''you mustn't get angry, because one soft
twittering their sweetest twits a woman came
I'D here on the same errand that brings you,
and after we had picked out q pretty smooth
title for her infant forget whether it was
Miriam or Carita we settled on-she went
away happy, and along in the fall-tne
golden tinted fall just as the leaves were
turning brown and all nature SCENE hushed
in sweet repose, waiting for the baseball
championship to be decided, she came back
again with a wistful, weary look in her soft
brown eyes, and said she had been mistaken
it proved a boy. Woman's nature you know
is SO bouyautly hopeful, so sweetly previous,
chat she will frequently mistake a four flush
for the real article. It is the painful memory
of a blackened past that makes us cautious
about furnishing names for babies until we
know that the little cherubs are here. Do
you catch on?"
The lady nodded.
"Well, resumed the admirer of Maud S..
'sthere are lots of things to be considered in
naming a baby. Your husbands name is-?"
"Perkins, replied the lady.
THAT isn't a bad name, although it would
be difficult to enshroud it with the mystic
glamor Of romance. But / hardly think
Beatrice would look well in front Of it.
The name of Beatrice you know, is always
associated with stateliness and beauty, and
your little tootsy- wootsy might grow up bow
legged and pug-nosed. And, besides, Beat
rice Perkins wouldn't sound just right. You
might call tt"
"Her, if you please" aaid the lady, severe
~.
1--WE always call'em it il this of1ce--it
saves time and prevents our getting ratified.
As l was saying, you might call it Perkins
Maid, or Belle Of Perkinsvi!le. or something
like that. knew . man In Kentucky who
had 4 chestnut gelding-"
81 Can hardly SEQ what that has to do with
the matter under consideration, said the lady
In ! severe tone of voice.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-02-22

Waldo Emerson's 10 the Farm
ers
New-York tribune., 1882-02-08
THE FIRE RECORD.

AUGUSTA, Ga. Feb. "A destructive fire
occurred this morning at Johnston, thriving town in
Edgehcid County. South Carolina 1t originated in a
two.story building belonging TO ]. d. Eidson the lower
part Of which was occupied by Holland x Gibson,
merchants The flames extended rapidly northward,
and destroypd the store OF DR.. j. VI. RushtOn
untnished building belonging to +. y. Lott, and j..
WhatIey's new twO-story building. Spreading south
ward the fire DESTROYED two small buildings, store
occupied by j. p SrOther. Tho losses and nsurances
arc os follows: j. -. Edison, on building. $1,000 and
valuable papers, 900: insurance, 5000. Holland
& Gibson on stock. -. 900; insurance, $1,000 Dr. j.
NJ Rusht6n on buildDg and stock. - 900; Insurance.
600 z Y. Lott, on building, $500; no insurance. L.
Whatlpv on buildings and stock, $1,000; Insurance.
900 Dr. j. l.. Cowles, on two small buildings 5000;
insurance, 800
SANDY HILL, y. Y, Feb. 7.-Willam ii
Bloomngdacs gri't mill was burned on Saturday night
and also the adjacent tenement house ~ Eber Richards
1re los. on the mill was about Sl5 900; insurance,
80 600 John Morris loses $500 bushels OF grain and
other stock valued 9t about $500 insurance about
n 100 Mr. Richards, loss is about - l,j00 n5u anco
s50O Five families are rendered homeless.
New-York tribune., 1882-02-08
on TRIAL f0R SHOOTING d WOu4N

In the PasSac County Courts, at Paterson,
the unusual spectacle of young living with u
heavy charge of shot in her body, and appearing
to testify against the who inflicted the
wound. The prisoner young man.
John H. Wolfe, Of jersey City, who indicted
by the Grand Jury assault with intent to kill upon
Matilda T. JacUbus. an attractive young woman living
al Peru, y. Y. The shooting occurred on October 10,
1851 when Wolfe visiting Miss JaCOhus at her home.
II Was generally supposed at the TINE tna the wound,
which srcmed necessarily mortal inflicted through
reckessness hut Miss JacObuss father and brother
led by the conduct OF wolfe To thk
the act Intentional, and their representations to the
Grand Jury resulted ~ iir indictment
The first witness Miss JacOOuS, who gave her age "a
seventeen next May. she e. 5ed that NOlfc whom she
had ct in jersey City, had PAID her attention and acted
her escort: their relations were pleasant and he mad
visited her home al Peru by her Invitation On the day
ccoippauylng Wolfe t. the station when he came into
tbe room ana took up old gun. Her back was par
tlail, itru.l. the piece was discharged ana
h load of shot struck her in the side. She cried ont
am shot and Wolfe said ,Op yOur noise, they Will
h.,r won In the street" and told her II
sc,,r,I times whether he meant shoot
nor. nut received answer. Garrct Jacobu-, her
Testified that lac had tried to get Wolfe 10 share
L x,,u-e of tue wounded girls care but could get no
s1isfc ION The defence tried 10 show that Mr. JacO-
-. ,iurr to rNtor money from Wolfe waH the auimus
nIt,, ct,rr. AGAINST him. Tne trial Will be continued
To-day A civil suit damages Is also pending against
feature Of the trial yesterday was the ovation Wolfe
ed IRON some female friends. VINO gathered about
hi nt recess OestOWus kisses ana OlhcI ehdearhcnts
M